Chapter 651: Studying A Formation Board
“Formation board, formation board...”
As Ou Yangming mumbled, he quickly carved a peculiar ore into a round board.
After being ambushed and countering the ambush, he had a clearer understanding of formation boards.
Formation masters were a profession rarer than blacksmiths. Their biggest reliance was formation boards, where formation maps that were engraved inside had enormous powers that allowed weak parties to dominate and challenge opponents of higher ranks.
Although formation masters had notable powers that could turn everything around, their potency was the reason they were rare.
Ou Yangming had not t a real formation master in the lower realm. Elder Universe had only scratched the surface from nurous ancient manuals because he lived long enough and had sufficient knowledge.
Even so, the superficial knowledge that the elder had introduced Ou Yangming to the field, where he gained so understanding of formation masters. Moreover, he also began to derive formation maps through Skill Runes and his knowledge.
Until today, Ou Yangming sowhat had little insight, which was why he could create formation boards and use them against his opponents.
Yes, if those round boards could be considered formation boards.
As compared to real formation boards that could be used multiple tis according to legend, Ou Yangming’s round boards were as crude as they could be. Furthermore, they were also one-ti consumables.
Nevertheless, the round boards worked together with the spiritual world that Ou Yangming released and unleashed their greatest potentials.
Lu Zhenxie and the 4 spirit lizards were captured by the formation’s mightiness just like that. They were then attacked by Ou Yangming and Big Yellow, and they ended up dying without peace.
Without the formation map’s assistance, even if Ou Yangming released the lazy turtle, he could not have killed his enemies easily.
Now, Ou Yangming set his target on high-rank spirit beasts, which were even more powerful. Therefore, he had higher demands for formation boards.
“Woosh...”
As Ou Yangming’s fire burned intensely and enveloped the round board, he slowly created rune paths that belonged to him on it.
He was already very familiar with the process, such that he would not make any mistake even if he closed his eyes. Nonetheless, the young fellow was not quite satisfied with his work. This was because he knew he was not carving a formation, but a Skill Rune.
Besides, if he carved runes on such raw ores, once they were activated, the forceful powers would destroy the runes.
Ou Yangming could not help but sigh when he sensed the rune slowly taking form.
Big Yellow blinked and asked in shock, “Lil’ Ming, what are you unhappy about?”
The young fellow shook his head and said, “I just find sothing odd—if I use these ores to smith a piece of equipnt, why won’t the equipnt’s skill destroy it? On the other hand, if I refine a round board with these ores, the skill that’s activated will ruin the board.”
Big Yellow’s eyes flickered. Ou Yangming’s question was undoubtedly obscure to it.
Despite that, it tilted its head for so ti and blurted, “Perhaps it’s because they have different shapes.”
Ou Yangming could not help but laugh but on second thought, he seed to have vaguely comprehended sothing.
A Skill Rune on a piece of equipnt could only be incited at the cost of the user’s spiritual power, whereas a round board that was carved was not driven by spiritual power. Instead, its mightiness was the result of the power of the rune attached to it.
Ou Yangming’s eyes glowed unusually as he seed to have grasped an important piece of information.
He turned his wrist and retrieved a real formation board.
This was the formation board that he stumbled upon before he entered the Wutong Tree’s secret realm. Once Xia Zizhen and Poisonous Saber Gentleman died, it naturally belonged to him.
As he inspected the formation board carefully, the lusters in his eyes changed unpredictably.
The ends of the rune paths on the formation board were connected, hence amateurs would not be able to notice anything.
Without pointers from a real formation master, other people could not spot anything even if they knew Rune Secret Techniques.
The formation board had been in Ou Yangming’s possession for so ti, and he took so ti to observe it almost every day. However, the closer he observed, the more he saw, and the more appalled he was. This was because he could not record the complicated rune paths.
It was nearly impossible. Even when his ntal power was so remarkable, he could not rember even a part of the rune paths.
The only explanation would be the formation map was being resisted by a wonderful effect that it had.
Ou Yangming’s ntality was entirely different when he held the formation in his hand at the mont.
Big Yellow’s unintentional words seed to have overthrown an invisible wall, allowing him to see the formation board from a new perspective.
‘Formation board, formation board. This is a treasure carved by a formation master, and it’s given a mysterious color.
‘In other words, can this formation board be treated as a formation master’s equipnt?’
With half-squinted eyes, Ou Yangming fully released his ntal power and beca imrsed in studying the formation board.
Before this, he regarded the item as an imperceivable treasure, where he was in awe when he observed it. Even when he occasionally carried out experints, he only scratched the surface and dared not dive deeper.
