Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 657

“Hm... should I take a break? I have made some progress but it’s not going as fast as I had hoped for.”

Zhang Dong looked at his palm where a tiny little dot of dark brownish energy was bouncing around. This little dot contained the combined energies of fire, wind, and lightning. He was able to combine these three elements without them rejecting themselves but there was something missing. The dark color of this combination made him worry as he expected it to go in the opposite direction.Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

“But maybe I’m going in the right direction? Would the element of origin be pure black or pure white?”

If he identified the elements as colors then putting them all together would produce a darkened color from all the combined saturation. However, what he was trying to find out was a combined energy that all of these elements had in common. If he looked at it from that angle the color should have been getting brighter.

“It should be like an empty canvas that is easy to draw on and not a black patch that needs to be sieved through.”

This made sense to him as otherwise, the practitioner would have to siphon their element from this dark energy while also blocking out all the other ones. How would they do this without generating all of the other elements in the first place? It made more sense for the point of origin to be simpler than harder. Probably after finding this original element, he would be able to fashion it into all of them at once instead.

“This doesn’t mean that it was all for nothing, finding out what all of these elements have in common and how they fuse with each other should give me some insight.”

If he imagined all the basic elements like fire and water to be a part of a chain, then what he was looking for was the big one in the middle that all these elements were connected to. By bonding them with each other he was coming closer to understanding their base which he was looking for.

“Would be easier if I absorbed the water and wood element...”

His progress was slowly ramping up but there were many questions that he needed to answer. First of all his elemental Dao was also limited, at the moment he knew two of the basic elements which were fire and wind. Water was close to him but he hadn’t trouly mastered this part yet.

Then there were more advanced elements like holy, darkness, and lightning that didn’t necessarily connect to the base four. However, if there existed an origin energy that connected all of them, there was a possibility to use them for his research. His only hope was that he would be undisturbed in his secluded cultivation for at least a bit more until he got all the bugs sorted out.

“Bob, run a few more simulations for this and try finding something that binds these three elements.”

“Affirmative.”

Luckily for him, he was not alone in this endeavor. With the help of Bob’s computing power, he was able to run various simulations without having to do it himself. His Ai was integrated into his very being, his soul that had become massive. With all this computing power he would be able to shave off hundreds of years of bumbling around on his own. It would make up for the loss in longevity that was being blocked by the world’s rules. Otherwise, if he was able to reach the age of ten thousand, then it might have been possible to do it the long way.

After checking where Zhang Jin teleported to he started getting a bad feeling about it. The gate he used was the closest to the central region. Their sect was steadily expanding its influence but building all those large structures came at a big cost. It was possible to use the old gates that other sects built but some of them weren’t up to their standards. Most weren’t large enough to let ships sail through them and were not power efficient in the slightest. The ones that his sect was using were much safer and also allowed him to track everything through his faction system.

“He probably had a good reason for not informing me about it ... but not like I have to.”

“Hey Bob, bring up the mission records, they should be somewhere inside of the database.”

Zhang Dong liked to keep a watch over all of the dealings inside his sect. This also meant that he set up everything so that he could take a peek at everything if he wanted to. Bob was integrated into the system and could be used as a search tool. All of the mission data would be infused into the system and kept for storage, similar to a big library just without any books. Instead, they used items similar to communication jades that were able to use storage that cultivators could use.

“Lesser angle units were destroyed?”

He quickly looked through his autonomous army logs to confirm the mission claim. It wasn’t unusual for some of the core formation-level puppets to be destroyed. They were not invincible and he also didn’t want to scare the populace by having the stronger ones flying around everywhere.

Peace gained through an iron fist was not something he was aiming for. They were mostly there to be helpful and diffuse the situation, not murder anyone in sight who performed a crime. After confirming that the two units were destroyed in the battle and their location he concluded what his grandfather was aiming for.

“Well, it wasn’t a bad decision if the Long Clan is involv...!?”

“ALERT! ALERT! The health of a family member is critically low. Activating safety measures.”

“Huh?”

At first, he wanted to praise his grandfather for not involving him in a bothersome trip like this. Before he could close the window a red one appeared before his face. There was an alert option in his system window that could notify him if certain terms were met. This one for instance would instantly trigger if one of his family members was low on health.

“It’s gramps? What is happening there?”

Without thinking much about it he pointed his finger at the red screen before him. He was sure to rig it like this so that he could teleport to the injured family member that was under attack. With one click his body started glowing blue before vanishing within one second he was brought to where Zhang Jin had gone to.

When he appeared on the other side it was hard to not see the glowing pillar of lightning surrounding his grandfather. His body was bruised and he was out cold. The safety measure of his system had been activated to create this effect and push everyone in the vicinity to the sides. His eyes started darting around to find the perpetrator of this act. There was a lot that he could stomach but hurting his family was not one of them.