Chapter 0385: Nine-Colored Spiritual Rain

Chapter 0385: Nine-Colored Spiritual Rain

Qin Yun entered a secluded room and took out many animal skins, preparing to make the banners needed for the banner formation.

"About fifty banners should be enough to cover the entire medicine garden!" He checked the animal skins in his storage space, which were sufficient for use.

Originally, he planned to refine formation columns, as the formations set up with columns would be much more effective than banner formations. However, refining formation columns would take a long time.

Because refining a single column requires hard materials and high-quality materials, it cannot be completed in a short time.

If refining a banner formation, it only requires making the banners.

Now, Qin Yun was organizing those animal skins.

After a bit over an hour, Yuan Yanying also finished watering the spiritual herb garden.

Qin Yun opened the chamber door and let her in to help.

Yuan Yanying was at the Martial Realm, and with her help in handling the animal skins, she could save Qin Yun a lot of time.

Qin Yun was only refining the banners for the banner formation now, and did not need to process the animal skins as he would for refining a hide spirit formation.

Hide spirit formations need to bear strong energy, so they require the infusion of bone-infused steel for stability.

Banner formations, because they have many banners to distribute the pressure, do not need the cumbersome process of infusing bone-infused steel when making the banners.

However, some processing is still needed to make the skins compatible with the spirit runes, allowing for clearer distinctions when engraving the runes.

The processing is relatively simple: after cutting the skins, infuse them with the Martial Realm's adamantine inner energy to imbue the skins with energy, then pass the skins through fire to allow them to absorb the energy and become compatible with the runes.

Finally, engrave the runes on the banners.

With Yuan Yanying's help, Qin Yun could make ten banners in a day, all triangular banners as tall as a person, with simple iron rods as banner poles, which could be inserted into the ground.

After making the banners, the most challenging part is engraving the runes.

In five days, Qin Yun and Yuan Yanying prepared fifty banners.

"Now we just need to engrave the runes!" Qin Yun took a deep breath, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Engraving the same runes on fifty banners is indeed very overwhelming.

"Brother, your rune-crafting skills are very high! Although I don't understand, you are more skilled than many Runes Masters I've heard of!" Yuan Yanying watched Qin Yun's hand move the spirit brush with effortless strokes, slightly amazed.

Qin Yun just smiled.

The runes he needed to engrave were very intricate. First, he had to engrave the entire set of runes required for the Nine Sun Spirit Gathering Formation onto a small banner, and then integrate the Water Collection Formation.

This is the fusion of two spirit formations!

Engraving the two formations separately is not difficult; the hard part is making them merge without conflict and able to assist each other.

The Nine Sun Spirit Gathering Formation is responsible for gathering a large amount of Nine Sun Spirit Energy, and the Water Collection Formation quickly absorbs the gathered Nine Sun Spirit Energy, condensing it into spiritual liquid.

Qin Yun wasn't sure if it would work; it was merely his concept.

"It seems we need two sets of banner formations!" Qin Yun thought while engraving the runes.

Because after condensing the Nine Sun spiritual liquid, another banner formation is needed to gather these liquids and float them in the air, evenly dispersing them over the fields of the medicine garden.

"Adding a Rain Formation will do!" Qin Yun said to Yuan Yanying: "Yanying, go find Elder Two and ask if he has a Rain Formation!"

"Alright!" Yuan Yanying hurried off.

A regular Rain Formation simply gathers water from the air and then lets the ordinary water fall, a very simple type of formation.

Such formations are usually banner formations because they can cover a large area, after all, it's about making rain.

If Elder Two has one, Qin Yun wouldn't need to refine it himself.

Yuan Yanying returned quickly, pulling out dozens of banners from her storage bags.

"Elder Two said he hasn’t used them in a long time, and before using them, the runes need to be aligned with inner energy!" Yuan Yanying said.

"Mm! Yanying, I'll leave this to you!" Qin Yun laughed: "It’s straightforward!"

With Qin Yun’s guidance, Yuan Yanying also mastered the technique of aligning the runes, which was indeed very simple, since it involved only the runes on a single banner.

Looking at so many banners waiting for runes to be inscribed, Qin Yun wished he could rush to Moonlit Mystery Valley and bring Lan Fengjin to help.

After all, he was still too young, and when it came to making banners that required repeated high concentration, he felt restless.

Fortunately, he could quickly overcome his restlessness and focus quietly and diligently on the inscriptions.

He had the Spirit Insight Brush, which made inscribing runes much faster.

Fifty banners meant he had to inscribe the Nine Suns Spirit Gathering Formation fifty times!

One can imagine how intricate the runes of a large formation are. Now he had to condense them onto a single banner!

It took him five days to make just one banner.

To other Runes Masters, Qin Yun’s speed was impressive!

What’s more, other Runes Masters couldn’t inscribe such intricate runes on such small banners!

In fact, a set of banner formations doesn’t require every banner to have the same runes. The multiple rune sets needed for a large formation can be spread across different banners.

For example, ten banners use one set of runes! If a large formation requires seven sets of runes, then inscribing one set of runes on every ten banners can achieve the effect of the large formation.

Naturally, the more spread out the runes are, the weaker the banner formation’s power.

