Formation Mastery? Sect Master Tongtian: You Can Become a Saint Through the Flesh. Li Er: This Daoist Has Made It!

Deep within the chaos.

With the Three Pure Ones' departure, the battle between the Witch Clan and the Demon Race came to a halt as well. After all, there were no opportunities to be found here.

Nüwa watched seriously for a while, decided there was little hope, and returned to her Nüwa Palace. Still, she secretly memorized the fluctuations of Dao resonance here.

More than anyone else, she wanted to transcend. Even if she could not transcend, breaking free from Heavenly Dao's control was what she desired most.

Damn Heavenly Dao, treating me like a tool!

The two Western Saints returned once more, only to find that they were too late. After all, Ancestor Minghe had just launched a sneak attack on their homeland.

"Senior Brother, I'll go take a look in the east. You must protect our Western Spirit Mountain."

Zhunti spoke solemnly, a flash of killing intent crossing his eyes.

That damned Ancestor Minghe.

"Junior Brother, keep a low profile in all things. If it doesn't work out, come back."

"Anyway, we owe so much merit that we can't repay it anytime soon."

Jieyin spoke patiently. Yet when he said the last sentence, the bitterness on his face deepened.

"Understood, Senior Brother. Farewell."

Primordial World—Mount Buzhou.

Li Er looked at the fishing rod in his hand and silently put it away. He was done fishing.

He would never fish for these damn fish again. No—he would not fish for the next ten years!

Look at Third Brother Pan. He sat there with his eyes closed, without even baiting his hook or using any immortal tricks, yet fish kept biting like mad.

Then he casually reeled them in.

Now look at himself. He had practically become the Immortal of Chumming, yet he had not caught so much as a hair.

Damn fish. He was done fishing!

Sect Master Tongtian was somewhat puzzled as to why Li Er had stopped fishing, but he did not think much of it. Instead, he continued closing his eyes to digest the gains he had just obtained.

At this moment, he was even starting to regret it. Why had he spent so long in the chaos for nothing? Staying with Li Er after returning was clearly far better than remaining in the chaos.

A casual cultivation method from him had actually increased Tongtian's cultivation so greatly.

Li Er returned to his residence and continued cultivating. This time, he focused on formation divine patterns, hoping to reach the point where he could form formations with a single thought.

After all, he could already cast the Five Elements spells with a single thought, sending them tearing through the air.

"Fortunately, my primordial spirit can continue growing and draw in the spiritual energy outside, so my strength won't be locked at the Golden Core Stage."

"But with this Golden Core being so huge, wouldn't I be dead meat if I ended up somewhere with scarce spiritual energy? That means formations could save my life at critical moments."

After seriously analyzing the matter, Li Er began comprehending formations.

Time was still the cheapest thing in the Primordial World. Big Brother Time took a stroll and carried away a hundred years.

Li Er slowly opened his eyes. His fingertips moved, and a complex formation appeared in his palm. It was an illusion formation.

When bestowed upon the body, it could imitate the aura of a high-level cultivator.

It was quite useful for intimidating people, but the moment a fight began, it would reveal its true form.

This was one of the achievements from his hundred years of researching formations.

Li Er looked at the timekeeping device in the distance and said with deep emotion, "I never expected another hundred years to pass. I wonder how much lifespan this Golden Core of mine has. Without realizing it, I've already lived in this world for over two hundred and thirty years."

"Have I gotten my money's worth?"

"Huh? Li Er, did your cultivation break through to the Mysterious Immortal Realm?" Sect Master Tongtian walked in and asked doubtfully. Was his progress really this fast?

"No, it's only a small formation." Li Er removed the formation from his body and replied helplessly.

Still, he was quite pleased inside. At least he could fool Third Brother Pan now. When he traveled through the Primordial World in the future, he would be able to bluff plenty of people.

"Hm? A formation? It's this powerful? How did you do it?" Sect Master Tongtian asked curiously, his heart filled with emotion.

Even a dignified Saint like him had been fooled and failed to recognize it as a formation. What level of formation was this, to be so formidable?

Li Er excitedly explained to Sect Master Tongtian, "It's really just a small trick. You keep stacking formations upon the original formation and link them together."

"For example, with this formation, I first stacked it over a thousand times, and then it underwent a qualitative change."

"Then I used that altered formation as the basis for further stacking, allowing them to form a small turning point within the formation, and so on."

