He sat on the floor for nearly twenty minutes, skimming the entire chest of books, and had already begun working through possibilities in his mind.
A Dust-Cleansing Formation layered with a Mind-Calming Formation around Chen Family Village-visitors would shed their restlessness as soon as they entered, and might even order two extra dishes at mealtimes.
A Soundproofing Formation combined with a formation that blocked spiritual power probes in the backyard of the Farmhouse Courtyard-from then on, neither orbital satellite scans nor infiltrating agents would get through.
Among the hundred and eight variations of the Spirit-Gathering Formation, he had already found four designs suited to mountainous terrain.
Those three mountains.
The three mountains An Changlin had given him.
A smile slowly spread across Chen Lin's face.
The three mountains sheltered Chen Family Village in a triangular arrangement-his original plan had been to lay down a large Spirit-Gathering Formation as a foundation, but with this chest of books, that was only the beginning.
A Spirit-Gathering Formation as the foundation, an offensive formation guarding the perimeter, a Mind-Calming Formation permeating the interior, and a Dust-Cleansing Formation working passively, all four layered together-
Chen Family Village would go from a resort to a place beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
He stood and stuffed the entire bronze chest into his Storage Ring.
Within the ring's hundred thousand cubic meters of space, that chest of books barely took up a sesame seed's worth of room.
He glanced back at the Giant Screen. The waste transfer was almost finished.
The sorted waste had already been automatically transported into the void.
He had taken everything worth taking.
Chen Lin headed for the door.
He paused at the threshold.
He spoke into the void, his tone level.
"Exit."
The Black Portal appeared.
He stepped through, his feet landing on the