Chapter 44: New Module Update – Bonds of All Things

[Module: Bonds of All Things (Activation requirement: Possess and activate Spirit of History)]

[After activation, it will create bonds between spirits, each bond having unique effects]

Looking at this module, Chen Xiyi did not know what to say for a moment.

This must be a derivative module of becoming the Spirit of History.

Without further ado, he activated it directly.

[You obtained skill: Spirit Eye]

[You obtained new function: Spirit Bonds]

[You activated bond: Rivers, Mountains, and State, obtained ability: Command]

This module gave one skill and one function, while the last bond was activated because of the spirits.

“Spirit Eye lets me see the spirituality on items with historical connotations. Wait, why do parts of this Mountain and River World Protection Array have connotation spirituality? Didn’t the map show nothing?”

Seeing this, Chen Xiyi didn’t have time to check other functions and immediately tried using Enlightenment and Spirit Communication to turn the stone in front of him into a spirit.

[Note: The historical connotation on this item is not complete spirituality. If you turn it into a spirit, it will affect the spirit’s ability, potential, growth, and bond effects. Please consider carefully]

Chen Xiyi quickly pulled back his hand. He seemed to understand why the map showed nothing.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t do it, but that there would be differences after doing it.

If the various attributes of the three spirits Jianghu, Shanyue, and Royal Authority were all SSS-grade, then items with incomplete historical connotation spirituality could only reach D or C grade.

Cultivating them would not only consume resources but also bring little benefit, and their abilities would be poor. It would be more loss than gain.

Seeing that note made Chen Xiyi give up the idea of creating many spirits. Clearly, the Home Game did not support this practice. Otherwise, why would it give a note and only show items with complete historical connotation spirituality on the map?

Chen Xiyi opened the new function Spirit Bonds. There were quite a few bonds, but only one completed bond. However, its effect made Chen Xiyi understand why items with incomplete historical connotation spirituality would affect bond effects.

[Spirit Bonds]

[Rivers, Mountains, and State: River (River Spirit: Jianghu), Mountain (Mountain and River Spirit: Shanyue), State (State Guardian Spirit: Royal Authority)]

[Command: When using Enlightenment and Spirit Communication, it will ignore negative experiences between you and the item and forcefully turn them into positive experiences, making the created spirit loyal to you]

This bond was extremely domineering. It hit right at what Chen Xiyi wanted. If he had this ability before, why would he need to indirectly build relationships? He could just rummage through things directly.

He had to admit, just because of this bond ability, Chen Xiyi decided not to create spirits randomly.

Having more spirits might give more bonds, but if the spirits’ quality and attributes were too low, turning originally amazing bonds into some worthless bonds would be a huge loss.

He faced no danger, had no deep grudges, and no urgent matters, so naturally he wanted to follow the best growth path.

If the Rivers, Mountains, and State bond didn’t use the three spirits Jianghu, Shanyue, and Royal Authority, then the Command ability probably wouldn’t be so amazing as to directly interfere with the Spirit of History module.

Of course, he currently had more than just this one bond. There were many incomplete bonds.

[Three Painting Types: Portrait (River Spirit: Jianghu), Landscape (vacant), Flower and Bird (vacant)]

[Golden Texts and Jade Records: Golden Texts (vacant), Jade Records (State Guardian Spirit: Royal Authority)]

[Chess Game: Board (Mountain and River Spirit: Shanyue), Piece (vacant), Piece (vacant)]

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There were quite a few, all based on these three spirits. They just weren’t complete, and the spirits affected the bond effects, so these bonds’ effects weren’t shown yet.

These bonds were related not only to the spirits’ nature but also to their original forms when created and their Miniature Gardens, among other things.

For example, Three Painting Types covered painting categories. The portrait of Ancestor Xuanyuan that created Jianghu naturally fell into the portrait category.

Golden Texts and Jade Records were two special carriers for text. Chess Game referred to a chess game, with Shanyue as the board, missing the pieces.

“The difficulty of these bonds is not small.”

If he didn’t aim for top configuration when creating spirits, it definitely wouldn’t be very difficult. But since Chen Xiyi planned to collect spirits according to top configuration, the difficulty naturally became much greater.

This world no longer had spirits with complete spirituality. Spirits created now definitely wouldn’t meet Chen Xiyi’s conditions and would take up slots, so Chen Xiyi didn’t plan to create any.

He could only wait for the Cycle Function to cool down and go to the next world to try again.

“The Cycle Function has cooled down by one-third. I can use this time to stockpile resources using the Great Li Kingdom.”

Resources—Chen Xiyi would never think he had too many.

Since this world was in the Age of Dharma Decline, with no Supernatural Beings, plus it was a feudal society with low productivity where science was basically like an unplanted seed, if he didn’t make a big haul, it would be unfair to all his previous mysterious acts.

This world had low productivity, that was true. But if the whole country worked together, even with low productivity, gathering sand into a tower and accumulating water into a deep pool could be very impressive.

At least it would be much faster than Chen Xiyi collecting alone.

If he really dug by himself, who knew how long it would take.

With these good NPCs helping, of course he should use them when possible.

“Also, maybe this world has more than just the Shanhe Sect. The Shanhe Sect might have been the strongest sect, but there definitely were others that left legacies.”

“Maybe it’s because even Jade Slips couldn’t be preserved, so the map didn’t show them.”

“If I get corresponding maps, I should be able to find them.”

Chen Xiyi looked at the [Shanhe Sect Legacy Site Map] in his Inventory. Using it would mark the location on the map.

As long as he got similar maps from other sects, his map would definitely mark the corresponding locations too. Then he could just go to the spots and start digging.

“This also requires the Great Li Kingdom’s cooperation, though it might be a bit difficult and could conflict with my persona.”

“Forget it, I’ll deal with that later. First, let’s empty out the Shanhe Sect legacy site.”

Chen Xiyi took out the Wooden Storage Chest and swung the Alloy Pickaxe, continuously digging up the entire Mountain and River World Protection Array. He put each piece he dug into the Wooden Storage Chest as he went.

He could only rely on exploiting the Storage Chest’s bug to carry everything. Otherwise, with the Shanhe Sect legacy site being so big, how could he possibly take it all?