I had already ascended to heaven when the spiritual energy began to recover?

[At the same time, when you are using swordsmanship, the speed and stability of your sword energy condensation will increase by 30%.]

Bai Sheng looked at the string of words and raised an eyebrow.

It's been upgraded!

His understanding of swordsmanship increased by a whole level.

The effect of Lv1 is to passively increase the speed at which sword-type techniques are learned.

The effect was too blurry.

I can feel the benefits when practicing the One Qi Righteous Yang Sword.

But I can't quite put my finger on exactly how it helped.

The effects of Lv2 are much more specific.

Anticipate movements, sense the direction of sword intent.

The speed and stability of sword energy condensation have increased by 30%!

That last white one is absolutely necessary.

The main issue is that the purple film adhering to the surface of the sword aura is inherently unstable.

Every time I draw upon the purple aura, it feels like walking a tightrope.

After improving stability by 30%,

This should be able to extend the duration of the purple film even further.

He flexed his right hand fingers.

I tried to condense the sword energy of the One Qi Righteous Yang Sword.

A flash of golden light,

The sword energy forms faster than before.

The purple coating on the sword's surface also adhered better than usual.

The gradient layers of purple and gold light showed almost no fluctuations.

He dispersed the sword energy.

Although Captain Chen's questions were increasingly tricky.

But to gain these insights into swordsmanship from this meal...

In the end, we actually made a profit.

Bai Sheng woke up from his sleep,

I spent half a day resting first.

The aftereffects of his previous overexertion of his divine sense were greater than he had anticipated.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that I finally recovered completely!

Bai Sheng has almost figured out the underlying principles of the suburban formation.

However, one question remains unanswered.

How much area can these three stone slabs cover?

If the stone slab is moved to another location, can it be reactivated?

He manipulated three clones to return to the wasteland.

Have the clones dig out all three stone slabs at the locations of the left eye, right eye, and mouth.

Each slab retains the original dark red stone in the groove.

Then, following his instructions, the three stone slabs were moved approximately five hundred paces eastward.

It is no longer based on the original three standard product elements.

The new burial location was chosen by Bai Sheng on a temporary basis based on the view of the earthen slope from above.

The three dots form a miniature version of the Chinese character "品" (pin).

The spacing was reduced from 300 steps to about 150 steps.

After burying the stone slabs

The symbols at the four corners of the stone slab simultaneously flashed a very faint red light.

Then silence.

After waiting for a moment,

The energy flow deep within the soil did not reappear.

Bai Sheng subconsciously thought he had failed.

Just as I was about to give up,

But the color and luster of the three stone slabs themselves instantly...

Changes are beginning to appear.

The symbols at the four corners of each stone slab began to flash alternately.

The frequency is getting faster and faster.

The red light on the last three stone slabs flashed simultaneously.

then,

A very faint dark red light pattern,

Emerging from the surface of the soil between the three stone slabs

The three points are connected to form a complete triangular loop.

Bai Sheng leaned back on the sofa, staring at the images transmitted back by his clone.

That is,

As long as the relative spacing and angle between the three points maintain a triangular structure, the loop can be built automatically.

The core of this formation is actually the relative relationship between the three stone slabs.

In other words, this array is movable.

Bai Sheng had his clones find some discarded woven bags.

Wrap the stone slabs, one for each person.

They carried it back to Cuizhu Garden.

Around 3 a.m.

The stray cats and dogs in the neighborhood are all asleep.

The clone silently moved the stone slab into the house and leaned it against the corner of the living room wall.

Bai Sheng came out of the bedroom

I saw the three gray-white stone slabs in the corner.

After thinking about it, I felt it wasn't appropriate to keep these strange things at home.

It is easy to be discovered.

For example, those who deliver packages.

Or it might be difficult to explain if a neighbor or someone else saw it.

Bai Sheng thought it over and over.

I took an old curtain and covered them up.

"Meow?"

The chubby orange cat curiously crawled under the curtains and sniffed around.

It seems to be somewhat sensitive to the residual energy fluctuations in the grooves of the stone slab.

It quickly ran away on its own.

……

at night,

Bai Sheng leaned back on the sofa and scrolled through his phone.

Local news feeds kept coming in one after another.

He was in the habit of watching the news every day to stay informed about current events, after all, who knows, one day he might hear news of the revival of spiritual energy.

Be prepared, just in case.

He has maintained this habit for two weeks.

Bai Sheng casually swiped the screen.

I saw a trending topic on Douyin.

The cover of a short video.

A pitch-black night sky,

The title reads, "Villagers in Cangshi County photograph strange light bands."

The video has already garnered over 100,000 views.

Which Cangshi County is under the jurisdiction of Yangcheng?

Bai Sheng was stunned.

He clicked on it.

The video was shot very shakily, with the phone camera pointed at the distant ridgeline.

In the darkness, a very faint grayish-white band of light stretched across the ridgeline.

It hung there quietly in the sky, slowly wriggling.

The person filming was a local villager, and the voice-over had a heavy Cangshi accent.

I kept saying, "Look, look, it's moving again!"

The comment section below the video,

It was also a scene of utter chaos.

Some say it's a military exercise, others say it's a precursor to an earthquake, and still others say it's aliens visiting...

Bai Sheng flipped through a few pages.

Similar eyewitness accounts have been sporadically appearing on several platforms in the past few days.

The filming took place between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., and all the locations were in the mountainous areas near Cangshi County!

"How could I not join in the fun?"

Bai Sheng switched his consciousness, using the Light and Shadow Splitting Technique to condense a clone.

I went downstairs and walked towards Cangshi County.

……

The clone traveled around the county road of Cangshi County.

This area is mountainous and densely wooded.

Several natural villages are scattered along both sides of the county road.

At the village entrance, a few elderly people usually sit and bask in the sun.

The dogs on the village roads here are more diligent than the people!

Bai Sheng controlled his clone to wander around the county town for most of the day.

No abnormal energy fluctuations were detected.

I also didn't see that grayish-white light band from the video again.

It seems that those light bands only appear at specific times.

It's broad daylight now, and you can't see anything.

unconsciously,

Strolling to the second village,

Bai Sheng saw several villagers chatting under the old locust tree at the village entrance.

The clone slowed its pace, and Bai Sheng overheard it through the clone's body.

What were they talking about? The clock struck again last night; it sounded eerie.

But the specific details were unclear.

Bai Sheng controlled his clone to buy cigarettes from the village store.

Handed to these villagers,

He handed one to the middle-aged man and then one to the old man.

"Uncle, I just heard someone say that there are bells ringing in the mountains around here at night?"

Bai Sheng had his clone bring the lighter over to light the middle-aged man's cigarette.

"Indeed, and it rang again last night!" The middle-aged man took a drag, exhaling smoke from his nostrils.

"It rang more than a dozen times! I was counting."

"There aren't more than a dozen strokes," the woman sewing shoe soles said without looking up.

"It rang three times, I heard it too, three times, and then after a while it rang three more times."

"What kind of ears do you have? That's not the sound of a bell at all!"

Bai Sheng was a little confused: "Um... could you describe the sound more clearly?"

Little did I know,

The villagers started arguing.

Almost no one paid attention to Bai Sheng's words; everyone was talking about their own group's ideas.