CHAPTER 353: CHAPTER 73: SURE-KILL, NINE HEAVENS GREEN LOTUS

The sky was not yet fully bright outside, and a few spring-welcoming magpies chirped incessantly.

Yun Luo had not slept well last night due to the matters concerning Spiritual Patterns, and just when she was finally getting sleepy in the dim morning light, someone burst in through the door as if flying.

That person, without caring about the chill of early spring still lingering on their body, lightly picked her up and lifted her out of the blankets.

"Yue Jinghua, it’s you again," seeing that ostentatious mask, Yun Luo’s starry eyes widened, and she put on the appearance of a little female cat with bared claws and teeth.

"Take a look, this is the new Spiritual Pattern I’ve modified, Nine Heavens Green Lotus; it must be carved with your ’Nine Heavens Waterfall’. Look, does it work?" Yue Jinghua stuffed a stack of papers, still wet with ink, into Yun Luo’s arms.

In just one night, she had devised a new Spiritual Pattern.

Looking at the color on Yue Jinghua’s face, vibrant as if she had adrenaline coursing through her veins, Yun Luo saw her.

With no other choice, Yun Luo began to flip through the Spiritual Pattern Sketches that Yue Jinghua had brought.

The first, the second... Having been sleepy-eyed, Yun Luo, upon reaching the tenth Spiritual Pattern Sketch, didn’t even bother to put on shoes. She stepped directly onto the cold flagstone floor, pushed open the window, and started to examine the sketches by the gradually brightening morning light.

Yue Jinghua’s Danqing Skill could not compare to Yun Luo’s, of course; her each drawing was sketched with extremely simple strokes.

Yet, it was these few strokes that vividly captured the essence of a lotus.

The Chaos Green Lotus, born from fire; the blossoms so radiant, the charm so enchantingly fierce.

Yue Jinghua’s new set of Lotus Fall comprised eighty-one lotus forms, ingeniously accounting for the five directions—east, west, south, north, and center—and the resulting Lotus Flames were set to multiply five or six times more than before.

"You included the Ten Feet Pattern as well?" Yun Luo’s eyes lit up, realizing that Yue Jinghua had added another type of reinforcement pattern that she herself had previously used while contending with the Giant Winged Mosquito King—

The Mystic Light Ten Feet Pattern.

Under the effect of this pattern, the Green Lotus would explode upon contact with an enemy’s body, and its power would be many times that of a normal Lotus Fall.

Nine Heavens Green Lotus, implying the lotus descends from nine heavens, extends the metaphor to signify blood scattered everywhere.

It was frightening, too frightening for Yun Luo to even contemplate; under the effects of the "Nine Heavens Green Lotus" Spiritual Pattern, even if the oncoming Dark Beasts were as numerous as a locust plague, they could all be slaughtered by the "Nine Heavens Green Lotus", and with the Xuanwu Crystal Cannon at long range, the so-called Dragon Bone Great Wall was simply a Divine Weapon that slaughtered beings unseen.

Yet, what truly terrified Yun Luo was Yue Jinghua’s strategic planning.

Her meticulous calculations had essentially transformed Fengdan County into an impenetrable bastion, and such an arrangement could greatly reduce the need for County Guard troops.

At this moment, Yun Luo was completely rid of any drowsiness, and she silently felt fortunate that she stood on the same side as Yue Jinghua.

Now that they had the Spiritual Patterns, Yue Jinghua and Yun Luo each began crafting Foundation Stones and carving Spiritual Patterns.

Two days later, after repeated experiments, Yue Jinghua finally crafted the first Dragon Bone Foundation Stone.

The Foundation Stone, shaped in a perfect square and made from Jiao Long Bone, bore patterns like that of marble. Owing to the forging by Chaos Green Lotus Fire, the surface of the Dragon Stone bore an azure-blue color.

