Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 11 Formations and Weapon Forging

As spring turned to autumn, Chen Liang's mastery of formations improved day by day, and he also gained a better understanding of how to better utilize the power of heaven and earth and draw upon more of its strength.

Using this as a reference, Chen Liang was able to quickly understand the hidden mysteries in many techniques, thus integrating and even improving upon them.

In this process, some problems with the formation were also solved.

In this way, Chen Liang's study of formations and creation of cultivation techniques complemented each other. This led to his rapid advancement in formation skills and extremely smooth progress in creating cultivation techniques.

On the other hand, Chen Liang originally thought that alchemists and talisman masters were already quite lucrative. But now, Chen Liang has discovered that array masters are the most profitable of the four arts of cultivation.

For example, if the Xin family's array shop wanted to refine a Xuanwu array, even if they ordered the array plate from the Qi family's weapon refining shop at market price, the cost would only be around three hundred spirit stones.

However, a complete Xuanwu Formation costs over 1,200 spirit stones on the market, and there is no market for it.

If it weren't for the fact that only a minority of cultivators in the cultivation world could use high-level formations, Chen Liang had no doubt that the wealthiest people in the cultivation world were formation masters.

However, array formations are the most difficult to learn, relying entirely on the cultivator's personal comprehension, which makes array masters extremely rare in the cultivation world.

Moreover, array masters with poor skills earn far less than alchemists, talisman masters, and weapon refiners. Therefore, apart from highly skilled array masters or old array masters like Xin Xuji who have accumulated wealth over many years, ordinary array masters do not attract envy.

Some interesting things happened while Chen Liang was learning formations. Qi Xinliang's grandson, Qi Yunxiao, and Xin Ruyin were childhood sweethearts, and he had long had feelings for Xin Ruyin.

However, Xin Ruyin had no romantic feelings for Qi Yunxiao, which is why the Xin and Qi families did not become related through marriage.

Even so, Qi Yunxiao did not give up.

As Chen Liang and Xin Ruyin spent more and more time together, seeing how happily the two were chatting, Qi Yunxiao couldn't help but join in.

Although Qi Yunxiao is considered a genius in weapon crafting, and weapon crafting requires the use of many arrays and restrictions, weapon crafting is ultimately an art that emphasizes spiritual materials and downplays restrictions.

Chen Liang and Xin Ruyin are both unparalleled geniuses in formations, so Qi Yunxiao often finds himself in the awkward situation of not being able to keep up.

On the other hand, Chen Liang, in order to learn array formations, followed Qi Xinliang to learn some basic knowledge of weapon crafting, which was used to craft array flags and array plates.

As for the advanced knowledge of weapon crafting that followed, Qi Xinliang was unable to pass it on, because his family's weapon crafting tradition was inherited by a great clan, the Qi family of the renowned Divine Weapon Sect in the Yuanwu Kingdom.

So Chen Liang went to the Scripture Pavilion in Huangfeng Valley to copy a high-level weapon crafting manual, intending to study weapon crafting in detail later.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Liang was already twenty-one years old and had been a member of Huangfeng Valley for three years. Huangfeng Valley had recently held its once-every-ten-year apprenticeship ceremony.

This apprenticeship ceremony was very fruitful for Huangfeng Valley, as two young men from the Murong family with lightning spiritual roots and a child prodigy from the Wang family with the Xuan Yin Eye joined Huangfeng Valley.

However, the other six major sects of Yue Kingdom also reaped considerable rewards in their respective disciple-acceptance ceremonies, which caused much discussion among the Yue Kingdom cultivators, who declared that this year was a good year.

When the news reached Chen Liang through Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu, and Mo Fengwu, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "This year has indeed been a good year, it's just a pity that the six demonic sects are about to attack..."

At this time, Chen Liang had already created the cultivation method he envisioned, which he named the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing".

However, due to the issue of realms, the content of the Foundation Establishment stage in the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing" is complete, while the content of the Core Formation stage and even the Nascent Soul stage can only be considered as preliminary deductions.

Only after his cultivation level improves will Chen Liang be able to truly establish the concepts of the Core Formation stage and the Nascent Soul stage.

Moreover, Chen Liang's mastery of formations has surpassed that of Xin Ruyin and Xin Xuji, placing him among the ranks of formation masters. He can be said to have surpassed his teachers.

Although Xin Ruyin didn't say anything on the surface, she was somewhat unconvinced. If it weren't for cultivating the "Two Elements Unity Technique," Xin Ruyin believed she wouldn't have lost to Chen Liang.

After taking the He Yuan Dan, Xin Ruyin's Dragon Roar Body would indeed be safe for a long time to come. However, Xin Ruyin's Dragon Roar Body was not completely resolved, and the future backlash would be even more intense.

This result disappointed and even drove Xin Xuji to despair, because he really had no other way to save his only granddaughter.

Xin Ruyin was already quite content to be able to cultivate and live normally for a period of time, because she could finally focus on studying the art of formations. Coupled with her years of accumulated knowledge, Xin Ruyin's mastery of formations experienced a period of rapid progress.

It was around that time that Chen Liang began to learn formation techniques from Xin Ruyin. Later, while creating the cultivation method he needed, he also secretly developed a supplementary cultivation method for Xin Ruyin called "Two Elements Unity Technique".

The Dragon Roar Physique, if this physique were born in a man, would be a top-tier Yang-attribute special physique, which would be of great benefit to cultivation.

However, if a person with the Dragon Roar Body is mistakenly born into a woman's body, the excess high-quality Yang energy will scorch the woman's Yin-attribute meridians. Over time, even if the woman does not embark on the path of cultivation, she is destined to have a short life.

It is obvious that the most fatal flaw of the Mistakenly Born Dragon Roar Physique lies in the inherent conflict between Yin and Yang. Chen Liang's idea is simple: since it is a matter of Yin and Yang conflict, then let's resolve this conflict.

Chen Liang also has considerable experience in resolving conflicts, because when he created the "Little Hunyuan Gong", the first thing he had to solve was the problem of the conflict of the five elements.

When creating the "Hun Yuan Zhen Jing", the problem of the conflict between Yin and Yang also came to Chen Liang's attention.

Therefore, Chen Liang casually created the auxiliary cultivation method "Two Elements Unity Technique".

This auxiliary cultivation technique not only resolves the conflict between Yin and Yang, but also greatly increases a cultivator's success rate in forming their core. It would be priceless outside, but to Chen Liang, it was merely a byproduct of his cultivation process.

Even with such a derivative creation, Xin Ruyin found it very difficult to cultivate, because not everyone's divine sense possessed the terrifying insight of Chen Liang.

Leaving aside how Xin Ruyin outwitted and outmaneuvered the "Two Elements Unity Technique," Chen Liang now had to deal with the three women, Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu, and Mo Fengwu, who were visiting his cave.

Qi Refining stage cultivators in Yellow Maple Valley are not allowed to go out at will; if they do, they can only go out for a few days each year.

Furthermore, the three women, Mo Caihuan and Mo Caihuan, knew that Chen Liang would need to find a way to create his own cultivation technique after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage. Therefore, this was the first time they had visited Chen Liang's cave.

They commented on Chen Liang's carving skills as they walked deeper into the cave.

When they saw the Spirit Eye Spring in the center of the cave, Mo Caihuan, Mo Yuzhu, and Mo Fengwu all exclaimed that Chen Liang was lucky.

The group then sat down at a stone table next to the Spirit Eye Spring, sipping tea and chatting.