Above all spirits

Chapter 393 A Design Like a Clown

"Others might be blinded by this Star-Gathering Bead, but I won't."

"The power of the stars is readily available to me."

"The Star-Gathering Bead doesn't mean much to me."

Gu Yun murmured, pondering the original meaning behind the altar's design.

Stepping outside the circle allows Gu Yun to see more.

he guessed.

This place of the fish-men is probably not just about the Star Gathering Pearl.

There are probably other hidden reasons why they were almost wiped out by the dragons back then.

The power of assimilation enveloped Gu Yun's body, and he entered it without triggering any array restrictions.

What will happen?

Is it even more enviable to beings in the lower realms than the Star-Gathering Pearl?

Even Chen Yuan fell for it.

A golden streak of light flashed by.

It flew into Gu Yun's palm, dragging a shattered fragment behind it.

Material unknown...

"It seems that just one piece isn't enough to tell anything."

"It must have been deliberately destroyed."

"Sigh, I really envy Xiao Li."

The voice just fell.

Several golden streaks of light rose up in response.

All the fragments were now being collected by Gu Yun and suspended in front of him.

Looking at the seemingly unrelated fragments with their inconsistent rules, Gu Yun felt a bit overwhelmed; he wasn't good at this.

If Xiao Li were here, he might at least know what it originally was, which would make it easier to piece things together.

But now he doesn't even know what it originally was, and there's a high probability that the component in front of him is actually missing...

“Gu!”

kindness?

Upon hearing the sound, Gu Yun slowly turned around, and countless fragments that had been fixed in place by Gu Yun's innate energy and were suspended in the air began to move as well.

"what happened?"

Yunyin looked at the fragments that were giving Gu Yun quite a headache with shining eyes, and said.

"Is it a jigsaw puzzle?"

"Similar to those computer exploration games that Gu plays?"

"Have you forgotten? This is my forte!"

Gu Yun recalled for a moment and suddenly realized that he remembered some two-player cooperative puzzle games he had played with Yun Yin at the internet cafe before, and Yun Yin had solved the puzzle parts in no time.

嗏

"Is this okay too?"

After all, one is two-dimensional and the other is three-dimensional.

"And I don't even know what it originally was."

Seeing Gu Yun's helpless expression, Yun Yin felt a surge of pride and patted her chest.

"Leave it to me, don't worry. After all, I'm not the same mortal I used to be. My strengths will always be my strengths!"

"By the way, I can't get in, so I'll just give you instructions directly?"

Gu Yun nodded. With Werner absent, Gu Yun had no way to get Yun Yin to ignore the array's restrictions and enter.

Next, to Gu Yun's astonishment, he received a strange-looking object with some flaws.

"This is..."

"The hilt?"

"Or perhaps the hilt?"

Gu Yun wasn't sure, but judging from its appearance, it could only be some kind of round handle.

Gu Yun looked around but found no holes that could be inserted to make it a mechanism.

As Gu Yun approached the altar, he was surprised to find that directly below the floating Star Gathering Bead was a round hole that fit perfectly with the strange "key" in his hand. If one did not have a preconceived notion that the "key" in his hand was complete, anyone who came here would probably assume that it was just a concave base for the Star Gathering Bead.

Gu Yun didn't touch the Star Gathering Bead; it was best to leave it undisturbed if possible.

Everything arranged inside the stone chamber has its purpose.

Gu Yun inserted the handle directly into it, but it couldn't be moved up or down or left or right.

After a moment of silence, a small clump of the silvery, water-like Creation Iron suddenly appeared beside Gu Yun.

After wrapping the Book of Reversal of Fate, there was still this small clump left.

"go with!"

With a gentle flick of his finger, Gu Yun controlled the Creation Iron, which moved at his will and began to fill in the defects in the handle.

At the moment of complete filling, Gu Yun felt a sense of ease when exerting force from a certain angle, and then turned in the direction without resistance.

"Kakaka!"

“Buzz buzz—!”

Suddenly.

The three array eyes, originally intended to protect the Star Gathering Bead, suddenly flashed with a white light.

The Star Gathering Bead also shone brightly with golden light. At the same time, starting from the Star Gathering Bead, three wires shot out and connected to the three array eyes, continuously supplying them with the power of stars.

"boom--!"

The entire altar chamber began to slowly rotate and sink.

However, since the Star Gathering Bead did not seem to have gathered much star power, the rotation in the stone chamber gradually slowed down, and even the wires connected to the three array eyes began to become faint.

Gu Yun chuckled, showing no surprise.

"The design of this merfolk race is quite interesting."

"It actually requires a specific amount of time."

"I really want to see what good stuff you've hidden."

Because Gu Yun was very familiar with the power of stars, he immediately realized that the power of stars in the Star Gathering Pearl was insufficient, and based on the current situation, he understood the mechanism of the entire stone chamber.

The entire formation should also have another function, which is to release the power of stars.

If we consider a certain period of time as a whole.

The Star Gathering Bead should overflow during the middle of the period. Due to the formation, it will begin to release stellar power during this time, causing star stones to condense around the Star Lake. This period is also when the fog is thickest, almost stopping living beings from entering, and no one can see the mystery within.

At the end of the time period, when the fog is thinnest and the star stone has been condensed, the star power of the Star Gathering Pearl is almost completely exhausted, and its presence will be greatly reduced. This is one of the reasons why the Dragon Clan has not discovered it yet.

Even if an accident occurs and this stone chamber is discovered, almost all living beings will focus their attention on the Star Gathering Pearl, this supreme treasure, and ignore what the fish-men are really hiding.

To obtain this item, one must not only resist the allure of the Star Gathering Bead, but also arrive at a specific time—when the Star Gathering Bead is filled with stellar power—in order to activate the formation and complete its operation.

If you activate it under the wrong time conditions, you will never be able to obtain it, because the time for the formation to release the power of the stars is fixed. If you use up the stored power of the stars in advance, the Star Bead will never reach its full capacity.

It was precisely because of this that Gu Yun secretly admired the high level of design skills of the merfolk.

Unfortunately, they didn't expect it, or perhaps they did expect it but denied it.

This mechanism has one exception condition.

That is, if someone can directly use the power of stars to manually fill the three array eyes with the required star power, then this design will be like a clown in that person's eyes.

Is it difficult to master the power of the stars?

That's for sure. Even in the Upper Realm, there aren't many people who can directly utilize the power of the stars.

but...

Gu Yun was really unlucky; this was precisely the exception condition.

"Power: Thousand Faces, it's been a long time, Star Moon Demon Clan."