Chapter 604: Chapter 603: Absorbing the Spirit of the Heaven and Earth
At the break of dawn, with the last jade token infused with Yang Fei’s robust True Yuan into the soil of a hillside on the eastern side of Yunwu Mountain, the embryonic form of the Spirit Gathering Array was established.
Although the Array Eye had not been activated yet, after the seventy-two jade tokens were placed into the mountain according to the layout of the Gathering Spirit Array, the spiritual energy within Yunwu Mountain had significantly increased.
Everyone looked up and felt as if an invisible force was about to take shape that would envelop the entire Yunwu Mountain Valley.
"Is it done?" Qin Yanyang asked first.
Hu Lizhong, Chu Tianshu, and Peng Ling also looked at Yang Fei expectantly.
Yang Fei nodded and said, "The Array Foundation is complete, just the final step is left, the Array Eye."
Peng Ling couldn’t help but ask, "Do we need Fusang Wood?"
"Yes, Fusang Wood is the best choice for the Array Eye. Ancient texts say: Fusang Wood can gather the spirit of the Nine Heavens."
"What if we don’t have Fusang Wood?" Peng Ling asked.
Yang Fei smiled and said, "We can only settle for the next best thing and use something else as a substitute. However, since Yunwu Mountain itself is a Gathering Spirit Land, even without the Fusang Wood as the Array Eye, the reason why the Genetic Liquid Medicine could not be synthesized in the most ideal state according to those biologists is that the original medicinal materials lack spirituality.
Once they absorb enough spiritual energy and are nourished by it, the probability of successful synthesis will increase significantly.
Of course, after the success of this Gathering Spirit Array, the effect is much better than I expected. It’s very helpful for gathering spiritual power to change the medicinal properties of those original medicines."
The process still requires Yang Fei to refine using the Alchemy Technique.
But with the enhancement of the Gathering Spirit Array, Yang Fei won’t need to expend a large amount of True Yuan and Divine Soul for alchemy like last time.
This task could even be taught to an Innate Realm cultivator who has some understanding of Alchemy.
Though Yang Fei has joined the Military Department and will give his all to help Qin Yanyang make it the strongest military force in Divine Continent, he cannot stay in the Military Department to do alchemy all the time.
Yang Fei yearned for a free and carefree life, so he needed to find a substitute to oversee everything here.
Thinking of this, Yang Fei looked towards Hu Lizhong.
Hu Lizhong, seeing that Yang Fei’s gaze was full of trust, was inwardly invigorated.
Although he had already stepped into the Innate Realm, the more he did so, the more he realized that Yang Fei was even more unfathomable than he had imagined.
After Qin Yanyang recently came over, even though he hadn’t spent much time with Qin Yanyang, he had definitely not revealed a single word about Tong Yunshu.
It seems my strength in keeping secrets has been recognized by Brother Yang.
Feeling touched, Hu Lizhong was nearly moved to tears.
You wouldn’t know how painful it is for a loudmouth to keep a secret.
"Let’s go, let’s set up the Array Eye and complete the last step of the Array," said Yang Fei.
Everyone excitedly followed behind him.
When they entered the newly constructed house, they saw in the center of a vacant room, an empty square hole resembling a rural fire pit.
The ground around was covered with wooden boards, only this spot retained an area of bare earth.
"Bring it in."
Peng Ling issued the command through a walkie-talkie.
Soon, a huge square piece of jade was carried in by two experts from the Military Department.
After placing down the jade, the two men left.
Hu Lizhong knowingly asked, "Do we need to leave?"
Chu Tianshu glared at him, Damn it, will you die if you don’t speak?
Why can’t we stay and watch?
Even Peng Ling gave Hu Lizhong a reproachful look.
Realizing their gazes, Hu Lizhong coughed and looked resolutely at Yang Fei.
Yang Fei gave a slight smile and shook his head, "No harm."
