People could not directly use Order divine patterns in formations.
Once an Order divine pattern split apart, its power was gone.
The powerful ancestors had analyzed, copied, and mastered "Order divine patterns," separating out their useful parts, rearranging and combining them to form new systems.
People called these new systems "Heavenly Patterns."
Order divine patterns were born of heaven and earth, incarnations of the world's laws. Heavenly Patterns, meanwhile, were portions that cultivators had evolved from Order divine patterns.
"Heavenly Patterns" were the foundation of formations and Heavenly Pattern books!
The patterns on formations and Heavenly Pattern books were, in fact, all "Heavenly Patterns."
For example, from great formations like the "Fusion Formation" to small ones like the "Guard Formation," all were fundamentally created with heaven-and-earth divine ores as formation foundations and intricate Heavenly Pattern arrangements as their core.
There were also miniature formations, such as the "Illusory Formation" Yu Ziqian had once taken out. They, too, had been arranged from Heavenly Patterns through countless attempts by the ancestors.
"God-grade Heavenly Pattern books" worked by the same principle.
However, they were a combination of "Heavenly Patterns" and Spiritvoid Paper ground from flora and spirit herbs.
God-grade Heavenly Pattern books used Spiritvoid Paper as their foundation, arranging Heavenly Patterns upon it to unleash specific destructive power.
Formations and Heavenly Pattern books with Heavenly Patterns as their core were at least "god-grade."
This included the Heavenly Origin Prison Formation!
The Order Starry Sky called god-grade formations "Order Formations," which were divided into nine ranks.
God-grade Heavenly Pattern books were called "Order Tomes," likewise with nine ranks.
At the same time, they distinguished the arts of formations and Heavenly Pattern books, dividing them into two professions: "Formation Spiritmasters" and "Tome Spiritmasters."
Whatever rank of Order Formation one could create determined one's rank as