Inside the Main Base of the Azure Billow Immortal Abode.
Heavenly Pivot's voice carried an ethereal quality, as though descending from the heavens. "Master, the main modules of the sacred spirit grand formation are complete. Shall we attempt to activate it?"
Li Chen sat in his Mechanized Flying Chair, toying with a fingernail-sized object shaped like a glass chip. At those words, he stopped and casually tossed it aside.
Spirit runes rippled into view like water. The magnetic origin restraint mechanisms hidden in the shadows drew the object away, as though an invisible puppet had caught it and carefully placed it on a wall cabinet at one side of the hall.
By now, more than a year had passed since Li Chen left Great Qian, restored his true body, and began developing the materialized heaven. It was gradually approaching late October.
Over the past few months, Li Chen had been digesting and absorbing his Dao fruit. Now, he had thoroughly consolidated his Primordial Spirit Realm cultivation, laying a solid foundation for his next advance.
Within the materialized heaven, Heavenly Pivot and the Swarm had not been idle either. With the cooperation of the slave craftsmen, they had completed the immense main structure of the sacred spirit grand formation. From here on, they would continue adding bricks and tiles to it, strengthening the entire formation's might.
Li Chen had no taste for publicity or celebrations. Even though the completion of this formation held extraordinary significance for the entire warship, and even for the materialized heaven concealed within it, he still alerted no one.
Li Chen merely gave the order, "Activate it."
Then he watched Heavenly Pivot mobilize the formation's many nodes. An incomparably magnificent radiance enveloped the Bone Kun's exterior, and the entire warship exuded a distinctive aura of spiritual essence,