This was because he was afraid of the formation board being ruined, then he would have nothing to study anymore.
At this point, he finally cast his worries aside.
‘Isn’t this just a formation master’s equipnt? I might not understand formations, but I know pieces of equipnt very well. With help from the Heavenly Phoenix Fire, I don’t believe that I can’t even apprehend a piece of equipnt.’
Ou Yangming completely focused on the formation board. His eyes were gleaming in ordinary lusters.
‘Equipnt, equipnt—this is an equipnt...’
The young fellow searched the formation board patiently. He no longer regarded it as a mysterious and unpredictable treasure. Instead, he treated it as a queer piece of equipnt.
He had smithed pieces of equipnt for himself, Big Yellow, and other beasts.
Pieces of equipnt for humans could be put aside as they were still similar even if there were slight differences between them. On the opposite, pieces of equipnt for beasts were totally different. Even among the Walking Beasts, there were countless strange pieces of equipnt.
The elephants, the Antelopes, the Wolves, and the other races had pieces of equipnt with dissimilar traits. Without being experienced enough, ordinary blacksmiths would not be competent enough to smith them.
Other than the Walking Beasts, pieces of equipnt for the Birds and the Insects were also eccentric, and they could not be treated normally.
As at this mont, Ou Yangming handled the formation map as if it was the strangest equipnt.
Eventually, Ou Yangming appeared to be agitated. Once he treated the board as a piece of equipnt, he found so clues indeed.
The rune paths on the formation board seed to have co alive and fluctuated, whereas Ou Yangming’s ntal power in his sea of consciousness surged as it wanted to imprint the fluctuations in his spiritual world.
Yes, his spiritual world—the exceptional world that was identical to the world’s origin and could turn sothing imaginary into sothing real in his subconscious.
Ou Yangming’s eyes began to look hollower. Upon noticing this, Big Yellow shook its body on the side as it sohow sensed an aura that made it shudder with fear.
It was deeply puzzled because the aura released by Ou Yangming seed to have exceeded the achievable limit according to his cultivation base.
The aura was not borrowed from the power of the dragon and the phoenix’s appearance; it ca from his abilities. That said, the pressure generated by the aura was much more intense than that of the middle-rank lizard, so much so that there was a substantial difference.
Ou Yangming’s fire scorched in his sea of consciousness at this ti. Amidst the endless sea of flas, runes were slowly ford one after another. The biggest characteristic of the runes was their similarity with the runes on the formation board, by which they did not have obvious starting and ending points.
It was as though the runes were an inseparable unit the instant they were born.
They started from the sa spot and ended on the sa point.
Every rune path was intertwined as if they could beco one with the world.
Ou Yangming’s body trembled slightly, and his breathing beca hurried yet powerful.
“I see, I... See!’
The young fellow suddenly withdrew his ntal conception from his sea of consciousness, and it was clear through his eyes that he was elated. He lifted his head and laughed out loud to express his wild joy.
Big Yellow widened its eyes. It could not understand why Ou Yangming went from pulling a long face to being so mad.
Ou Yangming stopped after so ti and slapped Big Yellow hard. “Big Yellow, I did it!”
The big yellow dog’s eyes lit up. “Really?”
“Of course.” Subsequently, Ou Yangming retrieved enough materials from his interspatial bag and said, “I’ll make an attempt. If I succeed, we should start acting.”
Big Yellow nodded eagerly. It was surprised yet overjoyed.
Following that, Ou Yangming grunted and released his fire to envelope an ore, then he quickly changed its shape.
It took only a brief mont for a round board to appear in his fire. Nevertheless, this ti, instead of only looking impressive, the round board emitted a peculiar luster as soon as it was ford.
Afterward, the luster grew brighter and was almost on par with Ou Yangming’s fire.
The young fellow exhaled deeply after 15 minutes. When he curbed his fire, the luster on the round board disappeared at the sa ti.
Ou Yangming carried the round board and sensed the thin paths on it.
There were no beginnings and ends for the paths, where the starting and ending strokes could not be seen. This was because the paths and the round board appeared at the sa ti. Instead of being carved separately, they were presented as a whole.
Distinctive energy was released from the round board, causing it to emit a mysterious luster.
Ou Yangming smiled brighter as he was happier.
It turned out that the formation boards refined by formation masters were not carved, but were molded through ingenious workmanship.
This was a layer of glass paper. If it was not broken at all, most people would never have guessed the truth.
Since Ou Yangming grasped it by accident, he could learn by analogy and display what he learned as much as possible.
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