I, who was turned into a woman by the Jade Maiden Master, want to rebel against the Heavenly Gang.

However, even with this, the Yunze Immortal Palace Formation is far from complete.

The gifts given at the Qingyun Gathering must be quite meaningful. This Yunze Immortal Palace is the champion's reward; although it doesn't have the power to create the world, it can still change it.

However, it requires continuous improvement by the users themselves, which is exactly what the Jade Maiden Sect expects from young talents.

Yunze Immortal Palace is an illusionary formation. Those who enter the formation are like navigating a maze, constantly traversing the realms of the five elements. Even if one remains stationary, the formation will rotate and switch between realms of different attributes.

However, this maze doesn't have a single correct path. Mazes with a correct path are designed to test players.

The sect does not need to reward invaders for choosing the right path to break through the maze; instead, it needs layer upon layer of walls and impregnable gates.

Only the city lord and authorized persons are allowed to enter and exit freely.

The five elements domains of the Yunze Immortal Palace Formation can be combined freely. Normally, the optimal arrangement is a circular operation of the five elements generating each other.

However, this arrangement, which most people could think of, was not what Qin Rufeng wanted, nor did it conform to the characteristics of this formation, which is dominated by water and wood.

Qin Rufeng's formation uses water and wood as its core, surrounded by other attributes.

The entire valley is filled with a deep pool and lush green mountains on both sides; this is the core of Yunze Immortal Palace and the location of its sect. Outsiders are not allowed to enter without permission.

Even if it is invited in without the array being activated, as long as Ru Feng activates the array, it can immediately transform the space into another domain.

On the outskirts of the core area of ​​Mushui, is

Following the order of wood generating fire, fire generating earth, and earth generating metal, it operates in the direction of the celestial cycle. Finally, metal generates water, returning to the core.

There's nothing wrong with this setup. However, each area only has city walls and no soldiers, or rather, only a maze, without even a single minotaur inside.

The only defense we have now is the "Wood Domain," and its guardian beast is the same worm that devoured Jiang Lu. Qin Rufeng named it the [Giant Wood Worm].

This creature possesses a spirit and can be tamed. In addition, small pets like the "snake mushroom" raised by the wind can also be tamed in the Purple Gold Qiong Spirit Root Forest.

This little Karami can help Qin Rufeng in some ways, but not much. He can nurture it in the wood realm of Yunze Immortal Palace, absorbing the essence of water and wood, and hopefully it will become stronger.

The "water domain" can be guarded by Qin Rufeng himself.

The "Fire Domain" is located on the sunny slope of Nanshan Mountain. It occupies the due south position and also covers parts of the east and west.

The "Golden Realm" is in the Northeast, and the "Earth Realm" is in the Northwest.

The boundary between earth and metal is due north. On the southern slope of the north peak, there is a mountain spring and waterfall cascading into the lake, perfectly embodying the concept of metal returning to water.

In the Earth Domain, Qin Rufeng planned to first create a sea of ​​sand using the Weak Water Sinking Sand technique. However, Weak Water Sinking Sand is a spell, and maintaining it indefinitely is not easy.

Although it can be achieved using the power of formations, it requires a magical artifact as a medium.

This magical artifact thus became the so-called "strategic eye." Therefore, the "strategic eye" is not a flaw intentionally left for the enemy, but rather something that had no other choice.

Qin Rufeng happened to possess a magical artifact suitable for use as the core of the formation. It was the [Earth Dragon Golden Lock], which he obtained when rescuing Li Qingshi from the Crimson Moon Heavenly Prison.

This Earth Dragon Golden Lock is buried in the earth to generate gold from the earth, and uses golden chains to lock people. Placed at the boundary between the metal and earth domains, it can simultaneously serve as the array eye of both areas.

Although destroying the key point of the formation will break both areas, it is relatively easier to defend a single key point.

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The Earth Dragon Golden Lock is actually a pretty useful magic weapon. Qin Rufeng had kept it hidden away because it had trapped five "spiritual herb spirits."

The spirit herb was also obtained by Qin Rufeng in the Crimson Moon Heavenly Prison. It was formed from the five Daoist partners of that senior Li Zhongma in the secret cave.

