CHAPTER 93: CHAPTER 88: THE WAY OF SPIRIT ARRAYS, DRAWING ARRAYS WITH BLOOD

After sending the three thieves to the police station, Lu Yu went to a 24-hour convenience store to buy some things to resolve dinner and breakfast, with more items to be purchased tomorrow when the stores open.

Looking at the door that had been pried open by the thieves, Lu Yu felt a deep sense of insecurity. How could he protect his home if any ordinary person could easily enter and leave? How could he defend against other ill-intentioned individuals?

Lu Yu prioritized the cultivation of arrays, placing it on par with enhancing his strength.

Improving strength must not be relaxed, and similarly, the arrays guaranteeing his home’s safety should not be neglected.

Upon waking the next day, Lu Yu washed up and had a quick breakfast before entering the Divine Martial Realm.

With a glance at the 40 hours remaining to complete the cultivation of the Ice and Fire Dual Poles Body, Lu Yu took out the "Introduction to Array Techniques" to start learning.

Feeling the pressure, Lu Yu didn’t browse through every word as meticulously as before, but selected only the necessary parts for reading, ignoring much of the surrounding information and going straight for the core essentials.

The "Introduction to Array Techniques" rapidly flipped in Lu Yu’s hands, pausing occasionally for him to carefully browse and understand the contents.

Of course, tens of millions of words couldn’t be contained in a paper book. Regardless of how thick the book could be, just searching for the necessary information and subsequent recording would require a significant amount of effort.

The "Introduction to Array Techniques" was more like an e-book; however, the recorded information wasn’t stored in a chip but in an array.

As time continuously passed, Lu Yu grabbed the teapot from the table and tried to pour some water into his mouth, only to find it was empty, and he set the teapot down helplessly.

Glancing outside, the sky had darkened, it was approaching evening.

The fiery clouds ensured that night would never fall. In the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm, it was never night; as long as the Heavenly Fire Forge remained unextinguished, most of the secret realm stayed illuminated.

After a whole day of reading, Lu Yu roughly understood the classification of arrays and found the path he needed for array cultivation—the Spiritual Array Path.

As the name suggests, Spiritual Arrays are completely constructed using Spiritual Power.

The advantage of being able to draw an array formation out of thin air without needing materials is the strength of the Spiritual Array Path.

The disadvantage is that the power of a spiritual array entirely depends on the strength of the array creator, and also assembling arrays is exceedingly difficult.

Unlike ordinary arrays, which can use various materials where the array creator only needs to connect the materials with array patterns, setting the restriction switches to complete the array. The power of ordinary arrays depends on the array grade and material quality.

Given enough time and materials, even an array master without profound cultivation could set up a mighty great array.

True array masters generally master the Spiritual Array Path because this enables them to set up necessary arrays in emergencies temporarily and then spend time perfecting upgrades or transforming them into great arrays.

Considering that in reality, he couldn’t find enough materials for setting up arrays easily, Lu Yu chose to cultivate the Spiritual Array Path.

Looking at his currently possessed Contribution Points, Lu Yu walked toward the Transmission Pavilion. Since he had decided to cultivate the Spiritual Array Path, he was now heading to find arrays suitable for him.

At the very edge of the array section on the second floor of the Transmission Pavilion, Lu Yu found several books that recorded information about spiritual array techniques.

Sound Transmission Spirit Array, Dust-removal Spirit Array, Floating Spirit Array, Warming Spirit Array.

Looking at books describing spiritual array cultivation, Lu Yu felt a bit speechless; none of these were what he wanted.

He glanced at the entrance to the third floor, wondering if he had to go up there to find suitable spiritual arrays for cultivation.

Currently, Lu Yu did not have the qualification to enter the third floor.

Reinserting the books recording spiritual arrays back into the shelf, as he pushed them in, he felt something blocking them, preventing them from returning to their place. Taking out all the books, he found a piece of wood stuck between the gaps on the shelf.

Pulled the wood out, he put the books back. As he was about to casually place the wood down, Lu Yu noticed intricate patterns engraved on the wood. Examining it carefully, he found it seemed to document an array.

The Transmission Pavilion also housed many non-paper recorded scriptures like bones, wood pieces, animal skins, ceramics, jade tokens, etc., all of which Lu Yu had seen before. These scriptures were distinctly ancient.

But this didn’t necessarily mean ancient scriptures were more powerful; in reality, most ancient scriptures were improved by later people, upgraded into more potent scriptures.

From ancient scriptures, one could only see the ancestors’ origin of creating the scripture, helping later generations understand the creator’s initial intentions. However, the documented cultivation methods were vastly inferior to the newly refined methods that underwent countless enhancements.

These contents recorded on sundry items served more to help cultivators seek the "intention" of the creator, making it easier to reach higher martial cultivation realms, rather than being used to learn cultivation techniques.

In the Transmission Pavilion, storage equipment couldn’t be used. Lu Yu carried the block of wood documenting the unknown array to the elder managing the Transmission Pavilion, "Elder Xun, do you know what array this is?"

With a glance at the block of wood in Lu Yu’s hand, the skinny Elder Xun casually replied, "I don’t know. There are countless odd things in the Transmission Pavilion. How could I know them all? If you want it, you can spend 1000 Contribution Points to buy it."

Spending 1000 Contribution Points on a block of wood with an unknown documented array made Lu Yu hesitate, as it was equivalent to spending 100,000 Gold Coins gambling that the wood’s array was what he needed.

