Chapter 505: Numerous Eighth-Rank Great Arrays Purify the Nether Armor

"Hum! Hum! Hum!"

As time slowly passed, the remaining array foundations of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array began to rapidly evolve toward the seventh-rank level.

It must be said that compared to extracting the primordial essence of seventh-rank starlight stones to upgrade the array foundations of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array, the world's primordial source enhanced the foundations with far greater effect and speed.

In merely a few days, nourished by the world's primordial source of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, all the array foundations of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array had fully evolved to the seventh-rank level.

After all the array foundations evolved to the seventh rank, the entire Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array began to emit violent tremors.

In the next instant, all the array foundations in the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array that had evolved to the seventh-rank level split in two.

"Boom!"

After all the array foundations split in two, the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array began to expand rapidly, and its upper limit for bearing the power of heaven and earth continued to grow.

Those array foundations that had split in two quickly absorbed the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to replenish themselves.

After the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array officially advanced to the seventh-rank level, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not stop guiding the primordial source of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

He remained seated cross-legged, his mind immersed in the primordial source space of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, continuously drawing out streams of primordial source to nourish the array foundations that had already evolved to the seventh-rank level.

Since he had decided to use the primordial source to upgrade the level of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array,

Ye Ye Qingxuan resolved to do it all at once, directly raising the level of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array to the eighth-rank level.

After all, with the great realm of the Green Demon Realm at his disposal, and with his numerous clones and the forces under his command, obtaining sufficient resources from the Green Demon Realm to promote the accumulation of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land's primordial source was not difficult.

Spending a certain amount of primordial source now to raise the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array to the eighth-rank level would instead benefit the better digestion of resources seized from the Green Demon Realm later.

It was not just the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array.

Even the Smelting Array, Energy Conversion Array, Earth Vein Array, and World-Suppressing Array, which currently remained at the sixth-rank supreme level within the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land,

Ye Ye Qingxuan decided to take this opportunity to raise all these arrays to the eighth-rank level.

The Smelting Array could smelt ore of various ranks into ore essence for the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to absorb and analyze, thereby promoting the growth of the rules of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

However, after Ye Ye Qingxuan obtained a large quantity of rule crystals and law crystals in the lower realm, the function of the Smelting Array had diminished significantly.

Nevertheless, as one of the foundational arrays in the Earth Immortal inheritance that promoted the rapid growth of a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, the Smelting Array was inevitably an indispensable part of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land's future.

Therefore, even though it was not needed now, Ye Ye Qingxuan had no intention of abandoning the Smelting Array.

The Energy Conversion Array could help the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land accelerate the conversion efficiency of chaotic energy and void energy, comparable to an alternative spiritual vein.

However, spiritual veins only targeted specific areas of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, whereas the Energy Conversion Array targeted the entire Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Although the Energy Conversion Array's own effect on absorbing and converting external void energy and chaotic energy was inferior to a spiritual vein of the same rank,

it could not be denied that it could amplify the absorption and conversion efficiency of void energy and chaotic energy in other areas of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, and the amplification range was extremely vast.

The Earth Vein Array could accelerate the condensation speed of earth energy, speed up the growth of spiritual plants, and promote the birth and advancement of spiritual veins.

Paired with the spiritual beast Earth Dragon raised by Ye Ye Qingxuan, it could provide an excellent auxiliary effect on the growth of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

In the array system of Ye Ye Qingxuan's Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, many of the low-rank spiritual veins that had recently formed were thanks to the Earth Vein Array and the spiritual beast Earth Dragon.

The World-Suppressing Array was the array established based on the first seventh-rank World-Suppressing Stone Ye Ye Qingxuan obtained from the Earth-Mystic Realm Alliance when he contributed the formula for the Nuclear Explosion Elixir.

The World-Suppressing Array could suppress heaven and earth, allowing the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to release more rule power.

Although this great array was not very useful in ordinary times, when the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land faced attacks from the outside, it could stabilize heaven and earth and increase their defensive power.

Moreover, it could allow heaven and earth to release more heavenly and earthly rules to defend against enemies.

Therefore, the World-Suppressing Array was also one of the indispensable arrays for the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land's future.

Normally, for these arrays to advance to higher levels, one would need to find corresponding heavenly treasures and earthly gems to integrate into them, allowing their array foundations to evolve while nurturing their respective rule powers.

For instance, the seventh-rank supreme Yang Stone required for the Smelting Array to advance to the seventh rank, the seventh-rank Void Spirit Stone required for the Energy Conversion Array to advance to the seventh rank, the seventh-rank Earth Vein Stone required for the Earth Vein Array to advance to the seventh rank, and the greater quantity of seventh-rank World-Suppressing Stones required for the World-Suppressing Array to advance to the seventh rank.

