Solution

1,080 Earthly Formation Boards were stacked in front of Ou Yangming. He smiled gladly as he looked at the fruits of his hard work from these few days.

Practice made perfect. Ou Yangming was not fast when he first started smithing, and he consumed a lot of energy. Nonetheless, as he continued to smith, he completely understood all of the detailed changes. Not only did the young fellow's speed improve substantially, but his consumption also reduced.

Similarly, as he refined more Earthly Formation Boards, he gained a deeper understanding of them.

Several days ago, he only learned how to refine Earthly Formation Boards and obtained the Linkage Method from the spiritual world, but everything was theoretical knowledge. He was not confident about using them and unleashing the formation boards' powers to their limits.

After refining over 1,000 formation boards, Ou Yangming felt entirely different.