Chapter 213: Chapter 213: Engraving the Miniature Cave-Heaven Array, A New Lease on Life
As the Wind Spirit Pearl emitted a soft radiance, the vibrating stalagmite gradually calmed down, leaving Yunhua Zhenren and the four Great Elders staring in stunned silence.
Despite their combined efforts to suppress it, they were still overwhelmed by the outburst of the Spirit Vein. However, as soon as Ye Feng made his move, the vibrations ceased instantly.
This is too powerful!
“Thank you, Sect Master Ye,”
Yunhua Zhenren let out a sigh of relief.
But he soon noticed that Ye Feng’s expression was grave, which made his heart skip a beat.
“I can only stabilize the Spirit Vein temporarily. Once I leave, the Spirit Vein will surely collapse again. By then, the entire Yunhua Mountain Range will be beyond saving,” Ye Feng said solemnly.
“What should we do then?” The Elders of the Yunhua Sect couldn’t sit still any longer.
With a troubled look, Yunhua Zhenren seemed to make a difficult decision and then said solemnly, “Quick, while Sect Master Ye is suppressing the Spirit Vein, the four Elders must hurry to lead the disciples away from the Yunhua Mountain Range, taking as much as they can with them…”
“No need for that!”
Ye Feng suddenly interrupted Yunhua Zhenren.
Everyone’s expression froze.
Ye Feng looked up at the immense stalagmite and said, “I’m going to set up a Miniature Cave-Heaven Array. Through the minuscule power of space generated by the Formation, this area can be stabilized.”
“A Miniature Cave-Heaven Array?”
“Does Sect Master Ye know how to draw it?”
Everyone was greatly shocked.
Yunhua Zhenren trembled with excitement, “Is everything you said true, Sect Master Ye? Can you really inscribe the Miniature Cave-Heaven Array?”
Ye Feng nodded, “I have the array blueprint, and I have mastered the method of inscribing the Formation, but it is limited to just the Miniature Cave-Heaven Array. Didn’t Yunhua Zhenren just say it? We can try using a Miniature Cave Heaven World to stabilize the miniature vein.”
“What do you need us to do?” the four Great Elders asked eagerly.
“As long as Sect Master Ye can stabilize the Spirit Vein, whatever you need, we in the Yunhua Sect would sell iron pots to raise the funds,” Yunhua Zhenren personally assured.
“Let’s start with the Formation and discuss everything else later.”
After pondering for a moment, Ye Feng said, “Right now, I need a piece of Millennium Black Iron weighing ten pounds, ten Middle Grade Spirit Stones, and a half-pound piece of Glazed True Gold…”
He listed dozens of items in succession, all materials needed to inscribe a Miniature Cave Heaven Formation.
“Hurry and get these items for Sect Master Ye!” urged Yunhua Zhenren immediately.
“Yes,” the four Great Elders quickly went into action.
The disciples of the Misty Sect, standing in mid-air, watched as Ye Feng stabilized the raging Spirit Vein, their faces filled with concern.
Mo Ying asked softly, “Sect Leader, do you need our help with anything?”
“Not at the moment,” Ye Feng shook his head.
This stalagmite was just a Miniature Spirit Vein; a single Upper Grade level Wind Spirit Pearl was enough to suppress it. The other disciples had nothing to do for now.
Yunhua Zhenren looked at the cracks on the surface of the stalagmite, as if they were fissures in his own heart, his pain immense.
Finding a place with a Spirit Vein was not easy.
At present, the Heaven and Earth Spirit Veins were mostly occupied by the major forces. To obtain one, you could only seize it by force or through a Sect confrontation.
However, after reaching the Star-Level Sects, they generally refused such challenges for various reasons, and a Sect without a Spirit Vein wouldn’t even have the right to challenge another Sect.
If the Miniature Spirit Vein before them were to collapse completely, the Yunhua Sect would lose all hope of advancing to a Star-Level Sect.
Inside the Yunhua Mountain Range,
The four Great Elders were flying at top speed, dispatching the needed materials to the Sect’s Stewards and Inner Sect Disciples, searching at the fastest pace.
On hearing that the collection of materials was for the rescue of the Spirit Vein, the Stewards and disciples all acted frantically, turning everything upside down.
“Elder, I found a Middle Grade Spirit Stone.”
“I have a small piece of Millennium Black Iron here.”
“The disciple will go out to borrow materials right away!”
…
The disciples of the Yunhua Sect were extremely united.
Nearly none dropped out midway; they were all trying their best to find the needed items. Even when clashing while searching, they paid it no mind, their eyes only on the Sect.
In a secret chamber,
Lin Yuyan opened a wooden box.
Inside lay a thumb-sized piece of glass-like stone, with a texture similar to gold but a value thousands of times higher.
This was Glazed True Gold!
