After receiving Lü Xuan's approval.
Chu Xingchen did not hesitate either, casually tossing the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade in.
In any case, he still had not figured out what the thing was good for. Since Myriad Forms said it was useful, there was no harm in trying.
Lü Xuan watched Chu Xingchen toss the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade in like a broken plate, hardly looking as though he treasured it.
Yet the moment that broken plate entered the Ritual, it instantly changed.
The Principle Crystal burst into light. The crystal that had solidified instantly scattered into light like flowing sand, beginning to circle the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade as its energy surged toward it.
The Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade also gave off a faint, muted glow.
The Principle Crystal's power surged toward the fractures in the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade.
In mere moments, before either Chu Xingchen or Lü Xuan could react, the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade had sucked the Principle Crystal, with all its boundless might, completely dry.
The Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade, that plate once covered in fractures, now had far fewer cracks.
Chu Xingchen fell briefly silent and glanced sideways at Lü Xuan beside him.
Lü Xuan also turned to meet Chu Xingchen's gaze in silence.
At that moment, neither knew what to say.
Just as Chu Xingchen was about to ask whether they could try getting the Principle back out-
The system's voice sounded in his ears.
[Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade charged once] [Heavenly Secrets are not yet complete; how could there be a Principle of attaining immortality?] [All laws have their order; without accumulation, how can there be completeness?] [Noble and orderly, what is all this and that for?] [Return to order today, and only then will there be a sliver of a path to transcendence.] [Uses +1]
The sound of