Chapter 441: Valley (1/2)

For the next month, Sam is on the constant move, he cleared almost one-third of the island. Then only he realized that it is almost impossible to clear the whole island in three months. Because it is hard to find the formations on the island. It is just that Sam was initially lucky enough to enter a place with many untouched formations.

But most of the formations which are easier to find are almost emptied by previous visits and due to Sam's extra advantage in numbers which made it easier for him to explore more area in the same time and resulted in him find a few unexplored parts.

The whole time, he acted near the borders of the island and a little deeper, he didn't go too much inside to explore this place.

He wanted to deal with the place step by step.

As for his friends, he didn't see them all this while, they must have been far inside.

He cleared the shore and some of the land of the island and got every single of the formations in this specific area. But even then, he didn't find a single formation that is related to the island movement, at least he couldn't identify one.

But this one month did help him a bit. His research for the inscription array has increased and every time he took a break, he started researching and experimenting over this array arrangement to see if he could crack it faster. He did get some breakthrough.

After a myriad of experiments, he found a small chink in that tight seal, he was able to identify another small break in the runes which could get him to deactivate the formations faster.

This happens in a different way than before. Sam is good at cracking a formation itself if it is a standard formation without any variations.

So, what Sam found out is that after he deactivated a single rune, he has a way to modify the remaining inscription array by disturbing the runes which will halt the cycle of the formations for a time period and make them stationary in a single state.

This is no different than two to three standard formations layered together and Sam is confident enough to deal with that. That small modification he would be doing with the inscription is just interrupting the energy flow and forcing it to stop the cycle of variations for twenty minutes or so.

This is all he needed. The variations will go for every three minutes and there would only be a small break of a few seconds for every one hour, which he used previously.

And it took almost four hours for his deal with them. But with this, he can deal with the formation in an hour by the latest.

That is if it works.

He walked towards the nearest formation which is supposedly the last one in this one-third of the island according to his search and exploration from the past month.

He started his plan. He waited until the second gap appeared and destroyed the rune. Then started dealing with the forced modification of the array and just like he thought the cycle halted and the formations one, two, and three are activated and stayed like that.

Sam placed his hands on the formations and started manipulating the energy and in the next twenty minutes, the three formations are down, because these three are familiar to him.

But this time, the mental strength he required is a lot more than normal. The more formations Sam cracked, the more he wanted to meet the person who created these formations, they are the epitome of formations.

If Sam was pitted against the guy who made them, he is sure that he would lose pretty badly. His experience and expertise are far from the formation master, even if they are competing in the basics and a small concealment formation, that guy would beat Sam's ass like it was nothing.

This is the first time Sam is burning with envy in this life. This expertise is something he desired, if he could have this much expertise in a field and reach the pinnacle of a craft, he will feel really accomplished. In front of it, all the riches and status seemed a lot less significant.

As he was feeling salty and moving towards the next region, the remaining friends are trying their best to deal with the formations in the last one-third of the island, the left the middle region and started in the one that is opposite to the one Sam is dealing with.

They wanted to meet in the middle. But once they dealt with one formation individually, they understood it is going to be hard.

The formations are at the peak of their current level. If they want to destroy it without damaging the contents inside, a Pre-transcendent stage cultivator should make a move.

Otherwise, there is no way for them to deal with it instantly. So, they decided to team up. They actually noticed something Sam couldn't, if the formation is left like that after it was damaged halfway, then it is self-restoring.