novelraw Chapter 248 It felt like several years had passed in her heart.
Chapter 248 It felt like several years had passed in her heart.
After calming down, she continued studying the formation, her thoughts beginning to wander. Breaking the formation by increasing her strength was no longer an option; the conventional route was blocked. Was there no other way? Were there any shortcuts or tricks that could solve the problem?
Her thoughts began to extend in this direction. She thought about how she and Yuyao had worked together to blow up the altar. The barrier outside the altar still existed, but the inside had been completely destroyed.
If Yuyao were to create a weak point in this large trapping formation and insert a small formation, which could be opened or closed by cultivators within the small world, wouldn't everyone be able to come and go freely?
This formation has stood for eight hundred years, and its protective level has decreased several levels due to the depletion of spiritual energy. Yet, it's still far beyond the capabilities of a novice like her. Waiting for it to exhaust its energy would likely take at least another thousand or eight hundred years; by then, she'd probably be reduced to ashes!
Without hesitation, Tong Yuheng began to learn how to use spiritual power to set up arrays in the void. The scale didn't need to be large; all that was needed was to embed the human-shaped gap that Yuyao had created by using her special ability into the array.
It is said that wood spirit power has the best affinity with spirit power, so let's try to use it to set up an array to make it better integrate with the original array. As long as it can hold up an opening that can allow one person to pass through, it will be fine!
After practicing many times and experiencing countless failures, she was finally able to use her wood elemental power to set up a tiny trapping array in the void. Together with Yu Yao, they implanted it into the original array barrier.
At first, things didn't go very smoothly. Either her formation failed before the barrier was restored, or Yuyao couldn't hold on as soon as she set up the formation!
Persistence pays off. After countless trials, they finally succeeded! The array she set up was accepted by the barrier, becoming a "loophole" in the entire barrier that cultivators needed to open with their spiritual power.
Within the vast barrier, this loophole was compressed to only half a person's height, making it incredibly small and inconspicuous. Anyone wanting to escape would have to stoop or crawl on their hands and feet for a few steps, which was truly unseemly!
Moreover, this "loophole" cannot be left open for more than half a minute, otherwise it will be detected and absorbed by the barrier, forcing her to coordinate with Yuyao to cast a new small-scale formation. This is not only troublesome, but also has a very low success rate.
To avoid this situation, they can only reopen the gates periodically, with each reopening strictly limited to within thirty seconds. This means they can only allow a maximum of ten people to leave at a time!
When Tong Yuheng told the three heads of the family the news, they were overjoyed. They didn't care that only a few people could go out each time. As long as they could get out, there was hope. Why be so pretentious!
Tong Yuheng said she needed to go back quickly. This time, she planned to take a few cultivators and a few ordinary people with her, and then send them back after a while to bring back her real experiences to her relatives and friends here.
Tong Yuheng told them that the outside world had almost no spiritual energy, making cultivation impossible, and that all cultivators had vanished without a trace. Even she herself had only obtained the opportunity to cultivate by chance. She wasn't sure if there were any cultivators there, or what level they were at. If the common people here went to live in the outside world, they couldn't casually reveal the situation in their small world.
Everyone readily agreed, and they quickly selected seven people, led by Feng Heming from the Feng family, to leave with Tong Yuheng. Besides Feng Heming, the other group included three young and middle-aged people at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and three ordinary people who had drawn lots in Feixian City.
The few who were capable of cultivation were taken by Tong Yuheng to the training base on the outskirts of Yan City so that they could meet those people with "special abilities". Tong Yuheng expressed his gratitude to them for searching for him some time ago and gave them some body-strengthening pills as a thank-you gift. Everyone was very happy.
Tong Yuheng entrusted these people to their care, letting them experience the real social environment, take a ride, take photos, and do some tasks. He also briefly explained his treatment to them.
After reporting to her superiors, she took the other ordinary people to Chenjiatun in Qingshi County. Her original house had become the new brigade headquarters, but the wing room in the front yard had been turned into a village guesthouse to accommodate visiting staff, so she arranged for those people to stay there.
Tong Yuheng gave them letters of introduction, some money, food coupons, and a map, telling them to wander around as they pleased and to take them back to Yan City in two months!
It's easy to imagine that these people, having seen the dazzling world outside, are now too restless to go back. But that won't do; they still have a mission to complete when they return. They must report the truth of what they've heard and seen to the people in the small world!
Tong Yuheng last went out in the summer, and now it is the dead of winter. After returning, she met with the higher-ups to discuss the resettlement plan for Feixian City, and then handed over the specific details to Yuyao to plan.
She returned to Qingshi County, intending to take a break. This break meant irregular work hours, but she would still be involved in the affairs of the "Special Operations Team." Only Yuyao among the Tong family knew of her true identity; even her parents hadn't been told.
Yu Yao kept her identity as her special assistant a secret from the outside world. On the surface, she was an ordinary clerk who would help her boss, who was also her older sister, handle most of the trivial matters.
The Special Operations Command naturally has dedicated personnel to handle matters such as mission reception, points recording, reward distribution, and compensation collection. The two squad leaders and their sub-team leaders will assign missions to their team members based on their strengths and competence, so she doesn't need to worry about it too much.
She hadn't seen her husband for almost a year, and with her cultivation in the small world, it felt like more than a decade had passed! She really missed him.
Another reason is that she wanted to advance to the Golden Core stage. After learning some common knowledge about cultivation, she realized that female cultivators who have surpassed the Foundation Establishment stage may experience a sharp decline in cultivation level when they have children, and they also find it difficult to conceive. Therefore, she also wanted a child.
She will soon be twenty-seven, the perfect age to have children. Although she doesn't believe that women must have children and understands and respects couples who choose to be childless, she herself still likes children and has no intention of never having any.
Upon returning home, she first discussed it with Li Chengsong, and then prepared to live with him at his military base as a military spouse for a period of time. Due to their studies and the nature of their work, the couple hadn't had children after getting married, but now that they could finally live together, they put that matter on their agenda.