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Chapter 993 The Threefold Ritual of Cutting the Gold Mandala

Xia Shou sat in front of his computer, searching for information on the "Triple Ritual of Cutting the Golden Mandala" on an archive website. The website contained information on this ritual, but it did not record the specific details of the arrangement. Instead, it described the effects that the ritual could achieve.

It is said that this ritual originated from the advanced magic created by the Golden Scissors Lady and the Flower Man. The Golden Scissors Lady arrived in ancient India during a trip, where she met the named man who would later become a seamstress, known as the Flower Man.

The information explicitly states that this ancient India is not the ancient India as commonly understood in reality, and this location is most likely not in the first branch of the tree where we are currently in the world. The reason it is described as ancient India is because this story was spread in the ancient India of this world.

The country in the story's background does indeed resemble ancient India, but whether this is truly the case is unknown, given the vast distance in time, not even the past of the present, making investigation extremely difficult.

In short, the research assumes that this location is a parallel country similar to ancient India, and that the flower-herding man was born in that country.

That country also has a caste-like system, but the Flower Shepherd has no caste because he was not born of a human. His birth is quite legendary; in the story, his mother is a harmless mother bear who drinks honey.

This mother bear frequents human villages, often chasing away wild animals that harm livestock for humans. However, even if she kills a wild animal, she doesn't like to eat its meat. Instead, she lets humans take the carcass away to enjoy it. Her only food source is honey.

The villagers noticed this, so the beekeepers began to offer various delicious honeys to this peculiar mother bear. More than ten years passed in this way. The mother bear lived on honey, roamed freely in the village, and established a friendly relationship of mutual trust with humans. In those ten years, she did not reproduce with any male bear.

And so, until one day, the bear gave birth in front of a young beekeeper's house. Everyone in the village came to watch and help the sacred bear give birth. The blood that flowed out of the bear during childbirth had a faint floral fragrance and did not smell fishy.

Finally, the mother bear gave birth to a human baby boy. After giving birth, the mother bear decomposed very quickly, but her decomposition did not emit a foul odor, only a muddy smell. Immediately afterward, a large number of flowers grew on her skeleton.

This is the story of how the Flower Shepherd Boy was born.

He is very handsome, very good at growing flowers, and skilled at grafting various flowers, enabling a single tree to produce thousands of different flowers.

After he came of age, his flower cultivation skills became so advanced that he could make every petal of a flower a different variety. By the time Lady Golden Scissors traveled to this country, he was already able to herd flowers like a shepherd.

Wherever he set foot, countless fragrant flowers would grow. These flowers would grow where he was, and quickly wither and turn to dust after he left. This spectacle was widely praised in that country, and the flower shepherd was highly respected.

And that's how Lady Golden Scissors met him.

The document describes three stories of their conflict. One story is that Lady Golden Scissors cut off all the petals of the local flowers.

The second version is that when Lady Golden Scissors met the Flower Herder on the road, a flower grew on the golden scissors. After the Flower Herder left, the flower withered and turned to dust, leaving a hollowed-out flower shape on the golden scissors.

The third version is that Lady Golden Scissors casually killed a villain on the road. The villain's death was so gruesome that it was unbearable to look at. After passing by, the Flower Herder kneaded the scattered flesh and blood into a beautiful flower of flesh and blood, which offended Lady Golden Scissors.

In short, the two inexplicably had a conflict, which led to three competitions. After the three competitions, they appreciated each other's skills and finally joined forces to create this ritual - the "Triple Ritual of Cutting the Gold Mandala".

In remembrance, they cut gold to create a unique mandala flower.

As for why it was mandala, the information says that the competition took place in a palace themed around mandala flowers. As for the effect of the ritual, it has basically nothing to do with the story. Its modern use is to divide supernatural abilities and then graft the divided supernatural abilities onto another entity.

The document specifically records a criminal known as "The Flower Planter." This woman was a vicious criminal from thirty years ago. As a Level 1 superhuman, she learned this highly complex ritual and plundered a great many superhuman abilities, grafting them onto herself, and committed outrageous crimes.

As we all know, many superpowers are not very good individually, but when multiple superpowers are combined, their overall combat power will be increased exponentially.

This flower planter was just like that—extremely powerful, versatile, and top-notch in both reconnaissance and concealment. She committed crimes swiftly and without leaving a trace, causing the control bureau a great headache for a long time.

Of course, the person who planted the flowers later died, but the details of how he died are not recorded in the documents.

Xia Shou scrolled down the mouse wheel to read the classified section, which was inaccessible to anyone below level five. Xia Shou himself hadn't been qualified before, but now he had reached level five. Although the update wasn't complete, access was already granted.

Fortunately, the ceremony seems to have been completed quite well.

As for the content of the ceremony... well, there is a vernacular version, which is easy to understand, but the cost is quite high.

Especially the materials, among which the most abundant material is flower petals.

The petals of a hundred different kinds of flowers, but they cannot be picked randomly. They must be from flowers whose seeds have been sown by hand and which have been grown by hand. Moreover, they cannot be mass-produced using technology, because one must cultivate a bond with the flowers and water them regularly with one's own blood.

The text above states that the best flower petal material is to say nice things to the flower, play music for it, praise it every day, and comfort it. Only material obtained in this way can be considered qualified.

You can't just pick the petals; you have to use pure gold scissors to cut them off.

Then comes the prayer, chanting, offering sacrifices to Lady Golden Scissors, then offering sacrifices to the Flower Herder, then writing down the request in cipher, sealing away the extraordinary power, and then injecting incantation power according to the precision and complexity of the request. Once the incantation power is sufficient, it can be precisely cut and fused.

Regarding this ceremony, it was specifically noted that overly precise cutting and fusion techniques generally require a great deal of magical power, with historical records showing that a year's worth of magical power was injected into it.

The amount of spell power required is also directly related to the level of spell power; the spell power of a level 5 superhuman is of much higher quality than that of a level 1 superhuman.

Xia Shou continued to open the incredibly long ritual incantation and read it once more.

It seems like it would take several hours to read all those words without stopping, and there are also many walking movements to complete in between.

"It's alright, I can understand it."

Although the process was very troublesome, thankfully he was able to understand the ritual!
A ritual that can be understood cannot be considered difficult.

(End of this chapter)