It was almost like burning offerings at a grave or stoking a heated brick bed. 

Ji Jue’s primary task was to take thick spirit matter books and throw them into the flames. These were record books created through the Aether Path, containing detailed imprints of disasters the Tong family had encountered across various regions over the years, each one preserved through their own spirit matter and matrices. Now, every last one of those records was being burned. 

Ji Jue would then use his own spirit matter to activate the records and bring the phenomena contained within them to life. 

Amid the chaotic transformations and terrifying heat, he had to seize the crucial moment and imprint everything contained in those records into the blazing fire of the furnace. His task was to minimize the loss of the recorded phenomena as much as possible and prevent the records from...