But these arrays were just like the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array.

After being deployed in the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, with each advancement of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, they had completely merged into the heaven and earth of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Now, these arrays were equivalent to alternative innate arrays within the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land; they could resonate with the corresponding rules within the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land and directly call upon the rule power corresponding to the attributes of each array.

Although this meant Ye Ye Qingxuan could no longer refine these arrays into array diagrams to carry out of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land,

completely merging into the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land also meant that when these arrays advanced to high-rank arrays, they no longer needed to nurture their own rule powers.

As long as the array foundations of these arrays were raised, enabling them to bear more power of heaven and earth, and even the rules of heaven and earth, they could directly advance to the corresponding ranks.

As for the heavenly treasures and earthly gems required to upgrade the array foundations of these arrays, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not currently possess them.

However, most heavenly treasures and earthly gems in heaven and earth were originally nurtured by the world's primordial source.

Compared to heavenly treasures and earthly gems with limited uses, the world's primordial source was a universal solution.

Without the corresponding heavenly treasures and earthly gems, Ye Ye Qingxuan could still use the world's primordial source of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to continuously evolve and grow the array foundations of these arrays.

Since he could continuously plunder resources from the great realm of the Green Demon Realm, Ye Ye Qingxuan did not need to worry about the accumulation of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land's primordial source.

Given sufficient time, he could plunder the resources of the Green Demon Realm to turn them into nourishment, allowing the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to shorten the process of heaven and earth evolution, rapidly accumulate world primordial source, and advance continuously.

This was the reason why Ye Ye Qingxuan could be so extravagantly ruthless, using the world's primordial source to upgrade the levels of these arrays.

In the short term, using a large amount of world primordial source to upgrade the levels of these arrays seemed like a loss.

However, from the perspective of long-term development, once the levels of these arrays were raised, their auxiliary effect on the growth of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land in the future would undoubtedly be excellent.

Time passed, spring went and autumn came; in the blink of an eye, another three years had gone by.

During these three years, nourished by the world's primordial source of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land,

besides the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array being raised by Ye Ye Qingxuan to the eighth-rank level, the other arrays—the Smelting Array, Energy Conversion Array, Earth Vein Array, and World-Suppressing Array—were also individually raised by Ye Ye Qingxuan to the eighth-rank level.

However, the levels of these arrays were all eighth-rank low grade without exception. It was not that the world's primordial source could not continue to upgrade the levels of these arrays, but rather that eighth-rank low-grade arrays were already sufficient for the current Ye Ye Qingxuan.

After all the arrays were raised to the eighth-rank level, Ye Ye Qingxuan finally withdrew his mind and slowly opened his eyes.

The first thing Ye Ye Qingxuan did upon waking was not to check the power of these eighth-rank arrays, but to sense how much of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land's world primordial source had been consumed this time.

After sensing the amount of world primordial source consumed this time, Ye Ye Qingxuan said with some pain: "Well, the gains from the last time in the Green Demon Realm were all for nothing."

Originally, the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land would have needed another hundred-plus years, waiting until the resources Ye Ye Qingxuan brought back from the Green Demon Realm last time were completely consumed, to smoothly advance to the mid-stage of the seventh rank.

But after this consumption, even after the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land completely consumed the resources Ye Ye Qingxuan brought back from the Green Demon Realm, the accumulated world primordial source could at most recover to the previous standard.

In other words, the world essence converted from the resources Ye Ye Qingxuan harvested in the Green Demon Realm last time was almost entirely spent on upgrading the five major Grade Eight arrays.

He shook his head slightly and stopped thinking about it.

In a flash, Ye Ye Qingxuan appeared above the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array.

Compared to its previous Grade Six Supreme quality, after advancing to Grade Eight Lower quality, the internal space of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array had expanded by more than a hundred times, and its purification capability had increased significantly.

The batch of Green Demon Realm resources Ye Ye Qingxuan had previously invested in the array, which would have originally taken over a hundred years to be fully purified into pure essence energy for the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to absorb at Grade Six Supreme quality.

However, after advancing to the Grade Eight level, that same batch of Green Demon Realm resources could now be completely digested by the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array in about three years.

Sensing the efficiency of the current Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array, a satisfied smile appeared on Ye Ye Qingxuan's face.

Besides the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array, the other major arrays had also undergone huge changes after being upgraded to Grade Eight, with their auxiliary effects on the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land improving significantly.

Whether it was the absorption and conversion efficiency of external void energy and chaotic energy.

Or the gathering of earth energy, the birth of spiritual veins, and the speed of advancement.

