Chapter 266: Ten Thousand Formation Arrays

"As expected, he has already thought of something" Yu Er Dan thought. She did not know why but she hoped that this next plan of Lu Zheng's could increase their cultivation bases again.

Pity, she was destined to be disappointed.

"Please" An Yin was polite.

"Since we are to survive the beast tides and not necessarily kill them all, we can just hide in the encampment till the beast tides are over. We can use the walls as defence" Lu Zheng explained slowly.

"These walls are mortal walls, they can't even stop a rank one beast. Your plan is faulty" A woman named Yiren Ning rebutted Lu Zheng instantly. She was a reticent martial practitioner but she had to speak up and point out the flaws of Lu Zheng's thinking.

An Yin nodded. What Yiren Ning said was true. The walls of the encampment were sturdy but they were not mortals. They could easily break the walls like tearing cobwebs apart.

Lu Zheng looked in Yiren Ning's direction and chuckled: "Who said we were using mortal walls?"

Yiren Ning's expression was weird: "What do you mean?"

Lu Zheng did not look at her anymore. Instead, his gaze was fixed on the walls: "I can inscribe a strong defensive formation on these large walls"

This time, An Yin was shocked: "You can inscribe formations?"

Yu Er Dan seemed to have understood something as he nodded: "Sometime ago, Ziwu praised him for having deep attainment as an artificer"

An Yin nodded. Cangxiang Ziwu was a Grandmaster alchemist. For her to praise someone for having deep attainment as an artificer, it only meant that that person was not too far from her level.

Cangxiang Zihan sucked a deep breath and asked: "What do you need?"

Thoughts clashed mercilessly in Lu Zheng's head as he pondered over something. They saw his expression and thought he was thinking about the formation he would inscribe but in truth, he was recalling a certain memory of his.

The memory was not from this lifetime. It was a memory from his previous lifetime as Xue Ritian.

…..

The young Xue Ritian sat on a cultivation mat inside a small room. His red hair was packed and bound into a single ponytail as he gazed at the tablet of stone in his laps.

The stone tablet was thick and small like the size of a simple pillow. Its surface was smooth and polished that Xue Ritian could see his own reflection in it.

It was a rank three Profound Grade formation plate artifact.

A man stood before the young Xue Ritian. His hair was short and his facial hair was outgrown. Long hair grew from every part of his body like thick strips of metal. He was a hairyman of the hairyman race.

"Young Xue, it is like I have told you many times. Formations are diagrams that invoke the supreme power of the Heavenly Dao in the hands of an artificer. To inscribe a formation successfully, you must have three things; the necessary runes to invoke a part of the Heavenly Dao, spirit veins to channel the power and energy sources to unleash the power. This is why formations are not easy to create" The man spoke gently.

Xue Ritian looked up from the stone tablet and regarded his master: "Great Grandmaster Long Hair, if formations are not easy to create, how can an artificer inscribe the right formation for the right purpose?"

Great Grandmaster Long Hair smiled: "I have dedicated all my life to being an artificer of Blacksteel Association and even as my lifespan dwindles, I have no regrets. In this time, I have created ten thousand formations which I have stored as formation arrays in formation plate artifacts. You are my successor, I want you to take them and master every one of them. Do not return to me until you can inscribe the ten thousand formations by heart"

Xue Ritian nodded and picked up the formation plate artifact on his lap. A stream of highly condensed Qi shot from his fingertip like a needle and flowed into the formation plate artifact.

He was going to make his master proud.