The More You Break My Formations, the Better I Get at Setting Them

Zhao Jiang stood where he was, silent for quite a while.

Yesterday, Lin Yuan had said the first version was outdated.

They had revised it overnight.

Today, they had barely dragged themselves out of a dead end with the second version.

Before they could even sit down for a sip of water,

the third version was already on the agenda.

"Junior Brother Lin."

Zhao Jiang's tone was complicated.

"If the enemy finds out about this habit of yours someday,"

"they'll probably be too scared to come break formations anymore."

Lin Yuan looked up.

"Why?"

"They break it once, and you learn a little."

"They break it again, and you revise it a little more."

"We're fighting for our lives inside."

"While you're secretly improving yourself outside."

"Who could stand that?"

Lin Yuan thought about it seriously.

"Senior Brother."

"When you put it that way, I sound like I have a cheat."

Zhao Jiang: "?"

What was a cheat?

Qin Wan and the others were quickly summoned.

With the Heaven-Severing Formation Insight and the newly acquired Earth Inferno Formation Insight, Lin Yuan's moves were clearly bolder this time.

The core concept of the first version of the linked formations had been, "Nine formations lend mana to one formation."

The second version had added auxiliary routes and positional swaps.

The third version went a step further.

The formation eyes began to move within limits.

In the past, although each formation in the Ten Ultimate Formation was ever-changing and unfathomable, the most crucial core nodes did not shift easily.

The Explanatory Sect possessed formation-revealing magical treasures.

As long as they observed continuously, they would find the core sooner or later.

Lin Yuan simply changed two fixed formation eyes into roaming nodes.

They did not need to move constantly.

When the enemy pinpointed their positions and prepared to strike a killing blow, shifting them once was enough.

"Here."

Lin Yuan pointed at a core formation position in the Wind Roar Formation.

"If Senior Brother Dong encounters a powerful enemy locking onto the formation eye, he can borrow a strand of power from the Earth Inferno Formation and directly push this formation eye thirty zhang to the northwest."

Dong Quan's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he listened.

"How far can it be pushed?"

"At present, only thirty zhang."

"That's enough!"

When Immortals fought with magic,

a killing move landing thirty zhang off target was no different from striking empty air.

The third version of the linked Ten Ultimate Formation was swiftly adjusted.

This time, there were not even many explosions.

The Ten Heavenly Lords were somewhat unaccustomed to it.

Gao Yougan stood in the distance watching the excitement. After waiting for half a day without hearing a sound, he even came over on his own.

"Why didn't anything explode today?"

Zhao Jiang's face darkened.

"Are you disappointed?"

"A little."

"Get lost."

The next day.

The Explanatory Sect continued breaking the formations.

This time, they had clearly been provoked into real anger as well.

Dong Quan's Wind Roar Formation was the first to be singled out.

The person entering the formation held a wind-stabilizing treasure.

From the very beginning, he suppressed more than half of the Wind Roar Formation's most ferocious gale winds.

According to the old formation.

Dong Quan would soon have fallen into a passive position.

But now, the moment the Wind Roar Formation was suppressed,

the Golden Light Formation sent over a stream of power.

Golden rays filling the sky suddenly shot forth amid the wind blades.

The opponent had expected this.

A defensive magical treasure unfolded.

Clang!

He had grown smarter over the past two days as well.

He knew the Ten Ultimate Formation could borrow techniques from one another.

Simply preparing one countermeasure would be useless.

So this time, he carried several defensive items on him.

"Well prepared."

Lin Yuan observed from outside the formation.

But Qin Wan smiled.

"The more you bring,"

"the greater the consumption."

Inside the formation.

Dong Quan was in no hurry to kill him.

When the wind was suppressed, he borrowed golden light.

When the golden light was blocked, he borrowed ice.

Every time the opponent broke through one layer,

he switched to another.

The Ten Ultimate Formation's greatest advantage finally began to show itself.

Behind one formation stood nine more.

Even if the borrowed special power could only last for a few breaths,

it was enough to keep disrupting the enemy's rhythm.

That Explanatory Sect cultivator fought for a long time.

At last, he seized an opportunity.

His immortal sword stabbed straight at the Wind Roar Formation's core!

"Found it!"

The sword light fell.

The formation eye that should have been pierced suddenly "ran away" on its own.

Boom!

The sword light struck empty space.

The person inside the formation froze completely.

The formation eye...

could move house too?

In that brief instant,

Dong Quan had already turned his hand and activated the Wind Roar Formation.

The gale winds that had been suppressed for so long suddenly erupted from another direction.

Rumble!

