Chapter 258: The Function of the Fragments, Hongjun's Moistening

No…… How did it succeed again?!

Seeing this, Zhao Si Ren was dumbfounded! "In that side branch earlier, wasn't the second fool a failure?"

Zhao Si couldn't figure it out; clearly the situations of the two side branches before and after were roughly the same, so why did this time succeed? Did the control-variable method fail? "System, what's going on?"

【Since the player wants to control variables to find the cause, let's think carefully: what's different this time compared to last time?】

Different? There's not really any difference, right?

Zhao Si skeptically flipped through the historical information, looking left and right, but didn't find any major difference; those tiny discrepancies—how could they possibly have an effective impact on something as huge as reassembling Pangu……

Wait a moment!

Zhao Si's eyes narrowed: objectively speaking, although the conditions before and after hadn't changed much, in fact this time there was a relatively obvious different condition.

It's nothing else—it's exactly the position where the protagonist Xue Xuan is!

"Last time, Xiao Heizi was soft-confined by the Nether River beyond the heavens; this time he's inside the Primordial Wasteland, and after the Primordial Wasteland collapsed, he even followed my orders to go beyond the Heavenly Dao, borrowing its power to guide saints from other realms across the boundary……"

Could it be that Xue Xuan himself caused the Heavenly Dao to succeed? No way? This time he's merely a Golden Immortal—such a minuscule variable, it's hard for Zhao Si to believe it's his doing.

"If it's not his personal cause…… then it can only be…… the gift?"

Zhao Si seemed to realize: if we must say there's a suspicious variable this time, it can only be those few primordial-level gifts!

"Golden Crow True Fire probably can't do this…… the Heavenly Circuit Stars are also doubtful…… so, Primordial Wasteland Fragments?"

【The player guessed correctly—it's the Primordial Wasteland Fragments.】

"What's the principle?"

Although I guessed it was the Primordial Wasteland Fragments' issue, Zhao Si was still a bit dazed—do the fragments even have this ability? I've had it for so long, how come I didn't know? 【Do you know the principle of artificial rain? It's similar to that.】

Huh? How did this get dragged into artificial rain again? 【If high-altitude water vapor can't become raindrops, we can increase condensation nuclei so the vapor attaches until it turns into raindrops, thus achieving artificial rain.】

【The same principle applies to reassembling Pangu: once the Primordial Wasteland's matter has diffused, without a central core it can't unite…… the Primordial Wasteland Fragments are the thing that plays the central role in this process.】

Huh? That can also be a core? Zhao Si stared, then after a while barely grasped the system's meaning: the essence of the Primordial Wasteland is actually 'being'; even when scattered, it remains 'being'—matter isn't destroyed, just crushed.

And the Heavenly Dao, in trying to reassemble Pangu, essentially aims to recondense those scattered 'beings' into a singularity! But the problem lies here:

Whether saints or the Heavenly Dao, their essence is consciousness, so the system earlier said the Heavenly Dao's failure was due to 'different essences'—consciousness cannot determine matter, so the Heavenly Dao cannot reassemble Pangu.

And what are the Primordial Wasteland Fragments? They're a part of the Primordial Wasteland's own substance that was blasted off by Jin Bing Ershi's self‑explosion back then; at that time it was the height of the mythic era, so it never underwent later diffusion.

Essentially, it's a chunk of high‑density 'being', high‑density matter.

And matter itself can, of course, interfere with other matter!

Now, Xue Xuan brought a Primordial Wasteland Fragment to the Heavenly Dao's side—this is equivalent to providing a central core for the scattered 'beings'.

Under the summons of that central core, why wouldn't they come flocking? Got it!

Zhao Si had an epiphany: 'No wonder you said earlier this chapter wasn't unsolvable—it turns out the answer lies with the Primordial Wasteland Fragments…… but……'

Zhao Si hesitated: 'Why is this Pangu so clueless? It feels even more foolish than the Heavenly Dao's second fool……'

【It's completely normal, because although this Pangu now has a complete body, he doesn't yet have a full consciousness—so far he's only gathered one‑ninth of his awareness, still missing eight parts.】

'Still missing eight parts?'

Zhao Si raised an eyebrow: 'One part from the Heavenly Dao, one part from Old Man Hongjun, seven parts from the Seven Saints—totals nine parts…… but aside from the Heavenly Dao itself being Pangu's consciousness, aren't those eight saints independent of each other? What's their relation to Pangu's consciousness?'