AWB Chapter 1210 The Myriad Spirits Gathering Array
Chapter 1210 The Myriad Spirits Gathering Array
Qingxi Town.
A small town with only eighty original inhabitants.
Except for fifteen years ago when Su Xiaoya and her grandson moved into the only vacant courtyard, Qingyuan Town has never accepted outsiders.
On the surface, eighty old locust trees are planted in eighty residential courtyards. Including the old locust tree in the town center, there are only eighty-one old locust trees visible in the entire town.
As for other flowering trees and fruit trees, it's up to each family to choose what they like.
How many flowering trees and fruit trees should be planted?
Of course, whatever you like is fine too!
As for the various kinds of shops?
There is not a single locust tree in the front or back yard.
There's no other reason than that—want to plant it? Well, it won't grow!
No one noticed the old locust tree in Qingyuan Town as people came and went.
Even if there were one or two idle people who noticed the old locust tree, they would just think of it as an ordinary ancient tree.
Little did they know that each of these eighty-one locust trees corresponds to a key point in the "Nine-Nine Returns to One Yin-Yang Array," forming an independent basic sub-array of the "Nine-Nine Returns to One Yin-Yang Array."
The "Nine-Nine Returning to One Yin-Yang Array" is a basic array created by the ancestors of the Source Spirit Clan to balance Yin and Yang and gather the origin. This single array has three great uses:
Firstly, it draws yin into yang and integrates yang into yin, thus harmonizing the imbalance of yin and yang in the world and paving the way for subsequent gathering of spiritual energy.
Secondly, anchoring to the source node gathers the scattered primordial energy of heaven and earth, preventing it from being lost;
Thirdly, it isolates the energy flow and conceals the movements within the formation, preventing external cultivators from noticing.
The true protective array of Qingxi Town is definitely not as simple as those eighty-one single array formations!
In fact, it is based on eighty-one of the most basic "Nine-Nine Returning to One Yin-Yang Arrays", and then nested layer upon layer and tightly linked together, eventually forming a composite array originating from the highest level of the Spirit Race - the "Myriad Spirits Gathering Source Array"!
This "Gathering of All Spirits Formation" can be said to be a powerful formation built by the Spirit Clan during its most glorious period to protect the clan's safety!
Its formation is ingenious and exquisite, and can be called the pinnacle of all formations on the Azure Continent!
It contains countless amazing secrets and mysteries, which are extremely difficult for even ordinary cultivators to understand even a fraction of!
Upon closer examination, it can be broken down into three important core architectures:
First, there's the array base.
In other words, these eighty-one "Nine-Nine Returning to One Yin-Yang Arrays" are regarded as the skeleton of the entire array.
Moreover, the key trees in each basic array are connected to each other through their roots that are deeply rooted in the ground. These roots can even pass through underground vein channels, thus forming an intricate and dense network of array patterns.
In this way, the power of each individual formation to regulate the relationship between Yin and Yang will accumulate and merge together, transforming into a more powerful and majestic energy to maintain the balance of Yin and Yang, thereby firmly stabilizing the fundamental foundation of the entire formation.
Even if one or two basic formations are accidentally damaged or destroyed, the other formation eyes can still play a supplementary and repairing role, without having any adverse effect on the normal operation of the entire formation!
Secondly, the key point is the pulse.
The core of the Myriad Spirits Gathering Array is not the locust tree in the town, but the seventy-two spiritual vein nodes scattered throughout the Qingxi Mountains surrounding Qingxi Town.
These nodes were left by the ancestors of the Yuanling Clan when they explored the earth's veins. Each one is deeply buried with a primordial jade pendant. The jade pendant draws the power of the spiritual veins upwards, merging with the primordial power of the locust trees on the ground to form a spiritual gathering channel where "the earth's veins support the foundation and the locust trees connect to the heavens."
The number of old locust trees in Qingxi Town is not the eighty-one trees that are publicly known, but rather six thousand five hundred and sixty-one trees!
