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Those four words alone captured the essence of the entire art.

But knowing its essence was not enough.

The Character Panel made that clear.

When Xu Feng learned of Stitching Calamity, the Skill section of his panel remained unchanged.

To learn the Lesser Calamity-Stitching Art, a Corpse Sewer first had to turn another's strength to his own advantage.

He had to use his Yin Virtue to borrow the power of a local earth god or a City God to protect himself.

Then he had to turn the intangible into the tangible.

He stitched an unseen—or visible—Ominous Fiend onto a physical object.

That let him handle the fiend as though it were a physical thing, either suppressing it or commanding it.

That was the crux of the Lesser Calamity-Stitching Art.

Its essence and crux sounded simple together. In practice, though, choosing the right physical object was a complicated task.

And that was before the practical question of how to subdue an unseen Ominous Fiend and stitch it in place.

Whether the two were compatible, and whether they could even be stitched together, was another matter.

Each was a hurdle in its own right.

That was the practical work that came after grasping the essence and the crux.

Only by bringing all three together could he complete a single use of the Lesser Calamity-Stitching Art!

And this was only the lesser art.

Beyond it lay the Greater Calamity-Stitching Art!

To learn the greater art, he would first have to master the lesser one inside out.

"The more I learn, the more I realize how much there is left to learn. Every mountain I cross reveals an even taller one!"

Even so, Xu Feng used speech-to-text to quickly "spit out" the books he had memorized through Broad Learning and Rapid Recall, turning them