Buzz!
The Spirit Awakening Grass and the Soul King Stone reached a point ninety-nine steps from the gem. Like his true body, they too seemed blocked by an invisible barrier and could go no closer.
"What in the world is going on?"
Nie Yun's brows twisted into knots.
By all rights, it was understandable that he himself could not approach the gem. After all, he carried an intensely aggressive aura that might make the two treasures wary. But the Spirit Awakening Grass and the Soul King Stone were merely ordinary treasures—why could they not get close either?
They should not have had any effect on the gem at all!
"There must be something I haven't considered..."
For Nie Tong to speak of a method to revive Tantai Lingyue, he must have deduced it countless times before telling him, certain there would be no flaw. Otherwise, he would never have said it!
Since that was the case, there had to be something Nie Yun had overlooked, which was why the gem could not be approached or refined.
"This Four Symbols World is the center of the Chaos Ocean, maintaining the ocean's stability. The Heart of Chaos—the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth—and the Heavenly Talisman are both objects that suppress the heavens. Once they are lost, it should be like a world losing its Heavenly Dao, liable to collapse at any moment..."
He sat where he was and pondered slowly. Who knew how much time passed before a flash of inspiration struck him, and Nie Yun found the key.
Since the Six Paths of Heaven and Earth were the Heart of Chaos, while the Heavenly Talisman represented the laws of the Chaos Ocean, if someone approached them and refined them into something else, would it immediately throw the Chaos Ocean into