Chapter 172
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Chapter 172: Formation Logic
Yun Ye set up a table and chairs under the shade of a tree and was engraving spirit patterns on a metal rod.
Outside the shade was the schoolyard.
Tian Jing, who had grown a lot taller, was experimenting with Combination Spiritual Law alongside Ning Xiao.
The two used various powers of Perfect Spirit, attempting to amplify their strength.
In addition to them, Tong Huo Yang, Chai Xin, and some new generation Spiritual Law practitioners were present; there were a total of twelve Spiritual Law practitioners, not including Yun Ye.
This situation had been going on for a long time.
With the strength of the Tomorrow Society, defeating Baishi Town couldn’t rely on individual power.
Therefore, the higher-ups of the Tomorrow Society unanimously agreed on a collective approach.
Using formations to gather everyone’s strength is the true path that holds real hope!
This is also what Yun Ye believed to be the most promising route.
The power of formations is not simply 1+1=2; the actual effect far exceeds that.
With the Tomorrow Society mastering Perfect Spirit, the arrangements for formations could be even more powerful. There might be a real chance to gather everyone’s strength to confront the law realms.
But the question was, how to create formations that unleash the greatest power?
After carving the final stroke, Yun Ye put down his tools and looked at everyone, lost in thought.
“Formations are different from Weapon Forging; Weapon Forging uses fixed spirit patterns, while formations are constantly changing. Perfectly adapting to these changes is the reason for a formation’s strength.”
“The more people involved, the harder it is to control the formation. If not controlled well, the only option is to reduce its power to increase stability, turning it into a simple ‘input energy → gather energy → unleash energy’ type of formation.”
Yun Ye shook his head.
This would lose the essence of a formation.
The power of a formation lies in its ability to unify various energies, creating a tightly-knit field, allowing one unit of energy to produce three units or even more in effect.
Simply gathering energy means it lacks ‘spirit’ and ‘attributes’, resulting in much weaker power in the end.
“Each person’s spirit energy is different. Even among those with the same attributes, if adjustments aren’t made, they can’t merge. As for those with different attributes, it’s even more impossible; the more people involved, the greater the challenge.”
“In this case, most formations will choose people with the same attributes to minimize differences. This method is fine for general use but is far from enough to reverse the gap in realms.”
“In Baishi Town’s teachings, to make these different energies effective, they must be transformed beforehand to reduce differences. The top-level formations handle this faster, but at the same time, they require greater skill from the main formation master.”
A formation master is not just a title; it truly reflects one’s realm.
Some formations must be used by a formation master; otherwise, their power diminishes significantly.
Formation masters are generally Spiritual Law practitioners.
If Spiritual Law practitioners have various spirit tools as their weapons, then for Spiritual Law practitioners, formations serve as their weapons.
In this world, powerful spirit tools are incredibly rare. If they are weaker, they can’t compare to formations that can be easily set up.
It is essential to know that using formations requires ‘computational power’ and ‘Spirit Sense’, which are inherently suited for Spiritual Law practitioners.
Yun Ye’s frustration came from the fact that they didn’t have a main formation master among them, leaving them unable to share the burden of this computation.
A powerful main formation master could elevate the power of the formation to an astonishing realm.
Yun Ye struggled to set up the formation alone, feeling flustered and chaotic, making it clear he could not be the main formation master.
Thinking about this, Yun Ye took out a pen and wrote in his notebook.
“With no talent for calculations, I can only optimize the calculation method…”
“But that also requires a genius!”
As Yun Ye wrote, he felt overwhelmed!
It might sound simple to talk about optimizing. Spiritual Law has developed so much; it appears that understanding plays no role in innovation, so why is it proving difficult now?
However…
The difference between directly applying knowledge and creating it alone is vast!
Optimizing the calculation method seems easy, but just one example reveals its difficulty.
Imagine eight shelves, and each shelf holds eight apples.
Without a calculation method, using a foolish approach would mean counting one by one, 1 + 1 + 1 all the way to 64, requiring 63 calculations…
But with the multiplication table, you only need to count horizontally eight times and vertically eight times, then you can directly get sixty-four using a formula.
While setting up the formation, Yun Ye kept reciting, essentially using a fantasy version of the multiplication table to assist with calculations, simultaneously completing formation control through formulas and hand signs.
Yun Ye could manage to create one multiplication formula, but as for various objects’ perimeters, areas, volumes, and the basics like the Pythagorean theorem, tangent theorem, and sine theorem…
Just thinking about the further developments of these formulas and theorems gave Yun Ye a headache.
Can a mortal create such things?
Forget about creating them; how many people can even use them well?
For example, the Spiritual Herbs in Yun Ye’s Secret Realm could grow a certain number of peak-year Spiritual Herbs in a year. It sounds like a simple question, but once he laid out the formulas, Yun Ye was confused; he wouldn’t be able to solve that equation without a calculator…
(I can just be lazy: 7 days/2 * 50 plants = 6 months, and the numbers are definitely not accurate.)
In other words, even if he knew all the formulas, there might be a situation where he wouldn’t know how to use them.
That is very real.
Spirit patterns are somewhat better than formations since they have fixed processes, allowing Yun Ye to memorize them and become skilled through repetition.
But formations rely entirely on talent; either you have it, or you don’t.
Does Yun Ye seem like the wise type?
Not at all.
When he transformed into the liberated form, Yun Ye had already joked about his own intelligence, admitting he was at an ordinary person’s level.
He could use modern knowledge to deconstruct cultivation knowledge and spark new insights, but he couldn’t innovate.
“This is troublesome; it looks like I can only wait for Yuexin to grow up… But even so, it won’t be enough.”
Sighing, Yun Ye glanced over at the grass.
The half-year-old Yuexin was happily stacking various buildings with blocks, her imagination running wild.
Yuexin had an A-level understanding, and her Growth Speed far surpassed her peers.
However, even so, she would not achieve significant accomplishments before turning ten; she was just an A-level talent in Baishi Town, with S-level and EX-level talents above her.
“Master? Want to play together?”
She happened to look over and waved her hand cutely.
Yuexin was a very lively child, but perhaps due to the unique way she was born, her hair and eyes were pure white, clear like moonlight. In the black-haired and black-eyed environment of the Tomorrow Society, she was quite distinctive.
Yun Ye chose the name Yuexin, inspired by her features.
After staring at Yuexin for a while, Yun Ye seemed to ponder.
“Master? Aren’t you going to play?”
Yuexin called out again.
“Yuexin, with your good spirits, it seems you’ve rested enough; come over and start learning… What is our motto?”
Yun Ye immediately reached out and lifted the little girl to sit on the side.
“To study for the rise of tomorrow?”
Yuexin tilted her head.
“Exactly!”
“So let’s work hard!”
With a bang, a pile of books fell in front of Yuexin.
