Reinforcement Formation

The three of them were taken aback when Lin Xiao suddenly brought this up.

Seeing their clueless look, Lin Xiao said to Liu Yunan:

"Tuzi, could you maybe collect some feedback from everyone when you have a spare moment?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yunan immediately nodded:

Okay! I'll ask around in the next few days.

At this moment, Jiang Youfu, having finished chewing the fried beans in his mouth, suddenly sighed:

"I wonder if this time the forced labor to repair the dam will be tiring. Sigh, every time my dad came back from his service before, he was much thinner, and that was when it was near our village. This time, he's being sent to repair a dam on a river that's so far away."

My dad told me that my grandfather went there more than ten years ago, and when he came back, he was just skin and bones. Several other people from our village went there at that time, but none of them came back. They said they fell into the river, and their bodies were never found.

Mo Yuanjiao surprised:

Is building a dam really that dangerous?

Liu Yunan then replied:

"That's right! My mother told me that ordinary corvée labor is manageable, but for major events like this, many conscripts die. She said that once when our country was at war with some neighboring country, the frontline supplies were burned, and the court urgently conscripted people to transport the supplies. Because of the urgency, the conscripts were treated like oxen along the way, and the dead could form a road..."

Upon hearing this, Mo Yuanjiao fell silent, a rare occurrence for him.

He happened to know what the Tuzi was talking about.

That grain shipment was to save his father's army.

Lin Xiao, who was standing to the side, also fell silent.

Jiang Youfu and Liu Yunan were completely unaware that their words had deeply moved them, and they could only sigh.

After speaking, Mo Yuanjiao took the book "Complete Compendium of Basic Artifact Refining Techniques" and sat down with Jiang Youfu and Liu Yunan in a corner of the Artifact Refining Hall to read it together.

Lin Xiao then left the Artifact Refining Hall.

The rain outside, which had been gradually subsiding, suddenly intensified again.

He stood quietly in the rain, gazing up at the sky, lost in thought, seemingly pondering something.

Lately, he's been feeling uneasy.

Raindrops the size of beans pelted his body and face, but he did not use his Spiritual Power to shield himself from them. Instead, he allowed the force of nature to act upon him.

In the past, if he had been drenched like this for a long time, he might have felt the raindrops hitting him a little painfully and a little coldly.

But now, even without using any Spiritual Power or needing any luck, he felt absolutely no discomfort; in fact, he felt quite comfortable. This rain, which would chill mortals and flood fields, was of no use to him.

After a long while, Lin Xiao suddenly turned around and walked towards the Formation Hall.

Since he believes the dam is highly likely to breach, shouldn't he do something about it?

At first, he was just thinking about how he should deal with such a thing and how he could help the villagers.

But just now, after listening to what Fuzi and the Tuzi said, he suddenly realized that he was no longer an ordinary person.

Although he was just a minor Foundation Establishment cultivator, his cultivation level was insignificant compared to those powerful figures with profound cultivation.

However, compared to ordinary people, he was already far ahead.

Given this, shouldn't he do more in the face of these natural and man-made disasters, instead of clinging to the mindset of helplessness and contenting himself with simply taking care of his own surroundings?

He always remembered a sentence from his previous life that he had kept deeply in his heart.

When poor, one should cultivate one's own virtue; when successful, one should benefit all under heaven.

Although he is far from being considered 'master' in this world where cultivation is possible.

But whenever he thought of those ordinary people who were conscripted for labor, who were about to use their flesh and blood to build the dam across the massive Ancient Moon River, and who faced the danger of the dam breaking at any moment and being swept away by the raging river, he felt that he should do something, and do more.

Because with his own cultivation level, he might be able to do slightly more than ordinary people.

His ability to cultivate and acquire such power can be considered a gift from the world.

He is a human being, and even now that he has begun cultivating immortality and become a cultivator, he still feels that he is a fellow human being with these mortals.

Therefore, he felt he had to do something to make his cultivation worthwhile.

He had previously seen a formation called the Reinforcement Formation in the book "Complete Collection of Basic Array Engraving", but he didn't pay attention to it at the time and didn't look at it carefully. Now that he thinks about it, this formation might come in handy.

Lin Xiao flipped through the "Complete Collection of Basic Array Engraving" placed in the Formation Hall and found the Reinforcement Array.

The Reinforcement Formation is divided into three levels: large, medium, and small.

The degree of complexity varies, and so does the complexity of the corresponding array diagrams.

Since the object of reinforcement was a dam, Lin Xiao naturally chose Large Reinforcement Formation, and he memorized its diagram.

He then went to the Kunpeng Formation Plate, poured in his Spiritual Power, and began to focus on carving the array.

This Large Reinforcement Formation is not a small array like the "Slight Cooling Formation". Its array diagram is complex, and the Spiritual Power required for its inscription is naturally much greater.

After Lin Xiao exhausted almost all of his Spiritual Power, he obtained fifty Large Reinforcement Formation.

After storing the fifty Large Reinforcement Formation in his private treasury, he quickly went to his cultivation room to meditate and recover.

Once his Spiritual Power had recovered, he immediately got up and went down the mountain, heading towards the embankment of the Ancient Moon River.

Although he didn't know where the dam was, once he entered the county town, he found that the previous groups of conscripts who had arrived in the county town were already being led to the dam by officials.

So all he had to do was follow the long line of people, and the dam would be right in front of him.

When he arrived at the dam, he was stunned by the scene before him.

A massive dam spans the wide Ancient Moon River, while on the other side, rushing water pours down from an opening in the dam. A vast mist of water hangs over the river, enveloping the entire Ancient Moon River and obscuring its entirety.

The thick mist blanketed the Ancient Moon River in white, making it impossible for even Lin Xiao to see the opposite Qinghe.

Facing the dam standing majestically amidst the vast expanse of misty water, Lin Xiao felt incredibly small.

Meanwhile, on this magnificent dam, countless small figures were working diligently to carry out repairs.

Some of them were suspended in the air by a rope, operating tools from above.

Below the dam, on the riverbank, shirtless men, carrying mounds of earth on their backs like ants, were transporting repair materials up the dam.

It was dusk. The setting sun in the distance, behind the dam, painted the background with a magnificent rosy hue. The misty, thick fog diffused the glow of the sunset, spreading it across the landscape and recording this scene of humanity's struggle against nature.