Formation Complete, Heaven and Earth Tremble! All Formations in the World Bow Their Heads!

Inside the Scripture Repository.

Chen Changqing sat cross-legged.

Before him, tens of thousands of jade slips, ancient books, and beast-hide scrolls were piled like mountains.

These were the formation and artifact-refining manuals that the Chen Family's ancestors had collected from the myriad heavens and star domains over countless years. Among them were no shortage of ancient secret scrolls long lost to the outside world.

Chen Changqing casually picked up a jade slip and sent his divine sense into it.

Three Talents Formation Manual, a low-grade Saint-tier formation. Based on the three talents of Heaven, Earth, and Man, it used the radiance of the sun, moon, and stars as its guide. Once formed, it could trap and kill Saint King Realm experts. This formation was enough to serve as the mountain-protecting grand formation of an immortal holy land in the outside world. It contained more than thirteen thousand formation-pattern nodes, with every pattern linked to the others; tug one hair, and the whole body moved.

For an ordinary formation master to fully grasp this formation, they would need to enter seclusion and study it for at least several centuries, perhaps even a millennium, before barely managing to lay it down.

If their aptitude in formations was somewhat lacking, they might not even glimpse its doorway in their entire lifetime.

But Chen Changqing merely glanced at it.

After that single glance, he set down the jade slip.

His eyes remained as tranquil as still water, without the slightest ripple.

Yet within his sea of consciousness, every secret of the Three Talents Formation Manual had become as clear as though it were carved into his soul.

And that was not all.

Within that one glance, he had also deduced several entirely different transformations from the core principles of the formation.

The three talents could be reversed, the sun and moon concealed, Heaven and Earth overturned.

A formation originally capable only of trapping and killing Saint King Realm experts had, in his hands, transformed into an unparalleled killing formation capable of threatening Quasi-Emperor Realm experts.

Chen Changqing did not pause. He picked up a second jade slip.

Nine Palaces Heaven-Locking Formation, mid-grade Saint-tier.

Still, he comprehended it completely with a single glance!

Mystic Heaven Big Dipper Grand Formation, a high-grade Saint-tier incomplete scroll.

Likewise, he swept his eyes over it once.

Time slowly passed.

The Scripture Repository was so quiet that a falling needle could be heard. Only the faint sounds of Chen Changqing picking up and setting down jade slips echoed within.

His movements became faster and smoother.

Toward the end, he was practically setting down each jade slip the moment it touched his hand, at an absurdly swift pace.

It made the Scripture Repository elder guarding the door feel his heart pound in alarm.

He had presided over the Scripture Repository for thousands of years and had seen countless geniuses, including many hailed as prodigies of formations.

Yet those so-called prodigies needed at least months of painstaking effort to comprehend even a low-tier formation.

But this Evergreen Divine Son from a million years ago... could grasp an entire manual with a mere thought.

What made the Scripture Repository elder's scalp tingle even more was that, as Chen Changqing read more and more manuals, an indistinct Dao aura began to spread around him.

It was something he had never seen before!

It was as though every principle of formations and artifact refinement between Heaven and Earth was gathering here, bowing in submission to that figure in green robes.

Who knew how much time passed.

Chen Changqing picked up the final jade slip.

This jade slip was jet-black throughout, neither metal nor jade in material, and icy cold to the touch.

According to the records, it had been brought back by a Chen Family ancestor from an ancient immortal ruin. The formation principles recorded within were profound and unfathomable. Formation grandmasters of every generation had been unable to decipher it, and it had ultimately been left on the shelf.

Chen Changqing sent his divine sense into it.

The jade slip recorded an incomparably incomplete formation. Its formation patterns were broken, its nodes blurred, and its original appearance was nearly impossible to discern.

Yet amid those shattered formation principles, Chen Changqing caught a trace of an unusual aura.

It was the aura of a higher level.

An immortal Dao formation?

At last, a flicker of emotion rippled through Chen Changqing's eyes.

