Chapter 44 - Mountain Defensive Array (2/2)

The Qi on the earth is near depletion, and therefore, Chen Fan would have to be creative and use alternative materials.

“This array will need thirty-six small Dharma Artifacts, and five of them will be used by the Spirit Gathering Array at the center. You can help me find the jade I need to create these five Dharma Artifacts.

“If you could bring me those jade stones, I will create a Dharma Artifact similar to the Eight Trigrams Plate for each of you.”

The Third Lord of Wei and Master Qi’s faces lit up with glee after hearing the reward.

They don’t care what kind of Dharma Artifact it was, as long as they could have one.

After the meeting, the three of them started to work towards their goals.

Chen Fan used the free time during the national holiday to work on the first Dharma Artifact.

Since the array would be cast over the misty mountain, Chen Fan decided to name it the “Misty Mountain Array.”

The Misty Mountain Array consisted of four main components, at the center of the array, inside the Villa, was a Spirit Channeling Array; around the villa was a Guardian Array which connected to the Spirit Channeling Array; Lastly, high above the mountain peak was the Misty Mountain Array.

By combining the mountain mist with the Mist Array, not only was the effect of the array amplified, but the constant thick mist also concealed the villa from the view of the public.

The Yan Gui Lake had a large amount of Water Spirit Qi, and they would be channeled towards the villa. This Qi could not only be used for cultivation; it could also be used to fuel the Dharma Array.

At the center of the large yet complicated system of arrays was the Spirit Gathering Array. It was the pulsing heart that drove all of the other components. Without it, all the other components would stop working and fall apart.

The most crucial material for creating this Spirit Gathering Array was supreme-grade jade stones.

Only the flawless jade could hold a ma.s.sive amount of Spirit Qi. In order to purchase these Jade Stones, Chen Fan had spent a third of his money in just a couple of days.

He sat in a quiet room of the villa while a piece of emerald-colored jade floated in the air in front of him. The jade was suffused with a green glow and with every pulse, energy erupted from inside.

Chen Fan closed his eyes and let out an ancient sound. The sound formed a shape in the air and turned into a golden symbol.

Chen Fan made a few more sounds, and with it, a few different golden symbols appeared out of thin air. These symbols drifted toward the jade and left a slight but precise impression of its surface.

“Hur!”

Chen Fan suddenly opened his eyes and puffed out a white gas from his mouth. This was Raw True Essence in its purest form. The gas merged into a writhing white light as it shot at the jade.

The white light agitated the Jade plate and made it hum. Inside the jade, in between the pulses of the green glow, Chen Fan can see energy roil and tumble like the powerful undercurrent of the ocean. All the while, the jade started to glow brighter and brighter.

Suddenly, the golden symbols surfaced on the Jade Plate. The strokes of the symbols formed a golden chain that confined the pulsing energy that threatened to break free. The struggle between the confining power of the symbols and the tumultuous green undercurrent made the Jade plate shake violently. After a while, the struggle finally subsided.

Chen Fan heaved a sigh and reached for the jade plate.

By then, the jade plate was no longer glowing. However, its surface was covered with countless small symbols made out of hair-thin strokes.

“Finally, the first Spirit Gathering Plate was completed! Four more to go! With these five plates, I should be able to construct the large Spirit Gathering Array in no time!” Chen Fan cheered in his mind.

He wished he could have more than just one piece of Jade Marrow since it was much more convenient to work with, and it was much more powerful. He wagered that he could have completed the entire project with just five Jade Marrows.

Without the Jade Marrows, Chen Fan had to separate the array into small segments and use inferior Dharma Artifacts to support each one of them.

“The jade stone for the Spirit Gathering Array was the easiest to find. I can gather enough of them as long as I have abundant funding. However, the materials required for other arrays are going to be difficult to find. I shouldn’t just sit and wait for Third Lord of the Wei to find them for me; I need to work on it as well.”

Chen Fan rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully.

Since the purpose of the Spirit Gathering Array was to gather and hold Spirit Qi, it called for the highest grade of jade. Jade was the most compatible with Spirit Qi since there were already small amounts of Spirit Qi inside of a high-grade jade.

However, the other three arrays were a whole new ball game.

In order to channel the Water Spirit Qi, Chen Fan will have to find material with a natural affinity with water. He didn’t expect to find high-grade water cla.s.s numinous treasures on earth, so he had asked Third Lord of Wei to purchase rocks from the deep sea.

Being buried a few thousand kilometers under the sea, a rock would attain some degree of affinity with water even if it was just an ordinary rock. That should be enough to keep the Spirit Channeling Array going.

The Mist Array called for the thousand-year-old Pine Driftwood. The pine wood was of yin attribute by itself, and the thousand-year-old Pine Driftwood would be as effective as the “Yin Crystals.” However, Chen Fan was not hopeful that the Third Lord of Wei would be able to acquire such rare material.

The Guardian Array required even more special material, and Chen Fan decided to worry about it later.

By the last day of the National Holiday Season, Chen Fan had finished all five Spirit Gathering Plates. He had also used the leftover materials to create two more jade talismans which contained a lesser version of the Spirit Gathering Array. Although the effect of the lesser version was inferior to that of Chen Fan’s Jade Marrow Talisman, it was much more powerful than the Eight-Trigrams-Plate.