NOVEL NEXT Chapter 112: The Details Are Stunning Enough
Lan Zhi first condensed her star power, compressed it to the extreme until it was liquefied to the concentration of ink, and then sealed it inside the pen shaft. After that, she picked up the pen and began to draw the sound-gathering array on the sound-recording stones. When ordinary array mages draw arrays, they have to carefully control the star power and concentrate on staring at the patterns of the arrays. Throughout the whole process, whether there is insufficient star power, uneven distribution of star power, or errors in the patterns, all previous efforts will be wasted. Even if they succeed, they won't have enough star power to make a second or third one. However, using the star power pen is different. The star power pen is as smooth to use as a gel pen. She doesn't need to consume star power anymore. She just needs to focus on drawing the patterns of the arrays. The whole process is as simple as copying. The sound-recording stone arrays don't require much star power. After Lan Zhi successively drew the sound-gathering array and the sound-insulating array and saw that there was still enough star power left inside, she drew a replication array in addition. The next thing to do was to replicate the two arrays onto the remaining nineteen sound-recording stones. Replication requires star power, and the replicated arrays also need star power. However, the concentration of star qi in the Pinglan Star Academy is too low, and the condensation speed of star qi obviously can't keep up with the replication speed. So Lan Zhi took out the star stones that hadn't been used much before and connected them with the replication array to make a small replication device. Then, with a slight movement of her star power, the nineteen sound-recording stones flew into the device one after another. All the replications were completed in less than two quarters of an hour. Twenty sound-recording stones were done. Lan Zhi took a look at the hourglass and found that there was still plenty of time left. She decided to make a nice outer shell for them. In this way, the sound-recording stones would look good, could be distinguished from ordinary sound-recording stones, and could also prevent the arrays from being interfered by the outside world. It was really killing several birds with one stone. She remembered that there were several pieces of silvery-white metal with good ductility in the storage bracelet given to her by Manager Sun. So she took them out and stretched and shaped them with her star power. During this process, the three of them would look at Lan Zhi's progress from time to time. In the earlier period, when they saw that Lan Zhi just put the sound-recording stones on the table and was doing other things instead, they thought she was just putting on an act, so they withdrew their gazes and continued to study the arrays on the sound-recording stones. Yes, whether Lan Zhi could complete twenty sound-recording stones within half an hour didn't matter much to them. What they valued more was the arrays she drew on the sound-recording stones. Not to mention how bold it was to change the qi-gathering array into the sound-gathering array. Just the details of the sound-insulating array were stunning enough for them. Inside the array, no sound from outside could be heard, but when listening from outside to the inside of the array, there was no impact at all! Moreover, the whole array didn't have any redundant or bloated parts at all. It achieved the ultimate effect with the simplest patterns. Even the City Lord of Pinglan City, who had been specializing in arrays for a hundred years, couldn't help but praise it highly. They communicated with each other using divine sense for a while and then took another look at Lan Zhi's progress. They found that Lan Zhi had just finished the first sound-recording stone, and more than half of the time on the hourglass had passed. Although this speed was okay, it was obviously impossible to complete the production of twenty sound-recording stones within half an hour. They were all over a hundred years old. They didn't really want to make this bet with her and didn't care how many she could make. If she couldn't finish it in time, they would just give her some appropriate encouragement. So they withdrew their gazes again and continued to focus on what they were doing. Until the hourglass was almost running out, when they looked again, they were surprised to find that the twenty sound-recording stones had been completed at some point, and she was playing with the metal in her hand! How was this possible?