But is this the key?
Lou Feng said it offhandedly, and Ji Jue could only laugh it off as a joke. Whoever among them took it seriously would be the real fool.
Putting aside its potential, its truly terrifying aspect lies in the complete entity it forms when the swarm gathers, akin to the Fly King reverse-engineered from a worm.
Not only can it reproduce and grow like other spiritual creature swarms, but it's also a natural match with most alchemy creations, able to integrate with the majority of devices.
One or two standalone tools are not worrisome, but when all of them combine under the Fly King, it forms an independent and complete system.
It builds a bridge between inanimate objects and living beings, even creating undeniably mechanical life.
And all this... was cultivated by Ji Jue using the souls of all the victims as mining machines and their consciousness as computing power in the fragments of the Huangliang Remains to nurture mechanical souls.
