Engraving Formations
By the time all the seeds and saplings were planted, the sun had already set.
He returned to the Formation Hall.
Seeing the two still engrossed in their studies, Lin Xiao walked up to the Kunpeng Formation Plate and asked them:
"How about it? Do you want to try it now?"
Upon hearing Lin Xiao's voice, the two looked up at him.
Mo Yuanjiao felt he had completely memorized the first few simplest formations, so he nodded vigorously:
I want to try!
Lin Xiao turned around, raised his hand and touched the Kunpeng Formation Plate, pouring in Spiritual Power. After a layer of Spiritual Power membrane floated on the array plate, he gestured for Lin Xiao to come over.
Mo Yuanjiao, eager to try, immediately got up and went to the array plate. He picked up the Great Abyss Engraving Knife next to him and, imitating Lin Xiao's previous actions, poured Spiritual Power into the carving knife.
He focused his attention on the array plate in front of him, took a deep breath, and raised the hand holding the carving knife to begin carving the "Slight Cooling Formation" on the Spiritual Power membrane.
Lin Xiao, standing to the side, continuously supplied Spiritual Power to the array plate while carefully observing the smoothness of each step of the array being inscribed.
It was clear that although Mo Yuanjiao was carving an array for the first time, his movements were still very clumsy. Moreover, since his cultivation level was only at the Qi Refining First Layer, his Spiritual Power supply was also very unstable, and the carving knife moved very slowly and with great difficulty on the Spiritual Power level.
Lin Xiao was slightly surprised. He thought that with Mo Yuanjiao's current cultivation level of Qi Refining First Layer Level 1, even though it was only the simplest array in the "Complete Collection of Basic Array Engraving", there would still be some breaks along the way when he was carving the array for the first time.
However, in reality, although the Spiritual Power flowing from the carving knife was very unstable, it was always continuous and never interrupted.
At this moment, a thin layer of sweat had begun to appear on Mo Yuanjiao's forehead.
But he became even more focused.
His eyes seemed to be fixed solely on the array being inscribed before him.
After a long time, just as Mo Yuanjiao's Spiritual Power was about to run out, he finally completed the inscription of the "Slight Cooling Formation"!
The moment he finished, he felt his hands go weak and he almost couldn't hold the carving knife.
Seeing the array he had inscribed on the Spiritual Power layer, Mo Yuanjiao looked up at Lin Xiao with some trepidation.
"Sect Master, is my formation... done?"
Lin Xiao looked at the Spiritual Power layer in front of him; although it was somewhat crooked, it was indeed without any breaks, and it was a formation that could be used as soon as it was copied.
He then smiled encouragingly at him and said:
"You've completed this formation. With your current Qi Refining First Layer cultivation, completing it on your first attempt is quite impressive. With more practice, it shouldn't be long before you can use this formation normally."
Although this formation wouldn't actually have any effect in practice, it must be said that Mo Yuanjiao, who was able to achieve such a level on his first attempt, is undoubtedly a talent for inscribing formations.
Furthermore, with Yigao, whose alchemy talent was recognized by Senior Liao, Lin Xiao felt that the task of cultivating specialized talent might not be too difficult to complete.
Then he looked at Mo Que, who was still sitting in the same spot, and asked him:
"Guard Mo, would you like to give it a try too?"
Mo Yuanjiao looked at Guard Mo with bright, sparkling eyes and said:
"Old Que, come try it out, it's so much fun!"
As he spoke, he put the carving knife back on the table and made room for him.
Mo Que nodded, got up and walked to the spot where Mo Yuanjiao had been standing. He picked up the carving knife and began to carve on the Spiritual Power layer with Spirit Concentration concentration.
However, he simply lacked Mo Yuanjiao's talent.
As he was carving out a "Slight Cooling Formation," he broke it in eight or nine places.
Not only that, but his Spiritual Power was also completely depleted.
When the engraving was finished, looking at the crooked and intermittent array diagram on the Spiritual Power layer, Mo Que knew without asking Lin Xiao that he hadn't done a good job.
But Lin Xiao looked on and said:
"Guard Mo, you've done very well. Your young master succeeded on his first try because he's incredibly talented, but it's not bad that you were able to draw it completely."
Upon hearing this, Guard Mo, who had initially felt a little dejected, suddenly felt proud.
yes.
His young master is the best!
How could he possibly be like the young master?
If I can achieve even one-tenth or one-hundredth of what the young master does, I'm already doing quite well!
Seeing that the two had almost no Spiritual Power left, Lin Xiao told them to go sit down and meditate to recover.
"We'll continue practicing once you've all recovered."
Mo Yuanjiao and Mo Que had just experienced the feeling of inscribing an array and were still very interested. Upon hearing what he said, they immediately went to the grass mat next to them to meditate and recover their Spiritual Power.
Lin Xiao sat down on the other side of the Kunpeng Formation Plate, separated from them.
He took out the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation from his private treasury and placed it in front of him.
After carefully examining the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation, Lin Xiao wanted to try to memorize the array and then inscribe it.
If we could replicate the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation, that would be wonderful.
However, the idea was grand, but the reality was harsh.
When he began to seriously try to memorize the array diagram on the array plate, he discovered that the diagram was too exquisite, and its complexity was not merely a matter of flat detail.
This formation is actually layered on top of each other!
And it's not just one or two floors, but dozens!
Moreover, these dozens of layers of engravings are stacked one on top of the other, extremely precise. The complexity of the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation diagram is on a completely different level from the array diagrams in the "Complete Collection of Basic Array Engraving".
In other words, if he wanted to completely memorize this array diagram, he first had to clearly separate each layer of extremely complex engravings, and then memorize each layer of engravings.
As for why he didn't place the array diagram aside for reference when drawing it, but instead insisted on memorizing it, that's another story.
That's because carving array diagrams requires extremely focused attention and decisive, unwavering cutting.
Even a moment's pause or hesitation will break the flow of Spiritual Power, causing the inscription to fail.
Therefore, one must memorize the array diagram very thoroughly and then use that memory to inscribe the next step of the engraving.
Clearly, even with Lin Xiao's current Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation, it would be an extremely difficult task to memorize the diagram of the Two Aspects Life and Death Formation.
Not to mention that it also needs to be engraved.
Lin Xiao estimated that his Divine Sense would collapse before he could even finish half of the inscription.
Speaking of which, since he advanced to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, he has been able to project his Divine Sense outwards, but so far, he has never tried it even once.
After all, this was my first time becoming a monk, and I wasn't very familiar with these procedures.
Moreover, Divine Sense can not only be projected outwards, but also inwardly perceive oneself.
However, this was something that could be done when one reached the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining, but he was too busy at the time, busy preparing to enter the secret realm and improve his cultivation every day. After he came out, he didn't have much time, so he completely forgot about this matter.