King Hajif’s words struck Old Carpensa like a bolt from the blue.
“Arroyo! Arrest the Carpensa family immediately and thoroughly investigate their crimes!”
The King had a sudden realization. This was not the time to protect the Carpensa family. With such irrefutable evidence, if he continued to shield Old Carpensa, he would inevitably offend Ling Tian.
Rather than that, it was better to make an example of the Carpensa family. For the King, the Carpensa family were merely tools.
Moreover, the Carpensa family was wealthy. Once their assets were confiscated, all that wealth would revert to the royal family!
This Old Carpensa had actually instigated pirates to attack the royal fleet. That was the King’s money. Could such money be taken lightly? It had to be repaid with interest!
Ling Tian soon received a call from Young Arroyo. Young Arroyo informed Ling Tian that the Carpensa family had all been apprehended, and their wealth had been confiscated by the King. They had become history.
Ling Tian expressed his gratitude to Young Arroyo. To Ling Tian, the Carpensa family was merely an annoying flea.
Ling Tian had originally planned to publicize the Carpensa family’s crimes and force the King to deal with them. However, King Hajif had acted directly, so Ling Tian did not proceed with his plan.
After all, Old Carpensa was the Minister of Finance of Daru Salan. He had to give Daru Salan some face.
Of course, Ling Tian did not withdraw the bounty on the Carpensa family. Within two months, Old Carpensa, including his son Haymir, died in prison one after another.
Meanwhile, on Newborn Island, large construction crews had arrived and commenced vigorous construction.
Ling Tian, holding a compass, buried dozens of obsidian round plates around the residential area of the island.
These obsidian plates were obtained by Ling Tian from Hell Paradise Island. He had directly instructed the skilled craftsmen in his spiritual realm space to process these obsidian plates into round discs and then engrave them with relevant formations.
While using these round plates as formation eyes was not as effective as jade plates, jade itself was a scarce resource, especially jade plates that could serve as eyes for large formations, as each one used was one less available.
However, obsidian was available in vast quantities. One could mine a large amount of obsidian from any active volcano, making it more economical.
Ling Tian, holding the compass, was followed by Alexander, Lancelot, and others. Alexander, carrying a shovel and spade, was acting as a construction worker.
After all, this formation was extremely important for the future of Newborn Island, and it was a highly secret matter. If anyone were to discover the location of the formation eyes and disrupt the formation, it would result in immense losses for Newborn Island.
Therefore, Aurora arranged for Lancelot and Alexander to personally act as construction workers.
Ling Tian held the compass, confirming the location, and then Alexander would dig the soil and excavate the pit.
This fellow possessed immense strength, making him a human excavator. He dug with incredible speed, creating a two-meter-deep pit in just over ten minutes.
Ling Tian carefully buried the formation eye in the deep pit, and then the human excavator proceeded to fill the soil, restoring the ground to its original state.
In this manner, after a full day of work, the formation Ling Tian had set up was nearing completion.
Finally, they returned to the villa where Aurora resided on the island.
In the backyard of the villa, there was a pre-dug pit.
Ling Tian placed the last obsidian round plate into the pit. Instantly, everyone felt as if the surrounding environment had changed.
Newborn Island was located in a tropical region, where the temperature consistently ranged between thirty to forty degrees Celsius.
Although a sea breeze blew in the morning, it was a hot wind. Aurora disliked such weather and had been staying indoors with the air conditioning on for the past few days.
However, as the formation took shape, the first thing everyone noticed was the change in temperature and wind.
A gentle breeze began to circulate around the entire residential area, moving in a specific direction.
This swirling, upward wind carried away the scorching heat, causing the surrounding temperature to drop.
Ultimately, after more than an hour, the temperature in this residential area had dropped to around 26 degrees Celsius, and the humidity had decreased from nearly 90% to 60%.
In other words, this formation had transformed the originally humid and hot environment into one that was highly suitable for human habitation.
Of course, what impressed these psychics the most was that they could sense a latent energy brewing within the natural environment of the residential area.
This change greatly delighted these psychics. Many felt signs of an imminent breakthrough and immediately began to cultivate.
Initially, some had been disappointed that Aurora intended to build the base on Heart Island, as the island was somewhat desolate and far from civilization.
However, after Ling Tian constructed this large spirit-gathering formation, they immediately changed their minds.
The current environment on the island, especially the temperature, already made them feel very comfortable.
Especially with the effect of the spirit-gathering formation, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became abundant, which would lead to rapid growth in their strength.
For these psychics, they all understood that only strength was their foundation for survival!
Ling Tian clapped his hands, very satisfied with his masterpiece. At this moment, Lancelot approached Ling Tian and expressed his respect.
“Mr. Ling Tian, your masterpiece has truly opened my eyes.”
“Mr. Lancelot, you are too kind. It is not that I am so capable, but rather the treasures left behind by our ancestors in China.
This is a formation from Chinese Taoism, the Spirit Gathering Formation.
With the help of the Spirit Gathering Formation, you can cultivate and improve rapidly here!”
“May I be so bold as to ask, in this world, energy is conserved. Since your formation can enhance our strength, where does its energy come from? Is it the obsidian plates you placed?” Lancelot asked with great curiosity.
“No, the key to activating this Spirit Gathering Formation is the energy that exists in nature, which we in China call the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!
There exists spiritual energy of heaven and earth in nature, especially on Newborn Island, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is already very concentrated.
Our Spirit Gathering Formation gathers this spiritual energy of heaven and earth and uses it as the energy to drive the formation.
The function of this formation is to make the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here more orderly and easier for us to absorb…”
Even though Lancelot was a very intelligent person, he had to rack his brain to understand what Ling Tian had said. He gave Ling Tian a thumbs-up!