With that, he extended a hand to Qin Yanyang, "I’ll need your help with this one, the workload is quite substantial."
Qin Yanyang immediately reached out his hand.
Then he said to Hu Lizhong and the other two, "You may watch, but no speaking aloud."
"Yes!"
Before the three of them, Yang Fei stretched out a finger, using it as a pen, his finger moving continuously as he wrote.
Soon, an ancient rune slowly emerged on the smooth cut surface of the jade.
This rune looked similar to the previous seventy-two runes yet was different. Hu Lizhong and his companions could not understand it at all. They were utterly shocked by Yang Fei’s method of inscribing runes on jade with True Qi.
An hour and a half later, Yang Fei had inscribed a rune on each of the six sides of the giant piece of jade.
The moment the last rune took shape, the air over Yunwu Mountain suddenly started flowing rapidly, creating a turbulent and chaotic scene.
All the people in the valley were startled and looked up to the sky.
But the surge of airflow was invisible to the naked eye, only high-ranking martial artists with a significant Realm could vaguely feel the tumbling flow of air within the valley.
Inside the factory, Yang Fei, sensing the turbulent air currents and disorder in the valley, furrowed his brow and suddenly punched towards the earthen area.
Puff!
Dirt flew, revealing a deep pit, into which Yang Fei swiftly pushed the huge block of jade.
As the jade block with ancient runes carved on all its sides settled into the pit, it was as if a sophisticated piece of machinery had its final component put into place; the tumultuous air above Yunwu Mountain Valley quieted down in an instant.
At the same time, all the martial artists in the valley felt invigorated, a refreshing sensation washing over them.
Especially for Qin Yanyang and Hu Lizhong, who were temporarily at the Innate Realm stage and had a sharp sense of awareness of the forces of heaven and earth. They could distinctly feel, after the success of the Array, that the Spiritual Power in the entire valley seemed to be racing towards the direction of this building.
"Is it done?" Qin Yanyang asked excitedly.
Yang Fei nodded, "The Spirit Gathering Array is complete. Although we don’t have Fusang Wood for the Array Eye, this piece of jade is large enough and the spiritual energy here is abundant, so the Array’s effect is still quite good."
"I’ll go outside and have a look," Qin Yanyang said, although excited and thrilled, she still maintained sufficient calm and rationality, walking towards the outside of the building.
Standing outside the factory, she felt even more clearly the surging flow of air in the valley, continuously moving towards the factory.
Was this the effect of the Spirit Gathering Array?
Indeed it was powerful.
Not to mention its significant function in synthesizing Genetic Fluid, just for cultivators alone, living in such a place for long-term cultivation would definitely yield twice the result with half the effort and rapid progress.
After a brief moment of astonishment, Qin Yanyang turned to Yang Fei and the others following her and said, "Let’s go outside the valley to have a look."
Yang Fei said with a smile, "Let’s go, I also want to see."
And of course, Hu Lizhong and the other two were even more eager to witness firsthand the effects of the Spirit Gathering Array.
Once outside the valley and away from the range of the Spirit Gathering Array, everyone distinctly felt the spiritual energy was extremely thin.
Despite the high quality of the air, breathing it in left them with a feeling akin to chewing on wax.
The success of the Gathering Spirit Array made the quality of the air inside and outside the Array so different that it was disconcerting for them.
Standing on a mountain peak, the group felt faint currents flowing from all around, converging towards the valley.
The vast valley was like an opener with open arms, frantically absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
Suddenly, Qin Yanyang narrowed her eyes and looked up into the sky.
She vaguely sensed that, right above the Yunwu Mountain Valley, the converging flow of air was much more abundant than in the other areas outside the valley, and the quality of this airflow was also incredibly high.
Could it be as Yang Fei had said, that there was an invisible gap in the sky, and the spiritual energy of Yunwu Mountain was leaking from there?
And that this gap was located right above the Hidden Sect World?