Chapter 359: Making Formations (1/2)

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Alex used part of his sword to carve away the land underneath him. There were 5 formation flags stuck on 5 different locations next to him.

With the formation flags, the formation would work just fine. However, Alex wasn't used to making formations, so he wanted to make sure the flags were in the correct place by carving away a physical path and see how straight his lines were.

As expected, the resulting path was very crooked. The formation wasn't as symmetric as he wanted to make it. So, once he was done. He removed the formation flags from their original location and replaced them on the ground a little left of it.

He did the same with 2 other flags and once he was done, he started carving away the ground once more. All the while, he had his Qi on the flags, and would something happen, he would immediately pull back the flags towards himself.

He was really worried about space shifting on him while he was trying this out and losing his formation flags.

The formation was a simple Qi Gathering formation that required 5 spirit stones to function and would gather Qi from the surrounding and the spirit stones into the formation.

He had bought it back in the capital on his first day and hadn't had the chance to check it out until now.

Alex didn't want to use it to get more Qi during his cultivation, although he wouldn't reject that. He simply just wanted to see if he could have a formation work.

Once he was sure the formation flags were at the best place he could manage, for now, he placed a spirit stone each next to the 5 formation flags and walked into the middle.

”So, what do I do to activate it?” he thought and checked the instructions. ”Once I am done preparing the formation, just pour Qi into one of the formation flags. I see.”

Alex put away the instruction and sent out Qi towards one of the flags. The Qi entered the flag and suddenly, the flag started buzzing. The spirit stone next to it lit up slightly as well.

As soon as that happened, the rest of the flags started buzzing and the spirit stones started glowing as well. Alex could feel a slight disturbance in the Qi around him as the density of it started getting higher.

”It's working,” he said in both shock and amazement. He had failed his first alchemy but somehow managed to make a formation work on the first time.

'Sigh, that's probably because I am using flags instead of making my own formation,' Ning thought to himself. He wasn't sure how sects taught formation, but it was unlikely they taught the students to use flags from the get-go.

It was like maths. You didn't teach a kid to use a calculator at the start. They had to start with learning the numbers and adding them up in their fingers.

”I guess I will have to meet some people with actual formation knowledge and ask them these questions,” he thought.