Chapter 513 - 277: Setting Up the Formation; Unification

"Th-this!"

This time, Li Mingxin was truly stunned.

Cheng Zongyang’s successive displays of power had completely shattered all of his previous impressions.

But what followed was an indescribable excitement!

"Big Brother succeeded!" Cheng Zongwen exclaimed, the pressure on his heart finally lifting.

"Yeah! He succeeded! Now, no one can touch us!" Zhou Zhendong laughed heartily, not even caring that his hand was crippled.

"What exactly did the Boss go do?" Li Xuejin asked, suppressing his emotions as he looked at Cheng Zongwen and Zhou Zhendong. Even the pitch of his voice rose slightly.

Cheng Zongwen and Zhou Zhendong exchanged a glance and chuckled. The former said, "Big Brother went to sea to seek immortality."

Now, those who were completely in the dark were stunned. The two Fourth Grade Martial Artists asked blankly, "Seek immortality? Isn’t that just a legend?"

Li Mingxin’s chest heaved. At this moment, his heart was far more turbulent than when he had seen the Talisman.

’Cheng Zongyang went to sea to seek immortality, and the result was obvious. He succeeded!’

’How else could he be piloting a Flying Boat?’

He immediately turned to leave, but in the next moment, an astonishing aura instantly enveloped him. A grim killing intent washed over him, drenching Li Mingxin in a cold sweat.

"The Boss has given his word. No one is to take a single step away!" a cold voice sounded from behind him.

"In-Innate!" Li Mingxin gritted his teeth and slowly turned around. The excitement he had felt just moments ago died down.

Those who hadn’t been affected were still confused, but after hearing Li Mingxin’s words, they all froze. One by one, they turned to look at Li Cungang.

’An Innate Powerhouse?’

Seeing the look on Li Mingxin’s face, they didn’t think he was lying.

Now, no one dared to make a move. They could only wait for Cheng Zongyang to return.

They were also curious about what "setting up an Array" meant.

Meanwhile, Cheng Zongyang arrived in the sky above Jade Peak County and looked down at the land below.

On his way back from the sea, he had already planned the area to be covered according to the Array’s design.

The Array was a large-scale, Tier Three Compound Array—a Sect Array that Cheng Zongyang had asked Luo Dingran to purchase and have custom-made.

The Array combined four functions: Defense, counter-attack, Gathering Spirit, and Illusion. It could cover an area of approximately one hundred square kilometers.

Its power supply was a hybrid-like system, using Spirit Stones to supplement the Earth Spiritual Qi from an Earth Vein.

Of course, judging by its functions, coverage area, and power source, its price was naturally not low.

He had spent nearly eighty thousand of the Points earned from continuously selling Red Blood Pills over the past two months to have this specific Array custom-made.

Once it was deployed, no one would be able to enter or leave the one-hundred-square-kilometer area without his permission. He could also control its counter-attack capabilities at will.

Within the Array, dealing with a master at the Innate Great Perfection realm would take just a single bolt of lightning.

After circling once in the sky, Cheng Zongyang decided to include Jade Peak County and Tiantuan Village within the Array’s bounds. Cheng Family Village was not needed for now. After all, with the Soul Gathering Stele, there was no need to worry.

He also skewed the Array’s coverage toward the Celestial Break Mountain Range, so that Tianduan Mountain could be developed in the future.

This way, he wouldn’t have to worry about running out of living space in the future.

Besides, an area of one hundred square kilometers was currently enough to build the Immortal City he envisioned. It wouldn’t be too late to replace it with an even larger Array in the future.

Following the Design Map, Cheng Zongyang buried the relevant Array Materials one by one, dozens of meters deep underground.

This process was naturally impossible without the help of the Mole Beasts. After burying the materials in each location, they restored the ground to its original state, preventing any accidental damage, however unlikely that might be.

After circling a large area and setting up all the Array Flags and other materials, the massive Array covering the three locations was just one step away from completion.

Finally, he returned to the Cheng Mansion and set up the Array Hub in the basement of the rear courtyard.

The Array Hub was a piece of material that resembled an Array Sand Table, from which he could monitor everything within the Array’s coverage area.

It wasn’t large, only about two meters square. It also served as the control center for the Array’s power supply.

With the Array Hub in place, Cheng Zongyang held the "key" to activate the Array but didn’t use it immediately. Instead, he waited for the Earth Vein to gather energy.

The Array was supplemented by thirty High Grade Spirit Stones. He had some from before but had been reluctant to use them.

Now, they were only for a supplementary purpose. This supplement would power the Thunder Skill attacks, while the Earth Vein Power would be used solely to maintain the Array’s continuous, day-and-night operation.

Therefore, he would try to avoid using the Array’s counter-attack measures in the future if possible.

As news spread, more and more people like Li Cungang would gather, and many would come to serve him. By then, there should be little need to use the Array’s counter-attack functions.

After confirming that everything was in its correct position, Cheng Zongyang looked at the four official roads leading to different places displayed on the Array Sand Table and shook his head slightly.

In the future, he would have these roads rerouted farther away, allowing this area to return to a primitive mountain forest.

The method for altering terrain like this could be bought from either the Ice and Fire Cultivation Immortality Realm or the marketplace cottage. It only required a single type of Tier Three Talisman.

Once the Array finished drawing upon the Earth Vein Power and storing the energy, Cheng Zongyang looked at the Array Sand Table and placed the "key"—a fist-sized object resembling a Luminous Pearl—in the center of the Array Hub.

In the next moment, on the Array Sand Table, a transparent shield, visible to the naked eye, slowly rose from the ground and gradually closed shut at a height of about three hundred meters in the air.

At that instant, not even a fly could think of leaving the area of the Array!

Meanwhile, the crowd waiting outside the city first saw a curtain of light gradually rise into the sky. This left the people, who had been waiting for more than two hours, dumbfounded once again.