Free Web NovelChapter 28: Chapter 28
Upon returning home, the first thing Adam did was carve a Spirit Gathering Formation within the compound.
Spirit Gathering Formations were divided into four grades: low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.
The effects of gathering spiritual energy varied drastically between them. freёwebnoѵel.com
The current Silver Willow Imperial Palace was enveloped by a massive top-grade Spirit Gathering Formation, which extracted more than half of the spiritual energy nurtured within the entire capital.
The capital was the place that bore the destiny of the nation. When the founding ruler Solaris established the capital here, he did so because the spiritual energy in this area was extremely abundant, several times that of other regions.
Although it was now the Dharma-Ending Age and spiritual energy was exhausted everywhere, logically the spiritual energy in the capital should still be more abundant than in other parts of Silver Willow.
Before the original owner became the third-highest ranking graduate, he had traveled and studied across Silver Willow, but he had not felt any difference in spiritual energy between those places and the capital.
The most fundamental reason was the Spirit Gathering Formation in the imperial palace, which made more than half the capital act as a supply line for the Silver Willow Imperial Family.
Spirit Gathering Formations were typically divided into four grades, but the True Interpretation actually recorded the layout for a Perfect Spirit Gathering Formation.
Whether low-grade, high-grade, or even top-grade, what they gathered was merely the ambient spiritual energy contained in the lower atmosphere. Although the quantity was large, the quality was not very high.
The higher the quality of spiritual energy, the faster a cultivator could refine it.
If two people with identical aptitude were to refine low-grade and top-grade spiritual energy respectively, their refinement speeds would differ by hundreds of times.
However, top-grade spiritual energy was only birthed in massive quantities when a Heaven and Earth Upheaval reached its absolute zenith.
In the current Dharma-Ending Age, perhaps only within the Heavenly Void would there be a thin trace of top-grade spiritual energy.
But the Heavenly Void was simply too distant.
Only existences like Mortal Supremes could tear through the void to reach it. Therefore, even if people knew there might be top-grade spiritual energy up there, they had no means to extract it.
The Perfect Spirit Gathering Formation recorded in the True Interpretation, however, solved this problem flawlessly. It could draw the top-grade spiritual energy from the Heavenly Void straight into the formation.
Adam carved array runes into the air around the courtyard of Vernal Manor, once carved, the runes vanished into thin air.
After he finished the final rune, an invisible pillar of light several feet wide shot straight into the Heavenly Void.
If a Formation Saint Master happened to pass by Vernal Manor, they would notice spiritual energy in the Heavenly Void constantly gathering toward this light pillar, then slowly surging down into the Perfect Spirit Gathering Formation.
The Heavenly Void was impossibly high. By Adam’s estimation, it would take at least eight hours for the top-grade spiritual energy to flow all the way down into the formation.
After engraving the formation, Adam did not sit and wait. After eating dinner, he resumed his cultivation.
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Late at night, while the entire capital lay in dead silence, Adam finished cultivating and went to sleep.
Amidst the silence of all things, the first wisp of top-grade spiritual energy from the Heavenly Void, after surging downward for eight hours, finally poured into the Perfect Spirit Gathering Formation.
As time passed, more and more top-grade spiritual energy gathered within the formation. This three-courtyard residence of Vernal Manor was undergoing an earth-shattering transformation in absolute silence.
In the front courtyard, tender green shoots were sprouting on the branches of the long-withered parasol tree.
In the backyard, the lifeless peonies were forming flower buds. Even the withered weeds that had long been cleared from the ground were pushing through the soil, bursting with green vitality.
In the early morning, accompanied once again by Cecilia’s exclamation, Adam woke from his dreams.
"Young Master, Young Master, wake up quickly! An auspicious sign has appeared in our courtyard!"
Cecilia rushed joyfully into Adam’s room, dragged him out from under the covers into the courtyard, and pointed at the scene before them.
"Young Master, look! It’s late autumn, yet the peonies that withered so long ago have blossomed into buds, and the tree has grown new leaves!"
"What auspicious sign? Circulate your cultivation technique and feel the spiritual energy in this courtyard for yourself."
After a night of accumulation, the spiritual energy in the courtyard was already quite abundant. Even without circulating his cultivation technique, Adam could feel spiritual energy continuously flowing around them.
A mere withered wood meeting spring was nothing. Enveloped by the Perfect Spirit Gathering Formation, not a single wisp of spiritual energy could leak out of Vernal Manor.
As long as the formation kept running, top-grade spiritual energy from the Heavenly Void would continuously pour into the residence.
Over years and months of accumulation, the spiritual energy within the manor would grow increasingly dense, perhaps even reaching the point of condensing into spiritual rain.
Bathing in this dense spiritual energy, let alone withered wood meeting spring, under its long-term influence the flora in the courtyard might even develop sentience and become cultivating monster spirits.
Following Adam’s prompt, Cecilia circulated the Imperial Ultimate Dao-Proving Scripture and instantly felt the spiritual energy in the courtyard was at least a thousand times denser than usual.
After cultivating for just a brief moment, she felt the accumulation of spiritual energy in her dantian grow by a fraction.
Cecilia looked at Adam with utter astonishment, her face full of confusion.
Under Cecilia’s worshipful gaze, Adam gave a simple explanation. "I know some people in the imperial court. Last night, while you were asleep, I had an array master from the court set up a grand Spirit Gathering Formation in our courtyard."
"In the future, the spiritual energy here will become denser and denser. If you cultivate here, your cultivation speed will be dozens of times faster than before."
With such a perfect cultivation environment, Adam almost did not want to go to Inkwood Academy anymore. If he cultivated here for a period of time, his cultivation base would very quickly reach Grandmaster Peak.