Lu Yu stepped back a few paces, letting the person behind him pay the Contribution Points for their purchase of scriptures, as he remained indecisive.

In his hesitation, Lu Yu used the system store’s scanning function to scan the block of wood; he had initially found the No Edge Sword Technique in the store this way, only later finding the second half of the No Edge Sword Technique in the Transmission Pavilion.

The scan ended quickly, and only one item remained in the store.

??? (Unique)

Price: ??? (Conditions not met, unable to purchase)

Use: An ancient wooden piece engraved with unknown array, the purpose of the array is unclear.

Stock in shop: 11 pieces

Hint: Handing over this item will grant players certain rewards from the shop.

Another special item, last time when Lu Yu used the shop to scan the inheritance jade disc of the Seven-layer Ice and Fire Cultivation Technique, he also got a similar result, with the hint that handing over the item could grant the player certain rewards.

Unlike last time, the shop had no stock left, but this time there are 11.

The stock of 11 pieces refers to 11 different wooden pieces, while "unique" means that all the pieces can eventually form one array.

The system shop also doesn’t specify what kind of reward will be given upon handing over, so Lu Yu didn’t choose to hand over the inheritance jade disc of the Seven-layer Ice and Fire last time.

Looking at the wooden piece in his hand for a couple of times, Lu Yu bought it for 1000 Contribution Points, Elder Xun was a bit surprised seeing him buy the piece, then said to him, "If you regret it, you can sell it back to the Transmission Pavilion for a recycling price of 200 Contribution."

Lu Yu’s forehead broke out in a black line, it’s too black, the recycling price is only 20%.

Looking at Elder Xun’s expression, it seems not few disciples chose to sell similar items back to the Transmission Pavilion at a 20% price.

Leaving the Transmission Pavilion, Lu Yu returned to the bamboo forest cottage, he bought the wooden piece partly to see if the array on it was of use, and partly to see what reward the system shop would give him.

He was still a bit curious about the unknown reward, the inheritance jade disc involved the whereabouts of the subsequent Cultivation Technique, it was impossible for Lu Yu to hand it over to the system shop.

However, if the wooden piece turned out useless, he could see what reward the system shop would give him after handing it over.

Returning to the cottage, Lu Yu saw Kui Defa, who just came out of Fifth Sister Huang Ying’s yard, and asked curiously, "Kui Senior Brother, has Fifth Sister returned?"

"Hmm, just sent something to her." Kui Defa looked at Lu Yu, and said, "Does the Itchy Fan I gave you work well?"

Thinking of Wu Ping, Lu Yu said, "It works well, it’s just after burning, the effect of the Itchy Fan seems to disappear."

"That’s normal, the natives over in Southern Border roll over charcoal when encountering Itchy Feather Birds, removing the itch powder left by them." Kui Defa said.

"Alright, I still have things to refine, I need to get back, let’s chat next time."

Thinking of Fifth Sister, Lu Yu thought of the perspective glasses, and then thought of how he couldn’t see things underground, he caught up to the departing Kui Defa and said, "Kui Senior Brother, can you make a pair of perspective glasses for me too?"

"I can provide the materials myself." Lu Yu knew he was in a hurry, so quickly said.

Kui Defa glanced back at Lu Yu, with a sly smile on his face, waved his big hand, "Alright, tomorrow during the teacher’s discourse, I’ll bring you a pair of perspective glasses, as for the materials, forget it, they’re not worth much anyway."

"It’s still better outside, unlike the secret realm, where everyone is wearing spiritual armor." Kui Defa said with emotion as he left the bamboo forest.

Lu Yu looked at Kui Senior Brother leaving in reflection, a bit speechless, wondering if perspective glasses are only used for such things?

He wanted perspective glasses from Kui Defa to see if they could work underground, if they could, the usefulness of earth tunneling would greatly increase. After all, Lu Yu can’t take Yu Xiaoman to point the way every time he uses earth tunneling.

Returning to the cottage, he took out the wooden piece to research the array on it. Lu Yu first copied down all the lines of the array onto paper, making mistakes on a dozen sheets, before finally completing the drawing of the array on paper.

After closely checking every line to ensure no mistakes, Lu Yu cut his finger and forced Spiritual Qi to the fingertip to start drawing the array according to the lines on paper.

Not being in the Qi Manipulation realm, unable to emit Spiritual Qi externally, he could only use this method to draw the array using blood as a medium for Spiritual Qi.

Luf Yu barely drew one-fifth when he felt his finger stop bleeding.

Resolutely, he stirred his Qi Blood, accelerated its flow, his heartbeat quickened, and quicker transport of blood reached his fingertip, the wound started spurting blood.

Luckily, the wound wasn’t large, Lu Yu reacted quickly, and the few sprayed blood didn’t blur the array.

By the time the entire array was completed, Lu Yu felt a bit dizzy, seemingly due to excessive blood loss.

Throwing the completed array there, Lu Yu sat on the bed to rest, purchased several Spirit Fruits from the system shop to replenish Qi Blood and ate them, only then his head didn’t feel as dizzy.

Glancing at the blood-drawn array on the table, Lu Yu felt dizzy again.

"Forget it, let’s try the array’s effect tomorrow."

Lu Yu fell asleep on the bed.

The array drawn with Lu Yu’s blood on the table emitted a faint spiritual glow, it was the Spiritual Qi mixed in the blood, if not processed, the Spiritual Qi within the array would completely dissipate after three days, turning the array into a regular drawing.