Nine Fundamental Formations

Nine Fundamental Formations!

After noticing the oddity of this Nine-Story Pavilion, Xiao Lin's first instinct, true to his cautious nature, had been to retreat immediately.

However, once he considered that this was at most the remnant of a Dou Venerable-level force, he abandoned that idea.

Honestly, if this had been a Secret Realm belonging to a Dou Saint-level force, Xiao Lin would have fled the instant he sensed something was wrong!

Only after using his Heavenly Realm Soul Power to inspect every corner of this floor and finding nothing else did he turn his attention to the enormous black circular pattern at the center.

"It seems that if I want to uncover the secrets of this Nine-Story Pavilion, I can only do so through that enormous black circular pattern in the middle."

Xiao Lin muttered to himself after collecting his thoughts.

"Whew~"

Xiao Lin then took a deep breath and slowly walked onto the enormous black circular pattern at the center.

The instant Xiao Lin's feet stepped onto the enormous black circular pattern, the surrounding space distorted. In that moment, everything was turned upside down.

The sudden change gave Xiao Lin quite a fright.

However, he soon realized that this was clearly a special formation!

As for how Xiao Lin had identified it as a formation rather than believing he had been transported to some special space, he had to thank the Basic Formation Annotations he had recently won at an auction held by the Mite'er Family.

What Xiao Lin had originally considered fit only for propping up a table leg had now helped him identify the formation before him.

Although the Basic Formation Annotations contained no formation diagrams and only taught one how to set up formations, it included one crucial piece of knowledge: how to identify a formation!

At this moment, Xiao Lin had already recognized the formation trapping him.

"One-Origin Formation, one of the Nine Fundamental Formations?"

In the ancient Battle Through the Heavens Continent, when the inheritance of formations had not yet been severed, there had existed Nine Fundamental Formations.

They were the One-Origin Formation, Two Polarities Formation, Three Talents Formation, Four Symbols Formation, Five Elements Formation, Six Harmonies Formation, Seven Stars Formation, Eight Trigrams Formation, and Nine Palaces Formation.

All formations passed down through the world, including the Misty Cloud Sect's Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation, the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation ultimately deployed by Hun Tiandi of the Hun Clan in the original story, and countless other formations, had principles derived from the Nine Fundamental Formations.

By combining two, three, or even more of these Nine Fundamental Formations, one could create different formations!

However, after the inheritance of formations in the Battle Through the Heavens world had been severed, few people knew of these matters.

Even the Nine Fundamental Formations themselves had been lost.

The various formations that still existed on the Dou Qi Continent were actually set up directly according to formation diagrams left behind in the past.

But the ancient Dou Qi Continent had not been like this.

Back then, many Formation Masters who had mastered only the Nine Fundamental Formations had developed various derivative formations through different combinations of those foundations.

Later, however, some people sought convenience and left behind diagrams of the formations they had devised. This meant that others no longer needed to derive new formations from the Nine Fundamental Formations.

Over time, the Nine Fundamental Formations themselves were instead lost.

After the Nine Fundamental Formations were lost, the art of formations on the Dou Qi Continent declined as well.

All of this had been mentioned in the Basic Formation Annotations.

However, Xiao Lin had merely read it as strange historical trivia and had not paid much attention to it.

Who would have thought that this knowledge would prove useful now?

"Interesting. This Nine-Story Pavilion actually contains the One-Origin Formation, one of the Nine Fundamental Formations! Hm? No, this pavilion has nine floors. Since the first floor has the One-Origin Formation, then..."

Thinking of something, Xiao Lin's breathing began to quicken!

"If it is truly as I suspect, then I might really become a Formation Master! And not just any Formation Master, but one of the ancient Dou Qi Continent's Formation Masters!"

Xiao Lin struggled to suppress the excitement surging from within him.

It was still too early to celebrate. He had to confirm that everything was truly as he imagined!

Otherwise, it would be embarrassing to get excited for nothing.

With that thought, Xiao Lin immediately pulled the Basic Formation Annotations back out from some forgotten corner of his Storage Ring.

Now, he would use the Basic Formation Annotations in his hand to completely master the One-Origin Formation, one of the Nine Fundamental Formations!

What Xiao Lin did not know was that when he took out the Basic Formation Annotations, the soul silently watching him from the top floor of the Nine-Story Pavilion suddenly trembled. Even its soul form became noticeably more solid.

"Basic Formation Annotations... I never expected someone to obtain such a thing..."

After murmuring those words, the soul seemed to have made up its mind.

Meanwhile, on the first floor of the Nine-Story Pavilion, Xiao Lin began seriously studying the One-Origin Formation, one of the Nine Fundamental Formations.

The Nine Fundamental Formations possessed no special abilities of their own.

Their sole purpose was to use their characteristics to evolve into formations with all kinds of effects.

At this moment, Xiao Lin was studying the characteristics of the One-Origin Formation.

Time slowly passed.

No one knew how long had gone by. Perhaps a year, perhaps only an instant. At a certain moment, a gleam suddenly flashed through Xiao Lin's eyes.

The next second, Xiao Lin waved his hand and casually broke the One-Origin Formation.

With another wave of his hand, he set up the One-Origin Formation again.

"The One-Origin Formation has been completely mastered!"

The joy on Xiao Lin's face could no longer be concealed.

But before Xiao Lin could continue celebrating, a flash of white light appeared. He vanished from the first floor of the Nine-Story Pavilion and appeared on the second floor!

The second floor was virtually identical to the first. The only difference was that the One-Origin Formation at the center had become a Two Polarities Formation!

"So that's how it is! The purpose of this Nine-Story Pavilion is to help people comprehend the Nine Fundamental Formations! The first floor holds the One-Origin Formation, and the second holds the Two Polarities Formation. Then, if nothing unexpected happens, the third floor should contain the Three Talents Formation.

"After that, the fourth floor corresponds to the Four Symbols Formation, the fifth to the Five Elements Formation, the sixth to the Six Harmonies Formation, the seventh to the Seven Stars Formation, the eighth to the Eight Trigrams Formation, and the ninth to the Nine Palaces Formation."

That was Xiao Lin's guess.

At the same time, in order to verify it, Xiao Lin stepped directly into the center. As he activated the Two Polarities Formation, he began studying its characteristics.

This time, Xiao Lin did not dawdle as he had on the first floor. He acted with great decisiveness!

Clearly, the temptation of mastering the Nine Fundamental Formations had made Xiao Lin so excited that he could barely contain himself.

Thus, after spending some time, Xiao Lin mastered the Two Polarities Formation among the Nine Fundamental Formations as well!

Likewise, once Xiao Lin could break the Two Polarities Formation at will and set it up with a casual wave of his hand, it meant that he had cleared the second floor of the Nine-Story Pavilion.

Obviously, once someone comprehended the fundamental formation of a floor, they would be transported to the next floor.

No wonder there were no stairways or similar passages between the floors of this Nine-Story Pavilion.

So this Nine-Story Pavilion was more like a Trial Grounds!

And since it was a trial, how could it let the participant pass directly to the next floor?

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the trial?

From then on, Xiao Lin immersed himself in the joy of comprehending the Nine Fundamental Formations.

At that moment, nothing else could draw Xiao Lin's interest.

Secret Realm or not, in Xiao Lin's eyes, the trial within this Nine-Story Pavilion was what mattered most!

Because of this, Xiao Lin even lost track of time!

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