There is a huge trial field at the foot of Jiuxuan Peak of Qianji Sect. It is said that during the heyday of the sect, this place was filled with disciples of all kinds who would compete in refining equipment.
Later, the spiritual energy dried up and this place became an empty square. Occasionally, fellow students would bring the chairs and stools they made and run here to bask in the sun.
Now when Ye Su came back, he saw that the trial field was in a mess, with many stone slabs broken and exploded. Elder Hu was repairing the stone slabs, and Qixue was sticking his butt out beside him, filling the stone slabs back in.
"Elder Hu." Ye Su went over, moved the broken stone slab over, and took the initiative to help repair it.
"You're back." Elder Hu put down the slate. "I heard from them that you have been staying in the Rotating Tower. What have you gained?"
"I've read a lot of books." Ye Su touched the stone slabs with her fingertips. They were made of top-quality material, but unfortunately they had not been nourished by spiritual energy for many years, so they were damaged so badly by the Demon Lord.
Elder Hu laughed when he heard this: "You really can't change your habit of reading books wherever you go."
Ye Su lowered her head and pieced the stone slab together, because reading was the fastest way for her to understand how the world worked.
Having just returned from the Rotating Tower, Ye Su did not give herself any time to adjust and relax. She first helped to repair the stone slabs in the square, and then went to the Collection Pavilion to check on Yu Shoumen and Lu Jiu who had not yet woken up.
"She is fine." Yu Fenghai was still the same, sitting at the table in the Collection Pavilion. He turned his head to look at Lv Jiu who was still meditating and not awake. "She is about to break through."
For someone like Lu Jiu, every near-death experience can help her take a step further. After being fed a drop of blood by You Fushi, she was just one step away from a breakthrough.
"It's lacking in spiritual energy." Ye Su suddenly said.
The spiritual veins of the entire Qianji Sect were dried up, and the spiritual energy was thin and almost non-existent, so Lu Jiucai did not wake up for more than half a year.
"Yi Xuan gave her some spirit stones. Although they are not enough, it is not a bad thing to break through slowly." Yu Fenghai said in a hoarse voice, "Your master is already preparing to help her refine a magic weapon to avoid lightning."
Perhaps seeing Ye Su in deep thought, Yu Fenghai added, "Zhang Fengfeng advanced two levels last month and is now in the late stage of fusion."
Having stayed in a place without spiritual energy for many years, Zhang Fengfeng had no way to advance. In fact, not long after he went to the Hehuan Sect, he had already advanced to the early stage of fusion. Later, he worked day and night to refine protective magic weapons for the disciples of the Hehuan Sect, accumulating insights, and finally he was able to advance quickly.
The thunder tribulation was quite severe at that time. It was said that the leader of the Hehuan Sect even used his own magic weapon to block a thunder tribulation for Zhang Fengfeng.
In just one year, he advanced from the late stage of Spirit Transformation to the late stage of Integration. It seems that what his master said about his genius was not false.
"Guard the gate. I want to try to see if I can repair the gate protection formation." Ye Su said to Feng Hai.
"... The gate-protecting formation?" Yu Fenghai was a little dazed. He had seen the glory of Qianji Sect. "The formation consumes a lot of spiritual energy. When it was in operation, Qianji Sect's spiritual veins were still there."
"Let's see if it can be repaired first, and we can talk about spiritual energy later." Ye Su said, "The invasion of the demon world has not been completely resolved yet, and Qianjimen needs a large formation to protect the gate."
In the original novel, there was no demon invasion at this time. Instead, the heroine and the hero went to secret caves and places of inheritance to gain experience.
Now the invasion of the demon world has come earlier than expected.
Ye Suchao turned his head and looked in the direction of Jiuxuan Peak outside. Yi Xuan did not take the Blood-Crying Sword again, but used the Chongming Knife instead. He had nothing to do with Ning Qianyao, so he probably would not do anything to massacre the whole clan.
But there were still demons coming to attack Qianjimen, but this time it happened in the second round of the sect competition, and she offended the demon lord.
If someday my junior brothers and sisters are in the sect and Yu the gatekeeper leaves again, I think the gate protection formation would be the most stable and can at least delay them for a while.
"In that case... you give it a try." Yu Fenghai didn't understand these formations, but since Ye Su had asked him to, there was no harm in giving it a try.
The second day.
Ye Su stood in front of the gate and poured spiritual energy into the remaining formation on the ground. Without the support of spiritual veins, her spiritual power at the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm could only open the gate-protecting formation for a moment. However, it still did not have much protective effect, and any cultivator could come in.
The gate-guarding formation looked complex and magnificent, but it was damaged everywhere and no one was repairing it.
