Chapter 817: Chapter 816: Rune Tao Genius
That afternoon, Yang Fei and Hu Lizhong, along with the others, checked all the jade tokens of the Gathering Spirit Arrays previously set up in the valley. For the damaged jade tokens, they were directly removed and their locations noted down.
In the end, they found that out of the eighty-one jade tokens used as the array foundation, only forty-nine remained intact, with seven or eight shattered.
Curious, Hu Lizhong asked, "Brother Yang, why did these shatter?"
Yang Fei replied, "When Zhuge Cang and I were battling, we repeatedly harnessed the power of the Five Elements Thousand Mechanism Formation, which also suffered some backlash at the time."
Hu Lizhong recalled the scenes of that great battle, inwardly clicking his tongue and still feeling apprehensive.
If not for Brother Yang’s unique cultivation technique and having pioneered another Foundation Establishment path, the power of thunder and lightning might have sent Brother Yang to the Western Heaven, and now even the grass on his grave would have grown.
Wang Lei and Xu Jian remained calm.
But Zhu Tianshou, Umekawa Taro, and the three brothers from the Xu Family couldn’t help showing expressions of shock, especially after hearing Hu Lizhong’s detailed recount of the epic battle between Yang Fei and Zhuge Cang. They were greatly amazed, repeatedly exclaiming over the magic of the formation runes.
Zhu Tianshou further asked Yang Fei, "Yang Fei, is the formation and the art of runes really that powerful?"
Yang Fei smiled and said, "The existence of the three Plane Worlds: Heaven, the Hidden Sect, and the Penglai Realm, is enough to prove the strength of formations."
Zhu Tianshou was taken aback, "Those independent parallel Plane Worlds, are they also created through formations?"
The others also looked at Yang Fei with puzzled expressions.
Yang Fei nodded, "Yes, and no, but they’re definitely related to formations. The existence of such Cave Heaven Blessed Lands primarily requires special spatial artifacts as a foundation. On the basis of these artifacts, profound space arrays can be overlaid to create unique independent spaces. According to ancient Taoist records, this is the so-called Cave Heaven Blessed Land."
Everyone slowly nodded.
They didn’t doubt Yang Fei’s words much, after all, the existence of the three Plane Worlds—Heaven, the Hidden Sect, and the Penglai Realm—is the strongest evidence.
Zhu Tianshou held a shattered jade token, carefully observing the strange runes on it. After touching it for a while, he frowned and said, "This seems to be engraved, but when you touch it, there are no engraving marks. How does it seamlessly merge with the jade?"
Upon hearing this, Hu Lizhong said, "Mr. Tian Shou, you’re quite curious, aren’t you? Hahaha, I was also amazed when I watched Brother Yang carve the talisman, just like you. Now that you’re here, you can definitely see with your own eyes how he integrates those peculiar symbols into the jade tokens."
Not only Zhu Tianshou was curious, but the others were as well, all clamoring for Yang Fei to carve a talisman on the spot to broaden their horizons.
Yang Fei was not stingy about this, and everyone returned to the central house of the Array Eye, where there was a room full of rectangular jade stones.
These jade stones had been cut and polished according to Yang Fei’s specifications.
Seeing so many jade stones, Umekawa Taro couldn’t help but exclaim, "Such large pieces of jade, each one is invaluable, and you have so many stacked like wall tiles?"
Yang Fei smiled, "For individuals, gathering this many premium jade stones is indeed difficult, but for the state, it’s quite easy."
Umekawa Taro shook his head, "It’s not as simple as you say. Haven’t you noticed that these large pieces of jade contain a certain amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power? They are treasures buried underground for tens of millions of years, absorbing underground essence. Each piece is extremely rare, not to mention gathering so many. It’s really not easy."
Yang Fei lightly smiled, not considering these jade stones to be that precious.
However, Tong Yunshu nodded, "He is correct. Even in the largest natural jade mines, it’s not easy to find jade of this quality and specification."
