Buzz—!
The moment Lin Xia's soul power touched the crown itself, a sudden change erupted!
The originally restrained starlight exploded outward. It was not dazzling or blinding—instead, centered around Lin Xia, it projected a vast, profound, slowly rotating three-dimensional star map!
Countless points of light, some bright and some dim, floated through the quiet room, outlining constellation paths Lin Xia had never seen before. Complex stellar tracks intertwined with one another, forming an incomprehensible three-dimensional network that enveloped the entire room, as though they had been transported into a corner of the boundless universe.
"This is…"
Lin Xia's pupils contracted slightly, his dark golden eyes instantly filled with the magnificent and mysterious scene before him.
He could sense the immense, ancient, and pure power contained within the star map. It was completely different from the soul power of living beings on the Douluo Continent, a force far closer to the fundamental laws of the world itself.
Pure stellar power!
Larvitar abruptly raised its head as well. Its crimson eyes widened into circles, and a low growl filled with surprise and instinctive caution rumbled from its throat.
Its sensitivity to energy was exceptionally sharp. The instant the star map unfolded, it felt both an overwhelming pressure from the endless cosmos and a strange attraction that caused the dragon-mark on its chest to grow faintly warm.
Lin Xia immediately steadied his mind and focused all his attention on the star map before him.
He attempted to use his spiritual power to touch those points of light and analyze the paths of the stellar tracks.
However, the star map seemed to be merely a projection of some higher power, a pure display rather than an actual rune array or formation.
Its structure was far too vast and abstract. With Lin Xia's current level of spiritual power and knowledge, he simply could not comprehend its deeper meaning.
The movement of the stellar tracks was unfathomably mysterious. Every attempt to grasp them felt like throwing his thoughts into an endless vortex, leaving him dizzy and disoriented.
Suppressing the discomfort, Lin Xia observed for nearly half an incense stick's worth of time. His spiritual power wandered through the metaphorical fog, yet he remained unable to find the entrance to its secrets.
In the end, he could only sigh helplessly and temporarily abandon this stellar mystery that seemed so close, yet impossibly far away.
"Looks like this star map is more like a manifestation of power or some kind of identification mechanism, rather than the damaged part that needs repair…"
Lin Xia muttered softly, shifting his gaze away from the illusory star map and back toward the crown itself resting in his palm.
Since the external star map offered no way forward, he would focus on its internal structure, the soul tool formations!
He condensed his spiritual power into finer, thinner strands and carefully guided them through the crown's shell of flowing starlight, probing into its internal space.
Boom!
An indescribably massive torrent of information crashed into him instantly!
Lin Xia felt as though his brain had been struck by a gigantic hammer. His vision went black, and he nearly lost consciousness!
Gritting his teeth, he forcibly stabilized his mind, barely preventing his spiritual power from collapsing.
What he "saw" next completely shook him!
The interior of the Star Radiance Crown was not a simple formation made of several primary circuits, as he had imagined.
Instead, it was a colossal soul tool matrix formed from countless layers and countless miniature formations nested upon one another, interlinked into an incomprehensibly massive whole!
These miniature formations were intricate to the extreme. Every soul power engraving was as fine as a strand of hair, yet each contained exquisitely refined laws governing energy circulation.
They resembled dust within the cosmic galaxy, yet combined with absolute precision into a flawless entirety.
Countless streams of energy flowed endlessly within it, operating according to incredibly complex pathways that Lin Xia could barely comprehend.
The entire internal space resembled a miniature, living universe of stars!
Its complexity far surpassed any soul tool blueprint Lin Xia had ever encountered at the Blacksmith Association. It was even ten times—no, a hundred times more complicated than the core formations inside the ancient relics his teacher Lou Gao had repaired before!
"How… how is this possible?!"
Shockwaves surged through Lin Xia's heart.
Compared to the internal structure of the Star Radiance Crown, the so-called high-level soul tool formations from Lou Gao's memories were nothing more than childish scribbles!
This was not merely a soul tool formation.
It was the pinnacle creation of unimaginable wisdom and power!
No wonder it had become the Star Luo Imperial Family's national divine artifact!
An overwhelming thirst for knowledge instantly suppressed the discomfort assaulting his mind.
Lin Xia knew that while this was an enormous challenge, it was also a heaven-defying opportunity!
If he could understand even a fraction of it, the improvement to his mastery of soul tool formations and soul tools would be immeasurable!
Forcing himself to focus his somewhat scattered spiritual power, Lin Xia transformed it into the finest of probes and began trying to analyze the outermost layer of the formation circuits.
Every path, every energy node connection, required tremendous mental effort for him to deduce and comprehend.
Time quietly slipped by amid painful enlightenment.
Sweat seeped from Lin Xia's forehead and slid down his cheeks.
His complexion gradually turned pale, and his temples throbbed violently. His spiritual power was being frantically drained and consumed by the unfathomably deep soul tool matrix like floodwaters pouring through opened gates!
"Ugh…"
Lin Xia could not help letting out a suppressed groan of pain, feeling as though his soul were being repeatedly crushed beneath a grinding millstone.
The agony of having his spiritual power rapidly exhausted far surpassed any physical injury.
But he did not stop!
He stared fixedly at the incomprehensibly complex matrix structure. His gaze resembled that of the thirstiest traveler finally discovering a spring, greedily absorbing the mysteries and knowledge hidden within it.
"Connections, energy guidance, resonance spatial stabilization and defensive counterattacks?!"
As Lin Xia painstakingly analyzed it, shock surged through his heart.
He recognized the functions of a small portion of the circuits. They were precisely the core issues within the mech's central control system he had envisioned, the very problems that had troubled him most.
How could massive amounts of energy be transmitted efficiently, stably, and without delay to every driving unit and weapon system throughout the mech's body, while simultaneously forming a perfect energy circulation and defensive network?
One of the core sub-formations inside the Star Radiance Crown perfectly embodied the ultimate form of this "complete-domain energy linkage and coordination"!
"Found it!"
Wild joy erupted within Lin Xia's heart, as though he had finally discovered the crucial key within a dark labyrinth.
Although understanding it remained extremely difficult and obscure, like climbing a perilous mountain peak, he had grasped the structural principles of the formation and the "path" of its energy circulation!
This was practically a tailor-made ticket leading him toward a higher realm of soul tool mastery!
Enduring the splitting headache that felt as though his skull were about to crack apart, he mobilized the last traces of his spiritual power and, in an almost branding-like manner, deeply engraved the structure of this absurdly complex "Stellar Link Matrix" into the depths of his mind!
Every detail, every turn, every rhythm of energy flow he strove to preserve them with absolute precision.
The moment the final circuit was painfully imprinted into his mind, Lin Xia felt his spiritual power become completely exhausted!
"Hah… hah… hah…"
He abruptly collapsed backward against the couch, his chest heaving violently as he gasped for breath like a fish dragged out of water.
Sweat had completely soaked through his back. His mind was blank, filled only with piercing pain and overwhelming exhaustion screaming through his body.
His vision repeatedly darkened, and the entire world seemed to spin around him.
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