Li Ping paid no attention to Meng Wanjun amusing herself over there.
He focused on refining formation banners and modifying the formation on the Spirit Island.
Formation refining was actually different from artifact refining and puppet refining.
All three involved refining spirit materials into objects.
But the main difficulty in artifact refining lay in engraving secret patterns to facilitate the infusion of mana and control through divine sense. The difficulty in puppet refining lay in converting the spiritual qi within spirit stones, as well as designing mana circuits capable of drawing on vast amounts of mana all at once.
As for formation refining, it was more a test of a cultivator's ability to exploit spirit veins and the environment to design a suitable formation. In short, for a Formation Dao cultivator, refining formation banners was actually the easiest part of the entire process.
It was like the process of making a mobile phone: design was the hardest and most technically demanding part, while assembly was the most basic stage of the entire process and received the smallest share of the profits.
All in all.
Although artifact refining, puppet refining, and formation refining all involved refinement, and some of their required spirit materials overlapped, the crafts themselves were not interchangeable.
Being a master artifact refiner did not mean one could more easily get started in the Formation Dao or the Dao of puppets.
Li Ping dared to declare, "Among Core Formation cultivators who have advanced artifact refining, puppet refining, and the Formation Dao beyond the third tier, who in the cultivation world can rival me?"
After several months of work, Li Ping successfully modified the third-tier formation on the Spirit Island, enhancing its concealment and spirit-gathering capabilities.
After activating the formation to test it.
Li Ping was pleased to see