Divine Beast Creator

"If we don’t look at it as a mirror image, but rather as different possibilities of the same object, excluding the harmful parts, then this drug potency diversification seems to completely fit that standard."

Feng Yuan touched his chin and said, Qi Chen and the others didn’t understand what Feng Yuan was talking about, but Agunas and the others instantly understood.

Veronia looked at Feng Yuan puzzled and asked,

"Do you mean that the diversification of the properties of spiritual medicine and potions is the result of multiple possibilities overlapping?"

"Perhaps, it’s just that I haven’t seen the actual object, so I’m not quite sure if that’s the case, and even if it is, it shouldn’t involve time. After all, this multifaceted form of expression was not entirely absent before, like those special spiritual medicines, such as the Seven-Colored Hundred-Flavor Fruit, already demonstrated this, and it’s not a newly emerged rule."

Touching his chin, Feng Yuan always felt that something was not right. Although it wasn’t a mirror image rule but a display of multiple possibilities, why would such a thing trigger time correction and tracing?

At least Feng Yuan didn’t think that such changes in natural phenomena would induce such troublesome time corrections, and why did the correction time node appear just after the Crystal Domain emerged?

Is there any special connection between this thing and the Crystal Domain?

Gently knocking on his head, Feng Yuan found there were still many unresolved mysteries behind this.

Wu Xiaoya sighed and said,

"I didn’t expect this matter to be so complicated, I thought it was just a small issue for you. Forget it, since we know the principle, we should be able to avoid it."

She hadn’t expected this simple drug property change to hide so many problems behind it, and she didn’t think such a matter could be resolved in a short time.

Qi Chen frowned slightly and said,

"I don’t think ignoring it is a good choice. If this change keeps occurring, the entire potion system will be impacted."

No matter what, this phenomenon has already affected the existing potions, especially Qi Chen is uncertain if this change would appear in those potions used for special treatments, like Feng Yuan’s manor. If the potions undergo a change in potency, those spirit beasts might not be able to handle it.

With a shrug, Feng Yuan said helplessly,

"An impact is certain, and right now we have no way to determine if this change has stopped. After all, observing time correction is only possible by noticing the phenomenon of time correction."

Just like Qi Chen and the others couldn’t determine when the anomaly first appeared, unable to trace back from the Time River, this rendered most of their investigation methods ineffective, because those unaffected by time correction also couldn’t know the original information out of nowhere.

As for those like Wu Xiaoya who were affected by time correction, even if they were the first to encounter the anomaly, they couldn’t provide precise information.

Because in their cognition, it was already the result after time correction.

Although they could provide references, it was only for confirming some things, and the most crucial information couldn’t be obtained.

So everyone was chatting like this, with the main topic revolving around this inexplicable drug property diversification. Although Feng Yuan always felt this thing was not simple, it was as if there was a layer of white fog between him and the truth.

After eating, at Wu Xiaoya’s invitation, Feng Yuan and the others would accompany the victorious beastmasters to the Xu Family Town garrison, where Cha Mu Town would hold a seven-day celebration banquet.

However, because those beastmasters and logistic personnel needed time to pack their luggage, the official departure was the next day.

Although the battle for supremacy was over for now and they had no other places to go, Feng Yuan and the others didn’t wander around aimlessly, since spectating this time had been quite mentally taxing.

The continuous battle aftershocks were a huge exertion for Qi Chen and the others, so during free time activities, they had to return to the camp to rest.

Feng Yuan wasn’t much affected, but since it was just him, he didn’t intend to enter a parallel space for a fight, not because he couldn’t win but because he deemed it not cost-effective.

Even if Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound could gain combat experience, with few people, Feng Yuan would undoubtedly have to exert considerable effort to deal with those enemies.

It was known that the parallel space would balance the power of enemies according to the challenger’s strength, but it wouldn’t adjust the number of enemies based on the number of challengers.

Of course, trying to capitalize on numbers was unrealistic since each parallel space imposed a participant limit. Even exploiting spirit beast contracts had a maximum number of participating spirit beasts.

Spirit beasts exceeding the limit couldn’t participate, like ghosts, they neither could affect enemies inside the parallel space nor be influenced by those enemies and the environment.

So that difficulty floor always exists, the only variable is the number of people entering.

The parallel space Feng Yuan and the others discovered corresponding to the time trace was a small-scale one with an upper limit of five people, so at that time Feng Yuan didn’t need to take much action.

But if entering alone, even without restricting Xiao Ji, the opponent might not necessarily be won over.

After all, in the parallel space, Ultimate Moves would experience attribute conversion, and for Xiao Ji, overcoming stronger opponents mainly relied on the Divine Beast Technique Crimson Judgement.

Such an indiscriminate major move was highly effective in some sense. Typically, it could cross ranks to easily deal with enemies, albeit at the cost of being less friendly to allies.

However, upon entering the parallel space, the Ultimate Move was randomly altered, and with Xiao Ji losing the Crimson Judgement, it was hard to say how much she would be weakened.

"Do you think this drug property diversification is related to those people?"

While Feng Yuan was wandering in the woods with Xiao Ji, Veronia suddenly asked, and after a moment’s thought, Feng Yuan said,

"Hard to say, if Qi Chen and the others hadn’t discovered it in time, matching up with the anomaly time node at Kui Shan Town was indeed possible, but considering its spread rate, the possibility isn’t large since that timing is a bit extended."

"If it were their setup with delayed effects, that wouldn’t be right either, for if it was their doing, the Yellow Springs Apostles wouldn’t keep it from me."

Although not very familiar with those people, Feng Yuan always felt such significant matters wouldn’t be concealed from him by them. At least, they might hint to him in some way.

As for keeping it secret from the Yellow Springs Apostles?

Feng Yuan found that unlikely since the uniqueness of the Yellow Springs Apostles was evident, and intentionally leaking secrets wasn’t probable either. Furthermore, such a grand scheme couldn’t be hidden.

Like back when they were in the Netherworld, and some undiscovered things, actually, the Yellow Springs Apostles had mentioned them in brief while interacting with Feng Yuan, which showed they were clear about what those people did back then.

Only this diversification phenomenon had no mention, unless it was a significant plan they intended after leaving the Yellow Springs Apostles behind.

It’s just that Feng Yuan felt this possibility wasn’t great, and the question is, what’s the point?

Whether a mirror image or diversification, in Feng Yuan’s view, neither provided any benefit, at best, they might cause potion formulas to become chaotic, rendering some potions obsolete.

If causing chaos was beneficial for them, Feng Yuan would have to reassess their stance.

"Ah, how did all these messy issues spring up one after another? How do they plan to resolve this drug property diversification?"

Sighing, Feng Yuan looked at Veronia and asked, currently Agunas, Lorraine Tower, and the White Wolf God were conducting the investigation, so even though it was accompanying Feng Yuan, without any major events, it wouldn’t react.

Veronia smiled and said,

"There’s nothing we can do, considering there isn’t a Divine Beast corresponding to potions."

If there were a Divine Beast directly related to potions, then even if the world’s rules changed, it could forcibly intervene using its authority as a Divine Beast, curtailing significant influences.

But the issue now is, there are no Divine Beasts related to potions, and as for spiritual medicine? There are quite a few Divine Beasts involved, but they don’t directly manage the corresponding rules.

Therefore, they also can’t influence spiritual medicine.

Such rule-related issues are particularly troublesome once they exceed their authority, which is why Agunas and the others directly dropped what they were doing to investigate.

The reason being, even if it potentially had minimal immediate harm, if the root problem wasn’t identified promptly, they would be at a disadvantage if changes arose.