Covering the Heavens: Its fortune endures forever, sweeping across all heavens.

"Although Cao Yusheng does inhuman things, his cultivation level is still something to aspire to," Qin Tian thought to himself.

During this time, Qin Tian also took two fist-sized pieces of alien source material to exchange for two Saint-level Divine Bridge Scriptures and Other Shore Scriptures, for unforeseen circumstances.

As Qin Tian had anticipated, this behavior attracted the attention of many people.

Every time Qin Tian went down into the source mine, someone would follow him and mine source ore nearby in hopes of finding a different kind of source and gaining the opportunity to go to the Scripture Pavilion.

.........

Time flies.

Three months have passed since Qin Tian received Cao Yusheng's array formation inheritance. With the Enlightenment Tea Tree Paper by his side, Qin Tian is always in a state of mental clarity, and his learning speed has increased significantly.

On this day, Qin Tian finished his night of array cultivation and was about to go to work with his hoe when he noticed a crowd gathering not far away, making a great commotion.

Qin Tian was curious and went forward to check. It turned out that the Yao Guang Holy Land had posted a notice.

Standing at the back of the crowd, he focused his divine power on his eyes and read aloud the contents word by word:

"Due to abnormal changes in the earth's veins, Mine A will be closed in three months, so the miners will be transferred to Mine D."

Qin Tian was somewhat surprised: "This place will be sealed off in a couple of days?"

“We will also move to other source mines.” The old man who had initially tried to dissuade Qin Tian was somewhat confused.

He came to Mining Area A when he was sixteen years old, and now he is nearly eighty. It can be said that he has spent most of his life in close connection with the mining area.

He had worked here his whole life, and suddenly, being asked to leave Mine A and go elsewhere, he was somewhat afraid of the future.

Qin Tian, ​​however, was unusually excited, squeezing out the words through clenched teeth: "The time has finally come!"

A silver light shimmered in those silver pupils. Once the matter of sealing the source vein was settled, the future changed accordingly. Timelines were cut off, leaving only the future related to sealing the vein.

"Not only am I leaving, I'm going to give them a big surprise!" Qin Tian's eyes burned with fire. From a rational point of view, leaving quietly was the best solution.

With his skill in array formations, he was well capable of bypassing the array barriers of the Yaoguang Mine without being detected by anyone.

But Qin Tian didn't think that way; he was unwilling to leave like this.

His pent-up anger was driving him crazy.

Three years of servitude did not make him servile or diminish his spirit; on the contrary, it fueled his inner fire, almost turning it into an obsession.

No, this is an obsession. He won't be at peace or clear his mind unless he turns this place upside down, which will hinder his future spiritual practice.

"Sealing the meridians, sealing the meridians with an array, perhaps I can make use of it." Qin Tian murmured, his eyes filled with undying hatred and rage.

The so-called "sealing the vein" is just like its name suggests; it involves sealing the source vein for future extraction.

Qin Tian only realized upon arriving at the Shrouding the Heavens that the Origin was actually a renewable resource, essentially nothing more than a condensation of the earth's essence.

The Big Dipper, formed from the Chaos, is a "living" planet that constantly absorbs and releases the essence of the universe. The "source" is the life essence of the Big Dipper, its blood.

Cultivators, on the other hand, are those who have evolved by usurping the blood of the Big Dipper.

From this perspective, it is absolutely true that Heaven creates all things to nourish humankind, and that humankind has nothing to repay Heaven with.

The earth's veins wax and wane, rotating every ten thousand years.

Originium is born from the earth's veins and is actually a renewable resource. However, it takes more than ten thousand years to regenerate it once.

Sealing the veins is a method to accelerate the accumulation of earth vein energy and generate a source.

By using formations to block the flow of earth's ley line energy, a portion of the earth's essence is intercepted, allowing it to accumulate and settle, ultimately forming what is known as the "source."

The array within the source vein was set up by a sage, and only a sage who is also the founder of a small world can imprison the veins of heaven and earth.

Otherwise, no matter how large the Big Dipper is, even if a group of holy sites dig day and night for millions of years, it would be empty by now.

