Chapter 96: Building Foundations (Part 1)

  Why help her? Hou Yong was stunned.

  Four days ago, his body was restored to health, and he followed Huang Shimei's back, walking through the forest, searching for a suitable place to build a foundation.

  For two consecutive days, Huang Shimei had not found a suitable place, either because of insufficient spiritual energy or because it was not safe enough.

  Seeing her worried expression, he suddenly had an idea and made a suggestion: "If you trust me, you can follow me to a place where your foundation-building requirements can be met."

  Upon hearing this, Huang Shimei turned around and stared at him for a while, perhaps surprised by his sudden speech as a silent follower, or perhaps distrustful of him, wanting to see if he had any ill intentions from the look on his face.

  In the end, Huang Shimei didn't say anything, she just nodded and followed him to Gobi Desert.

  These two days, he has been asking himself why he wants to help her, but there is no clear answer.

  At this moment, seeing Huang Shimei staring at him without blinking, Hou Yong knew that he could not avoid this question. He had to give Huang Shimei an answer, otherwise she might turn around and leave.

  "To thank you for sparing my life," Hou Yongjun's face turned slightly red as he looked away, "this formation can't be taken away anyway, and leaving it here would be a waste. It's better to let you come over and make use of it."

  The reason was far-fetched, he knew it, but for a moment he couldn't think of a better one.

  As for Huang Shimei, he admired her, but more than that, there was a hint of tenderness, as if she were his own sister Jie'er. Perhaps in his subconscious mind, he treated her like a younger sister. Hou Yong nodded firmly.

  In fact, even if Hou Yong didn't answer, Luo Yu wouldn't leave. She wasn't as stubborn as he thought she was. She had always been practical, so why would she want to leave such a suitable place?

  As for asking him for help, it was just to put her mind at ease. Not getting an answer wouldn't affect her subsequent plans anyway.

  Now he gave a reason, although it was a bit far-fetched, but also not impossible, maybe he is just a generous person.

  But regardless of what he thought in his heart, after all, it was she who had gained the benefit. Luo Yu, however, did not want to receive someone else's kindness for nothing, so she thought for a moment before speaking up: "If in the future you challenge others, will you use your black sword as a wager?"

  "Why ask this?" Hou Yong was puzzled and couldn't understand. "I am a sword cultivator, the sword in my hand is my life, how can I use it to gamble on war?"

  "As far as I know, a sword cultivator will only choose their destined sword after forming their dan. Before that, they can still change."

  After the male lead Du Xuan won your Black Sword, he replaced the Qing Ming Sword in his hand and used it as his destined sword after condensing his dan. Don't think you can fool me with nonsense, Luo Yu muttered to herself.

  "It's indeed as you said. However, the sword in my hand is no ordinary sword, it's called the Black Dragon Sword, and it has a dragon soul attached to it, which is the same black dragon that broke your talisman's flame last time. I also have to thank you for helping me awaken it, otherwise..."

  Jian Luo Yu glared at him, and Hou Yong awkwardly said: "I'm truly grateful. For now, it's very weak and has returned to the sword to rest, so it won't pose a threat to you. Besides, I've sworn not to be your enemy——"

  "Alright, you go and guard the law on the side." Luo Yu interrupted the other party with a very cold tone. She hated dragons, Xiao Hei was right, this kind of creature was the most hateful!

  Hou Yong touched the high bridge of his nose, walked silently to the corner of the cave and sat down, taking out a jade slip to examine it. This was left behind by the master of the cave, recording a set of sword cultivation techniques, as if tailored specifically for him.

  Luoyu bowed her head to examine the spell formation on the ground, took out a blank jade slip and recorded it. The lines of the spell formation were complex and intricate, containing special mysteries that made people dizzy just by looking at them, let alone having spiritual consciousness record them.

  Gradually, Luoyu's face turned pale, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from her forehead. With a cracking sound, the jade slip broke into two halves.

  It seems that ordinary jade slips cannot hold this formation, and her divine consciousness is also insufficient. Let's talk about it after building the foundation.

  Luo Yu took out 10 top-grade spirit stones and embedded them in the spell array. Suddenly, a dense spiritual energy was activated and gathered above the array, forming a misty fog-like appearance.

  Luo Yu sat cross-legged in the midst of her spell array, her five hearts facing upwards. A continuous stream of spiritual energy flowed into her body, bringing an indescribable sense of joy that made her immerse herself in cultivation, forgetting time and losing track of days and months.

  The ancient Gathering Spirit Formation is vastly different from the modern-day Gathering Spirit Formation.

  The former uses Ling Shi to activate, and after the consumption of Ling Shi is almost zero, it can quickly gather the surrounding spiritual energy to the array; the latter releases the spiritual energy in the Ling Shi, and its gathering effect on the surrounding spiritual energy is very limited.

  Which one is better, it's self-evident at a glance.

  The ancient spirit array in this place is of unknown rank, but it was a great help to Luo Yu. However, after just one day's work, the spiritual energy in the space returned to its original density, and the space opened up, with a thread of spiritual energy beginning to appear in the meridians.

  Five days later, the entire cave mansion gathered a misty spiritual energy.

  Ten days later, the cave began to occasionally drip spiritual liquid.

  Hou Yong secretly cursed, the moment he laid the foundation, was just to stir up a wisp of spiritual energy, afterwards he still had some self-satisfaction, but compared to the female cultivator in front of him, it was nothing.

  Hou Yong quietly walked out of the cave, guarding the giant gate in front. Looking at this situation, she would soon be building her foundation, and it was better for him not to disturb her inside.

  Three days passed and the gate didn't budge an inch. "Normal." Hou Yong muttered to himself.

  Ten days have passed and the gate still hasn't moved an inch. "She's no ordinary person, I can understand," said Hou Yong to himself.

  Twenty days have passed and the gate still hasn't budged. "She's a demon, I need to change my way of thinking." said Hou Yong to himself.

  Half a month has passed, and the gate hasn't budged an inch. Hou Yong is starting to get anxious - could she have been blown up by the spiritual energy? But if that's not the case, then going in now would interrupt her ascension, which would be a huge mistake. I'd better wait a bit longer.

  Two months have passed, and the gate is still not open. Hou Yong is anxious like an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth in front of the door. Whether she is alive or not, I cannot enter; if she is at a critical moment, my disturbance may cause her to go crazy; if she has already died, I will not enter and can still hold onto hope in my heart.

  Inside the gate, in the cave, a fine rain started to fall, but before it hit the ground, it was drawn into Luoyu's body, leaving only a thread in his dantian, with most of it entering space.

  Space is like a bottomless pit, frantically devouring, but without seeing any increase in the spiritual energy inside.

  The lower abdomen and meridians were packed with spiritual energy, the excessive spiritual energy began to rush back and forth inside, as if wanting to break free from its restraints. Sweat started to appear on Luo Yu's face, and blue veins suddenly appeared on her hands.