Chapter 18: Genius Formation
The formation is usually composed of two parts: the eye of the formation and the base of the formation.
Arraying, to put it simply, is the process of creating an array eye and a formation base by a formation mage.
The purpose of the formation mage is to combine and arrange the array flags according to a certain established law, so as to change the distribution of the vitality between heaven and earth, and then achieve a certain desired effect.
According to the introduction on the homepage of "Seven Stars Hidden Array", there are three most common formations on the Kyushu continent, that is, the Gathering Yuan Array that condenses the vitality of heaven and earth in one place, the killing array that changes the vitality of heaven and earth into a killing breath, and the hidden array that breaks the distribution law of the vitality between heaven and earth to achieve a concealment effect.
The Seven Stars Hidden Array, to put it bluntly, is a kind of first-level hidden formation that uses the Big Dipper as the eye of the formation, and uses the seven star positions such as Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Shaoguang as the base of the formation to carry out a combination and distribution.
As a kind of concealment formation, the formation flags of the seven-star hidden array are usually extremely hidden, which is also the reason why the masked black-clothed man arranged the seven-star hidden array on the shore of the Blood Locust Lake before, Lin Ao only relied on the keen senses of the special forces king to perceive the existence of the other party, but he did not see anything similar to the formation flag.
According to the "Seven Star Hidden Array", the most suitable material for refining the array flag on the Kyushu continent is a dragon descending wood whose value is comparable to that of a top-level magic weapon, of course, this material is very scarce, and it is simply priceless, so most array mages use other materials, such as black camphor, red sandalwood, white sha, etc., to replace it.
Lin Ao didn't know what kind of material the masked black-clothed man used to make the array flag when he arranged the seven-star hidden array on the shore of the Blood Locust Lake, anyway, he had searched through the entire Sumeru Ring, and he didn't see anything that could be used as a formation flag.
Now he, Xiao Qingyi and Xue Ling were in a life-and-death danger surrounded by wolves, and they didn't have time to choose the best materials to refine the array flag.
He simply picked up a few unknown rotten woods, and simply arranged them according to the layout of the seven-star hidden array, but he never thought that the concealment effect obtained was not bad.
To be honest, at the beginning, even he himself felt that the rookie of the formation realm with limited learning time had arranged this kind of rough Seven Star Hidden Formation that could be called the most unbearable in history, and he was bound to be recognized by that group of giant wolves who were psychic by nature......
But as it turned out, his fears were unfounded.
The seven-star hidden array he arranged was not as miserable as he imagined, and the giant wolf was not as intelligent as he imagined.
After all, no matter how fierce and psychic-minded the giant wolf is, it is just a low-IQ animal, and they can't make logical judgments like humans.
Therefore, when Lin Ao blatantly planted several array flags on the empty and unobstructed wilderness, changing the distribution of the surrounding vitality aura, so that the figures and breaths of the three people were hidden, these livestock with low IQs only saw a few upside-down rotten trees, but the three big living people disappeared out of thin air like a trick, and at the same time became restless.
Even, the head wolf, which was obviously much taller and thicker than other similar wolves, showed a trace of fear in its narrow wolf eyes, and immediately roared at the dozen or so giant wolves around him, and finally led the wolves to scatter.
Seeing that his clumsy formation technique had really deceived a group of extremely vicious giant wolves, Lin Ao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with palpitations.
However, this scene was seen in the eyes of Xiao Qingyi, a woman in a green skirt and purple yarn, but it really shocked her fiercely.
Becoming a formation mage in three days, and being self-taught, is really a miracle in the world!
Array mage, as one of the four most difficult professions in the Kyushu Continent to get started, like alchemists, refiners, and talismans, the degree of harshness required for monks' talents can be called perverted!
If it is said that the Qi cultivation period is a thousand-foot dangerous peak, blocking the path of cultivation of thousands of mortals. Then the array mage is definitely a heavenly moat, isolating more monks at the other end of the lookout array!
According to Xiao Qingyi's knowledge, an authentic Taoist system like Zixiao Academy, which is known as one of the ten factions of the five academies in the Kyushu Continent, has a total of tens of millions of teachers and students, but it is also full of dozens of formation mages, and there are only a handful of those who have achieved something.
Among them, the most prestigious is none other than the vice president of the palace who is a ninth-level array mage, but he is already the most prestigious existence in the entire Zixiao Academy except for the dean Hai Dongqing.
