On the Six Royal Flying Cloud Carriage.
Beneath the jade-green curtains, Luo Chen held a Jade Slip and studied it closely.
At times he fell into thought, at times he frowned, and surprise kept crossing his face.
Only after a long while did he set the Jade Slip down, clicking his tongue in wonder.
"To think such a formation existed! On the surface, it merely linked terrain, but in truth it relied on the flow of earth energy between sites. With one island at its center, it steadily encompassed and connected the surrounding Spirit Veins. And each island drawn into the formation could itself become a center, spreading the connection outward... Given enough time, even the smallest, most scattered islands with Small Spirit Veins could support one another and grow stronger together."
"Defense is almost secondary to the idea behind it. Linking Earth Veins and nurturing spiritual energy—that's what's astonishing."
"As expected of a formation passed down by a Spirit Transformation Great Power of the Formation Dao!"
Indeed, the Jade Slip in Luo Chen's hands contained the "Island-Connecting Array Formation," the most renowned formation in the North Sea Cultivation World over the past two hundred years.
After the Xu Family's third elder joined the Azure Sea Righteous Path Alliance, an expert of the Azure Sea Alliance had bestowed this formation upon him.
The third elder had naturally taken the accompanying formation discs, flags, and other equipment with him.
But mindful of the friendship between the Xu and Cheng families, he had left the formation diagram with Cheng Haixin.
The Flying Swallow Islands had no shortage of Spirit Veins. Cultivation was possible on ninety percent of their thirty-odd islands.
But their Spirit Veins were scattered, and their islands strewn apart like stars across a chessboard. As a whole, they had never