Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 173 Self-generated Spirituality

Swah——

The green wood's spiritual light flickered brightly, splitting into several rays, interweaving like flying swords, and simply killing the attacking fire beast.

This underground world filled with red flaming lava and pitch-black solidified rock and soil is truly eye-catching.

Then the green wood spiritual light rolled up a few red crystal cores and took them back.

It passed through the flowing fire shield and the condensed water liquid in turn, and directly merged into Li Ye's protective aura, becoming a part of the protection.

Amidst the heavy defenses, Li Ye's eyes were filled with spiritual light as he looked far ahead.

Deep in front of the lava, there was a team of puppets of various shapes, surrounding a puppet that looked like an ordinary person, but was wearing a set of pure black thick stone armor.

Faintly, there seemed to be a spiritual light connecting with it, and the power of the battle formation immediately increased!

Their movements were much more agile than before, like real creatures. They carefully avoided the forbidden formations and dealt with the fire beasts on the lava, moving quickly all the way.

From time to time, formation tools of various shapes popped out from the bodies of these puppets and fell into the calculated predetermined positions.

When everything was set up, Li Ye, who was standing far away, quickly made a hand gesture and shouted,
"rise!"

Silver and red flashed, and runes quickly merged into the surrounding formations, sorting out the chaos as much as possible, calming the turmoil, and supporting a relatively stable area.

Li Ye gently wiped the sweat off his face and nodded, "Another node has been temporarily smoothed out and stabilized..."

He withdrew his gaze and scanned the entire area.

It can be seen that within the area within sight, there is a world of mixed black and red, with many silver and red nodes laid out to stabilize the surroundings.

When several nodes echoed and coordinated with each other, an area was greatly stabilized, which was completely different from the situation in other places where the formation restrictions were constantly surging.

This is the result of Li Ye’s work during this period of time.

But if you expand your spiritual perspective again, you can find that this area is just an insignificant little corner compared to the entire turbulent underground lava!
"My little bit of work is just a drop in the bucket..."

Li Ye shook his head and complained, "But fortunately, I wasn't prepared to rely on my own strength to fight against such an unstoppable trend!"

"As long as we can clear a space for the puppet team to reach the island!"

A smile appeared in his eyes.

Since the momentum of exposing the lava palace is unstoppable, he must get as many benefits as possible before that!
Just as he had guessed before, the turbulence in the formation was not entirely a bad thing.

It certainly put the lava palace in danger of being exposed, but at the same time, its expansion and turmoil did reveal many small building islands.

Li Ye still hasn't figured out what materials these building islands are made of. They have a strong ability to withstand the power of the forbidden area, and they have been immersed in lava for so many years but can still remain basically unchanged.

He tried to bombard it with various means, but in the end only the wood-transforming magical power of the Wood God's True Fire was effective, causing slight damage to it.

The defensive power is amazing, and it must be of a very high rank!

But when he picked up some fragments and took them back to try to use them, he found that his magic power was not enough to refine this thing, and he naturally could not refine the materials for other uses by using true fire or the like.

In the end, I could only choose to pick up some pieces of suitable size, and use the Wood God's True Fire to wear them down little by little and transform them into the shape I needed, just to utilize the strength of the material.

For example, the armor worn by his natal puppet was made by him in this way.

While the riot caused limited damage to the island's construction, it wreaked havoc on the island's previously stable restrictions, significantly weakening the already dangerous and powerfully protected formation. Several spiritual creatures capable of withstanding the formation's torment also emerged during this process, being discovered by the poisonous insects Li Ye had planted.

In the past three years of Li Ye's exploration and garbage collection, there were many small construction islands that he did not dare to approach even with the core disciple token. In this way, many of them became his targets.

In particular, he had discovered it many years ago, but when he got close to it, he found that it was a small island with strict restrictions and was suspected to be the Foundry Pavilion.

I don't know where this piece was peeled off from. The core disciple token is completely ineffective here. I don't know if it's because the authority level is insufficient, or the corresponding area here is not within the disciple's authority.

In this case, Li Ye had no choice but to give up.

Another building that was discovered at the same time and was suspected to be the Examination Hall was indeed part of it, but it was far smaller than the first ruined building.

Not only did the assessment mechanism fail, but even after searching for a while, no good things were found. Most of them were probably stripped off from some unimportant place.

This was a series of failures, and even in the following three years, Li Ye did not encounter such a good thing as artificial intelligence again. Most of the gains were just some scattered gains, which made him remember the failure very clearly.

However, during this turmoil in the formation, the restrictions of the ruined Casting Pavilion were greatly affected, becoming chaotic and weakened, with obvious loopholes appearing.

There was also a faint glow and muffled sound coming from it, as if some treasure was responding to the power of the formation.

This place is even just the one that Li Ye has observed. There are many other places where rare treasures or special buildings are suspected to have appeared. Li Ye is not going to capture them one by one. If he can succeed once or twice, it will be enough for him to improve again!

The puppet team continued to advance by smoothing out the forbidden formations one by one.

Ever since he practiced the Tiangong Sutra and trained his own puppet, his other combat abilities have not yet had the opportunity to be truly displayed, but they have been of great help in exploration.

Through the special connection with his natal puppet, which can link and command other puppets, the distance that Li Ye's spiritual consciousness can control the puppet team has skyrocketed.

This directly improved his own safety to a much higher level when he was exploring the lava underground palace!

Soon, the puppet team followed the safe zone left behind in the past and arrived in front of the ruined foundry pavilion.

The natal puppet stepped forward and showed the core disciple token, but the formation could not withstand a slight reaction and still could not pass directly.

Then, the puppet directly connected to other puppets, and used itself and the token to evolve the battle formation recorded in the Tiangong Sutra, and gradually tested the outer restrictions.

This time the effect was indeed different. The core disciple's token had considerable authority, and the battle formation connected to the already chaotic formation restriction immediately caused a reaction and fluctuation.

Using the token authority, he quickly cleared the array barrier and allowed the puppet team to enter smoothly.

Swah——

Li Ye controlled the puppet and just passed through the forbidden formation and stepped into the building which was half submerged in lava.

Suddenly there was a strange noise.

Accompanied by a series of sounds and lights of objects being broken and formation restrictions being disturbed.

A ray of bright light suddenly flew out from nowhere, with great speed and force, heading straight for the puppet team!

"Self-generated spirituality... How is this possible?!"

Li Ye blurted out.

(End of this chapter)