9: Lost Void Formation

“It’s been about a month since I left Long Village, hasn’t it? I wonder how Long Village is doing now? Have the village chief and the guardian discovered that I’m missing?

However, even if they discover I’m missing, they probably won’t mobilize the entire village to search for me.

Before entering Immortal Severing Mountain, I even left a handwritten letter by my bedside, saying that I missed my mother and aunt and was going to find them.

Hehe, from Long Village to Thunder Dragon Royal City, even by beast carriage, it takes half a month. Going to the Imperial City takes two months. They don’t know whether I went to Thunder Dragon Royal City to find my mother or to the Imperial City to find my aunt. Even if they report it to Thunder Dragon Royal City, my father probably won’t have an easy time finding me.

It should be fine to return in two or three months after this trip.

The most pressing matter is to Cultivate diligently and first improve my Formation Dao cultivation.”

Sitting cross-legged in the center of the third-layer spatial world of the Nine Treasures Glazed Chaos World Tower, Long Aotian began to browse Ao Zhan’s memories.

Ao Zhan, after all, was a super ancient powerhouse who had cultivated for an unknown number of years. He clearly understood what Long Aotian needed at this stage.

When performing the sacrificial memory Legacy for Long Aotian, the memories he sealed away were basically his memories from the Upper Realm, which were of no help to Long Aotian’s current cultivation.

The unsealed portions of memory, however, were carefully selected by him—memories that would be helpful or potentially useful for a Lower Realm cultivator’s cultivation.

Long Aotian was still very weak. As his Revered Master, Ao Zhan had to consider the capacity of Long Aotian’s Sea of Consciousness world to receive his memories. The unsealed portion of memories could not be without deletions.

For example, the useless time memories of him sleeping in the stone cave hall of Immortal Fall Cave for several millennia, where nothing changed and it was monotonous day after day, could be selectively erased.

Although it was a sacrificial memory Legacy, Ao Zhan could still selectively erase such sleeping time memories that were completely useless to Long Aotian.

Of course, if Long Aotian’s Sea of Consciousness world had been strong enough, Ao Zhan definitely wouldn’t have bothered with such an effort.

Long Aotian was his disciple, after all.

He couldn’t help but consider his disciple’s current weakness, the fragility and limited extent of his Sea of Consciousness world… Therefore, the unsealed portion of memories was carefully selected by Ao Zhan. Long Aotian quickly found what he was looking for in the memories:

Various cultivation knowledge manuals, Jade Slips, insights, and Formation-setting processes for Lower Realm cultivators’ Formation Dao. The resources available for him to learn the Formation Dao in Ao Zhan’s memories were so numerous that they dazzled him.

During the browsing process, Long Aotian actually discovered another ancient Formation that wasn’t even recorded in the Long Family’s Cultivation Technique Pavilion:

Void Formation!

The Long Family’s Cultivation Technique Pavilion might lack other things, but it had an abundance of introductions to the Martial Arts World. However, Long Aotian, who had already read all the collections in the Cultivation Technique Pavilion, was absolutely certain that their Long Family’s Cultivation Technique Pavilion contained no information regarding Void Formations.

This was an incredibly ancient, even lost, Formation.

The method of setting up this Formation was also very special. It didn’t require refining Formation Flags, nor did it need Spirit Stones or Magic Treasures as Formation eyes. Instead, it used Divine Sense to directly engrave the Formation in the Void Realm.

Mysterious and miraculous!

Furthermore, from Ao Zhan’s memories, Long Aotian also learned that Void Formations were far stronger than ordinary Formations.

Yes, other Formations could only be considered ordinary Formations in the face of Void Formations, and people basically only knew ordinary Formations, not Void Formations.

The fundamental reason was that Void Formations were simply too difficult to learn.

Even in the era when Void Formations were first created, not many people learned them.

The scarcity of practitioners led to insufficient momentum, which in turn caused its loss.

Nowadays, few, if any, Lower Realm cultivators, or even ancient cultivation Families and Sects, are aware of the existence of such Formations.

Even if they know, they don’t know how to learn them.

But it must be said that the power of Void Formations, once mastered, absolutely makes one the king among Formation Masters.

A First-level Void Formation is comparable to a Second-level ordinary Formation, and even slightly stronger than a Second-level ordinary Formation. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the Peak level of a Second-level ordinary Formation or a quasi-Third-level ordinary Formation.

Upon seeing this, Long Aotian’s heart was filled with excitement.

If he were to learn Void Formations and raise them to the Tenth level, who among the Lower Realm cultivators would be his opponent?

A Tenth-level Void Formation is comparable to a First-level Immortal Formation.

Could any Lower Realm cultivator who hadn’t undergone Ascension to the Upper Realm and become an Immortal break his First-level Immortal Formation?

It could be said that as long as his Void Formation broke through to the Tenth-level Formation realm, even if his cultivation wasn’t strong enough, he would be an invincible existence in the Lower Realm.

Powerful Formation Masters are very terrifying.

In both the Lower Realm’s Martial Arts World and the Upper Realm’s Martial Arts World, there is a saying about Formation Masters:

“Better to provoke the King of Hell than the King of Formations!”

“The Grand Void Dragon Clan truly lives up to its name as the king of the Void Realm. This Void Formation was already in a lost state even in primeval times.

However, the creator of the Void Formation back then seems to have had a deep connection with the Grand Void Dragon Clan. The Grand Void Dragon Clan has always preserved the methods for setting up this Formation, to prevent anyone from using it to deal with the Grand Void Dragon Clan.

Void Formation, I must learn it!”

Knowing the power of Void Formations and having the relevant knowledge and Formation-setting experience for learning them, Long Aotian was naturally deeply moved by Void Formations.

In the third-layer spatial world of the Nine Treasures Glazed Chaos World Tower, where nine days passed inside for every one day outside, Long Aotian entered a state of self-forgetful Formation cultivation.

Before learning Void Formations, Long Aotian still had to learn ordinary Formations first.

Although he was incredibly moved and eager for Void Formations, emotion was one thing, eagerness another. Setting up a Formation to seal the entrance of Immortal Fall Cave was an urgent matter.

Long Aotian could still distinguish between what was more and less important.

The method for learning Void Formations was there, it wouldn’t run away. No matter how urgent, it wasn’t within these ten days or half a month; there would be plenty of opportunities and time to learn it.

Soon, Long Aotian entered the state of learning ordinary Formations. With Ao Zhan’s memories assisting him, he could see the entire process of setting up Formations clearly in his memories.

His Formation Dao cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

In just ten days, Long Aotian’s Formation Dao cultivation broke through to the First-level ordinary Formation Master realm.

And outside, only a little over a day had passed.

Long Aotian didn’t dare to be overconfident. He first went to the entrance of Immortal Fall Cave, used Top-Grade Spirit Stones to set up a First-level isolation Formation and a First-level concealment Formation, and then returned to the stone cave hall, entering the third-layer spatial world of the Nine Treasures Glazed Chaos World Tower to continue cultivating and improving his Formation Dao cultivation…