Chapter 147: An Old Friend Visits

The array plates required for the Sixth-Rank Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Great Protective Array and the Sixth-Rank Offensive Great Array must still be crafted from Sixth-Rank materials.

However, for the entire city, Ye Qingxuan decided to lower the requirements, using Third and Fourth-Rank materials to craft the city components.

On the city walls, the Sixth-Rank array plates needed for the Offensive Great Array could be crafted into brick shapes and scattered sporadically within the walls.

For the rest of the city walls, Ye Qingxuan decided to uniformly use Fourth-Rank materials.

Inside the city, aside from the Sixth-Rank materials needed for the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Great Protective Array, Ye Qingxuan decided to use Third-Rank materials elsewhere.

Regarding the city's scale, Ye Qingxuan decided that a radius of ten li would be sufficient.

At worst, when the population grows, he could expand the city or set up some spatial arrays within it.

Once decided, Ye Qingxuan began calculating how many Sixth-Rank materials needed to be purchased.

As for Third and Fourth-Rank materials, Ye Qingxuan's inventory already contained enough quantities, so there was no need for external purchase.

The most commonly used material for array formation is array stone.

Array stones have excellent compatibility with various energies; when the array patterns operate, they also provide good stability and energy conduction.

Depending on their purity and toughness, array stones vary in rank.

Therefore, array stones are basically the most commonly used array formation materials on the market; other inscribed auxiliary materials can be adjusted according to the array's needs.

Under normal circumstances, one square unit of array stone can be crafted into thirty array plates.

Crafting array plates is much easier than crafting magic treasures.

The key to array plates lies in the array patterns; basically, all array masters can craft array plates.

A core array plate for an array is actually not numerous; other extra array plates are used to amplify the array's power and range.

If the range is only ten li, the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Great Array would only need 108 array plates to be sufficient.

The Sixth-Rank Offensive Great Array faces outward, covering as large a range as possible; setting up 360 array plates should be enough by then.

Thus, a total of 468 Sixth-Rank array plates are needed; purchasing 16 square units of Sixth-Rank array materials is more than enough.

However, Ye Qingxuan decided to directly purchase 100 square units of Sixth-Rank Low-Grade Town Stones, and also purchase some of the other common auxiliary materials available on the market.

After his external avatar arrives in the Dongji Domain, he will also need to build a city and settle down, requiring a large amount of materials to set up Sixth-Rank arrays at that time.

Plus normal consumption, so Ye Qingxuan prepared to purchase 100 square units of Sixth-Rank Low-Grade array stones in one go.

Ye Qingxuan could spend this amount of spirit stones without any burden.

After confirming the needed materials, Ye Qingxuan sent a message to Zhu Dafu, asking him to purchase the materials he needed.

Once Zhu Dafu finishes purchasing, Ye Zhaoheng can go to the Tianfu Shop to collect them later.

Zhu Dafu was now used to such things and did not ask many questions; after receiving Ye Qingxuan's message, he directly left the Tianfu Shop.

For Sixth-Rank materials, Zhu Dafu decided it was safer to purchase them himself.

The next day.

After Ye Qingxuan obtained the materials, he began crafting array plates without stopping.

The most difficult and time-consuming part of crafting array plates is inscribing the array patterns and imbuing them with spiritual power.

For Sixth-Rank array plates, given Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base, he could only craft about five per day without affecting his own cultivation.

Crafting just the array plates would take Ye Qingxuan over two months, let alone the city components that still needed to be crafted afterward.

The city components only used Third and Fourth-Rank materials, which were not difficult to craft, but the quantity was huge!

Moreover, Ye Qingxuan planned to inscribe array patterns with a strengthening effect on these Third and Fourth-Rank city components to enhance the city's toughness.

This was another major project.

Ye Qingxuan estimated that crafting all the array plates and city components would take about a year and a half. Time passed, and when Ye Qingxuan had crafted most of the city components.

Ye Qingxuan suddenly stopped his actions, paused slightly, then stepped out and left the Qingxuan Blessed Land.

Because an old friend had come to visit outside the Blessed Land.

When Ye Qingxuan arrived outside the Qingxuan Blessed Land, a figure was standing in the Stone Pavilion, facing away from Ye Qingxuan and gazing at the distant scenery.

Looking at this figure, Ye Qingxuan softly called out: "Tai'an!"

He then walked into the Stone Pavilion.

The visitor was none other than Liu Tai'an, the direct disciple of Xuantian Sect's Sect Master, Cen Zhe.

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's call, Liu Tai'an turned around, saw Ye Qingxuan, straightened his expression, and bowed: "Tai'an greets Senior Brother!"

Ye Qingxuan understood Liu Tai'an's personality, so he did not refuse Liu Tai'an's courtesy.

Walking into the Stone Pavilion, Ye Qingxuan smiled slightly and said:

"Alright, sit down!"

After both sat down, Ye Qingxuan habitually began making tea, then looked at Liu Tai'an, who had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, and smiled lightly:

"Long time no see, Junior Brother, I hope you have been well? Hahaha!"

Since their last parting, Ye Qingxuan and Liu Tai'an had not met for nearly ninety years.

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's greeting, Liu Tai'an respectfully replied: "Thank you, Senior Brother, for your concern. Junior Brother has been well these years."

According to the original plan, Liu Tai'an was preparing to go to the Central Domain for training.

But after the incident of the Green Demon Realm invading the Lower Realm of Earth Xuan.

Liu Tai'an turned back immediately, entered the Xuanmu Realm directly, and killed powerful beings of the Green Demon Clan to temper himself.

Now, Liu Tai'an's cultivation base has reached the peak of the Soul Transformation Realm, only one step away from the Void Penetration Realm.

If not for the fact that most of the Xuanmu Realm's territory had been transformed into a Demon Realm by the Green Demon Realm, causing the world's rules and mysteries to mutate, Liu Tai'an might have already broken through to the Void Penetration Realm.

Liu Tai'an's return this time was mainly to enter seclusion and comprehend the rules and mysteries to break through to the Void Penetration Realm.

Secondly, it was a task assigned to him by his master, Cen Zhe.

And this task was related to Ye Qingxuan.

Recalling his Master's instructions, Liu Tai'an hesitated for a moment, then looked at Ye Qingxuan: "Senior Brother, did you develop the Nuclear Explosion Pill series?"

Ye Qingxuan's tea-brewing motion paused slightly, then he nodded casually:

"Correct, I developed them."

Ye Qingxuan had originally thought that after the effects of the Spirit-Washing Nuclear Explosion Pill were revealed in the Xuanmu Realm, it would be an Elder from the Xuantian Sect who came to find him.

He did not expect it to be Liu Tai'an.

However, this was for the best. With Ye Qingxuan's current Nascent Soul cultivation base, combined with the seed of the Minor Divine Ability: Deceiving Heaven,

without conducting a deep investigation, he could only conceal his cultivation before ordinary Void Enlightenment realm experts.

If an Elder from the Tribulation Crossing realm had come, Ye Qingxuan would have found himself in a dilemma.

Without revealing his secrets, Ye Qingxuan could not provide a reasonable explanation for his cultivation base.

If he revealed his secrets, Ye Qingxuan could not determine the attitude of the Xuantian Sect's high leadership toward him.

Although Ye Qingxuan felt the Xuantian Sect would not do anything to him, he did not want to take the risk of handing the choice over to the Xuantian Sect.

(End of Chapter)