Upon hearing Lin Beichen's inquiry, the other party looked at him in confusion, as if trying to grasp the meaning of Lin Beichen's words.
After a moment, he slowly nodded and said softly:
"Master, I am the Heaven and Earth Array itself. I am the Spirit of Heaven and Earth shaped by you. Due to the abundance of spiritual energy, the excess energy gave rise to my consciousness."
The Heaven and Earth Array had unexpectedly developed sentience.
Lin Beichen was utterly astonished, yet he noticed the entity before him was undergoing a transformation.
When it first appeared, it only carried a slight aura of Qing Wudi, but now, distinct characteristics unique to Qing Wudi were emerging on his body.
For instance, Qing Wudi is a cultivator of the Earth Fire Lineage, and this person's body was surrounded by substantial Earth Fire Ashes, which also manifested on the spirit body of the Heaven and Earth Array.
The only constant was the face.
The Heaven and Earth Array still maintained the visage of Lin Beichen.
Indeed, the Heaven and Earth Array had been controlled by Qing Wudi for some time, and he possessed the other half of the compass due to his journey to the New Continent.
Could this be the reason why so much of Qing Wudi's aura was present in it?
Silently pondering, Lin Beichen couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.
He was not the type to harbor narrow-minded thoughts, nor would he get angry just because an array had absorbed someone else's aura.
Three days later, Lin Beichen stood a thousand meters high in the sky, a look of surprise flickering in his eyes as he gazed at the mountains below.
The Phoenix Array, after yet another nirvana, had exceeded the limits he had previously estimated.
The array couldn't develop towards Huadu but only towards the mountains behind.
And the mountains behind formed an entire mountain range.
Now, after Lin Beichen's communication, the mountain range took only three days to be fully occupied again.
If the Phoenix Array underwent another nirvana, its reach would inevitably encompass the city of Huadu.
Not only Huadu, but over a dozen cities, including Huadu, were situated beyond this mountain range.
Lin Beichen had two plans in mind.
The first plan was to relocate some of the cities. Although it would mean significant infrastructure work, it would alleviate his own pressure.
The entire human world is incomparable to a few mere cities, but Lin Beichen couldn't bear to do it.
People are inherently nostalgic for their native land; some would prefer enduring hardship over leaving their homeland.
Some groups devised various logics to force these people away, mocking villagers as turtles in their shells, saying they lack critical thinking, and are naturally destined for poverty.
Behind countless ideologies, there is always an attempt to shake the concept of attachment to one's homeland.
Lin Beichen wasn't such a person, so he wouldn't do that.
He came up with a plan: to extend the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi both skyward and underground so that it could flow through the earth veins and high altitudes.
These directions wouldn't impact the cities much.
As long as he could buy ten years, the task would be complete.
By then, even if the earth veins and sky had reached their limits, it wouldn't matter. The Spiritual Qi could evolve into the underground rivers and into various kinds of storms.
With the help of the world's capacity to contain spiritual energy, Lin Beichen could effortlessly resolve this crisis.
Having found a solution, Lin Beichen let out a breath of relief.
Before the Celestial Gate opened, even a trace of spiritual energy was enough to spark fierce competition, but now, with the abundance of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, Lin Beichen found himself overwhelmed.
Every nirvana of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi resulted in exponential growth.
Even though he had anticipated this, he was ultimately unable to attend to every situation.
"Master, the plan has failed and could not be successfully executed."
As Lin Beichen was lost in thought, the voice of the Phoenix Array suddenly echoed in his ears.
"How could it fail?"
Lin Beichen's expression changed abruptly, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
Was someone meddling, was it a miscalculation on his part, or was there a flaw in the array itself?
As Lin Beichen pondered, a murderous intent began to exude from him.
Regardless of which, it was the result of human interference.
Ever since he returned to the Phoenix Array, he hadn't interacted with the outside world, but that didn't mean the outside world was unaware of what he was doing.
The changes in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi would undoubtedly be sensed by certain individuals through some mysterious perception.
And his work on the Phoenix Array had already been revealed to the outside world beforehand.
No matter who it was, he would find them and make them pay the appropriate price.
Targeting him was one thing, but the Phoenix Array was untouchable.
The Phoenix Array is the core of the Dragon Country and the future world's core.
With the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, Lin Beichen had fortified this array like a fortress, rendering present-day cultivators unable to compare even to a mere ant.
Cultivators couldn't influence the array, but the armaments of the secular world could barely manage.
For example, by deploying nuclear weapons or using nation-destroying level ballistic saturation attacks.
Though these attacks couldn't destroy the array, they could disrupt its surroundings with their terrifying explosive force.
The Phoenix Array, after all, has a concrete location.
Before the world's transformation is complete, the Phoenix Array must remain in place.
Lin Beichen had no evidence, but there were only a few capable of pulling this off.
While he was contemplating, the voice of the Phoenix Array rang out in his ears again.