Dark Vein Ruined Array

Beyond the deepest part of the Mine Tunnel, the rock grew extremely dense. After penetrating twelve hundred zhang of rock, the Spatial Investigation Technique detected a set of ancient spiritual-energy fluctuations roughly a hundred zhang directly below. Their frequency matched the Spirit Patterns of the third-layer seal in Nether Abyss Valley.

Li Yuan activated the Spatial Severing Technique, carved a passage downward along a weak point in the rock, and slipped inside sideways.

A hundred zhang down, the remains of a Fourth-Order Spatial Lockdown Array lay embedded in the rock.

The Array was small, about ten zhang across. Its six core nodes formed a hexagon, while Spirit Pattern grooves carved into the natural rock wall ran in rough lines, almost identical in style to the Spirit Patterns on the walls of Nether Abyss Valley.

This Lockdown Array was likely an outer node of the Ancient Demon Dao sealing system, meant to seal off a branch of the underground Dark Vein. Once the passage was sealed, demonic qi could not seep to the surface.

But too many years had passed. Most of the Array had fallen into ruin.

His understanding of Array Dao Pivot at Major Accomplishment surfaced in his sea of consciousness. Between the hexagonal nodes, the Spirit Patterns followed the principles of spatial lockdown, using spatial spiritual energy to form a sealing membrane against the passage walls. Three nodes were now broken, and the membrane had long since sprung leaks everywhere.

The repair efficiency of the Blue Trait Ruined-Array Void Fixing was exactly what he needed.

Li Yuan took three Spatial-Attribute Spirit Stones from his storage bag, their quality close to that of the stones originally used in the ruined Array.

He laid out the Spirit Patterns and set the new Spirit Stones in place.

The circuit closed.

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