After cultivating their nascent souls, the five individuals were unwilling to disembowel themselves and kill each other, so they used plants instead. As a result, their nascent souls transformed into grass spirits, leaving only empty shells; they perished and their cultivation dissipated.

This grass spirit was also in human form, with green leaves like tassels on its head. Because it ran around aimlessly and attacked indiscriminately, Qin Rufeng used the Earth Dragon Golden Lock to restrain it, using metal to overcome wood.

If the Earth Dragon Golden Lock is used as the array core of the Earth-Golden Domain, then these five lively creatures will be unrestrained.

To solve this problem, Qin Rufeng began to teach himself the art of talismans.

She had already obtained a basic book on talismans from the old man in the Crimson Moon Prison, so she could be considered an introductory practitioner of talismans. However, those basic talismans were too rudimentary, and Qin Rufeng had never used them.

However, things are different now. Ru Feng obtained more than just spirit stones from Yuan Mengli's treasure vault; he also acquired several cultivation techniques. Among them was a top-grade talisman technique manual, "..."

The Collection of Secret Seals and Talismans of the Great Void.

So, for the next few days after activating the Cloud Marsh Immortal Palace Formation, Qin Rufeng diligently studied this manual.

She was always incredibly obsessed with practicing martial arts and studying techniques. For several days, she completely ignored everyone, utterly immersed in the secret manual. She used up a huge amount of yellow paper and cinnabar.

Finding the method to seal the spirit herb was a piece of cake; Qin Rufeng even found the method to use the talisman his master had previously used to control her body and... seal the jade dew worm.

The art of talismans is truly vast and profound.

Although Qin Rufeng was obsessed with talismans, as the leader of a sect, she did not neglect the development of the sect.

Now that Yin VII, the father of the shrimp, and Qi Liuyin have joined the sect, they need a place to stay. They can't spend all day lying on tree roots and vines with Zi Jinqiong, gazing at the starry sky.

Building sect structures should be a very simple matter using magic. However, almost no cultivator would waste time studying how to construct buildings. Therefore, building pavilions still requires assembling them brick by brick, stone by stone, and piece by piece of wood.

Fortunately, this is a world of cultivation, so the construction speed is quite fast. After completion, it can be stored using a spirit talisman, and then unfolded and placed when it arrives at its destination.

The sect's main hall was named "Xuan Nu Palace," and Qin Rufeng entrusted all the specific matters to Nangong Yue. While waiting, she focused on learning talismans.

In addition, Qin Rufeng was also thinking about how to increase the defensive power of each area of ​​the formation. The phenomenon of ticks and wasps blooming on the flowers on the Crimson Moon Blood Puppet gave her a great inspiration.

The idea of ​​"giving birth" to insects seems both reasonable and unreasonable. Since ticks and wasps are associated with the element of fire, the idea of ​​wood generating fire does seem plausible.

Qin Rufeng believed this phenomenon wasn't an isolated case, so she searched for it in "The Art of Living Vessel Refining: The Chapter of Wood." And she actually found it...

There is a creature called the Fire Butterfly, which is born from wood.

This thing is practically a living flame; in its presence, all vegetation except for fire-attribute plants will be burned to ashes.

In fact, there are many spells that imitate fire butterflies, and Nangong Yue's Fire Butterfly Spell is one of them. However, that is, after all, a spell imitation, while the one recorded in the "Chapter of Wood" is a real fire butterfly.

However, since this technique is recorded in the art of refining living artifacts, it naturally requires living artifacts...

According to the records in the Wood Chapter, the Fire Butterfly needs to be summoned through a summoning ritual. The core of the ritual is the need for "living grass" or "living spirits of grass and trees".

The living grass is produced by the ginseng mother, and the "fire essence of grass and wood" refers to various grass and wood spirits, such as ginseng dolls and Polygonum multiflorum essence.

Qin Rufeng had one readily available, and its spiritual energy was far stronger than that of ordinary plant spirits. That was the "spiritual herb spirit" trapped by the Earth Dragon Golden Lock.

The "Jiang Lu Cup" and the "Xiao Hongjin Soul Liquid" are different. They were not created from the extracted souls of Senior Li's five Daoist partners.

