A Meeting Gift

The most obvious difference is the size of the formations.

Due to their size, the arrays on the Lock Ring are all miniature, but the arrays Lin Xiao has taken out are quite large.

These are all normal spatial arrays.

Each formation is a space of fixed size.

After some modifications, compression, and sealing, this type of fixed-space array is usually transformed into a storage ring commonly used by cultivators.

But Lin Xiao didn't take out so many spatial arrays just to make a bunch of ordinary storage rings after the Lock Ring.

Having personally crafted the Lock Ring, he gained a deeper understanding and insights into spatial arrays.

So recently, he decided to make a bold attempt.

Picking up two array plates from the pile in front of him, Lin Xiao reached out and hovered his hand above them, activating them with his own Spiritual Power. Transparent ripples then rose from the array plates.

With a thought, he intertwined the two array patterns, making them overlap in mid-air, one above the other.

Instead of using a typical engraving tool for inscribing formations, he used his own Spiritual Power Spiritual Power a guide, drawing it into threads and weaving them between the two formations according to his pre-planned strategy, connecting them in parallel.

This parallel connection not only binds two spaces together, but also creates a certain degree of convergence and folding. The folded space is further reinforced, and at the same time, the folded part will have more space expansion.

Lin Xiao focused intently on manipulating the spiritual threads in his hands, without the slightest distraction.

This process may seem simple, but it requires the operator to guide each spiritual thread with extreme precision, and there cannot be the slightest fluctuation during the process. Otherwise, not only will the parallel connection fail, but the two spatial arrays will also completely collapse, resulting in the loss of everything.

This is why carving knives are generally preferred for engraving formations.

Because a good array carving knife can generally limit the excessive fluctuations in the user's output of Spiritual Power to a certain extent, thus making the array being carved less likely to collapse directly.

After all, some formations, if they collapse after being carved to a certain depth, can cause dangerous situations such as explosions.

A carving knife can largely prevent this from happening.

Therefore, unless one is proficient in formations, has high cultivation, and has very precise control over Spiritual Power, they generally will not choose to directly use Spiritual Power to construct formations.

However, if the above conditions are met, the benefits of directly constructing an array using Spiritual Power are also very significant.

Putting aside everything else, just one point is enough to completely surpass the basic engraving method of the array plate—direct Spiritual Power construction can create three-dimensional engravings.

The carving of formations using objects is usually done on a flat surface, on a formation plate.

However, it's clearly not because inscribing formations requires a two-dimensional design, but rather because this is the only way many people can do it.

Of course, this doesn't mean that it's impossible to create a three-dimensional array by using objects to carve the array. However, due to the stability required for the array to be generated, as well as the role of maintaining the connection between the array patterns, the preparations required, the various ideas for creating a three-dimensional array, and the various designs involved are all very complicated and difficult.

The difficulty is no less than, and may even be greater than, practicing 3D sculpting without any props.

Therefore, people with low cultivation levels and a shallow understanding of formations generally do not easily attempt this method.

Despite Lin Xiao's current air of superior skill and daring, he has actually been wearing a bunch of life-saving talismans and setting up isolation barriers around the house, all to prevent a sudden explosion from destroying himself and his sect.

Moreover, the system had tested the strength of these life-saving talismans and isolation barriers, and even then, the system charged him one hundred Spirit Stone for the test.

After all, he didn't know the full extent of the damage if his experiment failed...

As time slowly passed, the spiritual threads emerging from Lin Xiao's hands gradually connected the two formations.

Looking at the two spatial arrays that were now completely connected in front of him, he let out a soft sigh of relief.

Although it was my first time actually doing it, the whole process went very smoothly.

As expected of him.

Lin Xiao smiled silently, indicating his pleasure.

However, when he looked up and saw the table piled high with array formations, he sighed again.

This long journey has only just begun.

He fixed the newly formed array, which had been successfully connected, aside.

Lin Xiao, who was only briefly happy, picked up the two array plates again, calmed himself down, and continued to work on connecting the second set of arrays.

With the first success, the subsequent steps were a natural progression, and the speed was much faster than the first group.

After he had finished setting up all the array plates on the table, he took out another batch of the same array plates from his private treasury and piled them up on the table again...

The seemingly endless workload made this night feel exceptionally long for Sect Master Lin.

The next day, just as dawn broke outside his bed, after finishing what was now the umpteenth set of formations, Lin Xiao took a moment to go out.

There's nothing else going on, it's just that today is the second day of his eldest cousin's wedding, and he has to go over and meet his cousin's wife.

His father specifically told him about this last night.

Therefore, Lin Xiao specially prepared a gift for his new sister-in-law.

Generally speaking, the younger brother-in-law is not required to prepare a gift for his new wife.

But Lin Xiao thought that as the sect leader of a sect, it was only normal for him to give a gift as a token of his respect.

However, since his new sister-in-law had little contact with them, the cultivators, Lin Xiao didn't immediately use anything that was all show and no substance or too outrageous for ordinary people.

He gave her a bag of pills that ordinary people could take normally.

Don't get me wrong, it's just some effects that purely enhance physical fitness.

He also packed dozens of storybooks that he had carefully selected.

Don't get me wrong, these are all inspirational stories meant to broaden horizons and strengthen willpower, suitable for non-book readers.

However, he did not intend to give these books directly to his eldest cousin's wife; he prepared them for his eldest Lin Lei.

If the eldest cousin's wife is interested in cultivation, then the eldest cousin can teach her these stories and explain the principles within them, so that she can join a sect for cultivation as soon as possible through the Heart-Questioning Road.

It can also give the couple more topics to talk about.

After all, marriages in this era still had some elements of arranged marriages and silent betrothal. My eldest cousin and his wife didn't actually spend much time together from the time they were betrothed to the time they got married.

When it comes to marriage, it's easy to find someone you click with, but it's actually quite difficult to live together as a couple.

Although Lin Xiao had not personally experienced this, the broken marriage of his parents in his previous life gave him a deep understanding of it.

Most broken relationships are destroyed by countless trivialities of life and countless accumulated disappointments.