After dinner, Chen Kai checked the location of the jade market in H City with his mobile phone, and then took a taxi over.

The jade market in H City is much larger than that in J City, but the price of jade is not much different from that in J City. As Chen Kai had previously estimated, after buying enough jade to arrange a small Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array, he spent a total of more than 43,000 yuan.

Chen Kai's deposit was only about 50,000 yuan, but it was spent here at once. In addition to the 1,200 yuan that had been delivered to the landlord and aunt, Chen Kai's remaining money was only over 5,000 yuan.

"This money is really not enough. I just bought something and it would be gone for tens of thousands of yuan. Now there is only five thousand yuan left. If I don't buy anything else, it may be barely enough for the living expenses of this semester. But if I need to buy something else, it will be far from enough!"

"It seems that you have to find a way to make some money..."

Chen Kai looked at the few pieces of jade he had just bought and said helplessly to himself.

He brought jade back to the rented room. The woman who shared the rented house didn't know if she had already gone out or was still in the room. There was no one in the living room, and her door was still closed.

Ignoring this, Chen Kai walked back to his room and then began to deal with the jade he had just bought.

To lay out a formation with jade as the array base, the jade needs to be made into corresponding array cards in advance and inscribed array patterns in the jade. Only in this way can the array patterns in all array bases be interwoven and merged into one, and lay them into a magic array to stimulate the power that the magic array should have.

Inscribe the array pattern and make the array base, this is also something that requires at least the cultivation level of the Qi Condensation Stage, and you can only do it after you have the true qi.

The foundation-building stage is just to temper the body and lay the foundation. Before the Qi is cultivated, the true qi is not generated in the body, so naturally it is impossible to penetrate the power into the jade and then engrave the array pattern.

Chen Kai has been breaking through the Qi Condensation Period for several months. In the past few months, Chen Kai has been focusing on studying talismans and basic formations, and is very confident in laying out a small Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array.

As for inscribed array patterns in jade, making array bases, and even making array eyes jade talismans for the "Little Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array", Chen Kai is very sure.

The ‘Little Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array’ is just a very basic spirit gathering array. It does not have high requirements for the array base and the array eye jade talisman, so it is naturally not difficult to make it.

Chen Kai sat cross-legged on the bed and calmed his breath for a while, adjusting his mood to the point of calm water. Then he picked up a cut jade next to him and began to engrave the array pattern to make the formation base of the small Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array!

There are veins inside the jade itself. Whether it is inscribed array patterns, making array bases, or inscribed talismans, or making jade talismans, you need to follow the veins of the jade itself, engraved and carved with true energy.

When he was in City J before, Chen Kai had also tried to refine jade talismans with some inferior jade. Although he is not very familiar with making array bases, he is not a complete novices.

Under Chen Kai's careful control, a ray of silver-light true energy quietly penetrated into the jade in his hand along his fingertips.

The veins inside the jade are relatively fragile. When inscribed array patterns or talismans with true energy, you need to be extra careful. If the veins of the jade are accidentally destroyed, the jade may be discarded and cannot be used anymore.

Chen Kai was naturally very clear about this, so he activated the true energy that penetrated into the jade. He was only a very weak strand. He engraved the corresponding array pattern of the "Little Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array" along the veins of the jade itself, and was also particularly gentle. He used a kind of water-milling skill to slowly imprint the array pattern into the veins of the jade bit by bit...

Time passed without realizing it. Chen Kai focused on the formation pattern engraved in the jade veins in his hand with the "Little Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array".

The inscribed array pattern does not consume much of the true energy. However, it is very difficult. This is a very meticulous skill and requires careful and focused crafting.

Therefore, Chen Kai's mental consumption was very large. Before the first jade array foundation was completed, he felt a sense of exhaustion coming.

However, just as Chen Kai was about to grit his teeth and endure his mental fatigue, he had to make the first jade array foundation in his hand in one go, a very cool breath suddenly came from his left index finger and rushed straight to his eyebrows and soul, making his tired spirit suddenly feel a cool and comfortable feeling, as if he was greatly nourished and restored.

"It's Tianxingyan!"

Feeling that power, Chen Kai immediately knew that this was released by the mysterious ink purple crystal on the "Tianxingyan".

I was slightly happy. Chen Kai had just been worried that his soul was too weak and his spirit was not enough to support the completion of the array pattern inscribed on the array base at one time. Now with the help of "Tian Xingyan", this is no longer a problem.

"I didn't expect that this 'Tianxingyan' can not only release that mysterious power when I practice to nourish and strengthen my soul, but also release the power independently when I refine the array base and feel mentally exhausted. It's great!"

This situation made Chen Kai feel happy.

But soon, Chen Kai restrained his emotional fluctuations and continued to focus on engraving the formation pattern of the jade in his hand. With the mysterious power released by "Tianxingyan" constantly nourishing and restoring his spirit, Chen Kai calmly slowly made the first formation base successfully!

"The small Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array uses the five elements to form the formation foundation. The five array bases need to be engraved with five different attributes of power: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. At present, the array base of the first golden array pattern has finally been completed!"

Chen Kai looked at the jade in his hand with a faint golden luster and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

After looking at the time, Chen Kai realized that it took nearly half an hour to make this formation base!

"It seems that my cultivation is too low. It will take half an hour to engrave a formation pattern with the "Little Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array" array base. In this way, it will take two and a half hours to make all the five formation bases! Moreover, there is also a much more complex array eye - the Five Elements Jade Talisman that needs to be made. After all, it will probably take almost until dark to complete it!"

"This is thanks to the fact that 'Tian Xingyan' can constantly nourish and restore my mental power. Otherwise, even tomorrow, I might not be able to complete these five formation bases and a formation eye jade talisman."

Chen Kai secretly calculated in his heart. He sighed that his cultivation level is indeed too low now, and even the base of the most basic small five-star spirit gathering array is so time-consuming and laborious.
Chapter completed!