Ink painting was still comprehending the first-grade molten fire control spirit complex array, but his progress was a bit slow. Sometimes when he got tired of studying, he would go look at the large refining furnace, compare it with his own designed array diagram, and mentally simulate the problems he would encounter when drawing the array. This would also make ink painting’s thoughts clearer. While looking at the refining furnace, ink painting was completely focused, thinking about drawing the array. When he looked up, he suddenly saw Elder Yu standing beside him. It seemed that Elder Yu had been watching him while ink painting was looking at the refining furnace, and he didn’t know how long he had been there. Elder Yu saw ink painting come back to his senses and kindly asked, “How is your study of array formations going?” “I’ve learned half, but it will probably still take some time to thoroughly understand it.” Elder Yu nodded, “You need to balance work and rest, don’t push yourself too hard.” “Thank you, Elder Yu.” Ink painting smiled slightly and then asked, “Elder, aren’t you in a hurry?” After all, the sooner the array formation was drawn, the sooner the refining workshop could start operating, and everyone could earn spirit stones sooner. Things had reached this point, and the Qian family would not let go easily. If the refining workshop started operating too late, it would likely be controlled by others. Elder Yu’s expression was calm, “I’ve been in a hurry for over a hundred years, these few days don’t matter.” Ink painting didn’t quite understand. Elder Yu brushed off some dust on the ground, sat beside ink painting, and said, “From the time I was still at the Qi refining stage, I never had good days. The scattered cultivators around were also struggling, busy every day, but they couldn’t earn any spirit stones. I often thought, where do all these spirit stones go?” “Until I saw the Qian family, their mansion, their food, clothing, and necessities, as well as their refining workshop and alchemy workshop…” “In the Qian family’s refining workshop, the blacksmiths are scattered cultivators, the fire quenchers are scattered cultivators, all the laborers are scattered cultivators, while the Qian family’s cultivators just sit and watch, doing nothing but drinking tea, giving orders a few times, and doing nothing else.” “I often thought, clearly we scattered cultivators are the ones suffering, yet we can only eat simple food, while the Qian family are clearly a bunch of good-for-nothings who can’t do anything, yet they don’t need to do anything and can eat well and drink well every day.” Elder Yu sighed, “Later, I reached Foundation Establishment, and I didn’t get along with the Qian family. We fought openly and secretly, relying on a thick skin, a sharp tongue, and daring to risk my life. Only then did I not suffer too much loss, and I gradually understood some truths…” “I also wanted to make the lives of scattered cultivators better. I also wanted to open a few refining workshops and alchemy workshops, but I had no spirit stones and didn’t know array formations. It’s really extremely difficult to do some things.” “I’ve lived like this for over a hundred years, endured for over a hundred years, and been in a hurry for over a hundred years. Now that this large refining workshop has been built, and the alchemy workshop is half built, I’m not in a hurry anymore.” “I’ve done more in these past few months than I did in over a hundred years combined, what more can I be in a hurry for?” Elder Yu’s expression was gratified. Ink painting looked at the white-haired, emaciated but bright-eyed Elder Yu and couldn’t help but feel admiration in his heart. “But, what if the refining workshop is built well, but still can’t compete with the Qian family?” Ink painting said worriedly. “Then sell it.” Elder Yu was very straightforward. Ink painting was dumbfounded, “Sell it?” “Right!” Elder Yu nodded, “It’s best if we can compete with the Qian family. If we can’t, we’ll just sell this refining workshop and alchemy workshop together. We can sell them for a large sum of spirit stones, which will be a considerable amount when distributed to everyone. In any case, we won’t lose.” “Will it be easy to sell?” Ink painting was a little uncertain. Elder Yu raised an eyebrow, “How could such a large refining workshop and alchemy workshop not be easy to sell? Others want to build them, but they might not have the time or ability to do so.” Elder Yu then pointed at the array formations inside and outside, “And these array formations you drew, can ordinary array masters draw them? Even if they can, how many array masters would they have to invite, and how much time would it take?” “Rest assured,” Elder Yu patted ink painting’s shoulder, “Just based on these array formations you drew, these two refining workshops and alchemy workshops will sell for a sky-high price!” “Sky-high price?” Elder Yu nodded, “We won’t sell for anything less than a