Gazing at the Pious Whisper before him, Dalun Li utilized his powerful vision and perception to carefully study the flow of various forces within the strip of fabric.
His formidable vision came from Tongmu.
And his perception came from Zeno.
With the two powers working in tandem, every ounce of energy within Pious Whisper was laid bare to his sight and senses, down to the smallest detail.
Pious Whisper itself was a greater magic grade magic item of the light attribute.
It inherently contained extremely powerful mana, making it a rare and valuable greater magic grade magic item.
The material seemed to be woven from several types of thread. These threads were undoubtedly materials from some boss-class monster within a dungeon.
When Claude self-destructed, a massive amount of Holy Light flooded into this magic item, while the Forbidden Fire burned upon it.
The two forces had begun a preliminary fusion at the points of damage, reaching a delicate balance.
The Forbidden Fire was something Dalun Li had concocted by mixing various powers.
It contained not only the growth characteristics and life power of plants but also the chaotic, mad nature of the evil god, Dark Starry Sky.
The power of Holy Light should have clashed with the Forbidden Fire; after all, the purity of Holy Light and the dark madness of an evil god could not possibly merge.
However, light possessed an excellent affinity with plant life.
The infusion of this power actually allowed the Forbidden Fire to sustain itself for much longer.
Originally, Dalun Li had merged the dark madness into scorching, high-temperature flames.
He then used the power of plant life as fuel to stoke this mad fire.
At the same time, the power of plant life granted the Forbidden Fire the ability to grow, allowing it to burn with a wild, expanding intensity.
This was why the various forces within the Forbidden Fire clashed, making fusion extremely difficult.
From the moment it was ignited, it was in a constant state of self-destruction.
Wood clashed with fire, and fire clashed with darkness.
With the addition of the power of light, shouldn't the conflict have intensified?
Yet the Forbidden Fire burning steadily upon Pious Whisper told Dalun Li otherwise.
Light nurtures Wood, Wood nurtures Fire, and Fire nurtures Light.
This was a framework of mutual generation and restraint.
Recalling the knowledge regarding containers on the copper plate, Dalun Li suddenly had an epiphany.
This cycle of mutual generation and restraint acted as a stable container.
The power of dark madness was then stuffed inside this container.
This fusion framework allowed the Forbidden Fire to burn with extreme stability and longevity.
Dalun Li took out a notebook and began sketching and writing. Soon, a complex prototype of a magic circle emerged.
He was using magical knowledge to map out the abstract framework of the Forbidden Fire that he had envisioned.
He felt this knowledge was very useful and needed to be recorded. He had a premonition that if he ever needed to create a container in the future, he would likely need this information.
Fire requires fuel to burn.
From the moment a fire is lit, it is a process of constant consumption and energy release.
Once this framework was established, the Forbidden Fire would become like a container, a flame that firmly bound power and energy within itself.
In other words, the spark of the Forbidden Fire, without external intervention, would be so stable that not a single shred of energy would escape, maintaining a self-sustaining cycle.
“Achieving this is indeed still too difficult.”
“But I can take it slow. I can see the dawn of success now.”
Dalun Li controlled the Pious Whisper before him and tossed it toward the flames burning on the formula copper plate.
At this moment, the three forces on the formula copper plate were still slowly merging.
As Pious Whisper was thrown in, the power of Holy Light began to flood the mixture.
The merging Forbidden Fire began to undergo a transformation.
The scorching temperature actually began to weaken slowly as the fusion progressed.
This was not a bad thing; it proved that his research was correct.
The triangular architecture of attribute generation and restraint was gradually forming. The immense power and temperature of the Forbidden Fire were being tightly reined in, no longer dissipating.
Energy and mana would continuously accumulate within the Forbidden Fire.
“Pious Whisper...”
Looking at Pious Whisper burning at the center of the Forbidden Fire, Dalun Li felt a bit of heartache.
A perfectly good greater magic grade magic item was now being turned into fuel.
It's fine. Pious Whisper is just staying by my side in a different way.
Besides, it's just one greater magic grade magic item; I'm not lacking in them.
Dalun Li forced himself to find comfort in these thoughts.
While a new breakthrough was being made with the Forbidden Fire and his adorable little leeks were exploring the dungeon, good news also arrived from Tongmu.
The two mana fluctuations previously discovered by Tongmu deep beneath the subordinate floor had finally been located.
“The progress is actually this fast.”
“Tongmu's mastery of vision is indeed superior to mine. Is it the difference in experience and refinement?”
The discovery of the two mana fluctuations presented no danger.
To be safe, Dalun Li still deployed his pedestal to personally go to the subordinate floor and confirm.
The mana fluctuation located near the surface was not a physical treasure, but rather an underground spring hidden beneath the earth.
The spring was located in an underground cave carved out by erosion. On the cave's rock walls grew a type of glowing moss.
Dalun Li checked the composition of the moss.
The moss was no different from ordinary moss, except that it had mutated under the unique environment of this underground cave, gaining the ability to glow and an incredibly resilient vitality.
Such powerful vitality could perhaps serve as an alchemical material for life potions.
The mana within this underground cave was very dense, and the source of this density was the unremarkable puddle of spring water in a corner of the cave.
“Squeak, squeak!”
Tongmu swayed its large eyeball beside the spring, clearly seeking credit.
“Good Tongmu, clever Tongmu. You’ve done a great service.”
Dalun Li was naturally not stingy with a bit of praise, and he began to verify the properties of the spring water.
Speaking of special springs, Dalun Li already had one.
That was the spring beneath the roots of the substitution magic tree. That spring had also been discovered underground and contained a small amount of mana, making it a magic spring, though it couldn't be called very precious.
But the magic spring before him was completely different.
The mana it radiated alone was far higher than that of the spring beneath the substitution magic tree.
Dalun Li extracted a globule of the spring water to confirm the power within.
The vitality was not strong. Was it not a spring related to the life attribute?
In his mind, there was still the shadow of her, and that bottle of water of life that had already been used.
Although the spring water before him lacked strong vitality, it contained the power of another attribute.
It was the power of the ice attribute, something Dalun Li had not mastered at all.
“No wonder the temperature in the entire cave is so low. I thought it was because it was underground, but it turns out to be the effect of this spring.”
The ice attribute was a variant of the water attribute.
Dalun Li had seen adventurers with the water attribute; typically, mages would master some water spells to use for control or counter-magic.
But Dalun Li had yet to see any adventurer use abilities related to the ice attribute.
“It can be used to create monsters, assist in manufacturing magic items, or for alchemical potions.”
“The purple-skinned blacksmiths should have quite a need for this.”
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