Chapter 18: Formation Peak

Formation is one of the great ways of cultivating the Tao, and cultivators who are proficient in formation are even called formation masters.

The formation master has the ability to plan the world's mountains and rivers, and has enough time, and even has the ability to challenge opponents of higher levels. However, short and frequent encounters are often his weaknesses, and they are killed before they can finish setting up the formation.

After painstaking research by formation masters, formation plates and formation flags that can store formations are specially designed for short and frequent encounters. The formations are stored in the formation plates, and the formation flags are responsible for controlling the formations. Even in sudden encounters, the formations can be set up in an instant.

Xia Jinxi picked up the jade slip again and forced her spiritual sense to enter and study.

  But she couldn't understand the preliminary creation of the formation. For her, an outsider, it was like ascending to heaven. She couldn't sink into it at all.

  She only roughly understood that there are seven main types of formations: trapped, hidden, attack, defend, fascination, illusion, and transmission. As long as each type is practiced properly, it can play an important role in reversing the situation in a duel or in distress.

  Most formation masters have a little knowledge of each field, but most of them are good at one or two formations.

  The formation is mainly divided into nine levels, and above that is the innate formation, which is divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower. Above the innate formation is the immortal formation in the transmission. Even the formation sect does not have the immortal formation inheritance, only the upper realm has it.

  "Huh."Xia Jinxi exhaled and sat on the futon to watch quietly.

  Xia Jinxi slowly understood some of it. Most of the formations rely on deduction, which is similar to arithmetic in the previous life. If arithmetic is used, Xia Jinxi is really grateful that she chose science when she was in school.

  She immediately calculated and reasoned in her mind, and after she understood the structure of the array, she understood everything else.

After leaving the Knowing Formation Hall, she came to the place where she started.

  Not long after, the old Taoist with white eyebrows appeared.

  "Have you decide to start making formation flags?"

"Yes, disciple decided refining Fiery Formation and Thick Earth Array"

  "Well, You came here on a mission, so you know the requirements, right?"

  "Yes, there are a total of five material to refine. If all fail, you must stay at Formation Peak as a menial disciple for half a year to compensate for the loss of formation materials. If you succeed, no matter how many material you refine, you must hand in half of the formation flag and keep the remaining half for yourself. You can get ten contribution points for completing the mission."

  "Okay, since you know everything, let's go to the Formation Room." The white-browed Taoist threw out a storage bag, then stretched out his hand and pointed forward, "Look, do you see it? It's the largest building. After entering, choose an empty room at random and use your mission jade token to unlock the ban."

"Thank you for letting me know, senior."

  The building that the white-browed Taoist was referring to was the Formation Hall. After Xia Jinxi took over the storage bag containing the array materials, she quickly came to the hall. There was a lot of space inside, with a total of sixty Rooms.

  Half of the doors were closed, and it was obvious that there were cultivators inside. Xia Jinxi chose an empty room on the inside, and opened the invisible restriction with a swipe of the task jade card in her hand.

Then she began to try to use the spirit stones on her body to set up a first-level trap array, and then changed the position to become a killing array, and then changed the position to become a maze array.

  After she tried all kinds of arrays, more than two hours passed. Xia Jinxi no longer felt bored and wanted to start the next level to learn new arrays immediately. It turned out that arrays were so interesting. She just immersed her whole mind in the array practice. If you understand one trick, you will understand all tricks. Xia Jinxi knew all seven first-level arrays accurately.

  She understood the rules of the formation more and more during the process of slowly practicing in the sea of ​​consciousness, and mastered the tricks of the formation.

Xia Jinxi entered the array with her whole body and soul. A series of complicated numbers were arranged and combined in the sea of ​​consciousness, and then shuffled and rearranged. The array lines were arranged and combined into an array diagram according to the numerical rules.

  Because her thinking was different from that of the array master in the Qinghua Realm, she learned various arrays faster according to her own logic, and improved the shortcomings of the original arrays to make them more powerful, and even some arrays surpassed the fifth level.

  If there were high-level array masters here, they would find that she had already faintly found the door to the array. Only by entering the array can one make an innate spiritual array. Most array masters stop before the ninth-level array in their lives. If they cannot feel the array, they cannot make an innate spiritual array.

  The seven major categories of arrays are divided into 108 types of arrays. Each array line of the stone plate contains a powerful array formed by the combination of the heavenly way, and then it is pre-stored in the array plate, which is convenient for stimulating and using in future fights.

  Some array lines are complicated, so it takes a lot of time to cast them, and pre-burning saves time. Most cultivators only know a dozen arrays in one or two major categories in their lives.

After faintly understanding the way of array, Xia Jinxi began production of array plates and array flags. The formation master who can engrave the formation plate will have income, and can sell the engraved formation plate to the cultivators who don't know the formation. As long as the spiritual power is injected into the formation plate, the formation plate can be activated.

After searching for a while, she finally decided to refine the formation flag of the Fiery Formation.

  The Fiery Formation was an attack formation among the elementary formations.

  The elementary attack formations were not only simple and direct to arrange, but also did not consume much materials even when refining the formation flags and formation plates.

  Because this Fiery Formation had only eight nodes in total, it only needed to engrave these nodes and the connecting formation patterns on the formation flags.

  Xia Jinxi picked up a black short stick about the thickness of a thumb from the materials on display.

  This was made by melting black cloud sand. When she get it, she directly asked for such a finished product.

  It was considered to save a melting process.

  Then she pulled a piece of black silk cloth and began to cut it with scissors.

  Black silk cloth is tough, and ordinary scissors naturally cannot cut it. She used special scissors, and only this kind of scissors can cut black silk cloth.

  After cutting, a triangular flag surface was obtained.

  Sewing it together with the black cloud iron flagpole, it was considered to be a preliminary formation flag. The only thing left was to engrave the formation pattern nodes on it.

  Xia Jinxi did not engrave it immediately, but after all the materials were made into such a formation flag, she started to prepare to engrave the formation pattern nodes.

  Black cloud iron is hard, and it is very difficult to engrave it on it with spiritual power alone. So she used a sharp carving knife this time.

  Xia Jinxi picked up the carving knife and began to engrave the formation pattern on the flagpole.

  It was her first time using this tool, and she was still a little unskilled. Although the engraved formation pattern was not wrong.

  But it was crooked and looked really eye-catching.

  It took a lot of effort to complete the engraving of the formation pattern on the flagpole.

  She immediately put down the carving knife, gathered spiritual power on her fingertips, and began to draw nodes on the formation flag.

  The black silk cloth was soft, and it was quite difficult to draw.

  Finally, after spending nearly two quarters of an hour, she finally finished drawing the nodes.

  At this point, a formation flag was completed.

  It was very simple.

  Xia Jinxi looked at the formation flag in her hand. Although it was completed in one go, it looked ugly no matter how you looked at it, and there was no aesthetic feeling at all.

  But as long as it could be used, she didn't care so much.

  After putting down the completed formation flag, she did not stop, and continued to pick up another formation flag and began to engrave.