Swallowing the Stars: 100x Return for Teaching Apprentices

Chapter 43 "Eight Formations"

"Whoosh~~"

A figure clad in ice-blue armor sped past above the dark brown mountains.

After flying for a long time, the figure gradually slowed down and landed in a secluded valley full of rocks.

Qi Yuan sat on a huge black rock in the valley, and with a flick of his wrist, he took out two spatial rings.

"Sigh, wouldn't it be better for everyone to make money peacefully? Why do we have to fight and kill each other? Are you satisfied now?"

As Qi Yuan muttered to himself, he directly imprinted his spiritual mark onto the two spatial rings.

In an instant, two void spaces, one large and one small, appeared in his perception.

The larger one is about 200 meters square, while the smaller one is only about 100 meters in length, width, and height.

Both spaces contained a large number of items scattered around, but after searching through them, Qi Yuan was greatly disappointed.

"No way, one is a fourth-tier cosmic-level being and the other is a second-tier cosmic-level being, and that's all they have?"

Although there were many items in the two spatial rings, the most valuable ones were only of the third-tier superior-grade Origin Force weapon level.

All the miscellaneous items inside, if added together, might not even be as valuable as the fourth-tier Force battle blade 'Silent Soul Blade' in his hand.

"No wonder those two's eyes lit up when they saw me, a lone first-tier cosmic-level cultivator. I'm really too poor."

Qi Yuan had a slight understanding of the two men's motives.

In fact, in the powerful yet cold world of Swallowing the Stars, killing, plundering treasures, and seizing resources are almost the main themes of this world.

Driven by the pursuit of resources, interests, and territory, from individual battles to massive wars involving entire clans, bloodshed and slaughter occur almost constantly.

Especially for the most ordinary cultivators at the bottom of this world, this kind of struggle may seem particularly fierce and cruel.

After all, not everyone is a chosen one like Luo Feng, who received the powerful inheritance of the entire Meteorite Star lineage when he was still weak.

Later, he joined the Virtual Universe Company and basically never had to worry about cultivation resources again.

For most ordinary cultivators with average aptitude, they lack powerful opportunities or inheritances, and they also lack the outstanding talent to join a major power.

If they want to advance in their cultivation, or even just to survive, they have to constantly fight, kill, and try every means to obtain the resources they need. Sometimes, they are willing to risk their lives for even the smallest amount of cultivation resources!

This is not a novel, but a real world.

This place not only features legendary stories of geniuses rising to prominence at lightning speed, but also countless tragic tales of ordinary cultivators with no background struggling and striving their entire lives without making any progress.
After silently sighing for a moment, Qi Yuan threw all the miscellaneous items from the two spatial rings into the world ring he had just acquired.

Then, he manipulated a trace of world power contained in the world ring and randomly picked out a book from the six-story building filled with various books.

He had just come out of the cave when he encountered the two from Wuji Palace, and had not yet had time to carefully examine the contents of these books.

"I wonder what's so special about a book that's so treasured and collected by a realm lord?"

Swish!
With a thought, a huge book, nearly half a meter long, a foot wide, and almost the thickness of a palm, appeared in his hands.

The entire book cover is a dark gold color, with a line of bold characters written in a universal language: "Eight Formations - Gold".

"Eight Formations. Metal? What a strange name."

Qi Yuan opened the book cover with some confusion.

Suddenly, strands of twisted golden threads, resembling ghostly scribbles, entered Qi Yuan's vision. Upon seeing these twisted threads, the information contained within them involuntarily surfaced in Qi Yuan's mind.

Analysis of the 246231st basic formation combination in the Metal element of the Eight Laws Formation.

"Eight Laws Formation: Formation Analysis?"

Qi Yuan was slightly taken aback, then quickly searched the virtual universe.

Soon, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes.

He began to take out books one after another from the six-story building of the World Ring and read them.

"Eight Formations - Wind", "Eight Formations - Thunder", "Eight Formations - Fire"
Sure enough, all the book covers had names that began with 'Eight Formations' and included some kind of law attribute.

Moreover, the contents of each book are all detailed explanations of how to use the mysteries of certain laws to form special formations.

"So this is actually a lineage passed down by a formation master!"

Qi Yuan's eyes lit up.

Array masters also have a more familiar name—'Mystic Rune Masters'.

Whether they are array masters or rune masters, the essence of their profession is to use the mysteries of the laws they have mastered to form some special 'arrays' or 'runes' with special functions through a certain special combination.

These formations or secret patterns have a wide range of uses.

For example, when Luo Feng repaired the Meteorite Starship in the original novel, he asked the master rune makers of the Virtual Universe Company's modification department to add various powerful runes such as 'acceleration,' 'enhancement,' and 'power' to it, making the various functions of the Meteorite Starship reach an exaggerated level.

In addition, different formations or runes can be used on weapons and armor, defensive formations for castles or cities, and even various powerful technological weapons.

If a rune master is willing, they can easily become a weapon master, a spaceship design master, a battle armor master, and so on.

In short, the presence of rune masters is indispensable in almost every aspect of this world.

For this reason, the rune masters can be considered one of the wealthiest groups among countless cultivators!

However, becoming a rune master is not so simple.

First, one's own understanding of the laws must be high enough; otherwise, it is impossible to create sufficiently advanced secret runes.

Secondly, becoming a qualified rune master requires a sufficiently rich lineage.

After all, rune masters need to create special 'runes' with different effects according to different needs.

Without a sufficiently rich accumulation of basic knowledge of secret rune combinations, it is obviously impossible to meet this requirement.

Thinking of this, Qi Yuan unconsciously probed the six-story 'small building' within the World Ring, which was nearly eighty meters tall and had a base with a diameter of over thirty meters.

"The entire six-story building is filled with books about the 'Eight Formations,' so the array master (mystic master) inheritance I obtained should be quite substantial, right?"

Even if it's not enough, he still has the return system!
When the time comes, pour it into the hands of your disciples. With a return multiplier of hundreds or thousands of times, even if it's not plentiful, we'll make it 'plenty'!
Qi Yuan couldn't help but look forward to the day when he had a large number of disciples under his command, and each of them would become a leader in their respective fields under his guidance.

For example, the eldest brother is an unparalleled combat genius, the second brother is a powerful master of secret patterns and weapon crafting, the third brother is a top-notch pharmacist, and the fourth brother is a financial tycoon who is one in a billion.
At that time, I won't even need to personally intervene; a group of disciples alone will be enough to wipe out the primordial universe and destroy the cosmic sea.
That feeling, just thinking about it makes me excited!

However, he quickly gathered his thoughts after indulging in a brief moment of fantasy.

That kind of thing is still far away from me. My priority right now is to try to obtain more suitable resources in this secret realm ruins so that I can use them as the 'initial funds' for my return gift!

Sorry everyone, I'll be going back to my hometown for the next few days, so updates might be a little later each day, but I'll definitely still guarantee two chapters a day!
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