"You stack them until they can no longer be stacked. Of course, you need to understand the fluctuations created when formations are constructed together—their mutual generation and restraint."

"Even if the formation is destroyed later, it can still restore itself and form a new one, though its power will be slightly reduced."

"As time passes, it can recover by itself again."

Sect Master Tongtian: ????

No, formations could be used like this?

And you did not need a formation foundation? What the hell was this endless stacking?

"Come, Third Brother Pan, take these formation disks. I've set up several formations on them. You can just throw them out directly."

"These ones can explode, these ones can trap enemies, these ones can confuse enemies, and these ones are..."

"Unfortunately, my comprehension of the spatial laws isn't good enough. Otherwise, I could make the kind of formation disks that travel through the void. That would make it much easier for you to escape."

"When you go out looting in the future, you'll have another method at your disposal."

Li Er took out the formation disks he had inscribed from the Purple-Gold Gourd and handed them to Sect Master Tongtian.

Sect Master Tongtian: ???

Why did this pile of formation disks make him feel somewhat threatened?

"Unfortunately, the materials for these formation disks are too poor. Otherwise, I could stack even more formations onto them."

"Don't look at me like that. I don't need these things since I don't go out."

"Besides, I can stack formations directly in the void myself. I don't need formation disks."

Seeing Pan Laosan's expression, Li Er could not help explaining.

Pan Laosan had truly treated him well. Whenever he came back from robbing someone, he would always reserve a share for Li Er.

Although those things were not particularly valuable, they were still a token of his goodwill.

Now that Li Er had achieved minor mastery in formations, he naturally had to make some protective items for him. Otherwise, with this guy addicted to robbery, he would inevitably suffer a setback one day.

"How many times did you stack these formation disks?" Sect Master Tongtian could not help asking, curiosity appearing in his eyes.

Although he considered himself proficient in formations, as a Saint, one method led to all methods. He still understood that Li Er's approach could indeed raise a formation's power by far more than a little.

The problem was, who would have thought that formations could be stacked? And the difficulty of stacking them was no small matter.

Even the slightest fluctuation in a formation could cause it to collapse. Without sufficiently powerful comprehension and primordial spirit strength, it was simply impossible.

The difficulty involved was beyond imagination.

"Not much, just a tiny billion times. Ah, don't worry about such details. Once you use them up, come back and tell me, and I'll make another batch for you."

"It's very simple. The materials just need to be a little better. Next time, help me find a batch of materials, and I'll make more for you."

"Ah, it's a pity I'm still only at the Golden Core Stage. I wonder what's wrong with this body of mine?" Li Er said somewhat dejectedly.

It was not as though he had never considered setting up formations on his own Golden Core. But once the formations reached the Golden Core, they were directly absorbed.

The result was the same as his usual cultivation. The Golden Core merely brightened by the tiniest bit, even less than when he cultivated seriously.

Sect Master Tongtian fell silent again.

Based on his understanding of Li Er, that "tiny bit" was probably a tiny billion times.

No wonder this pile of formation disks gave him a certain sense of danger. If they accidentally exploded, they would truly leave him looking rather disheveled if he were caught off guard.

"Li Er, don't lose heart. There are many ways to increase your cultivation."

"For example, you can become a Saint through the flesh, through merit, or through your primordial spirit."

Sect Master Tongtian hurriedly comforted him. He also found Li Er's physique, which resisted all methods, rather troublesome.

His cultivation was as slow as a snail's. In the Primordial World, where everyone could grow stronger with every breath, cultivating or not cultivating made almost no difference for him.

However, his primordial spirit could continue growing stronger through cultivation. If there truly was no other way later, he could let his primordial spirit emerge and cultivate independently to attain the Dao.

Tongtian also knew that Li Er was worried about his lifespan. The Golden Core Stage seemed to offer very little longevity, but Li Er's Golden Core was indeed strange.

His divine sense had entered it before. It was truly pitifully small, but even he could not understand the energy it contained.

He had tried pouring vast amounts of spiritual energy into it, but it had been useless. Only energy cultivated by Li Er himself could make the Golden Core grow.

Otherwise, he would not mind tearing open the Ninth Heaven and bringing down the top-grade spiritual energy above for Li Er to cultivate with.

"Become a Saint through the flesh? Why didn't I think of that?"

"The Nine-Nine Mystic Art seems quite good. Its principle is also similar to formations, using them to temper the flesh. Now that I've achieved minor mastery in formations..."

"Haha...!! This Daoist has made it!!"