Chapter 433: Qianmiao Haiyun Array, the Secret Realm of the Future Floating Island

"I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm truly rich this time."

"To think I've obtained so many cultivation manuals."

"Among them are even cultivation methods and experience for the Great Vehicle Realm."

"There are even Eighth-Tier Array Formations, Eighth-Tier Talismans, Eighth-Tier Pill Dao, and Eighth-Tier Artifact Refining methods."

"This is practically obtaining a complete inheritance."

Zhou Sui was incredibly excited.

He briefly inspected his gains this time.

Without a doubt, his greatest gain this time was obtaining the complete inheritance of the Flying Crane Clan and finding the Scripture Pavilion of the Flying Crane Clan, which hid a massive amount of cultivation techniques accumulated by the Flying Crane Clan over the generations.

These techniques naturally had little use for a True Spirit.

But for the current Human Race, they made up for the Human Race's massive deficiencies.

They completely perfected the Human Race's inheritance.

Although many of the Flying Crane Clan's techniques were only suitable for Flying Crane Clan Cultivators to practice, the principles behind the hundred arts of spirit-refining they mastered—such as Runes, Pill Dao, Artifact Refining, and Array Formations—were actually shared.

They would not produce different effects simply because of different races.

These spirit-refining techniques were all formed by various races exploring the Heavenly Law and imitating the power of heaven and earth.

Therefore, since the Flying Crane Clan could use them, the Human Race could naturally use them as well.

"Eat, eat them all up for me."

Without a second thought, Zhou Sui immediately handed all the Inheritance Jade Slips left behind by the Flying Crane Clan to the Book Gu to eat.

The Book Gu was now at the Eighth-Tier lower grade realm, so its speed in digesting Inheritance Jade Slips was naturally incomparable to before.

It only needed to scan them lightly, and the knowledge within the Inheritance Jade Slips was instantly copied and transformed into a virtual book within the Book Gu's body.

At the same time, the Inheritance Jade Slips shattered instantly, and all the essence and knowledge within them were devoured by the Book Gu and claimed as its own.

Rumble—

In an instant, vast knowledge like a flood submerged into the depths of Zhou Sui's sea of consciousness, which also allowed him to fully understand exactly what level of inheritance knowledge the Flying Crane Clan had mastered.

"The Flying Crane Clan actually collected so many Eighth-Tier Array Formations."

"So that's how it is; they were ambitious, and not just planning to build one Secret Realm World."

"They intended to build at least three Flying Crane Clan Secret Realm Worlds."

Zhou Sui narrowed his eyes.

He instantly understood what the Flying Crane Clan had been trying to do before.

Clearly, for a super-large clan, having "a crafty rabbit with three burrows" was a basic requirement.

Possessing only one Secret Realm World was simply too dangerous.

Once an enemy was too powerful and their army pressed down, blocking the entrance to the Secret Realm World, the Flying Crane Clan would be trapped inside the Secret Realm World, unable to ever come out.

Therefore, races that truly possessed an ancient foundation all needed to build several Secret Realm Worlds.

Even if one Secret Realm World was besieged by enemies, there would be other Secret Realm Worlds as the clan's trump cards.

However, for an ordinary race, building even a single Secret Realm World was already an extremely difficult task.

Let alone building more than three Secret Realm Worlds.

Without the accumulation of hundreds of millions of years, this was simply impossible to achieve.

But the Flying Crane Clan had clearly achieved this; after the accumulation of long ages, they had collected a large amount of Boundary Stones and a large amount of materials for Eighth-Tier Array Formations, intending to open up new Secret Realm Worlds.

Who could have imagined that man proposes, but heaven disposes.

Before they could even start building the second Secret Realm World, they actually provoked the True Spirit Xiangliu.

As a result, their very lair was invaded by the opponent, and the Flying Crane Clan was wiped out.

The Flying Crane Clan's hundreds of millions of years of accumulation were also completely destroyed in one fell swoop.

"Sure enough, to survive in the Spirit World, one still needs True Spirit-level combat power."

"Otherwise, no matter how smoothly one develops, if one is not careful, years of accumulation will be destroyed in an instant."

Zhou Sui was deeply moved.

To tell the truth, the Flying Crane Clan's luck could be considered quite good.

They were able to develop steadily for hundreds of millions of years; although they occasionally encountered some setbacks, on the whole, they had not encountered any major catastrophes.