sky-high price. I’m quite good at bargaining.” Ink painting looked at Elder Yu, feeling that he was a ‘cultivation industry home’ a moment ago, and in a blink of an eye, he became a ‘cultivation real estate merchant’. “Then who will buy?” Ink painting quietly asked. “There could be many.” Elder Yu said, “It’s best to sell it to the An family, so that the An family and the Qian family can contend, and we monster hunters can watch the show and benefit from it. Next is to sell it to families from other immortal cities, to use them to fight the Qian family. If it really doesn’t work, selling it to the Qian family is also an option.” “Qian family?” Ink painting said in surprise. “The world is bustling, coming and going for profit. As long as they can offer enough spirit stones, selling it to them is not impossible. I’ve also done business with the Qian family before…” You were extorting them by taking their hostages, that shouldn’t count as doing business, right… Ink painting silently said in his heart. “Of course, these are inferior plans, and there is a possibility of bringing trouble upon ourselves. The best situation is for us to do it ourselves, so that the scattered cultivators in Tongxian City can all have a long-term livelihood.” Ink painting nodded and then asked, “Elder Yu, did you consider all this from the beginning?” “That’s natural.” Elder Yu looked at ink painting and patiently explained, “Doing such a big thing with all your might is gambling, which is not feasible. Everything must be thoroughly considered first, and countermeasures must be thought out. This way, you will have a system when you move forward and a retreat path when you go back. Especially, you must leave a retreat path for yourself.” Ink painting benefited greatly and nodded, “I understand!” Elder Yu looked at ink painting with satisfaction, then breathed a long sigh of relief, stood up, “Then you go back to being busy, I won’t disturb you.” “Okay, Elder, walk slowly.” After Elder Yu left, ink painting continued to think about array formations. Ink painting still wanted to learn the array formation as soon as possible, so that the refining furnace could be fixed earlier, and the refining workshop could start operating earlier. However, learning array formations was indeed a step-by-step process, and he could only follow the order, little by little, and eventually, he would naturally succeed. Ink painting couldn’t rush even if he was anxious. After about half a month passed like this, ink painting finally grasped the array hub of the molten fire complex array, and then spent a few more days practicing adding the first-grade molten fire array and other arrays within the framework of the array hub. After that, he spent some more time re-verifying the fit between the complex array and the refining furnace structure. After ink painting felt that his preparation was thorough and everything was ready, he began to act and started drawing the first-grade molten fire control spirit complex array on the large first-grade refining furnace. Elder Yu was just watching from the side. Before ink painting started drawing, he was still calm and composed. Now that ink painting started to draw, he suddenly felt nervous. It must be because his long-cherished wish accumulated over the years was about to be realized… Elder Yu sighed in his heart. The large refining furnace in the courtyard had already been disassembled, and the scattered parts were neatly placed on the ground. The huge furnace body was open and placed in the center of the courtyard. Ink painting’s first step was to first draw the array hub of the complex array, and then draw a first-grade molten fire array on the array hub, and then inject spirit power to see if the array formation could be activated. If it couldn’t be activated, it meant there was a problem with the array hub, and he needed to re-check, re-find the error, and re-draw. If the array formation could be activated, it meant there was no problem with the array hub, and after that, as long as he continued to add another first-grade molten fire array and other related arrays according to ink painting’s plan, it would be fine. Ink painting prepared the spirit ink, set up the large brush array pen, held his breath and concentrated, and then formally started drawing the array formation. The tip of the pen filled with spirit ink fell on the inner wall of the refining furnace and followed the momentum down, outlining the first array pattern. First-grade molten fire control spirit complex array. This was an array formation that surpassed the ability of ordinary first-grade array masters, and it was also the most difficult array formation ink painting had drawn so far! It shouldn’t be considered filler, right? This kind of plot still needs to lay some key settings, and writing it is actually quite effort-consuming. There are still five updates today, and after some time, I will slow down a bit. Mi Read mobile version: Click here to report error