The Ten Ultimate Formation's Greatest Weakness Was That It Had Ten Formations

"Junior Brother, you mean..."

Qin Wan looked at the ten great formations, deep in thought.

Lin Yuan did not keep them in suspense.

"Every formation in the Ten Ultimate Formation is powerful."

"Even someone like me, who knows nothing about formations, can see that."

"But the problem is obvious as well."

He raised a hand and pointed at the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

"If I were the Elucidation Sect."

"Why would I break all ten formations at once?"

"I could simply gather everyone and attack the Heaven-Absolute Formation first."

"Senior Brother Qin would hold out inside alone."

"The other nine senior brothers and sisters would stand by and watch."

"Once the Heaven-Absolute Formation was broken."

"They would move on to the Earth Inferno Formation."

"Then the Wind Roar Formation."

"Take them apart one by one."

By the time he finished.

Qin Wan's expression had turned completely grave.

Zhao Jiang beside him frowned.

"Junior Brother Lin."

"The ten formations use different methods."

"The Heaven-Absolute Formation operates on Heaven-Absolute Killing Force."

"The Earth Inferno Formation, meanwhile, is founded upon Earthfire."

"If you directly connect the two formations, leaving aside whether it can be done, the conflict between their auras could injure our own people first."

"I understand."

Lin Yuan nodded.

"I never said we should forcibly knead the ten formations into one."

"What I mean is..."

He glanced at the Ten Heavenly Lords.

"Can they help each other?"

As soon as he said that.

Several people froze.

Qin Wan asked,

"How would they help?"

"I do not understand formation arts."

Lin Yuan admitted frankly.

"As for the specifics, that can only be studied by you senior brothers and sisters."

"But the effect I want is actually very simple."

"If someone enters the Heaven-Absolute Formation."

"Can the Earth Inferno Formation lend it some of its power?"

"If someone attacks the Wind Roar Formation."

"Can the nearby formations help stabilize its Formation Eye?"

"Even if each formation can only lend ten percent of its strength."

"The combined power of nine formations is still substantial."

Wang Mo listened from the side and clapped his hands.

"This, I understand!"

"It's just like the four of us."

"Back then, whoever chased after someone alone was the unlucky one."

"Later, when the four of us stuck together, even that Golden Immortal could do nothing to us."

Lin Yuan smiled.

"More or less."

"I do not understand formations."

"But when it comes to taking a beating, you senior brothers have certainly gained plenty of authority lately."

Gao Yougan: "..."

Li Xingba: "..."

That was praise, right?

Why did it not feel very pleasant?

The Ten Heavenly Lords did not laugh.

They truly began considering Lin Yuan's words.

When they had arranged the Ten Ultimate Formation in the past.

The ten of them had kept things simple.

Each formation had its own deadly aspect.

Any one of them alone was enough to trap and kill a formidable enemy.

Placed in a row, all ten formations.

Would naturally be even stronger.

But what they had pursued before was merely "putting ten powerful formations together."

They had rarely truly considered whether the ten formations could compensate for one another's weaknesses.

Golden Light Holy Mother was the first to speak.

"Junior Brother Lin's idea is not entirely impossible."

"The ten of us come from the same school."

"We all cultivate the Supreme Clarity Method."

"Although the foundations of our formations differ, the origins of our Dharma Power are identical."

Yao Bin nodded as well.

"If we directly merged two great formations, chaos would surely result."

"But if we only transmitted a portion of the Supreme Clarity Origin..."

"It might be possible."

Qin Wan's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Try it first."

The Ten Heavenly Lords were all people of action.

Once they decided, they immediately got to work.

That very afternoon.

Qin Wan and Zhao Jiang selected the Heaven-Absolute Formation and Earth Inferno Formation for their first experiment.

Qin Wan presided over the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Zhao Jiang used formation flags to guide ten percent of the Earth Inferno Formation's Dharma Power, attempting to send it to the other side.

The first attempt.

Boom!

The two formation platforms shook at the same time.

The Dharma Power being transmitted between them exploded outright.

Smoke blackened Zhao Jiang's sleeves.

Several strands of Qin Wan's hair stood straight up.

Lin Yuan stood at the edge.

And silently stepped back two paces.

Zhao Jiang turned to look at him.

"Junior Brother."

"Why are you backing away?"

Lin Yuan answered with a straight face.

"To make room for you, Senior Brother."

"I have a feeling it can explode one more time."

Zhao Jiang: "..."

Bang!