If they had continued to develop steadily, the Flying Crane Clan might have been able to find another True Spirit, worship the True Spirit, and become a True Spirit Race.

Who could have imagined that they would offend the True Spirit Xiangliu for no reason, resulting in the death of their members and the destruction of their clan.

Years of planning, all for nothing.

So, don't look at how smoothly the Human Race is developing now; it's just that they are too weak, and others simply don't look down on them.

If they develop to a certain degree without corresponding power, then their destruction will actually happen in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, no matter when, one needs to maintain corresponding vigilance and must never take things lightly.

"Tsk tsk, but regardless, the Flying Crane Clan's years of planning have benefited me."

"The Flying Crane Clan collected a total of nine Eighth-Tier Great Arrays."

"They are the Qingmu Zhoutian Array, which can form the Qingmu Secret Realm; the Qimen Yinyang Array, which can form the Yinyang Secret Realm; the Jindu Jinling Array, which can form the Jinling Secret Realm; and the Qianmiao Haiyun Array, which can form the Qianmiao Secret Realm."

Zhou Sui narrowed his eyes.

Clearly, every Eighth-Tier Array Formation could form a Secret Realm World, with infinite mysteries.

And they were all integrated for both offense and defense.

However, different Eighth-Tier Array Formations would form different Secret Realm Worlds, nurturing different abilities.

For example, the Qingmu Zhoutian Array forms the Qingmu Secret Realm; such a Secret Realm World can accelerate the growth of Spirit Medicine, and the entire Secret Realm World is filled with dense wood-type vitality, which can form a medicine garden.

The Jindu Jinling Array can form the Jinling Secret Realm; such a Secret Realm World will nurture many Minerals and is filled with dense Geng Metal Qi, which is very suitable for Sword Cultivators to practice.

However, for super races, they can choose from many Eighth-Order Arrays at will to form a Secret Realm World.

Especially the True Spirit Race.

They occupy vast resources and have mastered many Eighth-Order Arrays, so naturally, they build whatever secret realm they wish to build.

Moreover, they can build according to their own needs.

But for weak races, they often do not have many choices.

They can only form the kind of secret realm for which they possess the array materials and the array formations.

In any case, being able to form a Secret Realm World is a good thing.

It can become a sanctuary for the race.

As for what kind of power and ability such a Secret Realm World possesses, they have no choice.

"The Eighth-Order Array most suitable for the Human Race is undoubtedly the Qianmiao Haiyun Array."

Zhou Sui clenched his fists.

He took a fancy to this Eighth-Tier Mid-Grade Array at first glance.

Once this array is successfully deployed, it will form the Qianmiao Secret Realm.

The entire Secret Realm World will have no land, only endless sky, while simultaneously being able to gestate countless clouds.

These clouds can support one island after another.

It can be said that if the Qianmiao Secret Realm can be formed, countless Empty Islands will be created within the Secret Realm World, and the living beings within the race can reside on these Empty Islands.

Of course, if it were only this, it would be impossible for Zhou Sui to have taken a fancy to this Eighth-Order Array.

After all, other Eighth-Order Arrays can also achieve similar things; there is nothing special about it.

But the greatest mystery of this Eighth-Order Array is that it can continuously expand.

It possesses a certain degree of growth potential.

It is not the kind that cannot grow after being deployed.

Once successfully deployed, with the array as the center, it will release endless white mist, shrouding a sea area, while simultaneously completely swallowing the islands within the sea area, integrating them into the Secret Realm World, and transforming them into Empty Islands.

At the same time, the sea area shrouded by the white mist will completely turn into a white mist labyrinth.

If an enemy breaks into this Mist Sea, they will be trapped in this sea area, finding it difficult to find a way out.

At the same time, the exit of the Qianmiao Secret Realm can move.

As long as one is within the mist, thousands of secret realm exits can be formed.

Of course, these secret realm entrances and exits can also be closed by the master of the secret realm, leaving only one.

But once danger is encountered, the secret realm entrances and exits can be opened, allowing the living beings of the race to escape from the Secret Realm World.

It is basically impossible for an enemy to besiege the Qianmiao Secret Realm.

Even finding the entrances and exits of the secret realm is something the enemy cannot do.

"To think it can move the secret realm entrances and exits; in this way, even if a Great Vehicle Realm Cultivator comes to kill, they won't be able to do anything to the Qianmiao Secret Realm, right?"

