Chapter 644 - 260: Neighbors (Part 2)
These past days of interaction, although Luwu is a Wild Beast, it has a great disposition, straightforward and sincere, worthy of deep friendship.
Shen Can plans to gradually pull Luwu into the Blazing Flame Tribe. Compared, what’s a Source Stone? As long as Luwu is brought into the Blazing Flame, it’s like meat cooked in one’s own pot.
Give, just give a lot.
At this moment, Red Fire Luwu lifted its paw and pushed the Witch Pouch back to Shen Can.
"Treasure Medicine is used for making Treasure Pills, I don’t need the Source Stone."
Red Fire Luwu has no interest in Source Stones either; even if it swallowed up a Source Stone Mountain, the blood energy it absorbs into its body is quite limited.
"Rather, there is an unusual request, the array from your tribe, could it..."
As it spoke, Red Fire Luwu appeared a bit shy.
Since the last time burning Spirit Monster meat, Shen Can knew Luwu was a face-valuing beast.
"Okay."
Without waiting for Red Fire Luwu to finish, Shen Can agreed.
His quick response surprised Red Fire Luwu.
It had never seen such a straightforward member of the Human Race, no, even among other races, it had rarely encountered such an open-hearted being of the same tier.
Red Fire Luwu shook its big head; is this what humans mean by the friendship between man and beast? It felt indescribable.
After checking the sealed Holy Envoy Race’s clan land grand array and confirming it was extraordinarily strong that not a single flying insect could enter or leave, Shen Can was reassured to return with Luwu.
Now, they couldn’t enter even if the Great Witch Priest wasn’t dead.
The greatest gain from visiting the Holy Envoy Race wasn’t revenge, after all, he didn’t manage to eliminate so many of them.
Shen Can envisioned such a large Holy Envoy Race’s clan land, with so many in the Divine Treasure Realm, completely usable as a trial ground, just like the Three Ancestors of Luo River back then.
Still busy and dedicated to the development of the Blazing Flame Bo Division, although aging, it was precisely the time to strive forward.
Upon returning to the Giant Mountain Range, Shen Can did not return to the clan land but went to check out Red Fire Luwu’s lair.
To construct a grand array, one needs to first inspect Red Fire Luwu’s dwelling in advance, to build and transform the array according to local conditions.
Red Fire Luwu resided among a group of mountains with towering peaks, each summit covered in vast snow.
Beneath one major mountain surrounded by this mountain range, there was a naturally formed Rift Valley, bare of vegetation, covered entirely in broken stones.
In this place, the Source Power was dozens of times more intense than other places, yet unfortunately not a pure Fire Source Power Primordial Vein, which greatly reduced its effectiveness for Fire Element cultivating Luwu.
The Rift Valley retained a powerful presence belonging to Luwu, which is why no other Wild Beasts existed around.
Upon entering deep into the Rift Valley, Shen Can sensed a surge of flowing Source Power.
Going further down the Rift Valley, there was an underground world, with scattered stones resembling hills, displaying the tendency of a great dragon lying on its roots.
The Primordial Vein wasn’t large, only a few hundred meters long, yet through its branching veins, it nourished the surrounding tens of thousands of miles of land.
"The Source Power here, when I cultivated in the past, I dared not absorb too much, for fear of draining the Primordial Vein, making it difficult to naturally restore the Source Power.
Also fearing, should the Primordial Vein fail to recover promptly, if ever injured, there wouldn’t be Source Power for healing."
Red Fire Luwu projected a difficult expression, reminiscent of being ambushed by Feiyi last time, where it returned and absorbed Source Power ruthlessly.
At this moment, Shen Can, without Luwu explaining, felt the irregular fluctuations in the Primordial Vein’s Source Power emission.
The core area’s Source Power was generally pure like mist, but now, in the Rift Valley, the Source Power forming mist not only scattered irregularly here and there but also had vast areas where the Source Power was chaotic and impure.
This was due to Red Fire Luwu piling Source Stones within the Primordial Vein to enable its restoration after utilizing Source Power for healing.
The Primordial Vein could cleanse Source Stones autonomously, but this required time.
Red Fire Luwu had accumulated a lot of Source Stones, making it impossible for the Primordial Vein to purify and integrate so many Source Stones in a short period.
Helping the Primordial Vein absorb Source Power is simple; just add an array.
After making a round, Shen Can said, "Come on, let’s go out and have a look."
One man and one beast came outside the Rift Valley, looking up at the sky, waiting until night fell.
Shen Can glanced at the starry sky, then looked at Luwu’s lair.
After a long time, he said, "Beast King, the mountain height here is too high; you see, the number of stars visible in the sky is not many, so if we arrange the array, even if we manage to guide starlight, it won’t be much.
