Chapter 280

The array plate didn't need to be studied. When he refined the array key with Liu Daoran, he already had a relatively clear understanding of the composition of this array plate. Now that the thing was in his hands, it was even more intuitive. It was just a simple fusion of five Sect Master's tokens, which he could refine anytime, anywhere.

The way of setting it up didn't need to waste...

... thought. When Liu Daoran demonstrated it to Han Li on the mountain, he had already remembered the setting steps.

The only problem was how to obtain these five Sect Master's tokens. When he went to the mountain gate of the Shangqing Lingbao Palace, he killed more than a dozen Golden Core stage cultivators of the three sects. These three tokens were also obtained from them. The other two were held by the two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators responsible for guarding.

If he wanted to gather all five, he would inevitably need to kill two more Golden Core stage cultivators. However, Han Li was now in the outer perimeter of the dense forest, and it was not easy to find the two guarding cultivators of the Shangqing Lingbao Palace.

What should he do? Han Li lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to him.

Elimination method!

He immediately spread out the map and carefully marked the areas around the Shangqing Lingbao Palace. Then, based on the terrain and roads on the map, he speculated on the locations where these five Golden Core stage cultivators might appear.

After excluding several unlikely locations, Han Li locked his gaze on several key areas. He planned to start searching from these areas and exclude them one by one until he found the two target cultivators.

This process required great patience and care, but Han Li was not eager for quick success. He believed that as long as he persisted, he would always find clues.

So Han Li put away the map and left the dense forest. He followed a mountain road and sneaked toward the first key area.

Han Li searched each area patiently. Relying on his keen perception and careful judgment, he excluded the unlikely locations one by one. As time passed, the key areas continued to shrink, and his hope grew even more.

While exploring the fourth area, Han Li unexpectedly discovered the figure of a guarding cultivator of the Shangqing Lingbao Palace. That was a Late Foundation Establishment cultivator, patrolling alone in a hilly area. Han Li held his breath, approached cautiously, and prepared to wait for an opportunity.

But just at this moment, another aura suddenly appeared nearby. Han Li felt a chill in his heart, restrained his killing intent, and hid behind a huge rock. As the sound got closer, he poked his head out, and his gaze suddenly froze.

The person who came was a Mid Golden Core stage cultivator, precisely one of the Sect Masters of the Shangqing Lingbao Palace. Han Li secretly rejoiced that if he hadn't discovered it in time, he would have exposed his tracks long ago.

He saw the Golden Core stage cultivator walk up to the Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, whisper a few words, and then they left together. Han Li's heart moved, realizing that this was an excellent opportunity. He followed them silently, wanting to wait for an opportunity to seize their Sect Master's tokens.

After some pursuit, Han Li discovered that the direction they were heading was precisely the guarding point of the Shangqing Lingbao Palace. He immediately quickened his pace and stopped not far from the guarding point.

Relying on the blessing of the concealment technique, Han Li sneaked into the guarding point. It was heavily guarded here, but his movement technique was strange and he dodged layers of patrols. Finally, he touched the residence of the Golden Core stage cultivator and held his breath.

Actually, the point about insufficient cultivation was also something Liu Xiaolou truly wanted to verify.

Some array plates have very high requirements for activation. For example, the true mountain-protecting arrays of major sects, where the array is nested with sub-arrays, have dozens or hundreds of array plates, requiring at least Golden Core or even Nascent Soul cultivation to have the strength to activate and dispatch them.

Some slightly smaller mountain-protecting arrays, or larger village-protecting arrays, also require Foundation Establishment cultivation to activate and operate.

Even some special small-scale arrays, such as a set of Jedi array plates he helped the Siming Sect refine at the Chicheng Mountain market, could not be controlled without Foundation Establishment cultivation.

Therefore, it was hard to guarantee that this set of Sect Master's token array plates was not the same.

Regarding this, Liu Xiaolou could only tell the truth: "Senior He is also proficient in arrays. Senior's cultivation is naturally high, and you should also know that some array plates have special requirements for cultivation and innate supernatural powers... May I ask, what is Senior's cultivation?"

He Fengzhu could only answer honestly: "Mid Foundation Establishment."

It was indeed the Mid Foundation Establishment he had guessed, plus He Taichang, who was at the Perfection of Qi Refinement, and those under the He family uncle and nephew who had come to join the Second Peak, it was quite difficult to escape.

After Liu Xiaolou quickly evaluated, he said: "Just such an array plate, logically speaking, it is not a large array nested with small arrays, Mid Foundation Establishment cultivation should be enough."

He Fengzhu pondered: "Then it's innate talent? What kind of innate talent can activate this array?"

Liu Xiaolou shook his head and said: "It's hard to speculate blindly, it still depends on the array plate. If Senior He agrees, I want to dismantle and re-refine this array plate like the array key."

"This..." He Fengzhu was very embarrassed, he was really worried that the little thief in front of him would dismantle the array plate.

"Senior He is an array master. You must be able to see the refining difficulty of this array plate, which is far inferior to the array key. This junior can restore the array key to its original state, let alone the array plate. Still the same words, if this junior messes it up, you can take my head."

"Fine, I'll trust you one more time. If it doesn't work, watch out for your skin!"

Liu Xiaolou took the array plate, heated it on the ground fire, and reached out: "Senior He, spirit stones."

Eighteen spirit stones had already been spent, there was no reason to give up halfway. He Fengzhu's face was as dark as water, and he had to take out spirit stones again.

The five Sect Master's tokens were simply fused together. In fact, He Fengzhu could see this with his limited array ability. But in the world, what people fear is giving you hope. Once there is hope, all kinds of expectations will arise. Once expectations are generated, you will believe many things that you shouldn't have believed.

He Fengzhu now had high expectations for Liu Xiaolou's ability in arrays, so he chose to believe Liu Xiaolou, watching him dismantle the array plate, take off the five Sect Master's tokens one by one, and then assemble and fuse them back one by one with a technique he didn't understand.

Then he became even more expectant. He expected for another eighteen days and paid six more spirit stones.

Liu Xiaolou used these eighteen days to successfully open up twenty-four acupoints from Huiyang to Chengshan.

"Seems like something is missing." Liu Xiaolou tilted his head and pondered.

"Is it not my cultivation problem? Or is it not a need for special innate talent?" He Fengzhu asked.

"No..." Liu Xiaolou replied, his gaze deep: "This array plate, Senior He can completely control it, and there are no special requirements for cultivation innate talent."

He Fengzhu breathed a sigh of relief: "You just said something is missing?"

Liu Xiaolou closed his eyes for a long time, then suddenly said excitedly: "Understood! Missing a Three-Strange Sub-Array!"

He Fengzhu blinked: "Need to refine a new array plate?"

"Exactly! I guess this array plate is to open a void crack and draw out spiritual power, so there must be a combination of Sun, Moon, and Star Three-Strange array plates, so that it is a complete array plate. Senior He, I need three pieces of spirit jade, and twelve kinds of spirit materials. Please prepare them."