Chen Miao used his soul power to communicate with the soul crystal and establish a connection.
The moment his soul power touched the soul crystal, countless stray thoughts surged toward his consciousness.
Had Chen Miao not activated [Clearheart] in time, he might not have withstood that onslaught.
He had experienced a similar surge of memories when he used a Soul Crystal Fragment to inscribe the Rune Formation in a Five Prisons Common-Faced God Shrine.
But that had only been a single Soul Crystal Fragment. Chen Miao had already experienced plenty of Memory Fragments, so the stray thoughts within that one fragment naturally posed no threat to him.
This time, however, the sheer number of stray thoughts within a soul crystal formed from a hundred Soul Crystal Fragments nearly brought Chen Miao down.
It took him a full ten minutes to suppress them all.
"I almost forgot about that."
Without further hesitation, Chen Miao guided the soul crystal into the bottom of the Five Prisons Common-Faced God Shrine and began inscribing the Rune Formation.
He had to admit that inscribing a Rune Formation with a soul crystal was far harder than using Soul Crystal Fragments.
Under Chen Miao's control, Soul Crystal Fragments would quickly turn to powder and merge into the lines of the Soul Shrine's Rune Formation. A soul crystal, however, was a single solid piece. Pulverizing it required far more effort and time.
Chen Miao worked from midnight until six in the morning.
It took him a full six hours to inscribe the Rune Formation's lines inside the Five Prisons Common-Faced God Shrine using that soul crystal.
Even then, a full half of the soul crystal remained!
Looking at the small piece left over, Chen Miao put it away. He could use it again next time.
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