The sea stretched in rolling waves, sand flew, and as Dharma Power flowed, everything on the tidal flats rose into the air. The earth shook and shifted.
Lin Ji was demonstrating a Formation Dao method, using the local sand, stone, water, and soil as the foundation to construct a continuously operating system.
Under his stimulation, the surrounding objects took on his aura one after another. Dharma Power settled within them, turning them into array foundations that continually drove Heaven-and-Earth Origin Energy.
The foundation of every cultivator at Foundation Establishment or above lay in their Origin Dharma Power. The Dharma Power derived from it possessed spirituality, allowing it to carry intent unseen and perform work autonomously, while also opening the bridge between heaven and earth and granting an instinctive ability to command external Heaven-and-Earth Origin Energy.
What Lin Ji was demonstrating now was a Formation Dao method constructed with these two fundamental abilities of Foundation Establishment cultivators as its roots, and a Formation Dao cultivator's knowledge and experience as its branches and leaves.
During a pause in deploying the formation, Lin Ji told Li Ling, "Fellow Daoist Li, our Formation Dao methods are founded on restrictions, and restrictions, in turn, are founded on Dao Patterns."
"What are Dao Patterns?" Li Ling had actually heard of them before, but had never studied them systematically, so he asked humbly.
Lin Ji explained, "Look at fish scales and bird feathers, snail shells and human palms, the earth and mountains and rivers, light and shadow and sound. All of them have patterns.
"From things as small as tree rings, wild-goose footprints, and the grain of rock strata, to things as vast as celestial orbits, the ecliptic plane, and the arms of galaxies, all embody the laws of movement and change, revealing the profound and intricate