My Lady Always Lacks Ambition

Chapter 1308 - 1230: Forging the Lifebound Plate

Outside, the world was chaotic, but on the Kunlun Mountain at the Qingping Sect ruins, it was peaceful.

Feng Xiu watched as Qin Liuxi emerged from her long seclusion. He noticed her aura was even more profound and reserved, her countenance commanding without anger, a powerful presence that inspired submission.

He looked at the small animals around, shivering and cowering on the ground, then glanced at Qin Liuxi’s overwhelming aura and laughed, "Feeling confident?"

Qin Liuxi feigned nonchalance and said, "I’m terrifyingly strong now..."

"I hope you can withstand the lightning strike." Feng Xiu rudely interrupted with a splash of cold water: "Refining the God Trapping Plate is like refining a divine artifact, the lightning you’ll face, ha!"

Qin Liuxi glared at him, then looked towards a certain spot: "I wonder if King Yan dares to take my soul, I don’t care, after all, there’s always another life."

From somewhere in the void: "!"

Got it, asking an old master like me to play the villain and threaten ghosts!

Feng Xiu slightly shook his head.

Qin Liuxi said, "Help me with the array formation."

Harsh words aside, she’s just refining artifacts, not seeking death; to succeed, preparations are essential. The formation of this plate will inevitably draw a heavenly tribulation—its tribulation is her tribulation. If she can’t overcome it, it’s certainly over.

Before refining, she first set up a guardian barrier, and within the barrier, there must be a Spirit Gathering Array; without enough spiritual energy, the Divine Mansion cannot sustain it. After all, refining a divine-level array plate isn’t something that can be completed in a day and night.

Qin Liuxi first set up the Spirit Gathering Array, taking the area with the richest Earth Spiritual Energy as the array eye; coincidentally, it wasn’t far from the Three Pure Ones statue, and what she used for the array was actually a small jade vein brimming with spiritual energy.

Feng Xiu was somewhat surprised that she had such a good item.

"Don’t be jealous. With good character and connections, good things naturally aren’t lacking," Qin Liuxi hummed proudly; this grand jade vein was acquired from Si Lengyue.

She buried the jade vein at the array eye, then took out a piece of thousand-year-old golden nanmu, a Seven-Colored Crystal Stone, and spirit talismans glistening with golden light, burying them in the corresponding array bases.

Qin Liuxi was more serious than ever; everything she brought out was rare and precious, merely to set up a Spirit Gathering Array.

Feng Xiu sighed—if she didn’t deem it difficult, why would she treat it with such importance?

They set up the Spirit Gathering Array together, while the protective barrier was formed by both their Daoist meanings and demonic power. As Feng Xiu mentioned, he could set up the barrier himself.

Qin Liuxi shook her head: "This is my tribulation to cross; I must cross it myself, as cultivation is inherently personal."

Feng Xiu said nothing, "Rest assured, I’ll guard from outside."

Refining an array plate—an error of a fraction leads to a miss of a thousand miles. The Divine Sense within the Divine Mansion must be fully concentrated. After all, the formation layers must fall at the corresponding Nine Palace positions exactly, without a single error.

During this time, no disturbance can be tolerated to avoid backlash that harms the Divine Sense.

"Alright."

Qin Liuxi brought out the items for the refining plate—the Dunjia Plate, the Black Gold Auspicious Beast from Fan Kong’s side, the Black Gold Wood from Si Lengyue, the Shariputra from Master Jing Ci, the Divine Stone from the Miao Witch, etc.—arranged neatly to one side, releasing a mix of strong and pure auras.

Feng Xiu straightened his face, his Divine Sense extending outward, vigilantly watching the hundred-mile radius; the aura of the Demon Emperor spread out, causing those demonic creatures and spirit plants attracted by the holy objects to feel somewhat fearful.

Each item taken out could serve as a magic artifact and strengthen oneself, so precautions were naturally necessary to prevent covetous eyes.

The night passed, dawn broke; Qin Liuxi erected an altar with three sticks of Divine Incense, honoring the gods and informing the heavens and earth of her intent—to borrow the power of heaven and earth to refine the God Trapping Plate, eradicate evil, protect the Dao, and aid all living things, hoping for the gods’ assent.

After inserting the incense, she burned a spirit talisman as an offering to the heavenly gods, then nodded towards Feng Xiu and entered the barrier.

The Confined God Array requires the force of heavenly rules to suppress the God Formation. Suppression alone isn’t enough; to confine a god, it must include a killing array to obliterate him within.

Qin Liuxi glanced at Feng Xiu, forming seals with her hands, fully releasing her Dao intent, and brought forth the Dunjia Plate.

This Dunjia Plate was refined only with Black Wood; she planned to draw its spirit, refine the plate anew using the liquid from the Black Gold Divine Beast, and carve Qimen Dunjia. The Heaven, Earth, Human, and Divine Plates would be configured with Shariputra and Divine Stones, making it a true Qimen Dunjia Plate. For the God Trapping Array, she planned to set forty-nine configurations.

The Great Dao is fifty, evolving into forty-nine, she strives for the one chance.

It’s an absolute killing formation.

Feng Xiu felt a slight unease, not knowing where this feeling came from, looked at the sky—clear and boundless, calm and tranquil.

Within the barrier, Qin Liuxi was entirely absorbed.

When comprehension dawns, enlightenment glows with clarity. Karmic Fire melted the liquid of the Black Gold Beast, merging with the Dunjia Plate, spiritual power enveloping it, reshaping it back to its original palm-sized form before engraving the array patterns with spiritual power.

The start of engraving marked the beginning of formation; this process couldn’t pause, requiring strong Divine Sense and spiritual power to engrave layer upon layer of configurations.

Ordinary killing arrays couldn’t handle Si Luo; from the start, Qin Liuxi decided the killing configuration of the Confined God Array had to leave no chance. Trapped meant hopeless; thus, she set the Sheng Gate at the Array Eye, as the Human Plate in the Eight Diagrams Absolute Killing Formation, and she was to be the Human Plate.

The Array Eye is the Sheng Gate.

This is why she mentioned the array plate’s heavenly tribulation coincided with hers, as she intended to refine this array plate as her Lifebound Plate—so long as she lived, the Sheng Gate ceased; if she died, the Sheng Gate would be destroyed, ensuring his death.

The sun rose and set, repeated this cycle for ten days.

Through forty-nine configurations, Qin Liuxi didn’t pause; her spiritual power gradually weakened, Divine Sense exhausted and pained, yet she dared not relax, knowing one moment of laxity would render past efforts futile.

Time for further preparation was nonexistent.

As the spiritual energy within the Spirit Array grew thinner, her face paled to ghostly whiteness, in a fragile state.

Feng Xiu outside, originally able to observe the state within the barrier, over time, could only see a layer of light mist, as the person within seemed engulfed in an illusion, not entirely real, as if poised to vanish at any moment.

Another ten days passed, Feng Xiu suddenly felt a chill on his face, looked up to find the sky had dimmed unknowingly, snowflakes descending.

He surveyed his surroundings; the forest, once a light yellow, had turned withered brown, leaves falling, while spiritual energy...

The spiritual energy relentlessly swirled towards the barrier.

Feng Xiu straightened, his expression grave, both joyful and anxious.

Swish, swish, swish.

His Divine Sense stirred, something valuable swiftly approaching from a hundred miles away.

Feng Xiu’s demonic power surged, "Scram!"

Those presences hesitated, not daring to advance, yet a mass of darkness stealthily arrived.