111 Creation Sealing Array. (1/2)
Both Fang Ying and Li Yang descended into a short silence after coming to their conclusion, descending into their own thoughts. When it came to a Devil's Grasp Vine as large as this, just the act of finding the current primary heart was a bit troublesome, actually draining the gathered up energy would be even harder. It would likely have set up rather tight defenses before hibernating, it might wake up the moment someone got anywhere close to the heart. After the two of them spent a few minutes mulling it over, Fang Ying came up with a proposal.
”If I fuse with Langshen again, I should be able to locate the primary heart by tracing the roots that used to connect to the tertiary heart that was here. But actually dealing with the Devil's Grasp Vine will have to be left to you. Remember that array you used against Lian Ah?”
Li Yang gave a light nod of his head, Lian Ah was someone he could never forget. She was one of the only five people he had ever met that could use the law of time, she was also one of the two people using that law that Li Yang had killed. The other was a man called Sun Chang, who was from a very strange race who seemed to be the descendants of a very powerful dragon-type Divine Beast.
Both fights were some of the hardest fights he had ever taken part in, only able to clinch victory thanks to ample preparation and the fact that he was supported by Fang Ying and the others. Li Yang went over the array in his head, going over what they would need to create it, shaking his head after a short moment.
”Drawing the actual array here is impossible, we lack the required resources and are currently too weak to control it. But if we can gather up enough resources here, we should be able to use a weakened version of the array, I'll just have to mix in some of your most numbing and paralyzing poison. The main ingredient would be all kinds of Demonic beast blood and any medicines with a numbing effect, so if you find anything like that you should immediately move to grab it.”
The array in question was a grand sealing array that would seal everything within a certain area, time, space, even all Qi would end up sealed up or slowed down within this array. The array would drastically slow anyone above the late stage of the Primordial Rune realm and completely freeze anyone below that realm, it was the strongest array that Li Yang had ever been able to create, his masterpiece, the Creation Sealing Array. Since he was the one who had created it, altering it was a rather simple task, it was mainly about changing the ingredients and some of the runes used to create it. Fang Ying nodded her head, her gaze landing on the palace located beyond the garden.
”I'm not carrying too much Demonic beast blood or numbing medicine on me, we'll just have to hope that this palace isn't completely empty. If our luck is so terrible that it does end up being empty then we'll just have to see if we can borrow some from the other people that had arrived here. If I just use the name of the Tian clan to ensure them that we'll pay them back then they should be willing to hand it over.”
Most others, Li Yang included, would likely resort to just robbing the other people here for the resources they would need in case the palace was empty, but Fang Ying was different. She was more compassionate in times like these, and since she had the large Tian clan behind her, borrowing a bit of Demonic beast blood should truly not be a problem. Of course, the borrowing would be their last resort, neither Li Yang or Fang Ying were willing to easily enter the debt of others. Li Yang shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, not having anything against her plan.
”Alright, that sounds fine. I'll check out the other parts of this garden while you trace the roots, I already picked up two nice treats earlier, a Starlight Tree and a Blood-thickening Mint, there might be a few other good items around.”
The Starlight Tree was the tree he had picked up earlier, it received its name from the star-shaped fruits that would glow slightly in the dark, something they did because the fruits absorbed the light of the stars to grow. Eating the fruits would cause the energy gathered within them to nourish a cultivators soul and help it grow stronger.
The Blood-thickening Mint was the item he had Langshen pick up earlier, and it was, in fact, a type of poison. Eating more than a few leaves would cause one's blood to turn as thick as jelly, killing the one who ate the leaves. But if one ate only one or two leaves at a time, carefully purifying and absorbing the energy in the process, one could strengthen their own blood somewhat and make it able to contain more energy.
As for the flower that Fang Ying had picked earlier, it was a Hundred-petaled Grapevine, which was a treasure that would sprout grape-like fruits once it reached a hundred petals and was fully grown. The grapes could be eaten to nourish and strengthen one's Ascending Foundation, meaning that they had already picked up three different resources for the three different cultivation systems, a rather decent harvest. The Starlight Tree and the Hundred-petaled Grapevine would require a few more years to actually grow and reach full maturity, but the two of them were fine with waiting.
With the two of them having decided on their selective roles, they went about completing their own tasks. Fang Ying fused with Langshen and jumped into the crater that Li Yang created when he destroyed the tertiary heart, using her law of space to follow the roots and map the entire Devil's Grasp Vine.
Li Yang started making his way through the forest, scouring the surroundings for any resources that might be useful to them. He plucked those that would be useful but left those that were useless to them, there was no reason to pick up something useless, he might as well leave it for the others so that they could have some luck as well.
After he made his way through half the garden and had reached the other side of the palace, he discovered a plant he hadn't expected to see here. The plant was a mushroom that was completely gray and had a gnarly exterior, it almost looked like it was made from stone. This mushroom was simply known as a Stoneskin Mushroom, and just like the Blood-thickening Mint, it was actually rather poisonous.
But if one could purify it and fully absorb the energy, one would be able to greatly increase the toughness of their skin. Back in Li Yang's previous life, this was one of the better ways for a normal cultivator to strengthen their body, it was also rather rare and somewhat hard to find. Even though body cultivation now existed, eating something like this alongside the Blood-thickening Mint would be like adding wings onto a tiger. He walked over to the mushroom to pluck it, but a loud shout from his right caused him to temporarily halt his hand.
”Fiend, stop your hand! That mushroom belongs to us!”
Li Yang glanced in the direction of the voice, his gaze landing on a group of five people from the Tian clan. The one who just called out was the one who Li Yang had beaten up right after they arrived here, the one who tried to have Fang Ying return to Tian Zheng. After giving the entire group of five, three women and two men, a quick glance, Li Yang scoffed lightly and waved his hand in a dismissive manner.
”Oh, it's just the asslickers of the wastrel. I said last time that I would not be as merciful next time, you better take that threat to heart and just leave.”
Li Yang proceeded to ignore the five after scoffing at them, grabbing the mushroom and digging out the earth around it, storing the entire thing into his interspatial ring. He couldn't be bothered to do anything to them if they didn't bother him, but it seemed like they had other plans. The youth with silky-black hair who had already gotten beaten once before glaring at Li Yang and extracting an axe from his interspatial ring.
”Don't think that things will end up like last time, We'll show you what happens when you disgrace the glory of the Tian clan.”
The youth charged forward, two of the women quickly drawing their weapons and following him, glaring daggers at Li Yang. The last man and woman didn't follow them, looking at them with bitter expressions. Li Yang cast his eyes onto the three people that were charging at him with weapons, muttering lightly.