Nearly three years have passed since Li Xingkong began studying formations, and his study of formation theory for the Foundation Establishment stage is basically coming to an end.
It can only be said that the rate at which knowledge expands is even more exaggerated than the rate at which cultivation level increases.
Even with Li Xingkong's greatly enhanced thinking ability and the assistance of Hexagram, it still took him quite a while to fully grasp the theories related to the advancement of formations in the Foundation Establishment Stage stage.
During the Qi Refining stage, most of the knowledge points in the study of formation theory can be mastered simply by memorizing them. However, by the Foundation Establishment stage, memorization has become the least important aspect.
If a Foundation Establishment cultivator, after gaining Divine Sense, still cannot have a photographic memory, it can only mean that there is a problem with his cultivation.
At this stage, the most important aspect of learning is understanding and putting it into practice. Many knowledge points cannot be fully grasped simply by reading books; one must construct corresponding models based on the theory in order to gain a clearer and deeper understanding.
Reading takes time; building models, performing calculations, digesting and understanding—it takes a lot of time to fully grasp each knowledge point.
The ability to master so many theoretical foundations in just three years is entirely due to the power of the Foundation Establishment Method.
Having thoroughly grasped these theories, Li Xingkong then began to focus on the content of his Foundation Establishment Stage assessment.
With the support of advanced formation theory, Li Xingkong realized upon reviewing the assessment that it wasn't actually as difficult as he had imagined.
After only a few days of contemplation, Li Xingkong already had a rough outline of the formation in his mind.
The first test is to control the weather on Earth Star. The first requirement of this formation has clearly been revealed: it must be able to cover the entire Earth Star.
Previously, Li Xingkong wouldn't have even considered setting up a formation of this size, simply because there were too many nodes to arrange and too many things to consider, making the setup extremely complicated.
In advanced formations, the theory related to the array flags has been greatly strengthened. Now, it is estimated that a planet the size of Earth Star only needs 4 array flags to cover the entire Earth Star.
This is similar to the GPS satellites of BeiDou. When technology was not so advanced, the only way to improve accuracy and coverage was to increase the number of satellites. However, with the improvement of lens technology and related mapping technology, only a few satellites are needed to accurately monitor global movements.
As we all know, all the weather we experience now is basically related to clouds, water vapor, and air pressure in the atmosphere. Whether it is rain, snow, wind, thunder, or even typhoons, tornadoes, thunderstorms, etc., all these weather events are ultimately caused by these factors.
Therefore, controlling the weather is actually quite simple. The core function of the formation is to mobilize water vapor and regulate atmospheric pressure.
By adjusting and influencing these fundamental factors through array formations, artificial control over the climate of the entire Earth Star can be achieved.
This kind of control can be done with great precision, even down to the level of a neighborhood where it rains while the neighboring neighborhoods remain sunny.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Myth ability to control clouds and rain is just like this.
Thinking of the Myth, Li Xingkong couldn't help but take a look at the formation he had devised.
It wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't looked, but after that one glance, Li Xingkong immediately thought of something from the Myth.
The array flags for this formation must be placed in the sea, since most of the world's water vapor is generated above the ocean. Placing the flags here will allow for maximum control over the water vapor.
When it comes to the concepts of clouds and rain and the ocean, the Dragon Palaces of the Four Seas naturally comes to mind for Li Xingkong.
They both control the weather and govern the world, and their functions are the same. It's just that being early is not as good as being lucky.
Moreover, once the formation is set up, in addition to being able to control it myself, there will also be corresponding formation control terminals at the four formation flags, allowing ordinary cultivators in Divine Land to grant certain permissions.
If this thing is set up, wouldn't it serve the exact same purpose as the Dragon Palace?
Just before I went into seclusion, I learned the Thick Earth City Fortification Technique. Since it's already so similar to the Myth, I might as well make it even more similar.
They directly shaped the battle flags into four dragon palaces and threw them into the four oceans.
In any case, functionality is the most important thing for battle flags, while appearance is not a big concern.
Moreover, the array flags, located underwater, not only facilitate the control of water vapor but also effectively prevent the formation of natural disasters such as typhoons. After all, although the entire array covers the globe, its power still originates from the array flags, and the closer one is to them, the stronger the control becomes.
The design of the first celestial array for regulating phenomena was nearly complete, so Li Xingkong named it the Four Seas Heaven-Regulating Formation.
It's simple and straightforward; you can tell what this thing does at a glance.
Li Xingkong quite liked this type of name. Unlike the pharmaceutical names he had seen before, which included all sorts of strange capsule names and a variety of nonsensical and meaningless terms that left people completely confused.
The core of the formation has been completed, but there are still many details that need to be perfected.
It's important to understand that while severe typhoon weather brings significant damage, it also has a considerable impact on the areas it affects. It brings massive amounts of rainfall, which is of great importance to the local ecosystem.
Therefore, in addition to manually controlling the weather, Li Xingkong also had to combine the current overall environment of Earth Star and set a default operating logic for the weather controlled by the array.
While mitigating various meteorological disasters, we must also do our utmost to ensure that the current ecological environment does not collapse as a result.
This part of the design requires a high level of skill from the formation master to solve problems on the ground.
After all, if you only rigidly arrange formations without considering the original environment, it's hard to say whether the resulting formation will bring good or bad things.
If we only consider human needs, everyone would love for a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius every day, with gentle breezes and occasional light rain. That kind of weather would be perfect for living, but it's obviously impossible for the whole world to become like that.
No matter how powerful a weather array is, it is still affected by many external factors, such as latitude and longitude, and the distance between the Earth and the Sun. These things will not be affected by a weather array.
It's impossible to make the weather uniform across the entire Earth Star. This formation can only keep the climate in each place at its most suitable level within a reasonable range.
Of course, how the Divine Land People will use this weather formation after human intervention is uncertain; it all depends on the courage of those in control.
There's a joke that turning the Sichuan Basin into a reservoir would have been impossible before, but with weather arrays, it's now entirely feasible.
All it takes is to continuously concentrate the moisture from the entire Earth Star into this area, and then let it rain torrential rain for several years, and this reservoir will naturally form.