The Four Symbols Spirit Formation was a spirit-command formation array that used a secret art to summon manifestations of the Four Sacred Beasts, stationing them in the four directions to trap and kill enemies.
The ordinary Spirit Command Dao involved seizing the true spirits of demons and spirit monsters to create spirit creatures, then using those creatures as the core to construct their true spirit essence and manifestations.
In other words, every spirit creature had a corresponding "spirit" and "body."
The "spirit" came from the spirit creature's true spirit essence, while the "body" came from the Spirit Tamer's spirit essence or various forms of origin energy.
But the Four Symbols Spirit Formation was different.
It, too, was a formation array that mimicked a Spirit Tamer's manifestation and summoning, using the Four Sacred Spirits to establish a battle formation. Its "spirit" component, however, was an intangible existence.
Its essence was actually that of deities formed from the accumulated incense and fire prayer power of all living beings, condensing divine spirits from their thoughts and turning the intangible into reality.
Deities were beings rooted in the beliefs and wills of countless trillions of intelligent creatures. Indescribable and inconceivable, they accorded with the Great Dao of heaven and earth and thus possessed supreme power to reshape creation, becoming another important source of spirit creatures besides the spirits of heaven and earth.
As the personnel stationed in the four directions activated the Grand Formation, enormous spiritual images appeared one after another, shrouded in hazy light and visible throughout a hundred-mile radius.
The Eastern Azure Dragon, the Western White Tiger, the Northern Black Tortoise, the Southern Vermilion Bird...
Although the four sacred spirits lacked the liveliness and substance of ordinary spirit creatures, they possessed the majestic bearing of deity statues. Dense radiance spread outward from