Chapter 805: Wind Mother Pattern

Zhou Yuan gazed with burning eyes at the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother, which exuded an ancient aura. It took him a long time to calm down. Then, his spirit sent a request to the mottled divine grindstone, for the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother resided on the grindstone, and without its permission, his spirit would be crushed if it dared to approach.

Receiving Zhou Yuan's request, the divine grindstone did not refuse. As long as fundamental principles weren't violated, it generally wouldn't deny Zhou Yuan's requests. This was a command left by Cang Yuan when he created it.

In a sense, anyone who cultivated the Chaos Divine Grindstone Contemplation Method could potentially control it. However, Zhou Yuan was currently too weak to achieve this.

Once the divine grindstone permitted, Zhou Yuan immediately sat down with joy. His spirit power radiated outward, gradually approaching the mottled divine grindstone.

As his spirit power drew closer, Zhou Yuan finally sensed the terrifying pressure emanating from the divine grindstone. Even though the grindstone had deliberately restrained its might, the pressure still caused Zhou Yuan's spirit power to undulate violently, as if on the verge of collapsing.

Fortunately, Zhou Yuan forcibly resisted the pressure, and his spirit power reached the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother.

Using his spirit power, he hovered outside the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother, sensing its mysterious energy fluctuations.

These fluctuations were somewhat similar to the source traces of the Wind Spirit Pattern, but they felt much vaster.

Zhou Yuan's spirit power settled upon the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother, constantly familiarizing itself with its aura and operational patterns. After nearly half an incense stick's time, he finally withdrew his spirit power.

Zhou Yuan's face showed contemplation as he extended a finger and drew in the empty space before him. Innumerable source traces emerged, gradually forming a complex and obscure source pattern. This was the source pattern structure he had spent several days deducing. However, without a core component, this source pattern was inert and lifeless.

Zhou Yuan's spirit undulated, and his spirit power rapidly coalesced before him. He began to mimic the aura of the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother.

Initially, his attempts at mimicry constantly failed. However, with each failure, Zhou Yuan became more proficient. After all, the original was right before his eyes, allowing him to correct errors in his mimicry at any time.

After countless failures, at a certain moment, a subtle aura, mimicked by his spirit, finally appeared before Zhou Yuan.

When that wisp of aura appeared before him, Zhou Yuan clearly saw the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother on the mottled divine grindstone emit a faint glow.

"It's done!"

Zhou Yuan was overjoyed, but he remained calm and focused. Then, with a thought, the subtle aura floated towards the shell of the source pattern, finally settling into its core position and beginning to flow.

The moment it began to flow, the inert source pattern instantly burst forth with light, as if resurrected.

Zhou Yuan activated his spirit, slowly compressing the source pattern until it was palm-sized. He quickly took out a blank jade slip and inscribed this palm-sized source pattern onto it.

At this moment, the new type of source pattern he had created was finally complete!

"It's finally a success..." A flicker of excitement appeared in Zhou Yuan's eyes. Immediately, his spirit carried the jade slip, pierced through the wind layer, and swiftly returned to his physical body.

"Time to test its effect!"

Zhou Yuan rummaged through his Cosmos Pouch for a long time, his face darkening, before finally finding a pitifully small Return Source Treasure Coin tucked away in a corner—a leftover he didn't know when he'd missed.

"Am I really this poor?" Zhou Yuan mumbled, took it out, and quickly activated it by burning it.

As this last Return Source Treasure Coin was activated, a swirling green gust of wind soon roared down from the sky.

Zhou Yuan quickly shattered the jade slip. Light surged, and a source pattern appeared on his chest. Unlike the net-like Trace Capture Pattern, this source pattern resembled a small vortex...

The Heavenly Spirit Gale enveloped him, the fierce wind cutting across his body like blades.

Zhou Yuan focused his senses.

As wisps of the gale swept across his body, Zhou Yuan could even sense some of the source traces contained within the wind.

And just as they made contact with his physical body, the source pattern vortex on his chest suddenly stirred, and a certain fluctuation seemed to emanate from it.

The next instant, Zhou Yuan clearly felt that the gales sweeping past his body paused slightly for a moment. Then, he watched with wide eyes as fine, speck-like source traces detached themselves from the gales and, like birds flying into a forest, automatically poured into the source pattern vortex.

A while later, when the Heavenly Spirit Gale had completely dispersed, Zhou Yuan's eyes were still wide open.

"This efficiency is nearly fifty percent higher than usual!" Zhou Yuan was somewhat shocked. One should know that the Trace Capture Pattern only improved efficiency by about twenty percent, yet his source pattern could achieve a fifty percent increase in effect?!

If the Heavenly Spirit Gale contained ten parts of source traces each time, his physical body, without external aid, could only absorb about four parts. With the Trace Capture Pattern, that figure could reach six parts. But now, his source pattern could increase the efficiency to nine parts!

Do not underestimate this extra three parts. If accumulated over years, it would be a substantial amount.

This effect was simply astonishing to Zhou Yuan.

"Is this the difference between passive and active absorption?" Zhou Yuan couldn't help but click his tongue. He had previously guessed that using the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother's aura as the core of a source pattern might have a significant effect on Wind Spirit Pattern source traces. But now, it seemed he had still underestimated the attraction of the Mother's aura to the Wind Spirit Pattern source traces.

"A fifty percent effect is too high. This must be because I mimicked the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother too perfectly. If I need to mass-produce this source pattern later, there's no need to make it this perfect, otherwise it would waste too much energy and time."

Zhou Yuan's eyes flickered. The Trace Capture Pattern had a twenty percent effect. He thought it would be good to suppress the effect of his source pattern to forty percent for sale. As for the fifty percent effect versions, those could be reserved for trusted individuals like Ye Bingling, Yi Qiushui, Liu Zhixuan, and others...

Nevertheless, it was a success.

A look of relief appeared on Zhou Yuan's face. Then he sat down again, his spirit leaving his body, passing through the wind layer, and arriving at the divine grindstone.

He needed to produce a large quantity in preparation for tomorrow.

Thus, for the greater part of the night, Zhou Yuan ceaselessly mimicked the aura of the Wind Spirit Pattern Mother, producing new source pattern jade slips one after another.

By the time he sensed the arrival of dawn the next day, over two hundred jade slips floated before him.

Zhou Yuan's spirit extended a hand, grasping a jade slip. He looked at the source pattern inscribed upon it, a satisfied smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"I haven't named it yet..."

"Let's call it the 'Wind Mother Pattern'."