The curtain of rain blurred the lush greenery outside.

"All used up?" Luo Chen asked with his eyes closed. Without waiting for a reply, he continued, "Then you'll have to wait. I'll go out again to hunt illusory beasts in two days."

At the moment, he was in the middle of cracking a crucial restriction inside the Penglai Eightspire Pavilion.

As a legacy True Artifact of the Penglai Immortal Sect, the pavilion was embedded with an extremely complex network of restrictions. They formed a series of formations that partitioned the interior space, ensuring that the medicinal herbs inside would not affect each other. These formations were so intricate that even Han Zhan had only managed to unlock a tiny portion of them, which had granted Luo Chen a measure of control.

During his years on the Dragon Abyss Island, Luo Chen had tried solving them but fallen short by quite a margin. Now that he had plenty of free time, he decided to lift the rest of the restrictions and make the pavilion truly his own.

***

Half a year later, Luo Chen finished analyzing a fourth-tier formation and more or less figured out its configuration. Given another two or three days, he would be able to fully unlock it and gain eighty percent control of this True Artifact. Not only that, but he would also be able to grasp that fourth-tier spatial formation based on the Void restriction.

For all its tediousness, working on the Penglai Eightspire...