Lu Yan’s heart and mind shook violently!
Previously, he had also influenced the two major versions of the city and apocalypse, causing changes in the original celestial order, thereby bringing about version shifts.
But those version shifts were only settled before the version update, in some sense, they included a series of elements such as subsequent impacts.
Yet this time, the version shift appeared before the world version update, with real-time displayed version shift, and it was a full 1%!
It must be understood that Lu Yan’s massacre of over a hundred thousand zombies in the apocalypse version only barely reached a 0.2% shift, and the influence of the sole cultivator in the city version was only 3%.
And now with just a photo, the Xianxia version gained an instant 1% shift, which means the celestial order of the Xianxia version had begun to deviate.
According to Lu Yan’s conjecture, the more powerful the strength system of a version is, the more stable its celestial order, common methods fundamentally cannot touch the version shift.
Leaving aside the immortals who ascend to the upper realm in legends within the Xianxia version, both known righteous and demonic factions have had Divinity Transformation experts.
These are mighty beings capable of destroying heaven and earth, yet seemingly not even the peak of the Xianxia version.
Such a powerful world, its celestial order supposed stability is imaginable, individual strength can hardly shake it.
A mere photograph can shake such a stable celestial order, the significance behind this makes Lu Yan deeply contemplate in fear.
"Earlier, when I showed the photo to Xie Yun, it did not trigger any impact, even earlier when handing over food resources of the city version to scavengers.
This proves that simple resource exchange between different versions does not bring about any adverse effects.
Until Ji Xingyao held the photo and saw ’another self’ in the city version, it triggered that kind of special power."
Looking at Ji Xingyao’s empty right hand, the powerful aura on her body began to gradually recede, Lu Yan fell into deep thought.
"The erased photo seems to be derived from the corrective mechanism of the Xianxia version.
The photo itself did not have any peculiarities, but the trigger of this corrective mechanism comes from some special conditions.
And the key point here seems to lie in Ji Xingyao realizing versions outside the Xianxia version."
Lu Yan’s heart stirred, he suddenly realized what he was experiencing was like a game, all beings under the world versions are like NPCs.
They run according to program logic, when an NPC is about to realize their essence due to external influence, the system intelligence corrects everything back to the origin.
Thinking of this, Lu Yan’s mind suddenly became clear, and even the influence of the version shift gradually became more understood.
"The Xianxia celestial order can control the entire version change, representing the grand trend of celestial order.
Ji Xingyao’s unexpected occurrence, the Xianxia celestial order forcibly intervenes at the level of individual beings, erasing that photo to conduct version correction, this result was not part of the original order, similarly meaning it interfered with the original celestial order.
Thus, this 1% version shift did not come from Ji Xingyao seeing the photo, but from the impact of celestial interference and correction!"
With eyes condensed, he suddenly realized that the Xianxia celestial order, despite covering 1% version shift, still forcefully erased that photo, indicating once the photo takes effect, the impact would far exceed the 1% version shift.
This made Lu Yan increasingly curious, whether if more beings knew information outside the Xianxia version, it could instantly overturn the existing version order and push the version shift directly to 100%?
Just as this thought flashed, Lu Yan suddenly felt a sense of crisis out of nowhere.
The soul couldn’t help but shiver, every cell in his body began to scream in terror, the genes deep within his bloodline were frantically warning Lu Yan.
It’s as if every world, every realm was unabashedly showing malice towards him, the protective Profound Yellow Merit Fire instantly extinguished more than half, leaving barely a faint flame.
Lu Yan promptly dismissed that bit of crazy thought from his mind, instantly the malice disappeared, the world seemed to return to tranquility, as if nothing had ever happened.
Lu Yan panted heavily, drenched in sweat, both body and soul revealing an indescribable sense of weakness.
But instead, after the malice dissipated, the nearly extinguished Profound Yellow Merit Fire inside Lu Yan began to reignite, a trace of incredibly brilliant golden hue emerged from the yellow fire.
Discarding the chaotic thoughts in his mind, at this moment Lu Yan didn’t dare to carefully ponder what had just happened.
It was like an antivirus program across all world versions, reminding Lu Yan that if he tries to maliciously destroy the rules, he will be marked with the virus sign and completely erased.
Just as Lu Yan was trying to calm his mood, a hand holding a delicate jade bottle suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Just now, I don’t know why my mind had some fluctuations, leaked some sword intent.
Inside this jade bottle are second-grade top-quality Soul Nourishing Pills, which can nurture the divine soul and compensate for the damage left by the sword intent. Consider it my compensation to you."
Lu Yan unexpectedly looked up at Ji Xingyao before him, obviously the Zuo Yu Fairy thought Lu Yan was so disheveled due to resisting the harm from the sword intent.
Lu Yan naturally wouldn’t explain the key to Ji Xingyao but accepted the Soul Nourishing Pill.
"Thank you, Sister Ji."
The jade bottle contained five Soul Nourishing Pills, after consuming one, Lu Yan immediately felt a peculiar medicinal power integrating into his soul, nurturing and soothing the weakened soul.
This medicinal power was somewhat similar to the Moonlight Spiritual Qi, but it focused more on nurturing the soul rather than enhancing its strength, and after the operation, it left some impurities behind, far less pure than Moonlight Spiritual Qi.
Overall, a Soul Nourishing Pill could roughly match the level Lu Yan would normally achieve in half a month of absorbing Moonlight Spiritual Qi.
Lu Yan’s eyes slightly flickered, the value of a second-grade top-quality pill was over a thousand Spirit Stones, pills involving the soul were even more expensive.
Yet such precious pills were still far less effective than long-term absorption of Moonlight Spiritual Qi, making Lu Yan instantly realize the value of the apocalypse version exceeded his original estimation.
With the body’s weakness dissipating, Lu Yan turned his gaze back to Ji Xingyao.
After handing the Soul Nourishing Pill to Lu Yan, Ji Xingyao stood in place looking at her own hand, seemingly in deep thought.
Lu Yan’s eyes flickered slightly, he tentatively asked:
"Sister Ji, just now that item..."
"You mean that Spirit Marrow Ore? It’s of good quality, if paired with some special Feng Shui Technique, it can condense into a pseudo second-grade Spirit Vein.
This item is considered precious, be sure to store it well to avoid attracting others’ coveting.
As for those Feng Shui Techniques, they’re not considered secretive, I’ll send you a copy in a few days."
Ji Xingyao’s tone was unusually gentle, her attitude towards Lu Yan seeming like old friends, not only reminding Lu Yan but also actively offering Feng Shui Techniques.
Yet Lu Yan keenly confirmed one thing from Ji Xingyao’s words.
Ji Xingyao instinctively thought that what Lu Yan referred to was the Spirit Marrow Ore, completely overlooking the more important photo.
This was enough to prove that Ji Xingyao’s memory of the photo was erased along with the correction by the Xianxia celestial order.