Those five have unfortunately perished and their essence has vanished; this spirit herb is merely the refined essence of their lives.

After everything was ready, Qin Rufeng first drew a sealing talisman. Then, he carefully unlocked one of the chains of the Earth Dragon Golden Lock and released a spirit herb.

After landing, the little thing tried to burrow into the soil, only to find that there was no soil under its feet but rather a tangled mass of vine roots.

It squeaked a few times, seemingly hurling some very offensive insults. Then it shrunk to the size of a person, and lightning bolts shot from its fingertips as it prepared to fight Qin Rufeng.

Qin Rufeng directly stuck a talisman on the spirit herb's forehead, and the thing instantly shriveled up... returning to the size that could be held in one palm.

It seems the talisman was very effective. Next, the same method was used to seal the other four spirit herbs with talismans. In this way, the Earth Dragon Golden Lock was completely released.

Qin Rufeng then tightly buried the earth dragon at the boundary between the metal and earth elements on the north side of the North Peak. He then used the [Weak Water Sinking Sand] technique within the earth element.

The land immediately turned into sand, and all vegetation sank into the sea of ​​sand...

While it is regrettable that a once lush forest has been transformed into a vast sea of ​​sand, this sea of ​​sand can pose a significant challenge to invaders.

This is no ordinary desert; it's impossible for anyone to stand here. Without cultivation techniques or magical treasures that possess the attributes of metal or wood, one would sink directly into the sand.

Even if you use flying devices, it won't work; sand and dust will still rise up everywhere. If they land on someone, they'll still be dragged into the sea of ​​sand.

Then, following the summoning spells described in "The Art of Refining Living Objects: Chapter of Wood", Qin Rufeng used a spirit herb to summon the Fire Butterfly.

This spell is very thoughtful; it not only summons fire butterflies but also controls the spirit herbs to recognize the summoner as their master.

Because it was infused with the spiritual energy of the Great Winged Qi (Eight) Spirit Six Doubts, the spirit herb actually transformed into a human form.

Her skin, as white as jade, still retained the color of her previous tender roots. Its texture was also incredibly delicate, indistinguishable from human skin.

The spirit herb's hair also transformed from grass leaves into real hair. A head of long, dark brown hair cascaded down her shoulders and reached her waist.

She was quite handsome, with a shapely figure, a pert bottom, and fair skin with a rosy hue. It was unclear whether this was a feature inherited from the original owner of the body.

A swarm of fiery butterflies danced around her, sometimes landing on her hair, sometimes on her shoulder.

The transformed spirit herb gazed at Qin Rufeng with its ruby-like eyes, then knelt before him. (Part 5)

Qin Rufeng thought for a moment and said, "From now on, you shall be called [Red Butterfly]."

Red Butterfly immediately kowtowed in gratitude. It seemed she had gained sentience, though she couldn't speak yet.

Qin Rufeng nodded in satisfaction, then said, "Hongdie, come with me."

Since Red Butterfly didn't know how to fly, Qin Rufeng summoned his giant sword and carried her to the sunny slope of Nanshan Mountain. Then he said, "You stay here and guard this place."

"You are the guardian and the key to this formation. You must hide yourself well and never show yourself easily."

Red Butterfly nodded and then disappeared into the earth. As soon as she entered the earth, the fire butterflies scattered and danced in all directions. They landed on the grass and trees and immediately burst into flames.

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In no time at all, the sunny slope of Nanshan Mountain had been reduced to scorched earth. The fire butterflies danced and fluttered amidst the flames.

After mating, the male butterfly bursts into flames and turns to ashes. The female butterfly lays her eggs on the charcoal left by burning vegetation, and then also burns to ashes, turning into a wisp of smoke.

Under the influence of spiritual energy, those eggs will soon turn into larvae, and then pupate into butterflies to reproduce. However, this process requires food.

Just after the Fire Butterfly fell silent, tender green shoots sprouted from the scorched earth. This was the "Spirit Herb Spirit. Red Butterfly" using its wood elemental energy underground to nurture the plants.

When the fire butterfly larvae first hatch, they feed on charcoal. As they grow larger, they feed on grass and trees. Then they pupate, become butterflies, and set fire to the mountains, thus completing the cycle.

