Inside the belly of the mountain, Richard stood before the experiment table, meticulously engraving runes. Next to him lay a massive earthy-yellow crystal, emanating an aura as solid and heavy as a mountain.
Despite the Faceless Holy Scripture's emphasis on flexibility and variability, the primary rule of Wuxiang was to adapt to change with unchanging Earth Element rules.
In order to refine this rule, Richard had exhausted a total of three hundred units of Soul Power, depleting his reserves of Soul Essence.
However, all of it was worth it.
Nobody would ever complain about having too many rules.
As the final rune was inscribed, a surge of energy fluctuations burst forth from the items on the experiment table.
Richard had been engraving a piece of armor named Mystic Bird, which was once considered one of the treasured legacies of Wuxiang Valley. The reason it was referred to in the past tense was that this armor had been damaged in a major battle thousands of years ago.
