The Xuanyuan Five Spirits Array was not some profound formation. Although this type of formation was not commonly seen, it was not a powerful formation meant for attack or defense.
It could only be considered an auxiliary formation. Its effects were similar to those of the Spirit Gathering Array Qin Fengming had improved for the little gourd to collect spiritual liquid. Cultivators generally used such formations to gather the spiritual energy in their Cave Abodes.
Moreover, its ability to gather energy was extremely powerful. Regardless of what kind of energy it was, it would be rapidly drawn together by the formation.
Even soul energy, yin energy, and demonic energy were all welcomed without discrimination, and would be gathered into the formation one after another.
To a Profound Spirit, this formation naturally could not be considered profound, and they would not use it at all. After all, which of the Cave Abodes where Profound Spirits cultivated was not located in a place with an extremely dense spiritual-energy vein?
Gathering too much Vital Energy and Power was not necessarily a good thing for a cultivator's absorption and cultivation. When cultivators circulated their cultivation techniques, the amount of energy and vital force they absorbed was limited. More was not always better.
Unless it was extremely pure Vital Energy and Power that could enter a cultivator's meridians without needing to be refined, even with that kind of Vital Energy and Power, the amount a cultivator could truly absorb was still extremely small. Most of it would be expelled from the body, never merging into the Pill Sea.
This was because energy that had not been refined by a cultivator's cultivation technique was extremely difficult to merge into the cultivator's Pill Sea's magical power and energy.
Of course, when a cultivator underwent tribulation and had