After silently making up her mind, Chi Jiuyu sent a thread of spiritual power into the hexagonal crystal array foundation before her. As the foundation glimmered faintly, the spiritual energy patterns covering the ground and the walls of the cave also brightened somewhat.
Invisible ripples spread through the air, concealing the traces of spiritual energy flow.
The formation's effects could not exactly be called outstanding. After all, it was merely a low-end product; any university graduate from an array formation major who had studied even a little seriously could detect the anomaly here with a few simple magical artifacts.
But in this world, paired with her own concealment technique, it was more than sufficient.
That was the gap in technology!
Once she had confirmed that the formation was operating steadily, Chi Jiuyu rose and walked outside the cave. Looking toward the distant direction of "Seedling City," a faint golden light gleamed in her eyes.
As the nominal leader of the righteous path in the Xuanxiang World, the Heavenly Spirit Sect's methods were not as "straightforward"—or rather, as "shallow"—as those of demonic sects like the Blood Vajra Temple.
Nor would they indiscriminately slaughter mortals and gather "fresh blood" in such a drain-the-pond-to-catch-the-fish fashion.
After all, every ordinary person possessed the potential to become a "seedling." They were the Heavenly Spirit Sect's greatest wealth.
"Free of sickness and affliction, light of body and strong of health, with a spark of spiritual potential residing within the apertures—only then may one become a 'seedling.'" Chi Jiuyu muttered the words she had learned earlier.
Just as the Blood Vajra Temple had halls dedicated to gathering "fresh blood" and cultivating "origin fetuses."
The cities under the Heavenly Spirit Sect's rule likewise varied from one another.
"Seedling City," as Chi Jiuyu had just recited, was inhabited entirely