Chapter 186: True Formation Master - 186
After ten years, which seemed both like a short and long time to Zhou Fan, he succeeded in creating a lesser dao creation level formation, successfully becoming an 8th rank formation master.
However, he didn't immediately move on from the lesser dao creation level formations. The formation he had created was only an attack formation. There were still plenty of formations at the lesser dao creation level that he had yet to make.
Therefore, the term formation master was barely applicable to him. Even saying he was an 8th rank formation amatuer wouldn't really be wrong.
He hadn't cared much about making the other types of formations for the previous levels, but the lesser dao creation level reached the level that he thought he needed to become a true master at it.
It would help lay a foundation for the inner world and god realm formations. Otherwise, he may have to spend a much longer time trying to reach the 9th and 10th rank.
Although he had done one type of attack formation, there were many many more. The one he had created shot out a ball of fire in a straight line. Even just a formation that shot a ball of fire could have many different iterations.
For example, one formation could have the ball of fire explode before it even reached a target, and another could have a ball of fire do a loopty loop before it exploded and its explosion made a sword shaped explosion.
There were many different ways to do a formation and a true master should be able to do all of them. Therefore, Zhou Fan started working on every single variety and type of formation he could think of.
After a thousand years, he finally finished. While lesser dao creation level formations became much easier after the first one, the sheer number of variations made the process take an extremely long amount of time. At least, it felt like an extremely long amount of time since it was only on a lesser dao creation realm scale.
As he made new formations for different levels, their base power shot up, but it really didn't change too dramatically. The power of a formation was completely based on its makers power, and a higher rank formation could only slightly increase its power. Still, it was something worth learning to someone like Zhou Fan with nearly infinite time and almost nothing to do with it.
The exact amount of power increase so far was about two times. It was definitely a great difference in power, but it seemed lackluster when you realized that the rank of the formations shot up by so many realms.
Regardless, Zhou Fan didn't really care. Since he was done with the lesser dao creation formations and could finally be called an 8th rank formation master, he was ready to move on to the 9th rank.
He grabbed some materials from his spatial pocket and began.
10,000 years later, he ran out of materials once again. He teleported through multiple galaxies, taking a rest from time to time, and ended up stealing materials from more than ten thousand planets. That alone took nearly a thousand years, but Zhou Fan got back into the pace once again.
After another thousand years, he finally made his first inner world realm formation. He felt it was ridiculous that he spent so much time making a single formation, but he got over it pretty quickly.
In the 10,000 years that followed, Zhou Fan learned every single inner world realm formation that there was. The time it took to invent a single inner world level formation was actually ten times what it took to invent a lesser dao creation level formation.
At first, he felt that it didn't really matter, but he realized that not only had his inventing speed slowed, but the actual creation of the formations had slowed.
It wasn't as exaggerated as a ten times increase, but it reached a two times increase. Zhou Fan felt that if he was going to consider himself a master, he should also be able to create formations quickly.
Currently, it took him 3 seconds to create an inner world level formation and 1.5 seconds to create a lesser dao creation realm formation.
If his training worked, he hoped to be able to make both ranks of formations in less than a second. As for how fast he could end up doing it at his current realm, only time would tell.
He ended up training his speed by constantly making formations for an entire ten thousand years. The speed increase was so slow it was nearly imperceptible, but Zhou Fan eventually realized the speed increased and continued.
By the time the ten thousand years had passed, Zhou Fan could create both rank eight and rank nine formations in half a second.
Only now did Zhou Fan consider himself a true 9th rank formation master.
Finally, the final challenge was in front of him. He wasn't sure if he even had the ability to become a rank 10 formation master at his current realm, but he sure would try until all hope was lost, and then he would continue for another million years if he must. Perhaps it was the increase in his formation mastery, but he had been feeling particularly noble and heroic recently.
Hopefully, the feeling would disappear before too long.
After cracking his fingers, and getting ready to study the tenth rank formations, Zhou Fan realized that his supply of materials was getting low once again. Out of the more than ten thousand planets worth of materials, he only had around five thousand planets worth of materials left.
Unless he suddenly and magically understood tenth rank formations, the amount of materials would not be nearly enough for him. Luckily, the materials had likely regenerated after so long.
Zhou Fan teleported around for a bit, grabbing every bit of materials that he could grab without harming the planet. He only stopped after grabbing a hundred thousand planets worth.