Qin Tian didn't know about other mining areas, but in the source mining area of ​​Yao Guang Holy Land, the source veins were sealed every thousand years, and ten veins formed a group. Each vein was mined for a thousand years, and ten veins would have a cycle of ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years have passed, the earth's vein essence has been accumulated and reactivated, and the originally depleted "source" has been regenerated.

In fact, given the size of BeiDou, its source veins should have been able to recover in more than 10,000 years.

Unfortunately, the Holy Lands were not the only ones doing this; on the contrary, they occupied only a very small portion of it.

The entire Big Dipper is a large array, like a living being, constantly breathing in and out energy.

Energy is drawn from the void to supply the beings of the Big Dipper. This energy flows between the dragon veins, nourishing the five regions and eight wastelands.

A portion of it overflows from the earth's veins, flowing between heaven and earth to provide for people's spiritual practice.

Another portion is stored within the dragon veins, wandering through the earth's veins, giving rise to all sorts of treasures.

However, the proportion of energy deposited in these dragon veins that is used to supply people with energy for cultivation is extremely small.

It's nothing more than some scraps and remnants of Beidou's autonomous breathing of cosmic energy.

Chapter 12 The Possibility of Artificial Chaos

The real main components are the Big Dipper Immortal Path Formation and the Seven Forbidden Zones.

In the mythological era, the Boundless Heavenly Venerable forged the Big Dipper and the Five Directions Dao Palace from a chaotic body, which transformed into five continents, upon which the Heavenly Venerable Emperor Array was inscribed.

Subsequently, countless supreme beings joined, and this celestial array in the mortal realm became the most important of all. The essence required for the daily maintenance of the array alone accounted for the vast majority of the Big Dipper's energy.

Secondly, it nourishes the seven forbidden zones of life, providing a good self-sealing environment for the supreme beings of these zones. The abundant essence is conducive to the preservation of immortal energy and can slow down the passage of time to some extent.

The old man's pale head drooped, somewhat uneasy: "Will we be ostracized if we go to other mining areas?"

"Just like the group of miners from outside who were rejected by us."

He had worked here for over sixty years, and suddenly having to leave filled him with fear of the future.

"It's just a change of scenery, it's fine, you'll get used to it!" Qin Tian comforted him.

……

After reading the notice, Qin Tian calmed himself down and went to work in the mine as usual. He knew that the last step was the hardest, and this was a time to be cautious.

Qin Tian mentally cheered himself up: "Qin Tian, ​​what's your motto in life? Steadiness, steadiness, or fucking steadiness!"

"If you don't have a 98% chance of winning, what's the difference between that and just running there to your death?"

"Master Li Xiaofa, grant me the unparalleled and invincible power of stability."

……

Time passes day by day.

On this day, Qin Tian went to the mine, and as usual, his hair stood on end, sensing the aura of opportunity.

"Although the spacetime boundary is already nearing its limit, we can still squeeze in a little bit."

Looking at the divine source the size of a human head in front of him, Qin Tian gritted his teeth, opened the portal to space and time, ignored the soreness in his eyes, and forcefully squeezed the divine source into the space-time realm.

Qin Tian rubbed his eyes, feeling that his spacetime pupils were nearing their limit.

My initial thought came to mind again.

"Can using my body as a shield increase my physical strength, thereby further enhancing the resilience of the Time-Space Pupil?"

Unable to contain his curiosity, Qin Tian decided to create his own cultivation method that used his body as an array.

The so-called "using one's body as a battle formation" refers to Cao Yusheng's achievement of breaking through the extreme realm in the Chaotic Ancient Cultivation System.

The unique grotto-heaven, equivalent to the array realm, is a path exclusively belonging to Cao Yusheng.

Qin Tian aims to recreate this within the secret realm's magic system, forging his own path of "using his body as a battle formation."

Possessing the ability to perceive time and space, he is very sensitive to the future and has a unique spiritual sense.

Ever since he conceived the idea of ​​"using his own body as a battle formation," Qin Tian has felt an unprecedented longing.

I hope to put into practice and put into action the principle of "leading by example".

He had a premonition that his future path lay in this battle where he would fight with his own body.

Without further ado, taking advantage of the fact that no one else was around, Qin Tian directly used his divine sense to draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, carving a corner of array pattern on the surface of his physical body.

