Before Xia Ruofei returned to his room, he told Li Yifu that he was going to be in seclusion for a day and that there was no need for him to eat. At the same time, Xia Ruofei also asked Song Wei and Ling Qingxue to cultivate by themselves. He had made up his mind to immerse himself in practicing the carving of the control core in his room.
He continued to meditate until he felt that he was in his best condition. Then, he began to carve the formation patterns on the top-grade jade.
One, two, three … Formation patterns appeared inside the jade one after another.
These formation patterns that Xia Ruofei had specially picked out for practice were all relatively difficult. The requirements for the carver's mental strength and control were very high. Therefore, every time he carved a formation pattern, he would stop and think for a while. He would summarize the areas that needed to be reflected on during the carving process. After thinking clearly, he would continue to try.
The failure rate of carving these formation patterns was naturally very high. However, Xia Ruofei did not care about whether he succeeded or not. Even if he failed, he would continue to carve on another position on the jade.
Just like that, a few hours passed unknowingly.
This jade was already covered with dense formation patterns. The repetition rate of these formation patterns was very high, but they were definitely not exactly the same.
This was because even if it was the same formation pattern, there would be a slight difference every time it was carved. It was impossible for it to be exactly the same as the formation pattern recorded in "Refining Miscellaneous Notes". However, as long as the difference was within the margin of error, it could be regarded as a successful carving.
The effects of the same formation pattern that was successfully carved would be different.
Xia Ruofei continued to summarize and adjust through repeated practice. The formation patterns that he carved were getting closer and closer to perfection.
Of course, the success rate was also slowly increasing.
Xia Ruofei carved every formation pattern that he had picked out a few times. He stopped and rested while carefully recalling his understanding of carving formation patterns.
At the same time, he was also simulating the situation after these formation patterns were integrated into the control core in his mind.
This kind of thinking was obviously very beneficial to his improvement in the aspect of inscribing formation patterns.
Xia Ruofei felt that his train of thought was becoming clearer and clearer. Previously, when he was inscribing the array pattern, he was basically inscribing a certain step. But now, he had a relatively clear train of thought in his mind.
He could even roughly predict where he would make a mistake if he were to start carving the formation pattern now.
Even though there was still no possibility of success, it was still a big step forward compared to before.
Xia Ruofei rested for a while. While drinking the water from the Spiritual Pond, he sat on the Jade Futon and meditated. After his spiritual force had almost recovered, he cut off a top-grade jade and crushed the jade he had just used to practice. The formation pattern that controlled the soul puppet was very high-end, and it was also related to the future control of the soul puppet. Although the Peach Blossom Island was very safe, Xia Ruofei was still very cautious. If this formation pattern was leaked to the outside world, and someone else studied it thoroughly, then the soul puppet he created might be controlled by someone else.
After dealing with the top-grade jade, Xia Ruofei held the new jade in his hand, closed his eyes and began to adjust his state.
After a long time, he gently threw the jade and used his spiritual force to control it to float in front of him.
This time, Xia Ruofei planned to try to carve the entire control core formation pattern again.
Although he was very clear in his heart that if he were to carve the formation pattern from beginning to end, the possibility of success was very low. But he also knew that success was summed up by repeated failures. This was a necessary stage. Now, he had basically deduced the whole process many times in his mind. The only thing he lacked was practice.
He believed that if he failed a few more times, he would definitely have a deeper understanding.
Anyway, carving the formation pattern would only consume some of his spiritual force. He had many treasures, so his spiritual force could be quickly restored. Even if he did not have any treasures to restore his spiritual force, he could rely on cultivating the "Dao Formula" to restore it. It would just take a little longer.
As for the fact that each piece of jade was worth 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, it did not cause any waves in Xia Ruofei's heart at all.
Xia Ruofei opened his eyes and stretched out his finger without hesitation to draw in the air. A near-perfect formation pattern appeared inside the top-grade jade.