The vice president of the palace is now over the age of sixteen, but he should have at least fifty years of formation history.
It is said that since he was ten years old, the vice president of the palace began to learn to set up formations under Xiao Shushui, the chief court formation master of the Western Qin Empire, but when he broke through the first-level formation mage, it was ten years later.
Therefore, when Xiao Qingyi saw that Lin Ao could simply arrange a first-level hidden array in just three days by casually flipping through an ancient formation book with a dilapidated cover, Fang Xin felt so shocked.
This young man's perverted talent in cultivation is breathtaking, but he didn't expect his qualifications in the formation to be so rebellious
Xiao Qingyi didn't dare to imagine that a dual genius like Lin Ao, who was both cultivator and formation, would grow to such a demonic level in the future!
Without a group of giant wolves behind them, the three of them finally felt a lot more relaxed along the way.
Lin Ao had more time to ask Xiao Qingyi about the cultivation system of the Kyushu Continent, and then he learned that in the Kyushu Continent, if a monk wanted to cultivate to an infant transformation stage like Hai Dongqing, the dean of Zixiao Academy, he still had to go through several layers of realm in the middle.
In addition to Lin Ao's known Qi refining period and Qi Transformation Period, the Bigu Period of Qi Transformation and Transformation Essence, then the Spirit Gathering Period of Concentrating Essence and Transforming Spirits, and the Condensing Dan Period of Condensing Soul Transformation Pill, followed by the Infant Transformation Period of Dan Transformation and Giving birth to a baby.
According to Xiao Qingyi, the infant transformation period is not the end of the path, after that, the monk has to break through several realms and go through countless tribulations before he can finally ascend to the Tao.
On the long path of monasticism, if a monk wants to preach, it can be said that he has gone through many calamities of life and death, survived countless years, endured the torments and tribulations that ordinary people cannot endure, lived an ascetic life that ordinary people cannot live, endured loneliness, saw through life and death, cut off love, and finally became a great way.
Although he had witnessed the clumsy seven-star hidden array that he hastily arranged with crude techniques, he was able to deceive the eyes of the giant wolves, but Lin Ao also seemed to realize that the formation flag was the biggest shortcoming of his current formation, so he began to try to refine the formation flag day and night.
The array flag used to arrange the formation is definitely not as simple as just making and molding, it also requires the monk to urge his own Dao method, and engrave a pattern on the body of the flag that is used to draw the vitality of heaven and earth.
At first, Lin Ao was new to this road and lacked the guidance of famous teachers, so he always lacked shortcomings in the process of copying and carving patterns, and the results ended in failure.
It wasn't until after thousands of tireless attempts that Lin Ao's technique of carving Dao patterns was finally much more sophisticated, but it became a big problem in the selection of materials for refining the array flag.
Lin Ao also knew that the best material for refining the array flag was dragon descending wood, but he was also very clear about the rarity of dragon descending wood, but it was a pity that the "Seven Star Hidden Array" only briefly mentioned that dragon descending wood could be replaced by materials such as black camphor, red sandalwood, and white sandalwood, but did not introduce the appearance of these kinds of wood.
Rao is Xiao Qingyi, a woman in a green skirt and purple yarn, who has been educated since she was a child and is well-informed, but she has never heard of several kinds of wood listed in this ancient book.
Fortunately, the most important thing in this primeval forest is wood, and Lin Ao is like a koi fish who has obtained a piece of ocean, and he will immediately let him swim in the open sky.
Except for rushing and cultivating, almost all of the remaining time was spent refining the array flag.
Finally, under Lin Ao's unremitting search and refining day and night, after profoundly interpreting the universal truth that if you don't go crazy, you can't live, you finally tried to refine a yellowish arbor with white spots into a formation flag, and carved out the patterns that pull the vitality of heaven and earth, and then arranged it according to the formation eye and formation base of the Seven Stars Hidden Array, and its concealment effect was almost the same as the formation arranged by the masked black-clothed person on the shore of the Blood Locust Lake a few days ago.
Lin Ao didn't think about it, he refined a whole hundred sets of array flags in one go, and threw them into the Sumeru ring casually, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and turned his face to signal Xiao Qingyi and Xue Ling, who were looking at him like monsters, to continue on the road.
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