77: Chapter 75 Small Spirit Gathering Array

Time passed like a white horse leaping over a crevice, and eight months of time slipped away in the blink of an eye.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day the Shrek Academy school year ended and the holiday began; today was precisely the second day of the vacation.

In the southeastern part of Shrek Academy, there sat an underground magma mimicry Cultivate ground.

It was said that the origin of this Cultivate ground could be traced back to the previous Sea God Pavilion Master who possessed Ultimate Fire.

Back then, he personally guided a small underground magma fire vein and expended countless Heaven And Earth Treasures to solidify and maintain it, thus creating this top-tier fire-attribute mimicry Cultivate treasured land.

In the past, even during holidays, this Cultivate ground was always bustling with noise and excitement, with demand exceeding supply.

But today, the entrance was unusually desolate and deserted, with few visitors.

The reason lay on the notice board at the entrance, where a notice with still-fresh ink was prominently posted.

It was written in black and white: "Starting from the end of this semester, this mimicry Cultivate ground is temporarily closed, and the unsealing time will be notified separately."

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However, just at this moment, a figure walked straight over without even looking at the notice, following the stone steps leading down from the entrance and going deep all the way.

The person who came was naturally Lin Yan.

The reason why this Cultivate ground was closed was actually because of him.

Because he needed a venue with sufficient energy to complete some experiments, and it was inconvenient for anyone to disturb him.

Thus, he directly sought out Principal Yan Shaozhe and "borrowed" this place for a period of time.

As they went all the way down, the surrounding temperature began to soar step by step like riding a rocket.

On both sides of the rock walls, pieces of shimmering fiery red gemstones were embedded, illuminating the entire passage like burning clouds of sunset.

Walking down the tunnel for about a hundred meters, the view suddenly opened up!

This was a huge underground karst cave, presenting an inverted funnel shape overall, with a dome reaching dozens of zhang high.

The surrounding rock walls were covered with crisscrossing fiery red patterns, resembling blood vessels, continuously distributing scalding energy.

Right in the exact center of this funnel was a magma pool nearly fifty meters in diameter!

Crimson magma slowly surged in the pool, bubbling and making gurgling sounds. With every rise and fall, a massive amount of scorching heat waves surged up, pushing the temperature of the entire karst cave to a terrifying level.

On the cliff walls surrounding the magma pool, densely packed with over three hundred Immortal Caves were excavated, layer upon layer, arranged in an orderly fashion, extending all the way from the bottom to near the dome.

Each cave entrance was about two meters high, and inside were independent Cultivate rooms. This was one of Shrek's top mimicry Cultivate grounds—the Magma Mimicry Ground!

Without paying too much attention to the caves above, Lin Yan followed the plank road set up on the cliff wall and went all the way down again.

The further down he went, the higher the temperature became, and at the same time, the fire-attribute energy became more abundant.

When he walked to the very bottom, the temperature here had soared to nearly a thousand degrees!

An ordinary fire-attribute Spirit Master coming here, let alone Cultivate, might even be roasted into a dried human body themselves.

However, for Lin Yan, who possessed Ultimate Fire, this bit of temperature naturally still amounted to nothing.

He stepped into the only cave on the crimson rock wall at the bottom.

Lin Yan took out five metal plates carved with profound patterns from his storage spirit tool, and then placed them in five different positions of the cave in turn.

After finishing all this, he walked back to the metal plate in the center and slowly injected his own Soul Power into it.

The next second, the dense patterns inside and outside the metal plate began to light up rapidly.

Until the light on it shone to the limit, four crimson pillars of light instantly shot out from the plate surface, connecting to the remaining four metal plates without a single error.

Immediately afterwards, at the exact instant the connection was completed, as if triggering a certain resonance, complicated patterns began to spread simultaneously on the other four metal plates.

Almost in a fleeting instant, all the patterns had completed bordering and intertwined into a huge pattern diagram.

If one looked down from above, they would discover—the pattern extending with the five metal plates as fulcrums was prominently a "character" that was constantly changing and evolving.

And at the very instant this "character" was completely formed, a sudden change occurred!

The pattern diagram that was originally suspended in mid-air suddenly sank downwards, instantly submerging into the rock layer beneath Lin Yan's feet.

At this very moment, the originally calm Origin Qi of heaven and earth in the outside world seemed to be pulled by a certain invisible force, and began to frantically pour backward into the cave!

After a long time, until the Origin Qi of heaven and earth inside the cave became thick to a certain limit, this surging momentum finally slowly subsided.

Seeing this scene, feeling the Origin Qi of heaven and earth around him that was already nearly viscous, Lin Yan nodded slightly with satisfaction.

The effect of his Small Gathering Spirit Formation was not bad.

The so-called "Small Gathering Spirit Formation" was the first and hitherto only true "Formation" he had deduced through studying Soul Guidance Arrays over such a long time!

As for why it still carried the word "Small", it was naturally because it was still not mature enough.

Although it could barely be called a "Formation", after all, it was still far too crude.

Over this past period of time, he had the thousands of Soul Guidance Arrays stored by the Soul Tool Department available for him to browse at will, plus Electrolux, this top-tier "external brain".

He had finally successfully analyzed a portion of "Formation patterns" from the countless Soul Guidance Arrays deeply hidden with the energy operation rules of Douluo Continent.

As for the patterns carved on the five metal plates earlier, they were a part of the Formation patterns he had currently mastered.

As for that constantly changing "character" ultimately evolved from the Formation patterns, Lin Yan called it "Dao Script"!

Dao Script was the bridge to communicate with the Laws of heaven and earth, and also the manifestation of the Law itself.

It was formless and shapeless, cannot be written on paper, and cannot be drawn under a pen.

Only by passing through the sub-level Formation patterns and carrying out profound organic combinations according to certain rules could it be "pieced together".

Only after manifesting the Dao Script with Formation patterns could it truly possess the power to communicate with heaven and earth!

And this was precisely the reason why he called the Formation under his feet the "Small Gathering Spirit Formation".

It was too crude—the five Formation Plates were engraved with over three thousand Formation patterns. Although it sounded quite a lot, in reality, it merely evolved a single Dao Script with the meaning of "Gather".

Compared to the grand Formation he envisioned, which was composed of tens of thousands of Dao Scripts and truly linked a region of heaven and earth, it was still far, far too far away.

However, although this "Small Gathering Spirit Formation" was still crude, the significance it represented was extraordinary.

This meant that Lin Yan's research route of analyzing Formation patterns from Soul Guidance Arrays, then evolving Dao Scripts from Formation patterns, and finally communicating with the Laws of heaven and earth through Dao Scripts to form a Formation was not wrong!

As long as the Breakthrough from zero to one was completed and it was proven that this path was feasible, everything else would merely be a matter of time!

Pulling back his somewhat drifting thoughts, Lin Yan recovered his wits and no longer paid attention to the Small Gathering Spirit Formation beneath his feet.

In fact, he had already repeatedly verified the effectiveness of the Small Gathering Spirit Formation previously.

Today when he came here, his purpose was not to experiment with the Formation.