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 guessing.

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

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

"But the problem is also obvious."

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

"If I were the Explanatory 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 have to hold the fort inside alone."

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

"Once the Heaven-Absolute Formation was broken."

"Then move on to the Earth Inferno Formation."

"Then the Wind Roar Formation."

"Dismantle them one by one."

By the time he finished.

Qin Wan's expression had become utterly grave.

Zhao Jiang beside him frowned instead.

"Junior Brother Lin."

"The ten formations follow different methods."

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

"While the Earth Inferno Formation is founded upon earthly fire."

"If you directly connect the two formations, setting aside whether it can be done, the clash of their auras alone may injure our own people first."

"I understand."

Lin Yuan nodded.

"I never said we should force all ten formations into one."

"I was thinking..."

He glanced at the Ten Heavenly Lords.

"Could they help one another?"

The moment those words fell.

Several people froze.

Qin Wan asked:

"How would they help?"

"I do not understand formation arts."

Lin Yuan spoke 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."

"Could the Earth Inferno Formation send a portion of its power over?"

"If someone attacks the Wind Roar Formation."

"Could the nearby formations help stabilize its formation eye?"

"Even if each formation can only lend one-tenth of its power."

"That would still be quite a lot when nine formations are added together."

Wang Mo clapped excitedly from the side.

"I understand this!"

"It is just like the four of us."

"Back then, whoever chased out 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 hits, you senior brothers have certainly gained plenty of authority on the subject lately."

Gao Yougan: "..."

Li Xingba: "..."

You were praising us, right?

Why did that sound so uncomfortable?

Yet the Ten Heavenly Lords did not laugh.

They genuinely began pondering Lin Yuan's words.

When they had set up the Ten Ultimate Formation in the past.

The ten of them had kept their thinking simple.

Each of the ten formations possessed its own deadly extremity.

Any one of them, taken alone, was enough to trap and kill a powerful enemy.

Placed in a row, all ten formations.

Would naturally be even stronger.

But what they had pursued before was always "ten powerful formations placed together."

They had rarely truly considered whether the ten formations could make up for one another's shortcomings.

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 lineage to begin with."

"We all cultivate the Supreme Clarity Method."

"Though the foundations of our formations differ, the origin of our mana is the same."

Yao Bin also nodded.

"If two great formations were fused directly, chaos would surely follow."

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

"It might not be impossible."

Qin Wan's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Let us try first."

The Ten Heavenly Lords were all people of action.

Once they decided on something, they did it.

That very afternoon.

Qin Wan and Zhao Jiang chose the Heaven-Absolute Formation and Earth Inferno Formation as their first test.

Qin Wan presided over the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Zhao Jiang guided one-tenth of the Earth Inferno Formation's mana through formation banners, attempting to send it to the other side.

The first time.

Boom!

Both formation platforms shook at once.

The mana being transmitted exploded directly in the middle.

Smoke blackened Zhao Jiang's sleeves.

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

Lin Yuan stood outside the formations.

And silently retreated two steps.

Zhao Jiang turned to look at him.

"Junior Brother."

"Why are you backing away?"

Lin Yuan answered with a perfectly solemn face.

"To make room for Senior Brother."

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

Zhao Jiang: "..."

Bang!

The second attempt exploded too.

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

It proved to be a truly farsighted decision.

Gao Yougan, who was watching the excitement from the side, laughed so hard he slapped his thigh.

"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 ability, you try it!"

"I will not."

Gao Yougan answered decisively.

"I do not understand formations."

"You know you do not understand, yet you are still laughing?"

"You do not need to understand to watch the fun."

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 mana."

"It is the path."

She walked between the two formations.

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

"The formation retaliates on its own."

Qin Wan discovered the same thing.

"So we cannot send power directly."

"We must first send an origin mark."

The ten people gathered together to study it.

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

Because from that moment onward, the discussion had completely entered a blind spot in his knowledge.

Formation patterns.

Formation foundations.

Spiritual energy nodes.

Supreme Clarity mana imprints.

One technical term after another poured 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 Chinese.

Now that the Ten Heavenly Lords began discussing things, he recognized every single word.

But strung together, they felt like a heavenly book.

Wang Mo crouched beside him.

And asked softly:

"Junior Brother."

"Did 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 whole days.

The Ten Heavenly Lords tried again and again.

They failed so many times that even Wen Zhong could not be bothered to count them.

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

Fortunately, their direction became clearer and clearer.

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 mana.

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

This time.

The Earth Inferno Formation's power did not charge directly into the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

Instead, it first passed through that formation talisman for conversion.

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

The remaining pure Supreme Clarity mana flowed along the formation markings into the Heaven-Absolute Formation.

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 abruptly opened his eyes.

"It worked!"

Zhao Jiang was equally overjoyed.

"It really can be borrowed!"

Wang Mo and the others instantly crowded around.

Lin Yuan could not help stepping closer as well.

Qin Wan tried again.

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

Then restore it.

Cut it off.

Restore it again.

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

This proved it was not a coincidence.

It truly could borrow power.

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

What he feared most was that his idea might sound brilliant in theory, yet be completely unworkable under the laws of the Primordial World.

Now that the first step could be taken.

There was hope for what came next.

Qin Wan rose to his feet.

He looked toward the remaining eight.

"Connecting only two formations is not enough."

"We need to..."

He paused for a moment.

Excitement gradually filled his eyes.

"Let all ten formations borrow power!"

The Ten Heavenly Lords swiftly 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 markings of the Golden Light Formation.

Lin Yuan stood in the middle.

He watched as the ten great formations, once independent of one another, began to connect for the first time.

A thread of Supreme Clarity aura, so faint it was almost invisible, flowed from the Heaven-Absolute Formation toward the Earth Inferno Formation.

Then it 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.