Chapter 63: Big Data Locates the Spirit-Devouring Grass!

Yang Hong pressed the jade slip to his forehead.

When he saw the extremely detailed topographic map within the jade slip—so meticulous that even each tree and every rock were vividly rendered—he was dumbfounded.

Staring wide-eyed, he asked Xu Zhengyang, “When did you make this topographic map of Spirit Mechanism Peak? How can it be this detailed?”

Xu Zhengyang scoffed and replied, “You thought I flew you around Spirit Mechanism Peak several times just for fun? It was all to collect data and draw this topographic map!”

Hearing this, Yang Hong lowered his head somewhat embarrassedly, because that was indeed what he had thought.

The locations Xu Zhengyang marked for Yang Hong in the jade slip were all the closest to their current position. After Yang Hong finished reviewing the information in the jade slip—

He immediately assured Xu Zhengyang, “Don’t worry, Senior Brother Xu, I’ll go place the array disks at the marked points right away. I won’t make a single mistake!”

“Mm.”

Xu Zhengyang nodded at his words, then immediately activated his martial qi to launch the Azure Sky Crane Feather from his back. He said to Yang Hong, “I’ll go set up the array disks at the places that are hard to reach on foot. Once you’re done setting up the array disks, return here and wait for me!”

“Got it!”

Yang Hong responded and wasted no time. He immediately exerted all his strength to activate Sky-Riding Steps, dashing toward the points marked by Xu Zhengyang!

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That Spirit-Devouring Grass had only just devoured the Herb Garden of Spirit Mechanism Peak.

Before it finished digesting the essence of the plants, the place where it hid would undoubtedly be richer in spiritual energy than other areas!

The array disks Xu Zhengyang refined were extremely simple in function.

Each disk consisted of a Spirit-Gathering Formation to absorb spiritual energy and a Messaging Formation to transmit preset information.

The denser the external spiritual energy—

The more spiritual energy the Spirit-Gathering Formation collected, the more energy supplied to the Messaging Formation, which would then send the preset information to the main unit made by Xu Zhengyang faster and more frequently.

If the external spiritual energy was thin, the Spirit-Gathering Formation would fail to gather energy, and the Messaging Formation would respond more slowly or even fail to send any signal.

The preset information in the Messaging Formation was simply the serial number of the array disk.

Because of this—

Once these specially made array disks were laid out—

Xu Zhengyang only needed to sort and analyze the serial numbers sent from each sub-array disk through the main unit and correlate them with the topographic map of Spirit Mechanism Peak in his mind.

Xu Zhengyang could immediately transform that data into visual information.

Allowing him to directly monitor which areas of Spirit Mechanism Peak had dense spiritual energy, which were lacking, and which exhibited abnormal fluctuations.

Thus determining the likely hidden location of that Spirit-Devouring Grass!

……

Though Spirit Mechanism Peak was large—

Xu Zhengyang had the Azure Sky Crane Feather, and Yang Hong was helping.

Because of this—

In just half an hour, Xu Zhengyang successfully and evenly deployed the sub-array disks across Spirit Mechanism Peak.

Meanwhile—

Inside the Divine Mechanism Palace, Gong Jin was watching Xu Zhengyang using the Water-Mirror Technique, his face full of confusion.

The array disks Xu Zhengyang laid out had no concealment whatsoever; the formations inscribed upon them were completely exposed.

Because of this—

Gong Jin couldn’t comprehend what Xu Zhengyang was doing at all.

The only thing he could confirm—

Was that all these array disks Xu Zhengyang laid were genuinely crafted by himself, without any help from Pei Zhen.

“Even if you set up this many of these kinds of array disks, what use is it?”

Gong Jin muttered, shaking his head, then refocused on the documents in front of him.

……

A moment passed.

When Yang Hong finished placing the array disks and hurriedly returned to the front of the Divine Mechanism Palace—

He saw Xu Zhengyang already seated cross-legged there.

