The art of formations encompassed structures both complex and simple, and the materials and tools used were even more varied.
In the hands of a high-tier Formation Arts master, the tools used to lay formations were no longer limited to Formation Disks.
With sufficient skill, anywhere could become their Formation Disk.
The Azure Tide Sect's Sect-Protecting Grand Formation had been laid using the entire mountain range as its Formation Disk.
Of course, this was not unique to the Azure Tide Sect. The Sect-Protecting Grand Formations of other sects generally followed the same pattern. Apart from the locations of their formation eyes, there was little substantial difference.
The location of a Sect-Protecting Grand Formation's formation eye had always been a closely guarded secret within each sect. Only the Sect Master could know where it lay.
Of course, breaking a formation did not always require finding its formation eye.
If a formation's grade was low enough, it could also be broken by brute force.
Generally speaking, however, forcibly breaking the formations of first-tier sects like the Azure Tide Sect was all but impossible.
But everything had its exceptions. If brute force would not work, other methods that bypassed the formation eye could still be used to break a formation-for instance, the Seal-Breaking Formation, or a certain long-lost heretical art.
The process of breaking the formation in the Demon-Subduing Land made it clear that the Seal-Breaking Formation required many conditions to be met beforehand. Using it against the Azure Tide Sect was unrealistic, so Su Jiu thought of the latter possibility.
The bloody aura that had fallen onto the earth slowly began to rise. Amid the chaos of the cultivators, it drifted eerily in a particular direction, gradually forming a strange pattern in midair.
"What is that?" Little Pearl could not help leaning