Zhou Sui rubbed his chin.

If the Qianmiao Haiyun Array can be successfully deployed, the mist will shroud hundreds of millions, or even tens of billions of kilometers of sea area, but the entrances and exits of the Secret Realm World will move within that ten-billion-kilometer sea area.

The entrances and exits of the secret realm might appear in the sky, in the ocean, or on some reef.

In short, they might appear anywhere; they are simply omnipresent.

Even if a Great Vehicle Realm Cultivator searches the nine heavens and ten earths, it would be difficult to find the entrances and exits within.

He does not believe any Great Vehicle Cultivator is that bored.

To spend a massive amount of time just to find the entrance and exit of the Qianmiao Secret Realm.

Even if they are very lucky and find an entrance or exit, it can move the next second.

The previous effort would all be in vain.

"This Eighth-Order Array is too suitable for the Human Race."

"Although there are so many Eighth-Order Arrays, some are good at slaughter, some are good at defense, some are illusion arrays, and some are trapping arrays, but only the defense of the Qianmiao Haiyun Array is sufficiently powerful."

"It cannot be called defense; it should be called having strong secrecy."

"If one cannot even find the entrance to the secret realm, the enemy wanting to enter the Secret Realm World is undoubtedly a pipe dream."

"And it can also continuously expand."

"Even if the human population continues to increase in the future, there is no need to look for a second Secret Realm World."

Zhou Sui narrowed his eyes.

Clearly, as the mist continues to expand, in the future, this great array might shroud tens of billions, hundreds of billions, trillions of kilometers, etc., becoming a true Mist Sea.

It might even shroud the entire Kunpeng Sea Area, completely turning this sea area into Human Race territory.

However, wanting to achieve this is not such an easy thing.

After all, if the Qianmiao Haiyun Great Array wants to expand, it still needs energy support.

The so-called energy is the Spirit Vein.

If there is no Spirit Vein support, the Qianmiao Haiyun Great Array cannot continuously expand.

If it were not for this, it would not be an Eighth-Tier Mid-Grade Array, but an Eighth-Tier High-Grade Array, or perhaps even higher.

But now it is different.

Because Zhou Sui has mastered the Spirit Vein Flower, this is a natural artificial Spirit Vein.

When the Qianmiao Secret Realm swallows islands one after another, no matter what kind of Spirit Vein these islands originally had, under the effect of the Eighth Rank Spirit Vein Flower, they can all evolve into Eighth-Order Spirit Veins.

By then, the islands inside the Qianmiao Secret Realm can all become Eighth-tier Islands.

Afterwards, the Qianmiao Haiyun Great Array will receive the backing of many Eighth-Order Spirit Veins.

In this way, even if a True Spirit powerhouse comes to attack, they will not be able to do anything to the Qianmiao Haiyun Great Array.

After all, with the energy reserves of numerous Eighth-Order Spirit Veins, it is equivalent to obtaining infinite energy.

Even if a True Spirit were worked to death, they would likely be unable to destroy the Qianmiao Haiyun Array.

A True Spirit may appear invincible, but the Dharma Power within their body is also limited, so naturally, it cannot compare to numerous Eighth-Order Spirit Veins.

It can be said that this Eighth-Tier Great Array and the Spirit Vein Flower complement each other perfectly, with boundless profundity.

A match made in heaven.

"Once successful, then the Human Race of the Spirit World will truly be as stable as Mount Tai."

"Even if future generations are unfilial, talent withers, and no Great Vehicle Cultivator is born."

"But as long as the Qianmiao Secret Realm is here, it can continue for thousands of generations."

Zhou Sui was very excited.

He increasingly realized the importance of Array Formations; among the hundred arts of immortal cultivation, Array Formation is supreme—such an evaluation is indeed a golden rule.

Other skills at most only change a portion of people.

Only Array Formations can truly protect a race, reaching toward the heavens and spanning the earth, lasting for ten thousand generations.

"However, although the Qianmiao Haiyun Array is powerful, what is truly formidable is the Immortal World plant, the Spirit Vein Flower."

"This is the very foundation of the Array Formation."

"If there were no Spirit Vein Flower, the power of this Great Array could not be brought to its limit."

"It is just like the various technologies of my past life; if there were no oil or electricity, no technological product would be of any use. This is the importance of energy; it is simply the mother of industry, the source of everything."

Zhou Sui stroked his chin.

