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Chapter 252 - 225 [Formation Great Success, Changing Destiny!]

Chapter 252: Chapter 225 [Formation Great Success, Changing Destiny!]

Perhaps due to immense anticipation for the Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array that aided in cultivation, once Dong Hai Gang’s subordinates had placed the jade stone, Ye Fan approached the jade with a medicine furnace and essence stone in hand.

"Mr. Ye, I will not disturb you while you set up the array." Although Pan Jueming was eager to witness Ye Fan laying out the formation, he feared disturbing him and decided to leave.

Jueming, just watch from the side."

Ye Fan said, "Martial Arts and Magic, although different fields, have some commonalities, so observing this could benefit your cultivation."

"Alright."

Upon hearing this, Pan Jueming nodded gratefully and then retreated ten meters away.

Seeing this, Ye Fan took a deep breath and slowly placed the medicine furnace on top of the jade stone.

The medicine furnace was all black with no engraved patterns on the surface; it appeared very ordinary, yet its sophistication lay inside.

Lifting the furnace lid, one could clearly see four dragon heads at the north, south, east, and west positions in the middle part of the furnace. The intricately carved dragon heads seemed lifelike, serving as the furnace’s four fire ports.

Below the dragon heads was a net-like object with very small gaps, so fine that likely not even sand could seep through; beneath the net was a bowl-shaped object for holding medicine.

This medicine furnace, brought to Ye Fan by Chu Ji from Spirit Mountain, had once been used by Ye Fan and Chu Xuanji for alchemy. While not a treasure, the furnace had indirectly absorbed much of heaven and earth’s essence over the years, subtly altering its material. In this sense, it could be considered a low-level magical artifact, albeit with no function beyond alchemy.

That day, Duanmu, who had neither interest in alchemy nor knowledge about furnaces, had simply glanced over it without lifting the furnace lid. Thus, he had overlooked its intricacy.

After opening the furnace lid, Ye Fan sat cross-legged beside the jade stone, slightly closing his eyes as he concentrated his mind.

Whoosh!

The next moment.

Under Pan Jueming’s scrutiny, Ye Fan’s hands moved in a blur, forming handprints too fast for Jueming to see clearly.

As he formed the handprints, the colors of heaven and earth changed!

Suddenly, a faintly visible vortex appeared in the sky above Ao Xiang Villa, with heaven and earth’s primordial Qi surging toward it.

"Uh..."

Witnessing magic for the first time, Pan Jueming was astounded by the fluctuations of heaven and earth’s primordial Qi and involuntarily gaped.

At the same time, Ye Fan’s expression turned very serious, even somewhat solemn.

The solemnity was because he had just used the very common ’Gathering Essence Array,’ aimed at gathering the surrounding heaven and earth primordial Qi, a simple task for any magician. But next, he had to use the ’Five Elements Formation’ to carefully separate the wood element Qi from the gathered primordial Qi and channel it into the medicine furnace, thereby activating the ’Fire Dragon Formation’ laid by Chu Xuanji within.

"Heaven has five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth..."

Muttering the mantra for the ’Five Elements Formation,’ Ye Fan positioned his hands in front of his chest, rapidly changing his handprints.

"Divide!"

Ye Fan executed the ’Divide’ handprint from the ’Five Elements Formation,’ looked up to the heavens, and shouted loudly.

With the shout, the primordial Qi of heaven and earth violently fluctuated and instantly dispersed into five invisible streams.

"Wood Essence Energy, absorb!"

With another low shout, Ye Fan changed the handprints again, executing the ’Absorb’ handprint of the ’Five Elements Formation.’

Whoosh—

As the handprint was formed, the wood essence energy, as if summoned, descended from the sky.

Having successfully induced the wood essence energy, Ye Fan, who dared not be careless, continued to change the handprints, gingerly controlling the wood essence energy as it slowly entered the medicine furnace.

