"What's done …" Even the strongest Solomon was already numb to the battle. He only knew how to keep casting and fighting, as if everything else had nothing to do with him. Even when he heard Lin Yun's happy voice, Solomon only weakly asked, "What's done?"
But after asking, Solomon seemed to realize that something was wrong. After thinking carefully, he suddenly turned his head and asked, "Done?"
"That's right, done."
"Great …" At this time, Solomon was truly shedding tears.
As the two were talking, the over a hundred Low Tier Arrays Lin Yun had left on the tree finally started operating. Some of these arrays were used to cut off the mana transmission, some were used to destroy mana circuits, some were used to divert mana, and some were used to weaken effects. They were precise and complicated, just like a machine with countless parts.
The originally orderly mana flow of the True Spirit Array on the Ancient Tree's trunk suddenly became chaotic after over a hundred Low Tier Alchemy Arrays were activated. Every mana circuit seemed to be blocked by something, no longer able to smoothly communicate. In an instant, several hundred mana nodes were crippled, and even the ones that weren't crippled were greatly weakened, no longer able to display their effects. The entire True Spirit Array suddenly stopped working.
After losing the support of the True Spirit Array, the rich aura of life in the surroundings quickly dissipated. It was only a bit thinner at first, but as the hundreds of Low Tier Arrays kept operating, the aura of life dissipated faster and faster.
The beast tide seemed to have sensed something.
Most of them were frozen in place, hesitation visible in their eyes. On one hand, they felt their power declining, but on the other hand, they were reluctant to part with the prey in front of them.
But at this time, Lin Yun had already been freed from writing the array, so it wasn't as easy to negotiate as before. Lin Yun pointed with his Spiritual Magic Staff and Syudos immediately flew out of the Magic Array. In an instant, a sea of flames spread through the forest.
Just like that, at least ten magic beasts were turned into charcoal.
"Why aren't you leaving?"
Following Lin Yun's cold snort, the black swarm of magic beasts suddenly retreated like a tide. By the time Solomon and the others recovered, there was no longer a single living magic beast left in the forest. Only blood and corpses could be seen, all left behind from that fierce battle.
"Xiuban, go collect the mana crystals."
"Sir …" Xiuban was lying on the ground, panting. After such a fierce battle, the Draconic Beastman only wanted to lie down and sleep. Hearing that Lin Yun wanted him to collect mana crystals, he immediately sullenly complained.
"After collecting them, you can take a quarter."
"I'll go right away, Sir!" The Draconic Beastman, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly got up when he heard that he could take a quarter. How could he still look like he was about to die?
Sure enough, coercion and enticement were the most effective ways to deal with Highland Beastmen.
"Merlin, the camp …" Although the beast tide had already retreated, Solomon was still worried about the camp.
"There is no problem with the camp, but if you are worried, you can go back and take a look." Lin Yun was certain of this. After he cracked the True Spirit Array, not only did the aura of life between the trees dissipate, but the entire Four Seasons Canyon seemed to have returned to its normal state. There was no longer the abundant mana and crazy vitality from before.
"What about you?"
"I want to study this array." Lin Yun shook his head, not planning to leave immediately.
To a Master Alchemist, being able to study a True Spirit Array was a very rare opportunity in itself.
Especially this kind of True Spirit Array that he had personally cracked, that was even rarer.
This was the same as a True Spirit Array being completely displayed in front of Lin Yun. Every detail and secret could be seen at a glance.
It could be said that this was a temptation that no Master Alchemist could refuse.
How could Lin Yun give up on such an opportunity?
After about ten minutes, Xiuban finished collecting the mana crystals and unceremoniously took a quarter for himself. Moreover, Lin Yun noticed that this greedy Draconic Beastman had taken the best quarter of all the mana crystals.
Fortunately, Solomon and Badrack both had large businesses. Although this batch of mana crystals wasn't small, it was only a windfall for them. Thus, the two of them turned a blind eye to Xiuban's act of stuffing his own pockets and directly took a quarter before leaving this forest filled with corpses and blood.
After the two left, only Lin Yun and Xiuban remained in this spacious forest.
