Chapter 2366 Reverse Conversion

“Mm…” Fang Heng rubbed his chin at the words, nodding repeatedly in agreement. “That’s important information. What’s next?”

“And then? There’s nothing more, this is the biggest discovery for now,” Sandy replied, scratching his head. He tentatively continued, “If we must have a ‘next,’ perhaps we could start with the dimensional cores. Ask around if anyone knows about them?”

“Maybe. It’s at least a direction to investigate. Better than having no leads at all,” Fang Heng said, shrugging as he turned to Mo Jiawei. “It’s indeed a significant discovery, but was it really necessary to wake me up and bring me online immediately?”

“Fang Heng, that’s not the point. Look, look at this!”

Mo Jiawei snatched the manuscript from Sandy and handed it over to Fang Heng, saying, “The ancient books detail the ritual for crafting the Nature’s Heart Crystal! This is the crucial piece!”

“Nature’s Heart Crystal? The ritual for its creation… Is it really that important?” Fang Heng took the manuscript, still somewhat puzzled. “Creating Nature’s Heart requires dimensional cores, but didn’t the tree spirit tribe already use up all they obtained?”

As he spoke, Fang Heng began flipping through the manuscript.

As he read, a sudden clarity washed over him, and his eyes lit up with excitement.

“I see!”

Gradually, Fang Heng’s eyes brightened with understanding.

The evolutionary path of the tree spirit tribe ancestors was remarkably linear. They relied on the power of the sacred tree and fortuitously grasped dimensional energy, thereby gaining the ability to transcend world boundaries. Later, they had a fortunate encounter with the White Abyss, rapidly advancing their understanding of dimensional energy within a short period.

However, due to their brief exposure and narrow evolutionary path, the tree spirit tribe completely lacked knowledge of how to convert this newfound strength. Even after obtaining dimensional cores, they struggled to comprehend how to directly harness dimensional energy from them.

After centuries of contemplation, a genius within the tree spirit tribe finally succeeded in dividing the dimensional cores. They then used the power of the sacred tree to convert these fragments into Nature’s Heart Crystals.

It’s akin to using natural energy as an intermediate transition layer.

From then on, the tree spirit tribe could finally rapidly advance their dimensional levels, greatly enhancing their clan’s strength in a short period.

This genius left a significant mark in the tree spirit tribe’s history books, meticulously detailing the conversion ritual in the ancient texts and preserving it carefully.

However, in Fang Heng’s view, this was actually a rather foolish way of utilizing strength.

Now that he had clearly understood how dimensional cores are converted into Nature’s Heart Crystals according to the ancient texts, Fang Heng could entirely reverse the process to convert Nature’s Heart back into its original form.

Then, he could directly utilize the dimensional core for energy absorption.

This approach would significantly enhance the absorption efficiency!

Rough estimates suggested it could increase by at least tenfold!

Get what’s missing and make it complete!

Previously, the vampires completely cleared out the main habitats of the Wood tribe and Leaf tribe, along with several hidden locations. The zombie clones thoroughly searched the ruins of these habitats and discovered some sacred tree branches and Nature’s Heart Crystals.

In addition, the Soul tribe received reinforcements from their sacred tree branches, and they also obtained some from killing various elders and great elders of the tribes. Altogether, they now have a total of 17 sacred tree branches.

Before this, Fang Heng was still worried about something.

Suddenly receiving a significant number of sacred tree branches, Fang Heng realized he couldn’t absorb them all in a short time. With the holy realm’s pursuers closing in, he knew that grinding for another day or two would only yield a minor increase in his dimensional level, far from a breakthrough.

Moreover, the ‘Inner World’ was currently occupied by Pride, making it necessary to enhance dimensional energy within the Prayer Temple.

Unexpectedly, an opportunity arose just when he needed it most.

Mo Jiawei asked eagerly, “Mr. Fang, any progress?”

“Yes, let’s give it a try!”

With these words, Fang Heng focused his mind.

“Bang!”

Behind Fang Heng’s back, the lifeblood long sword burst open, enveloping the Nature’s Heart Crystal in a shimmering aura as it floated slowly toward him. It settled into Fang Heng’s outstretched palm.

“Sizzle… Sizzle…”

Amid the astonished gazes of those around him, the outer layer of natural energy surrounding the Nature’s Heart Crystal gradually dissipated, emitting wisps of green smoke.

After a moment, as the natural energy completely faded from the surface of the Nature’s Heart Crystal, all that remained in Fang Heng’s hand were tiny granular fragments.

Dimensional core fragments!

“Is this the thing?”

Fang Heng opened his palm and observed the tiny crystals in his hand that were about the size of half a grain of rice.

Hint: The player discovers a special item-dimensional core (fragment).)

Item: Dimensional core (fragment).

Description: A crystalline structure containing unknown strength. It is currently shattered, possessing only a fraction of the power of a complete core.

Note: This item cannot be placed into the backpack and will always drop upon death.

Fang Heng looked at the game notification.

The good news was that after the Nature’s Heart Crystal had completed its conversion, it no longer emitted continuous natural energy fluctuations, not even a ripple remained.

However, it still couldn’t fit into his backpack like before.

Raising his head and meeting the gaze of everyone present, Fang Heng turned to Tippy and said, “I need to leave for a while to conduct some tests on the dimensional core.”

Tippy nodded and replied, “Okay, leave it to me. If there are any new leads, I will contact someone immediately.”

“Alright, if there’s any contamination issue, notify me and I’ll come back immediately,” Fang Heng added, then turned to Sandy and asked, “I will leave for a while. What about you? Are you staying here?”

Sandy didn’t quite grasp the importance of the dimensional core fragments, and he wasn’t interested in them anyway. He casually waved his hand and said, “Got it, got it. You go ahead and take care of your business. I’ll be safe here, and if I find any new leads, I’ll let you guys know.”

…

One hour later, Fang Heng led Prince Carl of the vampires and the others into the dimensional world through the sacred tree branches.

On the barren wilderness, the vampires swiftly set up Abe Akaya’s magic array.

Fang Heng proceeded to further modify the dimensional energy magic array nearby, completely removing a portion of the natural energy. Instead, he adjusted its operations to simulate and utilize the dimensional core.

Then, link the dimensional absorption magic array with the summoning magic array for Abe Akaya.

After spending a lot of time and failing several times, a line of game notifications appeared.

Hint: Verification passed.

Hint: The player has completed the construction of the custom magic array.

“It’s done.”

Fang Heng nodded to himself in approval.

The magic array had been validated through the game, with minimal issues expected in its operational efficiency. Any unforeseen hitches could be adjusted as needed.

With this setup, he could also forego using the vessel of sacrifice to shuttle dimensional energy back and forth. Instead, he could summon Abe Akaya directly into this world and have it rely on the magic array and the dimensional core to absorb dimensional strength directly!