Below the secret door, there is a narrow stone steps. If you walk down a short distance, you can reach a basement with an area similar to the size of the main hall above.

The ground walls of the basement were covered with bluestone slabs, and twelve thick cylinders supported the entire space. Looking closely, there were some runes carved on the surface of the bluestone slabs on the ground. These were prepared by Li Lijun in advance, and then the numbers were marked for each bluestone slab, and the craftsmen were arranged strictly in the predetermined order according to the drawings, and a composite array would eventually be formed. Just when the spiritual power was connected, the array could start and operate.

Li Lijun lifted up the bluestone slab in the middle of the basement, revealing the yellow mud below, and then used magic to dig down one foot deep, and a thick stream of spiritual energy surged out from the depths of the earth pit.

The reason why she chose this location to rebuild Houtu Temple was not only because of its cheap land prices and convenient transportation.

Originally, the address of Houtu Temple was a small spiritual vein in the soil layer below, which was the end of a branch that extended from a large spiritual vein on the Qinling Mountains. This branch was actually not cut off all the way, but was buried deep underground and not discovered by the monks on the ground. In fact, it winded from the small river bay where the Cultivation Market was located to the edge of the Qinling Mountains before going deeper into the soil layer. Li Lijun hurriedly fled to the edge of the mountain on the day Du Zhenren crossed the thunder tribulation, and could always feel the existence of this spiritual vein branch on the way. Therefore, she specially chose a piece of land to build the Houtu New Temple where the spiritual vein branch passed.

At this location below the main palace of the new temple, there is the thickest section of this spiritual vein branch except the small spiritual vein in Hewan. In addition, the surrounding 100 acres of land have been included in the scope of the new temple. The length of the spiritual vein is sufficient. If a spirit gathering array is placed, the concentration of the spiritual energy gathering is no worse than that of the old temple, and it is even slightly stronger.

During the construction of the new temple, Li Lijun strictly stipulated the depth of the basement, so the craftsmen did not dig out spiritual energy. However, after the basement was built, as long as she digs another foot deep under the basement floor, she can reach the branch of the spiritual vein, which saves a lot of effort.

The spiritual energy surged out and was quickly guided into the magic array. Then the entire formation underground of the new temple was activated, and various hidden spirit arrays, protective arrays, and spirit gathering arrays began to operate one after another. In the main hall above, under the altar where the statue of the Hotu Niang Niang was enshrined, the formations carved in advance also began to flash. As a wave of soft white light flashed quickly, the entire Houtu Temple returned to normal again, and no more spiritual power fluctuations appeared.

But at this time, those who practiced in the temple could feel that the surrounding environment was different.

Li Lijun returned to the ground, closed the secret door, and pasted it with a hidden talisman. The secret door quickly disappeared from people's sight. There was only a smooth and flat ground under the carpet. I was not an insider, and I had no idea what was hidden beneath His Highness.

Erhong and Qiuxiang have been helping to keep watch, and now they have come back to Li Lijun: "Miss, have the matter been done? I feel that there seems to be something different in this temple, but I can't tell what's different."

Li Lijun smiled and said, "Empress Houtu is about to appear, it will naturally be different. You are more sincere when you kneel down. Maybe the Empress is willing to bless you?"

Erhong and Qiuxiang looked at each other.

Li Lijun didn't say much, and just asked the two girls to change the things on the altar, put them on the spiritual flowers, fruits and dew they brought, and even changed the fragrance they put on.

The Queen Houtu showed her spirit, the spirit fruits and dew disappeared, and the spirit flowers also lost their fragrance. The burning speed of the fragrance branches was two or three times faster than usual. In the eyes of the two maids, it was evidence that the spirit was obvious.

However, their experience is far less profound than that of Li Lijun.

From the moment she connected the spiritual veins, activated the magic array, replaced the offerings, and then knelt down in front of the statue of Queen Mother Houtu, her ears kept ringing. The system suddenly began to be upgraded continuously, and many new functions were updated, and the original ability seemed to have been improved accordingly. Because it sounded too much and too long, Li Lijun could only temporarily turn off the system's sound prompts to quietly complete the kneeling and prayer ceremony.

When Li Jianrang came back from the tour and got on the carriage with his younger sister and returned to Ziyun Mountain Room, Li Lijun used the excuse of being tired and closing her eyes to rest and taking the opportunity to check the results after the system upgrade.

To be honest, she spent two hundred years in Ziwei Tianyu, and only experienced two system upgrades in total. Once she ended the three novice worlds, she officially became a mission practitioner, and the novice system was upgraded to an ordinary system; the other time she rescued the residual soul of a senior cultivator who accidentally died in a certain Western magic world and took it out of that world. After returning to Ziwei Tianyu, the residual soul disappeared, the system was upgraded, with more functions and the storage space was expanded. Later, she heard from Master Yun Li that the senior cultivator took away the residual soul of his own children and gave her a reward. This family is also very powerful in the Ziwei Tianyu system, with two immortal officials.

Since then, Li Lijun has never seen her system upgrade again. Master told her not to worry about this. Anyway, no matter how powerful the system functions, it is just an auxiliary. The most important thing is to strengthen herself. She is honest and obedient. Every time she enters a new world, she does not forget to work hard to improve herself and learn more. She almost forgot that the system can be upgraded, and today she suddenly had a surprise.

She originally thought that she had rebuilt the temple of Houtu, and erected a monument to clarify the name of the goddess and the priesthood of the goddess. The reward she received should be similar to the first time she bowed to her, and it might be one or two more magics. Unexpectedly, the goddess directly upgraded her system!

The system's storage space has been expanded again, and the functions of perception and detection have been strengthened a lot, and the functions of concealment and shielding have also been upgraded. The most important thing is that the Empress Houtu gave her a preferential treatment with her own divine power. As long as her feet do not leave the land, no matter what spells she uses, they will not be noticed by monks below the Nascent Soul; as long as she is in the land and the soil layer around her is more than three feet, even if the Golden Pill monk is very close to her, she cannot find her traces through the soil layer. By the time she builds the foundation, these new functions will also be improved accordingly. For example, when she step on the ground with her feet, the magic movements she uses can be hidden from the Nascent Soul monks; even if they hide under the land, even the Nascent Soul monks cannot find her.

In addition, the system can also detect movements of monks above the foundation building within 200 kilometers around, and send previews and reminders to the host Li Lijun. The system cannot determine the identity of these monks, but as long as any of them appears within 200 kilometers around Li Lijun, it can immediately issue an alarm, just like a high-level monk radar. In this way, Li Lijun can avoid some high-level monks in advance to avoid exposing himself under their noses.

Of course, the most useful thing about this new feature is to help her detect the position of the legendary powerful.

Under the alarm of the system, she clearly felt the existence of the powerful for the first time. He was about 30,000 meters above Zhongnan Mountain, and seemed to be moving slowly towards the east.

The other party seemed to feel something and looked back towards the Guanzhong Plain.

Li Lijun was scared and immediately asked the system to stop exploring. After a while, there was no movement, she dared to let the system explore again. When she found that the powerful continued to move eastward, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, she was sitting in the carriage, her feet did not touch the land, and her powerful cultivation was not below the Nascent Soul. She had to act carefully.

In order to improve the new functions of the system as soon as possible, she should hurry up and cultivate to the great perfection of Qi Refining and strive to build the foundation as soon as possible!

(End of this chapter)
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