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Wen Xu had originally had no ideas at all, but one day he suddenly recalled Chunchou's Water-Fire Balance Theory. Fire hid beneath water; water and fire achieved symbiosis. By that same analogy, could he also shrink formations infinitely in equal proportion and conceal them within the wind?

At first, he had been trapped by preconceived notions, believing that a formation had to begin with setting down an array eye, then using spiritual power to lay out the formation patterns. Only once those patterns connected into a formation diagram could its might be unleashed.

But the truth was, just as his master had said, that was far too rigid. An enemy would not be kindhearted enough to wait for him to finish setting up a formation before fighting him, so he had to... adapt!

Who said formations had to appear one at a time? Who said formations had to be so large they were visible to the naked eye? Who said formations had to be flawless?

The moment Wen Xu broke free of his former horizons, his thinking broadened at once.

Simple formations were certainly easy to break, but what if they appeared layered together? If one was not enough, then use two; if two were not enough, then use four. So long as he stacked enough of them, their power could keep doubling.

He did not need to stubbornly insist on placing formations on his enemy or around them. He could stack formations onto the Windfold Fan. Enemies could run and attack him, but his Windfold Fan would not!

Wen Xu did not know many wind formations. The one he used most deftly was the Raging Wind Formation.

The formation patterns of the Raging Wind Formation were very simple. Especially for someone like him with a Wind Spiritual Root, he