"Employer, you're here. We've prepared everything. We're just waiting to begin."
In the Secret Realm, Yu Bao and the others had been waiting for Li Chen. When he arrived, they came forward to greet him.
Li Chen nodded and returned to the room where the Book of Years was kept.
The magic array here was already active. The moment he entered, he could clearly feel powerful magnetic origin surging alongside strange spatial waves.
Formless gang qi formed an immensely powerful force field in the air, constraining the power of the Spirit-Gathering Formation as it slowly operated.
Unlike the spirit-gathering grand arrays outside, the arrangement, orientation, and functions of the various dao-pattern restrictions here were precisely reversed.
An ordinary spirit-gathering grand array drew spiritual energy from outside, concentrated it at the array's core, and stockpiled it for use. Here, however, the aim was to drain the spiritual essence and primordial energy from the core, artificially creating a region of Dharma's Decline entirely devoid of spiritual essence.
"Actually, this also benefited from the completion of the Sacred Spirit Grand Formation. We can connect this place to the grand formation and obtain greater operating power. Advances in insulating materials also provided the foundation for blocking spiritual essence in our earlier experiments..."
"But the true key is still the spacetime partition created through the Book of Years!"
"Thanks to you, Employer, we've come to understand that time scales cannot be universally unified across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. There is no single 'simultaneous moment' shared by all worlds, because the different voids of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds operate on different time scales. Nearby regions may differ only slightly, but those differences do exist."
"With that in mind, we designed a special magic array capable of magnifying these differences, guiding and harnessing the Book