Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!

Chen Yan didn't say anything strange this time. He looked at the twenty-one-year-old consort mother seriously and nodded.

·

The next day.

After washing up in the morning, Chen Yan went downstairs and saw Gu Qingyi sitting in the courtyard, sunbathing.

In recent days, the temperature has risen and it's no longer as cold as it was after the Lunar New Year, with the highest daily temperature reaching just above ten degrees.

In this weather, sunbathing doesn't seem as absurd as trying to drink the northwest wind while sitting in the courtyard during the coldest days of winter.

Seeing Chen Yan come downstairs, Gu Qingyi, sitting in the courtyard, opened her eyes to look at him.

"What are we having for breakfast?" Chen Yan asked from beside the window on the first floor.

Gu Qingyi thought for a moment: "How about some noodles with two eggs?"

Then, she seemed to remember something and smiled slightly at Chen Yan: "And give me a cup of your special milk green tea."

"...Okay." Chen Yan nodded.

Although both of them smiled and their tones were calm and peaceful, they felt a slight sense of farewell.

After quietly finishing dinner, the two silently cleaned up the table together.

Chen Yan turned and went down to the basement, bringing up a large box. He glanced at Gu Qingyi: "Shall we go?"

"Let's go!"

·

The two left the villa courtyard and exited through the side gate of the neighborhood, heading towards the woodland behind the villa.

The path into the mountain was well built, despite being only a single lane, it was made of high-quality concrete.

Walking along the path to the mountains, they left the main road midway and entered the woodland.

In the forest, they let loose and accelerated their pace, their body techniques allowing them to swiftly navigate through the woods.

Soon after, they arrived at a wild lake deep in the mountains.

"This place will do." Chen Yan said.

"Alright." Chen Yan nodded, looking at the illusion realm around them: "This place is good."

Then the two sat facing each other by the lakeside, starting to meditate and circulate their Primordial Qi without speaking.

Thus, quietly, a whole day passed.

When the sun was setting in the west, Chen Yan opened his eyes.

After meditating and circulating Primordial Qi all day, Chen Yan was now full of energy, his Primordial Qi brimming, and he was in his best and peak state.

Gu Qingyi, sitting on the ground, glanced at Chen Yan and slowly nodded. Chen Yan took a deep breath and walked away step by step.

·

Chen Yan walked by the lakeside with seven stars steps, using Destiny Cycle to calculate the position, finding a spot in the southwest corner of the lake.

"Here it is." Chen Yan walked over, placed the box in his hand on the ground, and took out a small black flag from it.

The flag was made of black silk, cut into a triangle shape, with a bamboo flagpole about thirty centimeters long, which he then stuck into the ground.

Then Chen Yan walked around the forest around the lake, planting thirty-six small black flags at different locations.

At the base of each flagpole, there was a crude white jade stone—each infused with Primordial Qi.

The first flag planted in the southwest corner of the lakeside was positioned at the array's eye.

Chen Yan sat cross-legged at the array's eye, reciting an incantation, making a Finger Sword with his right hand, and pointed at the small black flag: "Go!"

A stream of Primordial Qi hit it, and the white jade under the flag flashed a faint green light.

Instantly, the white jade under the thirty-six small flags in the forest simultaneously glowed, and a cold wind faintly rose in the woods.

Though the cold wind was weak, it felt endless, gradually lowering the temperature in the woods. Banshee-like air flowed in from all directions.

Soon after, the Yin Qi began to gather, and a thin white mist started to drift in the forest...

·

This array is called [Profound Water Array], a formation from the array chapter in the Secret Manual, the only array Chen Yan can currently master that gathers Yin Qi.

Water is Yin; as the array activates, Yin Qi gathers.

And the mist in the forest also confuses people's senses, akin to an illusion array, preventing ordinary people from unknowingly straying into it.

In the mountains, countless creatures have buried their bones here over the years, such as wild animals, snakes, rats, and insects...

Watching the wisps of white air rise in the forest, slowly gathering by the lakeside.

The Yin Qi here gradually increased!

·

Chen Yan slowly stood up, looked at the surrounding concentration of white air, and nodded in satisfaction.

Though it was his first time setting up the [Profound Water Array], he had prepared extensively beforehand and simulated the process many times in his mind. The first attempt wasn't too bad.

Considering he was a novice using mundane materials, the current effect was satisfactory enough for him.

"Of all the arrays I know, only this Profound Water Array can gather Yin Qi." Chen Yan looked at Gu Qingyi, who was standing silently nearby, and said softly: "From now until midnight, the Yin Qi will slowly accumulate. By midnight, the concentration should be sufficient for us to begin the Nether Marriage ceremony."

Gu Qingyi nodded silently.

Feeling the temperature dropping further, Chen Yan quickly took out a prepared down jacket and put it on.

Gu Qingyi also approached and took out a small jade gourd hanging around her neck. With a flick of her finger, a stream of golden light hit the ground, revealing several items.

On several red ironwood trays, various utensils were neatly arranged.

A three-foot paper-crafted sword. A seven-colored paper-crafted magic robe, and various other auspicious paper-crafted items.