The eight gates in the formation embrace each other and depend on each other. They slowly rotate in the formation, but they are scattered but not chaotic.
The formation's base and gate have been determined, now it's the formation's core and eye's turn.
The so-called formation center is the core of the formation. A formation will only have one formation center.
The importance of the array eye is slightly lower than that of the array center. Depending on the situation, there may be one or more array eyes.
Xu Chunniang first determined the center of the formation, and then set up a center of the formation in the four directions of southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest.
As the formation was put into operation, the center and eye of the formation became invisible, the eight gates changed from time to time, and even the formation's footing became gradually blurred.
However, spiritual energy was constantly drawn from the heaven and earth. The newly generated spiritual energy in the formation followed a certain pattern and slowly spread from the inside to the outside.
At this point, the entire spirit gathering formation was finally completed.
Feeling the spirit gathering effect that was several times stronger than before, Xu Chunniang nodded with satisfaction. The third-level spirit gathering array was indeed far superior to the second-level one.
It took a full ten days to set up the formation, and it consumed a lot of spiritual consciousness.
But the gains were equally amazing. After this round of dismantling and re-arranging the formation, her understanding of the spirit gathering formation has advanced a step further.
Xu Chunniang took out the sea order and informed the head of Lin family that the formation had been repaired, but she saw the message he sent ten days ago.
“My sixth uncle has mistakenly entered the spirit gathering array. If Fellow Daoist Xu sees him, just throw him out.
He has behaved in an unruly manner. If he has offended fellow Taoists in any way, I will apologize on his behalf first."
Xu Chunniang shook her head and laughed, remembering the old man stamping his feet and condemning her in agony. She extended her spiritual sense to the surroundings and, as expected, found his figure not far away.
He sat on the ground without caring about his image. The ground around him was full of his drafts, which were covered with formations and lines.
Compared to ten days ago, his hair was messy and he had lost a lot of weight.
From his bloodshot eyes, one could tell that he had not rested for a long time and his spiritual power was about to be exhausted.
Uncle Six seemed to have completely forgotten about the outside world and was immersed in his own world.
He was concentrating on calculating on the paper, sometimes chuckling, sometimes frowning, and he didn't even notice Xu Chunniang's spiritual sense sweeping over him.
"No, something doesn't seem right here."
Uncle Six shook his head and re-deduce it several times, but the result he got was different each time.
He frowned and looked over the manuscript again and again, but he still had no clue after reading it several times.
"How could this happen? Is my method wrong?"
"Your method is not wrong, but your spiritual awareness is not enough to see all the changes. Without knowing the whole picture, how can the conclusion you draw be correct?"
"A real person?"
Uncle Six turned around when he heard the voice, his face full of surprise. Then he realized something and quickly stood up, put away all the manuscripts, straightened his clothes, and bowed seriously, "Master."
Xu Chunniang's eyebrows jumped, "Who is your master?"
Uncle Six said seriously, "When the real person was setting up the formation, you agreed to let me watch from the side, and gave me instructions many times, which benefited me a lot. Since ancient times, the wise are the teachers. In my heart, you are the master."
"I haven't even completed my apprenticeship yet, how can I accept you as my apprentice? Don't call me that."
Xu Chunniang bluntly refused, saying that it was just a few words of advice and was nothing at all.
Uncle Six looked a little disappointed. He opened his mouth and finally responded with just "yes".
The real person refused to accept him because he thought he was too old!
Well, how could an old antique like him, who only has less than twenty years left to live, be qualified to be the disciple of the immortal!
Xu Chunniang noticed that his expression was strange. She thought of his paper drafts filled with formations and spiritual lines, as well as his obsession and enthusiasm for formations. After a moment of silence, she finally said something more.
"You are not far from being a third-level formation master. If your spiritual consciousness can break through to the Golden Core Realm, you may be able to gain something."
Upon hearing this, Sixth Uncle’s expression became even gloomier.
If he had the confidence to break through his cultivation and survive the thirty-nine thunder tribulations, he would not have waited until today without taking that step.
He sighed softly, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. I don't have much time left, and I'm afraid I won't be able to reach the Golden Elixir realm in this lifetime."
"If you believe that you have no chance of attaining the Golden Elixir, then you definitely have no chance of attaining it."
After hearing this answer, Xu Chunniang just said something indifferently.
You can only rely on yourself to practice; what others can do is just to provide guidance and instruction.
If you don't even have the confidence to break through, then the path of cultivation will only become narrower and narrower, until there is no way to go at all.
After hearing this, Uncle Liu was silent for a long time.
Although he has some talent in formation, his aptitude is not good.
As a person with four spiritual roots, he relied on the help of his father and used three foundation-building pills to successfully build his foundation.
The seventh-grade Taoist platform obtained after building the foundation is really not good.
Therefore, he established his foundation at the age of 70, and cultivated to perfection at the age of 170. The hardships involved are not something that outsiders should know.
I don’t know if it was because he subconsciously felt that he had poor talent and was lucky to have reached the foundation-building stage, but in the fifty years after he completed the foundation-building stage, he never felt an opportunity to break through to the golden elixir stage.
Thinking of this, Uncle Six felt even more depressed. In twenty years, his life would be over.
So-called practitioners may live longer than ordinary people, but they cannot escape the cycle of the three realms and five elements.
Sixth Uncle suppressed this thought. With his status as a Taoist priest and qualifications, it would be almost impossible for him to make a breakthrough at his age.
In the remaining twenty years, I should focus on training the next generation of the family and not let the inheritance of the formation be cut off in his hands.
Uncle Six sighed inwardly, looked at the figure in front of him who was about to leave, took out a bone piece from his storage ring, and spoke with a little hesitation in his nervousness.
"Master, wait a minute. I have some experience with formations here. I have compiled them over the years. They contain my experience in formations over the past 100 years, and they also include many unpopular formation materials...
To you, this may seem like a little bit of a joke, but it’s just a small token of my appreciation. I hope you won’t mind.”
Xu Chunniang pondered for a moment, waved her hand to take the bone fragment, and casually probed her spiritual sense into it to scan it.
The bone fragments recorded in great detail the deployment process and breaking methods of various formations. For some formations, several breaking methods were proposed.
Most of the records were things she had already mastered and was familiar with, but there were some novel methods of breaking the formation and materials for the formation that she had never heard of before.
“That’s thoughtful.”
Xu Chunniang nodded slightly and was about to put the bone pieces away. When her spiritual sense swept over one of the parts, she let out a light "eh".
There are two formations in this bone fragment, one of which is slightly simpler, with only eighteen formation points, and it is obviously a first-level formation at first glance.
The other one looked obviously much more complicated, with a total of thirty-six formations, and was a second-level formation.
From the overall appearance, the two are quite similar to the teleportation array.