Magic beast corpses were scattered all around, and the blood flowing everywhere had already dyed the earth red. But Lin Yun didn't have time to care about this. All his attention was focused on that True Spirit Array. With the powerful analytical ability of Sharp Mind, Lin Yun started analyzing, cutting, reorganizing, and deducing the entire array.
The whole process lasted for no less than an hour.
After an hour, the effects of Sharp Mind gradually faded and Lin Yun smiled with satisfaction. The harvest of this hour was too great. The problems that had been troubling him for a long time had been solved. Lin Yun even felt that he was gradually touching the Artisan realm.
From this moment on, the Artisan Realm was no longer out of reach, it no longer only existed in his imagination. He had truly touched the Artisan Realm, and it was only a matter of time and opportunity for him to reach it.
After digesting the harvest of this hour, Lin Yun once again stood in front of that huge ancient tree.
It was a bit strange. This ancient tree looked luxuriant and clearly looked like it was in the prime of its life, but as Lin Yun cracked the array, the aura of life gradually dissipated, and the vitality of this ancient tree also seemed to be rapidly draining away. It gave the feeling that it could completely wither away at any time.
"Then I'll help you again …" Lin Yun saw this situation and knew that this ancient tree wouldn't be able to survive. Once its vitality was completely drained, this ancient tree would thoroughly collapse.
At this time, Lin Yun hardened his heart and cast a Withering spell.
This 3rd Tier Spell had huge destructive power against all plants, and with Lin Yun using the power of the Magic Array, the power of this Withering spell doubled. When it was cast, the ancient tree that was already losing its vitality could be seen withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The green leaves turned yellow, the huge trunk was covered in wrinkles, and the branches powerlessly hung down.
In the end, this several-hundred-meter-tall ancient tree finally collapsed with a loud rumble.
"I want to see what secrets it has …" Lin Yun walked to the place where the ancient tree collapsed and summoned five Rock Puppets to start a long and arduous excavation.
After no less than two hours, four batches of Rock Puppets had been replaced before the entire ancient tree was excavated. After everything was cleaned up, there was a deep hole in the ground. The diameter of the hole was over ten meters, and the depth could be said to be bottomless.
Lin Yun first cast a Mage Eye …
But very quickly, this Mage Eye encountered very strong mana interference, and before it could see anything, it directly dissipated under the mana interference.
"Eh!" Lin Yun's mind was roused. Such an intense mana interference, how could there be nothing strange? Lin Yun wouldn't believe it.
As he thought of this, Lin Yun cast a Mage Vision on one of the Rock Puppets before casting an Illumination spell on the bottomless hole. After doing all that, Lin Yun ordered the Rock Puppets to go deeper into the hole.
'Sure enough, it's bottomless …'
The Rock Puppets crawled for three minutes before reaching the bottom of the hole, but after searching for a bit, they didn't find anything. They couldn't even find the source of the mana that made the Mage Eye dissipate.
"What's going on?" Lin Yun was baffled. 'Could it be that the secret is even deeper?
Then this excavation project is a bit too big … '
Lin Yun thought about it, but he still wasn't too convinced. He dispatched the remaining four puppets, while the five Mages started searching through every nook and cranny of the cave.
This time, Lin Yun finally found a flicker of light in a corner of the hole.
It should be a gem, but it didn't seem to be of high quality. Under the light of the Illumination spell, it was only emitting a dim red radiance. It wasn't small, it was the size of a chicken egg. The two ends were slightly sharp, and the middle was full, forming an oval shape.
Lin Yun hurriedly chanted an incantation and ordered the five puppets to escort the gem.
'Sure enough, it contains a lot of mana …' As soon as the gem touched his hand, Lin Yun knew that the mana that made the Mage Eye dissipate had come from that gem. The mana emitted by that gem was at least at the level of a level 25 mana crystal, and it was very pure. Even a Magic Apprentice could directly absorb it.
But apart from that, Lin Yun couldn't see anything else. After studying it for a long time, he only found that the mana was abundant and pure. Just as he was about to put it in his pocket to slowly study it, Shawn, who had been busy absorbing the mana of the spirit mana crystal, suddenly exclaimed, "Fuck, throw it away! Throw that thing away! Do you want to die!?"
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