Gu Zhiyun emerged from seclusion, and the Myriad Sources Return to the Great Array Plate, complete!

The stone door of Gu Zhiyun's quiet room slowly opened, and a graceful figure walked out.

She stretched widely, and a series of crisp cracking sounds erupted from her bones, her face brimming with the irrepressible joy of having achieved a Realm Breakthrough.

"Congratulations, Miss Gu, on successfully achieving a Breakthrough to the Spirit Sea Realm."

Just then, a smiling voice came from outside the courtyard.

Lin Mo's figure walked unhurriedly into the courtyard.

"Big shot, you're here?"

When Gu Zhiyun saw the person, a brilliant smile immediately blossomed on her face, but the next second, her smile froze.

She subconsciously took half a step back, her beautiful eyes wide.

"Hiss..."

"I don't think I was in seclusion for very long, was I?"

"Why do I feel like your strength, big shot, has become even more terrifying?"

In her perception, Lin Mo before her was like a bottomless abyss.

Before she entered seclusion, she could barely feel the immensity of his power, but now, she couldn't feel anything at all.

That aura was restrained to the extreme, yet this made it seem even more unfathomable and much more terrifying than before.

"Haha, I've merely made some further progress," Lin Mo said casually, unconcerned by her seeing-a-ghost expression.

"It is Miss Gu who is quite impressive, though."

"A single Breakthrough directly led to the Third Layer Spirit Sea."

Lin Mo's gaze swept over her, lightly pointing out her true cultivation.

"Oh, no, no, big shot, please stop teasing me."

Hearing this, Gu Zhiyun's pretty face flushed, and she repeatedly waved her hand in embarrassment: "My meager strength surely doesn't even enter the big shot's Dharma Eye, right?"

She knew very well that her small progress was probably not even worth mentioning in front of this monster.

"Right, big shot, you came to find me immediately. Is it because the Materials have been fully collected?"

She quickly adjusted her mindset and guessed Lin Mo's intention.

"Miss Gu guessed correctly."

Lin Mo didn't waste words and tossed over a Storage Ring.

"Here, take a look. Are these the Materials you needed?"

Gu Zhiyun quickly took it, her Divine Sense probing inside as she carefully checked the count.

A moment later, intense delight appeared on her pretty face.

"Mhm, mhm, these are them!"

"The quantity is sufficient!"

"Alright, big shot, I will now help you create the Formation Plate for the Myriad Origins Return to One Great Formation!"

She knew Lin Mo placed great importance on this matter, so without a word, she took the Materials and turned to return to the quiet room to start work.

"No need to rush. You just achieved a Breakthrough; taking time to adjust your state is fine," Lin Mo reminded her.

"Don't worry, big shot. My current state is unprecedentedly good, and my understanding of the 'Xuantian Creation Array Collection' has deepened significantly."

"Creating the Formation Plate for the Myriad Origins Return to One Great Formation should now be a sure thing!"

Gu Zhiyun turned her head, her face full of confidence.

"Very well. Go ahead and put your full effort into it. I will act as your Protector!"

Seeing her confidence, Lin Mo said no more and followed her into the quiet room.

He couldn't afford not to be cautious.

This batch of Materials was hard-won, perhaps the only set available in the entire Canglin Domain.

At least in the short term, even if he squeezed Ji Lingxue dry again, he probably wouldn't be able to gather a second set.

To prevent any accidents from causing trouble, he felt it was better to supervise personally.

Gu Zhiyun also understood this principle, so her expression was particularly serious at this moment.

She walked to the center of the quiet room, took a deep breath, and poured out all the Materials from the ring.

Instantly, various rare Spiritual Materials piled up into a colorful small mountain on the ground, and the dense Spiritual Qi was almost materializing.

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Zhiyun sat down cross-legged, forming hand seals.

Her fair fingers traced esoteric trajectories in the air, and she chanted incantations.

Following her guidance, a completely emerald-green "Soul Nurturing Wood" was the first to fly up, suspended in mid-air.

Immediately after, a head-sized "Void Gazer Stone" floated beneath the Soul Nurturing Wood.

"Condense!"

Gu Zhiyun let out a soft shout.

A ball of gentle spiritual power flame rose from her palm, enveloping these two core primary Materials.

But this was only the beginning.

As the primary Materials gradually softened in the spiritual flame, Gu Zhiyun's expression became solemn, and her ten fingers danced like butterflies flitting among flowers.

The dozens of rare auxiliary Materials suspended around her, under her control, poured into the spiritual power flame one after another, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

Every one of these Materials was priceless and possessed different attributes.

Yet, under Gu Zhiyun's exquisite flame control technique, they rapidly transformed into streams of pure spiritual liquid, merging into the core liquid mass without any rejection.

Lin Mo stood on the side, watching silently, his heart also rising into his throat.

He could sense that as the dozen or so Materials were continuously added, the liquid mass's energy reaction skyrocketed exponentially, and its internal structure became extremely unstable.

This process was extremely perilous; the slightest mistake—even if the timing for the Fusion of just one auxiliary Material was half a beat slow—would cause a spiritual power conflict, triggering a violent explosion and leading to complete failure.

Time flowed by, bit by bit.

An hour passed. The Chaos liquid, which had fused the essence of all the Materials,

finally rotated slowly under Gu Zhiyun's control, gradually stabilizing and forming the rudimentary shape of a circular plate.

Lin Mo's nerves were stretched even tighter.

