The flow of spiritual energy should have been natural, flowing with the blood, but at this moment, Lin Yu's spiritual energy was restricted by the black iron chains, its flow was abnormally slow, and he couldn't even activate his storage space.
Left with no other choice, Lin Yu had to use his mental power to try and activate his spiritual energy, and then use that spiritual energy to access his storage space in order to retrieve the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone.
After all, a top-tier magical artifact like the Heaven-Mending Fragment is not something that can be controlled by simply using a little power.
The reason why the black-robed high priest was able to transform the fragment of the sky-mending barrier into a barrier was not actually his own achievement.
Instead, the fragments that mended the heavens spontaneously formed a barrier based on the evolution of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and changes in the surrounding environment.
Because it is located in the Phoenix Ancestral Sea, where water element is abundant and earth element is scarce, the interior of the barrier formed by the fragment of the sky-mending structure is a land of yellow sand.
The reason for this is that the predecessor of the Heaven-Mending Fragment was the Heaven-Mending Stone, a magical artifact that existed to maintain the balance of elemental forces in heaven and earth.
Therefore, when a lack of a certain element is sensed, the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Fragment will spontaneously replenish the missing element for that world.
The high priest in black robes was clearly unaware of this at the time; he had only discovered a barrier within the fragments of the sky-mending artifact.
In conclusion, the black-robed high priest was merely a user of the barrier formed by the fragments of the sky-mending structure, not its creator.
Although both use fragments of the Heaven-Mending technique, their specific underlying information is vastly different.
Even before this, Lin Yu wanted to completely control the Heaven-Mending Fragment, and ideally, to make use of its power.
After all, through the Hongmeng System, Lin Yu had already copied an identical, even more refined, fragment of the Heaven-Mending Fragment and placed it above the Phoenix Ancestral Sea.
In this way, when the Dao Qi era encounters a cataclysmic calamity in the future, the replica fragment will receive a response and complete the fusion.
The fragment of the Heaven-Mending Stone in Lin Yu's hand had completely become his magical artifact.
To Lin Yu's surprise, the spiritual consciousness within it had clearly been erased by him, and his power was overwhelmingly superior to the fragment of the Heaven-Mending Piece; the other party had no chance of resisting.
Even so, Lin Yu was still unable to fully utilize the power within the Heaven-Mending Fragments, and almost every attempt ended in failure.
After trying for a while, the result was still failure. Even with Lin Yu's composure, he was exhausted under such circumstances.
At this moment, it's unclear what the situation is between He Buxian and the Fallen Black Phoenix.
Lin Yu wasn't sure whether the mysterious power had only attacked him, or whether it had also attacked He Buxian and the Fallen Black Phoenix.
Even with Lin Yu's strength, he couldn't resist this power, let alone He Buxian and the Fallen Black Phoenix.
As time went by, Lin Yu noticed that the pressure from the chains on his wrists and ankles was becoming more severe; they seemed to be contracting at a very subtle pace.
However, the range of motion was so small that Lin Yu didn't notice it at first. By the time he did, his wrists and ankles were already feeling sore and numb.
"Buzz... buzz... buzz..."
Just as Lin Yu was caught in a dilemma, a dazzling ray of light suddenly shot out from the sky, and the gray sky trembled slightly because of the appearance of the light.
The light fell directly onto Lin Yu's storage space and connected with it.
The fragments of the Sky-Mending Stone, which had been obediently staying in the storage space, seemed to receive some kind of summons the moment the light appeared. They trembled immediately and couldn't wait to fly towards the light.
At first glance, it looks as if two forces have merged together.
No, rather than saying that the two forces merged together, it would be more accurate to say that the fragment of the sky-mending structure also transformed into a beam of light, which intersected with the light coming from the horizon.
"It really is that mysterious force at work!" Lin Yu thought to himself.
Even as soon as the fragment of the Heaven-Mending Piece emitted its light, Lin Yu sensed that the predicament he was facing this time was related to another fragment of the Heaven-Mending Piece.
Lin Yu knew that the other fragment of the Heaven-Mending Stone couldn't have been found so quietly.
According to his speculation, the fragments of the sky-mending technique behind this so-called mysterious power must have possessed some intelligence.
Having gained wisdom, the fragments that mended the sky no longer considered the other fragments as part of their whole; they were all too aware of their own fate.
That is fusion; when the world faces disaster, they fuse together to form the stones that mend the sky.
However, there are nuances to this fusion process. Whether all the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Patch are fused together honestly, or whether one fragment devours the others, makes a significant difference to the fragments themselves.
The fragments of the Heaven-Mending Piece, devoid of any spiritual consciousness, could never have conceived of such a thing. However, the mysterious power on the other side might have gained intelligence, so what it's thinking right now is probably to devour the remaining eight fragments of the Heaven-Mending Piece.
Clearly, the fragment of the Heaven-Mending Sword on Lin Yu's body has already been coveted by another fragment of the Heaven-Mending Sword.
If the previous plan to use the Heaven-Mending Fragments was merely to eliminate He Buxian, then Lin Yu's arrival undoubtedly disrupted her plans.
However, during the ensuing battle, the fragment of the Heaven-Mending Piece sensed the power that Lin Yu possessed—the power of another fragment of the Heaven-Mending Piece. For him, this was not a curse, but a blessing.
Perhaps back in the Spade Desert, the Heaven-Mending Fragment had already begun to devise how to take the other Heaven-Mending Fragment from Lin Yu and devour it.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have deliberately brought Lin Yu to this high platform and used black iron chains to restrain Lin Yu.
"Alas, it seems I was too relaxed in the place associated with Daoist Shouyang." Lin Yu felt a pang of regret.
If he hadn't relaxed the crystal, how could he have been controlled by the intelligence within a fragment of the sky-mending artifact, and how could it have acted before he even discovered it?
What makes Lin Yu even more helpless is that he has now lost contact with the Hongmeng System.
Since entering the fantasy world, the Hongmeng System has always been the foundation of Lin Yu's cultivation.
However, Lin Yu only discovered after the Dao Qi era that the Hongmeng System still had many flaws at that time.
Not only does it require special magical artifacts to unlock permissions and skills, but the replies are also ambiguous, and it frequently disconnects. It's clearly been blocked again right now.
"How exactly does that power manage to evade the system's scan?" Lin Yu wondered.