But there's no reaction.

He tried a few more times, and it was the same.

"...It's kind of embarrassing."

Wu You put down his hand and looked at Chen Lusi, looking a bit awkward, "And it's completely useless."

He roughly tried three times, whether towards the cat or towards people, he couldn't succeed in activating the technique recorded on the sheepskin paper like an Empowerer of the Church System.

Even when Chen Lusi asked him to try the technique thinking about cats, he tried it, but still no effect.

Yes, they also knew about the incident where the cat swallowed the God's shadow.

This was one of the reasons why they were willing to cooperate with Chen Lusi.

"...You could try adding a 'meow' at the end of the sentence!"

At this point.

Tang Language crossed her arms and suddenly came up with a bad idea.

She had just finished a fierce debate in the group, clarifying that she wasn't struck by lightning, and the only person who could be struck was Ji Xin. Afterward, she put down her phone triumphantly and watched Chen Lusi and the other two fiddling with the Church System's sheepskin paper.

This wasn't as dramatic as the Celestial Thunder Talisman.

So she didn't stop them.

But since there was no result, she got a bit bored and started coming up with bad ideas.

Chen Lusi looked at her with a helpless glance.

And just then.

A slightly soft voice suddenly rang out.

"You call upon people to return to dust... meow."

"..."

Chen Lusi silently turned back to look at Xia Panqiu, who was holding up the sheepskin paper and really added a 'meow' at the end of the sentence.

"It's useless!"

Xia Panqiu's face blushed, avoiding Chen Lusi's gaze, glaring at Tang Language.

"You really believed it... hahaha."

Tang Language shook with laughter, then said, "It's cute!"

Xia Panqiu clenched the sheepskin paper, turned her head away, showing only her fair profile.

Wu You couldn't help but chuckle too, until he noticed Chen Lusi looking over, and his face suddenly changed: "You wouldn't want me to do such a thing, would you? How can a real man stand between heaven and earth and stoop so low?"

"Then, don't add 'meow' at the end, replace the entire sentence with cat language."

Tang Language stopped laughing and suggested again, "Like... meow meow meow meow meow."

Wu You heard this, his face turned dark, and he replied grumpily: "Tangyu Celestial Strategy, if you have nothing better to do, you can go get struck by lightning."

"Huh!? What do you mean? I, Tang Language, today..."

Tang Language was enraged by this remark and immediately lifted her skirt to go teach Wu You a lesson.

I'm afraid of Chen Lusi, not daring to touch the cat, but I'm not afraid to deal with you?

Wu You witnessed this scene with a calm expression and said slowly, "Meow meow meow meow meow."

"Hahaha."

Tang Language was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stopped and started laughing hysterically again.

Chen Lusi: "..."

Meanwhile.

The white cat seemed to have had enough, stretched out its body, and then went to Chen Lusi's side, gently rubbing its ankle.

Chen Lusi temporarily withdrew his gaze, ignoring the antics of the three, and directly bent down to pick up the cat.

He lifted the cat to eye level and then asked, "Will it work?"

"...Meow."

The white cat let out a soft meow and then lifted its front paw, pressing its paw on Chen Lusi's lips.

Chen Lusi: "..."

"Don't listen to Ji Xin and Xia Yue's nonsense... even if that God's shadow was eaten like a snack by the cat, it can't become a real God."

Tang Language observed this scene, thought for a moment, and then suddenly spoke to comfort, "You shouldn't put too much pressure on yourself. Once they find someone useful, they'll use them like slaves. If it doesn't work, just ignore them."

Chen Lusi came to his senses, looked at Tang Language, a bit surprised.

"What?" Tang Language met Chen Lusi's gaze.

"Unexpected."

Chen Lusi shook his head and then said, "Actually, I'm curious myself, not for anyone else, but for my own curiosity, because it has to do with whether I can modify the Talisman later."

"Oh... Anyway, don't put too much pressure on yourself, we're not really meant to be using the Church System's technique."

Tang Language heard these words, responded after two seconds without fully understanding them, but she didn't care, and waved her hand dismissively.

Chen Lusi was used to it, and turned back to the cat.

After the white cat pressed its paw on his lips, it looked at him and gently wagged its tail.

Chen Lusi looked at the relaxed white cat, picked up his previous thought, then suddenly thought of something, furrowing his brows as he put down the cat.

