"My divine sense used to cover around seven miles, but after being tempered by the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array, it shot up eightfoldâall the way to fifty-six miles!"
Changâsheng felt the immense range of his divine sense blanketing the area, a satisfied gleam in his eyes.
Just now, when his divine sense swept out, everything within fifty or sixty miles was under his perception!
He was pumped with anticipation.
If he went outside, free from the suppression of the Spirit-Seizing Land, how wide would his divine sense stretch?
When that time comes, how far will his divine sense reach?
"I wonder how my divine sense compares to the Golden Core Stage now?"
Changâshengâs eyes took on a pensive look, but for now, there wasnât a Golden Core Stage cultivator around to play lab rat.
He had no clue how many miles a Golden Core Stage cultivator could cover with their divine sense in here.
"Better finish perfecting the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array first!"
Changâshengâs eyes gleamed as he made up his mind.
He gathered firewood, piled it up, and tossed in a stone carved with the character âDivineâ.
The instant Changâsheng threw in that rock, his panel started popping up with red notifications nonstop.
"Nice! Burn a âDivineâ stone, and I gain one point of experience per breath. Maybe I should carve a bunch more âDivineâ characters and see what happens?"
Changâsheng stared at his panel, eyes thoughtful.
He made his way to the stone wall, reached out, and scooped out a chunkâthough the stone was hard, under his hand it came away as easily as tofu. Changâsheng grabbed a rock and etched âDivineâ on it.
Stone dust flew everywhere, and he was carving at lightning speed.
When he finished, Changâsheng tossed the stone into the fire and glanced at his panel again, noticing his experience rate doubled.
"It actually works! My experience point growth is way faster!"
Seeing the experience bar on his panel shoot up twice as fast, Changâsheng was pretty pleased. He immediately carved a few more stones, etching the âDivineâ character super tiny, and making the stones about the size of a pigeonâs egg.
This way, he could stuff a whole pile of âDivineâ stones into the bonfire at once.
Changâsheng carved more than a hundred tiny stones, then pulled out a bunch of wood from his storage bag and piled it on. In an instant, the flames roared, and his experience skyrocketed.
Changâsheng kept carving those little âDivineâ stones.
Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array experience +1!
Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array experience +1!
........
"Dang, this experience-speed boost feels insane! Hell yeah!"
Changâsheng was carving âDivineâ stones with one hand, and watching his panel madly ping out experience notifications like an engine, grinning from ear to ear.
At this rate, another hour or less, and his Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array would be perfected!
[Detected: Perfect Unmoving Golden Buddha Technique, Perfect Vajra Indestructible Body, Perfect Vajra Bright King Body. You may consume 500 spirit stones to fuse them into a new Body Refining Technique! Fuse now?]
Just then, Changâshengâs panel flashed a red prompt.
"Fuse!"
Seeing that Yu Lingfei and the others werenât back yet, Changâsheng waved his hand, pulled out 500 spirit stones, and quickly pressed confirm.
[Fusion in progress: Perfect Unmoving Golden Buddha Technique, Perfect Vajra Indestructible Body, Perfect Vajra Bright King Body... Fusion successful... Acquired: Saint Buddha Golden Body!]
The moment he hit confirm, the 500 spirit stones vanished, and another notification popped up on his panel.
At the same time, a surge of information flooded Changâshengâs mindâit was the cultivation method for the Saint Buddha Golden Body.
"Saint Buddha Golden Body!"
"If I perfect this one, will my physical strength rival a Golden Core Stage cultivator?" Changâsheng eyed his newly fused cultivation technique, filled with hope.
[Detected: Saint Buddha Golden Body (Entry Level), you may consume 1000 spirit stones to simplify it! Simplify now?]
Just then, Changâshengâs panel flashed a red prompt.
"Simplify!"
With a sweep of his hand, Changâsheng pulled out another 1000 spirit stones and hit confirm on the panel.
[Great Dao is Simple: Simplifying Saint Buddha Golden Body... Simplification successful... Saint Buddha Golden Body = Punch Monk]
Changâshengâs panel flashed another red notification.
[Saint Buddha Golden Body (Entry Level 0/1000)]
"So now itâs simplified to...Punch Monk?"
"What theâ?"
Seeing the simplified version, Changâshengâs eyes bugged out.
No monks around hereâwho am I supposed to punch?
"Wait a sec, I could just make myself a monk!"
Suddenly Changâsheng had a eureka moment.
Monks are bald with robes, right? I just need to find some dude, shave his head, stick on some burn scars, and then punch him. Problem solved!
But, uh, where was he gonna find a guy?
Zhuo Yijian and the other five disciples?
