Feng Jun was first surprised to discover that the shape of the Stone Ring had changed, with the four rings on his left arm transforming into five faint clouds...

In truth, calling them clouds isn’t quite accurate; they resemble five whirlpools with cloud patterns, each bordering the next, with some overlap at the edges, looking at first like a tattoo of a five-petaled flower.

The rare aspect is that each petal has a different color: white, blue-green, black, red, and yellow. Feng Jun was taken aback, "Hybrids?"

Yet, in the next moment, he frowned, "Is this... the Five Elements Instrument?"

Anyone engaged in cultivation knows the Five Elements well, and the corresponding colors of the Five Elements are also well understood: gold as white, wood as blue-green, water as black, fire as red, earth as yellow.

The Five Rings were gone, replaced by five clouds; that would be fine, but the colors have become so variegated, which is... quite interesting indeed.

Feng Jun took out a mobile phone, instinctively tapping on it, curious to see what specific changes might occur.

Unexpectedly, the mobile phone disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared.

In the next moment, Feng Jun felt as if he had transformed into a mobile phone. Of course, he was still in human form, but he had a feeling, as if he would be able to transform into a mobile phone at will.

For this, he deliberately attempted a few procedures, to see if he could trace steps to other places, and then he discovered, he effortlessly arrived at the Sahara Desert and easily went to the Australian Sea Region to gather income from the Spirit Stone Mine.

But what stirred his anxiety was... the mobile phone, where had it gone?

When this notion rose in his mind, the mobile phone automatically reappeared in his hand—as if it had always been there, without any change.

This feature is really impressive! Feng Jun tried with a tablet next, to see if he could produce the same effect—after all, a tablet has far greater functionality than a mobile phone.

The test actually succeeded—Feng Jun didn’t need to do anything more through a medium; he could directly convert the medium, incorporating it into himself.

This ability seems ordinary when described, but those who truly understand practical operations realize how formidable this capability is.

Take the last Instrument Tribulation Feng Jun faced; he knew the danger of that thing, but... could he escape?

He indeed wished to escape at that time, to directly flee to another realm, to see if he could evade the Heavenly Tribulation—generally, escape from a Heavenly Tribulation is impossible, yet this tribulation genuinely had nothing to do with him; it might have been possible to evade it.

However, it was quite frustrating, as the Tribulation Cloud directly interfered with the operation of electronic devices, sealing off Feng Jun’s most convenient escape route; this kind of user experience was truly awful.

Now, however, that electronic devices can become part of oneself, this is an outright unexpected delight.

Feng Jun tested whether he could simultaneously incorporate two mobile phones into his body; unfortunately, this test did not succeed.

He then considered the problem of mobile phone positioning. For as long as he had been cultivating, he had felt a strong sense of crisis—transforming into a mobile phone, if someone could lock onto his location, it would be very troubling.

To understand this matter required coordination through Beauty Lin’s channels, though Feng Jun was a bit reluctant.

Therefore, he consulted Yu Qingzhu and Yang Yuxin, the mother and daughter, one of whom had significant knowledge of communications technology, the other had personal channels to acquire things ordinary people couldn’t.

Yu Qingzhu could understand his meaning, immediately indicating, "Such devices can be ordered from manufacturers, but I remember... we procured such equipment in the past because we needed it to set up networks there."

Feng Jun felt a bit ashamed, "I’ve really been negligent, actually forgot such a thing."

Nonetheless, Yu Qingzhu kindly stated, "That’s normal, Boss, you focus on major affairs, details like these you wouldn’t be able to handle even if you wanted, I’ll go check the inventory for you."

Soon after, she brought over a piece of equipment, "Alright, let me test it."

The test results... were acceptable. Feng Jun incorporated the mobile phone into himself, but externally, it could still be detected, yet upon activating Spiritual Energy to protect himself, the device couldn’t find the phone’s presence.

Feng Jun nodded: This was sufficient, as he wouldn’t be incorporating a phone long-term; the feeling was so peculiar, merely storing the phone short-term in anticipation of danger was enough.

This was for emergencies, shouldn’t be the regular state, otherwise, setting aside other concerns, even when doing yoga with his women, it would birth quite a strange mindset.

Following this verification, he began the most critical test: How about the ability for deduction?

The deduction test brought him immense joy: Distance suddenly extended to a thousand miles, even for perceiving living beings, the radius reached a hundred miles, especially valuable was his ability to analyze the composition of objects.

Feng Jun, in a daze, had an epiphany: this treasure should be the essence of the five elements, with a quite significant origin.

Unfortunately, the Guardian was unwilling to say what this treasure was.