Now was the crucial moment: inscribing the Formation patterns.

Gu Zhiyun joined her fingers like a sword, and fine threads of spiritual power shot out from her fingertips, precisely imprinting themselves onto the slowly rotating liquid plate.

Every Formation pattern that landed caused a slight energy fluctuation.

Inside the quiet room, the light flickered on and off.

Lin Mo held his breath. He could see fine beads of sweat already seeping from Gu Zhiyun's forehead,

clearly indicating that controlling so many high-level Materials and inscribing Formation patterns simultaneously was a massive drain on her Mental Energy.

Another hour passed.

The moment the final core Formation pattern was imprinted, the entire plate suddenly shook, emitting dazzling five-colored light.

An esoteric and powerful aura emanated from it—a qualitative change resulting from the perfect Fusion of a dozen spiritual Materials.

Success!

Joy surged in Lin Mo's heart,

but before he could sigh in relief, he saw that Gu Zhiyun had not stopped.

Instead, she activated the remaining batch of Materials and repeated her previous actions.

She was actually going to refine a second one in one go!

Lin Mo was a little surprised, but mostly impressed.

This girl's Formation skills and Mental Energy were even stronger than he had imagined.

With the successful experience of the first attempt, the second refining process was noticeably smoother.

About an hour later, accompanied by another flash of light, the second Formation Plate successfully condensed into shape.

"Big shot, success!"

"I'm glad I didn't fail the mission; everything went very smoothly!"

Gu Zhiyun waved her fair hand, and the two esoteric Formation Plates, radiating faint light, lightly floated into her grasp.

She stood up, a trace of fatigue on her face, but more excitement, and quickly walked over to Lin Mo, handing him the Formation Plates.

"These are the Formation Plates for the Myriad Origins Return to One Great Formation?"

Lin Mo took the Formation Plates; they were warm to the touch, and the inscribed Formation patterns were extremely complex, seemingly containing some great truth of heaven and earth.

"Good, good, good. I didn't expect it to be this easy."

"Miss Gu, thank you. You've been a huge help!"

The heavy stone in his heart finally fell, and his surprise and delight were evident.

"Big shot, you're too kind; it's what I should do."

"Besides, this isn't that big of a help."

Gu Zhiyun playfully stuck out her tongue.

"Ah, why call me 'big shot'? That address is too formal," Lin Mo said, waving his hand. "Just call me by my name."

"No, no, no. How could I directly call the big shot by his great name?"

Gu Zhiyun shook her head repeatedly, then her eyes darted around, and she tentatively asked: "How about I follow Little Brother Li's example and call the big shot Brother Mo?"

"Sure, no problem. I have no objection."

Lin Mo was in a great mood at the moment and immediately nodded in agreement.

"Alright, Brother Mo!"

Gu Zhiyun called out sweetly, her heart blossoming with joy.

This single address of "Brother Mo" carried extraordinary significance.

This meant she had truly gained the recognition of this unfathomable Prodigy Genius, transforming from a simple collaborator into a friend with whom she could treat as a brother.

Simply put, she had completely latched onto a powerful backer!

"Miss Gu... this Formation..." Lin Mo was about to ask about the Formation Plate's usage, but before he finished speaking, Gu Zhiyun interrupted him with a smile.

"Ahem, the address 'Miss Gu' is also too formal. Brother Mo can just call me Xiaoyun!"

"Uh... alright."

Lin Mo readily complied.

"Then Xiaoyun, how are these Formation Plates used?"

"It's simple, just activate them," Gu Zhiyun explained. "They can naturally absorb and convert Spiritual Qi on their own, so there's no need to use Spirit Stones or anything to drive them."

"Then how large an area can it cover?" Lin Mo asked the question he cared about most.

"Well..." Gu Zhiyun tilted her head in thought. "About a thousand miles in radius, perhaps? This is already the maximum of my ability..."

By the end, she sounded a little embarrassed, seemingly feeling that this range wasn't large enough.

"It can cover a radius of a thousand miles?"

"Good. This is better than I expected."

Lin Mo was overjoyed.

He had originally thought that this kind of simple Formation Plate would cover a hundred miles in radius at most, but he didn't expect Gu Zhiyun to give him a tenfold surprise.

It seemed he had underestimated the strength of this Formation Genius.

"Hehe, as long as Brother Mo is satisfied."

"If you need anything in the future, you can still find me."

"Of course, bring your own Materials, haha..." she added playfully. "After all, with my weak strength, I absolutely cannot find such Advanced Materials."

"No problem!"

Lin Mo agreed immediately.

"Alright, Xiaoyun. Seeing that you just expended a large amount of spirit and spiritual power, you should rest first."

"I won't disturb you anymore."

Having said that, Lin Mo, eager to transport the Formation Plates back to Great Xia, almost subconsciously raised his hand and lightly swiped in front of him.

*Tear!*

A pitch-black spatial rift appeared out of thin air, emitting heart-stopping spatial fluctuations.

He stepped into it, and his figure instantly vanished.

The entire process was swift and decisive, and he completely failed to notice Gu Zhiyun's ghost-seeing expression behind him.

"Ah?!"

"What did I just see?!"

"Tearing the Void Realm?!"

"After only a few days apart, Brother Mo has already achieved a Breakthrough to Void Tempering?!"

"Oh my heavens, what kind of monster is this?!"

Staring at the slowly healing spatial rift, Gu Zhiyun's mind instantly crashed.