Capítulo 1079: Chapter 401: The “Naive” Youth
The formation that Silk Lady intended to set up was called the Gangrou Bingji Peiyuan Garden.
This array was carefully selected by Ning Zhuo after considering Silk Lady’s abilities.
Its primary materials were the Golden Silkworm Steel Rope and the Nether Moon Water Essence.
The former was a metallic rope refined from Ten Thousand Years Cold Iron and Red Sun Gold Essence, forged through countless refinements on a Mechanical Platform.
The latter was an extremely soft mystical material from the depths of the Nine Nether Sea Eye, a slowly flowing dark blue gel with a peculiar form.
Silk Lady, having prepared in advance, began to wield her Lifebound Demon Fire, wrapping it around a bundle of Golden Silkworm Steel Rope.
The Golden Silkworm Steel Rope was not easily forged; Silk Lady struggled to scorch it for nearly two hours before its surface began to slightly melt.
However, once a qualitative change occurred, the subsequent burning became easier, with more parts of the steel rope melting at an increasing rate.
When the bundle of steel rope had melted to the point where its form was barely maintained, Silk Lady immediately began precise stretching to reshape it.
For a moment, her ten fingers moved like shadowy illusions, and while stretching and reshaping, she engraved tight Array Patterns onto the steel rope.
The Golden Silkworm Steel Rope, containing abundant Yang Metal Qi, was sharp as needles. With each engraved Array Pattern, it inevitably sprayed out, piercing her fingertips, penetrating beneath the skin of her arms, and damaging her meridians.
Silk Lady’s face gradually turned pale, as her ten fingers and arms were pierced by the Yang Metal Qi, continuously seeping Blood Pearls.
She gritted her teeth, persevering as she refined bundle after bundle of the Golden Silkworm Steel Rope.
Until the final alleviation, she stood upright, let out a low growl, and with all her strength infused Mana, embedding all the Golden Silkworm Steel Rope into the walls of the Mechanical Compartment.
Thump.
She half-kneeled on the ground, her face instantly pale, sweating like rain, panting weakly.
Consuming Elixir Pills, sitting and regulating her breath, Silk Lady adjusted her state back.
Silk Lady carefully took out a bundle of Nether Moon Water Essence. This item was extremely cold and could not be shaped using conventional methods.
First, Silk Lady spat out her spider silk, hastily setting up a temporary small array, then sat cross-legged within it, holding the Nether Moon Water Essence with hollowed hands, and manipulating her Divine Sense.
Her Divine Sense penetrated into the Nether Moon Water Essence, forcibly guiding its flow, constructing it step by step from inside to outside to achieve a new form that met the requirements.
The extreme Yin frigidness of the Nether Moon Water Essence eroded along her Divine Sense, making Silk Lady’s Divine Sea feel as if it had plunged into an ice prison, causing a faint stinging pain in her Soul Body.
Under her forcible guidance, the Nether Moon Water Essence wove into sheets of Lesser Yin Spirit Talismans.
When Silk Lady completed the processing of the Nether Moon Water Essence, only half a cup of tea’s worth of time had passed.
However, Silk Lady’s mental energy was greatly exhausted; she closed her eyes tightly, blood oozed from the center of her brow, and her whole person fell to the ground exhausted, with sweat nearly soaking her whole body, repeatedly struck by intense dizziness, putting her on the brink of unconsciousness.
Handling these two major materials was only the first step in setting up the array.
Next, she had to separately arrange several bundles of Nether Moon Water Essence within the compartment to form the Gangrou Formation Base.
She had to carve the Tai Chi Spirit Transformation Talismans into the Yin Yang Double-colored Stone, the most critical rune.
She had to lay withered wooden planks as conduits to guide Yang Fire, and make the Yin Frost Stone into fine tubes to conduct Yin Qi.
The biggest challenge was the first activation of the array, requiring Silk Lady to act as a human Array Base, practicing the Yin Yang Guiding Skill, forcibly guiding the initial fusion of the violent Yin Yang Qi using her own meridians as a bridge!
Silk Lady’s breathing gradually adjusted as she weakly sat upright, racing against time to begin recuperating.
According to Ning Zhuo’s orders, she needed to give everything to quickly complete the Gangrou Bingji Peiyuan Garden.
There’s no way around it; she had already become Ning Zhuo’s slave.
With a powerful contract binding her, Silk Lady could only obediently comply.
However, compared to before, Silk Lady now held much more reverence in her heart.
She perceived more of Ning Zhuo’s underlying strengths: “Where I am now should be inside the Mechanical Treasure—Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon!”
“This artifact can grow or shrink, ascend or submerge, and switch between dominance and concealment… traversing the void as if on solid ground. It is at least a Nascent Soul Level treasure!”
Silk Lady remembered clearly that Ban Ji once casually mentioned, expressing envy and longing for the Ten-Thousand-Li Travelling Dragon.
“That Ning Zhuo actually possesses such a Magic Treasure!”
“If Ban Ji finds out about this, he will surely develop a strong greed, making him more determined to act against Ning Zhuo.”
Having cooperated numerous times with Ban Ji, Silk Lady was well aware of his nature. For superior Mechanical Artifacts, he would go all out, using any means to acquire them.
“But how can I divulge this secret?”
The reasons Silk Lady obeyed Ning Zhuo included the Slave Contract and Ning Zhuo’s terrifying Soul Search ability, which filled her with dread, leaving her no choice but to submit.
But she didn’t desire to live like this forever.
She quickly devised a plan to instigate Ban Ji against Ning Zhuo, creating chaos, in order to seize the opportunity to regain her freedom.
“I must be cautious, and careful!”
“I’ve already fallen once and cannot become careless again!”
“Although Ning Zhuo’s personal strength is indeed extraordinary, he is ultimately just a minor figure at the Foundation Establishment Stage. How could he possibly own, let alone control, such a treasure? It’s definitely not his own foundation!”
“The family behind him must possess formidable power to entrust a Mechanical Dragon to a young family member for protection.”