Chapter 282: New Rank Seven Formation

The heaven and earth qi of the Five Regions differed, but Lin Yan already had a way to solve this. He intended to construct a Rank Seven Immortal Gu formation with Fire Thunder Immortal Gu and Yellow Earth Immortal Gu as its Rank Seven cores.

Rank Six Fire Vein Immortal Gu and Thunder Vein Immortal Gu would serve as the other two cores.

The differences in each region’s heaven and earth qi were closely related to the dao veins spread throughout it. Ultimately, these differences arose from dao marks.

Fire Vein Immortal Gu and Thunder Vein Immortal Gu could establish their corresponding dao veins in a foreign region. Through these veins, the formation would transform the surrounding heaven and earth qi before Flame Sovereign Blessed Land could absorb it.

However, Fire Thunder Immortal Gu and Yellow Earth Immortal Gu were also cores of numerous killer moves recorded in Fire Thunder Divine Lord’s and Mo Guang’s true inheritances. Once committed to the formation, they would no longer be freely available for those killer moves.

This drawback did not concern Lin Yan much. He possessed the Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance Physique. His Flame Path and Thunder Path dao marks naturally coexisted, allowing him to combine the two paths without the severe interference other Gu Immortals would face.

He therefore did not need to rely on Fire Thunder Immortal Gu to create killer moves combining Flame Path and Thunder Path.

The Information Path true inheritance had also given him new ways to overcome conflicting dao marks. Dao Without Conflict, Perceivable Dao Immortal Gu, Unperceivable Dao Immortal Gu, and the newly obtained Information Path killer moves could all aid his deductions.

Yellow Earth Immortal Gu posed even less of a problem. Rather than simply placing it inside the formation, Lin Yan intended to incorporate several of Mo Guang’s Earth Path killer moves into the formation itself. With an entire Immortal Gu formation supporting and amplifying them, their effects upon Flame Sovereign Blessed Land would greatly surpass what Mo Guang could achieve by activating them individually.

Lin Yan had already spent much of the previous year deducing and testing the formation within Dream Realms. With his Flame Path now at Great Grandmaster and Wisdom Path at quasi-Great Grandmaster, the remaining problems were quickly resolved.

His Grandmaster attainments in Formation Path and Earth Path allowed him to complete the final adjustments.

Construction began where the four regions of Flame Sovereign Blessed Land met. Fire Thunder Immortal Gu, Yellow Earth Immortal Gu, Fire Vein Immortal Gu, and Thunder Vein Immortal Gu occupied the four central positions. Around them, Lin Yan arranged hundreds of Flame Path, Thunder Path, and Earth Path immortal materials.

An enormous number of mortal Gu spread outward in successive layers, connecting the four cores with the surrounding immortal materials.

As the final sections were completed, a vast purple-gold formation emerged at the center of Flame Sovereign Blessed Land. The moment it began operating, the Fire Veins and Thunder Veins spread throughout the blessed land responded simultaneously.

Crimson and purple dao veins extended beneath the four regions, branching through mountains, plains, deserts, lakes, and underground areas. Previously separated veins connected with one another through the central formation, linking numerous resource points and allowing heaven and earth qi to circulate between the different regions far more efficiently.

The activation of the formation immediately affected the entire blessed land.

The earth rumbled as Yellow Earth Immortal Gu strengthened the land surrounding the connected dao veins. Disturbed heaven and earth qi flowed through the newly established channels instead of accumulating in individual regions, while the Fire Veins and Thunder Veins began nourishing the resource points situated along their paths. As the circulation continued, several resource points that had previously strained their surrounding environment began drawing support from a much wider area.

Lin Yan observed the changes for some time, confirming that the four cores were operating together without conflict and that the dao veins now extended throughout all four regions of Flame Sovereign Blessed Land.

The Rank Seven Desolations Flame Thunder Immortal Formation was complete.

He nodded with satisfaction. The Desolations Flame Thunder Immortal Formation possessed five major abilities, each of which was extremely useful to him.

Its primary ability was naturally the reason Lin Yan had created the formation in the first place. Once deployed in the outside world, it could take root within the local dao veins and transform the surrounding heaven and earth qi into a form compatible with Flame Sovereign Blessed Land. With this, Lin Yan could undergo calamities and tribulations even after entering another region without allowing large quantities of foreign heaven and earth qi to disrupt his immortal aperture.

Its second ability dealt with the regional walls. When the formation operated within Flame Sovereign Blessed Land, it could regulate the Fire Veins, Thunder Veins, and Earth Veins spread throughout the four regions while stabilizing the blessed land’s Origin. The violent disturbance caused by foreign heaven and earth qi entering during a regional wall crossing would therefore be greatly reduced. Lin Yan would no longer need to devote so much effort to protecting his immortal aperture every time he traveled between regions.

The third ability concerned the management of Flame Sovereign Blessed Land. By gathering and circulating large quantities of heaven qi and earth qi through the connected dao veins, the formation greatly increased the amount of resources the blessed land could support. Resource points that previously competed with one another for nutrients could now draw support from a much wider area.

This also removed one of the greatest obstacles preventing Lin Yan from expanding Endless Fire Domain. He could now pour large quantities of Rank Six, Rank Seven, and Rank Eight Flame Path immortal materials into it, even incorporating the three Rank Nine immortal materials left behind by Fire Thunder Divine Lord. Once the nine layers were properly established, Endless Fire Domain could finally reach the scale of a super resource point and begin nurturing Rank Eight Otherworldly Flames.

For a peak Rank Six blessed land to support a super resource point capable of producing more than one hundred thousand immortal essence stones’ worth of resources every year was something ordinary Rank Six Gu Immortals could hardly imagine.

The fourth ability complemented Body Forged in Flame. Once the Desolations Flame Thunder Immortal Formation was deployed in the outside world, it could influence the heaven and earth qi gathering for a calamity and tribulation. Combined with Immortal Killer Move Body Forged in Flame Lin Yan could forcibly restrict the resulting tribulation to Flame Path, Thunder Path and Earth Path.

Even if Heaven’s Will strengthened the tribulation or targeted his weaknesses, it would have to do so through one of these three paths. This considerably limited the unexpected dangers he might face.

The first four abilities concerned cultivation, management, and protection. The fifth was an offensive ability.

Lin Yan had incorporated the profundities of Mo Guang’s A Handful of Yellow Earth into the formation, creating a formation killer move: Heaven and Earth Overturned.

Rather than directly attacking an enemy, this killer move targeted the surrounding dao veins and caused the Fire Veins, Thunder Veins, and Earth Veins to erupt simultaneously. If Lin Yan managed to establish the formation within a Rank Eight Gu Immortal’s grotto-heaven, even a brief failure to suppress it could cause tremendous damage throughout the immortal aperture. When deployed in the outside world, the resulting destruction could overturn mountains, tear open the earth, and devastate everything connected to the affected dao veins.

Moreover, Lin Yan had deliberately designed the Desolations Flame Thunder Immortal Formation to connect with Sunflame Valley and Divine Firmament Thunder Pool. When all three operated together, their accumulated Flame Path, Thunder Path, and Earth Path power could fuel the same offensive killer move.

Its offensive power could rival a Rank Eight killer move.

Lin Yan now possessed five Immortal Gu formations: two at Rank Seven and three at Rank Six. Numerous Formation Flag Gu had been incorporated into them, allowing all five to be moved and deployed outside Flame Sovereign Blessed Land.

Although they lacked the flexibility of true Immortal Gu Houses, they were no longer confined to a single location.

"The Desolations Flame Thunder Immortal Formation is complete. It’s time to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation and advance to Rank Seven."