When it came to dealing with interpersonal conflicts, Jiang Liu had always used the method of hacking through tangled knots with a random flurry of blows. He had no patience for those gentle, conciliatory tricks.
However, these artifact spirits of the divine artifacts were like warriors who each had grievances against one another.
What was more, many of those grievances were matters of life and death. Most importantly, those grudges had been passed down from their respective masters.
Although their masters had already fallen, the grudges had remained.
If he tried to reconcile them and persuade them to let go of their hatred, it probably would not work.
After all, many of the grudges between these artifact spirits had continued for thousands of years. How could they be put down so easily?
After some consideration, Jiang Liu ultimately decided to use the same method as before: suppress them by force and compel them all to submit.
Even if they were unwilling, he had to make them cooperate and get the entire grand formation running first.
Once the entire Concealment Formation began operating, the artifact spirits would naturally exert themselves to maintain it, leaving them no time to do anything else.
That was because, as the Obscuring Grand Formation operated, their Divine Soul Power would be constantly extracted and used as energy for the formation.
Therefore, all the divine-artifact spirits had to refine the surrounding energy with all their might. Only then could they keep their divine souls from dispersing.
With their Spirit Soul Consciousnesses at risk, they would no longer have the leisure to plot trouble.
That was also why Jiang Liu had used these divine artifacts as the formation cores when arranging the Concealment Formation.
The reason was simply that the energy required to keep the Obscuring Grand Formation