Ye Su squatted on the ground, and based solely on the impression of what he had just seen, he began to slowly outline a plan to repair the damaged formation in his mind.
The complexity of this formation is difficult to describe, and one can only imagine the grand scale of the effort put into it.
When she met Ning Qianyao and Lu Chenhan in the back mountain a few years ago, she was still thinking about finding someone to repair the gate protection formation when she had the chance in the future. Unexpectedly, she would end up figuring this out on her own.
You Fushi was originally standing behind Ye Su. Seeing her squatting at the door, he hesitated for a moment and then squatted down as well.
Behind the two men, the Blood-Crying Sword was spinning around crazily in the Thousand Machines Sect's trial field.
"I remember that you should be in hibernation at this time." Ye Su suddenly turned her head and said to You Fushi.
“… Not sleepy.” You Fushi said unsurely.
"Can the space in the room be opened at any time?" Ye Su asked him, "It would be nice to go in and rest."
There is abundant spiritual energy there, which seems to be very beneficial for swimming.
"I don't remember." The junior brother didn't know anything when asked.
"Forget it, let's go look somewhere else." Ye Su stood up and reached out to pull the man up.
This formation was not simple, and was different from the ones she had encountered before. It was too large, and Ye Su had a hard time just looking at the formation outside the gate.
The gate-protecting formation is usually set up at various points throughout the sect, not just at the gate. She decided to take a look at other parts for traces of the formation.
On the way, Ye Su dug out from his mind the explanations about the formation that he had read on the fifth floor, and then found the remaining traces of the formation and wrote them down.
They had been to various peaks within the sect before, but that time was to help the junior brother recover some memories, and in the end they still didn't remember anything.
This time, the two of them shuttled around the sect all day long. Ye Su had already started taking out paper and pen from his Qiankun bag and began to record the formations.
You Fushi was standing next to Ye Su. He suddenly turned sideways and poked her between the eyebrows with a finger.
It didn't hurt when the cool fingertips poked at me, and they gently stroked both sides of my eyebrows.
Ye Su held the paper and pen in one hand, and subconsciously raised her other hand to hold his fingertips and move them away: "What's wrong?"
"It's wrinkled here." The junior brother looked into her eyes and said seriously, "It doesn't look good."
It was probably the first time that You Fushi saw Ye Su frowning the whole time, so he couldn't help but stretch out his fingertips to touch her.
Upon hearing this, Ye Su's brows relaxed and she laughed, feeling lucky that her junior brother didn't just say she was ugly.
She said, "The original gate-guarding formation is too complicated. There is a lot I don't understand. Forget it, I'll go back today."
The gate-guarding formation was much more complicated than Ye Su had imagined, with one thing leading to another. It would be difficult to even understand it in just a few days.
She roughly drew the formation, took You Fushi back to Jiuxuan Peak, and asked her junior brother to go back to his room to rest.
There is no difference in the room as usual. That space is no longer visible. It seems that the space can only be stimulated at certain times.
"You take a rest first." Ye Su sat outside alone and continued to study the drawn formations.
You Fushi sat on the edge of the bed, holding the edge with both hands. He looked at the closed door and was in a bad mood.
He didn't like seeing her frown, it looked like...
Resembles what
You Fushi suddenly couldn't remember clearly, so he gave up thinking, took out the thick ancient Chinese dictionary from his arms, and turned to the last few pages. Unlike Ye Su who couldn't see the talisman, he kept staring at it without much reaction.
He took out a pen, lay on the bed, crossed out the half sentence "What is illiteracy" and changed it to "I am not illiterate".
Someone must have scolded me before.
…
When Ye Su was studying the formation, Zhang Fengfeng sent another message. It seemed that he heard that she was going to repair the formation.
"My eldest disciple, our gate-protecting formation was handed down before the God's Death Period. It's too old and difficult to repair. The leader of the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect came to see it before and said that it could only hold out for a while."
The leader of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect
Ye Su calculated the time and was not surprised. Before the Qianji Sect declined, it was indeed able to invite the leader of the Wanfo Sect.
I understand, let me take a look.
Ye Su sent a reply, looked at the paper on the stone table that was filled with drawings of formations, and finally put it away and turned to go to the back mountain.
The area of the back mountain is five times the size of the entire Qianji Sect. The spiritual vein is right below, but unfortunately it dried up five hundred years ago. Now it is just an ordinary back mountain with ordinary trees and weeds, without a single spiritual grass or tree.
Ye Su used to like coming here very much. Apart from the sound of wind blowing through the trees and gurgling water, the back mountain was unusually quiet. Sometimes when she was there, she would mistakenly think she was still in the original world.
