Lan Tian returned to the Icefire Basin by the evening of the following day.
After leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he did not linger long in Heaven Dou City, instead heading straight out of the city to a secluded spot where he activated his Blue Silver God Armor and flew back.
When he landed in the center of the basin through the green poisonous mist, Ah Yin was sitting under the Golden Ancient Tree nursing Lan Si'er, Xiao Mei was sprawled on a nearby rock teasing Lan Li'er in the cradle with the tip of her tail, and Louise and Xiao Li were tidying up the purchased goods he had brought back yesterday.
"You're back?"
"Was everything smooth over in Heaven Dou City?"
Louise glanced up at him, her hands still folding a tiny piece of clothing.
"Smooth." Lan Tian squatted down by the spring to wash his face. "I found some useful things, so I'll need to spend some time studying them."
He did not offer much explanation, and after eating dinner that night, he locked himself in the Studio.
He took a stack of blank paper from his storage ring, laid it out on the desk, and closed his eyes to recall the teleportation array diagram he had seen in the Heaven Dou Royal Academy library that day from start to finish.
The paths of those lines, the positions of the nodes, the connection methods of the energy circuits, and the damaged, missing markings at the edges—he reviewed them section by section, stopping to ponder places of uncertainty several times before confirming them and starting to draw them on the paper.
It took him an entire night to completely replicate that array diagram on the paper.
The main framework and most of the circuits were restored, but those