Once I was done, I attached the cubes to look like a horse carriage wheel. Although it was pretty thick.
Now all I needed was to use a bit of my energy. And the moment I used my Qi on the wheel it snapped together as if it was welded together. I couldn't even separate it not even by force.
"Very sturdy," I noted.
Since these cubes were hardened thanks to Qi, I couldn't inscribe anything on them, since I needed to carve the inscription using my tools. So I waited until the Qi inside the ring was fully exhausted and the link between the cubes relaxed and they detached themselves but still remained in wheel shape.
With the basic framework done, and the wheel relaxed, I began copying the spatial displacement formation from the cauldron onto the inside of the wheel.
It took me a few hours to get everything written down, and since the formation was missing a small bit from the crack and caused leakage, I improvised. Adding a few more inscriptions which I deduced were capable of transferring Qi from one side to another.
Basically, I stemmed the bleeding where the Qi was leaking from the missing part.
Although I don't know if this stem will work or not, all I can guarantee is that it won't cause me to use an insane amount of Qi to activate the formation.
With everything finalized. I added my Qi to the wheel, and then enabled the shrinking formation, half expecting the entire thing to blow up in my face, so I backed away and used my Qi as a protective barrier.
However, nothing of the sort happened. In fact, the entire wheel-sized metallic object shrunk until it was the size of a ring. It was pretty sturdy too and didn't bend.
But it can't stay like this forever, I didn't give it enough energy to remain in this form forever. So it will soon grow back to its former size.
I continued testing how long the ring would remain in its form and how much Qi it would take for it to exhaust itself and came up with an estimate. The ring needs about the same energy as a fingertip's worth of heavenly Qi, not saint Qi, to change its form. Which was an incredibly low amount.
However, I couldn't fully test out the extent of this discovery here in the lab.
I walked back out of the lab and asked Law to follow me.
"Where are we going?" Law asked.
"To do something fun," I said as the both of us got out of the ship.
Far in the distance, the arm of the dead cultivator was still there. But there was no way for any of us to get there without getting absolutely fried by the constant lightning.
"Check this out," I said to Law and instantly I disappeared from right next to him while a small stalk of herbs appeared in the air where I was.
I appeared right next to the hand on the ground, and the moment I did so, I felt the hair on my back rise up, I was apparently the new target of the incoming lightning bolt.
I quickly grabbed the arm from the ground and used the ring once again, changing my position back using the very same stalk I used the first time.
The lightning bolt which was coming down at me however failed completely to hit me and struck the ground pointlessly.
"What the hell was that!" Law shouted as he couldn't understand how I disappeared and appeared at the same time from so far away.
I smiled at Law's shocked face. Well, I never thought the cost of using this thing would be so minimal after the cauldron fused into the ring. Now, I can probably use this to exchange position with anything within my divine sense range. The smaller the distance the more insignificant the cost. Though even at maximum distance I can use it about a dozen or so times before I begin feeling the strain.
This is pretty amazing.