Four Seasons Rotation Defense Array

The light of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Spirit Gathering Array gradually faded. The enormous funnel of spiritual energy dispersed, becoming twenty-four gentle halos that descended into the twenty-four courtyards across the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Gardens.

The estate fell quiet again, but the concentration of Soul Power in the air was several times greater than before.

Standing in the Central Main Courtyard, everyone could feel it: a refreshing ease, as though every breath drew in pure energy.

Xiao Yun was ready for the second step. He would activate another array—the Four Seasons Rotation Defense Array.

He took four objects from his Soul Tool. Each gave off a faint spiritual glow that resonated with the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi around them.

"There's more?" Ning Rongrong's eyes widened. "Teacher Xiao, you still have another array to activate?"

Xiao Yun smiled. "The Spirit Gathering Array is only the foundation. It gives everyone a better place to cultivate so they won't fall behind other Soul Masters. What truly sets this estate apart is the other array."

He turned toward the Spring Garden, and everyone hurried after him.

The peach trees in the Spring Garden were in bloom, their pink petals especially vivid in the morning light.

Xiao Yun passed through the Peach Forest and reached a clearing at its heart.

The largest peach tree stood there. Its trunk was so thick that two people would have to join hands to encircle it, and its broad crown covered the clearing in pink floral shadows. Unlike the other trees, a faint spiritual light flowed along its branches. This was the Spring Garden node of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Spirit Gathering Array.

Standing beneath the tree, Xiao Yun slowly took out a square seal.

It was an exquisite green jade seal, about the size of