Chapter 131: Spirit Gathering Array Completed

A drop of blood dripped onto the ground below. Zhou Yu squatted down and watched carefully. However, the drop of blood showed no signs of disappearing. It seemed that either the range was wrong, or this Spirit Gathering Array could not be activated with blood.

He looked at his finger and felt like crying but had no tears. Was this going to make him bleed a lot?

But in order to set up this Spirit Gathering Array, he was determined to go all out. So what if he had to shed some blood? Zhou Yu continued to reduce the range, this time shrinking it to four times the size of the Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array.

After digging holes within this four-fold range, he tried dripping another drop of blood, but the five Jade Stones still did not change at all.

After dripping the blood, Zhou Yu waved his fingers around for a while, but no Spiritual Power was released.

Still, he did not give up. Within a three-fold range, he dug five holes and placed the five Jade Stones inside.

After the last Jade Stone was placed in the hole, Zhou Yu’s expression shifted. He seemed to feel something. He looked at the Jade Stone beside him, reached out, and took it out of the hole. The moment the Jade Stone was removed, the feeling he had earlier disappeared.

When he placed the Jade Stone back in, the feeling returned. A look of joy appeared on his face. If he was not mistaken, this current range should be the maximum limit that the five Jade Stones could form a Spirit Gathering Array.

He figured that after reaching the Foundation Building Realm, his perception of the surroundings had greatly increased. That was why he could sense subtle changes when the five Jade Stones could be arranged into a formation.

A range three times that of the Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array meant he could plant more things. Also, the concentration of Spiritual Energy inside would be greater than that of the Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array. The growth speed might be the same.

Now that he knew the range of this Spirit Gathering Array, the only thing left was to test it. Zhou Yu did not hesitate and dripped another drop of blood onto the ground, but again, nothing changed.

After squatting and watching for a while, he shook his head and smiled. It seemed that the Spirit Gathering Array formed by these five Jade Stones could only be activated with Spiritual Power.

Zhou Yu tried pointing casually with his hand, but no light appeared on his fingers. After testing for a while, Huzi, Dabao, and Xiaobao, who were nearby, barked a few times and then turned their heads to look toward the kitchen.

These guys, when it came to food, each one was more eager than the last. He checked the time; almost an hour had passed. So he temporarily gave up on setting up the Spirit Gathering Array and opened the kitchen door. Immediately, a rich aroma of meat wafted out.

This meat aroma was somewhat different from the scent of Wind Eagle Meat, but it was equally tempting. The animals outside the kitchen, smelling this fragrance, all stuck out their tongues and eagerly licked their lips.

Even Jinzi, the ruler of the sky, stood outside, stretching its neck to peer into the kitchen.

Zhou Yu walked into the kitchen and opened the pot to check. Sure enough, the Spirit Beast Meat was already stewed. He had already added seasoning and Immortal Flavor Fruit. The aroma at this moment was simply irresistible.

After the aroma from the pot had mostly dissipated, he carried the pot outside and tightly closed the kitchen door.

Huzi, Dabao, Xiaobao, and the others closely followed behind Zhou Yu. Xiaobao was even drooling.

As for the two Demolition Chickens, they wandered slowly nearby. When Zhou Yu walked past them carrying the pot, they paid no attention.

Seeing this, Zhou Yu couldn’t help but smile. It seemed the food for these two Demolition Chickens was only Stone with Spiritual Energy. They had no interest in anything else.

Placing the pot on the table in the yard, he looked around. A whole circle had gathered: Xiaobai, Huzi, Dabao, Xiaobao, Jinzi, and also Gan Gan and Cui Cui.

“Alright, bring your food bowls over,” Zhou Yu clapped his hands and said. At these words, chaos instantly erupted. Although the two Demolition Chickens ignored this pot of meat, the sight of Xiaobai and Jinzi pouncing startled them.

Soon, many animals brought their food bowls over, placing them in front of themselves. Jinzi was the fastest, flying back and forth, tightly clutching its food bowl in its beak.

Zhou Yu couldn’t help but laugh. Using chopsticks, he first picked a piece of meat from the pot and put it in his mouth, intending to test the energy released by this meat.

The piece of meat was tender and smooth in his mouth, and it had a very chewy texture. This was much better than meat raised with artificial feed in modern times. At the same time, it also tasted better than Wind Eagle Meat.

After swallowing the meat, soon a flow of warmth spread from within his body. He closed his eyes and felt it. Just like the taste, this warmth was stronger than that from Wind Eagle Meat. However, Huzi and the others should have no problem handling it.

After all, from before until now, Huzi and the others had eaten Spirit Beast Pills, Wind Eagle Meat, and often consumed Honey. Their physical condition was already different from before.

He used a ladle to place meat into each animal’s food bowl one by one. After getting the meat, these animals all started eating frantically, as if they wanted to devour even the bowls themselves, like they had never eaten meat since birth.

