The ritual was still underway. Lin Ji and the others had poured years of painstaking effort into it, and Li Ling had spared no expense in supplying everything they needed. Their aim was not merely to sever this cave heaven's connection to the outside world, but to establish a new, stable, reliable passage.
They intended to draw on the power of the Space Dao to turn this cave heaven into a star, hiding it high in the heavens of the Great Thousand World.
Then, they would only need to build a Translocation Array of the proper specifications in the outside world to travel back and forth.
This was the Heavenly Star Reflection Method, which harnessed the power of the stars to guide supernatural travel. Even a single entrance required the supply of energy channels from an entire continental region to take shape. The phantom image projected by the stars above also had to align with the longitudinal and latitudinal dao markers, and they needed the means to maintain it over the long term to ensure its stability.
Every adjustment and stabilization consumed vast amounts of manpower and resources. An ordinary minor faction with three or five Foundation Establishment cultivators at its helm could never manage such a thing.
Fortunately, Li Ling had recently come into an enormous windfall. The mines within the abode could supply most of what they needed, while the profits from the Incense Market could purchase considerable additional support.
Thus, work had proceeded simultaneously over in the North Sea during these few short years, and construction there had finally been completed before the main array was finished.
Through this, Li Ling had become the great patron in the eyes of almost every Formation Dao and Artifact Refining Dao cultivator in the North Sea. He could even be