Or even the growth speed of spiritual plants.

Every aspect of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land had improved greatly.

Especially in terms of the growth speed of spiritual plants, combined with the Immortal Dew of Longevity produced by the Mid-grade Immortal Artifact in Ye Ye Qingxuan's hand, the Immortal Vase of Longevity, it would take only about a hundred years for a ordinary Grade Seven spiritual herb to grow and mature.

Although the Grade Seven Essence Pills refined from Grade Seven spiritual herbs no longer had much effect on improving Ye Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base.

The accelerated growth speed of spiritual herbs provided immense help, both for Ye Ye Qingxuan's accumulation of resources and for his cultivation of Grade Eight spiritual herbs.

The multi-faceted amplification changes meant it was not in vain that he had spent a large amount of world essence from the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to upgrade these arrays.

With a wave of his hand, the Nether Armor, which had been suppressed by the World Map, instantly materialized before Ye Ye Qingxuan.

"Voom! Voom! Voom!"

Having just been released from the suppression of Ye Ye Qingxuan's innate magic treasure, the World Map, the Nether Armor immediately showed signs of reviving, emitting vibrations powerful enough to cause spatial resonance.

"Hmph!"

Seeing this, Ye Ye Qingxuan let out a cold snort and directly struck the Nether Armor into the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array below.

He then sat cross-legged above the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array, sinking his mind into the purification array.

He began to activate the array, coordinating with it to draw upon the power of purification rules within the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to gradually and gently purify the demonic energy essence and the rule power within the Nether Armor.

As the rule power of the Ye Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land slowly penetrated the interior of the Nether Armor, Ye Ye Qingxuan's spiritual sense finally encountered the spirit of the magic treasure within the Nether Armor.

It was a miniature version of the Nether Armor, brimming with spiritual awareness and surrounded by demonic energy.

In fact, the profound rules and even the Great Dao laws among the myriad worlds are largely similar, with no fundamental difference in essence.

Therefore, the rules nurtured within the spiritual treasures of the Green Demon Realm are actually compatible with the rules of the Di Li Xuan Realm.

The reason Ye Ye Qingxuan wanted to obliterate the rule power within the Nether Armor and nurture new rules was precisely because of the spirit of the magic treasure within the Nether Armor.

As a spiritual treasure that had given birth to a spirit, the rule power born within the Nether Armor was controlled by that spirit.

If Ye Ye Qingxuan wanted to fully refine the Nether Armor, make it his own, and activate the rule power it nurtured, he first had to gain the spirit's submission.

In a sense, the spirit of a magic treasure is born from rule power; as long as the rule power does not perish, the spirit can exist forever.

However, the spirits born within the spiritual treasures of the Green Demon Realm are naturally inclined toward the Green Demon Clan and resist cultivators of the Di Li Xuan Realm, or rather, resist all cultivators whose cultivation systems clash with demonic energy.

Therefore, it was almost impossible for Ye Ye Qingxuan to make the original spirit of the Nether Armor submit to him.

In this situation, besides purifying the source of demonic energy within the Nether Armor.

Further obliterating the rule power within the Nether Armor and destroying its spirit was an indispensable step.

Moreover, only by purifying the Nether Armor into a blank slate could Ye Ye Qingxuan reshape a completely new Nether Armor according to his own will.

"Boom! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!"

As Ye Ye Qingxuan, utilizing the power of the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array, continuously penetrated the interior of the Nether Armor to purify its fundamental power.

The spirit of the magic treasure within the Nether Armor also sensed immense danger and began to mobilize the power of the Nether Armor to counterattack constantly.

Two utterly different forces clashed continuously within the Nether Armor, erupting with intense booming sounds.

Accompanied by the booming sounds, the thick demonic energy surging from the entire body of the Nether Armor reacted violently with the energy within the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array.

For a moment, the two forces seemed evenly matched.

But the power of heaven and earth mobilized by the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array, combined with Ye Ye Qingxuan's own power, how could it be opposed by a mere one-star Mid-grade spiritual treasure like the Nether Armor?

If Ye Ye Qingxuan had not been unwilling to damage the body of the Nether Armor and had instead adopted a gentler, more subtle method of purification.

The rule power contained within the Nether Armor, even if facing the power of heaven and earth and the rules mobilized by the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array alone, would not have stood a chance.

Although it appeared evenly matched, in reality, the demonic energy essence and rule power of the Nether Armor were being gradually worn down by Ye Ye Qingxuan.

Under Ye Ye Qingxuan's purification, the Nether Armor began to overflow with vast amounts of pure demonic energy, which the Grade Eight Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land Purification Array purified into essence energy and merged into the heavens and earth.

(End of Chapter)