The vital energy washed over his body, and he endured the pain, leaving traces of the Dao on his skin.

"Fizz!"

The intense pain caused his body to sway, and blood seeped from his entire body, like a torn piece of porcelain.

But his eyes were unusually bright, and he slowly etched marks on his skin.

After a long while, Qin Tian stopped, looked at the array pattern on his body, and sighed helplessly:

"It succeeded, and it failed!"

The array was very well designed. The Spirit Gathering Array operated freely on his body, mobilizing vital energy and accelerating his cultivation speed.

The great formation is constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to expand the scale of the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

However, it failed because the operation of the great formation was powered by Qin Tian's divine power, and the amount of energy absorbed from the surrounding area was less than the amount of divine power he consumed.

Once the divine power is exhausted, it will instead draw Qin Tian's life force as the energy source for the great formation, leaving Qin Tian with only one path: death.

"No, this path is wrong. Using the body as an array shouldn't mean directly treating the body as the array diagram." After pondering for a long time with his eyes closed, Qin Tian slowly said:

Qin Tian speculated, "Instead, it should be imprinted in the origin, turning it into a buff like a special physique, subtly changing physical attributes?"

Qin Tian sighed and erased the magic array engraved on his body. The process was extremely painful, equivalent to tearing the skin apart again on top of the already injured skin.

A flash of inspiration struck Qin Tian as he recalled Chu Luoli's ultimate move from his previous life: "The world is full of wonders, and all things extraordinary are part of the Great Dao."

"Physical constitution is the Dao, and so is the array. If I can evolve various physical constitutions into different arrays, and then transform the arrays into Dao patterns and engrave them into my origin, and gather all the Daos and physical constitutions in this way, perhaps I can artificially evolve a chaotic body." Qin Tian's eyes shone brightly, dazzling and filled with unprecedented excitement.

After a moment, Qin Tian calmed down and composed himself, saying, "This idea is far beyond what I can achieve right now. Just evolving my physique into an array is an impossible goal, let alone gathering all sorts of strange physiques."

"Although in this golden age, all kinds of physiques have emerged one after another, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain."

"But getting them all together is also a troublesome thing."

Qin Tian said, "At least one must have the cultivation of a quasi-emperor and be invincible throughout the world before attempting this."

……

That day, Qin Tian, ​​who had just woken up after a night of cultivation, heard some terrible news.

The old man who initially advised Qin Tian to be careful died during the mining process.

This news stunned him, and he quickly went to the old man's body.

Looking at the lifeless person in front of him, Qin Tian's heart sank.

He didn't know the old man's name, and neither did the people around him. Everyone just called him "old man," and over time, he accepted that title.

During the three years that Qin Tian was sold to Yaoguang Mine, perhaps he saw his former self in Qin Tian, ​​or perhaps it was for some other reason.

The old man took good care of him, and although Qin Tian didn't need it, he appreciated the old man's kindness.

He was someone who had brought Qin Tian warmth in a long time.

Qin Tian also considered taking the old man out of the mining area with him.

But... in the end, he never got to see the day he left.

Humans are so fragile, even those who cultivate themselves. You never know whether an accident or tomorrow will come first.

He already knew this principle when his sect was destroyed.

Qin Tian said in a trembling voice, "That's fine too!"

"I feel uneasy just because I'm leaving this mining area."

Qin Tian's voice gradually softened: "If I really let you go out, it would make you uncomfortable, wouldn't it?"

"Being buried in the mine is an acceptable outcome for you, or even an ending you had expected."

More than sixty years of life as a miner had long since made him an integral part of this job.

He knows how to mine, and that's all he knows how to do.

If she were to go out with Qin Tian, ​​she might feel uncomfortable and unable to accept the sudden change in her life, thus losing hope of living.

"However, you can accept it, but I can't!"

Qin Tian closed the old man's eyes, stood up, and said coldly.

The old man had been mining source stones for so many years, he was definitely a seasoned veteran, only mining in relatively safe areas. He suddenly died today, and he just couldn't believe it was an accident, especially after Qin Tian had just beaten up that outsider.

"Who killed him!" Qin Tian said calmly, but the anger flashing in his eyes proved that he was not as calm as he appeared.