Once a gap appears between a Primordial Weapon Embryo and its Spirit Array Runes, the difficulty of achieving a perfect fusion increases several, even dozens of times over.
The situation at hand was extremely difficult to remedy.
Even with the powerful theoretical backing of the *Initial Understanding of the Dao of Artifacts* and his mastery of numerous secret techniques, if Hong Yu tried to salvage this using conventional methods, he could at best restore it to about sixty percent of its original potential.
A Primordial Weapon of this quality clearly had no chance of contending for the top three.
It might not even make it into the top ten.
Hong Yu finally made his decision. He would have to take an unconventional path...
This method was recorded in the *Initial Understanding of the Dao of Artifacts*, but it wasn't a mature technique and had significant flaws.
But the situation was urgent, and Hong Yu had no other choice.