Within his sea of consciousness, the terrifying comprehension accumulated over a million years began to operate madly at an unprecedented speed, swiftly analyzing the mysteries of this immortal Dao formation.

Not long after.

Chen Changqing set down the jade slip, the corners of his lips lifting slightly.

"Even immortal Dao formations are nothing more than this!"

At this point—

Every formation and artifact-refining manual accumulated by the Longevity Chen Family over countless years had been completely mastered by him.

Chen Changqing slowly closed his eyes.

Countless formations and artifact-refining methods intertwined and collided within his sea of consciousness. Knowledge that had originally belonged to entirely separate systems began to merge at this moment.

The boundary between formations and artifact refinement gradually blurred, becoming a broader path of fusion.

And at that very instant—

Every formation master and artifact refiner throughout the Great Desolate Realm, regardless of cultivation or location, felt a tremor rise from the depths of their souls almost simultaneously.

It was like ants suddenly sensing the existence of a god!

Their Dao was afraid!

What shook the entire Great Desolate Realm even more was—

Those peerless ferocious formations that had terrorized the myriad heavens, those ancient Ten Ferocious Killing Formations that even Great Emperors feared... even the sect-protecting grand formations that had guarded immortal powers for countless eras all stopped operating at that instant.

The Nine Nether Soul-Eating Formation, one of the ancient Ten Ferocious Formations, fell silent.

The Annihilation Sword Formation, said to be capable of beheading Great Emperors, fell silent.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands Demon-Sealing Grand Formation, inherited from the ancient immortal era, fell silent.

Even those naturally formed deathtrap formations seemed to be suppressed by some supreme power, losing all their might in that instant.

Though it lasted only an instant.

This brief halt was already enough to make countless powers tremble in terror.

Countless terrifying divine senses swept in from the myriad heavens and domains, frantically searching for the source of it all.

However—

They could not find the slightest clue!

The less they could find, the more terrified they became.

Some guessed that an old monster of the formation Dao, dormant for countless eras, had awakened.

Some believed that a supreme formation Dao treasure surpassing Emperor-tier had emerged.

Others declared that this was the sign of the birth of a formation Dao genius capable of sweeping through an entire era.

But not a single person connected any of this to Chen Changqing.

Inside the Scripture Repository of the Chen Clan Ancestral Land.

Chen Changqing opened his eyes.

He knew nothing of the enormous uproar in the outside world that he had caused.

At this moment, all his focus was immersed in the formation model gradually taking shape within his sea of consciousness.

This was a colossal grand formation capable of covering the entire Chen Family Star Domain.

Its foundation used Purple Star as its core, thirty-six auxiliary stars as nodes, and the power of the stars throughout the heavens as its energy source.

At the core of this grand formation, an Image Recording Stone was surrounded by countless formation patterns. The stone contained the full content of Chen Changqing's lecture on the Dao.

Once the grand formation operated, the images and sounds within the Image Recording Stone would be projected into every corner of the Chen Family Star Domain.

Not only that.

Chen Changqing had also incorporated a set of mother-and-child formations into the grand formation.

Every member of the Chen Family could carry a child-formation jade talisman connected to the grand formation's core. No matter where they were, even if they left the Purple Star Domain, they could use the talisman to listen to the lecture at all times, unrestricted by distance.

"It's complete."

Chen Changqing looked at the ever-circulating formation model within his sea of consciousness, and a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.

The completion of the formation model meant that his plan had succeeded!

As long as he laid down the formation.

Then from this day onward, regardless of age or gender, regardless of whether they belonged to the main branch or a collateral branch, every Chen Family member within the Chen Family Star Domain would be able to listen to the lecture at all times.

Though it could not directly increase their comprehension, they could remain immersed in Dao aura at all times, greatly increasing their chances of comprehending divine abilities.

But—

"Since I've already set up such a grand formation, it would be far too wasteful not to bring its functions to their fullest extent."