His hand rested on a rectangular wooden cabinet over a person tall, his eyes closed as if engaged in some unknown task.

“Senior Brother Xu?” Yang Hong cautiously called out upon seeing this.

“Mm.”

Xu Zhengyang, upon seeing Yang Hong return, nodded and said to him, “You hold onto this cabinet. I’ll carry you. We’re going to capture that Spirit-Devouring Grass now!”

Yang Hong asked with surprise, “Senior Brother Xu, you’ve already found it?”

“I’ve already pinpointed its approximate location!”

As Xu Zhengyang spoke, he patted the wooden cabinet and especially reminded Yang Hong, “You must hold onto this cabinet tightly in a bit. If this thing gets damaged— I won’t be able to make another one any time soon!”

“I won’t fail you!”

Yang Hong vowed with great confidence, excitedly hugging the wooden cabinet in his arms!

Although Yang Hong didn’t know how Xu Zhengyang had managed it, he knew Xu Zhengyang would never deceive him.

“Then let’s head out!”

With that, Xu Zhengyang’s Azure Sky Crane Feather burst out from his back. Lifting Yang Hong with both hands, he shot straight into the clouds!

……

At the same time, inside the Divine Mechanism Palace—

Originally, Gong Jin had no intention of paying further attention to Xu Zhengyang.

But when he heard the conversation between Xu Zhengyang and Yang Hong through the Water-Mirror Technique, he couldn’t help but turn his gaze back toward the water mirror.

“What Yang Hong is holding is just a simple composite Messaging Formation. It’s just that there are many of them, all stored together in a cabinet…”

Gong Jin’s face was filled with confusion. He put down his work and stared intently at the water mirror.

He wanted to know whether Xu Zhengyang was just bragging or if he had really used those toy-like array disks to locate the Spirit-Devouring Grass.

……

A moment later—

When Xu Zhengyang carried Yang Hong to a valley in the northwest midsection of Spirit Mechanism Peak, and the two of them cast spells together to bombard that valley—

Gong Jin was dumbfounded!

Because that Spirit-Devouring Grass had really been startled out by Xu Zhengyang and Yang Hong’s actions!

……

“This…”

Gong Jin looked again at the cabinet and the array disks, frowning. “They’re just ordinary Spirit-Gathering Formations and Messaging Formations? How could that precisely locate the Spirit-Devouring Grass? Could it be that, although those array disks only show Spirit-Gathering and Messaging Formations on the surface, they actually contain other formations prepared by Junior Brother Pei?”

At this point—

Gong Jin nodded thoughtfully, thinking it most likely was just as he had guessed.

Thus, Gong Jin immediately concealed his presence and flew swiftly toward the nearest array disk…

……

The Spirit-Devouring Grass was an extremely slippery creature!

Upon being discovered by Xu Zhengyang and Yang Hong, it immediately concealed its figure and fled in a panic toward other areas of Spirit Mechanism Peak!

However—

Xu Zhengyang had already laid out a regional spiritual energy network monitoring system across Spirit Mechanism Peak in advance. So no matter where the Spirit-Devouring Grass fled, or how many times it ran—

Xu Zhengyang could always accurately carry Yang Hong to find it, constantly wearing down its stamina!

……

At the same time—

Gong Jin had already investigated over ten array disks in disbelief, confirming that these array disks were indeed constructed solely from simple Spirit-Gathering and Messaging Formations.

There wasn’t even a slot for spirit stones!

Yet with such crude array disks—

Xu Zhengyang was repeatedly able to pinpoint the exact location of the Spirit-Devouring Grass. This only deepened Gong Jin’s confusion, and he couldn’t help but mutter, “Just how is this brat doing it? Could it be that the combination of the Spirit-Gathering Formation and Messaging Formation produces some special effect I don’t know about?”

At this moment, Gong Jin felt completely perplexed.

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