Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit
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Junior Martial Sister Qiu looked at the formation chassis that was nearing full-activation with amazement, and asked, "Fourth senior sister, how many spirit stones are in the chassis?"

Hu Lili's true energy and divine revelation were almost depleted, her vision starting to blur, and her headache intensified. She placed down the last spirit stone in the chassis and consumed another two more medicinal pellets.

Even in her weakest and most feeble state, she still smiled gently and answered the question patiently, "The array formation requires 36 high-grade spirit stones and 666 mid-grade spirit stones to be fully activated. It can cover the entire Huang Li Island and withstand a Late Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master's full force."

"That's equivalent to… 360,000 low-grade spirit stones plus 66,600 low-grade spirit stones … this protective formation needs a total of 426,600 spirit stones to activate?!"

Junior Martial Sister Qiu and the other junior martial sisters were all thoroughly shocked. They had been placing down the spirit stones and activating them mechanically as they were racing against the clock, so they didn't have time to count the number of spirit stones.

Only after the formation chassis was almost fully activated did they realize how grand and large the protective formation actually was. Hundreds of spirit stones of different grades were neatly planted in the huge formation chassis, linked to each other by mystical spiritual patterns and glowing with a warm luminance that lit up the entire cave-dwelling.

The junior martial sisters were excited to see the huge formation chassis reaching completion with their help, but they didn't notice that Hu Lili had already arrived at her limit.

The Blood Condensation Realm junior martial sisters weren’t competent enough to fully activate the protective formation, and Hu Lili didn't want to risk the island's safety by recalling any of the friends back to the cave-dwelling. In the end, she decided to do it herself with the last remaining vestiges of true energy obtained from the medicinal pellets she had just consumed.

Yao Yong and Du Feng worked together and fought the monster Enlightened Master, forcing it to retreat.

Lu Ping finally seized an opening and severely injured the monster Enlightened Master.

Yin Xuan-Chu's fight with the monster Enlightened Master was the least eventful, but it was also the most intensive one. As a master of stealth, Yin Xuan-Chu's attacks always arrived at the most opportune times from the most unanticipated angle. His attacks were all killing blows, aimed at reaping lives rather than to inflict wounds.

Hence, the monster Enlightened Master was pinned down and had to compress his divine revelation to his immediate surroundings. He didn’t dare to let his guard down or move carelessly, fearing that he would expose a gap in his defenses for Yin Xuan-Chu to deliver a killing blow.

Ji Xuan-Xuan's fight was one of the most comfortable, he just stood still while using his puppets to toy around with his opponent.

Chen Lian's battle was the worst since his opponent was a Mid Core Forging Realm monster Enlightened Master. He hopped and rolled around, dodging the monster Enlightened Master's attacks and sending out attacks from time to time to hold the monster Enlightened Master back whenever it tried to enter the island.

Jiang Xuan-Xuan and Lu Qin were playing games with each other as no other monsters went in their direction.

Shi Lingling never encountered any monsters and was dying of boredom.

Zhong Jian and Ma Yu replaced Du Feng's area and were recovering their true energy.

Zheng Jie and Zhang Zi-Cheng followed Dabao around, purging the remaining monsters on the island.

At this time, the island suddenly quaked and rumbled.

The Enlightened Masters tangled in battle all experienced a drastic change in expression, becoming shocked and sullen, while the humans cheered.

A pure white beam of light shot up from the island center into the clouds, expanding unfurling across the island. The materials planted by the junior martial sisters in the eight directions shot up eight smaller light beams that met with the lights above as the barrier gradually expanded to cover the whole island.

Yao Yong and the others retreated inside of the protective formation, while the monster Enlightened Masters stopped outside.

The only exception was Lu Ping, who continued to chase after his opponent.

"Fourth senior sister!"

"Senior sister!"

Inside the cave-dwelling, Hu Lili collapsed as soon as the array formation was activated. The junior martial sisters were pulled back from their excitement and rushed to check her condition.

Hu Lili hadn't taken a single break from the beginning; exhausted of even the last bit of her energy, she didn't have the strength to stay conscious.

The junior martial sisters hurriedly carried her away from the formation chassis to the cultivation room to let her rest. Suddenly, an explosion happened outside of the cave-dwelling and several mid-grade spirit stones on the formation chassis exploded together, while a few others also started to crack.

Junior Martial Sister Qiu, who was initially helping carry Hu Lili to the room, quickly turned around and replaced the spirit stones that had exploded.

Even though the human Enlightened Masters were now safe inside the protective formation, the monster Enlightened Masters didn’t stop their siege. Instead, the immobile and large protective formation gave them a bigger target to focus their attacks on.

Since the human Enlightened Masters were inside the protective formation, they couldn't stop the monster Enlightened Masters' attacks as effectively as before.

But after a few moments, the monster Enlightened Masters eventually gave up attacking the protective formation. They realized that the protective formation was clearly made to be durable under all kinds of situations.

