Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Top-Grade Spiritual Vein

In front of the Longevity Ladder, bustle and silence coexist.

It seemed as if everyone on the island was there, but there was hardly any sound of communication.

Some of the climbers had flushed faces as they climbed up little by little. After climbing for a while, they stopped, sat cross-legged on the stone steps, and practiced basic breathing exercises. After they felt a little more adapted, they began to train their bodies on the stone steps.

Some of them haven't been back for almost two days.

These were the disciples who had already reached the first platform and were commanded by Ali to use the stone stairs to strengthen their bodies with every step they took.

As for the rest, they climbed up as if they felt no pressure, but suddenly stopped about halfway up, with different expressions on their faces.

Some looked entangled and ferocious, some weeping in sorrow, and some numb and indifferent. Every now and then, one or two of them would suddenly disappear from the stone steps and reappear at the entrance to the higher platform. They would stand there in a daze for a long while, unable to recover from the previous shock, until they were led away...

On the high main peak, in a classical wooden house hidden behind the main hall, a large table was placed in the center of the hall. Ali and Ban each occupied half of the table and were working on the design of the connection between the Discipline Hall and the sect's formation.

The system does not have any tasks in this regard for the time being, but Ali feels that there will definitely be such a thing. It may be like Madara-sama's hidden task. Maybe an easter egg will pop up when it is completed. Moreover, the number of sect members has skyrocketed in the past two days, so this matter should be done as soon as possible.

Ban raised his head and glanced at Ali, who was leaning over the desk opposite him, carefully comparing the screen with some design drawings, and recalled her actions over the past two days.

I have to admit, although this kid is a bit lazy and leaves almost everything to his subordinates, he actually has very high management skills...

In just two days, she promoted many deputies. The responsibilities they had were far less than those of the previous four deputies. The originally scoped work was broken down into smaller parts, and even registration and guidance were assigned to two people.

It seems that everyone has been given some rights, but it will not pose a threat to the original leadership position of the current four deputies. Instead, it will reduce a lot of their workload.

Even though the number of disciples joining the sect has increased sharply in the past two days, the four most important deputies now stay on the Longevity Ladder almost day and night, devoting themselves to body training, and no chaos has occurred in the sect.

She did not intervene completely, and only gave some advice to the new deputies when they had problems. However, the operation within the sect became more and more orderly, and she herself spent more time with him to deal with the preparations for the Discipline Hall. She should have been very busy, but she seemed to be very comfortable with it.

I think even if Ali and the four sect deputies leave for a while, there won't be any big problems for the time being.

Knowing people and making good use of them, dividing rights...

Perhaps this is what the correct leadership system should look like.

Ban withdrew his gaze and continued to sketch something on the drawing in front of him. Densely packed nodes were interwoven on it, as if he was writing some special array patterns.

Several thick books on formations were piled on the table, while others lay flat on the table, some with pages folded. Nearby, you could see several scrolls densely covered with writing, with faint words about formations and barriers visible.

Originally, they were just planning to plan the Discipline Hall, but as their discussion got deeper, it eventually extended to the sect's formation.

If there is a monitoring array, it may be possible to collect evidence in time.

The system's basic nesting doll upgrade method will ultimately generate a lot of useless energy consumption. Once a new module is installed, the level of the formation will also increase, and the consumed spirit stones will also increase exponentially.

But the monitoring function they want is actually not a particularly high-level requirement. Ordinary photo stones can easily achieve it, and there is no need to spend huge amounts of money to upgrade.

They then found a lot of related basic books and tried to see if they could integrate relevant array points and add image stones without changing the level of the basic array, so that the sect's protective array could have this ability.

then……

Madara was drafted again...

Madara's first half of life was filled with the smoke of war, but his second half was more peaceful. He studied all kinds of research and many different types of techniques. He even secretly copied a copy of the Uzumaki Sealing Scroll from Konoha.

It's like drawing inferences from one instance to another. Besides, Madara-sama's talent for formations is truly astonishing...

Looking at the formation pattern that had already taken shape, Ali was so moved that he almost wanted to cry.

Madara-sama! You are indeed like that!

[Detected fluctuations in a top-grade spirit stone vein within a 100-kilometer radius (sealed), marked.]

The sudden system prompt woke Ali from her concentrated work. She pulled up the map and looked at the flashing blue dots on the map, and her mood couldn't help but become excited.

She was right! It really was a top-grade spirit stone mine!

Ali stood up excitedly. Ban opposite him raised his head slightly, looking at the undisguised excitement on Ali's face. Recalling what this kid said in front of several deputies two days ago, he raised his eyebrows and then put away the pen and paper in his hand.

