“So, this here is the great library of the sect. You can move to the 3rd shelf from the right to get to the Ninebless Grand Formation Art’s manual.” The huge library was untouched for five centuries since the sect’s destruction. This place, while useless to Ninebless but it was a huge chance for him. He had five female maids so yin-attributed techniques would be useful in boosting them. But for now, he picked up the book about the Ninebless source formation. After flipping through it, he sighed.

“Well, I now understand the base of the formation. But ascertaining the damage on the formation without checking it myself will be difficult. And as for circling this entire island with my mortal physique…” Heifeng Jiansui exaggeratedly shook his head.

In response, Ninebless came before him. “I will let you use my spiritual sense to cover the entire island and check the formations.” Saying this, the ghostly beauty hugged the young prince. His mind’s eye seemed to expand until it covered the entire island by itself.

Without showing surprise, Heifeng Jiansui immediately began scanning the formation linchpins and core, as well as seeing the influence of the formation on the land. Heifeng Jiansui couldn’t help his surprise at this; the original Ninebless formation was a defensive array that encompassed the island which could defend the sect by barriers and command the beasts to attack invaders. However, the formation covering the island had lost the defensive aspects to concentrate everything on the beast controlling aspects!

The beast control and breeding was comparable to a supreme beast-taming sect; all beasts had some amount of phoenix and dragon blood fused into them. Not only that, the formation controlled the beasts to relentlessly breed to spread out the bloodline and slaughter each other and steal blood essence to concentrate it. Genius mutated beasts were controlled and allowed to gain strength to multiply the quantity and quality of the bloodline!

This was a genius scheme to multiply the blood essence by beast breeding! The capital was of course the blood essence drawn from the dead phoenix sect disciples and dragon bloodline invaders!

“The bloodlines of the beasts are spread out too far. You will have to initiate a massacre in at least 4 years before the bloodlines become decrepit due to inbreeding…” As Heifeng Jiansui said this, Ninebless nodded.

“Having detected the defects in the formation array, can you fix the formation?” Hearing the beauty’s question, Heifeng Jiansui sighed.

“Your goal is setting up the Blood Swallowing Nine Rivers to swallow and purify all the blood essence and gather them in these ruins, right? If it were the original Ninebless formation, it would be quite easy. But due to your awakening as a spirit, the current Ninebless Formation is simply impossible to compare with the formation recorded in the manuals. Can you give me a solid account of the step-by-step changes in the array? It will be easier for me, then.”

“…These changes actually occurred due to my direct control of the formation, it is impossible to record the indirect changes that have occurred. Is there truly no way to set up the Blood Swallowing Nine Rivers?” Hearing Ninebless’s plea, Heifeng Jiansui shook his head.

“I will have to completely replace the original Ninebless Formation with a formation completely used for harvesting blood energy. I possess the diagram for a 999 Phoenix Nirvanic Dominion with a Blood Stream Vortex Formation specialized for harvesting phoenix blood, so if I set up the core as this ruin, harvesting the blood energy will be quite smooth. It requires Quasi-Earth Rank equipment at the least, but even so, doing it within 4 years will be manageable. Of course, the 999 Phoenix Nirvanic Dominion doesn’t have beast controlling abilities, so setting up a frenzy among them will be…” Heifeng Jiansui explained with a regretful expression.

Hearing Heifeng Jiansui’s explanation, Ninebless nodded. “If it’s simply setting up a frenzy, I can do that. The 999 Phoenix Nirvanic Dominion you speak of… I have records of its might and difficulty, but I’ll believe in you. For now, just state the materials you need and I’ll gather them from the island. Phoenix formations were the specialty of our sect, after all.” Saying this, Ninebless looked incomparably refreshed.

“After condensing into a spirit, your next goal is condensing a fleshy body for yourself so that you can embark on the path of cultivation… even going to the extent of cold heartedly abandoning your source formation. … Ninebless, you are pretty interesting.” Even though Heifeng Jiansui said this, the girl was expressionless.

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“This here is the map of Spirit Springs formed on the island. You can use them as you please. Also, I will be accompanying you for protection.” Ninebless said this with a emotionless tone.

“Oh, we have only met each other for one day, but you already want to protect me? Looks like my ladykilling skills have gotten even better! You can stay beside my as long as you want, throughout the day and night, even as centuries pass… I don’t mind at all!” While Heifeng Jiansui was simply joking, he didn’t expect her to actually get flustered for a moment before quickly fixing her expression.

Unfortunately, she didn’t say anything and simply followed him. They finally made their way to a small spirit spring hidden within a cave shut out by a boulder. Seeing the qi that was formless and invisible gather into a tangible spring was an amazing sight that would awe novice cultivators, but Heifeng Jiansui didn’t care.

He immediately took out forging equipment that he had secured from the Ninebless Phoenix Sect and began setting it up. The spirit spring was covered with a simple yet powerful spirit converging formation to gather and disperse energy. After that, the two of them began to transform the cave into a advanced forge.

“Successor of Heifeng, the air vents are done!” Hearing Ninebless’ unique form of address, the young prince smiled before indicating his satisfaction.

“All done! Now let’s begin! 900 1-Star Quasi-Earth Rank Phoenix Nirvana Totems to go!” With an excited grin, Heifeng Jiansui began forging his first Quasi-Earth item.

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“Damn it, 3 failures and one totem in one day. This wild spiritual energy is really infuriating, having a cultivator transfer his energy would be so much better!” Heifeng Jiansui was complaining, his earlier excitement all drained away.

“Your work was nevertheless praiseworthy. This totem is quite something…” The formation spirit was eyeing the totem pole with the countless minute runes engraved on it. Forging 899 more of them would be a daunting task, but she was sure the boy beside her would be up to it.

“Let’s do the grind again tomorrow. I am going home for dinner now, take care.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui put away the pillar in his spatial ring before running away. The formation spirit only stared at his back for a moment before going on her own path.

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In the mobile estate, a figure slipped inside secretly. After changing out of his sweaty clothes and taking a bath, Heifeng Jiansui looked presentable once again.

In the dinner room, five out of six seats were filled and dinner was served, but the no one moved. The moment Heifeng Jiansui sat down and took a bite of his dinner, his maids paid respect to him and began eating as well.

It seemed that the girls had been training hard, as all of them were full of appetite. Just then, Heifeng Jiansui saw Qinglan Weiwei’s figure swallowing food nonstop and remembered that he had yet to create that technique for her.

‘Well, she hasn’t brought it up, so I’ll let it pass too.’ Thinking like this, Heifeng Jiansui promised himself to create the technique for her as soon as possible and began eating in earnest as well.