Lin Qi's reputation as the Grandmaster of Spatial Stabilization (Chapter 18) reached the ears of the Archive Palace, the neutral body responsible for preserving ancient and dangerous knowledge. They were facing a crisis: a high-level Forbidden Scroll known as the "Tome of Cosmic Truths" was decaying. The spiritual energy holding its script was breaking down, threatening to release dangerous, chaotic energy into the world.
The Archive Palace Elder, a wizened, stern woman named Grand Elder Mu, personally came to the Whispering Willow Sect.
"Sect Master Wu," she stated, her voice severe. "We need Disciple Lin Qi. We require him to use his unique 'Dao of Fixation' to copy the Tome's crumbling script onto a new scroll, ensuring the copy is a perfect, stable forgery."
Copying the Tome was an unprecedented task. It required months of meticulous, perfect spiritual imitation, with zero deviation in Qi flow—a feat deemed impossible for even the highest-level scribes. Lin Qi was the only hope, based on his track record of accidental perfection.
Lin Qi was promised an unusually large, fresh-picked Peach of Spiritual Sweetness if he completed the task.
The Problem of Precision
Lin Qi was led into a heavily guarded chamber. He was given a blank, high-grade scroll and a mystical Qi-Infused Brush. The original "Tome of Cosmic Truths" lay open before him, its script shimmering faintly as the words began to visually disintegrate.
Grand Elder Mu gave him the instructions: "You must imitate the Qi flow of the original script perfectly. You must write with absolute spiritual precision, or the chaos within the Tome will consume your work!"
Lin Qi looked at the complex, spiraling script of the Tome. He found it aesthetically pleasing but completely baffling. He remembered the last time he tried to focus (Chapter 8) and how badly that went.
He took the Qi-Infused Brush. He had no spiritual focus, no precision, and absolutely no intention of spending months on this. He was hungry for that peach.
The Power of the Scribbled Note
Lin Qi decided that the easiest way to finish quickly was to simply scribble the general shape of the chaotic script onto the new scroll.
He picked up the brush, ignored all forms of proper spiritual control, and let his hand move in a fast, reckless, almost manic motion, attempting to mimic the visual complexity of the Tome with a single, continuous, fast-moving line.
The sealed Core of Infinite Density instantly perceived this as a threat: the potential failure of the mission, which meant the chaos of the Tome would be released. G-EVS's original power, the Dao of Absolute Mimicry, was unconsciously triggered.
Lin Qi's fast, chaotic scribble was instantly corrected by the power. The brush, guided by the Core, moved at supernatural speed, not in a scribble, but in a perfect, instantaneous facsimile of the original Tome's script. The Core understood that the goal was "perfect copy" and executed it in the fastest way possible.
In less than three seconds, Lin Qi had perfectly and instantly copied the entire, decaying scroll.
The copy was not just visually perfect; the chaotic, disintegrating spiritual energy of the original Tome—the very essence of its danger—was drawn into the new scroll and instantly stabilized by the perfection of the forgery.
Lin Qi put down the brush, slightly dizzy from the speed. "Whew. That was fast. I hope I got all the lines right."
The Ultimate Validation
Grand Elder Mu and Sect Master Wu rushed forward, their eyes wide. They saw the original Tome immediately stabilize and its chaos dissipate, the danger completely nullified. They looked at the new scroll—the writing was utterly flawless, vibrating with stable, terrifying truth.
"The Chaotic Instantaneous Imprint!" Grand Elder Mu whispered, her strict composure broken. "He copied the spiritual flow itself! He didn't write the script; he reproduced the very truth of the cosmos that created the script! He used the ultimate speed and recklessness to achieve a perfection unattainable by mortals!"
Sect Master Wu grinned nervously, recognizing the pattern. "The Dao of the Scribbled Note! His contempt for precision allowed him to transcend precision itself!"
Grand Elder Mu personally retrieved a massive, flawless Peach of Spiritual Sweetness and presented it to Lin Qi with the deepest reverence.
She then carved a new, profound, yet ridiculous maxim into the chamber's wall:
> "If a task requires absolute, painstaking precision over months, do not waste time. Scribble it down in three seconds, for the universe respects speed more than effort."
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Lin Qi enjoyed his peach, completely unaware that he had just proven that the "perfect forgery" is simply a matter of supreme cosmic laziness and a really good brush. He was immediately appointed the Grand Scribe of Universal Replication.