This formation possessed formidable defensive power and attack power, but it also greatly strengthened those within it.
What set it apart from other formations was its ability to absorb energy from underground spirit veins and stellar power. Despite its immense might, it consumed very little energy and could keep absorbing stellar power to evolve on its own.
Fang Chen had created it based on the Array Scripture in his mind. That scripture was a heaven-defying secret method that had appeared in his mind after he awakened the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram in the Sacred Land.
During the centuries Fang Chen had spent hacking at the black Stone with the Floating Immortal Sword inside it, he had hardly been idle. As he struck the Stone, he cultivated the Heavenly Wheel Secret Codex and studied the Array Scripture.
As a master of the Formation Dao, Fang Chen had recognized the Array Scripture's power the moment he obtained it. He would never leave such a potent secret method unexplored.
While Fang Chen hacked at the black Stone, the Floating Immortal Sword fed powerful spiritual power back to him, keeping his mind highly active. Deriving formations consumed a great deal of soul power, but the sword's spiritual power quickly replenished it.
It was thanks to the Floating Immortal Sword that Fang Chen had been able to keep studying the Array Scripture for centuries.
Without his deep understanding of it, Fang Chen could never have created the Hun Yuan Heavenly Cycle Star Array specifically for the Glazed Sword Sect after only three days in seclusion.
"The stellar power is all gathering toward the grand array!"
"What a terrifying ability to absorb it!"
The Saints inside the formation, especially those skilled in the art of formations, stared in shock.
They had seen plenty of grand