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Just as Elder Jiang was vigorously promoting him, the master she referred to was laboriously setting up a formation.
The time it took to set up the formation was quite long, over a week, and why? Because he needed to arrange twenty-seven Spirit Gathering Arrays.
Yes, twenty-seven. After Feng Jun deciphered the Spirit Gathering Array and successfully set it up, he made such a decision.
The Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique consumed Spirit Stones at an alarming rate, and although he had a fair amount of Spirit Stones in hand, it was impossible to contemplate advancing to the Qi Refinement Ninth Layer all at once—even reaching the third layer would likely require mining some more Spirit Stones that were still condensing.
There should still be many Spirit Stones condensing within Mount Zhige, but clearly, resources should not be wasted like this.
