Chapter 424 - Selling Formations (2/2)

”The base formations, yes. Those are easy to make. We really only consider someone as talented in formations when they can inscribe the formation onto metal rods,” Su Min said.

”That or when they start making True formations plates,” she said.

”You guys can make True Formations? Don't you need True Qi for that?” Alex asked.

”That's just for the activation. Just making the formation itself is just a lot of accurate carving. As long as you can do that, you can even make a saint formation,” she said. ”However, the metals the formations are carved in get stronger and stronger, so you do need quite a high cultivation base if you want to make the higher formations.”

Alex nodded when he understood that. ”So, setting up a formation doesn't count towards one being a formation master right?”

”Yeah, since anybody can set a formation. You are only considered a formation master if you can make one,” Su Min said.

The third rod glowed to about 12 more chunks and stopped. 62% was the final efficiency of the metal formation.

”Hmm, not bad. Let me check the others too,” Su Min said and started checking through all the formation plates he had made.

The lowest efficiency he got was 38% on one of the first ones he had made, and the highest efficiency he got was 79%. Surprisingly, he had created another Immortal grade item so quickly. Only, this one didn't hold as much value as the other immortal grades.

”These formation plates are actually quite good. I can give you… hmm… 62 True spirit stones for these,” she said.

Alex was about to thank her for a moment when he stopped. ”Wait, I spend 80 True Spirit stones myself just to buy these materials, and then I carved the thing myself too. Are you trying to rip me off right now?” He asked.

”W-What? Why would you say that?” she suddenly started getting flustered.

”Um, should I ask the elder for his input then?” Alex asked.

”Tsk. Damn, you're annoying. Here, 112 True Spirit stones, that's all you will get,” Su Min said as she handed him the money. That was quite a return for him and he was pretty happy with it.

”Can I buy some formation plates? Since you said True formations can be made, maybe I should try it out too,” Alex said. ”Actually, do you have…”

Alex listed off a few metal names and waited for Su Min to find them. She only found 3 of the metals he named and brought them to him.

”Yeah, I don't think you can find those alloys here. You will have to ask an artifact maker to make them if you know the composition,” she said.

”Oh, at least there are 3 here,” Alex said. He then went ahead and bought a lot of True Rank formation blueprints. Once he was done, he paid the price of the blueprints and left.

Su Min still seemed annoyed at him, but he couldn't do anything about her misplaced anger. 'She really must like her master quite a lot to hate me for rejecting him,' he thought.

He walked past the gate, and as soon as he did, his badge went off.

”Hmm?” he thought and brought out the badge to see something written on it.

-You have been challenged by badge 52-

-You have 18 minutes remaining to go to Stage 3.-

”Oh, someone challenged me? 52… that's quite high. I wonder what cultivation realm this person is at. Must be Meridian Tempering too right?” Alex wondered and walked towards the crater.

He was still quite far away, so it was going to take him quite a while to reach there. That didn't bother him very much and he leisurely walked from the right side of the crater.

It took him about 15 minutes before he reached the Fighting hall and walked over to Stage 3. The fight on top of the stage was ongoing, meaning his fight would be next.

In a few minutes, the fight ended and the referee announced the victor. After the two fighters left, the referee called out the two numbers.

”Number 50 and Number 52,” he said.

Alex walked up the stage and as he was doing so, he saw a few people looking at him from the corner of his eyes. ”They are…” he thought and finally realized what was happening.

Only when he reached on top of the stage did he fully notice the number of disciples that were hanging around this one particular stage.

There were even elders standing far away to look at the fight.

”Finally, I can clear up my name by beating you today,” a voice came from the side. Alex turned around to look at the person.

As expected, it was Huo Tu.