After Liu Changxu and his wives finished setting up the Island-Guarding Grand Formation, they busied themselves setting up two Fruit-Ripening Formations for the two seventh-tier Golden Apple Trees.
Liu Changxu had researched and crafted these Fruit-Ripening Formations himself. Their principles and operation were both very simple.
They only needed to place thirty-six supreme-grade spirit stones into the Magic Array's thirty-six slots to activate it.
The attributes of the supreme-grade spirit stones required, however, depended on the attributes of the spirit plant being ripened.
Since Golden Apples were spirit fruits with both metal and wood attributes, Liu Changxu placed eighteen metal-attribute supreme-grade spirit stones and eighteen wood-attribute spirit stones into the formation's slots.
Only after completing all this did Liu Changxu and his wives breathe a sigh of relief.
To celebrate their victory, Liu Changxu and his wives specially prepared an all-crab feast.
Steamed crab, Crab Roe Soup, and crab roe tofu filled the entire table.
Liu Changxu also killed the seventh-tier middle-grade Golden Light Crab suppressed inside the Ruyi Yellow-Black Tower and made it into a main dish.
Since the high-tier Golden Light Crab was so enormous, they could only cut it apart and steam the pieces separately.
The Golden Light Crab truly tasted wonderful, and Liu Changxu and his wives ate to their hearts' content!
From then on, Liu Changxu and his wives settled down on the island without a care.
Aside from their daily cultivation and tending the two Golden Apple Trees, they spent their days enjoying life to the fullest, living with carefree ease.
Nine months later, on a bright, breezy morning, Liu Changxu was playing happily with his wives by the sea when he suddenly caught an exceptionally enticing fruity fragrance.
"The Golden Apples are ripe. Let's go take a look!"
Liu Changxu said with a