Battle Formation, Battle-Saint Art

"Mm... The Four Chaos Monkeys corresponded to earth, fire, wind, and water. The Six-Eared Macaque corresponded to wind, so wind-element innate spiritual materials would be best." Duobao said the same.

Chen Yang accepted the stubborn stone, then continued asking, "Master... Grandmaster intends to take in thirty-six core disciples. Who exactly will he take? Also, will the twelve personal disciples remain unchanged?"

"You brat... What bad idea are you plotting now? Or do you have some proposal?" Duobao asked as he looked at Chen Yang.

"Nothing much. I simply feel that there is too little competition within the Jie Sect. Why not establish a promotion system for all Jie Sect disciples? Jie Sect disciples could challenge one another. If an outer disciple defeated a core disciple, they could become a new core disciple. If a core disciple defeated a personal disciple, they could obtain the status of a personal disciple. If even a direct disciple were defeated, their status could likewise be claimed. Under such a challenge and promotion system, I believe the Jie Sect disciples would surely steel themselves and strive diligently in cultivation!" Chen Yang said seriously.

Duobao pondered slightly, then looked at Chen Yang and could not help but smile. "You brat... That is quite a good idea. It could also raise the Jie Sect's overall strength. Still, the system needs further refinement. Enough, I'll remember this matter and suggest it to your grandmaster when the opportunity arises."

Seeing Duobao say this, Chen Yang smiled as well. "Then, Master, I'll go cultivate."

"Go. Also, don't run around recklessly during this period." Duobao chuckled.

Chen Yang nodded, then turned and headed into his cave abode, beginning a new round of cultivation.

Before cultivating, however, Chen Yang found himself thinking about improving the Jie Sect's system.

It could not be helped—one's position determined one's thoughts. Since he was a member of the Jie Sect and had experienced the benefits of its fate, he had to consider matters for the Jie Sect. Otherwise, when the future Investiture of Gods War came and the Jie Sect was shattered and scattered, his identity as a third-generation Jie Sect disciple would be worth nothing.

If Duobao truly told Tongtian about the challenge system and promotion system, and the Jie Sect implemented them, the Jie Sect's overall strength would definitely see an enormous increase.

It could also use rules and regulations to weed out some of the Jie Sect's scum. For instance, Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal among the personal disciples—the future traitor of the Jie Sect—could be removed in advance.

Golden Ao Island, Dabao Peak.

After Chen Yang and Duobao had spoken for a long while, Chen Yang returned and immersed himself in cultivation.

Once he began cultivating, a thousand years passed.

Over those thousand years, aside from tempering his body and stabilizing his cultivation, Chen Yang spent his time wandering through the Scripture Repository.

He copied the Jie Sect's texts and also sorted through and translated the Penglai texts he had obtained earlier.

Chen Yang did not recognize Penglai Script, but with the Four Treasures of Scholarship, he managed to translate the writing. Within the Penglai texts, he found Penglai's cultivation system, which was an entirely different concept from the immortal path system.

Furthermore, the Penglai texts contained many records, bringing Chen Yang immense gains.

Beyond that, Chen Yang also refined the spiritual treasures he had acquired.

Especially the Six-Eared Macaque's weapon—the As-You-Will Iron Staff!

The As-You-Will Iron Staff was also an innate spiritual treasure. In terms of quality, it had initially only been low-grade. However, innate spiritual treasures could improve in quality, though such improvement was exceedingly difficult.

For an innate spiritual treasure to raise its quality, it needed to devour innate spiritual treasures of the same type, or compatible divine materials and spiritual roots. Simply put, a staff-type spiritual treasure needed to devour staff-type spiritual treasures in order to improve.

It could also devour certain special divine materials to raise its quality slightly, though the improvement was pitifully small. Beyond that, it could devour compatible spiritual roots to improve its quality.

The As-You-Will Iron Staff itself had developed in precisely this way. It had only been low-grade at first, but as the Six-Eared Macaque nurtured it, he found many staff and rod-type spiritual treasures, as well as divine materials and spiritual roots, for the As-You-Will Iron Staff to devour. In the end, the As-You-Will Iron Staff's quality evolved into high-grade.