The opponent was struck head-on.

The immortal light protecting his body shook violently.

Dong Quan took the chance to escape his original death node.

The system sounded for the third time.

[Fate Reversal successful!]

[Obtained—Wind Roar Formation Insight!]

Lin Yuan's gaze outside the formation changed once more.

Wind.

Flow.

Changes in formation momentum.

A vast amount of new understanding flowed into him.

In the past, when he adjusted formations, he had paid more attention to how power was transmitted.

Now, he truly began to consider—

Why did the Ten Ultimate Formation have to remain in fixed positions?

What if parts of the entire formation's outer perimeter could move as well?

"Junior Brother."

Qin Wan noticed Lin Yuan crouching down again.

A powerful premonition suddenly rose in his heart.

Sure enough.

Lin Yuan's first words were:

"Senior Brother Qin."

"I have an idea."

Qin Wan took a deep breath.

"Speak."

Over the next several days.

The Ten Ultimate Formation changed almost every day.

Yuan Jiao's Ice Formation came under fierce assault.

Using the Wind Roar Formation Insight, Lin Yuan readjusted every outlet that had originally released cold air.

The enemy had prepared a Scarlet Sun treasure specifically for melting ice.

But the cold air did not emerge from its original positions at all.

Yuan Jiao successfully passed through his deadly tribulation.

[Ice Formation Insight obtained.]

After that.

Golden Light Holy Mother entered the formation to face an enemy.

The opponent used a light-shrouding treasure to seal off the golden rays.

By then, Lin Yuan could use the several formation insights he had gained earlier to have the Wind Roar Formation push the golden light into another direction.

The golden killing intent, which had originally traveled in a straight line,

was forcibly bent halfway around.

The West Qi cultivators were dumbfounded on the spot.

"Why can golden light turn corners?!"

Outside the formation, Gao Yougan laughed so hard that he kept slapping Wang Mo.

"Good question!"

"Keep thinking!"

Golden Light Holy Mother's death tribulation was lifted.

Another formation insight merged into him.

Sun Liang then entered the Blood-Transforming Formation.

The enemy had already been pushed to the point where he no longer targeted the formation itself.

He directly brought out a high-grade magical treasure to crush it with overwhelming force.

A head-on collision.

In theory, it really could break the formation.

But the power of all nine formations surged in at once.

When Sun Liang could no longer hold on,

Lin Yuan switched three mana channels on the spot.

The power that had originally been fed in separately converged on a single point.

He forcibly drove that attack back.

Sun Liang withdrew safely.

The fifth new formation-path ability was acquired.

After several consecutive days,

let alone the Explanatory Sect,

even the Ten Heavenly Lords themselves had begun to look at Lin Yuan differently.

At first, they had regarded Lin Yuan as the one who proposed the idea.

Later, he had become a fellow disciple researching formations alongside them.

And later still...

Qin Wan held the new formation diagram, silent for a long while.

"Junior Brother Lin."

"How about you sit in the middle?"

"Why?"

"Because now, before altering a formation, our first instinct has become to ask you."

Zhao Jiang, standing nearby, deeply agreed.

"In the past, the Ten Ultimate Formation was set up by the ten of us."

"Now it feels like the ten of us are responsible for providing the formations."

"And Junior Brother is responsible for updating the version."

Lin Yuan coughed.

"The main thing is that all of you, senior brothers and sisters, laid a solid foundation."

"I merely optimized it."

Gao Yougan added a jab from the side.

"To translate that."

"You built the house."

"He is responsible for tearing out all the doors, windows, and walls, then reinstalling them."

The Ten Heavenly Lords: "..."

That description

was strangely apt.

Meanwhile, the pressure on West Qi had been mounting ever higher.

They had been breaking formations for days on end.

Yet the formations remained unbroken.

Not a single Heavenly Lord had died.

Instead, after every clash, the Ten Ultimate Formation they faced next became even more unfamiliar.

Guangchengzi stood atop the distant clouds, gazing down at the ten great formations.

His brows had been furrowed for a long time.

A second-generation disciple of the Explanatory Sect beside him said softly:

"There is little point in letting ordinary disciples and affiliated Qi refiners keep trying."

Guangchengzi slowly nodded.

"They are using us to test their formations."

"Especially that Lin Yuan."

"With every battle,"

"his control over the Ten Ultimate Formation grows stronger."

Jade Clarity Immortal Light rose behind them.

Most of the Twelve Golden Immortals had already arrived.

Guangchengzi looked toward the Ten Ultimate Formation.

"Since we cannot break them one by one,"

"then all at once."