Pan Long studied the Bamboo Slip for quite some time before asking, "How do I use it?"
As blood dripped onto the Bamboo Slip, the old slip shone brightly. Then it suddenly turned into a streak of light and flew into Pan Long's body.
Pan Long closed his eyes and entered the Classic of Mountains and Seas Fragment.
The void had changed. A red sun hung overhead, a glittering river of stars lay beneath his feet, and Azure and Yellow Qi swirled around him. More importantly, compared with before, the place felt distinctly more alive.
After a moment's thought, he stepped forward into the sea of stars.
The stars twinkled silently, floating motionless before him.
"Nothing seems to have changed here..." he muttered. "What exactly do I gain from another Classic of Mountains and Seas Fragment?"
He had thought that, with another fragment, even if one plus one did not make more than two, it should at least make two. But now it seemed to make only one and a half, or even less. There was no qualitative change at all.
"Could it work like software versions? I had version 1.0 before, and now it's 1.1? Would I need ten Bamboo Slip fragments to reach version 2.0? But... what if it only upgrades to 1.91?"
He remembered how some programs had once been deranged enough to use version numbers like 1.0012—and there had been more than one or two of them.
If the Classic of Mountains and Seas worked that way, would he end up like the male and female leads of an old cartoon, spending practically the whole story roaming the world for fragments of some treasure so they could piece it together and destroy it?
He left the Classic of Mountains and Seas and sighed deeply.
Just then,