The Jin Kingdom Lay Hollow, Li Feiyu Ran Rampant; a Secret Realm Opened, Leading Back into a Nascent Soul Ruin

In other words, this third-tier mid-grade formation inheritance, the [Eight-Wind Returning-to-Storage Binding Formation Essentials], could greatly and systematically deepen Lin Chang's understanding and mastery of binding formations.

Unfurled, the scroll stretched seventy or eighty feet long. Dense writing covered it, and its formation patterns were intricately interwoven, every stroke embodying the accumulated toil of the master who had passed it down.

Generally speaking, formations were classified by their core functions, including:

[Slaughter formations] for attacking, destroying enemies, and massacring; [defense formations] for holding ground, guarding, and erecting barriers; [restraint formations] for trapping people, locking down areas, and sealing off movement;

[Illusion formations] for bewildering the spirit, deceiving the eyes, and disturbing the mind; [sealing suppression formations] for sealing, suppressing demons, and imprisoning evil; [augmentation formations] for enhancement, gathering spiritual energy, and healing;

And [transposition formations] for traversing space, teleporting, and escaping, among others.

Of course, there were also composite formations combining two or even more functions, whose difficulty rose by far more than a single notch.

By scale, they ranged from portable miniature formations inscribed on magical robes, to small formations guarding cave abodes and the like, medium formations encompassing small cities and market wards, large formations forming the foundations of immortal cities and sects, and heaven-connecting formations spanning more than ten thousand li-

What Lin Changheng used most at present were still restraint formations, chiefly to trap and kill enemies, preventing them from escaping and leaving trouble for the future.

From the initial basic Five-Element Binding Formation, to the later [Blood Baleful Heaven-and-Earth Prison Formation], and then to the newly completed [

Origin-Locking Immortal-Trapping Formation], his accumulated expertise in binding formations had grown ever deeper.

For Lin Changheng, acquiring this inheritance addressed precisely what he needed. How could he not rejoice?

The more Lin Changheng read, the more satisfied