Formation Diagram Complete
After completing the initial design of the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation, Long Xuan already had a model in his mind, and he quickly began to write it down based on this model.
The above are all his original formations, which is far too few. A true Composite Grand Formation would gather thousands upon thousands of formations, with a wide variety of types and functions.
The few formations he created were far from meeting the standards of Composite Grand Formation; once the formations became too intricate, they were simply too simplistic.
Therefore, he had to transfer a large number of existing formations into his own Composite Grand Formation.
There are thousands of formations, but he only needs to create a few original ones. If he were to create all of them, he would be exhausted.
What he needs to do now is to figure out how to piece together thousands of arrays. Since he is practicing the Microscopic Array, the number of arrays he needs to piece together is far greater than that of a normal level of Composite Grand Formation.
Of course, the more formations Composite Grand Formation becomes, which is also an advantage of the Microscopic School Formation.
However, the more formations there are, the easier it is for loopholes to appear, which requires enormous computing power and also consumes a considerable amount of his time.
That cave master was definitely a rare master of formations. The formation legacy he left behind was very strong, and he also left behind a great many Formation Diagram.
After learning the legacy he left behind, Long Xuan's mastery of formations was now quite high, far surpassing his previous rudimentary level.
With his current mastery of formations, and with the help of the error-detecting device, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to develop a Composite Grand Formation with very few flaws.
However, there are priorities. Setting up such a large number of combination formations would take too much time. He needed to move in as soon as possible and didn't have time to wait that long.
Therefore, for now, he is only researching the Rubik's Cube Grand Formation, the Instant Teleportation Grand Formation, and other less important arrays. He will put them aside for now. As long as the arrays he sets up are habitable, that's fine. He can study the remaining time-consuming details after he has moved in.
In order to speed up the work, Long Xuan decided to temporarily suspend many parts. He only created the Rubik's Cube Grand Formation for the original part. The other tens of thousands of arrays were ready-made and could be used directly. All he had to do was piece together the puzzle.
With the help of a cheat code, perfectly piecing these formations together won't waste too much time.
Therefore, he completed his Five Elements Reversal Array diagram in just eight months.
The three essential elements of the formation —the Formation Base, the Formation Eye, and the Formation Key— have all been successfully completed.
Of course, for now this is just a usable semi-finished product, and it will need to be continuously populated with content.
The complete Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation is not something that can be accomplished in a year.
As his cultivation level continues to improve, he will need to continuously refine his formations.
The Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation is a massive project that requires him to dedicate his entire life to perfecting it.
Because his Formation Inscription are a scaled-down version, the number of arrays he will use in the future may be in the millions or tens of millions, making the upper limit of this Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation terrifyingly high.
Through his repeated experiments in the Origin Realm, he found that the Subtlety School Array Technique could be fully realized in this world, but only by shrinking the Formation Inscription by about a hundred times. Once shrunk to hundreds of millions of times, it would be impossible for it to play any role.
But shrinking it by only a hundred times was enough to satisfy Long Xuan.
Let alone shrinking it a hundredfold, even shrinking it tenfold would be enough to crush the mainstream formations of this world. What more could he possibly want?
The Composite Grand Formation he designed may not be the most powerful in the world, but because the number of Formation Inscription he inscribed is far greater than that of a normal array, his Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation, even with some flaws, deserves to be considered a world-class array.
He wouldn't dare boast about his Peerless Vicious Formation, but Long Xuan was confident in the Vicious Formation power. His Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation was definitely something that no single Formation Raider could break.
The Formation Raider wants to break his array? Sorry, let's find the Formation Inscription first!
The Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation is a massive, interconnected array where the five elements are linked one after another, so that moving one affects the whole.
Unless someone understands how to break the power of the Five Elements, this Vicious Formation is unsolvable.
If a powerful individual were to attempt to break the formation using brute force, given that the key element of the Formation Eye is Spirit Spring, that individual would need to possess power capable of shaking heaven and earth; otherwise, there would be no solution.
Hidden within this formation, Long Xuan felt he could finally rest easy.
The only problem that troubled him was the collection of materials. Just thinking about the materials needed for the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation gave Long Xuan a headache.
Needless to say, the cost of setting up a Vicious Formation couldn't be low. Otherwise, the world would be full of Vicious Formation, especially that Rubik's Cube Grand Formation, which is simply a money-burning machine.
Because of the importance of keeping the Spirit Spring secret, Long Xuan was extremely meticulous about the materials used in this Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation. He used only the best materials and did not intend to cut corners anywhere. Many of these materials could not be bought directly with Spirit Stone and were extremely difficult to collect.
Therefore, the cost of his Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation is simply astronomical.
The thought of the material that was about to fill a book sent chills down Long Xuan's spine.
The main materials needed for the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation, in particular, gave him a major headache.
The main materials for the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation are actually Top-Grade Spirit Stone with the five attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
That's Top-Grade Spirit Stone. You have to understand that in a small Spirit Stone Vein, finding even one Top-Grade Spirit Stone is already quite good.
Top-Grade Spirit Stone contain the purest attribute power, infinitely close to the origin, and are priceless.
The value of Top-Grade Spirit Stone is on par with that of Millennium Ice Marrow, so you can imagine how difficult it is to collect them.
Not only are they difficult to collect, but because of their immense value, collecting them is inevitably accompanied by risks, just like the Master Jin incident last time. You can't avoid these dangers unless you don't intend to collect them at all.
It's impossible to collect priceless treasures without any risk.
At this point, Long Xuan could only think of two relatively safe ways to collect the materials.
The first way to collect these items is to go back to the Long Family's Mission Hall and try to get more loot.
