Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1476 - 784: Formation Setup (Part 2)
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Array foundations were laid down one by one, while the Array Masters had quit their tasks long ago, now standing off to the side and staring at Li Yuanba like he was some kind of god.
They had no clue what kind of array expertise it took to handle such an elaborate formation with total ease.
They didn't realize that a powerful super server backed Li Yuanba up. For these Array Masters, the computations involved were incredibly tough, but the IBMz15 handled them like a breeze, spitting out answers in no time at all.
The final array foundation dropped into place, and though the array wasn't firing up yet, it was ready to go with just one order.
"Please check if there are any problems with the array. If there are none, activate the array on my command!" Great Cultivator Wang He glanced at Li Yuanba first, then faced the Array Masters and commanded.
"Look at the smooth flow of the Spiritual Power Pattern—there's no issue with the array; I stake my life on it!" The earlier Array Master declared, lost in awe, as his Divine Sense swept over the array foundations.
Even if building the array had been a real hassle because of the surroundings, inspecting it turned out to be a simple job.
All the other Array Masters nodded in agreement, which finally eased Master Wang He's worries.
"Great Cultivators, get ready to halt your attacks when I say, and start powering up the array at the same time!" Master Wang He bellowed.
Every Great Cultivator and Array Master focused hard, and as soon as he gave the word, the Great Cultivators ended their strikes, while the array started glowing brightly.
The array's glow wrapped around the space rift, and the wild spatial energy there settled down fast.
Li Yuanba caught a fuzzy glimpse of a few Hell Creatures pushing to break through, only to get forced back out of the space rift suddenly.
At the same time, with the array running, power from the array foundations drained away at a furious pace.
The stuff making up those array foundations was top-tier rare, yet at this drain speed, the array would fizzle out in only six days.
But he quickly saw that his thinking was off.
Once the space rift's spatial energy calmed, free from wild spatial waves messing with it, a horrifying radiation wave hit him.
This radiation kept leaking out from the space rift into the Hell Cave Heaven, revealing to him exactly where the Hell Cave Heaven's radiation came from.
Even worse, this brutal radiation was wrecking the steady spatial formation so bad that what should've lasted six days would now collapse in merely two hours.
Not only him, but Great Cultivator Wang He picked up on the radiation too. In the Cultivation World, they might call radiation something else than in his old life, but everyone knew how deadly that force could be.
Above all, radiation wrecked any Spiritual Objects it touched, so Master Wang He figured the stable spatial array was getting hit with nonstop contamination.
"Li Yuanba, how long can this array hold up?" This time, Master Wang He went straight to asking Li Yuanba.
To him, Li Yuanba had the top array skills around, so his take on these vital matters felt the most reliable.
"At most two hours!" Li Yuanba shot back a solid estimate.
Master Wang He's face darkened—two hours wasn't nearly enough.
"Any way to make it last longer? I need at least a full day!" He pressed, sounding a bit desperate.
He saw Li Yuanba as the sole cultivator able to block the ’Hell Disgust Crystal Essence’, so maybe he had tricks for handling radiation.
"A day’s time? I'd need three hundred and sixty Fourth Grade Array Flags—then it could hold for a day!" Li Yuanba linked up with the IBMz15, ran the numbers, and answered.
"Fourth Grade Array Flags aren't an issue; pooling ours, we've got way more than that!" Before Master Wang He could respond, a close-by Array Master jumped in.
He and the rest of the Array Masters had looks of pure respect, eager to watch Li Yuanba work his array magic once more.
The Array Masters pulled out Fourth Grade Array Flags, ending up with more than eight hundred in total. As pros, they didn't mess with Array Plates like newbie cultivators; they relied on Fourth Grade Array Flags to build their setups.
Those Fourth Grade Array Flags were basically like their personal arms; having extras on hand was no big deal.
"Just three hundred and sixty Fourth Grade Array Flags will do; extras won't help, since after these burn out, the array foundation gets tainted, and more flags can't fix that!" Li Yuanba grabbed three hundred and sixty flags and laid it out.
The three hundred and sixty he picked looked tossed together at random, but the Array Masters spotted right away that he went for the prime ones.
Li Yuanba's Divine Sense snatched up a Fourth Grade Array Flag, dropping it in what seemed like a haphazard spot, then grabbed and placed the next one.
Right from the array's kickoff, the Array Masters furrowed their brows, itching to ask questions but holding back to not throw off Li Yuanba's rhythm.
"This looks like a twist on the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Formation, but what's the point of it here?" One Array Master muttered, shaking his head softly.
"I can't follow it; but I'm sure there's a good reason!" Another Array Master replied, putting full faith in Li Yuanba's array know-how.
Li Yuanba was indeed building a twisted version of the ’Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Formation’, aimed purely at blocking things out.
He pulled a Mustard Seed Ring from storage and dumped out blocks of sealed anti-radiation concrete.
This anti-radiation concrete was a backup his true self Li Shiming had whipped up ages back for uranium experiments, to boost shielding against radiation.
For now, Li Shiming hadn't dug deep into tweaking anti-radiation concrete, just copying the old life's recipe.
Per the IBMz15's math, tossing in anti-radiation concrete would only slow the damage to the array foundations, not fully block the radiation's punch.
One key thing here: the Cultivation World's radiation, boosted by Spiritual Energy, hit way harder than anything from his past life.
He only had a small stash of anti-radiation concrete, meant for quick fixes to carve out a safe zone to live in.
To shield the stable spatial array now, he'd have to use that precious anti-radiation concrete with some clever setup.
The twisted ’Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Formation’ he was building would wrap each array foundation in the stable spatial array with a wall of concrete.
On top of that, the main Spiritual Power Pattern paths in the stable spatial array would get their own concrete barriers.
With heaps of anti-radiation concrete poured in and shaped by the ’Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Formation’, slim protective walls sprang up quick.
Facing the Array Masters' curious stares, Li Yuanba felt a bit sheepish about explaining, since the twisted ’Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Formation’ was just acting as a mold.
Plus, that formation would shatter first, and by then the concrete would've hardened, hitting exactly what he wanted.
Though Master Wang He wasn't an array whiz, he had his ways of checking.
He moved close to an array foundation his Divine Sense could reach, felt the radiation taint, and broke into a grin.
"Li Yuanba, what a clever trick—looks like you've got real deep knowledge on ’Hell Disgust Crystal’!" He said with praise.
"Not really, I just like thinking things over!" Li Yuanba answered humbly.
"Will it definitely last a full day?" Master Wang He asked, even after sensing it worked, just to double-check the stable spatial array's staying power.
"A day should be fine; got any backup plans for that extra day?" Li Yuanba eyed the space rift with interest and questioned.
From Master Wang He's attitude, it seemed like one day was all they needed to fix the space rift mess.