Ma Xie took the three-scroll array diagram in his hand, and Liu Jinao said: "These three-scroll formation methods are the three most commonly used formations for building the casting field by our Divine Machine Gate, and they are also the scrolls we use when assessing the array mage. ”

The three scrolls are "An Tian Array", "Water Building Array", and "Mountain Fire Wind Wolf Array".

"If you can lay out any of these three formations, you will pass the test. Liu Jinao said.

Ma Xie looked at the three-volume array diagram and had a general understanding.

These three formations all belong to the "battle formation".

"Antiy Array" is a stable aura formation, in this large array, the aura will be rare stability, the caster will not spend much effort, you can accurately control the aura, in order to create various parts, in the manufacture of hidden weapons, this is the most common formation.

In the process of casting weapons, many materials can only be used in special temperatures and conditions, and the array mage will control the temperature through the formation to meet the requirements of the foundry.

"Mountain Fire Wind Wolf Array" is a formation that accelerates the casting process, in this formation, the aura accelerates the flow while maintaining stability, which can speed up the speed at which the caster can process certain materials.

These three formations are the most commonly used formations by casters, and they are also the introductory assessment of the Divine Machine Gate against mages.

"How is it, is it okay?" Liu Jinao said to Ma Xie.

Ma Xie looked at it, chose "Mountain Fire Wind Wolf Formation", and said: "I'll try it, if I arrange this formation, please let me and Brother Liu fight side by side." ”

Liu Jinao nodded, in fact, he only needed Ma Xie to barely meet this requirement before he could fight with Liu Zongxuan.

"Do you want to start now?" asked Ma Xue.

"Let's get started. Liu Jinao said.

Ma Xie sat down cross-legged, took out some spirit stones, and prepared to start arranging the formation.

At this moment, a person suddenly broke in outside the door, she was covered in bandages, and stumbled to Ma Xie.

"Grandpa, let me come, don't trust these foreign array mages. It was a shoulder-length girl with short hair, half of her body wrapped in bandages, and she came on crutches.

"What are you crazy about! You still want to compete after you're like this?" Liu Zongxuan hurriedly ran over and helped the little girl.

Liu Jinao waved his hand, and a chair appeared beside the little girl, and Liu Zongxuan helped her to sit down.

"Xiao Yezi, don't be reckless, Xiao Xuanzi has already found a formation mage, and I am about to assess him. Liu Jinao said: "There are less than fifteen days left, and it is not easy for us to find a formation mage, so don't make trouble here." ”

"Old man, how can I make trouble? Not to mention his strength, what if he was sent by the Pang family? You know that if you fail this time, the Pang family will definitely force you to abdicate, and our Divine Machine Gate will fall into the control of the Pang family!" said Xiao Yezi, that is, Liu Zongxuan's sister Liu Ye.

"Bastard! This Shenji Gate was originally jointly created by our Liu and Pang families, and our ancestor has long said that the Shenji Gate must not cause infighting because of the struggle for power, and you actually said such a rebellious thing!"

Liu Jinao's voice suddenly raised, and a strong momentum erupted from his body, which pressed on Liu Ye's body, making her already fragile body open again.

Liu Zongxuan suddenly blocked in front of Liu Ye and shouted: "Grandpa, spare your sister, she is already seriously injured!"

Hearing Liu Zongxuan's intercession, Liu Jinao retracted his prestige and said coldly: "You two little guys, you are becoming more and more presumptuous, and you actually said such a rebellious thing. ”

"I'm talking about big rebellion, but do you know that the Pang family is doing something rebellious?" Liu Ye actually stood up from the chair, walked in front of Liu Jinao tremblingly, and said: "Grandpa, don't disguise yourself like this, you already know it, the Pang family has already been with some sect traditions in the alliance, and they just want to force you to abdicate." ”

It turned out that helping Lu Guo this time was an adventurous act by Liu Jinao, and the Pang family, as another major faction of the Shenji Gate, was strongly opposed, and Liu Jinao could only pour the strength of the whole clan to supply this war.

"No wonder Liu Zongxuan said that if it fails, the entire family will be in danger. Ma Xie thought secretly in his heart.

Hearing Liu Ye's words, Liu Jinao was silent, he knew that Liu Ye was telling the truth.

Originally, Liu Ye and Liu Zongxuan cooperated seamlessly, but when Liu Ye arranged a simple formation a few days ago, there was an accident.

After investigation, it turned out that there was a problem with the spirit stone she used, this spirit stone is a rare "fierce stone", and it will explode if it is slightly fluctuated by a little foreign spiritual energy.

Liu Ye didn't notice that this fierce stone had mixed into her spirit stone pile and put it into the array eye.

When her formation was just halfway through the operation, the Burning Stone suddenly exploded, and the entire formation collapsed in an instant, and a massive amount of spiritual energy reacted to Liu Ye's body, seriously injuring her.