Their attacks that would usually penetrate through ordinary protective formations could only make this protective formation vibrate slightly; it wasn’t something they could break.

The monster Enlightened Masters were already ready to leave, when they suddenly heard a painful shout from the east of the island.

The monster Enlightened Masters recognized the voice and rushed over. At the same time, Du Feng and the others quickly noticed that Lu Ping hadn't returned from the east and so they rushed out as well.

As they were about to reach the east coast of the island, they saw Lu Ping hurriedly flying back to the island.

He saw them, and said directly, "Let's return first."

Then, he took the lead and sprinted into the cave-dwelling as if he was in a hurry.

As soon as they entered the cave-dwelling, they all saw the huge formation chassis and the numerous spirit stones on it.

Yao Yong was stunned, and murmured, "Is this necessary? It's just a mini island!"

Lu Ping didn't answer Yao Yong, and asked the junior martial sisters right away, "Where is your Senior Sister Hu?"

"Fourth senior sister overexerted herself in order to set up the formation and passed out soon after."

Lu Ping nodded and quickly headed for the cultivation room on the other side of the cave-dwelling.

The moment the protective formation was activated earlier than expected, Lu Ping already had a guess in his heart. Sure enough, his worries were right.

No one knew Hu Lili more than him. She had always been an independent lady with strong self-esteem. Although she couldn't fight side by side with him as she wasn't skilled in combat, she would always show her support and companionship through one way or another.

It was also because of her existence that Lu Ping was able to go out and fight with ease, knowing that he could leave the rest of the matters to her care.

Lu Ping carefully examined Hu Lili's injuries, and came out of the cultivation room a few moments later. Shi Lingling hurriedly came forward, and asked, "How is she?"

Lu Ping's face was cold as he answered gloomily, "The exhaustion of true energy and divine revelation have shaken her cultivation foundation. Additionally, the overconsumption of medicinal pellets has accumulated a large number of medicinal toxics in her body. It will take at least a few years of recuperation to recover from this. Even after that I’m afraid it will still impact her future cultivation potential."

The crowd stood in silence, while Lu Ping walked to the formation chassis. After Hu Lili passed out, Junior Martial Sister Qiu had been taking care of the protective formation's operation. Fortunately, the protective formation had already been fully activated, so all she had to do was monitor the conditions of the spirit stones to ensure there was a sufficient supply of spiritual energy to the formation.

Suddenly, an odd shriek sounded above the island from the east. Lu Ping probed with his divine revelation and his face changed drastically. He anxiously said to Junior Martial Sister Qiu, "Look after the formation chassis!"

Qu Xuan-Cheng's voice could be heard shouting from the west, "Cuttleshit, how dare you!"

Immediately after, continuous explosions occurred above Huang Li Island, shaking the whole island violently.

The mid-grade spirit stones on the formation chassis started to explode from the outermost circle. In the blink of an eye, almost one-third of the spirit stones were used up and exploded into dust.

Junior Martial Sister Qiu exclaimed in shock. Together, with her other junior martial sisters, they quickly swarmed in to replace the spirit stones. But after replacing dozens of the spirit stones, she suddenly looked up helplessly at Lu Ping.

Lu Ping immediately understood and quickly threw an interspatial pouch to her, and said, "Don't worry about the spirit stones, I still have more."

Junior Martial Sister Qiu looked into the interspatial pouch and saw at least 200,000 spirit stones. However, she didn't have time to be amazed by this and quickly distributed the spirit stones to the junior martial sisters who were helping her.

After that, Ji Xuan-Xuan and the others looked at him, and asked, "What just happened? Did Enlightened Master Mo Wei himself come to attack Huang Li Island?"

Lu Ping shook his head, and said, "He’s just venting his anger, Junior Uncle Qu has repelled him away from the island."

Zhong Jian looked at the huge formation chassis, and said, "How amazing, it withstood the full strike of a Late Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master without breaking. No wonder you spent so much on this formation chassis. However, it will take a small spirit vein to maintain its operation. Not even Great Ancestors have enough spirit stones to maintain its operation in the long run."

Lu Ping nodded, looked at Junior Martial Sister Qiu, and asked, "Junior Sister Qiu, do you all know how to set up any array formations to migrate spirit veins?"

The junior martial sisters nodded while Junior Martial Sister Qiu answered, "We do, but if it's a small spirit vein, we will need more time to set up the array formation."

Although Lu Ping was in a hurry, he nodded calmly, and said, "Please help me set up one as soon as possible. At the same time, please also look after the island's protective formation. When everythings done, I will repay you all for your help."

Junior Martial Sister Qiu nodded, and said, "Senior Brother Lu, rest assured, we will take care of the array formations. You can go and look after Senior Sister Hu."

Lu Ping nodded and left another interspatial pouch.

Then, he looked at Yao Yong and Chen Lian, and said, "Huang Li Island will be fine for a short time. Take this time to recover as much as possible and be fully prepared for anything that's about to come, we can’t take any chances."

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