The caution was because he knew, if too much wood essence energy entered the furnace at once, controlling the fire from the ’Fire Dragon Formation’ would become very difficult, even dangerously so, possibly causing the furnace to explode! This had happened when he first learned alchemy with Chu Xuanji and had introduced wood essence into the furnace, leading to uncontrollable flames, a memory still fresh in his mind.

"Wood fuels fire, quickly!"

Swiftly, under Ye Fan’s manipulation, the wood essence energy slowly entered the medicine furnace. Without pausing, he divided his consciousness, controlling the slow entrance of wood essence energy into the furnace with one part while activating the ’Fire Dragon Formation’ inside the furnace with another part of his magic skill.

Whoosh—

Triggering the Fire Dragon Formation, the four dragon heads that served as fire ports simultaneously spouted flames, and a yellow flame emerged from the top of the furnace.

"Uh..."

Seeing this scene, Pan Jueming was so shocked that he nearly dropped his eyeballs!

Having transitioned from a commoner to a martial artist, he had once been amazed by the magic and power of Martial Arts, but to him, magic seemed even more magical and mysterious!

After all, not even Innate Martial Artists could create fire out of nothing...

Meanwhile, as Pan Jueming stood stunned by the magical spectacle before him, beads of sweat the size of beans continuously seeped from Ye Fan’s forehead, trickling down his face, seemingly under some strain.

The situation was indeed as it appeared; at that moment, he was dividing his consciousness, operating the Five Elements Formation on one hand and controlling the Fire Dragon Formation inside the furnace on the other, which was unimaginably challenging. His telekinetic power was being consumed at an unimaginable rate.

"It seems I was a bit too confident." />

Ye Fan inwardly chuckled wryly, simultaneously feeling deeply relieved that, thanks to the appearance of that crimson golden crown, his magic skill had successfully advanced into the Innate Realm, and his telekinetic power had surged. Otherwise, he would have been unable to accomplish all this.

After the brief wry smile, Ye Fan dared not linger longer but divided another part of his consciousness, concentrating a stream of telekinetic power on the bag of essence stones.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh..."

Quickly, the several Essence Stones that Chu Ji had provided to Ye Fan flew out of the bag under the control of his Mind Power and successively landed in the Medicine Furnace.

Once the Essence Stones entered the Medicine Furnace, the flames at the opening of the furnace immediately disappeared, and the fire inside the furnace greatly diminished.

Realizing this, Ye Fan was moved and gradually increased the speed of the Wood Essence Energy entering the furnace, and he no longer suppressed the fire inside, causing the flames to surge dramatically. Moreover, the flames turned an unusual blackish-red color, which was quite eerie.

"Hiss, hiss..."

As the fire intensified, a slight noise emerged from inside the furnace. The several Essence Stones, under the roasting of the blackish-red flames, gradually melted, emitting strands of Essence Qi, invisible to the naked eye, which suddenly surged out!

"Collect!"

As the Essence Qi emerged, Ye Fan stopped controlling the Five Elements Formation and the Fire Dragon Formation, and just as the Essence Qi surged out of the furnace, he abruptly brought his hands together, forming another handprint.

"Swoosh—"

Upon forming the handprint, the several strands of extremely precious Essence Qi instantly merged together, and under Ye Fan’s control, directly entered into the white jade stone.

Whoosh!

In an instant, the jade stone burst into a dazzling luster, so intense that Pan Jueming immediately closed his eyes, while Ye Fan carefully sensed the changes in the jade stone.

"Phew~"

A few seconds later, feeling that the Essence Qi extracted from the Essence Stones had fully integrated into the jade stone, Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally succeeded!"

After speaking, Ye Fan wiped the sweat from his forehead. Instead of clearing the leftover stone debris in the Medicine Furnace, he once again gathered his focus and performed the handprint for the ’Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array.’

Compared to the Gathering Essence Array, the Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array was much more powerful, the handprints were also more complex, and the consumption of a magician’s Mind Power was relatively much higher. However, for Ye Fan, it had already become a well-trodden path.

