Chapter 203: Chapter 138: High-Grade Magical Artifact: Canglan Sword
Ten days have passed since leaving the Artifact Refining Pavilion.
During this period, Liou Yuan has been almost daily practicing high-intensity magic training by using the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects to control the Profound Brilliance Sword to draw array patterns.
Though it is exhausting, the progress is visibly significant.
Drawing array patterns is intricate work, and Liou Yuan uses the Artifact Control Skill to manipulate the Profound Brilliance Sword to draw them.
This effectively enhances his control of the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects, allowing him to make swift progress in the practice of this technique.
Moreover, repeatedly drawing those array patterns accelerates his entry into the field of arrays.
Laying the foundation for his future array practice.
But daily practice is draining, and over these days, Liou Yuan nearly depletes his spiritual power every day.
"As long as I can improve my strength, it’s worth exhausting myself," Liou Yuan murmured after a brief rest, with exhaustion quickly fading from his eyes as he regained his fighting spirit.
Having said that, he hooked his finger and retrieved the Profound Brilliance Sword planted on the riverbank.
Then, he reached into his Storage Bag and took out a palm-sized jade array disc.
Arrays require array patterns and array discs for assistance.
Array patterns are the channels for the spiritual power throughout the array.
While the array disc is the core that guides the power within the array, playing a role similar to that of cultivation techniques to a cultivator.
Cultivators circulate spiritual power according to the trajectory of a cultivation technique.
Arrays operate their power as dictated by the patterns engraved on the array disc.
Therefore, an array disc must be made from jade or other spiritually rich objects.
This jade array disc is the one Liou Yuan prepared earlier, the array disc for the Water Gathering Array.
The array patterns can be inscribed using the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects, but certainly not the array disc.
Thus, Liou Yuan had to diligently spend ten days engraving it in his cave dwelling.
Eight pieces of jade were ruined before one was successfully inscribed, with each costing one merit point, consuming eight merit points in total.
Liou Yuan picked up the array disc, using the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects to send it flying, unsteadily, toward the center of the array previously dug out with the Profound Brilliance Sword.
Then, he took out three Star Stones from the Storage Bag, controlled them in the same manner, and placed them into three small holes left during the array drawing.
Since he began practicing the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects, Liou Yuan has given up the habit of doing tasks manually.
Anything that can be done with the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects, he does with this artifact control skill.
This training method is somewhat obsessive.
Clearly simple tasks that took him a moment now took a whole time for a cup of tea.
It wasn’t until all the Star Stones and the array disc were buried that Liou Yuan stood up from the bluestone, moved legs that had hardly moved all day, and walked toward the center of the Water Gathering Array.
"A basic array like the Water Gathering Array doesn’t require too many Star Stones, three are sufficient."
"Plus, with the assistance of this river terrain, this time the Water Gathering Array is bound to succeed."
Liou Yuan thought confidently, then licked his lips, casting a spell to activate the array toward the location where the array disc was buried.
As the last rays of the setting sun disappeared beyond the horizon, the surrounding environment turned dark.
Boom! The spot where the array disc was buried suddenly emitted a shimmering blue glow following Liou Yuan’s spell.
The power of the array disc activated, and the blue light of the array, guided by the array disc, flowed into the array patterns that Liou Yuan had previously drawn with the Profound Brilliance Sword.
Under Liou Yuan’s intense scrutiny, the twisted array patterns were filled with array light.
"No deviations, I did it."
Seeing this, Liou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
He had failed several times before, but today he finally succeeded.
At the moment when the array light filled the entire Water Gathering Array.
The Star Stones placed at the three key positions of the array patterns were also activated at this moment.
The Water Gathering Array successfully started, generating a pulling force that drew the river water near the riverbank into the array, continuously.
"The Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation contains five basic arrays, and it is the core of Han Zhenzi’s array legacy."
"Regardless of whether it is for future Foundation Establishment Arrays or those that could threaten late-stage Artifact Refining, they all evolve from these five basic arrays."
"One must thoroughly study these five basic arrays to step further."
Liou Yuan focused on the Water Gathering Array that continuously absorbed river water, pondering the names of the five basic arrays.
They are the Water Gathering Array, Cyan Wood Array, Red Fire Array, Earth Spirit Array, and Gold-Breaking Array.
Liou Yuan has only fully understood the Water Gathering Array, and the other four basic arrays still have no clue.
Thus, he’s still some distance from mastering this array heritage.
"Luckily, I have been studying the Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation for only a little over ten days and I can already set up the Water Gathering Array."
"Proving that I do have some talent in array techniques."
"With diligent practice, I should master this array heritage within two months."
So Liou Yuan was fairly satisfied with his study progress.
Once the Water Gathering Array was filled with river water, Liou Yuan concluded the day’s magic training.
He reached out toward the core of the array with the Celestial Calculation Skill for Taming Objects.
The array disc inscribed with the Water Gathering Array was instantly grasped by him and carefully stored in the Storage Bag.
Along with it went the three Star Stones that had their spiritual energy considerably consumed.
Basic arrays like the Water Gathering Array do not consume many Star Stones; hence, at the early stage of studying arrays, the cost isn’t excessively high.
The only costly part is using spiritual objects as the array’s focal point.
Basic arrays do not have a focal point concept; a single array disc is enough.
