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Chapter 987: Chapter 962: Surprise_2
"Don’t be so nervous, this is a good thing! It can help everyone improve their Array Tao Realm."
After calming everyone down, Jiang Fengwu then revealed the reason she had gathered them, "During my previous experiences abroad, I accidentally discovered a mysterious Seventh-Rank Great Formation. At that moment, on a whim, I sensed a huge opportunity within the Formation, but at that time, my cultivation was insufficient, I couldn’t even fully perceive the Formation and had to leave in disappointment."
Everyone was momentarily stunned, their hearts stirring with excitement; if Jiang Fengwu felt the opportunity was significant, it could potentially alter their destinies!
Forcibly suppressing their excitement, they continued to listen to Jiang Fengwu recount what happened later.
"When I broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, the first thing I did was leave the family to crack the Great Formation. However, the Formation was more profound than I expected. After fifty years, I hadn’t uncovered a single clue. If it weren’t for the coincidence of encountering a massive tsunami which shook the Formation, I might still be fumbling around at the bottom of the sea."
Jiang Fengwu said, smiling, "I recorded the entire Formation on a Memory Stone, and you are all the highest in the family’s Array Tao realm, I need your help to decipher the Formation!"
"I promise here that once the Formation is deciphered, everyone can choose three Spiritual Objects from the relics. If there are not enough Spiritual Objects, I will compensate with an equivalent number of the same grade Spiritual Objects!"
"If anyone is unwilling to participate, you can opt out now, but you must swear not to reveal any information!"
Faced with such a precious opportunity, naturally, no one wanted to exit. They all looked at Jiang Fengwu excitedly, hoping she would immediately bring out the Memory Stone for them to study.
Only Li Chengshuo maintained a last bit of calm, asking, "Mother, the Secret Realm is currently sealed. While you perceive it as an opportunity, it might also contain dangers. Are we capable of handling it with our current strength?"
"You make a good point," Jiang Fengwu admitted, realizing she hadn’t thought everything through in her excitement.
One of the clan members spoke up, "We can call upon Ancestor Rui and a group of Spirit Ancestors. With so many Nascent Soul Cultivators present, even if we encounter Integrated Spirits, we might still have a chance of victory, after all, it’s unknown how many years it has been sealed by the Formation, it can’t maintain its peak strength."
As for why not mention a higher realm? Because the Formation is a Seventh Rank Formation, capable of sealing high-rank beings temporarily; it could not possibly keep them confined for hundreds or even thousands of years just with the Formation.
"Of course, in doing so, we will need to distribute some Spiritual Objects to the participating elders. However, compared to life, this expense is worthwhile."
Hearing this, most people agreed.
After all, even if there were many Spiritual Objects, what use would they be if one were dead?
After discussing, to better and more quickly decipher the Formation, they found a secluded place in Mount Wanxian, set up a Formation to prevent disruptions, and began to focus intently on understanding the Formation.
Facing the complicated and intricate Seventh Rank Formation, even Jiang Fengwu and Li Chengshuo, let alone the other clan members of lower realms, progressed slowly in grasping its Patterns.
Nevertheless, no one spoke of giving up; on the contrary, they worked even harder, aiming to quickly grasp the Array Patterns and step by step, decipher the Formation.
Fortunately, their efforts weren’t in vain. Through continuous deduction and attempts, they gradually clarified the Array Patterns, and as time passed, their speed in deciphering the Patterns increased.
Initially, it took a dozen people several years to analyze a single Array Pattern, but now, the slower ones took only half a year, and the faster ones only a few months, and the number of people required had also decreased, allowing more teams to split up.
The use of team-based methods was Jiang Fengwu’s way of accommodating those with less cultivation, hoping they could collaborate and more easily grasp the Array Patterns.
Also, a peculiar phenomenon appeared; their Array Tao Realm surpassed their cultivation realm!
That is to say, theoretically, a Nascent Soul Cultivator could set up a Sixth-order Formation!