Zhou Yu smiled, served himself a bowl from the pot, and ate slowly, feeling the warmth inside his body. While eating the meat, he saw the two Demolition Chickens approach the five Jade Stones. His expression tensed slightly, and he pointed at them. “You two, go over there. Don’t get too close to the Spirit Gathering Array.”

Even though he had tested earlier and found that these two Demolition Chickens had no interest in high-grade Jade Stones, seeing them wandering around there still made him uneasy.

As he pointed casually, a glimmer of white light emerged from his finger and shot straight in the direction he was pointing.

His words might not have scared the two Demolition Chickens, but this light frightened them so much they flapped their wings and flew away in a panic.

The light landed directly within the range of the Spirit Gathering Array. A glow rose from the ground and then instantly disappeared.

Seeing this, Zhou Yu widened his eyes and stared blankly at his finger. This… this released Spiritual Power and activated the Spirit Gathering Array just like that.

After snapping back to his senses, he immediately stood up and sprinted toward the Spirit Gathering Array. When he reached the spot, he directly stepped into the Spirit Gathering Array.

The moment he entered, he sensed that the previously Spirit-Energy-less Spirit Gathering Array was now becoming rich in Spiritual Energy.

Zhou Yu looked at the five Jade Stones inside the Spirit Gathering Array. At this moment, the patterns on these five Jade Stones lit up with glows, already connected to each other.

After researching for two hours, he couldn’t activate the Spirit Gathering Array. Yet, with just a casual point of his finger, it activated. It felt somewhat unreal.

Judging by the speed at which this Spirit Gathering Array gathered Spiritual Energy, it was stronger than the Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array. He felt that once this Spirit Gathering Array was set up, it would snatch most of the Spiritual Energy gathered by the Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array.

This was not only due to the difference in formation grade but also the gap in the Foundation Stones. More importantly, the Foundation Stones of that Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array were already close to collapsing.

But now, that Spirit Gathering Array was not important. All the plants inside would be moved to this Spirit Gathering Array.

A Spirit Gathering Array with three times the range meant he could plant even more things. A broad smile spread across Zhou Yu’s face. Looking at the two Lingque Chickens not far away, he called them over, then took two Jade Stones from the room and threw them to the chickens.

If these two hadn’t been wandering near the Spirit Gathering Array, who knew how long it would have taken for him to release Spiritual Power? The Spiritual Power truly released randomly; it was unpredictable.

Zhou Yu did not rush to transplant the plants. First, he finished dividing the meat in the pot among the animals. He planned to stew another pot in the evening and send some to his parents.

But he still kept a few pieces, planning to give them to Xiao Pang in the Sea later.

After finishing the meat, he received a phone call. A truck delivering the Jade Carving Machine had arrived in the village. He gave directions, and soon, a vehicle arrived at the gate of the Old Family House.

This Jade Carving Machine was not very large. Zhou Yu had them unload it behind the gate. After these people left, he easily lifted the engraving machine and moved it to the innermost room. From now on, this place would become his secret spot for carving Spirit Gathering Arrays.

After connecting the power, he tried turning on the machine and casually carved a Jade Stone. There were no problems. He planned to try carving a set of Mid-grade Spirit Gathering Arrays after transplanting the plants.

Walking from the room back to the yard, Zhou Yu stepped into the Low-Grade Spirit Gathering Array. He clearly felt that the Spiritual Energy inside was much thinner than before.

Picking up a shovel, he began loosening the soil in that Mid-grade Spirit Gathering Array. With his current physical condition, loosening the soil was very easy; he did not feel tired at all.

Soon, after finishing loosening the soil, Zhou Yu was just about to start transplanting when he heard familiar calls coming from the Sea not far away.

He walked to the end of the yard and looked toward the Sea, a smile appearing on his face. Xiao Pang had really come to find him.

Zhou Yu waved toward Xiao Pang, signaling it to come into the shallow water below. He saw that Xiao Pang still had a Pearl Oyster in its mouth.

At that moment, he leaped directly from the yard, landing lightly on a reef below. A distance of seven or eight meters was nothing to him.

After taking the Pearl Oyster from Xiao Pang’s mouth, he fed it the remaining pieces of Spirit Beast Meat.

It seemed to sense that this Spirit Beast Meat was different and let out a cheerful cry, slapping its tail against the seawater a few times.

Just then, several barks came from above. Zhou Yu looked up and saw Huzi, Dabao, Xiaobao, Xiaobai, and the others had all come over and were looking down.

Seeing these animals, Xiao Pang happily cried a few times and suddenly shot a stream of water from its mouth, drenching all the animals on the yard above.

Seeing this strange animal dare to spray water and provoke them, Huzi and the others could not tolerate it and started barking loudly.