Yang Fei was taken aback and looked at Hu Lizhong. Hu Lizhong smiled bitterly upon hearing this and said, "They’re right. This kind of premium jade is indeed hard to get, but the minister said that no matter how much you need, she can get it for you."
Yang Fei was silently shocked.
Only then did he suddenly realize the extent of Qin Yanyang’s unhesitating support in materials when he said he needed to set up the Gathering Spirit Array. It seemed effortless, but behind the scenes, it must have required a great deal of effort.
Even Wang Lei said, "Indeed, jade of this quality isn’t plentiful in the Hidden Sect World. Often when one appears, the Zhuge family will purchase it at a high price. Of course, it’s not that jade is scarce worldwide, but it’s rare to find such large and perfectly shaped pieces that contain the essence of Heaven and Earth Spirit."
Yang Fei nodded silently, understanding the value of these jade stones and appreciating Qin Yanyang’s significant efforts to support his creation of the Gathering Spirit Array for the genetic liquid medicine.
Hu Lizhong brought a piece of jade stone and placed it in front of Yang Fei.
Under everyone’s gaze, Yang Fei began carving runes on this jade token.
Everyone present was a cultivator of no small realm, and as Yang Fei used True Qi to carve the runes, they could distinctly feel some kind of power being stirred between heaven and earth.
Especially Zhu Tianshou and Tong Yunshu, who astonishingly discovered that as Yang Fei’s fingers moved like a ghost talisman over the jade token, no words appeared, yet they ’saw’ some mysterious power combined in an ancient way, gradually forming into symbols with mysterious power that forcibly fused onto the jade stone.
As these runes perfectly merged with the jade stone, the entire jade token came alive, seemingly endowed with a magical vitality.
Besides this pair of grandfather-granddaughter, the rest of the people in the room could only vaguely perceive a certain energy fluctuation that just seemed to have occurred in the room.
As for the tracks of the runes, they were unable to detect them.
Thanks to the previous experience of carving runes, Yang Fei now had nearly a one-hundred percent success rate in carving runes, completing the task in one go.
After completing a talisman, he looked at Zhu Tianshou.
He saw Zhu Tianshou and Tong Yunshu both glaring intently at the talisman, as if they understood the runes he had carved, and couldn’t help but be taken aback.
At this point, Tong Yunshu raised her head and looked at Yang Fei, asking, "The track you just wrote, is it the Taoist runes?"
Yang Fei was startled and looked at her in confusion, "You can see what I wrote?"
Tong Yunshu nodded, "Yes, when you moved your fingers, some power elements were drawn over. They followed the trajectory of your finger movements, slowly forming into ancient textual symbols. Once these symbols formed, they seemed to contain some mysterious Heaven and Earth Power, very unique."
Yang Fei was shocked, "You... you can really see all of this?"
Tong Yunshu nodded.
Zhu Tianshou said, "I can also see some, but not in as much detail as this girl."
Yang Fei was once again shocked, and his inner amazement was overwhelming. Then, he turned to Wang Lei, Umekawa Taro, and others, "What about you guys, don’t tell me you can also see the rune marks I wrote."
Everyone shook their heads, and Xu Jian even smirked, "You’re basically drawing randomly like ghost talisman-writing, but it seems you used powerful telekinesis to gather some power elements from the Heaven and Earth elements, which is how you formed a special rune."
Yang Fei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Yeah, that’s the normal reaction.
And this is only because Xu Jian has powerful Divine Soul Thought Power, which allowed him to precisely perceive the traces of Yang Fei’s Divine Thought activation, thus understanding it this way.
As for the others, they couldn’t understand anything.
But the question was, why were Zhu Tianshou and Tong Yunshu able to ’see’ so clearly?
It was as if they were born understanding rune Tao, able to see the form of ancient Taoist runes?
This...
At this thought, Yang Fei couldn’t help but take a deep breath, constantly sizing up Zhu Tianshou and Tong Yunshu. Zhu Tianshou, unable to bear Yang Fei’s gaze, furrowed his brows and said, "Kid, why are you looking at me like that?"