radicalducati Chapter 89: Can you use anything to set up an array?
Chapter 89: Can you use anything to set up an array?
Chapter 89: Can you use anything to set up an array?
"Alright, alright, we'll talk about the elders later, let's get back to work!" Huo Yuhao waved his hand, temporarily silencing their curious mouths.
Lin Xiuya and the others continued their "laborious" work. While digging, Huo Yuhao kept a close eye on their movements to ensure that every medicinal herb they worked on was removed from the soil intact.
"Give it your all, everyone!" Huo Yuhao encouraged them at the right moment. "Once this is done, I'll treat you all to dinner, and I'll cook it all myself!"
The earthy smell mingled with the fresh scent of herbs, filling her nostrils. Little Fairy Doctor brushed the mud off her hands and looked up to catch her breath, only to see Huo Yuhao walk to the edge of the field, take out his communication device, and whisper something to someone on the other side. His profile looked exceptionally handsome in the midday sun. Little Fairy Doctor admired him for a moment, then contentedly continued working.
"Okay, teacher, I understand." Huo Yuhao ended the call.
"What did you talk about?" After Huo Yuhao finished his "phone call," Little Fairy Doctor suddenly leaned over, tilting her head, her light green eyes full of curiosity.
Huo Yuhao put away the magical artifact and sighed, "I checked the key points of medicinal herb cultivation with the teacher again, just in case we made a mistake and all our previous efforts were wasted."
"Oh, I see!" Little Fairy Doctor smoothed her loose hair. "Where are Teacher and the others?"
"We've just entered the desert and are preparing to find the location of the strange fire that Senior Hai Bodong recorded on his map."
The sun was high in the sky, and although it was still winter, the temperature was already quite warm.
When the last herb was carefully placed into the few "preservation containers" that emitted a soft glow, everyone felt like their backs were about to give way. It wasn't physical exhaustion, but rather the mental fatigue caused by the repetitive work.
The "preservation box" that Huo Yuhao brought didn't look big, but it could hold all the medicinal herbs in the entire herb field. The herb field elders and Lin Xiuya and the others surrounded the box, their eyes full of surprise and uncertainty.
Huo Yuhao patted the cool outer shell and explained with satisfaction, "This is a specially made preservation device that can lock in the activity of medicinal herbs. They won't die even if they're kept away from the soil for ten days to half a month. It mainly utilizes the storage space's—"
Huo Yuhao's long-winded explanation was interrupted halfway through. Seeing the bewildered looks on his classmates' faces, he silently swallowed back his long-winded explanation about the materials and principles of "spiritual artifacts." Explaining them was too much trouble; knowing the effects was enough.
Next, the real highlight began. Like setting up a precision instrument, Huo Yuhao personally buried magical cores of varying attributes deep within each designated plot of medicinal garden. He was completely unaware that soil was getting onto his clothes.
"These magic cores were specially selected; their properties won't conflict with the herbs planted in this medicinal field." Huo Yuhao's voice clearly reached the ears of the focused onlookers. After burying the last magic core, Huo Yuhao snapped his fingers, activating the array. A very faint spiritual light enveloped the soil; if it weren't for the soil in the adjacent medicinal field as a contrast, no one would have noticed this light at all.
"Huo, what is the purpose of this formation?" Han Yue asked.
"The inspiration for this formation comes from the mechanisms in the meditation room." Huo Yuhao walked towards the second medicinal field: "Its main purpose is to prevent energy loss, and it can also slightly increase the energy concentration within the medicinal field."
"The academy's meditation room separates the mechanisms and the magic core. I think it doesn't need to be that complicated. Using Magic Core 9 as the array base can achieve both of them —" Huo Yuhao continued to explain his thinking.
Yan Hao scratched his scalp vigorously, feeling as if he were listening to gibberish. Lin Xiuya and Han Yue, however, exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other's eyes. They had both seen descriptions of "array formations," this ancient art, in their family records.
"Huo Yuhao!" Lin Xiuya exclaimed, his voice clearly filled with shock: "This formation... you created it?!"
"Yes, it was my idea." Huo Yuhao replied simply, and then continued to set up formations in the other medicinal fields.
Once the soil for all the medicinal plants was prepared, Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief and began rummaging through the food storage container. With each plant he took out, the elder of the medicinal plant field felt a pang of anxiety.
"Ouch! Elder Huo! Be gentle! This is a fifty-year-old Jade Marrow Mushroom!"
"This tree is at least eighty years old! Be careful!"
Undisturbed by Elder Yaotian's voiceover, Huo Yuhao gathered invisible spiritual power at his fingertips, like the most precise carving knife, outlining patterns containing strange rhythms on the twelve selected top-grade medicinal herbs.
Everyone could feel that as Huo Yuhao moved his fingertips, the air around the medicinal herbs seemed to distort slightly.
The spirit runes that Huo Yuhao inscribed on the medicinal herbs at this moment were the latest spirit runes he had researched after consulting with Yao Chen. They had the ability to transform external energy into the medicinal properties of the herbs.
Because Lin Xiuya and Han Yue were somewhat interested in this, Huo Yuhao was happy to explain the principles of his formation to them.
"The purpose of these spirit runes is to transform the medicinal herbs themselves into the array base, because I plan to use the medicinal properties of these herbs as energy to connect the array. However, the medicinal properties within the herbs are limited, so they need to be replenished."
Fine beads of sweat appeared on Huo Yuhao's forehead, but his voice remained steady. "These spirit runes can be used to gather energy, converting external energy into nutrients that medicinal herbs can directly 'consume,' thus replenishing the medicinal properties."
Now Lin Xiuya and Han Yue also joined Yan Hao's group, abandoning their own thoughts.
Little Fairy Doctor suddenly asked, "Brother Yuhao, why don't you just use this spirit rune to cultivate the medicinal herbs?"
Huo Yuhao stopped what he was doing and smiled helplessly: "These spirit runes can only supplement the medicinal properties, but they can't increase the upper limit of the medicinal materials. Besides—"
He patted the mountain of ordinary medicinal herbs piled up in the food storage container. "You want to carve all of these? Are you trying to kill me with work?"
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Finally, Huo Yuhao inscribed an even more complex spirit rune on the twelve core medicinal herbs. Then he picked them up as if they were rare treasures, arranged them according to a certain pattern, and replanted them in the herb field.
"Rise!" Huo Yuhao shouted, his eyes suddenly flashing with a pale golden light!
Buzz!
An invisible wave suddenly emanated from him! The spiritual patterns on the twelve core medicinal herbs instantly lit up, emitting a soft glow!
Lin Xiuya and the others clearly "saw" that streams of pure, fragrant "air" were gently extracted from the twelve medicinal herbs, forming several "light paths" in the herb field, connecting and flowing between each herb!
The medicinal herb formation is complete!
The air in the area covered by the array seemed to turn into thick honey, and a strong, suffocating medicinal fragrance suddenly erupted!
"Hah!" Yan Hao took a big gulp and immediately felt a surge of heat rush to his head, his vision blurred, and his body swayed.
"Wow! This is really strong! It's even more potent than my old man's century-old vintage! It's decided! We'll go for a drink after we finish work! I know where to get good wine!"
Huo Yuhao directed everyone to replant the remaining medicinal herbs, deliberately placing them near the glowing medicinal "pathways".
The intense, almost dizzying, medicinal fragrance had faded somewhat, but what made Elder Medicine Field's eyes widen even more was that those herbs that had just been listless due to being removed from the soil had, the moment their roots touched the soil that had been moistened by the array's power, unfurled their leaves at a speed visible to the naked eye, their colors brightened, and the entire herb exuded a vibrant aura!