"A fourth-rank Raging Tides Black Tortoise Grand Formation? An Instant Formation?!"
"Multiple overlapping formations?!"
Among the thousands upon thousands of cultivators present, there was no shortage of people accomplished in studying formations. They recognized these grand formations at a glance and blurted out their names instinctively.
Yet precisely because they were formation practitioners and understood formations better, they could grasp just how shocking and terrifying the scene before them was.
"Grandpa, what is Uncle Guo so surprised about? Didn't he just use that strange formation disc to set up a grand formation a little more quickly and easily?!"
In the crowd, a boy looked in confusion at the middle-aged cultivator beside him, who wore a formation disc at his waist and an expression of utter disbelief.
"Ahem... fellow Daoists, children speak without restraint. Children speak without restraint."
"Talk less. Watch and listen more!"
Feeling the gazes of the many cultivators studying the dao of formations around them, the old man beside the boy hurriedly covered his mouth, pulled him close, and spoke sternly.
"Little fellow, the dao of formations is vast and profound. It encompasses the fundamental truths of heaven and earth, and the principles by which the five elements counteract, intersect, and merge."
"The earliest formations required cultivators to draw upon their own insights and spiritual materials of heaven and earth, aligning with the conditions of heaven and earth at that moment before a formation could take shape."
"Of course, as cultivation developed, the Formation Cultivator Dao emerged. Formation Cultivators enter the Dao through formations. Using formation discs and insights gained through their own Dao Foundations, they can alter the conditions of heaven and earth at a given moment and deploy formations instantly."
"But only Formation Cultivators can accomplish such a feat."
"This Sword Lord Bai Yi before us