"Everyone, gather in front of the Spirit Testing Monument. We'll be down immediately!"

The design drawings and books on the table were sorted one by one by Madara and stored in the sect's warehouse space. When she excitedly sent a notification in the group she had created earlier, all the things on the table were also put away by Madara.

"Are we there yet?" Ban asked, lowering his eyes and looking at Ali.

Ali smiled and nodded.

"This mineral vein is of the highest quality. The risk factor for us is almost zero, but the benefits are numerous. I traveled over 3,000 kilometers specifically for this foundation-building project! Just for a perfect start to the foundation-building process."

As they were talking, the topic turned to Madara: "Isn't Madara about to break through from the early stage of foundation building?"

Ah Li looked at Ban and said with a hint of disapproval in his tone, "The Foundation Establishment Stage can't be as casual as the Qi Refining Stage. Even if there's no threshold before the Nascent Soul Stage, if you just break through if you can, there will be a significant difference in the amount of spiritual energy you have when you reach the Nascent Soul Stage."

"Compressing the spiritual energy in your body more will strengthen your foundation. This will be very beneficial for your future cultivation."

Madara was speechless as he looked at the little boy in front of him, who looked like a senior practitioner. He started to say something about not listening to the old man and suffering the consequences. He even looked like he couldn't stop...

Madara's eyes slowly narrowed.

Does he look like someone who's always chasing quick success? Even in the chaotic era of the Warring States Period, he and Hashirama were still considered the two strongest men in the ninja world. Could it be that he didn't understand the importance of basics?

Even when he was practicing Qi Refining for the first time, he compressed it several times until his soul felt a faint blockage. He completed 12 levels before breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Does this little brat think that everyone has the same body as hers, where cultivation is like a bottomless pit?

Madara scoffed, "Why, are you teaching me how to do things?"

“No, no, no!”

"I'm just worried about you, Madara-sama. Don't get me wrong! Don't get me wrong!" Ali waved his hands repeatedly and shrank his neck: "Well..."

"Can you put the stick away?"

…

"Not bad." Ali looked at the four people in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

All of them have reached the peak of body tempering. Da Niu and the others are fine, as they are already in the late stage of body tempering and the pressure of the task is not too great, but Shennong has definitely been fighting for his life these two days.

At least Ali had received a large amount of points from Shennong for purchasing elixirs. The points Ali had previously reserved for the four of them were probably almost all spent. They had definitely consumed a lot of fasting pills and body-building pills, and had barely slept...

But fortunately the result is good.

"Put away your sect uniforms and change into ordinary clothes." Ali reminded, "Once we enter the ninja world, we, who are already well-known in the ninja world, should not wear sect uniforms. This will prevent our disciples from coming down and being attacked by the ninja villages we have provoked. This will also be detrimental to our future development plans."

"yes!"

Watching the few people quickly change their clothes in the stone house, Ali nodded.

"Let's go..."

She pulled out the map, wanting to find an uninhabited place to go down, but suddenly she glanced at the map and saw a point specially marked by her approaching rapidly.

"Obito?" Did he come so early?

Ali clicked on the map and looked at the 3D page, his eyes widening in shock.

This Obito! Did he eat Kinkela?!

Although he's not as exaggerated as Daniel, who only grows muscle without aging, why does he look like he's 18-9 years old?!

Ah Li was speechless and choked up. He glanced at Madara next to him. He wondered what Madara's reaction would be if he saw it...

Ali sighed.

But since Obito had already arrived, she subconsciously used the map to search for the presence of White Zetsu within a hundred kilometers, but was surprised to find that, apart from Obito, there were only a few White Zetsu following her.

Ali thought about it, clicked a point on the map, opened the communication bar, and sent a location message to Obito.

"Just go to the marked spot, we'll be there in a moment!"

He paused for a moment looking at the specially marked point, then changed direction and refocused his gaze on Madara.

"Mr. Madara, when we go down later, I'll trouble you to deal with those White Zetsu."

Although her spiritual sense could detect an area of ​​five kilometers at full power, the range in which she could actually kill people without them being seen was only a hundred meters, which was still too small.

However, as a spiritual being, Madara-sama is more directly practicing the Soul Source Technique to train his spiritual consciousness, and he has already established his foundation. The actual range of his spiritual consciousness control is as high as one kilometer in radius. At this distance, if they lower the height of the island, under the cover of the formation, it will be enough to kill those White Zetsu without anyone noticing.

It's better to be cautious when meeting with Obito, so as not to let Black Zetsu suspect Obito...

But Ali didn't know that after Obito's tricks, Black Zetsu had already planned to abandon Obito...