He perceived the terror of these Immortal World plants; for the lower realms, this is simply a dimensionality-reduction strike.

For example, the Evergreen Vine can dominate a realm, devouring and merging worlds at will.

The Wutong Tree can nurture phoenixes and condense Heavenly Fire.

There is no need to mention such a Divine Tree; its power is known to all under heaven.

The Six Desires Red Dust Tree can release Six Desires Red Dust Qi and condense Six Desires Red Dust Fruit.

Do not look at it as nothing special now, but if it grows to the extreme, its power can be imagined—it is simply unimaginable.

The Spirit Vein Flower can form artificial Spirit Veins and gather the Spirit Qi of heaven and earth.

Do not look at a single Spirit Vein Flower as nothing special, but when thousands or tens of thousands are added together, it is truly astonishing.

This is a miraculous flower capable of changing the world.

No matter which kind of Immortal World plant it is, all contain boundless power.

He felt that they were simply like invasive species, with tenacious vitality, easily transforming the world, eroding the world, and even forcibly distorting the ecology of the lower realm.

"This kind of power is somewhat similar to the Gu Insect nurtured by the Gu God Bowl."

"Without a doubt, these Immortal World plants also contain the power of laws within their bodies."

"That is why they are so terrifying, easily integrating into the world and even mobilizing the power of the world's laws."

Zhou Sui clenched his fists.

He felt a bit fortunate; fortunately, so far, the Immortal World plants he had obtained were still beneficial to the ecology of the Spirit World.

If one were to obtain those harmful Immortal World plants, it might possibly exterminate a region.

Or even exterminate a realm.

Thereby causing irreparable losses to the Spirit World.

However, wanting to successfully set up the Qianmiao Haiyun Array is not that simple; it still requires a large amount of Eighth-Order Array materials. Otherwise, having only the blueprints would make it impossible to completely finish such a project.

It is just like a hydroelectric power station; having the blueprints is merely the first step.

The subsequent construction and the various materials are even more important matters.

Setting up an Array Formation is the same.

And it also requires a massive amount of time.

"Under normal circumstances, wanting to find the materials needed for an Eighth-Tier Great Array would require a race to prepare for at least tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand years."

"But now it is different."

"The Flying Crane Secret Realm left behind many Eighth-Order Array materials prepared by the former Flying Crane Clan."

"In other words, I no longer need to prepare other Eighth-Order Array materials."

"In the Flying Crane Secret Realm alone, there is already a large amount of Eighth-Order Array materials."

"For example, the core material of the Eighth-Order Array, the Boundary Stone; the Flying Crane Clan prepared at least enough for two Eighth-Tier Great Arrays."

"There is no longer a need for me to look elsewhere."

Zhou Sui felt very pleased as he took inventory of the large amount of materials obtained this time from the Flying Crane Secret Realm.

Clearly, the benefits of occupying the Flying Crane Secret Realm were truly too great.

It was equivalent to obtaining the wealth accumulated by a race over hundreds of millions of years, saving him who knows how much effort.

It is just like using the treasures of the Flying Crane Clan from many years ago to help the Human Race build a base.

One must know that the Boundary Stone is one of the most precious materials in the Spirit World; it contains unique power of time and space, equivalent to a fragment of a world, extremely precious and indestructible.

A single piece of Boundary Stone is also worth a fortune.

This is a rare material that money cannot buy.

Because it is not something nurtured by the world itself, but collected by Great Vehicle Cultivators in the Endless Void.

The Boundary Stone is, in fact, a fragment of a world.

In the Endless Void, there exist worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.

But these worlds do not exist eternally.

Sometimes, due to various factors, these worlds enter a state of demise, thereby leading to the shattering of the world.

When a world shatters, a large number of world fragments will appear.

Some of them will merge into the Void, while others will scatter throughout the Void.

Over time, after being scoured by the Void Storm for countless years, these world fragments will form unique Boundary Stones.

When some Great Vehicle Cultivators roam the Void, they will find these world fragments in the depths of the Void.

Therefore, apart from Great Vehicle Cultivators, almost no one can obtain Boundary Stones.

In the past, in order to obtain these Boundary Stones, many Great Vehicle Cultivators of the Flying Crane Clan went deep into the Void, collecting them for countless years, and through the accumulation of generations of Great Vehicle Cultivators, they finally collected the Boundary Stones needed for two Eight-Tier Arrays.