This round of testing also gave Feng Jun an unpleasant feeling, which was that he was somewhat resistant to predicting people. He tried to deduce something about Yu Qingzhu, and ended up uncovering the various chemical elements making up her body. This sensation was really unfriendly.

In any case, she had been the goddess in his heart. Even though his mindset had changed and the feeling wasn’t as strong, seeing her analyzed into various combinations of chemical elements indeed left a bitter taste.

Then, he discovered an unexpected detail: when he deduced, it no longer consumed the mobile phone’s battery, but his own spiritual energy, which was a rare evolution.

Logically speaking, electricity in the Earth Realm is easy to obtain while spiritual energy is hard to find, which shouldn’t be favorable for him. However, the battery life of his phone was too limited, whereas his own spiritual energy could support longer deductions.

Ultimately, it was a matter of efficiency. For instance, when charging the Stone Ring, during his impoverished times, he could only choose to use electricity. But once his Spirit Stones became relatively abundant, why would he still use electricity?

Back then, without capability, he even had to beg to get a dedicated line. Now, not to mention a dedicated line, building a power plant was readily achievable, yet he had lost interest. Such is the irony of fate.

Up to now, these are the functionalities he discovered. The other undiscovered functionalities will take some time to gradually explore.

Finally, he needed to experiment on how many energy points could be accommodated after achieving Five Rings.

Previously, he absorbed energy points at about one Spirit Stone per five seconds, ten Spirit Stones in a minute, six hundred Spirit Stones in an hour, and to fill all the energy points close to four thousand Spirit Stones, it would take more than six hours.

He never exhausted all energy points, so typically to fill the Stone Ring, it took around five hours.

Now it was different. When he picked up a Spirit Stone, before he realized it, it turned into stone powder and scattered from his hand. Absorbing a Spirit Stone didn’t even take a second.

Calculating this way, he could replenish energy points equivalent to thirty-six hundred Spirit Stones in an hour.

Of course, if medium-grade Spirit Stones were used, the efficiency would surely be higher. However, Feng Jun was essentially a frugal person. With over eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones reserved in the Earth Realm, why waste medium-grade Spirit Stones when common ones suffice?

Thus, he chose to charge in his own residence.

After two days and nights, he came out of retreat with slight helplessness. In fifty hours, he had charged between one hundred and ninety thousand to two hundred thousand Spirit Stones into the Five Flowers, yet still felt no sluggishness, meaning he had no idea how much further it needed to be charged.

He tried a couple of medium charges and found that absorbing a piece of medium quality took about five seconds too.

Then... he didn’t dare to use medium-grade Spirit Stones anymore. Who knew how much more the Five Flowers needed? His preserved medium-grade Spirit Stones weren’t many.

This time he didn’t exit the retreat to give up but to arrange the affairs of the estate before another retreat.

There weren’t many arrangements needed in Luohua. Mainly, Feng Jun hadn’t visited Kunhao for a while, and there were some shortages in bulk commodities—crude oil and iron ore were running short.

Feng Jun had promised to resolve these issues within a month or two, so the demand side wasn’t very anxious—after all, Boss Feng’s promises were always fulfilled, and everyone was quite confident in that.

The main reason being the Huaxia currency pegged to the Gold Standard was being stably promoted, and abroad knew Huaxia had new iron ore and oil sources. As a result, the prices of these two commodities were consistently trending downward.

Feng Jun mainly organized information regarding communication equipment and made several Jade Slips for Gu Jiahui to slowly comprehend.

The Jade Slips he made didn’t hold much information; firstly due to his own limited ability, and secondly because... Gu Jiahui’s Divine Sense was far inferior to his, so she wouldn’t endure larger volumes of content.

Additionally, he made some procurement arrangements for other items, having already informed the disciples he would head over again in the short term.

Doing all this took him about three days, after which he decisively went into retreat again.

Five days later, he came out of retreat once more with a helpless expression. He had used up all but one hundred thousand of his common Spirit Stones and, in the end, had to resort to using uncut Spirit Stones obtained from the Australian Sea Region.

However, the Five Flowers’ absorption of these raw stones slowed significantly, roughly ten times slower than before. When he cut the raw stone into Standard Spirit Stones, he still found the absorption slow.

So he had no choice but to exit the retreat. The uncut Spirit Stone ore was worth nearly two million Spirits, but he hesitated to use it recklessly again.

After coming out, he questioned the Guardian, "Senior, why is it that the Spirit Stones in this Domain are not efficient in charging the Stone Ring?"

"Charging?" The Big Boss was momentarily confused before responding, "Of course, the Spirit Stones in this domain are bound by Domain Karma."