Recording Auras

Defensive formations were a type of artifact.

Like weapons or long spears, they could be dismantled and taken away. If Lin Fan moved someday, he could take this formation apart and use it somewhere new.

Otherwise, if he could not take it with him once it was installed, why would Lin Fan give his landlord a formation worth more than thirty million taels on top of a monthly rent of one hundred thousand? Had his brain turned to mush? He might as well take his whole family and join the Azure Elixir Sect!

Lin Fan walked to an open space in the courtyard and opened the packaging.

Inside lay the main formation plate, dark as ink and covered in intricate cloud patterns. It resembled a rectangular block, stood taller than a person, and measured roughly a meter wide and over thirty centimeters thick. Beside it were eight half-meter formation flags of dark teal metal, plainly but finely made, with a faint, dim sheen drifting across their surfaces. Together, these were all the components of the Mansion-Guarding Blacksteel Formation.

Following the method taught by the shopkeeper of the Artifact Hall, Lin Fan personally marked out the positions. He buried the main formation plate beneath the exact center of the inner courtyard, then buried the eight flags deep under the foundations at the estate's eight corners. Every position was precise to the smallest fraction. Only a small part of each flag's top remained aboveground.

Once everything was in place, Lin Fan sat cross-legged above the main plate, his eyes half-closed. Streams of dense, surging Inner Qi poured steadily from his palms into it.

After more than three months of cultivation, Lin Fan was now very close to the late Transforming Force Realm. The Inner Qi within him had also reached two million