Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 22 Water Nether Return to Origin Trapping Array
This is the potential direction for this magical artifact to explore in the future. If it can be transformed into a certain kind of magical beast by using materials from a certain monster, and can even control some of the monster's abilities, then this magical artifact will definitely be considered powerful.

However, Su You is currently just a novice who has just mastered the crafting of magical artifacts, and there is still a long way to go before he can create such a difficult magical artifact.

Although tempted by the large number of unharvested spiritual herbs below, Su You knew that his most important task was to capture the second-tier Mighty Dragon Ape.

Once he has captured the suspect, he will have ample time to explore this treasure trove.

In fact, Su You had already prepared for learning alchemy. His twin clones had even exchanged for the insights of a first-level alchemist and dozens of first-level pill recipes in the Transmission Pavilion.

What he lacks now is a sufficient supply of spiritual herbs for practice, as well as a high-quality alchemy furnace.

After returning to Xutian City, Su You began searching for suitable array plates in various shops that sold arrays.

The last resort to deal with a group of monsters in the Changqi Mountains, where monsters are numerous, is to use the power of an array.

Although Su You's current strength, especially with his cultivation realm having reached the Foundation Establishment stage, allows him to unleash more powerful spells and barely manage to deal with a group of such demonic beasts.

However, what he needs now is to capture the opponent alive, not kill him. If he were to kill him, it would indeed be much simpler. Su You could even buy more powerful talismans and easily kill the opponent.

Moreover, since it is deep in the Changqi Mountains, the battle will definitely cause a huge commotion. If the commotion is too great, it will definitely attract the third-tier dragon apes from their lair, which is definitely not acceptable for Su You.

The best way is to lure the opponent into a formation you've set up beforehand.

This formation must have powerful trapping and soundproofing arrays. Most importantly, the fluctuations of the formation must be small after it is set up. As for killing arrays, they are optional and depend on the price of the formation. If it exceeds the budget, a simpler one will definitely be chosen.

Including the Foundation Establishment Pills that were resold earlier, Su You now has more than 70,000 spirit stones, so buying a small-scale second-tier formation shouldn't be difficult.

After visiting several array shops, Su You finally acquired a second-tier high-grade array, the Water Nether Returning to Origin Trapping Array.

This is a specialized trapping formation. Once deployed, it can cover enemies within a radius of up to 100 meters, and can even trap cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage or demonic beasts in the late second stage. Furthermore, the formation can be freely adjusted to separate the abilities of enemies within it, which is one of the things that Su You valued.

Although he doesn't need an offensive formation, it can't just be a formation that traps people, otherwise capturing the Mighty Dragon Ape would be quite troublesome.

As for soundproofing, most formations come with this ability by default.

Of course, this formation also has another good feature: once it is set up, it is completely silent. Even if you get close and explore with your divine sense, it is difficult to detect. Su You bought this formation because of this feature.

Because it wasn't a composite formation, the price wasn't too high. Su You only spent 20,000 spirit stones. After all, given the formation's grade, the price couldn't be too cheap.

Of course, it can't be too expensive either, because this formation has a single function and a very small range. Overall, it's more like a defective formation.

If it weren't for the fact that this formation possesses some unique abilities, is of a relatively high grade, and doesn't require Su You to deploy it on a large scale, he definitely wouldn't have bought it.

It wasn't that Su You didn't want to buy a composite formation, but the price of a regular second-tier high-grade composite formation had already increased several times, reaching as high as 80,000 to 90,000 spirit stones, which he still couldn't afford.

If it's a large-scale, second-tier high-grade formation, the price will be even higher, estimated to be hundreds of thousands of spirit stones.

Next, Su You purchased several large-capacity spirit beast bags and pills with a powerful stun effect on demonic beasts. According to the shopkeeper, these pills were highly effective against demonic beasts below the third rank. However, the drawback was that the target needed to ingest them, and the effects wouldn't be immediate; it would take at least half an hour to take hold.

If it weren't for these drawbacks, this elixir would have been widely used to combat demonic beasts long ago.

However, these shortcomings didn't matter to Su You, since he still had plenty of time to set up the trapping formation after using it.

Furthermore, if you want to take these powerful dragon apes away from the Changqi Mountains, you must put them into a spirit beast bag, and there are only two ways to do that.

The first type is when the other party does not resist, so it can be easily inserted. The second type is when the other party is unconscious, so it can naturally be easily inserted.

To ensure the success of this operation, Su You armed himself to the teeth, spending 10,000 spirit stones to purchase ten high-grade second-tier attack talismans and another 10,000 spirit stones to buy a mid-grade spiritual weapon.

With this mid-grade spiritual artifact, Su You's combat ability in magic far surpassed that in witchcraft for the first time.

It wasn't that Su You didn't want to buy better spiritual artifacts, nor that he didn't have enough spirit stones. Although he spent 20,000 spirit stones today on purchasing formations, another 2,000 spirit stones on purchasing pills and a large-capacity spirit beast bag, and finally 10,000 spirit stones on talismans.

The remaining 30,000 spirit stones were still enough to buy an ordinary high-grade spirit weapon. The main problem was that Su You's strength was too low. He still had some difficulty controlling a high-grade spirit weapon with his current magic power. A mid-grade spirit weapon was the most suitable for a cultivator like him who had just entered the Foundation Establishment stage.

Now that everything was ready, Su You didn't hesitate any longer. He took several transformation artifacts crafted by his twin clones and left.

If this attempt fails, the losses will be truly devastating, and it may take Su You one or two months to recover.

After all, spirit stones aren't easy to earn. Only someone as fearless as him would dare to venture deep into the mountains alone to hunt monsters. Most people wouldn't be able to do that, and even those with his strength might not have his courage.

After entering the Changqi Mountains for some distance, Su You put on the transformation artifact, and placed several spirit beast storage bags under the artifact so that the transformation would not be revealed.

After traversing several dangerous areas, Su You finally arrived safely at the outskirts of the valley where the Mighty Dragon Ape was located.

The next step is to wait patiently and then find a suitable target to make a move.

There aren't many second-tier Mighty Dragon Apes in the valley, only about thirty in total, so Su You needs to carefully choose a suitable target.

Select the second-tier Mighty Dragon Ape with the best bloodline and take it away. This way, the price will be higher for training, and the talent ability obtained after use will be more powerful.

Although Su You could continuously infuse his spiritual power into his innate talent after it was solidified, allowing the primordial seed, which was the talent of the demon beast bloodline, to grow and evolve, this required a great deal of time, energy, and spiritual power.

If one can choose an excellent bloodline from the beginning, one will have a stronger talent from the start, and the mental effort invested later will not be less.

Even with the same amount of mental effort invested, one can possess far greater innate abilities.

There are relevant cases in the inheritance of this information. For example, there was a generation of inheritors who chose a talent that was not high at the beginning and spent tens of thousands of years to improve it to a level that matched their own strength.

(End of this chapter)