Chapter 112 Infinite Nesting Doll Formation
"I want to, but you can't learn the formation in one go."

Lin Qingshan shrugged. He wanted to find someone who could take over his job more than anyone else, but the threshold for becoming a formation master was high, and it was not something that could be solved by taking a few days of introductory math classes.

However, he also believed that with the promotion of numerical education, even if those residents could not surpass himself, it would not be a problem for them to become a qualified formation master.

"So we need to let them learn and practice at the same time. It just so happens that I brought back a lot of jade and some iron tools from the mortal world this time, which is enough for them to practice."

Fang Chen took out a storage bag, which contained the refining materials he had collected from the mortal world this time.

Including those jade ores and ironware in Huanglong City.

"There are so many jades? Now I am more confident that I can stop the Jindan cultivator who can't use his true energy."

Lin Qingshan took the storage bag, scanned it with his spiritual sense, and was a little shocked by the amount of jade ore inside.

However, he was also a knowledgeable man and soon realized that these jade stones would be a strong foundation for him to set up the formation.

An expression of excitement appeared on his face.

Setting up a formation that can block Jindan cultivators during the Qi training period is definitely an unprecedented innovation.

Although this Jindan cultivator was unable to use his true energy due to the terrain, that was not important.

As long as he is a Jindan cultivator, it will be fine.

"So what kind of formation are you planning to set up?"

Fang Chen himself was also somewhat interested in the formation. Just as Lin Qingshan mentioned the protective formation, he asked with interest.

"The formation is based on the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams, combined with the One Yuan, Two Yin and Yang, Three Talents, and Four Symbols..."

When it comes to formations, Lin Qingshan talks endlessly.

However, Fang Chen did not quite understand the first sentence and interrupted him quickly: "Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation Base? Are two types of formation bases used?"

Fang Chen also knew some knowledge about formations, such as the formation base, which refers to the number and position of the formation's eyes.

When Lin Qingshan said that the formation base was the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, he subconsciously thought that the other party meant to use two formation bases at the same time.

However, the number and orientation of the array eyes of the Nine Palaces Array and the Eight Diagrams Array are different. How can they be used at the same time?
"Of course it is one type of array, but it is not wrong to say it is two types. After all, it is a combined array."

Lin Qingshan was not annoyed by Fang Chen's interruption and patiently explained to him.

He knew that Fang Chen came into contact with the formation through jade slips that were everywhere in Lianyunfang City. The content in the slips was too simple and many things were not explained in depth.

It's normal to have such doubts.

"Combined array base?"

This is another term that Fang Chen has never heard of.

So Lin Qingshan kindly started the introduction from here.

Just as Fang Chen knew, the array base was used to determine the number and position of the array eyes.

Among them, the Yi Yuan and Liang Yi formations have no requirements for directions.

The former needs no explanation, it is just a formation eye, direction and such have nothing to do with it.

As for the Liangyi Formation Base, although it has two formation centers, the two formation centers are always on the same plane no matter how they are placed, and can be connected in a straight line.

So the direction has no effect on it.

As for the Three Talents, Four Symbols, Five Elements, Six Combinations, Seven Stars, Eight Trigrams, and Nine Palaces, they generally all have requirements for directions.

The center of the Sancai formation requires the three directions of up, middle and down, and they must be on a straight line. The Four Symbols are east, west, south and north; the Five Elements are east, west, south, north and center, and they are all required to be in the same plane.

After arriving at the Liuhe formation base, the situation began to become complicated.

Fang Chen used the Liuhe formation base when he created the restrictions in the immortal palace.

He learned through the jade slips that the Liuhe formation base required the directions of up and down, east and west, south and north, but this was only the most classic Liuhe formation base.

In fact, the Liuhe formation base has two variants.

It can be east, west, south, north, middle, or top, or east, west, south, north, middle, or bottom. In short, it is to combine the one element array base with the five elements array base.

There are even formation masters who believe that the most classic Liuhe formation base is the combination of the Liangyi formation base and the Sixiang formation base, which has also been supported by many formation masters.

The Seven Star Formation Base is even more chaotic.

The most basic seven-star array base is to overlap and invert two equilateral triangles whose sides are multiples of seven to form a hexagram. The apex and center of the hexagram are the locations of the eye of the seven-star array base.

In addition, it can also be combined with the Three Talents array base and the Four Symbols array base, and the directions are up, down, east, west, south, north and center.

There is still a pattern to follow here. The key is that the Yin-Yang array base, the Five Elements array base, the Yuan array base and the Liuhe array base can all be combined into the Seven Star array base, which makes it difficult to determine its direction.

There is no need to say more about the Bagua formation and the Jiugong formation, the combinations are so numerous that it is dizzying.

Basically it depends on the attainments of the array master.

Only a formation master with sufficient skills can combine different formation bases.

After all, the combination of the array base is not just a simple change of quantity and direction. How to combine it and the distance between each array eye all need careful calculation.

A formation master like Lin Qingshan, who has a unique talent in formation and first-class numeracy skills, can even combine the Nine Palaces Formation Base with the Eight Trigrams Formation Base to form a unique Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation Base.

There are a total of seventeen formation points.

Fang Chen could only barely keep up with his explanation.

That's pretty good.

Lin Qingshan has also introduced these basic common sense to other residents of the Immortal City in the past few days, and their performance has been even worse.

After listening to a little bit, I felt dizzy and as if I was listening to a foreign language.

Fang Chen can at least keep up with the pace.

"It turns out there are so many tricks in the formation."

After listening to Lin Qingshan's explanation, Fang Chen also felt that his head was a lot bigger. He couldn't help but sighed, and then asked: "So you plan to combine the Nine Palaces Array Base and the Eight Diagrams Array Base, with a total of seventeen array points? Didn't you say a few days ago that there were several thousand array points?"

Even the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams formation base only has seventeen formation centers. Compared with the thousands of first-grade low-grade magic tools that Lin Qingshan had to refine to serve as formation centers before he went to the mortal world, the number has been reduced a lot.

You can't put several magical weapons in one formation.

"Seventeen formation cores? Yes, in the end there are indeed only seventeen formation cores, but these seventeen formation cores are all composed of formations."

Hearing Fang Chen talk about this, Lin Qingshan smiled, revealing a bit of pride.

"What does this mean?"

Seeing his expression, Fang Chen's curiosity was aroused, and he hurriedly asked.

"It means exactly what it says. Each of the seventeen formation eyes of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation is a formation method, and the formation eyes in these formation methods are also formation methods. Further down, the formation eyes are ordinary first-level magic weapons."

Lin Qingshan proudly introduced his masterpiece.

Fang Chen felt his scalp tingling after hearing this.

What kind of infinite nesting doll formation is this?

But after coming to his senses, he calculated in his mind according to Lin Qingshan's statement, and felt something was wrong, so he quickly said: "According to your method, wouldn't it require more than 80,000 array points? Where do we get the time and materials to refine so many first-level magic tools?"

"Not all arrays used as the center of the array are based on the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams array. Of course, we can change it in this direction in the future, which will make the array's defensive capabilities even stronger."

Lin Qingshan rolled his eyes at Fang Chen, but the situation Fang Chen described was indeed his future plan.

If there really were more than 80,000 array points, then even if it was a Jindan cultivator who used all his strength, he would be confident that he could keep the opponent out of the array.

The prerequisite is that the spiritual energy supply in the formation can hold up.

　Today is the first update. I was too busy during the day and haven’t had dinner yet. I’m typing while waiting for the takeaway. I’ll update the second chapter before midnight.

　　
　
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