The formation for controlling celestial phenomena was designed and completed, and the Foundation Establishment Stage assessment was only a small part finished.
It's important to understand that the assessment requirements go far beyond just meteorology; they encompass the entire Earth's surface, from the atmosphere to the crust.
Creating clouds and rain is merely the simplest part of this assessment.
After all, although wind, clouds, rain, and snow are unpredictable, they don't actually require much energy to control. Objects that can float in the atmosphere are not very heavy.
But the rest is much more troublesome.
Whether it's moving mountains and filling seas or changing the course of rivers, achieving either requires a real investment of energy.
The inherent quality is what it is, and given the terrain involving mountains and rivers, changing it is far from simple.
It's not as simple as just drawing a line on a virtual model and having the entire mountain reshape itself according to your wishes.
Even if Li Xingkong were to do it himself, he could only use his Magic Power to operate it, let alone utilize formations.
This is a massive undertaking, not something that can be accomplished in a short time. Even with Li Xingkong's current capabilities, it won't be an easy task.
Fortunately, the system's assessment only states that this ability is required, without setting a time limit.
This gave Li Xingkong to maneuver.
There's a saying that makes a lot of sense:
Mountains are waves that change extremely slowly over long geological periods.
Whether it's mountains or water, everything is constantly changing. It's just that the changes are too slow and life is too short to notice.
Li Xingkong's only starting point was the movement within these mountains and rivers.
The long geological evolution has two sources of energy: the Earth Star's rotation and the Earth Star's own energy. Although this energy may not seem to have a significant impact on our lives, its power should not be underestimated.
The movement of the Earth's crust and the formation of mountains and seas are all inextricably linked to it.
It's important to know that the Earth Star were originally a single piece of land. The fact that they split into the seven continents we see today is due to geological changes.
Therefore, for the second item, the reshaping and adjustment of the earth's surface, Li Xingkong planned to use the energy from the movement within the earth's crust to support the operation of the formation.
This formation doesn't simply reshape the entire continent's terrain out of thin air, treating the world like clay to be molded. Instead, it uses pre-set terrain patterns to guide geological changes in the direction it desires.
This formation is like casting a mold in advance, then placing the entire surface of Earth Star inside the mold. Utilizing its own continuous movement, the entire surface gradually adapts and transforms into the shape of the mold.
This formation is destined not to show results in a short time, but with it, the crustal movements of the entire Earth Star can be utilized to achieve the so-called reshaping of mountains and rivers.
It may take hundreds of years, or it may take thousands of years, but as long as this formation exists, the entire surface of Earth Star will change according to the formation's preset plan. This can be considered a method of reshaping mountains and rivers.
This is basically the approach to reshaping the entire Earth Star, but when it comes to modifying the terrain of a specific local area, the approach can be more drastic.
Large-scale address modifications are not feasible, but small-scale changes are generally not a problem.
With Li Xingkong's current level of Magic Power, he is capable of moving a mountain to a different position on a small scale, or filling in ravines and transforming the landscape.
Furthermore, with the presence of Spiritual Qi, it is still feasible to alter the terrain of a certain area.
Take Hedong as an example. The entire Hedong area is like a crumpled piece of paper that has been unfolded, full of folds and covered with various mountains. A large part of the terrain is located among the mountains, which means that there is hardly any flat area in the entire Hedong.
It's all mountainous terrain, so development is naturally not going to be very good.
With this formation, Li Xingkong could directly take action to reshape the entire surface of Hedong, flatten most of the mountains and fill in all the ravines, turning the entire interior of Hedong into a vast plain.
While the mountainous terrain has its unique significance, these aspects can be adjusted within the context of human development.
Of course, this evolutionary process takes a considerable amount of time, and even during this evolution, the local ecological environment and species can evolve at a rate that keeps pace with the geological changes.
In the end, once the terrain is reshaped, the local ecosystem evolves into a new species profile, and there will be no extinction of species as a result.
The only problem is that this formation takes too long to operate, and I don't know if the system will recognize it.
"I said, is this plan feasible?"
Li Xingkong had just drafted a rough outline of a formation when he asked the system for advice.
After all, it's the examiner; whether my approach meets the requirements depends entirely on the system's opinion.
"Don't try to get close to the examiner. Have you ever seen someone ask the examiner questions during an exam?"
The system said arrogantly, offering no response whatsoever to Li Xingkong's question.
"Okay, okay, you're amazing."
Having gotten no information, Li Xingkong a bit speechless, but whatever, he hadn't thought of any other solutions, so he'd just stick to this approach for now.
You can't expect him to use a massive explosive array to directly adjust the terrain through the most brute force. If he wants to move a mountain, you can't just blast it flat; if he wants to change a river course, you can't just blast out a new one. That's not fair...
Even if I could do that, would what I'd create still be a tool for shaping terrain? Wouldn't it just become an orbital cannon covering the entire Earth Star?
Whether this thing will be used to terraform Earth Star or to exterminate humanity is anyone's guess.
Discarding the absurd idea in his mind, Li Xingkong began designing the second formation. The most important structure of this formation was shaping. Then, using the formation and Magic Power structure, he absorbed, twisted, and transformed the various forces generated by the earth's crust movement into the energy needed by the formation, ultimately causing the entire terrain to change according to the shape designed by the formation.
In addition to this function, Li Xingkong also added some structures to the formation to amplify the oscillation effect, in order to accelerate the speed of terrain changes.
Finally, Li Xingkong also incorporated the functions of the Earth Vein into this grand formation.
Once this formation is set up, Spiritual Qi will begin to appear throughout the entire Earth Star.
It's time to expand Spiritual Qi across the entire Earth Star. Given the current situation, the unification of Divine Land is only a matter of time. Since they might come to him to fix the Earth Vein anyway, it's better to integrate it directly into this formation and save himself some trouble later.
As long as the content Dharma Aspect is strictly controlled, it doesn't matter if others can sense the Spiritual Qi.
After all, without the support of cultivation techniques, Spiritual Qi is just a slightly more advanced tool.