ninety thousand miles

Chapter 432 Sword Formation
Li Chuan immediately walked quickly to the middle of the semicircle and turned back to confirm: "Is this the place?"

Elder Mi said "hmm" softly, then turned to Mu Ling and said, "Let's get started."

Li Chuan watched Mu Ling make a few hand gestures, then remained motionless, staring straight ahead.

He looked forward along Mu Ling's line of sight, and suddenly dozens of swords in front of him shot up into the sky, interweaving in the air to form a sword formation that kept changing.

A sharp sword intent emanated from the sword formation.

The sword formation began to move.

A string of flying swords quickly passed in front of Li Chuan and then scattered in all directions.

Li Chuan watched for a while and found it quite interesting, so he simply sat down cross-legged and watched quietly. He carefully counted the swords in the sword formation, the swords flew too fast, he counted several times before he figured out that there were indeed only twenty-seven swords, but they danced with the momentum of hundreds of swords.

He looked at Mu Ling again.

Mu Ling's expression was solemn, and his movements were no longer as light as before. Each movement seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. Li Chuan was afraid of disturbing Mu Ling, so he turned around and continued to admire the changes in the sword formation.

After watching for a long time, he became familiar with several routines of the sword formation. Li Chuan gradually felt a little bored. He kept looking up and his neck was a little sore. So he changed his sitting position and looked at the swords on the island one by one.

The sunlight and sword light kept refracting on the swords of tens of thousands of swords. After watching for a while, Li Chuan felt dizzy and his eyes were swollen.

So he began to study the rune patterns winding on the ground.

Li Chuan recognized some runes, and based on them he deduced that the entire island was made of sword formations. Subconsciously, he concentrated his mind slightly and entered a mysterious state. The runes on the ground began to move in his vision.

He wanted to close his eyes and get out of this state. He needed to rest well and regain his energy, so that he could refine the Full Moon in one fell swoop when he returned to Jinyang Peak.

At this time, the sword formation controlled by Mu Ling passed before his eyes again.

This time, Li Chuan saw the structure of the sword formation clearly. The twenty-seven swords were constantly changing around three points. In his field of vision, runes and sword formations unfolded layer by layer. As he watched, he verified it with the "full moon" structure he had memorized in his mind.

Just as he had some ideas, the sword array flew over. Li Chuan came out of his state, stood up, turned around and stared at Mu Ling.

Mu Ling was still concentrating on the sword formation.

Elder Mi saw Li Chuan's expression, slowly walked up to him and asked, "What did you see?"

Li Chuan thought about it, shook his head, and asked: "Can I learn this sword formation?"

Hearing this, Elder Mi looked him up and down and said honestly, "I can't learn it."

"I know," Li Chuan also said honestly, "Just now I realized something from Brother Mu's sword formation, which happened to solve some of my recent doubts, so I want to learn it."

He had thought before that the "full moon" might be some kind of formation of the gods. He had looked for information in the library and went to the weapon refining hall to ask for advice from cultivators who were good at formations, but he got nothing.

When he saw the sword formation today by chance, he realized that he had been looking in the wrong direction before.

After hearing what Li Chuan said, Elder Mi asked, "How do you plan to learn?"

"Is there any sword manual or something I can take a look at?" Li Chuan asked.

Elder Mi shook his head and said, "No." He looked into the distance and said, "Everything in the sword formation is on this sword island. You can walk around freely. As for how much you can comprehend, it depends on you."

Li Chuan thought it was okay.

When he was about to go out, he saw the semicircular pattern on the ground again. He asked, "Is it dangerous to walk on the island?"

"Yes." said Elder Mi.

Li Chuan immediately retracted his leg. He wanted to refine the "full moon" and go to Yashan County. He was also thinking about whether he could go back to Yunqiao Township halfway. He couldn't lie down again. He glanced in the direction of Mu Ling. If it didn't work, he would choose a day after he finished today and ask him to control the sword formation to circle around him for hundreds or thousands of times.

Then, he noticed that Elder Mi was looking at him, so he said directly: "Elder Mi, can you demonstrate the sword formation for me?"

"Okay." Elder Mi said. He raised his hand and all the swords on Sword Island began to tremble.

"Wait a minute." Li Chuan said.

Elder Mi looked at him.

Li Chuan asked: "Can you use fewer swords?"

"How much?" asked Elder Mi.

Li Chuan thought for a moment and asked, "How many can he control at the beginning?"

Elder Mi knew that Li Chuan was referring to Mu Ling, so he replied, "Twenty-seven."

"It has always been twenty-seven swords..."

Elder Mi explained: "He realized the way of the sword formation in Ganyu Canyon. The sword formation he saw at that time was composed of twenty-seven swords. He learned the sword formation from me, and there was not much I could teach him. I just led him to recall his feelings that day."

"It doesn't matter how many swords you can control. Even if you are a cultivator who doesn't use swords at all, once you have reached a certain level of cultivation, you can control many swords with your mind divided. To them, it doesn't matter whether it's a sword, a knife, or flying sand and rocks. As for the sword formation, the important thing is the formation, not the swords."

"As long as it can form a formation, it doesn't matter whether it's one or tens of millions," said Elder Mi.

Li Chuan also said: "There are too many swords, I can't see them all."

Elder Mi thought for a while and said, "I understand." As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chuan heard a cracking sound in the air, and he quickly looked in the direction of the sound. What came into his eyes was twenty-seven swords gathered together, surrounded by a halo, piercing towards the sky.

boom.

Li Chuan saw a beam of light falling from the clouds, and twenty-seven swords shattered in the light, and the fragments fell down one after another.

He hurried to see Mu Ling.

Mu Ling's face flushed red. He wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve and said, "It's almost there. I thought I could do it today, but it looks like I'll have to do it next time. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."

Li Chuan said: "Be sure to call me again next time."

"Okay, but you have to wait a few days," Mu Ling agreed immediately, "I think every step I took was correct, why is it not working..."

"Look carefully." Elder Mi said, "Junior Brother Mu, you should also take a look. What you are missing is just a few details."

Li Chuan and Mu Ling stopped talking and focused on watching Elder Mi perform his actions.

As Elder Mi's gestures changed, a sword flew out from the cluster of swords and slowly circled around them, followed by the second, the third, and so on to the ninth.

Li Chuan looked intently.

As Elder Mi deliberately slowed down, Li Chuan finally saw clearly. He saw some rules in it. In his mind, there were also some units of a big circle with three small circles inside, which were constantly being pieced together and changing.

It was not until the sky on Jiandao Island was completely dark that Elder Mi stopped the demonstration. He said, "Let's stop here today."

Li Chuan and Mu Ling expressed their gratitude.

(End of this chapter)