Qin Yun's method could make the banner formation very powerful.

The advantage of the Spirit Insight Brush is that it is as if the brush and the user share a mind.

Once Qin Yun mastered a rune type, he could inscribe it effortlessly with the Spirit Insight Brush.

His body, guided by the Spirit Insight Brush’s magic, instinctively channeled Blood Soul Power, his hand and the brush merging seamlessly, allowing him to swiftly inscribe intricate runes.

After completing two banners, Qin Yun’s speed increased rapidly!

What once took five days to inscribe now took only three!

The more he practiced, the quicker he became.

Eventually, he could finish a banner in half a day!

He completed all fifty banners in just over a month, far quicker than he’d anticipated!

Once everything was set up, Qin Yun asked Yuan Yanying to invite Elder Two to install the banner formation.

As soon as Elder Two arrived, he picked up the golden banner refined by Qin Yun and looked at it, utterly shocked.

"You... you made this?" Elder Two's round, astonished face made Yuan Yanying unable to hold back her laughter.

"Just made it!" Qin Yun chuckled. "This is my first banner formation, so I asked Elder Two to join me in setting it up!"

"First time?" Elder Two was shocked once again.

He could tell that these were very new banners, but he never expected it was Qin Yun's first attempt.

Qin Yun nodded and said, "I saw how troublesome it was for Yanying to irrigate the medicine fields, so I wanted to make it easier for her!"

"If all goes well, the banner formation I made, combined with Elder Two's rain-summoning formation, should rapidly gather Nine Sun energy and condense it into Nine Sun spiritual liquid under human control. Then, it will rain down and irrigate all the medicine fields in the garden!"

Elder Two's eyes bulged. "Xiao Yun, do you know what this means?"

"Isn’t this pretty common? Other Xuan-level sects must have it too!" Qin Yun smiled.

Elder Two took a deep breath in surprise and said, "Only Wang-level sects have this kind of banner formation! If it really succeeds, we’ll have a medicine garden like a Wang-level sect!"

"Other Xuan-level sects only have relatively good energy-gathering and water-gathering formations. They still require manual, step-by-step work and cannot achieve a complete set!"

Qin Yun frowned. "I figured manual steps and the banner formation would work about the same! I just wanted to save Yanying some time and effort!"

Yuan Yanying giggled happily at this.

Elder Two shook his head. "It’s a world of difference! Energy gathering, water gathering, and irrigation are three steps. In between steps, much of the spiritual energy is lost, resulting in the final irrigation liquid containing little Nine Sun energy!"

"Producing high-quality spiritual liquid instantly with fewer resources would be a game-changer! It would also increase the number of irrigations, allowing the medicinal herbs to grow quickly! The herbs would also be of top-notch quality!"

"Moreover, some herbs require multiple doses of spiritual liquid to grow! With this banner formation, we can grow some very difficult herbs!"

Qin Yun was surprised by the complexity of growing medicinal herbs.

Yuan Yanying also nodded repeatedly. "Your formation could skyrocket our Nine Extremes Profound Sect!"

"Let’s stop talking and give it a shot!" Elder Two was also extremely excited and quickly joined Qin Yun in setting up the banner formation in the medicine garden.

It took them over an hour to set up all the banners.

At this moment, it was noon, when the nine suns were blazing.

"We need to place some purple spirit coins in the center for the banner formation to absorb and activate the spiritual patterns!" While setting up the banners, Elder Two had quizzed Qin Yun about the refining process.

However, Qin Yun's description of the process was very simple, making it sound as easy as painting, which made Elder Two feel like he wanted to die. He also realized that Qin Yun's talent for spiritual patterns was terrifyingly high.

Elder Two placed ten thousand purple spirit coins in the center of the medicine garden and then nodded to Qin Yun.

Qin Yun activated the spiritual pattern in one of the banners, and soon the entire Nine Sun Spiritual Rain Formation lit up.

Quickly, a layer of nine-colored clouds condensed above the medicine garden.

Splash! It started to rain!

The falling rain was golden, accompanied by nine-colored spiritual energy—it was pure Nine Sun spiritual liquid!

Yuan Yanying was so thrilled she couldn’t help but dance!

Elder Two also stepped into the rain, spreading his arms and laughing joyfully.

"It's a success, it's a success!" Elder Two laughed heartily.

After a little over half an hour of rain, the grand array finally stopped.

The entire medicine garden was enveloped in a nine-colored glow, stunningly beautiful, like a fairyland!

"Each activation of the grand array consumes ten thousand purple spirit coins! It's a great deal! Watering three times a day only costs thirty thousand!" Elder Two said.

"Nearly a million purple spirit coins a month, is that still cost-effective?" Qin Yun was puzzled, frowning as he spoke.

"Xiao Yun, you don't understand. If we continue watering like this, the medicinal herbs will mature in just six months and can be sold for over ten million purple spirit coins! It's a sure profit!" Elder Two chuckled. "If we plant even better medicinal herbs, they can fetch even higher prices!"

Qin Yun was taken aback. He didn't know much about medicinal herbs and hadn't realized that the plants Yuan Yanying watered every day were so valuable!