Qimen Dunjia was a model of time, space, phenomena, numbers, and principles that Ancient Cultivators had constructed to understand the world. Naturally, it included the application of arts governing time and space.
Deploying troops and arranging formations required even finer use of time, space, and distance.
If a single person could reach every direction through space, then one person could be as ten thousand.
By transcending the current timeline, extending into different parallel times and spaces, and launching attacks against an enemy from there, one could achieve all manner of inconceivable effects.
Only then did Li Chen finally realize that the figures before him were nowhere near as simple as the illusions he had initially imagined. If they truly were illusions, his torch-bright Dharma Eyes should have seen through them long ago.
Neither the Truth-Piercing Eye nor the Fire-Observing Dharma Eye had failed or been deceived, because everything they saw was real.
Time, space, and distance had been distorted, allowing one body to manifest as more than sixty. That was what created the illusion of an army of thousands.
As long as the operator handled it properly, that illusion could also become reality. The transition between falsehood and truth depended entirely on individual skill!
A clumsy practitioner might make a mistake in the rush and scatter the Grand Formation without the enemy even needing to break it.
A skilled practitioner, however, might defeat an army of thousands with just over a hundred elite soldiers, or even slay a powerful foe.
Li Chen finally abandoned his unrealistic notion of leaping over the battle formation and descended to the ground.
Sure enough, once he landed, the figures that had been hazy as a backdrop became clear again.
The Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Array could distort time and space, but its reach