Chapter 226 Basic Formation (1)

The rough bronze disc trembled constantly, shedding a layer of ash with each tremor. Gradually, it became smooth and exquisite, a natural perfection. Countless scenes were embossed on its sides, vaguely depicting scenes of entering the formation path. On its front, a scar-like marking gradually emerged, slowly moving like a dragon in the clouds. This was the formation mark of the upper observer.

The bronze disc finally emitted a strange light, revealing the true form of the array base.

The array base blossomed with a strange brilliance, and the vast gray droplets suspended beside the original will-o'-the-wisp shimmered, lighting up again, revealing countless patterns. However, this time, these patterns were no longer all-encompassing, but were replaced by the formations of the Upper Observer Array.

As Luo Xuanyi continued to digest massive amounts of information, only four of the countless gray droplets still retained patterns with golden dots, while the other droplets all lost their patterns and became ordinary and turbid.

Luo Xuanyi opened her eyes, and the main flag and the formation flag fell into her hands. As her luck and the death energy rotated, the two flags became more mysterious and were taken into the formation base in Luo Xuanyi's body.

Among the 108 holes in the array base, the main flag is located in the center, and the array flag is located at the edge, restraining the poisonous gas and moving according to Luo Xuanyi's will.

Turning her eyes away from the array base, Luo Xuanyi looked at the only four remaining gray droplets with patterns on them, feeling quite complicated.

The four droplets with patterns on them meant that there were only four types of formations in existence at present. In other words, before Luo Xuanyi carved other Dao marks, these were the only four formations that Luo Xuanyi could learn.

It is natural that the number cannot be compared with other Taoist formations. After all, there is no formation cultivator other than Wei Ruli to practice and create them.

On the positive side, since the Dao Hen fully displays Wei Ruli's entire life, the formations he created are naturally clearly transformed into knowledge and incorporated into Luo Xuanyi's brain. At least she doesn't have to be like other Dao formation practitioners who are unable to master any formation due to the massive amount of formation information that has been infused into their brains, and have to search for formation plates and learn formations by themselves. Moreover, there is a lot of room for development.

After clearing her mind, Luo Xuanyi glanced at the mark left by Hao Fei in Taoyuan Realm, only to find that a full ten years had passed silently in Taoyuan Realm!

It takes ten years to comprehend the one hundred and fifty-two pieces of the Dao of Arrays. In other words, the time consumed in enlightenment is not uniform, but the longer it takes, the more time it takes.

This was just carving a few marks, not even beginning to comprehend and learn the formation. Compared to the time consumed by cultivating the mind and comprehending the formation, the decades of seclusion a cultivator could spend seemed nothing.

After all, it may take ten years to comprehend the basics of spiritual cultivation, but the same ten years are enough for a talented Qi-cultivating cultivator to enter the foundation-building stage as long as he doesn't get stuck.

If there were not a large number of living souls consuming their lifespans to replace consumption, I am afraid no one would be able to use the Taoyuan Realm, a heaven-defying time artifact, as luxuriously as Luo Xuanyi, and would have died of old age without realizing it while practicing.

First, she carefully put away the moon pattern piece. As Luo Xuanyi thought about it, one of the four drops of gray liquid floated out and rolled into her palm.

The four formations correspond to the Eight Flags, Twenty-Four Flags, Forty-Eight Flags and One Hundred and Eight Flags respectively. Luo Xuanyi only has one formation flag now, so of course he can only start from the lowest Eight Flags formation.

Just like when you see a great swordsman cleave heaven and earth with a single strike, their power is immense, but when you embark on the same sword path, you can only learn by splitting stone. Laying a solid foundation is the key to everything. The Eight Banners formation at the beginning of the Observer Formation naturally couldn't fully unleash its power, but it was something Luo Xuanyi had to learn.

Only by starting from the simple and moving on to the complex, from the shallow to the deep, can you truly transform knowledge into your own.

Luo Xuanyi held the droplet symbolizing the Eight Flags Formation in her palm, and a clear and simple formation immediately appeared before her eyes, which she comprehended.

Before using the Dao essence of the formation to assist in his comprehension, Luo Xuanyi wanted to try what it felt like to understand the formation on his own.

Peach blossoms fell like rain. Luo Xuanyi did not stop the petals, but when the petals were about to pass through the simple lines that appeared in front of her, the petals seemed to be pushed away by someone and flew away.

The simulated simple formation is called "The Soul-Falling Formation in the Interstellar World".

The Soul-Falling Formation in the Other World cannot be a completely fictional world. It must use real scenes and characters, and the characters' actions and logic cannot completely violate the logic of reality.

If Luo Xuanyi's logic strongly contradicts the will of the entrant, they will immediately realize they are trapped within the formation and thus escape the Soul-Falling Formation. The experience within the formation will disrupt the entrant's state of mind for a period of time, but it will not cause the cultivator to confuse illusion with reality.

But compared with its shortcomings, as a basic formation, it can still absorb all cultivators indiscriminately, even if the cultivator's strength far exceeds that of the person who set up the formation.

This is why formation cultivators can exert greater lethality than other cultivators. Their formations are hard to defend against, and even those who have reached the Spirit Transformation Stage may still fall into the formation due to carelessness.

The Observer Formation, as a foundation for the Dao, possesses a unique characteristic compared to other formations: it cannot be breached by force. Only those within the formation must realize that they do not belong to this world before they can reclaim their power. Before that, they are merely the individuals assigned by the formation's creator. Even a powerful being reduced to a beggar is rendered powerless, unable to display even a single magical power.

Of course, in a basic formation like the Soul-Falling Formation in the Inter-World, operations that go against reality too strongly will make the powerful feel unreal, making it quite easy to escape from the formation.

Without considering how to use the Soul-Falling Formation for the time being, Luo Xuanyi stared at the small formation phantom in front of him, concentrating on understanding the arrangement of the formation.

The eight simulated fake stars sparkled and kept changing their positions, seemingly without any pattern. Although the formation clearly only had eight golden lines, Luo Xuanyi felt as if countless starlight and golden light were rushing towards her.

Second update~ Here is a unified correction of a previous error. The conversion ratio of time in Taoyuan is one day in the outside world is ten years in Taoyuan. The lifespan consumed in Taoyuan is also ten years. Previously, some places wrote one day equals one year, and some one day equals ten years. Now it has been unified~