Changâsheng just couldnât bring himself to do it to them.
"Forget it, Iâll finish perfecting the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array first. Maybe when I leave Spirit-Seizing Land I can find a male cultivator willing to cosplay as a monk."
Changâsheng thought to himself.
Actuallyâ
There was another way: Shave off his own hair, burn himself nine monk scars, and punch himself. That might work too.
But, nah, Changâsheng really didnât want to do that. If he did, wouldnât he be a monk for real?
Thatâs way too savageâeven for him.
He decided to deal with it after getting back to the tribe.
Right at that momentâ
Zhuo Yijian, Yu Lingfei, and the other eight people returned one by one. When they saw Changâsheng making a big bonfire, each of them looked pretty curious.
"Daoist Long, any breakthroughs...with the array?"
Yu Lingfei glanced at Changâsheng, hope twinkling in her beautiful eyes.
Seeing Daoist Long burning a whole heap of fire on the platform didnât really look like array enlightenment, so her anxiety shot through the roof.
"Almost done, donât worry."
Changâsheng nodded and replied.
With his current divine sense, getting through the Earth Fire Heaven-Burning Array should be doable. But he still had to perfect the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array!
This array could refine divine senseâno way he was gonna pass up on that!
[Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array: Perfection achieved]
As Changâsheng burned those âDivineâ stones, another red notification popped up on his panel.
At the same timeâ
A flood of new info poured into Changâshengâs mind, merging seamlessly with his own consciousness!
The info was all about achieving perfection in the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Arrayâincluding key insights and techniques for array formation!
"So the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Arrayâs Divine-Burning Earth Fire has been used up... Wait, what?"
As Changâsheng checked the arrayâs functions, his gaze sharpened.
According to the arrayâs descriptionâ
It takes a hundred years for this array to build up Divine-Burning Earth Fire. Meaning, after using it here, heâd have to wait a century before the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array would be usable for refining divine sense again!
Unless...he could find another suitable earth vein and set up the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Array from scratch!
"This Earth Vein Array...needs Earth Vein Fire? Plus forty-nine array foundations and one array plate... Damn, those requirements are harsh!"
Changâsheng kept reading about how to set up the array, frowning deeplyâit needed a powerful source of Earth Vein Fire, and the array had to be placed accordingly.
Plus, heâd have to refine forty-nine array foundations and one array plate before the array could be formed.
The stuff needed to make those foundations and plates were all Nascent Soul level items!
With his current strength, collecting Nascent Soul grade gear was basically mission impossible!
"Wait, why bother gathering all that stuff? Isnât there a ready-made array here? Why donât I just dig up those array foundations and the array plate, go find a Fire Vein, and call it a day?"
Suddenly, Changâshengâs eyes sparkled as he realized.
With that thoughtâ
He got to work right away.
Changâsheng now possessed complete insight into the Earth Vein Fiery Divine Burning Arrayâformation was tricky, but demolition? Easy as pie!
He decided to start by ripping up the forty-nine array foundations placed around the island!
With a flicker, Changâsheng appeared at the foot of the mountain, on a rocky slope. He stepped forward, and the scenery shifted, revealing a stone wall up ahead.
Changâsheng smashed a fist into the wall, and instantly a red light burst through, rocketing into the air, spinning wildly!
It was a blazing fire-red jade stone, three zhang in length!
Changâsheng made a grabbing motion and stored it in his storage bag!
Next, he headed straight for foundation number two!
.......
As Changâsheng was gathering the array foundations hereâ
Deep underground, tens of thousands of zhang down, lay a vast, ancient great hall that exuded a heavy, oppressive aura.
The hall was supported by 108 massive pillars.
The pillars were carved with mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars!
On each of the four walls, there were a dozen lamp plates about half a zhang across. Every plate held a huge fluorescent stone, casting a gentle white light that made this Earth Hall as bright as day!
A huge jade-clear coffin, three zhang long, lay in the center of the hall atop the Cold Ice White Jade Platform.
Inside was a middle-aged man with refined features.
"Three hundred years gone, and here comes another damned little bug! Not only did you drain one of my divine arrays, now youâre digging the whole thing up!!"
"If this werenât the crucial moment of my recovery, you wouldnât have gotten away with it!"
At this moment, the middle-aged man slowly opened his eyes. His voice was cold and menacing, anger flashing in his gaze.
"Ten yearsâjust ten more years! Then Iâll break out from the Immortal Relic Land and return to the Burial Immortal Realm!"
"You little wormâcarrying off my stuff? When the time comes, you wonât escape!"
The manâs chilling voice drifted out as he closed his eyes once again.