In the Long Family, you can get anything as long as you make a contribution. It's so convenient to collect materials there, and you get them for free with almost no cost to yourself.
As for the risks involved, he is currently a key genius being groomed by his Lineage. Because of the Ten Extremity Physique, which are highly valued and protected, he has the only third-grade alchemy master in the entire clan as his backer. He feels that the possibility of danger is very low.
However, nothing is absolute. After all, Top-Grade Spirit Stone are useful to Gu cultivators of any level. So, to be on the safe side, he decided that his true form would stay in the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation from now on and would no longer appear in the Long Family.
All daily activities within the Long Family were handled by his clone. Since he had broken through to the Marrow Cleansing Stage, the Long Family's Evil Dragon Emperor Eye could no longer detect his clone. No matter how much trouble his clone caused within the Long Family, if any trouble arose because of the Top-Grade Spirit Stone, it would only be the clone that got into trouble.
The Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation where he was hiding had Spirit Spring as its Formation Eye, making it difficult even for Gu King to break. His true body was 100% safe inside, and even if there were any unexpected changes, he could escape in an emergency using the Instant Teleportation Grand Formation.
With multiple layers of protection, he felt that collecting Top-Grade Spirit Stone in this way was entirely feasible.
The second, relatively safe way to collect them is to go to Di Xin and barter with him.
She was the fattest woman in the entire market, a genuine little rich woman. Di Xin frequented the treasure vaults of various tribes every day, but they were all much fatter than him. It would be a real shame not to fleece her. He absolutely could not let her go.
In addition, since she is a formation master, she must have a lot of formation materials on her. She might be able to collect most of the formation materials that are as thick as a book.
She might possess Top-Grade Spirit Stone, perhaps even more than one.
Having already made many deals with her, he felt it was unlikely she would make a move on him, so he could confidently show off his assets in front of her.
Most importantly, the Ten Extremity Physique Physiques make him invincible among his peers in combat. After breaking through, he wouldn't be afraid of Gu cultivators in the Marrow Cleansing Stage. Even if Di Xin suddenly attacks him, he is confident that he has nothing to fear from her.
Therefore, this channel for collecting Top-Grade Spirit Stone is also very safe, and a two-pronged approach can be adopted.
However, Di Xin has a particular fondness for high-quality Spirit Insect. It seems that in order to impress her, I must scour all the jade gambling shops run by various clans. It's another free deal that requires no investment.
Since the seven major clans spent a fortune to buy the Fossil Ore Vein from him, they have mobilized a huge amount of manpower and resources to dig out a massive amount of fossils, and each clan has started to run a stone gambling business as a result.
But in Long Xuan's view, these were all working people, and they were all working for him for free.
They paid me a sum of money upfront, and then all the Spirit Insect they painstakingly dug up ended up back in my hands. The fossils they dug up were all for me; I was essentially getting their labor for free.
Long Xuan revealed a sinister smile.
These were the only two relatively safe ways he could think of to collect Top-Grade Spirit Stone.
However, the common materials needed for the Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation can be collected directly from the market using Spirit Stone.
Never underestimate the cost of setting up a Vicious Formation. After all, it is a heaven-defying formation that can block the Gu King, and the amount of materials alone is enough to fill a book.
Long Xuan cannot currently estimate how many spirit stones would be needed to successfully set up the Five Elements Reversal Array.
But once the formation is complete, he will definitely not have many Spirit Stone left, and may even be in debt. He will have to find another way to make money.
Long Xuan stopped thinking about this headache-inducing matter. After binding all the papers covered in writing on the table into a book, he wrote on the cover:
The Five Elements Reversal Array Diagram
--Written by Long Xuan
After placing it in the small box, he took out another blank sheet of paper, preparing to create another Low-Grade Gu Recipe to continue exploiting the Long Family.
However, this time he plans to just go with the Go-with-the-Flow Method and get by casually. He doesn't need to earn 100 million contribution points. He doesn't have that obsessive-compulsive disorder. Pursuing the ultimate cost-effectiveness is too taxing on his brain cells. His brain cells, which were just killed, haven't recovered yet and need rest.
Top-Grade Spirit Stone are extremely rare. Even the Long Family's Treasure Repository only has two, one gold and one fire, each Top-Grade Spirit Stone thirty million contribution points.
With over ten million contribution points remaining, Long Xuan felt that earning fifty million contribution points from this Low-Grade Gu Recipe was sufficient; there was no need to pursue the ultimate.
As usual, he planned to use rare and uncommon Spirit Insect to refine Gu. After roughly searching his mind, he set his sights on the Bagworm.
Don't let the Bagworm's lack of offensive power fool you; it's a master architect in the Bagworm world, with an exceptionally rich artistic talent.
This insect's hobby is building houses, and the little houses it builds are all very beautiful and aesthetically pleasing.
Bagworm collect various materials from nature to build houses of different shapes, including pyramids, spiral staircases, and chimneys...
The little houses built by insects are incredibly diverse and their imaginations are completely different from those of humans.
He chose the Bagworm simply because he liked this insect.
In his previous life, when he was doing insect research, he liked to find all sorts of materials and place them in front of Bagworm, letting them freely use their imagination to build all sorts of strange houses. He never tired of it.
Whether the Bagworm in this world are strong or not is secondary; he just wants to see how different the houses built from them would be once the Bagworm are refined into Gu Insect.
Could we ask them to build the house bigger and see if it has any special effects when people live in it?
What if the houses built by these Gu Insect could double a person's cultivation speed? These are all uncertain things.
Long Xuan was very much looking forward to it.