Formation Art
“Heaven Stage and Lesser Stage formation foundations can only be used once, while Greater Heaven Stage formation foundations can slowly absorb spiritual qi from the outside world to replenish themselves. When I say slowly, I mean very slowly. It would take approximately one year for it to be usable in combat again if depleted in a fight. To avoid having a shortage of spiritual qi, I suggest you migrate your mobile formation to another formation foundation after the fight.”
“We can migrate formations?”
“Remember I mentioned spatial formations just prior? You need to cast a spatial formation on every Greater Heaven Stage formation foundation. It works around the same concept as cosmic sleeve. I will teach you how to perform the migration in a moment.”
Mu Yu earnestly studied under Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s coaching. Based off his calculation, a Greater Heaven Stage formation foundation could’ve been used over a hundred times using Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s method. Greater Heaven Caster Lu even specifically invented a seclusion formation so that Mu Yu could learn without being distracted.
Formation casters produced mobile formation foundations prior to inventing their formation. They imbued the formation foundation with their spiritual energy to have a solid control over it. Thanks to Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s assistance, Mu Yu chose to use two Greater Heaven Stage formation foundations and carved on a simple Green Swallow Vocaliser Formation.
Green Swallow Vocaliser Formation was a support Greater Heaven Stage formation. Robbing the enemy of their hearing threw them off the game in fights. For that to take effect, however, the caster needed to land their astral green swallows on the opponent just as Mesmerising Swallow Returns worked. The number of swallows and their stats were predicated on the caster’s cultivation.
“How can you spawn twenty when you’re a Foundation Establishment Realm disciple?!”
“Is twenty supposed to be a lot? That is nowhere to the number you spawned! Plus, I could not even see yours until they stopped moving.”
“You know how many our other prodigious disciple, Mu Chenghong, can spawn now?”
“How many?”
“Twenty.”
“But his have to be faster than mine!” Mu Yu finally realised he overdid it, so he diverted the topic and panted heavily. “I feel… breathless already.”
“Still, you really are a prodigy; you’ve just set a record. It’s praiseworthy if a Foundation Establishment Realm disciple can even produce one swallow, hahaha. The greatest asset Greater Heaven Stage formation casters have is their ability to add anything to their formations. At the end of the day, spiritual qi limits what formation foundations can do. Hence, we need to learn to sustain formations using anything else in our immediate surroundings even though they’ll never be as potent as formation foundations. When it counts, it could save your life. Remember: flexibility and the ability to adapt on the go is what separates Greater Heaven Stage and Heaven Stage formation casters.”
Greater Heaven Caster Lu went on to teach Mu Yu several more offensive formations, including his signature Lightning Swift Snakes. Prudent, Mu Yu asked beforehand how many lightning snakes a Foundation Establishment Realm disciple could spawn before he overdid it again. Since he was told two snakes, he spawned just three. After Greater Heaven Caster Lu left, he managed to spawn a thousand in a single go.
“Hey, Xiaoshuai, want to try getting zapped again?”
“Big Earthworm needs a lightning baptism!”
“Oi, Rodent!”
“Sounds like we’ll need to find some test subjects, huh, boys?”
Mu Yu “improved” to Golden Core Realm after two months of training under Greater Heaven Caster Lu’s tutelage. His entourage increased to over eighty members. Whenever he had time, he’d assemble them to offer pointers. Additionally, he made good on his promise to give a neutral Heaven Stage disciple a Greater Heaven Stage formation foundation. He was hoping for Ji Wenkai and Luo Feilong to confront him, but oh well. With that being said, he was, beyond a doubt, getting to them.
“Is it my turn to go out on a job again?”
Mu Yu had a legitimate reason to turn down three jobs for him in the last two months – studying with Greater Heaven Caster Lu – much to the chagrin of Duan Yang and Wu Wenxing.
“Feng Mu, going out on jobs is also a learning opportunity. If you don’t put into practice what you’ve been learning, you will only have knowledge. Applied knowledge is power,” Duan Yang repeated for the… too many times to remember.
“All right, then. Snag me a job for five days from now.”
Mu Yu smiled, thinking, I apologise for delaying your wish to bite the dust, but my lightning snakes are also dying to have at you, so I’ll go along with you.
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