You also know that guiding stars from the firmament isn’t easy, and the conversion rate isn’t high. So, if the starlight collected is too little, the converted Source Power will be even less.
Moreover, now that it’s nighttime, Osmanthus Moon is just blocked by the surrounding mountains. Originally, the Osmanthus Moon as the Taiyin Star draws a significant portion of the Power of Stars, the moonlight will account for not a small part, but now it’s blocked.
Currently, my tribe’s arrays aren’t sufficient to channel the Sun Star Power; we can only rely mainly on ordinary stars and the Power of Stars from the Taiyin Star to convert unto Five Elements Source Power."
Shen Can went on for quite a bit, yet Red Fire Luwu only felt a vague sense of amazement.
Noticing Red Fire Luwu hadn’t responded, Shen Can continued, "For better star-guiding, find a spot where stars are densely packed, and preferably, the terrain is relatively flat to form a scale."
Here, he paused briefly, then said, "Near my tribe’s station is a stellar convergence place; otherwise, my tribe wouldn’t establish our clan in that valley."
That was Shen Can’s true intention.
Whether the stars converge, take a look at whether the guided starlight is bright, for Luwu had witnessed this himself.
Moving closer as neighbors first, if living in the same place, to others, you can’t claim no association between the two of you.
In truth, discussing strictly logically, the stellar gathering place is where the avatar presently cultivates, despite unfavorable conditions with land cracks and simmering magma, plus the stench from lava being quite unfriendly to the Human Race.
If a big meteor rain came, that would spell a disastrous heavenly calamity.
Red Fire Luwu was reminded of the Blazing Flame Tribe’s guided starlight, which was indeed like what Shen Can said.
"Should I move this Primordial Vein of mine over there?"
"Didn’t we just seize numerous Source Stones from the Holy Envoy race? We could create a Primordial Vein directly, leaving this cave residence for your return whenever you wish."
Shen Can spoke indifferently, "Guiding stars to convert Source Power isn’t a day-and-night affair; you can stay here for now."
"No fear of a long time."
Red Fire Luwu shook its head, "If I moved this Primordial Vein over, would it save a lot of time?"
"Of course, your Primordial Vein is better than my tribe’s. Even if there’s some loss during the move, with our Source Stones, we can easily replenish the dispersed Source Power.
This way with the two Primordial Veins together, we could expand the scale of the star-guiding array, establish more Star Attraction Arrays."
At this moment, Red Fire Luwu asked, "Are you saying the more Primordial Veins, the better?"
"Certainly, the more Primordial Veins, the more Source Power converted from guided stars can be retained within the ground by them; otherwise, over time without Primordial Veins’ harboring, the Source Power would dissipate into the world.
The Giant Mountain Range is so vast, a dispersed amount of Source Power couldn’t fill this land.
Our clan’s grand array continually operates to prevent Source Power from leaking out."
Luwu, with the demeanor of a landlord of the mountains, said, "I do know of many Small Yuan Veins."
...
Soon after.
In the northern area of the Blazing Flame River Valley, amidst the undulating mountain forest, a booming sound was heard, as a thousand-zhang-sized mountain ridge crumbled into rubble under a tiger paw.
Within one day, countless mountain ridges turned to ruins, leaving scorching breath behind.
Numerous flying ships swiftly navigated through, starting to clear away these stones.
Inside the Clan Hall.
"Clan Leader, we’ve mobilized three hundred thousand people to work, expecting completion within a month. By then, the river valley’s clan land range will expand to four times the original."
Huo Zhang hurriedly came in to report to Huo Shan.
Demolishing mountains doesn’t mean knocking down all ridges; some need reinforcement, proceeding orderly based on previous planning.
"Perfect timing, come with me, let’s see the Ancestral Temple Keeper; the demographics and number of affiliated residents requested for compilation by the Ancestral Temple Keeper have long been sorted, yet delayed until now, the Ancestral Temple Keeper is finally available."
In the Side Hall of the Ancestral Temple.
On Shen Can’s desk was a new planned blueprint for the clan land redesign; since returning from Luwu’s lair, he was caught up in pondering over this new plan.
This blueprint included three hundred and sixty-five stars attraction arrays, differing in sizes and tiers, and the current clan’s modification proceeded according to this diagram.
When Huo Shan and Huo Zhang arrived together, Shen Can was still pondering improvements for the blueprint.
The positioning of two Tier Five figures shouldn’t be too close, avoiding competition for Source Power during cultivation, nor too far, as it would defeat the purpose of drawing Red Fire Luwu into the Blazing Flame.
Close proximity allows for incorporating Red Fire Luwu into the Blazing Flame Tribe.