Then, he stretched out his hand.

Spirits around began to gather into his palm, quickly condensing into a Spirit Ball.

Chen Lusi compressed the swirling Spirit Ball, extracting a small portion of spirit from his own body to mix in, and then handed the stone to Xia Panqiu: "Please swallow this."

Xia Panqiu was momentarily stunned and instinctively opened her mouth.

Then.

"Mm—"

As soon as she swallowed.

Xia Panqiu immediately covered her mouth, turned sharply around, and slowly crouched down.

Due to an uncontrollable retching sensation, her delicate body was trembling slightly.

About two minutes later.

Xia Panqiu stood up again, with a trace of tears in the corners of her eyes, her petite face still blushing, showing she fought hard against the nausea: "Your tier has advanced, it's different from before… too much spirit was condensed."

Chen Lusi was slightly taken aback: "Sorry."

He had forgotten.

This is the drawback of having no adaptation period.

Whether it's technique or the usual Gathering Spirit, they all became heavy-handed.

"So what are you trying to do?"

Tang Language curiously looked at Xia Panqiu, then at Chen Lusi, and asked.

"Now try again… infuse the spirit into the sheepskin paper."

Chen Lusi did not answer but handed the sheepskin paper back to Xia Panqiu. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Xia Panqiu sniffed, then reached out to take it, obediently trying.

"You command others… to return to dust."

Her fair fingers slowly tightened, beginning to infuse the spirit into the sheepskin paper.

Thump—

And at the same time.

In her body, the spirit just absorbed surged with her blood to the stone at her chest, then was pumped to every corner of her body.

The spirit from Chen Lusi embedded in the Spirit Ball began to cross-fuse with Xia Panqiu's own spirit during this process, quickly appearing outside and entering the sheepskin paper.

The dark yellow sheepskin paper began to deform and twist in his hand.

The small stones at Xia Panqiu's feet started to float slowly.

She slightly widened her beautiful eyes, looking at Chen Lusi in a bit of a panic.

But before she could react.

The next second.

The sheepskin paper.

Exploded.

Flames rose with a strong impact, a blinding, mixed-colored, chaotic ball of light akin to inferior Holy Light instantly enveloped the four of them.

Yet it had no lethality.

Or rather, it was negligible.

"Cough cough cough! What the hell!!! Panqiu, what did you do!?"

In the light.

Wu You's voice emerged, out of tune due to shock, with a sharp edge.

Meanwhile.

Spiritual power surged from Chen Lusi, directly dispersing the chaotic, mixed-colored ball of light akin to inferior Holy Light around, causing it to utterly vanish into the world.

The four figures reappeared.

But besides Chen Lusi, the other three wore expressions full of astonishment, seemingly unable to believe it.

Upon hearing Wu You's words, Xia Panqiu not only displayed astonishment but also a bit of panic on her face; she slowly turned to Chen Lusi, softly saying: "I don't know either…"

"Why did the sheepskin paper explode!? This doesn't seem like the effect of a technique taking effect, right!?"

On the other side.

Tang Language, after all, being a Celestial Strategy, had broader knowledge and quickly realized who the culprit was, also looking at Chen Lusi, asking: "What did you do?"

Clearly, it was due to Chen Lusi that Xia Panqiu caused the sheepskin paper to explode.

Wu You also reacted, looking at him with a face full of astonishment.

"..."

Facing the gazes of the three, Chen Lusi pondered for a long while, then slowly said: "I speculate… the cat might be unable to bear the cost of enacting the church's technique, or more accurately, that divine shadow could not. But that divine shadow was indeed swallowed, so the effect still exists, the sheepskin paper acknowledges it, but cannot deploy the technique, and the chaotic spirit had nowhere to vent, thus it exploded directly.

This destroys the sheepskin paper and the technique recorded on it entirely, so it is not a 'Holy Word' of the church system that can deploy the technique, but rather a special… 'Reversing Holy Word' intended to disrupt its system."

"Reversing Holy Word…"

The three of them murmured Chen Lusi's words, then their voices suddenly rose sharply: "Huh?????"

The Philosopher's Stone spoken of by Hecate, also known by a louder and more familiar name—the Philosopher's Stone.

A great miracle, a magnificent creation, the Philosopher's Stone.

In some sense.

She did have a point.