Zi Kun's test was very simple. As long as he sensed the strength of the fluctuations affecting the laws of space after the array was unleashed, then as its Artifact Spirit, he had a ninety percent certainty of gauging the power of the Great Dragon-Elephant Array. There was no need to test it on cultivators.
This time, the array's power had risen again, but Zi Kun still was not too satisfied. He felt that the increase had not reached the target he had expected.
In the early stage of the Great Dragon-Elephant Array, Li Yan had increased its power by replacing its materials with higher-grade ones. Some materials, however, were extremely difficult to find in stronger grades.
Once that situation appeared, they needed better, similar materials to substitute for them. That process immediately became slow, because it required him to rely on his own experience, constantly searching for materials and repeatedly testing them before it would work.
So by now, every time Zi Kun wanted to raise the array's own level in order to increase its power, he had to spend even more time.
Like this time's replacement of materials: after more than forty years of testing, he had finally found one better material that could serve as a substitute, and that was only under the circumstance that the clan just happened to possess such a material.
Otherwise, he would have had to spend an even longer stretch of time searching all under heaven for suitable materials, and the final result might not even have been that he could find one...
But Zi Kun would not stop because of that. This array suited him too well. Li Yan had not let him give it up, and he truly had obtained tremendous benefits from it.
Zi Kun's dissatisfaction now was because