Volume 2: The Heaven-Opening Sword of Intent Chapter 168: Congregating and Dispersing Spirit Arrays - Reversal of the Mind
The second update
Gong Lingyuan took a glance at the expressions on the three people's faces, and at this moment, all three of them were shocked by the density of the heavenly energy. Then she also proudly smiled: "When you can set up your own Spirit Gathering Array in the future, your cultivation speed will be even faster. Unfortunately, to become an array master, you must first have a solid foundation in the five elements, eight trigrams, Qimen Dunjia, magic secrets and other aspects of knowledge; and more importantly, you need to have a large reserve of magic crystals or heavenly spiritual stones, after all, any array cannot be separated from things that contain dense energy as a guide.
This is also the reason why there are fewer alchemists, array masters are rare, and equipment masters are even rarer in the entire Demon Continent; to refine a four-tiered artifact, demon crystals are also indispensable, and if you want to engrave arrays on the artifact, you need more demon crystals. This creates the phenomenon that elixirs are easier to refine than artifacts in the Demon Continent.
"So, once you become Array Masters, your future prospects will be boundless. To achieve this, you'll need to hunt and kill large numbers of magical beasts above the 4th rank and below the 7th rank to obtain magic crystals. The obtained magic crystals can be used in battle to recover your fighting spirit or magic power, as well as to refine high-grade elixirs and forge high-ranking magical equipment. After a few days, you three will go to the Dragon's Ascent Mountain Range for training, hunting magical beasts, and also to temper your actual combat abilities."
Gong Lingyuan finished speaking, and Feng Shisanlang, Feng Shui Linglong, and Beidang Piaoxue all looked at Gong Lingyuan with hopeful eyes. Seeing this, Gong Lingyuan smiled in relief and continued: "However, to hunt down fourth-tier or higher magical beasts, it's still a bit too early for you all; you need to have at least peak general-level strength to counter some of the weaker fourth-tier magical beasts. After all, fourth-tier magical beasts are equivalent to human tribe's commander-level strongmen."
So you can still focus on repairing your Dou Qi and magic for now, the matter of hunting magical beasts is still some time away from you, maybe half a year, maybe one year, or maybe ten years; it all depends on when you can reach the peak of the General Rank. If you don't reach the peak of the General Rank, I won't feel at ease letting you face fourth-stage and above magical beasts.
"Now you all enter the water to cultivate and enhance your strength. I'll first transfer the array cores of the two arrays into the water, after all, you will be cultivating in the water from now on. With the array cores in the water, the two arrays will gather the surrounding heaven and earth energy into the water... Ah, but I wonder how deep this pool of water is? Is it a thousand meters deep?"
After listening to Gong Lingyuan's words, the three of them couldn't help but smile slightly in disappointment, and then they successively released their flying Dou Rings.
Fūjin Shirō's flight aura is a highly compressed, high-speed spiral of ten colors intertwined in a humanoid aura that clings to his body. Fūsui Ryūrin's flight aura is a five-meter-long and one-meter-thick black dragon aura, replacing the red fire-type aura with a black water-type aura, suggesting she wants to absorb more water-type energy in the water.
Bei Tang's flying Douga is about four meters long and has a wingspan of four meters, with a transparent ice-type Douga. Apparently, she was worried that if she used the blue lightning-type Douga in the water, it would affect others' cultivation in the water, since water can conduct electricity. So she replaced the blue lightning-type Douga with a transparent ice-type Douga. It seems she will choose to cultivate at the left side of Fengyue Pool, which is called Hantang.
When the three were ready, Gong Lingyuan immediately drew her bow with both hands. With her left hand, she shot the array heart magic crystal beside her into the water below, stopping it three meters underwater before letting it stop and float there, continuing to emit soft energy. The position of this magic crystal was on the left side of the surging Thousand Year Ice Spring, and on the right side of the continuously erupting Magma Spring, located at the intersection of the two springs. Fortunately, the magic crystal was a pure energy crystal of a four-stage or higher, seven-stage or lower magical beast, and was not affected by the extreme cold and heat environment, so it did not explode.
After seeing the scattered spirit array start working in the water, Gong Lingyuan immediately used his right hand to suddenly attract the crystal core of the gathering spirit array thousands of meters high in the air, and then heavily threw it into the center of the Fengyue Pool below.
When this magic crystal ran three meters in the water, it collided with the array heart magic crystal of the scattered spirit formation. Then, it was transmitted to another magic crystal by the powerful impulse given by Gong Lingyuan, and it replaced the original array heart magic crystal of the scattered spirit formation. The original array heart magic crystal was sent deeper into the water by the powerful impulse. If this Wind Moon Pond is a thousand meters deep, perhaps this magic crystal would really be sent to a depth of a thousand meters below the water by Gong Lingyuan. Maybe that's where the Thousand-Year Ice Spring and volcanic eruption originated.
Gong Lingyuan had been releasing a spiritual energy thread that followed, deep into the water where the array heart demon crystal was about to be replaced by the Spirit Gathering Array. After about three minutes, it seemed that she sensed that the demon crystal that had sunk into the water had completely stopped moving. Her originally tense and pretty face also relaxed a lot at this moment.
"I didn't expect this Fengyue Pool to be so deep. I threw that magic crystal into the water, and it actually sank a thousand meters deep. Now it has also become the center of the Spirit Gathering Array in the water."
At this moment, the large Spirit Gathering Array and the small Spirit Dispersion Arrays are all set up in the water by me. After combining these two arrays, they will gather the energy from the surrounding heaven and earth, as well as the extremely cold and hot energies from the Thousand Year Ice Spring and the Magma Spring, into the waters of the Wind Moon Lake. Of course, the water-based, ice-based, and fire-based energies will be the most abundant, but other attributes' energies won't be lacking either. You three can now safely enter the water to cultivate.
But I wonder if the magic crystal that serves as the core of the Spirit Gathering Array can withstand the enormous water pressure and the extremely strong energy erosion caused by the convergence of the thousand-year-old ice spring and magma spring at a depth of thousands of meters. However, it should also be able to last for a considerable period of time."
After her complexion relaxed, Gong Lingyuan immediately said to the three newcomers who were accumulating their flying ring energy: "But what she said was not very clear, and it was a bit difficult for them to understand at their current level of cultivation."
Although it was hard to fully understand what Gong Lingyuan said, her clear meaning was still understood by the three of them. After exchanging a glance with each other, they immediately charged into the water in different directions.
Her innate talent was water, fire, wind and thunder, so she also followed Gong Lingyuan's instructions to ride the ink dragon flying halberd, the dragon head leaped, and immediately like a real divine dragon entering the sea, from more than 20 meters high in the air, it rushed straight into the right hot spring of Fengyue Pool. In this water, she mainly absorbed fire and water energy.
