Before Ling Tian lay a naked cat-eared girl, no taller than 1.5 meters, yet possessing a curvaceous and explosive figure.
Her delicate, beautiful face, a pair of adorable little fangs, cute cat ears atop her head, and a fluffy, large black tail were simply irresistible to any male creature!
Noticing Ling Tian's reaction, the cat-eared girl, Ali, asked curiously, "Master, what's wrong? Is there a problem with my transformation?"
"Uh... no problem, but you need to put on some clothes first!" Ling Tian quickly found a set of clothes from the Spirit Realm space and threw them to Ali. It took him a considerable amount of effort to teach her how to wear them, especially explaining why people wear clothes, which exhausted Ling Tian, costing him countless brain cells.
Then, Ling Tian guided Ali to retract her cat ears and manifest human ears, and crucially, to hide her tail, as revealing it would surely startle people.
After more than an hour of work, a loli-like beauty appeared before Ling Tian, standing around 1.5 meters tall, with short, ear-length hair, wearing short shorts and sneakers on her lower body, and a long-hemmed T-shirt on her upper body.
Ling Tian found a mirror and let Ali admire her reflection. Ali gazed into the mirror, falling into extreme self-admiration.
"Wow, so beautiful!"
Ling Tian found some books and brought a laptop. Using a secret technique, he taught Ali the written language of the current world, then had her read books and watch videos on the computer, allowing her to better understand society through these means.
Following this, Ling Tian left the Spirit Realm space alone. For him, there was a more important matter: to completely dismantle the Yin Gathering Array.
Although Ling Tian had instructed Jiang Tao to have the engineers destroy the other array eyes yesterday, he now understood that those methods were insufficient to completely destroy the Yin Gathering Array. There was only one reason: the array eyes of the Yin Gathering Array were too powerful!
The core array eye of the Yin Gathering Array was actually the large stone block Ali used for cultivation – a massive piece of Earth Essence.
In terms of function and efficacy, Earth Essence, a natural treasure, was comparable to treasures like the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul. The difference was that the reserves of Earth Essence were significantly higher than those of the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul.
However, Earth Essence of this magnitude, like the giant stone block in the cold pool, was very rare.
Earth Essence had numerous uses. It could be used to construct arrays, added to weapons, or even armor, and was an indispensable material for refining various divine weapons.
Especially for powerful beings with profound magical abilities, if they wished to establish a dwelling in another space, extremely dense Earth Essence was an absolutely essential material!
Ling Tian made up his mind; he had to take this piece of Earth Essence. On one hand, it was a treasure, and on the other, once it was removed, the array would lose its function.
Ling Tian approached the edge of the pool. He activated his Heavenly Eye divine ability and scanned the bottom of the pool with his spiritual sense. The result was that he found no living creatures at the bottom of the pool.
In fact, this was not surprising. The giant lamprey was extremely ferocious by nature. Any other creature that appeared in this cold pool would likely be devoured by that terrifying monster.
Ling Tian descended to the bottom of the cold pool and discovered that this underground cold pool reached a depth of up to a hundred meters in its deepest parts.
In the deep water, a stone pillar with a diameter of over 10 meters, like a divine needle stabilizing the sea, grew from the lakebed and emerged above the water.
However, Ling Tian also discovered that only the top three meters of this stone pillar were Earth Essence; the rest was ordinary granite!
Ling Tian immediately devised a plan. He entered the Spirit Realm space and retrieved a large amount of obsidian, which he had collected on Hell Paradise Island.
Subsequently, Ling Tian began carving various formations onto these obsidian stones. The clinking and clanking sounds of his work attracted Ali's curiosity. Ali put down her book and kept watching Ling Tian's actions, finding everything he did incredibly cool.
After a while, these obsidian stones were processed into over a dozen stone tablets, each the size of a millstone.
"Master, what are you doing?" Ali asked curiously.
Ling Tian felt three black lines appear on his forehead.
"Uh, Ali, we have an equal relationship. You are not my servant, so don't call me Master. I won't be happy!"
"Meow... Then what should I call you?" Although Ali could now communicate with Ling Tian in human language, some of her verbal habits were difficult to change in a short period.
"Then call me Brother Ling Tian."
"Okay, Brother Ling Tian!" Ali nodded vigorously, very pleased with this appellation.
"I'm going to blow up the array eye of this formation, like this..."
Ling Tian drew a cross-section of the pool on the ground with his finger, explaining how he would proceed. Ali listened, captivated.
"Brother Ling Tian, do you need my help with anything?"
"You don't need to do anything. I can handle it myself. Just stay here obediently, read your books, watch your movies, and integrate into our human society as quickly as possible!"
"Alright!"
Ali then ran back to the computer. Piled on the table next to Ali were all sorts of snacks. At this moment, Ali transformed into a typical otaku.
This was exactly the outcome Ling Tian desired. Since Ali could freely enter and exit the Spirit Realm space with her abilities, Ling Tian did not want her to suddenly appear while he was casting spells and get accidentally injured, which would be no laughing matter.
Ling Tian entered the water, descending over 4 meters, and then used tools to carve holes into the stone pillar in the water.
After an unknown amount of time, Ling Tian had carved thirteen round holes, each the size of a washbasin, into the stone pillar. Then, Ling Tian began to inlay the obsidian round tablets he had made into these holes one by one.
After he had installed twelve round tablets, Ling Tian returned to the cave once more. He then walked towards the passage he had come from, poured out a large quantity of gasoline and alcohol stored in the Spirit Realm space, and instantly ignited them.
The moment the flames engulfed the entire underground cave space, Ling Tian once again entered the water via the Spirit Realm space.
Finally, this time, Ling Tian took out the last round tablet and carefully inlaid it into the round hole.
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On the ground, in Han Tan Village, over a dozen military vehicles of various types were parked in the square outside the village committee building. Some of these vehicles were engineering equipment, while others were various detection devices.
Inside one of the vehicles was a seismograph. This device had several detectors, which were buried underground through a passage reserved under the vehicle.