The mysterious arc looked the same as the one he drew for the first time, but he knew very well that this array pattern was not only more accurate than the one he drew for the first time, but it also seemed to be closer to the nature of the array pattern.
Under the effect of the Luotian Formation, Xia Ruofei's heart did not waver at all.
He was not pleased by external gains, nor was he saddened by personal gains.
Xia Ruofei was now in this state. He maintained a stable rhythm and continued to carve the formation pattern.
Even he himself did not realize that he had unknowingly entered a very mysterious state.
At this moment, Xia Ruofei had no distractions in his mind and did not think too much about it. The only thing he felt was that he was in a better state than before. Correspondingly, every array pattern he drew had a more natural aura to it.
Xia Ruofei did not know that his current state could only be encountered by chance.
It was a bit similar to the epiphany during cultivation, but what he comprehended was the Dao of carving formation patterns, not the Dao of cultivation.
Xia Ruofei could not feel the passage of time at all. He almost relied on instinct to maintain a very comfortable rhythm. It seemed neither fast nor slow, but in fact, it was very efficient.
One formation pattern after another appeared in the top-grade jade. Xia Ruofei's mind was as calm as a computer. Before he started, he could almost predict where to draw the formation pattern, what to pay attention to, and what details might affect the quality of the formation pattern … A series of information appeared directly in his mind as if it was retrieved from a database.
Two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand …
Unknowingly, Xia Ruofei had surpassed his carving progress last night, but there was still no mistake. Moreover, the accuracy of these formation patterns was frighteningly high. They were basically in a perfect state without the slightest deviation.
Xia Ruofei continued to carve the formation patterns and soon entered the last dozens of the most difficult formation patterns.
However, Xia Ruofei did not slow down and still maintained the same rhythm at the beginning.
This was unimaginable before. When he tried to carve the complete formation pattern yesterday, he unknowingly slowed down. Although the rhythm was always the one he was most comfortable with, in fact, it was getting slower and slower.
However, it was completely different today. It was like a standard computer program. The interval between each rune was almost exactly the same. Such terrifying stability was something that even a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator might not be able to achieve.
The remaining formation patterns were getting fewer and fewer.
From sixty, it gradually decreased to thirty, then twenty …
Xia Ruofei still maintained this constant speed, and the quality of the formation patterns was surprisingly high. Of course, there were no mistakes at all.
There were still no mistakes in the last ten formation patterns.
At this moment, Xia Ruofei was completely immersed in his own thoughts. He did not even realize that he had completed more than 99% of the array pattern. According to his previous estimation, when there were only 50 or so array patterns left, he would not be able to control it and would start to make mistakes.
At this moment, Xia Ruofei's judgment of himself had completely overturned.
Of course, he did not realize it himself.
It was also because of this that he could continue to perform beyond his level without being affected at all.
Nine, eight, seven, six …
On the top-grade jade, there was almost no blank space with the naked eye. The inside and outside of the jade were covered with dense formation patterns.
And Xia Ruofei was still in this mysterious state.
Finally, with a gentle wave of his finger, the last formation pattern with near-perfect quality appeared in a blank space that was almost invisible to the naked eye inside the top-grade jade. It happened to be between two formation patterns. The last formation pattern followed the gap between the two formation patterns and formed a few very mysterious arcs.
If the accuracy of these two adjacent formation patterns was not so high, but it was still considered a success, then when the last formation pattern was carved, there would inevitably be flaws.
Therefore, the formation pattern carving of the control core could be said to be linked to one another. Even if the steps looked very easy, they had to strive for perfection. Otherwise, they would be digging a hole for the following work.
When the last formation pattern was formed inside the top-grade jade, Xia Ruofei suddenly woke up from the mysterious state of epiphany.
He looked at the top-grade jade in front of him with some disbelief, especially the dense and complicated formation patterns inside the jade, which brought him great shock.
