69novels Chapter 116 The Chosen Overseer's Holy Body
Chapter 116 The Chosen Overseer's Holy Body
Chapter 117 The Chosen Overseer's Holy Body
The newly built canteen at Canaan Academy was spacious and bright, filled with the enticing aroma of food. Students gathered in small groups, enjoying a rare moment of rest. At a table by the window, a student hurriedly put down his plate, squeezed next to his best friend, and whispered mysteriously, "Hey, don't you think—Elder Huo's been a bit more active lately?"
"Active?" His best friend mumbled, taking a bite of bread. "I heard from his friends in Class One of the Profound Rank that Elder Huo has gone into seclusion to cultivate!"
"Tch!" The student who broke the news scoffed, a smug look on his face that said, "Everyone else is drunk but I'm the only one who's sober." "That's a smokescreen! I just saw him by the central lake, pointing at the water with Elder Civil Engineering, like they were discussing something!"
"That doesn't really have anything to do with being active, does it?" My best friend asked, somewhat bewildered.
"Not only that!" The whistleblower leaned closer, his voice almost a whisper, "Yesterday morning, I was buying materials in Heping Town when I bumped into him and Vice Dean Hu Qian browsing the market! Around noon, there was dust flying everywhere over the teaching area, and he was standing on a high place personally overseeing the construction! The most outrageous thing is—"
He paused, his eyes filled with intense disbelief. "Yesterday afternoon! I saw it with my own eyes—I saw Elder Huo swimming in the lake!"
"Pfft—!" His best friend nearly spat out his soup, coughing repeatedly as he choked. "Cough cough—did you lose your mind while swimming? Elder Huo? Swimming in the lake? He's the chief elder! How could he do something like that!"
"Absolutely true!" The whistleblower blushed with anxiety.
Just then, another friend excitedly joined in, carrying a tray: "Hey! Guess who I ran into? Elder Huo! I knew I'd run into him over there in the back mountains! He was discussing the waterfall he carved out with Elder Zhou!"
"Nonsense! Elder Huo was clearly by the lake!" the whistleblower immediately retorted.
"The back mountain! I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Hey, isn't Elder Huo in a meeting? I just came from the office building!" A student at the next table couldn't help but interject.
The argument between the group gradually escalated, attracting many curious glances from those around them. These idle fellows were arguing endlessly about "where Elder Huo really is."
On the outermost edge of the academy, in a dense forest, energy fluctuations were unusually active.
Vice Dean Hu Qian was sweating profusely as he waved his hands, his pure battle qi working like a nimble carving knife, repeatedly sculpting the massive array bases inscribed with complex runes.
His fat jiggled slightly with his movements, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.
"Elder Huo—" Hu Qian panted heavily and couldn't help but complain, "Are you tired? Why don't you go back and rest for a while? Or catch up with your classmates?"
"Is the vice dean the one who wants to rest?"
Not far from him, Huo Yuhao's sharp gaze swept over each of the array bases that were about to be placed.
Whenever Hu Qian's movements deviate slightly, or a node of a certain array pattern shows a slight stagnation, he will immediately point a tiny bit of mental energy from a distance and instantly wrap it around to make a fine adjustment.
Hu Qian said helplessly, "If you keep following us like this, won't the task of rebuilding the campus basically still fall on you?"
"This is different, Vice Dean." Huo Yuhao's clone spoke calmly, a faint smile even playing on his lips. "I don't need to expend a lot of battle qi to refine the array base and inscribe array patterns. I only need to point out 'here' or 'there' that needs correction in real time. It saves so much effort."
Hu Qian glanced at the mountain of unprocessed array bases piled up in his storage ring, then looked at Huo Yuhao's calm and collected demeanor, and wailed, "My Chief! This is already the sixteenth array! Defense, early warning,..."
"Isolating from spying, interfering with space—are you serious? Do you really intend to complete all those dozens of formations at once?!"
Despite complaining, Hu Qian didn't dare to stop working. Under Huo Yuhao's almost "predictive" and precise guidance, this novice in array formations, who had no experience, actually completed the laying of more than a dozen complex arrays without any mistakes.
Huo Yuhao's gaze swept over Hu Qian's plump figure, and he joked, "Vice Dean, you should lose some weight. With that build, you'd probably be out of breath just walking from the office to the cafeteria."
Upon hearing this, Hu Qian immediately straightened his back, took a deep breath, and said with a hint of pride, "That's called a prosperous appearance! A sign of good fortune! Don't you understand? My granddaughter likes me like this! She says I look dignified!"
The two chatted casually while working in perfect harmony. Soon, Hu Qian steadily inserted the last piece of the core array base, which shimmered with a dark golden hue, into its designated position. *Whoosh!*
A deep and resounding hum echoed throughout the heavens and earth! A huge, pale golden, almost transparent light membrane instantly rose from the edge of the academy, forming a perfect hemispherical shield that enveloped the entire Canaan Academy!
The golden light shield swirled for a moment, then disappeared into the air like ripples on water, as if it had never existed, leaving only faint energy fluctuations in the air.
The first defensive array is complete!
Meanwhile, the reconstruction of the teaching area is nearing completion. The buildings, suspended above the clear lake, are connected by a series of rainbow-like bridges, reflecting a dreamlike luster in the sunlight. A faint, cool, primordial energy, brought by the chilling array, permeates the air.
Huo Yuhao and the Civil Engineering Elder are conducting a final safety inspection of these buildings.
If the students had a God's-eye view and looked down on the entire Canaan Academy from the air, they would find that there were many "Huo Yuhao"s in the academy!
Each "Huo Yuhao" is accompanied by one or more elders who guide their work.
In fact, these were all Huo Yuhao's spiritual clones. After Huo Yuhao assigned the reconstruction tasks to the elders and imparted the necessary techniques through spiritual sharing, in order to solve their lack of experience, Huo Yuhao created a large number of spiritual clones to accompany each elder and guide them in completing the tasks.
At this moment, on the roof of a newly completed teaching building, the Civil Engineering Elder was stomping hard on the smooth, mirror-like metal roof, which was engraved with countless earth-yellow spiritual patterns.
"Chief! Look! It's absolutely perfect!" Elder Civil Engineering turned to Huo Yuhao, his voice loud and proud: "It's exactly as you requested. All the core areas of the building have incorporated the spirit rune technology you provided!"
Below the level of Dou Wang, nothing can budge this building! Even if a Dou Huang came, he'd have to put in a lot of effort to demolish it!
Huo Yuhao nodded. In order to ensure the safety of the students and to cooperate with the cold air formation in the lake to accelerate cultivation, Huo Yuhao ignored the logistics elder's liver-colored face and forcibly requisitioned a large number of rare minerals and other spiritual materials, and applied them all to the buildings in the teaching area. It could be said that he had refined the entire teaching area into a spiritual artifact!
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