Swiftly, Ye Fan formed the handprints, and immediately, eight towering trees within Ao Xiang Villa, along with the jade stone that had absorbed the Essence Qi, established a subtle connection with the nine major stars of the distant starry sky. The Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi around Ao Xiang Villa began to gather above the villa.

However, the speed of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi gathering was not even one percent of what it had been when he had activated the ’Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array’ at the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch, nor did it cause the nine stars to flicker!

For this, Ye Fan did not find it strange—on that day, he had used his own Essence Blood as the Array Eye, whereas now, he was only using eight towering trees and the Jade stone which had absorbed Essence Qi as the Array Eye. Comparing the two was simply impossible!

Even more so, Ye Fan was very clear that even if he used the intermediate magical artifact, the Ghostly Gourd, to replace the jade stone as the main Array Eye, the speed of gathering the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi would still not reach a tenth of what it had been at the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch on that day!

But even using just eight towering trees and the jade stone that had absorbed Essence Qi to lay out the Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array was enough to increase the density of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi by tenfold around Ao Xiang Villa. If an intermediate magical artifact like the Ghostly Gourd were used as the main Array Eye, it could reach a hundredfold!

And what was even more important was that this array setup was long-term—the Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array would operate continuously!

"Any insights?"

After completing the array, Ye Fan turned to look at Pan Jueming, saw Pan Jueming’s face looking utterly shocked, and asked with a wry smile.

"The magic is profound and unfathomable; it’s truly miraculous and mysterious." Hearing this, Pan Jueming’s head shook like a rattle drum, then he sincerely exclaimed.

"If it weren’t so, the qualifications required to cultivate magic wouldn’t be so demanding either, and magicians in this world wouldn’t be so rare," Ye Fan chuckled. Although magic was mysterious and powerful, because the talent requirements were so demanding, there were painfully few magicians compared to martial artists.

Pan Jueming nodded in complete agreement, looking at Ye Fan with even more respect, mixed with a bit of admiration.

"Get ready, tomorrow evening, I will empower you to enhance your strength," Ye Fan arranged.

"Yes, Mr. Ye!"

Pan Jueming was grateful, then seeing Ye Fan drenched in sweat, he said, "Mr. Ye, you must be very tired from setting up the formation just now. I won’t disturb you further, please rest."

"Alright, you go on with your affairs, and come over on time tomorrow afternoon," Ye Fan, having spent a considerable amount of Mind Power in continuously casting spells and setting up formations, nodded with a smile upon hearing Pan Jueming’s words and then turned to head back to the villa’s main hall.

Entering the main hall of the villa, Ye Fan first went to wash his face, wiped his sweat, and then, instead of rushing to cultivate to recover the expended Mind Power, he took out his phone and dialed Su Yuxin’s number, opening with, "Yuxin, have Jin Emperor come over tomorrow. I will cleanse his marrow and help him learn to meditate."

"Alright,"

"Besides, I’ve successfully set up the Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array in Ao Xiang Villa. It’s best to transfer Jin Emperor’s school registration to Dong hai and have him stay in Ao Xiang Villa. That way, his cultivation will be twice as effective, and if he encounters any issues during cultivation, I can resolve them at any time," Ye Fan added.

"Alright, I’ll have someone handle that today!"

Su Yuxin responded immediately. Now, as the head of Tianshan Group’s Dong hai branch, she could handle such a transfer with just a phone call.

After the call ended, Su Yuxin did not inform Jin Emperor immediately but put down her phone, stood up, and walked over to the French windows, gazing in the direction of Ao Xiang Villa.

"Thank you, my Guardian God," she couldn’t help saying, her face filled with emotion.

As she watched, Su Yuxin realized that Ye Fan’s arrival had changed her and her brother’s destiny!

What she did not know was, Ye Fan would change even more people’s destinies!

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