Chapter 630 - 435: Mandate of Heaven

Inside the Immortal Mansion, the Bee Queen, Fang Ruoxi, lowered her head, gently touching the palm of Fang Qingyuan’s soul-form.

A wisp of condensed spiritual sense seeped in at the point of contact between his soul-form and the Bee Queen’s head, slowly probing into the enormous shell before him.

Sensing Fang Qingyuan’s spiritual sense enter, Fang Ruoxi’s body trembled slightly, but then she stilled.

The wisp of spiritual sense traveled unimpeded to Fang Ruoxi’s Mind Palace, where her sea of consciousness resided.

The last time Fang Qingyuan had investigated, he still remembered seeing only three spheres of light of different sizes in the pitch-black sea of consciousness, orbiting Fang Ruoxi’s true spirit.

Those three spheres of light represented the Innate Divine Techniques Fang Ruoxi had obtained through her various awakenings. From smallest to largest, they were Pigeon Poison, Ten Thousand Luminous Illusion Eye, and Voice of All Things.

Among them, Pigeon Poison was the Divine Technique from Fang Ruoxi’s first awakening, allowing her to mix this toxin into the bloodline of the Mutated Scorpion-tailed Bees. Fang Qingyuan had later used this very method outside Black Sand City to assassinate a Qi Cultivation Cultivator whose cultivation was higher than his own.

As for Ten Thousand Luminous Illusion Eye and Voice of All Things, they were the Lifebound Talents Fang Ruoxi obtained when she advanced from Qi Cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Stage. Of the two, the Voice of All Things Divine Technique had brought Fang Qingyuan immense benefits.

It was a shame that because Fang Ruoxi never left the Immortal Mansion and had no opportunity to face enemies, the Ten Thousand Luminous Illusion Eye had never been put to use.

In terms of size, the sphere of light representing the Voice of All Things Talent was over ten times larger than the Pigeon Poison sphere, while the Ten Thousand Luminous Illusion Eye was merely three times its volume.

In the sea of consciousness, nothing had a physical form. The perceived size of the spheres of light was merely a manifestation of the share of Soul Power each Lifebound Talent occupied within Fang Ruoxi’s true spirit. The higher the tier and more complex the talent, the more Soul Power it took up. This was why Fang Qingyuan perceived them differently.

But now, the moment his wisp of spiritual sense entered Fang Ruoxi’s sea of consciousness, he was stunned by what he perceived.

An exceptionally large sphere of light was emitting a radiance that illuminated most of Fang Ruoxi’s sea of consciousness.

The volume of this sphere was a full hundred times that of the Pigeon Poison sphere and nearly ten times that of the sphere for the Voice of All Things Talent.

Such an enormous sphere of light, in Fang Qingyuan’s estimation, was even larger than the "Yin-Yang Dual Qi" Lifebound Talent within Jinbao’s sea of consciousness.

But the "Yin-Yang Dual Qi" talent was already Celestial Tier!

’A Lifebound Talent even more formidable than "Yin-Yang Dual Qi"... what tier could it possibly be? Divine Tier? Or Immortal Tier?’

Before this shocking thought could even be transmitted back to Fang Qingyuan’s main body, the wisp of spiritual sense gently touched the massive sphere of light. An instant later, a stream of information was sent to his main body.

[Heaven’s Mandate: Replace the will of Heaven with one’s own and wield its authority!]

An immense amount of information flooded into Fang Qingyuan’s soul-form. It was the Bee Queen Fang Ruoxi’s own knowledge and understanding of this Talent.

After a long while, once Fang Qingyuan had slowly digested the complex information, he gently removed the hand stroking Fang Ruoxi’s head, his eyes burning with a fiery intensity.

’So it’s this kind of Lifebound Talent... The effect of the Bee Queen’s newly awakened Talent is simply too powerful.’

"Ruoxi, try out this Divine Technique."

Following Fang Qingyuan’s soft instruction, the Bee Queen Fang Ruoxi nodded seriously. She then closed her eyes. In the next instant, countless fine threads, formless, intangible, and visible only to Fang Qingyuan and Fang Ruoxi, shot out from her abdomen. They precisely connected to the bodies of the hundred-odd Queen Bees kneeling in worship outside.

The threads were incredibly fine, like the most transparent spider silk. It seemed as though the slight breeze from a person walking past would be enough to scatter them.

And yet, these seemingly delicate threads forcefully pierced the crowns of the Queen Bees’ heads. Then, streams of Soul Energy were channeled through the threads and flowed into Fang Ruoxi’s body.

The hundred-odd Queen Bees, all at the Middle to Late-stage of Qi Cultivation, trembled in unison as the temperature of their bodies began to slowly rise.

"Master, please issue your command."

Fang Ruoxi spoke, requesting a task. Fang Qingyuan, who now understood how her Talent worked, played along and said:

"Deduce the causes of failure in the Blood Life Pill refinement process."

"Understood. Commencing deduction!"

As Fang Ruoxi finished speaking, the body temperature of the hundred-odd Queen Bees connected by the intangible threads shot up from normal to a level hot enough to cook an egg.

Wisps of mist began to rise. It was the sweat and bodily fluids of the hundred-odd plump Queen Bees evaporating rapidly, shrouding the area in a white fog. However, this didn’t affect Fang Ruoxi’s deduction in the slightest.

’Seeing this, Fang Qingyuan understood. The bodies of these hundred-odd Queen Bees were each serving as an independent computing node. Through her Heaven’s Mandate Divine Technique, the Bee Queen, Fang Ruoxi, was integrating the computing resources of each node to perform distributed parallel computing.’

’At this moment, Fang Ruoxi was effectively a living super-matrix!’

"Not enough Soul Energy... No, I need more!"

As Fang Ruoxi muttered to herself, the bodies of the hundred-odd Queen Bees grew scorching hot. Like old-fashioned steam engines about to overload, they let out pained screeches.

It was only when Fang Qingyuan sensed something was wrong and called out for her to stop that Fang Ruoxi finally disengaged from that state.