The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

But what Xu Hai Du Biao wants to do is to get the people on Earth to project their divine consciousness onto Jupiter.

There are 400 million kilometers between them.

Chen Hao sat down in front of the furnace, took out a Boundary Stone, and began his first attempt.

the same day.

Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing left the Tianji Array Sect and headed north along the bridge.

"Yaoyao, look over there!"

Yang Wanqing pointed to a cluster of buildings with upturned eaves in the distance. The plaque bore three characters... Spirit Medicine Valley.

Chen Siyao stopped in her tracks.

"Spirit Herb Valley...an ancient herb garden?"

The two exchanged a glance, then turned and walked away.

The palace complex of the Jade Void Holy Temple was far more extensive than they had imagined. There were dozens of buildings of varying sizes radiating out from the core area alone.

The rest... Spirit Medicine Valley, Scripture Pavilion, Soul Forging Hall, Star Gazing Platform, Beast Workshop, Nine Netherworld...

Each part has different functions and remnants.

Chen Siyao took out a jade slip and marked the route she was going to take that day.

She set herself a goal... to visit every palace she could enter within a month.

This involves collecting data.

Take the magic weapons you're entitled to.

This is a record of the practice methods.

These things, if brought back to Earth, would be of immeasurable value.

"Walk."

Yang Wanqing had already run to the entrance of the Spirit Medicine Valley and turned back to wave at her.

"Yaoyao, hurry up! It smells so good here! I can smell a really strong medicinal aroma!"

Chen Siyao quickened her pace to catch up.

The gates of the Valley of Spirit Herbs were wide open. Inside was a terraced medicinal garden built against the mountainside, with different spiritual herbs planted on each level.

Most of them have withered and died, and no one takes care of them. Even the best spiritual herbs cannot survive for more than 10,000 years.

But a few survived.

Its roots penetrate deep into the earth, allowing it to survive on its own through internal circulation.

Chen Siyao approached a silvery-white herbaceous plant and squatted down to observe it.

"Nine-Turned Silver Leaf Orchid".

She had studied basic pharmacology in her supplementary studies of alchemy. This substance is an essential main ingredient for refining pills that help one break through to the Divine Treasury Realm.

There isn't one on Earth.

"Qingqing, help me transplant these plants into the jade box. Be careful with the roots, don't break them."

"Okay!"

Yang Wanqing squatted down and carefully dug into the soil with both hands.

The live stream chat was buzzing with excitement. But Chen Siyao wasn't paying much attention to the chat today. Her focus was entirely on the medicinal herbs.

On this day, the two harvested seventeen surviving spiritual herbs and more than thirty seed samples of withered spiritual herbs in the Spirit Herb Valley.

I returned to the attic in the evening.

The balcony was empty. The teapot was cold, and no one was sitting on the chair.

"Master hasn't returned." Yang Wanqing glanced around.

Chen Siyao nodded. "Brother should still be in the Tushita Palace."

She walked to the balcony railing and glanced northeast.

In the direction of the Tushita Palace, a faint golden-red light can be seen, which is the color of the fire from the Bagua Furnace reflected in the night sky.

It stayed on all day.

"Let's go, we won't wait for him." Chen Siyao turned and went back into the house.

Yang Wanqing had already picked up the consciousness helmet from the table.

"Yaoyao, I'm going to fight that Golden Core Realm sword cultivator's phantom again tonight! I almost broke his third move yesterday!"

"You, in the early stage of the Golden Body realm, are fighting against someone in the Golden Core realm?"

"I adjusted the difficulty! I lowered it by two levels!" Yang Wanqing pulled the helmet up over her face. "I'm going in first..."

He slumped into the chair, his body going limp.

Chen Siyao shook her head. This girl fights with the phantoms in the Martial Arts Pavilion every night, even more excitedly than during the day.

She also picked up her own helmet.

Tonight's plan is to simulate setting up a three-layered nested spirit-gathering array in the Martial Arts Pavilion.

She wanted to replicate the structure she had seen at the Jizhen Sect during the day.

The mirror fits snugly against both eyes.

The view dimmed for a moment, then brightened again.

The gray stone bricks of the Martial Arts Pavilion appeared beneath our feet.

-

Tushita Palace.

Inside the Bagua Furnace in front of Chen Hao, the third Boundary Stone was being slowly peeled away by the furnace fire.

His spiritual power probed into the furnace, extracting structural information from the spatial crystal grid bit by bit.

The core difficulty of the Void Sea standard is not in the materials; there are enough Void Stones.

The difficulty lies in the array patterns.

The divine consciousness channel that crosses the boundary requires an extremely precise spatial folding array to maintain.

The complexity of this array pattern far exceeds that of the few simple conductive patterns on the consciousness helmet.

Every line must be correct.

One wrong move... and the passage collapses, trapping the user's consciousness halfway. The consequences range from several days of unconsciousness to severe damage to the consciousness.

Chen Hao's hands were as steady as if they were engraved in the air.

The firelight illuminated his profile, and the golden-red light danced in his dark pupils.

I'm not going home tonight.

This is just the beginning.

Seventh day.

When Chen Siyao entered the Tushita Palace carrying a food box, Chen Hao was sitting in front of the stove, lost in thought.

No... I wasn't spacing out. I was looking at the shards on the ground.

A dark purple crystal shattered into three pieces, scattered on the stone slab floor in front of the furnace. The core of the Boundary Stone. Broken.

"elder brother."

Chen Siyao walked over and placed the food box on the table next to her. "I brought some food. You haven't been back to the attic for three days."

Chen Hao turned and glanced at her.

"Um."

He stood up, walked to the table, and opened the food box. Inside were several pastries and a pot of spiritual tea—all made from spiritual fruits that Chen Siyao had found in the Spirit Medicine Valley.

"It failed?" Chen Siyao looked at the fragments on the ground.

"The spatial folding rate of the first version of the array pattern wasn't enough." Chen Hao took a bite of pastry and said vaguely, "The boundary stone couldn't withstand the spatial stress of the interdimensional wall and exploded."

Chen Siyao squatted down and picked up a fragment. On the broken surface of the purple crystal, she could see extremely fine array patterns... the patterns were so intricate that she could hardly see them clearly.

"How many times has this happened?"

"The third time."

Three boundary stones. Three failures.

Chen Siyao put the shards back on the ground and stood up.

"Brother, do you want to take a day off?"

Chen Hao shook his head. "No need. I have a plan. The failures of the first three times all occurred at the same point... the seventeenth node of the array pattern. The spatial folds at that location will resonate, shattering the crystal lattice."

He finished the pastries and took two sips of the spiritual tea.

"Just change the array pattern structure. Let's try again today."

Chen Siyao didn't say much. She knew her brother's personality. If he said he didn't need to rest, he meant it.

"I'm leaving now. Leave the food box here, remember to eat it."

"it is good."

Chen Siyao walked to the door and paused. "Oh, right. Qing and I went to the Soul Forging Hall today. There were some fragments of ancient magical artifacts inside. Most of them were damaged, but a few could still be repaired. I collected them."

Chen Hao nodded.

"There's one more thing." Chen Siyao took out a jade pendant from her sleeve:

"The access token for the third floor of the Scripture Repository. I've broken the array on it. I haven't had time to look at the cultivation manuals on the bamboo slips inside yet; there are just too many."

"Leave it for later and watch it slowly."

"Um."

Chen Siyao left the Tushita Palace.

The fire in the stove was lit again.

The fourth boundary stone was sent into the furnace.

-

The twelfth day.

Yang Wanqing sat on the railing of the attic balcony, her legs dangling outside.

"Yaoyao, where are we going today?"