Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land

In a certain part of the Thousand Swords and Ten Thousand Intentions Formation, Yue Jinghua had built several wooden huts, one of which was for Chi Xi to use, as all food preparation for this month’s closed-doors trial was entrusted to Chi Xi.

In fact, during this trial, the person who was the most exhausted was not the four people trapped in the Spirit Array; rather, it was Yue Jinghua, who appeared to be merely an observer.

The reason was simple; the current Thousand Sword Intent Formation was controlled solely by Yue Jinghua.

Unlike Yun Zhao, the inscrutably powerful Silver Holy Dragon, Yue Jinghua’s cultivation was significantly less by more than a small margin.

Her Dark Practitioner cultivation was only at the Dark Earth Realm, and even though her spiritual power cultivation was impressive, when facing four trialists at the same time and conjuring a Spirit Array equal to their prowess, dealing with Shalman and Weiwei was still manageable, but facing Feng Buhui and Qin Dongting, both of whose cultivations were in the Dark Earth Realm, was challenging.

Conjuring a Spirit Realm compatible with their powers truly stretched her spiritual power to its limits.

Fortunately, at this moment, she made a bold attempt.

Controlling the Wanyi Array used for trials required only strong spiritual power, and right beside her happened to be several Dark Beasts with exceptional spiritual power.

As her contracted Dark Beasts, they could also control the Wanyi Array with her permission.

Very soon, Yue Jinghua selected a suitable candidate from the Dark Beasts to control the array.

The higher the grade of the Dark Beast, the stronger its spiritual power tends to be.

The primary suitable candidate was the Gold Eater Worm, claimed to be the supreme Divine Worm in the world. Aside from drooling over beauties and getting excited at the sight of treasured chrysanthemums glowing, it spent its days eating and sleeping, a typical non-laborer, yet its spiritual cultivation surpassed all other Xuan Beasts.

The next was the Snake-haired Gorgon, who, although not yet of age, was still a Dark Holy Beast. In terms of spiritual power cultivation, even Yue Jinghua had to admit inferiority, and under the influence of the Holy Beast Star Pendant, she quickly learned to control the Spirit Array as well.

With their assistance, Yue Jinghua’s energy was considerably conserved.

Over the next month, she, Gore, and the Gold Eater Worm took turns overseeing the Wanyi Array.

Upon hearing he could participate in controlling the Wanyi Array, the Gold Eater Worm immediately became interested.

"Aoao, I will definitely love you guys well," the Gold Eater Worm said with an extremely perverse and lewd smile towards the men in the Wanyi Array.

Consequently, over the following period, several members of the July Mercenary Team noticed a significant change in the form of the Wanyi Array.

Especially Gold Eater Worm, who was responsible for training Feng Buhui and Qin Dongting, was particularly zealous in his efforts.

"Swoosh--" Suddenly, hundreds of crossbows appeared in the sky, aiming relentlessly at Feng Buhui, who was unable to react before being turned into a hornet’s nest.

"Boom--" Qin Dongting had not yet unleashed his Mountain and River Fan when a massive mountain descended from the sky, instantly crushing him to dust.

The principle behind Gold Eater Worm’s training was simple: continuous severe punishment. Let all the male creatures better looking than it go to hell.

In contrast, Gore’s trial Spirit Array for Weiwei and Shalman was much gentler.

Weiwei was an Earth and Wood Dual-element Healer, and she did not need to learn particularly powerful Dark Techniques. In the Wanyi Array, all she learned was to better comprehend earth and wood spiritual powers. For a while, the colors of earthy yellow and vibrant green, symbolizing Earth Spirit and Wood Spirit powers, shuttle back and forth in the Spirit Array.

In Gore’s gentle voice, Weiwei tried to sense more spiritual power herself, learning to use Earth and Wood spiritual powers for better group healing.

Shalman continually participated in battles, enhancing the understanding between herself and her cultivation beasts. Her Dark Power cultivation was mediocre, but she possessed an exceptional ability in control, starting from managing a single Thunder Snake to later incorporating the Five-Colored Spider, and more recently, integrating the newly captured Nine Heavens Purple Centipede into her army of Dark Insects.

Outside the Thousand Sword Intent Formation, Chi Xi watched her companions fall and get up repeatedly with great envy.

As a Spiritual Food Master, she was exempt from this trial.

Yet every day, watching her teammates strive and struggle within the Wanyi Array, sweating and falling down time after time only to rise again, her heart yearned to partake as well.

Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on novel※fire.net

Finally, one day, she couldn’t hold back anymore and approached Yue Jinghua.

"Do you want to improve your Spiritual Food Master skills?" As a Four-star Mercenary, Chi Xi’s skills in spiritual food were among the best Yue Jinghua had ever seen.

Yue Jinghua recognized her ability to enhance the cultivation of the other four team members, but she found herself completely incapable of fulfilling Chi Xi’s request.

"If it’s possible, could the captain borrow me the type of blue fire from that day on the Cloud River?" Chi Xi boldly shared her idea.

In fact, the moment she saw the Chaos Green Lotus Fire on the river that day, as a Spiritual Treasure Master, Chi Xi immediately guessed that this blue fire was no ordinary fire.

It didn’t extinguish upon contact with water and could instantly incinerate thousands of Antenna Worms.

On the Canglong Continent, fires are classified based on their origins into Alchemy Fire, Heavenly Fire, Divine Fire, and ordinary fire.

Ordinary fire is the flame produced from burning common grass and wood, Alchemy Fire is nurtured within the dantian of Dark Practitioners, Heavenly Fire is naturally occurring, and Divine Fire can only be nurtured by Upper Gods as their divine essential fire.

Chaos Green Lotus Fire, being nurtured from the Mo Xi Treasure Book, its grade remains unclear to Yue Jinghua even today.

But as a user of the Chaos Green Lotus Fire, she is certain of one thing—it’s grade surely surpasses Alchemy Fire and should belong to the category of Heavenly Fire.

It must be said, while Chi Xi’s request seemed somewhat presumptuous, it was not entirely unfeasible.

She remembered that when they encountered Guo Ziyu, he had a summoning bracelet that allowed him, not being a Summoner, to summon a Fur Spider instantaneously.

If someone was able to create a similar summoning bracelet, then certainly a medium for storing fire seeds could exist.

As long as the Chaos Green Lotus Fire could be stored in a certain medium, others should be able to use it as well.

With a bracelet that stores Chaos Green Lotus Fire, Chi Xi would then be able to use the distinct fire seeds of Lotus Fire to cook spiritual food, making her cooking faster and the spiritual delicacies tastier.

Enhancing the whole team’s combat strength has always been something Yue Jinghua diligently pursued.

As the leader of a Mercenary Team, Yue Jinghua held different views from many; she managed the July Mercenary Team based on the classic "barrel theory."

Viewing the July Mercenary Corps as a barrel, with the seven team members having varying cultivation levels seen as staves of differing heights, to fill this barrel with water, every plank must be even and intact. If one plank is uneven, the barrel cannot be filled to its maximum capacity and cannot function at its best.

Currently in the ranks of the July Mercenary Team, as everyone’s power surged, Chi Xi became that piece shorter and weaker than average.

Even without Yue Jinghua mentioning it, as an experienced mercenary, Chi Xi had already realized this, and thus, after she voiced her thoughts, Yue Jinghua, as the team leader, naturally sought to address this issue.

Yue Jinghua, a typical woman of action, upon recognizing this potential problem, immediately began implementing solutions.