First, the Important Business!

Perhaps because of the difference between "game versions,"

Earth in the "Post-Awakening" era no longer had things like "formations" or "formation arrays."

In their place were various force field generators.

Though their effects were more or less the same, if a native Player from Earth saw these "old version" contraptions, they probably would not figure out what they were for quite some time.

Fortunately, Lu Li was a reincarnator.

In his previous life, he had been just as baffled when he first encountered formations.

It took him a long time to understand their nature.

But now, the formation network within his sea of consciousness felt incomparably familiar!

It even felt like meeting a fellow countryman on some foreign planet.

"I never expected the mark Chen Ding placed on me to connect me to the entire formation network..."

"What the hell is the principle behind this?"

Outwardly, Lu Li remained calm as he stepped forward and helped Chen Ding to his feet.

Yet he had already quietly split off a portion of his consciousness to "tease" those formation networks.

He wanted to see

whether the formation network in his sea of consciousness was something that could only be admired from afar and never touched, or something he could freely play with.

The result was a pleasant surprise.

Though the Chen Family's formation network had not reached the point where Lu Li could toy with it at will, temporarily controlling one or two parts of it posed no problem at all.

Through these dense and complex formation networks, Lu Li also figured out why Chen Ding had placed that mark on him.

It was naturally not for the sake of "freedom of entry and exit,"

but to conveniently monitor his location at all times!

Little did Chen Ding know, that rune mark