Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 126 Formation - Thorns Encircling

Metal and wood elements cannot be directly combined, but water element can be used as a medium to create many possibilities.

Water elemental energy can enhance the effectiveness of wood elemental energy, while metal elemental energy can enhance the effectiveness of water elemental energy.

Therefore, ideally, these three can coexist peacefully within the same system.

Of course, this doesn't mean that randomly dividing the spiritual energy of metal, water, and wood into three parts will allow them to coexist peacefully. If things were that simple, the Dao of Formations wouldn't be so difficult to master.

If the three types of spiritual energy are mixed arbitrarily, the best result will be that none of the three types of spiritual energy can exert their due effect. As for the worst result, it is hard to predict.

The difficulty lies in how to isolate the metal element spiritual energy from the wood element spiritual energy; otherwise, it is impossible to prevent the two from attacking and restraining each other.

Zhou Qing put in a lot of effort to find a unique frequency band for each of the three.

Zhou Qing refers to it as the target frequency band.

The water elemental energy in the target frequency band has fluctuation characteristics that perfectly encompass the fluctuations of the metal elemental energy.

When the two are superimposed, it's like a small ripple hidden behind a large ripple. The effect only shows the characteristics of the large ripple, while hiding the characteristics of the small ripple.

When this superimposed ripple pattern is combined with the ripple pattern of the Green Vine Entangling Spell, the effect is only to show the strengthening of the wood elemental energy by the water elemental energy.

Then Zhou Qing cleverly used the "sudden interruption method" when constructing the formation.

Using this method to construct an array can cause the effects of certain runes to suddenly cease when they reach their limit.

Zhou Qing applied this method to water spirit runes.

When the formation is complete and the Green Vine Entanglement spell unleashes its power, drawing out three wrist-thick vines nearly two zhang long to wrap around the enemy, the water elemental energy suddenly stops, and the gold elemental energy hidden behind it reveals its effectiveness.

Since the Green Vine Entanglement spell had already taken shape at this point, the Golden Spiritual Energy could not immediately dispel the spell, but instead exhibited the characteristics of two superimposed properties.

From the phenomenon, it appears that the vines that the green vines have been cultivating suddenly sprout a layer of fine, sharp metallic thorns. These thorns are purely formed from metal spiritual energy, have extremely strong defense-breaking ability, and can also strengthen the protection of the vines themselves.

After the formation was successfully constructed, Zhou Qing had it tested. It was confirmed that a cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining could activate it, and its power was enough to threaten a cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining. Although it was not fatal, it could still cause considerable trouble.

If you were to encounter an enemy at the same Qi Refining Level 2, once you were entangled by thorns, a gentle pull would tear off large chunks of flesh.

The maximum power of this formation can reach nine even stronger thorny vines, capable of destroying even the defenses of a Qi Refining Level 9 cultivator.

Its power is more than one level greater than the previous Green Vine Entanglement.

The only drawback is that this formation is much more complex than the previous Green Vine Encircling Formation.

The original Green Vine Encircling Formation had only seven runes. Zhou Qing simplified it to five runes, and later strengthened it, resulting in nine runes after the formation was completed.

In terms of array formation evaluation, this is almost the limit of a Yellow-grade array formation. Zhou Qing is not sure if it can be made into a talisman for sale.

Zhou Qing copied down the formation he renamed "Thorn Encirclement" and went to Cheng Feipeng for advice.

Cheng Feipeng's villa was located near the foot of the mountain. When Zhou Qing arrived, he was still cleaning the house, especially weeding the yard.
These tasks could have been left to the servants, but Cheng Feipeng suddenly found himself with nothing to do and decided to take matters into his own hands.

He didn't use any magic; he just squatted on the ground, idly pulling at the weeds in the yard while contemplating his predicament.

He felt both humiliated and angry.

He had struggled in the Array Court for nearly twenty years, only to be ruthlessly kicked out. This was the root of his humiliation. But his anger wasn't for himself; it was for Zhou Qing. Cheng Feipeng knew Zhou Qing's talent very well. Such a genius should have been nurtured with all his might, but now, because of the prejudice and personal grudges of a few individuals, he was forced to sever ties with the Array Court.

The presence of such people who are jealous of and hinder the virtuous is a sign of the decline of a sect, and even a sign of the decline of all organizations in the world.

Just as Cheng Feipeng was sighing about this, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He walked over and opened the door, seeing Zhou Qing standing outside, and smiled, "What brings you here?"

Zhou Qing handed the array to him and said with a smile, "Uncle-Master, please take a look at it for me."

"A new formation?"

Cheng Feipeng's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to read it carefully.

"It looks like vines twining around, but it's much more complicated."

Cheng Feipeng said, "There are more gold and water runes. Wow, what a brilliant idea. You want to use water spiritual energy to hide gold spiritual energy, and then use the sudden severing method to cut off the water spiritual energy, so that the gold spiritual energy can strengthen the green vines."

"But is this even possible? Have you tested this formation?"

Although Cheng Feipeng himself was not very creative, he was good at reading formations, so he quickly figured out the formation's design.

The idea of ​​using water to conceal metal energy is excellent, but having an idea is only the first step; turning an idea into reality is extremely difficult.

The biggest challenge is finding the perfect water rune combination that can hide the metal rune combination, which is a time-consuming project.

Cheng Feipeng secretly estimated that even with the complete tools of the court's research lab, it would take at least a year to realize this idea on his own.

Therefore, he was not entirely sure whether the formation had actually been implemented.

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "Here's a finished product, Uncle-Master can give it a try."

As he spoke, he wrapped the thorns written on the golden monkey skin around Cheng Feipeng's neck.

Cheng Feipeng was a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining, so activating the formation was naturally not a problem for him.

As the formation was activated, five vines, each as thick as a wrist, suddenly sprouted from the soil beneath Cheng Feipeng's feet. These vines did not resemble plants; rather, they looked like the limbs of some kind of monster, dancing continuously in the air in accordance with Cheng Feipeng's thoughts.

When the vines stretched to their limit, a layer of fine metallic thorns suddenly emerged, reflecting a chilling light in the sunlight.

After about fifteen minutes, the thorns on the vines gradually disappeared, and then the vines slowly withered, because the formation's effectiveness had been exhausted.

Looking at the golden monkey skin again, there were already several cracks on it. Cheng Feipeng estimated that if it was activated again, the array would be destroyed.

He had no time to care whether the array diagram was destroyed; he was completely stunned by the new array that Zhou Qing had constructed.

He was so excited that his whole body felt hot, as if even his seventh-level Qi Refining cultivation couldn't control the changes in his body. His voice trembled slightly as he said, "If this formation is made into talismans and sold, all the talismans wrapped in green vines on the market can be thrown away!"

Cheng Feipeng could see clearly that this formation could perfectly replace the Green Vine Encircling Formation.

It possesses all the effects of Green Vine Entanglement, but with enhanced capabilities, and adds a powerful lethality that Green Vine Entanglement does not have.

(End of this chapter)