After Chen Yi disappeared underground, Su Xin's divine sense could no longer detect his whereabouts.
"His earth-based spiritual energy actually has such effects?" she thought to herself.
However, she was not in a hurry, because she knew that Chen Yi would not take the opportunity to escape.
It's not that I know much about his character, but rather that it's relatively safer here.
The city was in chaos at this time, and it would be extremely dangerous for someone to go out alone.
Although she was able to take this opportunity to leave Xiande, a voice in her heart kept telling her that there was something strange about Chen Yi.
So she decided to stay and watch.
Such an interesting thing as a beast tide, if I go back to the sect, I'm afraid I'll never see it again.
Beneath Xiande Middle School, Chen Yi's view was filled with shattered rock layers, mud, and skeletons of unknown origin.
It is said that Xiande Middle School was built on a mass grave. He once thought it was just a ghost story among the students, but it seems to be true.
Of course, these skeletons were not like those in Yinshan Village, which had been sacrificially refined, and the array stakes used by the school to set up the formation were not skeletons either.
Chen Yi followed the trail he saw with his "One Glance at the Array" downwards and finally found a pillar forty meters underground.
This pillar is rooted in the ground like a foundation pillar.
"This is the damaged array pillar."
Chen Yi scanned the pillar; the outermost protective layer had shattered, and the pillar itself had been warped by the earthquake.
The numerous array patterns engraved inside the protective layer of the pillar were thus exposed.
"It doesn't seem like a big problem..."
Fortunately, the centipede demon that invaded this place did not understand the art of formations, otherwise it would have been a serious problem.
Chen Yi activated the array patterns on the pillar through his mind.
He used the "One Glance at the Array" ability again to tamper with the array patterns.
The array patterns that had been worn away in the earthquake were changed into another form.
These new array patterns can perfectly match the original array patterns, but their structure is more stable and harder to erase.
Chen Yi thought to himself that if anyone discovered the greatness of these array patterns, they could call it the "Chen Yi Configuration".
Unfortunately, he was the only one in the underground for the time being.
After modifying the array patterns, he casually straightened the crooked pillar.
For him, who possesses the true spiritual energy of earth element and has mastered the "Earth Devouring Swamp" technique, changing the terrain to straighten the pillar was not a difficult task.
"bite!"
With a crisp sound, the battle merit token actually gained another 50 battle merits.
"No, there's something fishy about this token!" Chen Yi suddenly realized something.
I originally thought this token could only record demonic energy, but now it seems its mysteries go far beyond that.
To be precise, it is a wisp of soul hidden within it!
This soul is equivalent to an intelligent recognition system, and also to a surveillance system.
Schoolmaster Ma attached a wisp of soul to the battle merit token, so that as long as someone completed the task he set, their battle merit would be directly increased.
This is why the token immediately added the battle merits to Chen Yi's record after he finished repairing the array patterns.
At the same time, Ma Guangzhi, who was in charge of the command platform above, could also know the status of the array stakes immediately.
"You've repaired one of the array pillars so quickly? That kid Chen Yi... he really surprises us time and time again." Ma Guangzhi's lips curled up slightly.
In this situation, having someone like Chen Yi around truly put his mind at ease.
Even those teachers who were proficient in formations could not match Chen Yi's efficiency.
“Repairing one array pillar will earn 50 battle merits. I must seize this opportunity to earn more battle merits…” Chen Yi muttered to himself.
The demon lord threatened to hand over its offspring within three days, but he did not know where the other party's offspring were. In other words, a big wave of trouble was bound to come in three days.
At this point, all he could do was improve his own strength as much as possible in order to have a better chance of survival in three days.
With this in mind, he hurried to the next damaged array pillar.
The other array stake was two kilometers away from the previous one, but Chen Yi could reach it quickly using earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of teleportation technique).
But as soon as he arrived around the array pillars, he sensed something was wrong.
Near the location where the array pillars were buried, a crack appeared, and two black tendrils stirred the rock layers around the crack.
"Snap!"
Immediately afterwards, a large hole appeared there.
A monstrous insect-like creature, four or five meters long, emerged.
Its body is long and narrow like a shuttle, covered with short downy hair, and is brownish-black in color, with forewings and hindwings.
"Wow, what a huge mole cricket!" Chen Yi exclaimed.
He was about to use the beast-driving technique to drive away the insect demon, but unexpectedly, the thing was quite slippery when it moved underground.
"Thud!"
In the blink of an eye, the mole cricket demon climbed up the array pillar, its four limbs gripping it tightly as it dragged it into the cave...
This pest, which farmers hate, has become a demon and is now causing trouble for the underground formations.
Chen Yi was naturally unhappy.
Stealing the battle stakes would be stealing my battle merits.
Yes, there is already a way to die!
"This is part of my performance record, give it back to me!"
After saying that, he directly activated the Earth Devouring Swamp underground.
It also incorporates the Transcendent Fireball Technique, which, under the effect of the [Four Techniques Fusion] attribute, directly transforms into magma.
"laugh!"
The surrounding mud instantly glowed red, and the intense heat caused the mole cricket demon to freeze in its tracks.
Its eyes showed confusion. How could magma suddenly appear and emerge from the ground?
Even the hole it came from was blocked by lava...
Because Chen Yi had always blended into the surrounding soil, it was unaware that anyone was nearby, so it couldn't even find a target to breathe out.
"Gurgle!"
It emitted a sharp, explosive sound, and the sound waves broke apart the magma.
Chen Yi sneered and suddenly tightened the lava.
"Gulp!"
The gap that had been broken open was instantly filled with more lava.
Immediately afterwards, the lava swarmed onto the mole cricket demon.
In this narrow underground space, it had virtually no ability to resist; its wings were burned through, and its shell cracked.
In no time at all, it had become a charred corpse...
The battle merit token absorbs a wisp of remaining demonic energy, increasing battle merit by 10 points.
This was yet another demonic beast equivalent to the tenth level of Qi Refining.
Unfortunately, under Chen Yi's twelfth level of Qi Refining and the power of the entry, they could only be crushed.
However, although the mole cricket died, the pillar it was clinging to suffered secondary damage.
Chen Yi's expression was somewhat grim, but then he thought, "It's better than losing the array pillars altogether, isn't it?"
With that in mind, he calmed down and began to repair the pillar.
Fortunately, his array formation skills were solid enough that he spent a few minutes repairing and perfecting the array patterns inside the pillar.
"Thanks to that book on formations..."
I have now thoroughly mastered the "Experiences in Formations" that I asked Wang Lin for back then.
My proficiency in formations has reached level 2, 300/400.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Yi's current level of array formation skills is even more profound than that of the teachers in the school who are proficient in array formations.
Of course, those teachers weren't pushovers either.
As the ones who set up the formation, they were extremely clear about where the formation might be damaged, and they were also very adept at repairing the formation patterns.
Without the "one-glance-at-the-line" skill, Chen Yi probably wouldn't have been able to outmaneuver them in the emergency repairs...
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