Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 47: The First Formation

Just by reading this overview, Zhou Qing realized the profoundness of the formation.

If you want to achieve something in formation, you have to spend years and months on it.

Zhou Qing finally understood the concerns of Chen Qingxuan and the elders of Qingyun Sect.

The formation is so mysterious, so aren’t other methods like alchemy, weapon forging, talisman drawing, and even more dazzling spells also mysterious?

Those who are new to the path of Taoism, when they see these dazzling skills, may easily become addicted to them without paying attention, and thus neglect their practice.

An afternoon of sitting in silence cleared Zhou Qing's restlessness, and the effect began to show. He patiently read the book on the basics of formation symbols, word by word, sentence by sentence. Because he had few distracting thoughts, he remembered every word clearly and thought clearly.

Before I knew it, dawn had broken.

Zhou Qing stretched comfortably, took a short nap for a quarter of an hour, and then felt full of energy again.

He walked to the desk, picked up a pen, and planned to design a daily practice plan for himself.

Finally, he divided his practice into several parts. In the morning, he trained in magnetic field abilities, including practicing the accuracy of the iron ball technique and the ability to oscillate the magnetic field. In the afternoon, he sat in silence to clear his mind and restore the magnetic field energy consumed in the morning. In the evening, he practiced Qi refining for three hours. After completing the Qi refining, he read and studied formations.

Zhou Qing calculated that according to this plan, he only had two hours of rest every day.

It’s really fulfilling.

In other words, only cultivators can endure this kind of high-intensity hard training.

After making the plan, Zhou Qing was about to start the morning training when he suddenly remembered something.

Although he used the backdoor method to hack Fang Yuhe on a mission, this method cannot be used frequently after all.

Occasionally, you can still blame Fang Yu and yourself for the mistake, but if it happens too often, others will definitely become suspicious.

We still have to think of a separate way.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing entered the Soul Realm to see if there was any other solution.

As soon as he entered the Soul Realm, he saw several sticky notes on the bulletin board. He walked over to check and found that they were several tasks.

Zhou Qing was a little surprised and thought, today is really strange, why didn’t Fang Yuhe stop the task in advance?
Could it be that he suddenly had a change of heart and decided not to resort to the despicable tactics he used in the past?
Zhou Qing didn't care what Fang Yuhe was thinking, but since there was a task to be taken, he naturally wouldn't be polite.

He counted the number of people and found that the tasks required five people in total, so he returned to reality and selected four people by drawing lots.

Including Yuan Hongying who had agreed in advance, there were five people in total. He wrote these five names on a piece of note paper, and when their auras merged, the note paper disappeared, which meant that the task had been submitted.

Wang Xiaohu didn't come to visit today, so Zhou Qing had to visit everyone one by one and convey the task to everyone.

By the time he came back from his walk around, it was already noon.

The whole morning was wasted.

Zhou Qing felt extremely sad and couldn't help but wonder if there was any way to avoid this wasteful behavior.

He could delegate the task of notification to someone else, but that wasn't a long-term solution.

Zhou Qing wandered around the room for a while, and when he saw the book on the basics of formation symbols, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, wondering if he could try to set up a formation to achieve this.

This can also be considered a kind of practice, which can consolidate the theoretical knowledge you have learned.

Those powerful formations were extremely complex, often requiring thousands or even tens of thousands of runes, which was not something a beginner like him could handle. Moreover, the materials needed for such formations were extremely rare and expensive, and there was no way he could get them.

But simple formations are not that difficult.

He recalled the runes he had read yesterday and had a rough idea in mind, though he wasn't sure yet. He planned to spend some time thinking about it while he was studying that evening. In the afternoon, Zhou Qing sat in silence and cleared his mind as planned, and in the evening, he practiced Qigong.

After three hours of Qigong practice, Zhou Qing opened the book on the basics of formation symbols.

He began to recall the inspiration that had struck him during the day.

At that time, he thought of several runes he had seen. Once those runes were formed, they could vibrate spiritual energy of a specific frequency and form spiritual energy waves.

This made Zhou Qing think of ultrasound. Some animals, such as bats, can use ultrasound to replace vision.

If the ultrasonic wave encounters an obstacle during its propagation, it will be transmitted back and transmit the information to the person's ears.

Zhou Qing wondered if he could use aura waves, which would only react to specific individuals, so that he would have a way to locate them.

Of course, this is just a momentary inspiration and it will take a long time to produce any effect.

But at least he had a direction.

In the days that followed, Zhou Qing's life went strictly according to plan.

Train the magnetic field in the morning, meditate in the afternoon, and practice qigong and read in the evening.

With a goal in mind, Zhou Qing would naturally think while reading.

After three days, he finally formed his own design ideas.

He selected from the book on the basics of formation symbols a rune that could vibrate spiritual energy to form spiritual energy waves, and a rune that could retain the breath of others.

He combined the two runes so that the aura waves formed by the vibration would only react to the breath of a specific person. When the ripples touched that person's breath, they would return, so that he had the ability to locate a specific person.

Then he chose a rune that could temporarily condense fire-attribute spiritual energy to heat the air and form an upward airflow.

Finally he combined these runes and wrote them in cinnabar on tough vellum.

Because he had never studied formation structure, Zhou Qing naturally had no method in arranging these runes.

Fortunately, with the help of magnetic field induction, he can clearly sense the impact of different runes on spiritual energy.

In order to combine different runes into a formation, it is necessary to consider the mutual influence between the runes.

The more runes there are, the more complex the interaction becomes, and the more difficult it is to grasp.

Of course, these are all recorded in books, but Zhou Qing discovered the principle behind them using magnetic field induction.

He discovered that spiritual energy fluctuations of certain frequencies can be parallel to each other without affecting each other. Two fluctuations overlap in the same space without affecting each other, and can each play their own role.

These two runes can be perfectly combined.

However, some frequency fluctuations will repel each other. If such spiritual energy fluctuations overlap in the same space, they will only cancel each other out and will not have any effect.

These two runes simply cannot coexist.

Of course, there are many intermediate states between these two situations, that is, the two fluctuations will affect each other, but will not cancel each other out, thus producing a variety of special effects.

Zhou Qing used his own observations to continuously change runes with similar functions. After seven days of hard work, he finally carved out his first formation.

Although simple, it is of great significance.

Zhou Qing couldn't help but feel a little excited and immediately wanted to try the effect.

(End of this chapter)