This formation combined offense and defense. It consisted of one main formation and eighteen subsidiary formations; the main formation focused on defense, while the subsidiary formations focused on illusions, traps, and slaughter.
It had been created by the Guan clan ancestor's Dao companion and had once been used to protect Guan Village, reaching the standard of a first-rate sect-protecting grand formation.
However, as the Guan clan declined, this formation developed problem after problem. The greatest reason was their lack of spirit stones, which gradually left them without the raw materials needed to repair it.
In the end, they had no choice but to replace it with increasingly smaller village-protecting formations.
"For the present, I think this formation is the most suitable. Fellow Daoist Guan, you will handle the refining.
First, list the materials needed to refine the formation. I will see whether we can gather them all. If we cannot, we can either choose another formation.
Fellow Daoist Guan, go ahead without restraint. Do your utmost to refine this formation; there is no need to worry overly much about the formation-refining materials.
You may also list the materials in this formation that can be substituted. That will give us another option."
Guan Feng had already taken the formation materials into consideration earlier, but the other two had said that was the next step. For now, they would only discuss the most suitable formation they could produce.
Once they finally reached this step, Guan Feng, anxious and uneasy, listed the refining materials. Even as he spoke, he kept racking his memories.
He desperately tried to think of materials he knew that could replace the "precious" materials needed for this formation, but something that soon happened left him stunned.
After listening, the old man hesitated only slightly before telling the woman in