It is conceivable how difficult it is to obtain Boundary Stones.

"If I hadn't obtained the treasure of the Flying Crane Clan, it would basically be impossible for me to build an Eight-Tier Great Array."

"Only Great Vehicle Cultivators can go deep into the Void to obtain Eight-Tier materials."

"But weak races only have one or two Great Vehicle Cultivators; where would they have such leeway?"

"Just protecting the race alone exhausts all their strength."

"Only those super-large races that can give birth to dozens of Great Vehicle Cultivators can possibly allow many Great Vehicle Cultivators to go deep into the Void to search for a large amount of rare resources."

Zhou Sui also realized the difficulty of building an Eight-Tier Array.

It is no wonder that the Human Race has appeared in the Spirit World for hundreds of millions of years, and so far, they only have one Secret Realm World and one Eight-Tier Great Array; it is not just that an Eighth-Rank Array Master is hard to appear.

It is also because Eight-Tier array materials are difficult to collect.

"Wait, Boundary Stone? Why is this thing so familiar?"

"It's as if I've seen it somewhere before."

Suddenly, Zhou Sui saw some sparkling Boundary Stones in his hands and frowned immediately.

Some unique images flashed in the depths of his consciousness, and he seemed to have seen them before.

To be honest, this is not the first time he has seen Boundary Stones.

He had encountered them many times before, and he had even possessed many similar Minerals himself.

"Right, I remember now, it's the Xuanhuang Sect."

"In the treasure vault of the Xuanhuang Sect, it seems that many similar Minerals have been collected."

"This seems to be because after the Evergreen Vine captured one Middle Thousand World after another, it incidentally collected a large amount of Void Minerals in the Endless Void."

"Among them were some unique Minerals that were extremely solid and indestructible, but no one knew what they were used for."

"Those unique, crystal-like Minerals are Boundary Stones."

"Now, in the treasure vault of the Xuanhuang Sect, such Minerals are simply piled up like mountains."

Zhou Sui clenched his fists.

He felt very excited; it was truly a case of searching everywhere for something, only to find it without any effort.

Before, he still felt that Boundary Stones were hard to find and that he needed to go deep into the Void to find them.

Even if he ascended to the Great Vehicle Realm, he would need to spend a lot of time to collect many Minerals.

Little did he know, he didn't need to take action himself at all, because the Immortal World plant, the Evergreen Vine, is exactly an expert at this.

Its countless vines merge into the depths of the Void, and from time to time, it catches some treasures from the Void and brings them back.

The Evergreen Vine does not just capture many Middle Thousand Worlds.

Even some treasures in the depths of the Void will be captured and brought back.

During this period, the Evergreen Vine seems to have caught a large number of Boundary Stones.

It is just because the grade of the Boundary Stones is too high, and apart from Eight-Tier Arrays, no one can use them.

That is why they were put into the treasure vault, but doing so is simply letting a pearl gather dust.

Of course, he cannot return to the Xuanhuang World for the time being.

So even if the Xuanhuang World has collected a large number of Boundary Stones, he cannot use them now.

But once he ascends to the Great Vehicle Realm, he can return to the Xuanhuang World at any time.

Therefore, returning to the Xuanhuang World is only a matter of time.

Even within the Xuanhuang Sect, he can use the power of the Boundary Stones to set up an Eight-Tier Great Array.

Don't look at the fact that the Xuanhuang Sect seems to have no enemies now.

But one should always be prepared for the worst.

A person still needs to take precautions rather than waiting for a disaster to happen and then saying they weren't prepared.

"However, for the materials of the Qianmiao Haiyun Array, besides Boundary Stones and many Eight-Tier materials, there is one most important material, and that is Haiyun Stone."

"This is also a unique Eight-Tier material, containing the power of the ocean and the power of clouds and mist."

"It only appears in certain dangerous places in the Shattered Star Sea."

"Currently, as long as enough Haiyun Stones are collected, the Qianmiao Haiyun Array can begin construction."

Zhou Sui narrowed his eyes.

Although the Flying Crane Clan collected materials for an Eight-Tier Array, they did not intend to build the Qianmiao Haiyun Array, but rather intended to build the Qimen Yinyang Array, so they did not collect many Haiyun Stones.

But this does not matter.

Obtaining so many Eight-Tier array materials from the Flying Crane Secret Realm is already considered a stroke of luck.

It is impossible for the Flying Crane Clan to have prepared everything for him.