Of course, that was just theoretical, as Nascent Soul Cultivators don’t possess enough Mana and strong enough Divine Sense to support complex Sixth-order Formations.
However, this was already a huge surprise for them.
Thinking of the opportunity guarded by the Formation, everyone became even more enthusiastic!
According to the current progress, in another twenty years, all Array Patterns will be understood, and in a few decades, the Formation will be deciphered. They can then head to the East Sea and explore the opportunities within the Formation.
And up to this point, they had only spent a little over twenty years.
This speed has far surpassed Jiang Fengwu’s initial estimates.
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"How should I carve out a Cave Heaven within this space and eventually integrate the entire space into it for later sublimation into a Minor Thousand World?" Sitting cross-legged under the Immortal-grade Spiritual Root, Li Zhirui pondered his future direction with a frown.
After contemplating for a long while without any good solution, he reluctantly had to grope his way like feeling for stones to cross the river, practicing cultivation and thinking of solutions simultaneously.
Li Zhirui set up a daily cultivation schedule for himself, utilizing two-thirds of his time practicing, and the remaining time to refine Precious Pills.
He could spend so much time on cultivation because he was recovering his cultivation level, and his meridians, after years of tempering, were strong enough to handle it—something others couldn’t endure.
If he rigorously followed the plan, Li Zhirui felt he could recover to the Void Refinement Realm in about sixty to seventy years.
He wouldn’t even need to recover to the mid Nascent Soul stage; with his own portable Cave Heaven’s blessing, his strength could be comparable to the late stage Refinement Void, and coupled with abundant mana, he might be able to break out of the Confinement Formation!
To return to Mount Wanxian as soon as possible, Li Zhirui no longer wasted time. After calming his mental state, he took a Precious Pill and began to circulate his cultivation technique. Vast Spiritual Energy surged toward him, and the Precious Pill, in his mouth, transformed into streams of pure Spiritual Liquid, flowing through his meridians into his Dantian.
Inside Mount Wanxian, Jiang Fengwu and others labored day and night to decipher the formation; outside Mount Wanxian, Li Zhirui trained diligently in his efforts to restore his cultivation as soon as possible.
They all worked so hard, aiming to travel further and smoother on the path of the Great Tao!
In the mountains, there’s no concept of time, and with the end of cold, years are unknown.
Time swiftly passed, and it was more than sixty years later.
On this day, a terrifying pressure suddenly erupted within the tranquil space. The Space Law began to converge, and a small Cave Heaven swallowed up the blessed land entirely.
This process lasted a full three months!
Only then did the Cave Heaven take its complete form.
And this newly formed Cave Heaven was very large, far exceeding Li Zhirui’s expectations.
Thus, it also brought him an immense surprise: with the enhanced effect of a larger Cave Heaven, his strength advanced even further, comparable to Nascent Soul Completion!
"It’s time to return!"
Li Zhirui, looking at the nearby lush, canopy-like Spiritual Root, with its trunk showing purplish-red color and emitting five-colored auspicious light, once again marveled at his luck.
If it weren’t for this Immortal-grade Spiritual Root, then the blessed land wouldn’t have expanded so quickly, the Cave Heaven would not be as vast as now, nor would there be such an exceeding enhancement.
But upon Li Zhirui’s confident departure from the space, the scene he imagined of forcefully breaking the formation and dissipating did not occur.
Because that formation, which had initially forced him to hide in this space and change his cultivation technique, had long since vanished!
"Indeed, who would wait here for nearly a hundred years based on an uncertain guess?" Li Zhirui shook his head, his words revealing a hint of disappointment.
He truly wanted to test his skills with that formation to verify his strength.
"Well, better head back quickly. Having been out experiencing the world for so many years, I wonder how my family is doing." Li Zhirui sighed, casting these thoughts aside.
While Li Zhirui was on his way, after nearly a hundred years of effort by Jiang Fengwu, Li Chengshuo, and several dozen Array Masters, they finally succeeded in deciphering that Seventh-Rank Formation!
