The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 296 - 179 The Key to Breaking the Formation_2
The Moonlight Cup has been placed here for at least a thousand years, and it generates spiritual dew every night. Even though the amount collected each day is small, over time, it accumulates, like gathering sand to form a tower. After more than a thousand years, shouldn’t the cup be overflowing with dew? Why is there only one drop of spiritual dew?!
She’s really foolish, Zhang Sheng had already made it very clear: "Then my ancestor saw a golden drop of water slowly forming in the cup." 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Unless this spiritual dew is being used for something else during the day!
With this thought, it seemed as if a barrier in her mind "crashed" open, and her subsequent thoughts flowed much smoother:
Even without a master, the Moonlight Cup still forms spiritual dew every night, but the dew is used up daily, so Fairy Su Xia must have been using it for something. Since the spiritual dew cannot possibly be drunk, the only explanation is that it’s used to maintain the stability of the Barrier, perhaps even to sustain the entirety of this secret realm!
No wonder the days here are short and the nights long; it is to allow the Moonlight Cup to collect enough spiritual dew to ensure the stable operation of the Barrier.
She suddenly stood up and paced back and forth.
Now that she believed she understood the key point, the next question arose: how to break this Barrier?
The answer became very simple—just block the Moonlight Cup from the moonlight!
Looking up at the sky, the bright moon lit up the area. Tonight was almost over, yet the moonlight could still reach the cup, indicating that the length and angle of the crevice atop the stone tip were carefully selected, maximizing the time the Moonlight Cup can condense dew.
She examined the cup thoughtfully, wondering to herself, if she covered it, how long would it take for the Barrier to fail? If it would take years, she couldn’t wait that long!
It depended on how much spiritual power the Barrier or secret realm consumed. In her view, with just this tiny drop of spiritual dew in the cup, it would be difficult to sustain the entire secret realm, and the Barrier couldn’t possibly have much "stock" of spiritual power.
No wonder in this secret realm, the day lasts only about four hours, while the night lasts eight hours. Fairy Su Xia struggled to select such a place in Nan Zhanbu Continent for a reason. She still remembered what Tu Jin had said: it never rains here!
Therefore, the Moonlight Cup can collect spiritual dew for up to eight hours each night! That is to say, only after eight hours of moonlight exposure each day is the dew collected in the cup barely enough!
She took several steps back, leaned against the cave wall like Tu Jin often did, feeling all her energy drained completely. She had been exhausted from focusing hard these past few days, and now that there was a turning point in obtaining the cup, she suddenly felt overwhelmingly tired, her eyes darkening, almost ready to collapse.
"First finish the important tasks, then sleep." She encouraged herself, then quickly made her way down the small hill, ran out of the Heavenly Ladder, and stood on the cliff edge shouting, "Tu Jin!" This heartrending scream echoed far and wide, likely heard by many people and beasts, as evidenced by the deep roars emerging from the forest below the cliff.
But quicker than their reaction was Tu Jin’s. A few breaths later, he appeared from the woods at the cliff’s edge, his face darkened, saying, "Are you crazy?!"
She laughed heartily, nodding furiously: "I might, probably, possibly have found the Boundary Breaking Method!" Ladies usually don’t show their teeth while smiling, but hers were almost fully exposed, though she wasn’t completely carried away. The method hadn’t been tested yet, so her claim was still tentative.
His response was brief: "Speak!"
"I need you to help me find large leaves, the bigger the better, like banana leaves," she gestured with her hands, "at least thirty or forty! And then... well, we also need a large bucket of mud from a wild boar’s body!"
Surprise briefly crossed Tu Jin’s face: "You’re going to use these to break the formation?"
"Hurry, go! Can you get them or not? It’s almost dawn!"
Anger flashed across his face, as he was not used to being ordered around. However, he silently endured, turning and disappearing into the jungle: "I’ll be right back."
She didn’t sit idle either; she went to nearby woods to gather broad leaves.
However, she had grossly underestimated the efficiency of this mysterious man. Two quarters of an hour later, he returned with banana leaves and the muddy wild boar intact, at her disposal.
"Your speed is quite astonishing!" She was flabbergasted.
"Less talk, get started." This time it was his turn to be stern.
She shrugged; she was actually extremely tired. If Tu Jin had come back a moment later, she might have fallen asleep.
Taking these items, she began her task on the mountain—it was simple: lay the banana leaves over the crevices at the cave’s top and use the tar-like mud from the wild boar as adhesive to prevent a slight breeze from spoiling her efforts.
With her skills, climbing to the top of the cave was easy, as was laying the leaves. After half an hour, the outside was still bathed in moonlight, but inside the cave, it was pitch dark. If it weren’t for the unpleasant smell of wild boar mud overhead, it made a pretty good darkroom suitable for sleeping.
Feeling genuinely exhausted, she cleaned a spot on the ground, laid out a blanket, and immediately fell asleep. This was her first sleep in three days.
Ning Xiaoxian had no idea how long she slept, but when she woke up, the sky was still dotted with stars. She could only tell from the waxing and waning of the moon that at least another night had passed. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
