Chapter 397: Base Formations (1/2)

Alex roamed the city for a few more hours before returning back to the caravan. The woman in red let him enter without questioning anything and she herself stayed outside.

”Oh, Brother Yu Ming, you're back. How was the city? Was it good?” Ying Wu asked as soon as he returned.

”It was okay; it couldn't compare to the Cardinal City, however, ”he said.

”I doubt any city can compare to the Cardinal City,” Ying Wu said.

Alex spoke for a bit and went to his corner before taking out a talisman. He was about to read it when it was suddenly ripped away from his hands and fell into the hands of the woman in red.

She quickly checked the talisman and returned it back.

”What was that?” he thought, but the woman would never say anything. 'Does she still think I'm a criminal and will harm the people in this caravan?' he wondered.

He forgot about it and checked the formation information in his hand. He slowly read it all and finished in about 30 minutes.

He put down the talisman and thought, 'so that's how it is. No wonder I didn't understand so much of the information,' he thought.

As he knew, formations were made run using different patterns. One could make that pattern by carving into a specific metal plate, or through connections of Qi that were made using a metal rot with a specially made cloth as a transmitter for the Qi.

Every single pattern in a formation was made up of multiple straight lines forming a symmetrical shape. Each of the single straight lines was called a stroke.

Strokes were what made the formation. You could have a formation when the strokes reached a pattern that could do something when energy was put into it.

Even if the metal plate was wrong and the formation itself didn't work, as long as the pattern was something that could be used, one would know by its absorption of their Qi.

Formations were ranked in two different ways. One was a ranking based on strokes and another was a ranking based on the number of individual patterns that were joined to create a formation.

For strokes, any formation that had less than 5 strokes wasn't even considered a proper formation.

From 5 to 10 strokes, the formation was called a Common Formations or Base Formations

From 11 to 30 strokes, the formation was called a True Formations.

From 31 to 60 strokes, the formation was called a Saint Formations.

Above 60, the formation was likely called an Immortal formation, however, no one was sure of that as making that many strokes for a formation were night impossible.

Similarly, one could use different base formations to put together a formation that brought together two formations to do something entirely different.

With 2 or 3 base formations, the formation would become a True Formation as well, and with 4, 5, or 6 base formations, the formation would become a Saint formation.