The Legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

A scholar should be viewed with new respect after three days of separation.

This statement is also very apt when applied to Liang Shanbo today.

After carving out the tomb, underground palace, and cultivation cave on the first day, he immediately went into seclusion in the cultivation cave for three days.

After three days, his progress was considerable.

On the first day, his cultivation level soared from the first stage of the Transcendent Realm to the peak of the ninth stage of the Transcendent Realm. Finally, he made great strides and became a cultivator who could fly on a sword.

On the second day, he began cultivating the second realm of the Daoist Manual, the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation method, and his cultivation broke through to the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm; on the third day, he broke through to the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, which is the eighth stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

We are very close to reaching the Core Formation Realm.

In just three days, his cultivation level broke through to almost the level of Gu Yuege. This speed is nothing short of phenomenal, like being strapped to a rocket.

However, Liang Shanbo was still somewhat dissatisfied: "Three days. I thought I could break through to the Core Formation Realm, but I'm still a step behind. The second realm took more than twice as long as the first. It seems that the time required for breakthroughs will become longer and longer in the future. Alas, this is a sad thing."

If Gu Yuege heard these words, he would probably be furious and curse: "What are you so upset about? I started cultivating at the age of five and spent a full fifteen years breaking through to the peak of the ninth stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm. You almost caught up with my fifteen years of hard work in just three days, and you're still not satisfied? Are you trying to kill me?"

Fortunately, Gu Yuege was unaware of his perversion; otherwise, he would have truly wondered if he had been living like a dog all these years.

After three days of seclusion, Liang Shanbo emerged from his seclusion. At this time, it was already very close to the Nanling Conference that Gu Yuege had mentioned, so he naturally wanted to join in the excitement.

According to Gu Yuege, the Nanling Conference was held at Wendao Mountain.

Wendao Mountain is not only the location of the Southern Cultivation Guild, but it is also not far from three five-star sects, making it a gathering place for cultivators.

From the Nine Dragon Ruins to the Asking Mountain, even at his Foundation Establishment Stage 8 speed, it would take him most of a day to get there. Of course, with the help of a flying sword, it would only take less than half an hour.

However, Liang Shanbo did not have a flying sword.

In fact, if he wanted to, he could have, because when he stole Gu Yuege's storage bag, Gu Yuege's flying sword was on the table, but Liang Shanbo did not take the flying sword with him, because doing so would have completely offended Gu Yuege.

Liang Shanbo really wanted to be friends with Gu Yuege. At least, although Gu Yuege was a bit simple-minded, he was sincere to him and was the first person to help him after he was reborn as Guiyi.

If he had known earlier that the Butterfly Jade Pendant contained the Dao Enlightenment Book Hall, and that he could generate the Dao Manual simply by circulating the Transcendent Realm cultivation technique, he would not have taken Gu Yuege's storage bag. He had no choice but to do so.

Now, apart from looking through a few cultivation manuals, he hasn't touched anything else in Gu Yuege's storage bag.

Not only that, after he finished reading the cultivation techniques, he put them all back into Gu Yuege's storage bag and also put 100,000 mid-grade Yang spirit stones into Gu Yuege's storage bag as an apology for taking Gu Yuege's storage bag.

That day, he left a message on the table saying, "I'll gladly accept your storage bag. See you at the Nanling Conference." He already knew he was just borrowing it and would return it when they met at the Nanling Conference.

Liang Shanbo could tell from Gu Yuege's storage bag that although Gu Yuege came from the Zhongzhou Immortal Mansion, a ten-star power, he lived a very meager life. The storage bag contained only nearly ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones and nearly fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones, and these were all general-purpose spirit stones.

Liang Shanbo has no shortage of spirit stones right now, so he directly put 100,000 mid-grade Yang spirit stones into Gu Yuege's storage bag. If they were exchanged for general mid-grade spirit stones, that would be 10 million general mid-grade spirit stones.

Liang Shanbo believed that Gu Yuege might never have possessed so many spirit stones before. If she wasn't grateful, fine, but if she dared to blame him for taking her storage bag, he'd break off all ties with her.

While filling Gu Yuege's storage bag with spirit stones, Liang Shanbo naturally didn't forget to fill his own pockets as well. Since the storage bag was to be returned to Gu Yuege, his spirit stones couldn't be stored there either. Without them in the storage bag, he had no other spatial magic items to use and could only keep them in the World of Light.

If placed in the world of light, it would naturally not be possible to fill the entire space of the world of light. Just kidding, the space of the world of light is a large space with a radius of more than a mile. Filling such a large space would take a long time.

Liang Shanbo only released one hundred million Yin Spirit Stones, one hundred million Yang Spirit Stones, and one hundred million Yin-Yang Spirit Stones.

Before attending the Nanling Conference, he naturally needed to properly equip himself. Otherwise, without even a flying sword, he would have to run around; without a suitable magic weapon to kill enemies, he would have to fight bare-handed... It would be very difficult to be a cultivator.

Since he'd decided to go on a shopping spree, he naturally needed to prepare plenty of money. After all, the last thing he lacked was spirit stones; if anyone dared to compete with him at the auction, he'd just pelt them with spirit stones.

Besides having enough spirit stones for shopping sprees, Liang Shanbo also had enough spirit stones for cultivation, namely one hundred million Yin-Yang spirit stones.

Even when attending a grand meeting, Liang Shanbo never forgot to cultivate himself.

In his view, strength is the only true measure of success.

Only by improving his cultivation level can he turn the tide and deter others from bullying him.

After everything was prepared, Liang Shanbo used spirit stones to set up several formations. One was a defensive formation, a killing formation, and a concealment formation at the entrance of the tomb's underground palace. The three formations were combined to ensure that even if the tomb was dug up, the enemy could not enter the underground palace cultivation cave.

Another method is to set up a mother teleportation array within the cultivation cave.

His array formation skills reached the level of an Eternal-grade Grandmaster. Because array formation is a secondary profession in martial arts, the Heavenly Dao of Water and Earth Star could not suppress or deprive him of his array formation skills.

However, because the materials he used to set up the formation were not of the eternal level, the formation he set up could not reach the eternal level either.

In a larger environment and under completely different rules of heaven and earth, the array will be set up according to the level of the array materials.

The rules of heaven and earth allow the use of the lowest-level materials within that world to create the highest-level formations, but they are very intolerant of using the best materials within that world to create formations that surpass what is permissible within that world.

In other words, mortal cultivators cannot set up immortal arrays. First, the materials used to set up the arrays are not of immortal quality, so even if they had the talent, they would be like a skilled cook without rice. Second, the will and rules of the mortal realm do not allow mortal cultivators to set up immortal arrays, as they would be subjected to immortal-level lightning tribulations that would obliterate them.

Mortal cultivators are simply no match for immortal-level lightning tribulations. Therefore, there are no immortal formations in the mortal realm unless they are set up by gods descending to earth.

However, these were nothing to Liang Shanbo.

He simply didn't want to set up an immortal formation. With his powerful Limitless True Body, could an immortal-level lightning tribulation kill him? What a joke, it would be more like a tickle to him.

Liang Shanbo felt that setting up a celestial-level array with mortal materials would consume far too much energy when operating it, making such a waste unnecessary. He thought that even setting up a mortal array was terrifying enough.

The mortal array he set up was a peak-level mortal array, that is, a tenth-level array that surpasses the peak of the ninth-level array. Another name for it is:

Quasi-Immortal level formation.

This is the confidence and strength of an Eternal Array Master. Even if they don't use top-grade ordinary array materials, they can still easily set them up.

With such a powerful formation, how many such formations could there be in the mortal realm of Water and Earth Star?