Chapter 412: Chapter 412: Advancing in Succession
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Just as Elder Jiang was vigorously promoting him, the master she referred to was laboriously setting up a formation.
The ti it took to set up the formation was quite long, over a week, and why? Because he needed to arrange twenty-seven Spirit Gathering Arrays.
Yes, twenty-seven. After Feng Jun deciphered the Spirit Gathering Array and successfully set it up, he made such a decision.
The Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique consud Spirit Stones at an alarming rate, and although he had a fair amount of Spirit Stones in hand, it was impossible to contemplate advancing to the Qi Refinent Ninth Layer all at once—even reaching the third layer would likely require mining so more Spirit Stones that were still condensing.
There should still be many Spirit Stones condensing within Mount Zhige, but clearly, resources should not be wasted like this.
Although the Earth Realm was deficient in Spiritual Energy, it was, after all, an entire planet. Accumulating this bit of Spiritual Energy should not pose a big problem.
That was why he collected materials for thirty sets of Spirit Gathering Arrays, in order to arrange a Heaven-Swallowing Formation composed of twenty-seven Spirit Gathering Arrays.
The sa twenty-seven condensing Spirit Stones could only provide so much Spiritual Energy on their own, but as the driving center of a Spirit Gathering Array, they could gather much more Spiritual Energy.
The most ingenious part was that this enlarged version of the Gathering Spirit Array Plate, because it was assembled after analysis, was really quite large but perfectly suitable for placing the Spirit Stones that were still condensing—it was fortunate that he himself couldn’t have assembled twenty-seven genuine Spirit Stones to drive the Spirit Gathering Array otherwise.
He had been setting up the formation until Friday, and he wasn’t done yet—after all, there were twenty-seven Spirit Gathering Arrays to arrange.
On Friday night, Director i, Li Shishi’s music teacher, ca again.
Assistant Xiao Li got to grips with the business fairly quickly over the week. Although Assistant Da Li was more experienced in business, she had an advantage that Da Li lacked—she was absolutely certain of Feng Jun’s abilities, which ordinary people did not possess.
Those who harbor reverence learn more quickly.
To show her reverence for her boss, Assistant Xiao Li deliberately slowed down her singing practice.
Feng Jing wasn’t demanding with her progress—it was, after all, just an excuse for her to co to Luohua Manor.
What she cared more about was practicing Yoga with the owner of the manor.
Over two days, she practiced Yoga several more tis. Then, she discovered, she didn’t know why, but she really liked the bamboo forest and would often linger there in her free ti, even preferring to scroll through her mobile phone there.
It was as if sothing was mysteriously calling her to this place.
The weekend quickly passed, and by Monday of the second week, Feng Jun had nearly completed arranging the large formation.
Now, he was just ten catties of Crystal Fire Potato Mud short of completing the twenty-seven arrays.
So he took a rest that night and went to the Mobile Phone Plane first thing the next morning, buoyant with energy.
The Crystal Fire Potato Mud was a material promised by the Yu Family.
Fire Potato was a type of food, similar to the sweet potatoes on the Earth Plane, only able to grow in the Land of Blazing Fla, with an intensely Fire Attribute. Unless one was desperately hungry, the common folk didn’t like to eat them—after all, there were no cows like Yinglong on this plane.
But for cultivators with a Fire Attribute, this was an excellent food ingredient.
In the bitterly cold northern regions, it was also quite popular for its warming effects.
Thus, so people planted it near volcanoes and hot springs, but the fire potatoes in the north didn’t grow very well. Affected by cold Qi or other factors, the roots and tubers of fire potatoes would crystallize, and the transparent crystals that ford were Crystal Fire Potato Mud.
To Feng Jun, this stuff seed like the pearls in seashells, ford due to the intrusion of external sand.
This material, balanced in Yin and Yang, was not edible but belonged to formation materials. Because of its limited production and high-end application, it was generally not seen on the market.
Many of the materials Feng Jun used for his formations were of this nature, scarce in quantity and narrowly applied, not available to the general public.
The Yu Family was in the CheMa Trading Company business, with well-connected information. Hearing that the south had suffered from cold Qi in the previous two years, which resulted in the appearance of so fire potato mud, they took the initiative to buy it up.
However, fire potato mud was really too scarce. The last batch they brought back was over ten catties, promising the next batch would be another ten catties. They should have enough by now and it was on the way.
Given the circumstances, Feng Jun could only wait anxiously in the Mobile Phone Plane, as there was no way to expedite things from the Earth Plane.
While waiting, he spent his ti wandering here and there, mining Spirit Stones.
As for the occasional explosions coming from Mount Zhige, everyone had grown accustod to them. Even though everyone was sure that the Divine Doctor was involved in so secretive activities, who dared to inquire? Especially now that the Divine Doctor’s subordinates included an Innate Expert.
The Yuntai Chen Family, with its three Innate mbers, a father and son among the ascended, had considerable fa in the martial cultivator circles, and so recognized Chen Junwei—although they mistook him for Chen Junsheng.
The Chen Family obviously brought more than those two. Although Feng Jun prohibited them from bringing too many people, they still sent six martial masters, twenty martial artists, and… more than ten female attendants.
Having Chen Junwei, an Innate Expert, rely guard the gate seed a waste, so the Chen Family deployed three martial masters and six martial artists to rotate guard duty outside the small courtyard. The majority of his ti, however, was spent patrolling Mount Zhige for Feng Jun.
Naturally, when Doctor Feng was busy blowing up the mountain, he didn’t dare co close.