If the spiritual veins in the back mountain had not dried up, it would not be so quiet, and probably some spiritual beasts would have been born.
In the middle of the night, Ye Su stood in the back mountain, walking aimlessly with his mind full of various formation disassembly diagrams.
Until her eyes accidentally fell on a wild grass, or to be more precise, a spiritual grass. The grade was not high, but it stood out among the wild grasses.
Ye Su looked around and only found this one magical herb.
She squatted in front of the spiritual herb and sent a message to Zhang Fengfeng: Master, although the spiritual energy you poured in failed to revive the spiritual vein, it grew a spiritual herb.
At this time, Ye Su hadn't noticed anything unusual.
When Zhang Fengfeng, who was far away in Hehuan Sect, received the message, he called and said, "Big Disciple, what spiritual herb? I only watered it that one time, and you bumped into me."
Zhang Fengfeng had finally earned some spirit stones, so he released the spiritual energy inside, trying to irrigate the spirit veins that had already dried up, but was bumped into by Ye Su.
"This spiritual herb." Ye Su showed Zhang Fengfeng the spiritual herb that looked out of place among the weeds. "It's growing well."
Zhang Fengfeng squinted his eyes and looked for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I haven't been to this piece of land in the back mountain for many years, let alone filling it with spiritual energy. It wasn't done by me."
Ye Su looked at Zhang Fengfeng, and confirmed that the master was not mistaken, then he bent down and cleared away the surrounding weeds and soil, revealing the spiritual vein stone at the bottom.
He was stunned when he saw it. The spiritual herb was growing on the rock, and the extremely weak spiritual energy was transmitted to the spiritual herb through the spiritual veins of the rock.
This spiritual energy is too weak. If there were no spiritual herbs, Ye Su might not be able to detect such weak spiritual energy on the spiritual vein rock when passing by.
Zhang Fengfeng was shocked. There was a crackling sound coming from the other side of the communication, as if something was accidentally broken. He wished he could come back and lie on the rock under the spiritual grass to check: "The spiritual vein is not dry yet?!"
"Maybe it's a little bit of spiritual energy left on the spiritual vein rock in the past." Ye Su guessed.
"Impossible!" Zhang Fengfeng said firmly, "The Qianji Sect's spiritual veins have dried up, and there is no spiritual energy left."
Qianjimen was also in disbelief at the time. They tried various methods and even hired people to check. Finally, they came to the conclusion that the spiritual energy in the spiritual vein had been drained, causing the spiritual vein to dry up.
Ye Su carefully cleaned the dirt around the spiritual herb. She picked it up and smelled it. The spiritual energy was very faint, but it was indeed there.
Judging from the growth of this magical herb, it probably only grew in the past few years.
"Has the spiritual vein revived?" Ye Su asked the head master.
"I've never heard of anything like this." Zhang Fengfeng rubbed his hands and said, "Eldest disciple, look carefully in other places to see if there are any other spiritual herbs."
There was a slight tremor in his voice.
This discovery was of great importance. No one had expected that the spiritual vein of Qianji Sect would actually have a moment of revival. Even if the spiritual energy was extremely weak, it meant that the spiritual vein might be able to recover. In this way, Qianji Sect would surely be able to rise completely. It was only a matter of time.
"Let me take another look." Ye Su marked the location of the spiritual herb and searched around carefully.
The back mountain is very large, and even Ye Su has rarely set foot in this area. If she hadn't walked here casually today, she would probably never have discovered this magical herb.
The search lasted until dawn, and Ye Su had not yet walked through all the places in the back mountain.
She simply flew into the sky on her sword and released all her spiritual awareness.
The entire spiritual vein location in the back mountain was covered by Ye Su's spiritual sense. Every wild grass swaying in the wind, every flowing stream, every falling dead leaf, none of them could escape her spiritual sense.
Weeds, weeds, and more weeds.
The scattered spiritual consciousness kept giving feedback, and it seemed that except for the unexpected spiritual herb, other places were still as normal as before.
Until a certain moment, Ye Su felt something vaguely in her consciousness. She stood in the air, tilted her head slightly, and her consciousness turned into a hand, gently pushing away a large patch of weeds.
Ye Su suddenly opened her eyes: Found it!
A spiritual grass sprout, only as tall as a fingernail, just emerged among the many weeds.
Ye Su quickly landed nearby, looked down at the spiritual herb, opened her hand and covered the spiritual bud. She released her spiritual sense, entered the soil, and saw that the root of the spiritual bud was in the dried spiritual vein rock.
As his spiritual consciousness continued to go deeper along the spiritual vein, Ye Su sensed a very faint spiritual energy within this spiritual vein rock.