The second attempt exploded as well.

This time, Lin Yuan had raised his Blackstone Dao Body in advance.

His foresight proved justified.

Gao Yougan, who had been watching the commotion nearby, laughed so hard he slapped his thigh.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao!"

"Your Earth Inferno Formation has not burned the enemy yet, but it has already singed your own sleeves!"

Zhao Jiang's face darkened.

"If you have the skill, you do it!"

"No."

Gao Yougan refused without hesitation.

"I do not understand formations."

"You know you do not understand, yet you still laugh?"

"You do not need to understand to watch a show."

Zhao Jiang was choked speechless for a long while.

Before the third experiment began.

Golden Light Holy Mother suddenly called for a stop.

"The problem is not the strength of the Dharma Power."

"It is the path."

She walked between the two formations.

"After the Earth Inferno Formation's power enters the Heaven-Absolute Formation, Heaven-Absolute Killing Force treats it as foreign aura."

"The formation attacks it on its own."

Qin Wan noticed this as well.

"So we cannot directly send power."

"We must send an origin mark first."

The ten of them gathered together to study the matter.

Lin Yuan stood nearby and listened for a while before quickly deciding to keep quiet.

Because from that moment onward, the discussion had completely entered a realm beyond his knowledge.

Formation patterns.

Formation foundations.

Spiritual energy nodes.

Upper Clarity Dharma Power imprints.

One term after another spilled forth.

Lin Yuan's head began to ache from listening.

When he attended math class in his previous life, at least the teacher had written in Chinese.

Now, whenever the Ten Heavenly Lords discussed things, he recognized every individual word.

But strung together, they sounded like a heavenly book.

Wang Mo squatted nearby.

And asked softly,

"Junior Brother."

"Do you understand?"

"No."

"Then why are you still listening?"

"So I look like I belong."

Wang Mo nearly failed to hold back his laughter.

For three full days.

The Ten Heavenly Lords tried again and again.

There were so many failures that even Wen Zhong could not be bothered to count them.

They replaced more than a dozen formation flags that had been blown apart.

Fortunately, their direction became increasingly clear.

On the morning of the fourth day.

Qin Wan once again took command of the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Inside the Earth Inferno Formation, Zhao Jiang activated his Dharma power.

Between the two formations, a specially refined Supreme Clarity Formation Talisman slowly rose.

This time,

the Earth Inferno Formation's power did not directly enter the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Instead, it first passed through the talisman for conversion.

The originally violent, scorching power of Earthfire was stripped of the parts most likely to clash with the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

The remaining pure upper clarity Dharma power flowed into the Heaven-Absolute Formation along the formation patterns.

Buzz!

The Heaven-Absolute Formation suddenly lit up.

There was no explosion.

There was not even any violent shaking.

The formation merely became about ten percent more stable than before.

Yet Qin Wan's eyes snapped open.

"It worked!"

Zhao Jiang was equally overjoyed.

"We really can borrow it!"

Wang Mo and the others immediately crowded around.

Lin Yuan could not help stepping closer as well.

Qin Wan tried again.

This time, he directly had Zhao Jiang cut off the power.

Then restore it.

Cut it off.

Then restore it again.

The Heaven-Absolute Formation's strength rose and fell accordingly.

Proving that this was no coincidence.

It truly could draw on borrowed power.

Watching the changes in the formation, Lin Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief.

What he feared most was that the approach he had proposed sounded great in theory.

Under the rules of the Primordial World, it might prove utterly unworkable.

Now that they could take this first step,

there was hope for what came next.

Qin Wan stood up.

He looked at the remaining eight people.

"Connecting only two formations isn't enough."

"What we need is..."

He paused for a moment.

His gaze gradually grew excited.

"Let all ten formations draw on each other's power!"

The Ten Heavenly Lords quickly dispersed.

Zhao Jiang readjusted the formation banners.

Dong Quan headed for the Wind Roar Formation.

Yuan Jiao entered the Ice Formation.

Golden Light Holy Mother began recalculating the formation patterns of the Golden Light Formation.

Lin Yuan stood in the middle.

He watched as the ten great formations, once entirely separate, began connecting for the first time.

A faint thread of Supreme Purity energy, almost too weak to see, flowed from the Heaven-Absolute Formation to the Earth Inferno Formation.

It then extended from the Earth Inferno Formation toward the Wind Roar Formation.

One formation.

Two formations.

Three formations...

Like ten people who had once stood apart, finally reaching out their hands for the first time.