Chapter 2020 - 85: The 6th Star Pattern (2)

Immediately afterwards, she straightened her expression again, softly uttering several complex syllables, as if invoking something.

The next second, the earth cracked open, countless purple tendrils emerged from the ground, converging at the gates of the Divine Country.

They formed a surrounding state, outlining a small space, inside of which a fierce light flickered, waves of Spiritual Power Tide surged in all directions, Zhang Xiaoman felt the terrifying spiritual power contained within, causing his eyes to widen.

"Those tendrils... is that the nightmare... and simply relying on one’s own Strength to cause a Spiritual Power Tide, could it be inside there is..."

Just as his thoughts concluded, outside the gates of the Divine Country, some purple tendrils suddenly opened, then suddenly all retracted underground, leaving only a pitch-black small sphere Floating in the air, and the surge of spiritual power was emanating from this small sphere.

"Materials... all gathered... just like that..."

Huan Cai was shocked to the point of nearly being speechless.

The materials for the sixth Star Pattern, they were all Unlimited Level treasures, those tendrils had simply twisted them a few times to prepare all the materials effortlessly, and also directly saved her the Fusion efforts, such an unbelievable event, even if spoken of, probably no one would believe it.

Huan Cai swallowed hard, trembling hands reached out to the floating black sphere in front of her, the value of the treasures within she could hardly imagine, holding it now made her feel as though she were dreaming.

"The materials have been gathered, now let’s begin, I will provide protection for you."

The Demon Princess pointed a finger, the Time Fissure opened again, instantly enveloping Huan Cai and Zhang Xiaoman.

According to Huan Cai, when imprinting the sixth Star Pattern, one not only faces the challenges of the imprint itself, but because the sixth Star Pattern is an object seized against cosmic fate, many unpredictable dangers would be encountered then, these dangers may come from the universe itself, much like the Heavenly Tribulation faced by those cultivating on the Divine Ancient Continent.

Fortunately, with someone like the Demon Princess presiding here, they shouldn’t worry about safety, if even the Demon Princess could not hold against it, then likely no one in this world could imprint the sixth Star Pattern.

At this moment, in the Time Fissure, Zhang Xiaoman sat upright at the center of a massive Formation, set up by Huan Cai over the years, designed to gather and channel spiritual power specifically for this Star Pattern Imprint.

On the other side, Huan Cai had disappeared, transformed into a multicolored auspicious cloud, Floating, enveloping Zhang Xiaoman, wrapping him entirely.

The imprinting began, no drawing steps needed, the auspicious cloud itself was already modifying Zhang Xiaoman, as Huan Cai absorbed the spiritual power of the black sphere, then transformed it and infused it into Zhang Xiaoman’s arm, the auspicious cloud gently floated, while the sixth Star Pattern began to Condense upon his arm.

The entire process appeared calm, yet was perilous, any mistake could result in tremendous loss.

Zhang Xiaoman took a deep breath, gradually entering a meditative state, the imprinting of this sixth Star Pattern placed much less pressure and burden on him, the main task rested with Huan Cai.

Yet before he fully immersed his mind, a violent spiritual fluctuation came, the surrounding auspicious cloud suddenly became chaotic, Huan Cai’s figure stumbled into view, then abruptly expelled several mouthfuls of fresh blood.

"Cough cough cough..."

Her face looked grim, her eyes filled with shock and defeat, the star imprinting failed right at the start, this hit her hard.

"Failed..."

Zhang Xiaoman seemed to sense something and slowly opened his eyes.

At this moment, the auspicious cloud had dissipated, the Formation was completely shattered, Huan Cai was utterly sapped, this scene needed no words to convey its meaning.

"I messed up again..."

Huan Cai could barely lift her head, fearing to see others’ expressions, the failure of this star imprinting was even more disgraceful than the previous time, it failed at the very beginning, so many materials were wasted! Those were Unlimited Level materials! All gone in a blink in her hands, it was the greatest loss Huan Cai had ever experienced.

Yet, she did not know that her upcoming actions would define what truly was the greatest loss.

In response to Huan Cai’s initial failure, the Demon Princess did not say anything, simply called forth the nightmare again to conjure another black sphere.

"Continue."

Just two simple words shifted Huan Cai’s focus, pulling her from the depths of failure back to the right path.

Another black sphere, meaning another dozens of Unlimited Level materials consumed—Huan Cai blinked, her mind conjuring a terrifying possibility.

"Is this Dominator planning... to force a Six Star Pattern using sheer volume of materials!"

Huan Cai originally believed the other party only wanted her to try again, but from the looks of it, they seemed intent on a brute force effort, she immediately couldn’t help but tremble.

Attempting the Six Star Pattern through Unlimited Level materials was unimaginable previously, for even as Divine beings like them considered such materials exceedingly precious, how could such a situation possibly arise?

Staring at the Floating black sphere before her, at this moment, a sense of fear developed, if after consuming such materials she still failed, then would she...

Fearing to think further, she dared not continue.

"Continue."

The Demon Princess spoke again, voice irrevocable.

Huan Cai jolted, swiftly grabbed the black sphere, returning to the Time Fissure to start imprinting for Zhang Xiaoman.

Again, the imprinting of the sixth Star Pattern commenced, this time she persisted a month longer than the previous attempt, but her figure emerged with blood-spitting once more, utterly exhausted.

At the same time, a third black sphere came before her.

"Continue."

The Demon Princess closed her eyes, face expressionless.

Huan Cai quivered, not daring to delay, promptly recovering from her injuries before immediately starting the third attempt with the black sphere.

The third attempt at the Six Star Pattern imprint lasted about half a year, after which, Huan Cai failed once again.

"Continue."

Welcoming her was the fourth black sphere.

The fourth attempt lasted a year, failed.

The fifth attempt lasted three years, failed.

The sixth attempt lasted five years, failed.

The seventh attempt lasted ten years, failed.

...

Time and time again, repeat failures, Huan Cai lost count of attempts, lost sense of time spent in the Time Fissure, until only a single thought remained in her mind—to imprint, imprint, and imprint!

Huan Cai seemed transformed into a robotic imprinting machine, repeated failures, repeated cycles, in her ears echoed the Demon Princess’s words.

"Continue."

"Continue."

"Continue."

"..."

Finally, after the countless attempts, this time the Time Fissure persisted over 1000 years, outside nearly ten days passed by repeated operations, Huan Cai’s imprinting yielded results.

Saw countless eerie black fiendish air spread from the void, no origin, seemingly appearing directly around the crowd.

Their target was Zhang Xiaoman and Huan Cai in the Time Fissure, these black airs seemed to disregard time’s power, spreading speed unaffected by the Time Fissure, rushing towards them under Ni Yang’s horrified gaze.