Generally speaking, the growth rate of plants cannot keep up with the growth rate of insects. Therefore, fire butterflies must live in areas with abundant wood elemental energy.

It is born from wood burning, and is called "fire spirit". The power of its flames is far beyond that of ordinary wildfires.

From this perspective, summoning fire butterflies with a wood-attribute spirit actually makes quite sense. However, if the wood spirit itself isn't powerful enough, it will probably burn to ashes in an instant.

Fortunately, Red Butterfly is a Foundation Establishment cultivator and has the support of the powerful water elemental energy of Yunze Immortal Palace, so she should be able to thrive indefinitely.

The fire domain is now set up, but the metal domain is still undefended.

After much deliberation, Qin Rufeng had no choice but to temporarily "hand over" his beloved Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Sword Formation. He then summoned the giant sword from the Sword Tomb and all the remaining swords from his storage space to rebuild the Sword Tomb.

Although this would cause her to lose her "ultimate move," the sword can be collected again, but the sect's protective formation must immediately have defensive capabilities.

Now that he has the Profound Yin Thunder and the Netherworld Ten Fiends Formation, along with a few Spirit Fox Flames and his "pet" Feng Hua, Qin Rufeng no longer absolutely needs the Hundred Birds Sword Formation.

So she used the giant sword as the core of the formation, and the broken swords fell to form a sword mound.

After she finished setting up the formation, she felt something leave her body along with the giant sword. It even seemed to let out a roar like a ferocious beast.

A beam of golden light shot up from the tip of the greatsword's hilt, shooting straight into the sky. A black vortex, churning with thunderclouds and lightning, immediately appeared in the air.

Qin Rufeng himself didn't understand why this unexpected effect occurred, but he felt it must be very powerful.

Not long after, Nangong Yue and Shangguan Qingxue returned together. They were astonished to see the tremendous changes that had taken place in Yunze Immortal Palace in just a few days.

They brought both good news and bad news.

The good news is that the sect's main hall has been completed.

The bad news is... the storage talismans are sold out and can't be brought back.

This is a bit outrageous; that's not what was said when the order was placed.

Nangong Yue sighed and said, "They say they were all bought up by other sects. That's pure nonsense!"

Qin Rufeng frowned slightly. "Someone must be deliberately making things difficult for us."

Looking at Nangong Yue's indignant expression, she said, "It's really not easy that you didn't burn the shop down."

"Tch, do you really think I'm that kind of reckless brute?" Nangong Yue glanced at Ru Feng and said, "The Xuan Nu Sect is newly established, and many people are looking for trouble without any pretext. How can I be so impatient? Even if I want to lose my temper, I'll wait until we've established ourselves firmly."

"Besides, the boss was kneeling and begging. I also know that other sects were deliberately trying to sabotage us. The Xuan Nu Palace is quite well-built, and I felt embarrassed to make things difficult for the boss any further."

Qin Rufeng knew that more difficulties were yet to come, so she nodded slightly and said, "Let's go and retrieve the items first."

“That’s a bit difficult,” Shangguan Qingxue said, shaking her head. “If there’s no spirit talisman to move buildings, then we can only use storage magic items. But even Yuan Mengli’s private treasury in Qingyuefang doesn’t have such a storage magic item.”

Qin Rufeng was somewhat surprised, "This Xuan Nu Palace isn't that big."

"Not that big?" Shangguan Qingxue looked at Qin Rufeng with the same surprise. "You mean... it can hold spirit talismans, and storage magic treasures are no problem either?"

"That may be true, but no one would need a storage magic item with such a large space. Even if someone has so many magic items and resources that they are piled up like a magnificent palace... it's impossible to put all your eggs in one basket."

"No demand, no market. Although we can custom-make magical artifacts with such enormous storage space, it will take time and cost a lot of spirit stones."

"But it seems that's all we can do for now. Hopefully, someone will be willing to take the job."

Upon hearing this, Qin Rufeng smiled and said, "It's alright, I, the sect leader, have my own ingenious methods."

Ru Feng unusually put on airs... Seeing that the sect leader was so confident, the others stopped saying anything.