The days passed, and on the afternoon of the sixth day Feng Jun returned, a piece of good news ca from the back courtyard—Deng Lao Er had actually made a breakthrough!
The Deng Family Brothers and Lang Zhen, taking turns basking in the Spiritual Energy of the Spirit Gathering Array, weren’t surprised about making a breakthrough, but the speed of advancing from martial artists to martial masters was truly astonishing.
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Feng Jun was sowhat surprised; among the Deng Family Brothers, Deng Lao Da not only was older and had a solid foundation, but Deng Lao Er’s temperant was clearly more impulsive. It was unexpected that he would be the first one to break through.
One day later, Lang Zhen advanced in rank and finally progressed from an initial-level martial master to an interdiate level.
He had been stuck at this bottleneck for far too long. Originally, he could have been considered a standout among martial cultivators, but unfortunately, as years passed, his vitality and blood energy declined, and he thought it was very likely that he would never reach the interdiate level in his lifeti.
However, after following Feng Jun, due to the greatly enriched resources, his old injuries had also healed, and with an ample supply of pills, his vitality and blood energy were replenished. Then, sponging a bit of the WIFI… ahem, spiritual energy from the Spirit Gathering Array, it would actually be abnormal if he didn’t advance in rank.
To tell the truth, even Feng Jun thought that Lone Wolf would be the first among the three to advance in rank.
The two of them advancing one after the other within two days undoubtedly had an impact on the others.
Chen Junsheng had always failed to enter the Transcendent Mortal phase, but after all, he was once an innate expert, and his temperant was incomparable to that of others. Although he had beco sowhat disheartened at first after losing his inner Qi, three years had passed, and his ntality had mostly adjusted.
He wasn’t much affected by it, but Yu Changqing in the formation, on the other hand, felt quite uncomfortable in her heart.
Hey, co on, am I not the genuine cultivator here?
I haven’t advanced in rank, and yet all you martial cultivators sponging off the spiritual energy are advancing one after another?
Yu Changqing’s ntality was originally not bad, using the Spirit Gathering Array for only two days at a ti before she would stop to stabilize her realm.
Seeing others successively advancing in rank, she beca dissatisfied and stopped shutting down the Spirit Gathering Array, continuing her cultivation.
On the fourth day, Chen Junsheng successfully captured the first strand of spiritual energy and advanced to the first level of Transcendent Mortal!
His entry into the Transcendent Mortal realm was actually inevitably linked to Yu Changqing extending the usage ti of the Spirit Gathering Array.
Although Chen Junsheng was once an innate expert and very sensitive to the sense of Qi, he was, after all, older now, and it was really not easy for him to start cultivating again from the beginning.
In previous instances, the Spirit Gathering Array was only activated for two days, and Chen Junsheng had beco accustod to this treatnt. As a transparent freeloader of spiritual energy, he couldn’t complain about it.
This ti, since the other party didn’t close the Spirit Gathering Array, he embraced the ntality of “happy in success and also pleased in failure,” seizing the mont to search for the sense of Qi.
And while searching, he suddenly discovered… eh, he had actually succeeded?
Moving into the first level of Transcendent Mortal didn’t make a big commotion, but unfortunately for him, he was just too close to Yu Changqing.
And since he was sponging off the spiritual energy from the Spirit Gathering Array, and Yu Changqing was sitting inside it, she could easily sense even a slight change in the outside spiritual energy.
Finally, has Transcendence been achieved? Her heart couldn’t help but feel a sense of defeat.
Actually, when she first started cultivating in those years, she had entered the Transcendent Mortal phase much quicker than Chen Junsheng had, but how old was she then? Chen Junsheng now must be over forty, right?
Of course, what depressed her the most was — three people had advanced in rank, and she was not among them.
But she was still quite dignified. Although she felt cold in her heart and wanted to close the Spirit Gathering Array imdiately, she knew that Chen Junsheng, who had just entered Transcendent Mortal, needed a stable flow of spiritual energy to secure his realm.
Having already given face to Senior Feng, let’s give enough; it could also be considered as forging a good relationship with the Yuntai Chen Family.
Of course, since she wasn’t closing the Spirit Gathering Array, she couldn’t just watch him cultivate. Wouldn’t that be wasting Spirit Stones?
Hence, Yu Changqing entered the cultivation state once more.
This ti, she cultivated purely to help the other achieve success, doing so in a calm and unhurried manner. Unexpectedly, she entered a state of “desiring nothing and thereby becoming indomitable.”
After an unknown period of cultivation, she felt a subtle change in spiritual energy and opened her eyes to see that Chen Junsheng had already stood up, saluting her from a distance and not speaking.
Obviously, he had stabilized his realm and was planning to rest for a while.
At last, it could end. Yu Changqing also breathed a sigh of relief; this usage of the Spirit Gathering Array had indeed been sowhat lavish.
She planned to finish transporting this batch of spiritual energy and then get up to shut down the Spirit Gathering Array.
At that mont, a voice suddenly rang out, “Continue transporting; I foresee that within half an hour… you will have the opportunity to advance in rank.”
Here, the only one qualified to speak of a “fellow Daoist” was Divine Doctor Feng, and the only one he would address as such was among the people in the formation.
Eh? When Yu Changqing heard these words, her spirits were imdiately lifted. Senior Feng… probably wouldn’t be wrong, right?
Although she had been on the verge of giving up, rejuvenated by this reminder, she imdiately reinvigorated her spirits.
Between life and death lie great fears, while in advances and retreats lie great opportunities.
The next mont, she discovered that the circulation of her spiritual energy had beco unprecedentedly smooth.
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