Lu Shenzhi stood up as well. He thought about it along with Shi Xuan's line of thought. If the formation could be made to be in a disabled state before it was used, it would indeed not put much pressure on the carrier. When it was released, the carrier was no longer needed. Even if expensive star sand was used, after the formation was released, the refined star sand would lose half of its function, and it would be quite troublesome to extract useful materials again.
"It's feasible!" Lu Shenzhi clapped his hands and said, "The method is feasible, but how do you plan to set up the array switch?"
"Use the smallest basic array units to create a set of arrays. The small unit structure is the simplest, easiest to control, and most stable. When spiritual power is input, it can be activated in the fastest and smoothest way."
"Great idea!" Lu Shenzhi nodded in approval.
The reason why no one had thought of making formations controllable in the past is that formations are a coherent whole; if even a small part is missing, the formation can easily become unbalanced. Therefore, when setting up a formation, formation masters usually choose to complete the most important part last.
However, if the formation were also like this, it would be too complicated and would not be able to be used simply by inputting spiritual power to activate it.
The method that Shi Xuan came up with was very ingenious. It used nested arrays, where two arrays were nested together to form a large array. Even if the smallest array unit was only slightly different, it would not cause an imbalance. This was perfect for an array that could be controlled at any time.
Shi Xuan acted on her idea immediately. She randomly picked up the cheapest material, lit a fire to forge it, and created the simplest round magical artifact. During the artifact's formation, Shi Xuan poured her divine sense and spiritual power into it, condensing and refining the materials for the array, and combining them with the carrier according to the array's layout.
This process is an extremely rigorous test of one's spiritual consciousness; the slightest mistake will render the entire magical artifact unusable.
However, Shi Xuan was only conducting an experiment this time. She chose a simple first-tier defensive array, so it didn't take too long.
An hour later, the small array was completed. Shi Xuan immediately inputted spiritual power to test it. The disc emitted a white light the moment the spiritual power was poured in, with an effect almost identical to that when Qian Zheng used his magic weapon.
A moment later, a defensive magic circle appeared in the courtyard.
Shi Xuan stood in the center of the magic array, looking at the traces of the array around him, and nodded in satisfaction.
The disc that held the array in his hand was now broken, but the array was already formed, so what did it matter that the carrier was broken?
Shi Xuan called out to Lu Shenzhi, "Senior Brother, come here and hit me."
Lu Shenzhi shook his head helplessly, but still released the smallest sword aura. When the sword aura rushed into the array's range, the faint blue light around them deepened for a moment, and most of the sword aura was dissipated.
"We succeeded!" Shi Xuan exclaimed happily.
Upon hearing Shi Xuan's voice, the two guards hurriedly returned from the gate. He Weiqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had originally wanted to see his junior sister refining weapons up close, but his second senior brother had dragged him to guard the gate. Now he was finally back.
Lu Wenxing, meanwhile, had already run over happily.
"Junior Sister, you succeeded?" He looked quite proud.
Shi Xuan nodded: "It's just the simplest formation."
"I knew it!" Lu Wenxing said proudly, puffing out his chest. "Junior Sister must succeed at whatever she does!"
Shi Xuan ignored him. This guy gets all excited when given a little encouragement, and who knows what kind of boast he'll start to spout if he keeps talking.
Lu Wenxing wasn't finished yet. He circled around Shi Xuan and asked again, "Junior Sister, has this magic weapon been named? What's it called?"
That is a problem. Shi Xuan looked at the broken vessel, which resembled a large pancake split in two. She casually said, "Let's call it Array Pancake."
"Zhenbing, what a great name!" Lu Wenxing exclaimed, "As expected of Junior Sister, your naming skills are just as high as your alchemy skills!"
Shi Xuan...
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether her second senior brother was praising her or insulting her.
But looking into Lu Wenxing's sincere eyes, well, let's just say it's a compliment, even though she didn't really want it.
Shi Xuan turned to Lu Shenzhi and said, "Senior Brother, I have a different idea."
Tell me about it.
"Currently, only I can refine this array cake, because I am proficient in both artifact crafting and array crafting. I want to try to see if an array crafting expert and an artifact crafting expert can work together to successfully refine it."
This thing takes too much time. If she has to do each one herself, who knows when it will take.
Shi Xuan wanted Qiu Chang'an and Li Jun from Silver Frost to work together, one a weapon expert and the other a formation expert, so they would complement each other perfectly and both were top-notch.
Lu Shenzhi immediately understood Shi Xuan's thoughts, after all, he had been to Shi Xuan's space and knew that she had three staff members.
"Give it a try?"
"Give it a try!"
The two hit it off immediately. Shi Xuan prepared a new set of materials, still a first-tier defensive array.
This collaboration with my senior brother can be described as blazing a new trail in the cultivation world.
No one had ever thought before that two people could forge the same magical artifact together.
The world of cultivation is full of complex human nature. The inability to see through people's hearts creates a barrier between everyone's interactions. When using divine sense in highly intense and precise situations like refining weapons and setting up formations, it is extremely dangerous for another person to be right next to you without any defenses.
If you get distracted by the people around you while refining weapons, it will naturally affect your performance, and you probably won't be able to refine anything good.
However, if one is completely focused on the task at hand, it is inevitable that the person beside them may suddenly turn against them.
At this moment, their divine senses were open to each other, and both of them were essentially entrusting their lifelines to the other. This kind of life-or-death bond is something that ordinary cultivators would never experience.
However, Shi Xuan is different from Lu Shenzhi, and Qiu Chang'an and Li Jun in Silver Frost are also different.
Leaving aside the mutual trust between Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi, there are only three people in the entire world—those in Yinshuang—and their lives are all in Shi Xuan's hands. Killing them wouldn't save him either, and it wouldn't bring him any benefit.
Within Silverfrost, resources are plentiful, and there is no conflict of interest among them. Murder and plunder would be entirely detrimental to them. Therefore, if Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi successfully cooperate, they can do the same.
Shi Xuan and Lu Shenzhi sat facing each other in the courtyard, with a huge furnace between them. Shi Xuan put the materials he had just retrieved into the furnace.
The earth's core fire pulsed, and under the influence of the two people's spiritual power, impurities were removed, and the shape of the vessel was reconstructed.
When it was time to add the array, Shi Xuan used his spiritual power to give Lu Shenzhi a signal, and he began to add the refined array materials to the round cake that Shi Xuan had prepared.
But at that moment, the gradually forming vessel was suddenly struck by spiritual energy and shattered instantly.
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