"A Level 4 Spirit Gathering Array? That little thing isn't worthy of Xiao Mu."
After hearing why Mu Chen had come, Ling Xi smiled and swept her delicate hand through the air.
The sky suddenly split open. Countless transparent threads of light intertwined, distorting a vast swath of space. Faintly, they formed an immensely complex Spirit Array.
The only Level Eight Spirit Gathering Array. All the spiritual energy in the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was supplied by it, and it was also the central hub controlling every Spirit Array scattered throughout the academy.
It was hidden in the academy's deepest reaches and, in a sense, was the very foundation of the Northern Heavens.
Ling Xi had been invited by Dean Tai Cang to take a position in the Northern Heavens, where she was responsible for maintaining the Spirit Arrays.
As a Spirit Array Master of terrifying talent, Ling Xi had inherited her teacher Qing Yanjing's gifts. (The Clan Protection Array that had enveloped the Buddha Realm for endless ages had long since been riddled with holes by that Saint Grade giant, who had planted her hidden hands everywhere.) She saw through all kinds of secrets.
To her, the entire Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was practically defenseless.
Using the Level Eight Spirit Gathering Array to take a few strands of spiritual energy was nothing out of the ordinary.
In just five short years, even without deliberately cultivating her spiritual energy, her cultivation had swiftly advanced from the Divine Soul Realm to the late stage of the Heavenly Passage Realm. She was on the verge of challenging the Three Minor Tribulations of the Supreme.
"Won't this alarm the higher-ups in the Northern Heavens?"
Mu Chen coughed lightly, somewhat uneasy.
He had thought that getting a discount would be good enough, and that