Although Liu Jinao did not delve into this matter, after his secret investigation, he found that the people of the Pang family had major suspicions.

It's just that at this juncture, if you fall out with the Pang family for this matter, it will not only violate the ancestral teachings, but also make the Shenjimen fall into a situation from which it will never recover, after all, the Pang family still supports Liu Jinao on the surface.

"Sister, this friend of the horse evil path is my brother, not a spy of the Shen family. Liu Zongxuan saw that his sister suspected Ma Xie and hurriedly explained.

Liu Ye glanced at Ma Xie and Yuan Wuji, and said, "Even if it's your friends, they may not be able to help you win, this person hasn't even arranged a fourth-order formation, right, you believe in him so much?"

"Okay, just try it. Ma Xie knew that it was useless to talk too much now, so he could only arrange the next fourth-order formation to make this sensitive and suspicious eldest lady feel at ease.

Liu Ye said: "Little Xuanzi, you can think clearly, although I am injured, I can barely arrange a formation, if he ......"

"Sister, how long are you going to help me? Believe me, a true forger can create an artifact even without the aid of a formation, can't he?"

"That's right! What Xiao Xuanzi said is very reasonable, after all, the formation is only an auxiliary, and the foundry ultimately relies on himself! Xiao Yezi, don't worry, no matter what, we have to accept it calmly. Liu Jinao said: "Let's start, Xiaoma, I can't wait." ”

Ma Xie nodded and opened the formation diagram of the "Mountain Fire Wind Wolf Array".

Sure enough, the difficulty of the fourth-order formation was several times more difficult than that of the third-order formation.

Looking at the horse evil as a whole, the basic runes that are to be engraved have already exceeded more than ten times the size of the third-order formation.

Moreover, these runes also involved fusion runes, which Ma Xie had never tried before.

The so-called fusion rune is to fuse two or more runes together to form a new rune, so that the power of the rune will increase, and the aura consumed by the rune will decrease accordingly.

Because the complexity of the fourth-level formation is too high, if you don't use fusion runes, just those slow runes will cover the entire formation, and just running a circle will consume a lot of spiritual energy, which cannot be supported by ordinary runes.

One of the hallmarks of a fourth-order array mage is the ability to use fusion runes.

Prior to this, although Ma Xie had learned about the fusion rune from "Yantianlu", he had never tried it.

He first laid down a six-pointed star formation base, and then began to condense the runes needed for each formation.

"His rune skills are very solid. Liu Ye said to Liu Jinao.

Condensing runes is the basic kung fu of a formation mage.

The runes mastered by each formation mage are different, and the runes are like the "words" of the formation mage.

Combining different characters in different order and connecting them with aura is the basic principle of the formation.

From the speed of a formation mage's condensation of runes and the completeness of the condensed runes, it can already be seen that a formation mage's skills are sufficient.

The runes in Ma Xie's "Acting in the Heavens" are very ancient and systematic runes, and the use of these runes is skillful enough to arrange common formations.

And some special formations require special runes to be arranged, such as the formation of the Five Elements Holy Sect, they have their own rune system, which is completely different from the one in "Yantianlu".

Because of the different rune systems, the formations that the formation mages are good at are also different, so it is difficult for the schools in the formation mages to communicate with each other like other sects, and almost every formation mage thinks that their runes are the best language, and disdain to learn new rune languages with other formation mages.

Only Ma Xie, a half-hung formation mage, learned some runes of the Five Elements Holy Sect on the basis of acting in Tianlu, after all, he was a person who did not have the slightest concept of a master.

After Ma Xie condensed the basic runes of the Mountain Fire Wind Wolf Array, the prototype of the formation had already appeared.

Above the six-pointed star, a majestic mountain peak faintly appeared, and a little fire flashed beyond the peak.

Next, Ma Xie had to condense more than a thousand runes and engrave them in this formation in order to completely complete the "Mountain Fire Wind Wolf Array".

However, Ma Xie looked at the small mountain in front of him, but he didn't make a move.

The formation runes under this small mountain peak have almost exhausted the energy of a hundred spirit stones, and if you continue to condense other formation runes, before the formation is completed, the spirit stones will be consumed first.

Moreover, the rest of the array talismans had to fall on the mountain peak, and thousands of array talismans simply could not be placed in a small mountain peak.

The only way to do this is to fuse the array sigils.

"Fourth-order array mages, there is no way to make a detour. Liu Ye said: "If you don't fuse the runes, even if you condense all the formation runes, the formation base of this formation is so big, you can't place it at all, and the formation will naturally collapse." ”

Ma Xie closed his eyes, he knew that he always had to take this step, so he was not affected by Liu Ye.

In mid-air, the two formations gradually approached each other under the manipulation of Ma Xie.

"It took me three years to learn to fuse the formation, you look like a novice, I think you better give up. Liu Ye said.