Apart from the eighty-one trees visible in the town, the remaining six thousand four hundred and eighty old locust trees were all concealed by the ancestors of the Yuanling Clan who used the earth's spiritual power to create an invisible barrier. They were scattered around the Qingxi Mountains in a nine-palace eight-trigram formation, encircling Qingxi Town.
Each invisible locust tree is an auxiliary array eye, like stars surrounding the moon, firmly protecting Qingxi Town at its core.
Third, gather the source as the soul.
The core essence of the Myriad Spirits Gathering Array lies in "gathering all spirits and converging the origin".
When the great formation was activated, all 6,561 locust trees simultaneously activated their spiritual energy, summoning the spirits of plants and trees, the spirits of beasts, and even the primordial energy that roamed the world, all of which gathered at the altar in the center of the formation.
It is both a protective formation for the clan and an exclusive altar formation for the awakening of the Source Spirit Clan's bloodline.
Its speed of gathering spirits and the purity of its origin far surpass any spirit-gathering array on the continent.
Cang Xuan spent three months lighting up eighty-one main nodes and activating the basic array cluster in order to awaken the core hub of the Myriad Spirits Gathering Source Array.
To ensure the successful awakening of Su Xiaoya's bloodline, he made thorough preparations, using array patterns as a guide:
Using the waters of the Lingxi Stream in the Qingxi Mountains as a medium, the waters flow along the roots of the locust tree, soaking into every part of the array base and cleansing the impurities in the array patterns.
Using the core of a thousand-year-old spiritual tree in the mountains as a catalyst, the spirit-gathering fire at the array's core is ignited, accelerating the convergence of the primordial essence.
Using Su Xiaoya's pure blood of the Origin Spirit as a sacrifice—her bloodline was the most suitable key to the great formation.
Once the ritual begins, the power of bloodline will merge with the array patterns, breaking the seal that has been sealed on the altar for thousands of years. This will allow Xiaoya to be placed at the core of the gathering of all spirits, receiving the initiation of the source, completely igniting the dormant source spirit bloodline within her, and completing her ultimate awakening.
More importantly, the Myriad Spirits Gathering Source Array has three layers of concealment: the basic array isolates the energy, the composite array conceals the secrets of heaven, and the invisible locust tree hides the traces. The triple protection is enough to completely cover up the fluctuations of bloodline awakening.
Let alone ordinary cultivators from the Southern Region, even powerful figures from the Central Region would find it extremely difficult to detect any movement within the formation.
Logically speaking, such a comprehensive and flawless bloodline awakening ceremony should be kept absolutely secret and foolproof.
But as fate would have it, man proposes, God disposes.
Cang Xuan had calculated everything, including the movements of all the cultivators in the Southern Region, the perception range of all the major forces, and even activated the power of the earth veins in advance to block the spiritual energy channels between the Southern Region and the outside world.
However, what no one expected was that the imperial treasury of the Great Yan Dynasty, located deep in the heart of the Central Plains, actually contained a broken Origin Crystal that the Origin Spirit Clan had lost years ago!
That crystal is a relic from the primordial war 100,000 years ago, a fragment of the Source Spirit Clan's most treasured artifact.
Back then, when the Source Spirit Clan was destroyed, the precious Origin Crystal was shattered and scattered across the continent.
One of the fragments was obtained by the founding ancestor of the Great Yan Dynasty and secretly sealed deep within the royal treasury. It was passed down through generations, but no one knew its true purpose, regarding it only as an ancient stone containing faint spiritual energy.
Even if there were occasional extremely faint flashes of spiritual light, they were only regarded as the crystal's own spiritual energy leaking out, and were never taken seriously.
Even though it was already badly damaged and had long lost its former power, who knew that at the moment when the pure blood of the Source Spirit Clan was fully awakened and its primal power erupted, it could cross thousands of mountains and rivers and generate a strong resonance.
It was the kind of light that shot straight into the sky!
Perhaps this is—destiny!