Furthermore, the As-You-Will Iron Staff contained only one divine ability.

Wishful Transformation.

This divine ability allowed the As-You-Will Iron Staff to transform as its wielder wished, changing into the forms of all manner of weapons or spiritual treasures. Yet after transforming into the appearance of such spiritual treasures, it did not possess their power.

However, if one could obtain the imprint of a certain spiritual treasure before transforming, with its formation patterns engraved within, then one could wield that spiritual treasure's power.

Simply put, the As-You-Will Iron Staff was like someone cultivating the Heavenly Stems Transformation—it could transform itself into all kinds of spiritual treasures. It could also absorb the formation patterns, imprints, and origins of various spiritual treasures, unleashing their power and a small portion of their divine abilities.

This peculiar divine ability brought enormous progress to Chen Yang's creation of techniques.

At that moment, within a training ground somewhere in the Jie Sect.

Chen Yang employed a secret technique, forming a formation pattern and imprinting it upon the void.

As the formation pattern took shape, interweaving and shifting, it transformed toward a special divine ability, eventually becoming a Green Peace Sword.

"Battle Formation—Green Peace Sword!"

Chen Yang murmured. Using the newly created formation patterns, he constructed a special formation that manifested as a Green Peace Sword and shot toward a puppet within the training ground.

In an instant, the puppet was struck by the Green Peace Sword as though it had suffered a grievous wound, exploding apart on the spot.

Watching this scene, Chen Yang's expression held a trace of delight. Then he continuously deployed the Battle Formation, manifesting all kinds of spiritual treasures and sending them forth to attack.

In the blink of an eye, all manner of spiritual treasures appeared throughout the training ground: Green Peace Sword, the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, the Many-Treasure Pagoda, the Pangu Banner, the Taiji Diagram...

Good heavens, so many spiritual treasures manifested and displayed their power, making for an extraordinarily impressive sight.

After a long while, Chen Yang smiled. "After a thousand years of deduction, I analyzed the origin of the As-You-Will Iron Staff. Only then, by using formations to manifest the traits of its origin, did I create this Battle Formation.

"Afterward, I integrated the formation patterns of all kinds of spiritual treasures and ultimately created this divine ability. Based on the principles of the Battle-Saint Art and fused with the methods of the Primordial World, it is a newly created New Battle-Saint Art—or rather, a Battle-Saint Art exclusive to the Primordial World. Yet its core is ultimately formations, so it shall be called: Battle Formation."

After creating this formation, Chen Yang also hoped to use formations to create the other eight secret arts, forming the Nine Formations of the Primordial World!

Chen Yang continued deploying the Battle Formation and sensing its power. "It is still lacking somewhat... I need to continue deducing the Heavenly Stems Transformation and strive to incorporate the transformations of all kinds of divine beasts into the Battle Formation as well."

Among the Penglai materials Chen Yang had obtained a thousand years ago, during the translation process, he found a book called the Divine Beast Compendium.

This compendium recorded the acupoint diagrams of all major divine beasts. With these acupoint diagrams, and after finding the corresponding divine beast essence blood, one could easily cultivate the Heavenly Stems Transformation.

Several years later, Chen Yang returned from the training ground to Dabao Peak.

Duobao was still peacefully refining artifacts. Seeing Chen Yang return, he asked, "How did the experiment go?"

Chen Yang did not hide anything. "Master, the divine ability I created has already been perfected. Yet it still has not reached the perfect state I envisioned."

As he spoke, Chen Yang did not conceal anything and passed his Primordial World version of the Battle-Saint Art to Duobao.

Duobao experienced the divine ability and manifested a small portion of it, unable to help praising it. "A very good divine ability. The more spiritual treasures one knows, the more one can transform into, and the stronger this divine ability becomes. I must say, this Battle Formation is very suitable for an artifact refiner like me."

Chen Yang smiled faintly, his expression carrying a hint of confidence. "Master... The current Battle Formation is not the perfect state I envisioned. In my vision, the Battle Formation can manifest all kinds of spiritual treasures, as well as all kinds of divine beasts, and even unleash the innate divine abilities of those divine beasts. So..."