It was a gift left to Lin Yuyan by her great-grandmother, also the main material Lin Yuyan planned to use to refine her personal Spiritual Artifact after her breakthrough in the Element Gathering Realm.
“For the Sect, what does my personal cultivation matter?”
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Lin Yuyan took a deep breath and resolutely picked up the piece of Glazed True Gold.
Similar scenes were often enacted throughout the Yunhua Mountain Range.
The disciples, the various stewards, and the four Great Elders all spared no effort, and in less than half an hour, they finally gathered all the materials and presented them before Ye Feng.
“Sect Master Ye, we’ve collected all the materials.” After speaking, Yunhua Zhenren let out a deep breath of relief.
Everything was ready; only Ye Feng was needed.
“Leave it to me!” In fact, Ye Feng was a bit nervous.
He left the Wind Spirit Pearl hovering in midair, continuing to suppress the stalagmite that could erupt at any moment, then took out the Refining Furnace, and used the power of the Heroic Spirits to control a cloud of dust to hide it from prying eyes.
Then, Ye Feng threw all the materials into the furnace.
The clinking sounds of metal resounded.
Before long, a burst of spiritual light emerged, and the crowd saw Ye Feng extend his hand and take hold of a red-gold willow leaf-shaped carving knife, as well as a lump of bronze-colored metal liquid.
“It’s starting!”
Ye Feng took a deep breath, soared into the sky, and following the blueprints of the Miniature Cave Heaven Formation in his mind, he controlled the carving knife with the power of the Heroic Spirits, and began to carve on the surface of the stalagmite.
Although it was his first time, Ye Feng’s movements were very steady.
After all, he wasn’t doing the work directly but was using the power of the Heroic Spirits to control it, like operating a precision tool, following the diagram to construct without mistakes.
In just over half an hour, the crowd noticed that the surface of the stalagmite was marked with lines of varying depths, giving off an impression of grandeur, subtly in accord with the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.
“What a profound formation!”
“This must be the legendary Cave Heaven Formation!”
“I never thought that in my lifetime I would see this kind of formation passed down from the ancient times. I can die without regrets!”
The Elders of Yunhua Sect were astounded.
Ye Feng didn’t celebrate too soon.
He put away the carving knife, splashed the remaining un-melted metal liquid out, filled all the Array Patterns, and embedded ten Middle-Grade Spirit Stones at several core positions.
Hum!
The formed metal Array Patterns started glowing, the surface displaying dazzling brilliance.
Crack crack crack…
To the crowd’s delight, nature’s spiritual energy surged like a tide, the cracks in the stalagmite began to heal, and the surface was revived with vitality, like a bamboo shoot sprouting after rain, brimming with vigorous life.
Ye Feng gradually released the suppressing power of the Wind Spirit Pearl.
The stalagmite stopped collapsing.
It stabilized!
“Did it succeed?”
The crowd was full of curiosity.
Without a word, Ye Feng followed the passageway of the Underground Cavern back up to the surface, and after a moment of hesitation, the others also followed suit.
Ten meters above the ground,
Ye Feng floated quietly.
Everyone followed his gaze, and saw the Spiritual Energy Vortices above the five main peaks of the Yunhua Mountain Range accelerating, gathering increasingly dense spiritual energy.
Then, from the Vortex Center of these five vortices, a dragon made of spiritual energy emerged, converging above the valley right on top of the stalagmite, forming a Spiritual Energy Vortex with a diameter of a hundred meters, several times denser than those of the five vortices.
“Such dense spiritual energy!”
The disciples of Yunhua Sect and Misty Sect took deep breaths and immediately felt refreshed and delighted.
Only now did Ye Feng nod in satisfaction and said, “I, the Sect Leader, have stabilized the stalagmite. From now on, this valley will be the area with the densest spiritual energy in the Yunhua Mountain Range. The concentration here is higher than that of your typical Miniature Spirit Vein.”
Upon hearing this, nearly a thousand people from Yunhua Sect burst into passionate cheers after a brief silence.
“We finally stabilized it!”
Yunhua Zhenren’s eyes reddened with excitement.
He had painstakingly managed the Sect for over a hundred years, exhausting his mind and spirit, and finally, he saw a glimpse of hope for Yunhua Sect to advance to a Star-Level Sect!
Of course, none of this would have been possible without the help of one person.
He was… Ye Feng!
“For the rebirth you have given, I, Yunhua Zhenren, will certainly repay with the full force of the Sect!” Yunhua Zhenren suddenly knelt down and knocked his head to the ground three times towards Ye Feng.
“Thank you, Sect Master Ye, for your great kindness and great virtue!”
Yunhua Sect’s four Great Elders, dozens of stewards, and the thousand disciples all knelt in the valley, thanking Ye Feng in the center.
Their voices boomed like thunder, echoing through the skies.
This was not only an expression of excitement and joy but also a demonstration of Yunhua Sect’s gratitude.