Placing the well-crafted Dragon Stone in front of several Little Xuan Beasts, aside from the Gold Eater Worm and blonde little Gore, whose grades were inherently higher, including Little Shanshan and the mid-level Xuan Beasts like the Giant Winged Mosquito King all showed varying degrees of suppression. Under Yue Jinghua’s control, they could barely withstand the daunting presence emanating from the Jiao Long Bone, which was on par with an Upper-level Xuan Beast.

Just as Yue Jinghua had predicted, even if it was only the skeleton of a High-level Peak Dark Beast, it still possessed a strong suppressive effect. She believed the same would hold true for other Dark Beasts as well.

"As long as their numbers don’t reach the hundreds or thousands, the Dragon Bone Great Wall alone would be sufficient to fend off attacks from small groups of Dark Beasts. By then, planting the Burning Poison Algae outside the Great Wall will be able to resist attacks from Xuan Beasts of medium intensity. Once the Xuanwu Crystal Cannons and the Nine Heavens Green Lotus are completed, we should be able to withstand large-scale Dark Beast attacks," Yue Jinghua finally breathed a sigh of relief after witnessing the effect of the Dragon Stone.

However, before that, she must confirm that Yun Luo’s Spiritual Pattern engraving was proceeding smoothly.

When Yue Jinghua approached Yun Luo’s residence, she suddenly heard a commotion. Ye Zi came running over in panic: "It’s terrible, Yun Luo and Teng Wu are fighting?"

Fighting?

Yun Luo and Teng Wu?

Could it be that Miss Yun Luo’s temper has flared up again, and Teng Wu, unable to hold back, had resorted to physical confrontation?

Yue Jinghua couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the thought. Teng Wu, as a Dark Heavenly Master, if he really wanted to vent his anger on Yun Luo, he could subdue her with just his little finger.

Unless Teng Wu intentionally let her win, otherwise...

But this time, Yue Jinghua was wrong.

Teng Wu was currently facing an unprecedented dilemma.

In the past two days, while Yue Jinghua devoted herself to refining the Dragon Stone, Yun Luo was also so consumed by work that she forgot to eat and sleep, continuously drawing new Spiritual Patterns.

For two full days and nights, she had not rested or eaten, and tirelessly engraved Spiritual Patterns with the "Nine Heavens Waterfall" technique alone in her room.

The "Nine Heavens Green Lotus" newly drawn by Yue Jinghua was the most complex and challenging Spiritual Pattern Yun Luo had ever encountered.

To engrave it, Yun Luo needed to use over twenty different types of spirit needles simultaneously to merge eighty-one lotus shapes into one Spiritual Pattern.

And at the final moment of completing the Spiritual Pattern, the Mystic Light Ten Feet Pattern had to be integrated into the Nine Heavens Green Lotus. Even a slight misstep could significantly diminish the effect of the entire Spiritual Pattern.

Thus, she sat withered in front of the Spiritual Pattern sketch, her mind focused and deep in thought, sometimes carving, sometimes murmuring to herself.

No matter how much Teng Wu tried to persuade her from outside, Yun Luo wouldn’t listen, and considering that the Spiritual Patterns needed to be engraved in stone, Yun Luo had also developed a bad habit.

In the large room, on the walls, the table, the floor, and even on the bedposts—any place that could be carved, she would mark with a whole or half Spiritual Pattern.

Teng Wu was not privy to the private agreement between Yue Jinghua and Yun Luo, nor did he know that Yun Luo had now mastered the first layer of the Nine Revolutions Creation Technique, so there was no need to worry about exhausting her body or burning her soul power anymore.

All he knew was that if Yun Luo’s non-stop, reckless engraving of the Spiritual Patterns continued, she would soon die from exhaustion of mental power.

So, waiting outside the door for two days and nights, especially as dawn approached, Teng Wu felt like a headless fly, until he suddenly heard a scream from Yun Luo’s room.

His body shook, his mind short-circuited instantly, and he could no longer contain himself. With one kick, he broke open Yun Luo’s room door, but this kick led to a massive blunder.

Just as his foot hit the door, one of the "Nine Heavens Green Lotus" Spiritual Patterns that Yun Luo was most satisfied with, which she had carved on the back of the door, was triggered.

In an instant...