Chapter 36 Arrangement of Formation Outsiders would not believe that they had any relationship with a man who was suspected to be a quasi-second-level spiritual plant husband. They would only think that they were really just doing a reselling business. Even if someone has suspicions, they probably wouldn't dare to risk offending a quasi-second-level spiritual plant husband and rashly investigate them. Perhaps the foundation-building ancestors of Qinghe Immortal Sect dare to investigate, but at least for now, the Ye family's transaction of a mere few spirit stones is not worthy of Qinghe Immortal Sect's special investigation. Knowing this, Ye Linyuan slowly let go of the decision he had made, but decided to be more cautious in the future. He then started to visit various stalls with the broken spirit stones he had collected. This time, because the selling price was higher, they made an extra 50% profit. By the time they sold all the 300 kilograms of spiritual rice, they had accumulated 315 broken spirit stones. Adding the dozen or so broken spirit stones they had earned from selling the miscellaneous spiritual rice, Ye Linyuan now had about 330 broken spirit stones in his hands. With this amount of spirit stones, Ye Linyuan was able to purchase freely. He first bought six pieces of first-grade spirit wood, and added six taels of spirit silk, thus gathering the materials for refining two sets of first-grade low-grade formations. The prices of spiritual wood and spiritual silk did not increase during the year-end. After comparing the prices, they bought each piece of spiritual wood for fifty broken spiritual stones. One tael of spiritual silk is worth ten Broken Spirit Stones, and the remaining thirty Broken Spirit Stones are still not enough. Although Old Man Ye still has a few Broken Spirit Stones in his pocket, they are just a drop in the bucket. So Ye Linyuan sold his magic weapon, the Purple Scale Dagger. The Purple Scale Dagger was made by Old Man Ye using the fangs of a purple-scale demon snake. It was infused with purple-scale snake venom and was powerful enough to threaten a person in the middle stage of Qi Refining.
However, this magical weapon also has flaws. Since the materials used are not spiritual enough, it can only be used with full strength a hundred times before it will fall into the status of an ordinary weapon. Although such a magical weapon poses a great threat to those in the early and middle stages of Qi training, it is not of much use to Ye Linyuan. After all, he had mastered the shortcut magic Geng Jin Zhen. This magic was not only extremely powerful, it could also serve as the foundation for cultivating the Tao. It was one level rarer than magic weapons of the exotic treasure level. Even if Ye Linyuan's cultivation is not enough, if he uses his power against the enemy, it is enough to threaten the enemy in the late stage of Qi training, which is simply not comparable to this poisonous fang. After selling the Purple Scaled Dagger for eighty Broken Spirit Stones, Ye Linyuan's pocket was immediately filled with a lot of money. He bought six taels of spiritual silk, but did not touch the remaining fifty Broken Spirit Stones. The Ye family is currently financially limited, and every piece of broken spirit stone is hard-earned. In the future, they will have to cultivate spirit fields and upgrade the quality of spirit eyes. The expenses in those areas are a bottomless pit, so it is better not to waste these broken spirit stones. Back to the topic, after buying the treasure they loved, the old man and the young man did not stay any longer. They left Qinghefang City early, and then sailed to the Seven Islands of Xinghu Lake. They returned to Yejia Island on the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month. After returning to Yejia Island, Ye Linyuan did not delay for long. He went to the spiritual eye cave to practice in seclusion, and at the same time began to process the spiritual wood and spiritual silk. This time his cultivation level improved a lot, and the speed of refining the formation flags also increased a lot. After about nine days of hard work, he finally refined a first-grade lower-grade soul-locking formation and a soul-gathering formation before the New Year. "With one set of spirit gathering array and one set of spirit locking array, I should not be short of spiritual energy for cultivation in the short term." Looking at the two sets of formation flags in front of him, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but smile. In this world of cultivating immortals, the importance of the hundred arts of cultivation is self-evident. It can even be said that without the hundred arts of cultivation, nothing can be done. Take the Spiritual Plant Man as an example. Through artificial means, the Spiritual Plant Man can make the rare spiritual treasures in nature, which are rarely seen in a thousand years, become large-scale cultivation. The rare spiritual plants in the outside world are hybridized, grafted, selected, and cultivated by the Spiritual Plant Man with magic and magical powers, and eventually become ubiquitous and even mass-produced. It can be said that if there were no spiritual plant husband, all the rare treasures in the world of immortal cultivation would have been plundered long ago. The importance of formation masters is just as important. Without the power of formations, the path of cultivation in this world would be extremely harsh. Taking the spiritual eye as an example, a low-grade spiritual eye can breed one strand of spiritual energy every day, a medium-grade spiritual eye can breed three strands of spiritual energy every day, and a high-grade spiritual eye can breed nine strands of spiritual energy every day. However, as long as a spirit gathering array of the same level is arranged, the daily output of spiritual energy can be increased threefold, and arranging a spirit gathering array of a lower level can also double it. The amount of spiritual energy that the spiritual eye can store is also limited. The lower quality one can store one spiritual energy, the middle quality one can store three spiritual energy, and the upper quality one can only store nine spiritual energy at most. The upper limit of the spiritual energy that the spiritual eye can store often determines whether a cultivator can break through to a higher level.
A cultivator in the early stage of Qi training who wants to reach the middle stage of Qi training must absorb four streams of spiritual energy in one breath before he can achieve the breakthrough. If there is insufficient spiritual energy during this process, it will be impossible to break through the bottleneck of the initial stage of Qi training, and then the true Qi cannot be compressed to the limit to break the limit, resulting in failure of breakthrough. It is also because of this that when cultivators break through to the middle stage of Qi training, most of them need to rent a high-quality spiritual eye to achieve the breakthrough. Because the superior spiritual eye has a stronger carrying capacity and can store a full nine spiritual energies, the upper limit of the spiritual energy storage is more than nine times that of the inferior spiritual eye. A mid-grade spiritual eye is not enough either, because it lacks a spiritual energy and needs to be replenished by refining spiritual stones, etc. It would be better to directly spend a spiritual stone to rent a high-grade spiritual vein. But it’s different with a formation master. The formation master can further unleash the power of the spiritual eye through the formation. As long as a set of the same level soul-locking formation is set up, the soul eye will be able to lock ten times the spiritual energy, thereby greatly increasing the storage of spiritual energy. If you use the inferior spiritual eye as the foundation and set up a first-order inferior spiritual locking formation, you can increase the upper limit of the spiritual energy stored in the spiritual eye by ten times, thereby assisting those in the early stage of Qi training to break through to the middle stage of Qi training. The second-level spiritual springs of the foundation-building immortal sects would all set up second-level soul-locking arrays and soul-gathering arrays, which would increase the speed of producing spiritual energy several times, and the ability to store spiritual energy would also increase by at least ten times. It is also because of this that the Foundation Establishment Immortal Sect is able to train many Foundation Establishment cultivators and even provide a large number of disciples with opportunities for cultivation. It can be said that if there were no formation masters and other cultivation arts, the number of high-level cultivators in the cultivation world today would be reduced by at least ten times. After all, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is becoming increasingly thin, and the environment for cultivation is far inferior to that in the ancient times when the world was first created. Of course, whether it is the Soul Locking Array or the Soul Gathering Array, neither of them can be afforded by ordinary Qi training clans. A set of the lowest level, first-grade, low-grade Soul Locking Array, with only three array flags, costs about ten spirit stones on the market, and it costs another three spirit stones to hire an array master to set up the array. Just a set of two low-grade soul-locking array and soul-gathering array, the cost of the array equipment plus the price of the invitation to set up the array, adds up to a full twenty-six spirit stones. (End of this chapter)