Chapter 699: Seventh-tier Mountain-Protecting Grand Array

He Pingsheng hadn't just refined five clones.

But had refined a full eight!

Two sets of materials were strengthened by him into four sets.

These four sets of materials were refined into four bodies, and after the clones were refined and strengthened, they became eight.

Five of them were fused with Glazed Infants by He Pingsheng and refined into true clones, while the remaining three bodies could be kept for backup.

After all, no one could guarantee that these five clones would definitely survive until the Body Integration stage.

If one fell, it wouldn't be too late to go back and condense a Nascent Soul and refine a clone again.

"Alright!" He Pingsheng distributed the items, looked at the five clones and said: "Next, you all leave on your own; when I need to reach the Dao, you can come back and find me!"

Five guys at the twelfth layer of the Soul Transformation stage secretly left Mount Brother Gu Song one by one.

He Pingsheng also walked out of the main hall.

"Hao Cang, Zhou Qingmei, come over!"

After He Pingsheng's voice went out, Hao Cang and Zhou Qingmei came before He Pingsheng.

"Young Master!" The two hurriedly cupped their hands.

He Pingsheng took out a spirit vein soul and handed it to Hao Cang: "This is a top-tier spirit vein dragon; plant it under Mount Brother Gu Song, and from now on, our Mount Brother Gu Song will be a top-tier blessed land!"

"Ah?" Hao Cang was shocked: "This... this is actually a top-tier spirit vein soul?"

Zhou Qingmei was also overjoyed: "Originally, after I reached the Body Integration stage, the spiritual energy on Mount Brother Gu Song was a bit insufficient for me; now if we plant a top-tier spirit vein soul, that would be too good!"

Back then, after He Pingsheng obtained the spirit vein soul, he strengthened two high-tier ones.

One of them was planted into Mount Brother Gu Song by Hao Cang.

Now, with the improvement of He Pingsheng's cultivation, he could already strengthen ordinary spirit stones into top-tier spirit stones, so he took out the spirit vein soul and tried it, and didn't expect it to actually succeed on the first try.

The high-tier spirit vein soul became top-tier.

However, there was only one.

"Young Master... this old servant has a sentence, I don't know if I should say it or not!" After Hao Cang was happy for a while, his face was filled with deep worry again.

He Pingsheng asked: "If there is anything, just say it directly!"

"Yes!" Hao Cang said: "This top-tier spirit vein soul is naturally very good... but once it is planted, our Mount Brother Gu Song will become the top-tier blessed land on the entire Heavenly Fire Continent; not to mention that the number of disciples coming to join our sect will increase significantly, I am afraid that by then, there will also be some top-tier powers coveting our blessed land!"

What Hao Cang said wasn't groundless.

Previously, Mount Brother Gu Song had been attacked several times, but the ones coming to fight for the territory were all small powers.

If there was a top-tier spirit vein here, what would happen in the future?

It was hard to imagine.

I am afraid there would be quite a few top-tier clans coming to fight for it, right?

Zhou Qingmei was at the first layer of Body Integration, but what if someone came at a higher level of Body Integration?

These were all problems.

"That is indeed a problem!" He Pingsheng nodded.

Zhou Qingmei on the side said: "That is not a problem..."

"Oh?" He Pingsheng turned his head to look at Zhou Qingmei: "You have a way?"

"Young Master!" Zhou Qingmei smiled: "During the one hundred-plus years you were in seclusion swallowing the Nine Heavens Profound Fire, this servant hasn't been idle either; although this servant's cultivation hasn't made any progress, nor broken through any Dao barriers, this servant has spent these one hundred-plus years diligently studying arrays, and can already set up a seventh-tier mountain-protecting grand array!"

"What?" He Pingsheng was instantly pleasantly surprised: "You... you... you, you can set up a seventh-tier mountain-protecting grand array?"

A seventh-tier array!

He Pingsheng now could only just set up a fifth-tier array.

A seventh-tier array could defend against a full-force strike from a Body Integration stage cultivator.

As long as the energy supply was continuous, this defense wouldn't be broken.

Unless a Mahayana Tianpeng Diyu enemy came.

But that was unlikely.

Because this was the Zhu Que Tianpeng Diyu, and the Zhu Que Demon Emperor should have just ascended, so the Zhu Que Tianpeng Diyu had a ten-thousand-year protection period.

Within these ten thousand years, no Mahayana Tianpeng Diyu expert could cause trouble in the Zhu Que Tianpeng Diyu.

Besides, they were already at the Mahayana Tianpeng Diyu, how could they not have a top-tier blessed land?

So, there was no need to worry about Mahayana Tianpeng Diyu enemies.

If one had to worry, just worry about the Body Integration stage.

"Young Master, please look, this is the seventh-tier array disk I made!" Zhou Qingmei took out an array disk about the size of a millstone and placed it before He Pingsheng: "A seventh-tier array disk, although it is only low-tier, it can still form an array!"

He Pingsheng asked: "What array is this? What function does it have?"

Zhou Qingmei said: "This array is called the 【Eight Desolations Four Extremes Array】, both offensive and defensive; not only can it defend against a strike from a Body Integration stage cultivator, but if there are a few Void Refinement stage cultivators operating it, it can even unleash a strike from a Body Integration stage cultivator to counter the enemy!"

Eight Desolations Four Extremes Array?

Good name!

He Pingsheng nodded and said: "Not bad!"

"Uh..." Zhou Qingmei said: "It's only a low-tier one!"

"It's fine!" He Pingsheng said: "Actually, I have a top-tier seventh-tier array disk; later I will let you study it, you can use my top-tier array disk to set up the array!"

"Really?" Zhou Qingmei gasped: "Young Master actually has a top-tier array disk?"

"Yes!" He Pingsheng said earnestly: "Mm... you go and prepare first, survey the terrain around our Mount Brother Gu Song well, and come back tomorrow... also, I will study this array disk of yours!"

"Good!" Zhou Qingmei didn't have any doubts and left directly.

The next day, Zhou Qingmei came to He Pingsheng's Daoist field again.

He Pingsheng directly took out two array disks.

The first one was Zhou Qingmei's original array, and the second one was a top-tier array disk!

The second array disk was naturally strengthened by He Pingsheng using the Treasure Gathering Basin.

"This array is named the 【Nine Luminaries Returning Origin Zhou Heaven Star Array】..." He Pingsheng explained slowly: "It is a top-tier array among the seventh-tier, much better than yours; however, it is also very difficult to set up, and I only have this one array disk, without the corresponding array map!"

"How to set it up, you have to contemplate it yourself!"

It didn't matter if there was no array map; many array maps were displayed within the array disk. If one contemplated the array disk, one could also restore the array map and the method of setting up the array.

"Fine!" Zhou Qingmei said: "That's no problem, I should be able to comprehend it in a month!"

"Good!" He Pingsheng said: "I have some top-tier spirit stones here; if you need them when setting up the array, you can tell me!"

During this period of time, besides strengthening items, what He Pingsheng strengthened the most were those spirit stones.

One by one, they were all strengthened into top-tier spirit stones.

And top-tier spirit stones had another characteristic, which was that they could spontaneously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to replenish themselves, so using top-tier spirit stones to set up a grand array meant not worrying about the energy supply of the array. ===== CHAPTER 700 =====