Chapter 187: Array Master - 187
Zhou Fan hoped that a hundred thousand planets worth of materials would be enough, but he wouldn't be that surprised if it wasn't.
He was confident that it would take more than a hundred thousand years just to discover the first god realm formation, but he wasn't sure how long it would take to comprehend all of the god realm formations.
If it was like the previous ranks, he believed that it would be another hundred thousand years, but there was no way to be sure.
After thinking a bit more and taking a deep breath, Zhou Fan was ready to continue his study of formations. He proceeded to sit down, cross his legs, and bring out the first ore.
150,000 years later, Zhou Fan invented the first god realm formation. It merely created a water shield, but it would now set the tone for the rest of the god realm formations. He was about halfway through his reserves, so he hoped that the remaining materials would be enough to become a 10th rank formation master.
Regardless of whether or not it was enough to become a master, he could be considered a tenth rank formation amatuer from the moment he created his first god realm formation.
After 260,000 more years and another round of collecting materials, Zhou Fan finally comprehended the last god realm formation. It was definitely a great struggle considering his cultivation level, but he was now a full fledged 10th rank formation master. Although it wasn't worth throwing a party over, he was definitely proud of himself for reaching such an achievement.
While it wasn't really that important considering no one else could compete with him, he was also the first person in the universe to become a 10th rank formation master.
Although he was done growing in rank, he was not done with formations quite yet. He had skipped many formations earlier on and needed to go back and fully understand them as well.
He still had some materials left over from his last collection, and he assumed that it would be enough to master the other ranks.
After a total of a week passed, Zhou Fan had mastered every single rank of formation from Qi gathering to the god realm.
After 200,000 years and another round of collecting materials, he had practiced his speed until he could carve god realm formations in half a second. Compared to the strength of his old formations before he started to study them again, the tenth rank formations were three times stronger.
Although he was finished with formations, he wasn't done with the arts. He still had alchemy, runes, forging, arrays, and talismans to study. He hadn't even made a single talisman before, so that was sure to be a fun experience.
As for the other arts, they should be relatively fun to do as well since, besides arrays, he hadn't really paid that much attention to them.
After some considerations, Zhou Fan decided to start with arrays since they were somewhat similar to formations and he already had a fairly good background in them.
One good thing about them is that they didn't have material requirements like formations. However, they were also often much more complicated and taxing.
Until he got to god realm arrays, he wouldn't even notice the loss in Qi, but at least he would expect it.
For the first time in a while, Zhou Fan jumped off of the tree and began to look around the world. He didn't plan on staying in a single place since the arrays would be written wherever he could write them.
He felt that, by the time he reached the tenth rank in arrays, the entire planet may be covered in them.
After flying for a while, Zhou Fan found a good place to start. It was in the middle of some plains with no animals or obstructions whatsoever.
Zhou Fan landed on the ground and began to think of arrays. Unlike the formations, he planned to start from the Qi gathering realm, or first rank, and work his way up from there.
There was a very limited number of arrays at the first rank and Zhou Fan had to think long and hard before he could think of even one.
It was an extremely small array that covered an area of about a foot. Within the area, wind Qi would be gathered slightly denser. As a result, wind attacks would cost slightly less Qi and be slightly stronger.
Even slightly was actually a fairly large overstatement. It was somewhere around a 1.01x increase. As he had said, there was barely any use to arrays at the Qi gathering realm.
It would actually be impressive if someone at the Qi gathering realm could even make an array. The Qi gathering realm was simply a basic introduction stage. At the very least, Zhou Fan hadn't even understood enough to think of arrays or formations. Perhaps it would happen when such knowledge is common, but it hadn't happened to Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan spent three days inventing every 1st rank array, which wasn't many, before he was finished.
Next was a foundation establishment array. It had slightly more use than a Qi gathering array, but it was still pretty useless overall. If the 1st rank arrays gave a 1.01x increase, then the foundation establishment arrays gave a 1.35x increase. Regardless, these measurements were not set in stone and could be changed fairly easily by a more powerful person like Zhou Fan.
However, he was simply creating the arrays at the most basic level without using his superior realm. Therefore, they had the same effects as if they were created by a Qi gathering or a foundation establishment cultivator.
After 2 weeks of work, which was much longer compared to the formations since he didn't have the same amount of mastery, he invented the last foundation establishment array.
He had also made sure that his speed was fairly quick. Since arrays were harder, he was satisfied with a speed of one array a second.
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