Did I really carve this myself? Xia Ruofei could not believe his eyes.
However, that mysterious state of epiphany was not hypnosis. Xia Ruofei remembered the whole process of carving the formation pattern very clearly, so he naturally knew that it was not a supernatural phenomenon. It was carved by himself stroke by stroke.
Xia Ruofei was not a cultivation rookie. He knew that he had encountered something that could only be encountered by chance.
In fact, this mysterious state was still unleashing his own potential.
This was not the same as the epiphany of a cultivator during cultivation. If a cultivator had an epiphany, his cultivation level would be greatly improved. His understanding of the Heavenly Dao would play a very important role in his future cultivation.
Xia Ruofei's state just now was unleashing more of his potential. In layman's terms, it was overdraft.
Therefore, when he finished carving just now, Xia Ruofei suddenly felt a strong sense of fatigue attacking him.
This was completely a sign of overconsumption of spiritual force.
It has to be said that Xia Ruofei's spiritual force had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm. In just a few hours, his spiritual force had been overdrafted. It could be imagined how much spiritual force was used to carve the formation pattern in this mysterious state.
If it was another middle Gold Core stage cultivator, or even a late Gold Core stage cultivator, even if they entered this mysterious state like Xia Ruofei, they probably wouldn't be able to hold on until the end because their spiritual power would be depleted, or even dry up.
At that time, the body's protective mechanism would come into play and they would naturally withdraw from that mysterious state.
Xia Ruofei held the top-grade jade like it was a treasure. To be precise, this was the control core of a spirit puppet.
He was very clear that with his current level, it would be very difficult to carve this kind of control core.
And this control core was very likely to be his only control core for the Soul Puppet for a short period of time. Naturally, he held it carefully in his hands, afraid that he would accidentally break this jade. Of course, for a cultivator, this was almost impossible. Xia Ruofei's concern had caused him to lose his mind.
Even though Xia Ruofei still needed a lot of practice before he could slowly and steadily carve out the soul puppet's control core, his mysterious state this time not only allowed him to obtain a near-perfect soul puppet's control core, but he also gained a lot from it.
This was because Xia Ruofei could clearly remember the feeling when he was inscribing each rune.
This would be a great help to him when he carved the control core of the spirit puppet.
Xia Ruofei carefully stored the control core of the spirit puppet in the Ring-Tu space.
Originally, he had prepared a large amount of materials to make the spirit puppet and had also used his free time to create a few sets of components to make the spirit puppet. It could be said that everything was ready except for the east wind. Now that he had exceeded his usual standards and had personally created a control core of the spirit puppet, it was equivalent to completing the last piece of the puzzle.
This meant that he only needed to do some assembly and debugging work and he would be able to create a real spirit puppet. Even if this spirit puppet's intelligence was much lower than Xia Qing's in the Ring-Tu space, it would still have a different meaning since it was personally created by him.
Next, Xia Ruofei began to recover his mental strength while recalling the mysterious state he had just been in. He also recalled every stroke of the control core of the spirit puppet in that state.
As his mental strength had been exhausted, he directly drank a few big bowls of spirit pond water and sat cross-legged on the jade cattail hassock to recover his mental strength.
When his mental strength had gradually recovered to about eighty percent, he finally opened his eyes and stood up.
He opened the curtains and found that it was already pitch black outside. The night sky was dotted with stars and the entire Peach Blossom Island was extremely quiet.
Xia Ruofei scanned with his mental strength and found that almost everyone was awake, including Ling Qingxue, Song Wei, Song Qiming, and Li Yifu. Even Zheng Yongshou was seizing every second to strengthen his cultivation.
As it was already midnight, Xia Ruofei did not disturb them. Instead, he directly set up a protective formation in the room and a warning formation at the door.
After setting up the basic defenses, Xia Ruofei summoned the Ring-Tu space and stuffed it under the blanket. Then, with a thought, he directly entered the Ring-Tu space.
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