Chapter 159: 159: Formations (1)

Chapter 159: 159: Formations (1) Yue Xuexia, Taiyang, and Shen Jueyang had toured around the ancient mansion built by Grandpa Xia for his wife and their clan. The flaws were minimal, and most of them were caused by the limitations of Grandpa Xia's cultivation. Taiyang helped strengthen the inner formation of the ancient mansion. The last line of defense. Taiyang and Shen Jueyang made it so those with evil and ugly thoughts of harming those who are inside the house would fall into an illusion of suffering from their mental demons. For cultivators, their mental demons are the hardest hurdle of their cultivation. It can turn them into an evil cultivator or make their cultivation stagnant once they fail to overcome it. Yue Xuexia didn't understand much of these formations and just took a lot of photos as per the request of Yue Ruxia before they left. Once they had checked everything thoroughly, they rejoined the three who were left waiting in the front courtyard of the ancient mansion. Elder Kun was standing as he walked around Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu, moving around a few stones on the ground. Yue Xuexia asked upon seeing the scene. "What are they doing? Playing Go on the ground?" "No, he is teaching them how to make an isolation formation with the invisibility effect. Normally you will need finer materials to make such a simple formation, but using gemstones is also effective," said Taiyang. Only then Yue Xuexia noticed that the colorful stones on the ground being moved around by Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu were polished gemstones. It also possessed a powerful qi sealed from within it. Yue Xuexia commented, "Formations cost so much money if even gemstones are used as consumables." "Pill refinement is no different. How many millions did you think you used to buy those immortal herbs in that garden of yours?" Taiyang commented. Yue Xuexia thought for a bit and thought that Taiyang's words were indeed right. But she still thinks it's worth it, as those pills can be consumed by her family as well. "But it's worth it," stated Yue Xuexia. Shen Jueyang said, [Formations can be used in artifacts as well. [Next time you should try collaborating with your younger sister when she learns enough formations in the future.] Yue Xuexia said, "That's great. That's indeed worth trying." On their way back to the group, under their gaze, Yue Ruxia had suddenly disappeared, surprising everyone in the area, including Elder Kun. Elder Kun looked excited as he exclaimed. "She did it! This little girl is quite talented with formations!" Tan Bingyu also focused on her formation and also activated the isolation with invisibility formation that was taught to them. The elder who was watching after the two was so satisfied by the talents of these two younglings. He had only taught them for a few hours but they've already successfully activated a formation in one try. Their talents are definitely good compared to those disciples of the Starfield Sect. At least, no one had activated a formation on the day they were taught. The fastest discipline from the Starfield Sect to activate a formation was done after three days. Elder Kun exclaims, "Good. Hehe~ finally some disciples worth nurturing!" The activation duration of the formation Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu had used lasted only for a few minutes, but that itself was amazing as this was their first try using such a formation. The two of them reappeared to the place they had disappeared to and noticed the return of Yue Xuexia and Taiyang. Yue Ruxia happily ran towards her elder sister and said, "Dajie! Have you seen it? Is it done!? I can use formations!" Yue Xuexia happily pats the head of her younger sibling and says with a smile. "You did great. That was amazing, Ruru!" "Hehe~ these formations are interesting. I wanted to learn more," said Yue Ruxia. Yue Xuexia responded, "Learning more isn't a problem, but you have to ask Grandpa's permission. For now, you can learn the basics with Grandpa Kun. However, complicated formations that might affect you are forbidden to learn for now." "Okay~, don't worry, Dajie. I will be careful!" said Yue Ruxia. Elder Kun and Tan Bingyu approached the pair. The latter saluted her mistress as usual while the old man asked about the situation of the ancient mansion. "How did it go? Is there any problems in this place?" asked Elder Kun, as he was the one felt to supervise the ancient mansion while Grandpa Xia wasn't around. So, the old man was a bit worried that things were insufficient around this place. After all, this will be the place where Great Elder Xia and his wife as well as he are once it can be fully occupied. Taiyang said, "Everything is fine. As for the flaws, I've resolved them. I've also placed a barrier that prevents heavenly punishment from perceiving your locations whenever you divine something. As long as you don't poke on a god's fate, you will be safe with the barrier I've placed." Elder Kun was delighted by this news. As diviners from the Starfield Sect, he and Xia Lianyu were actually more worried of heavenly punishment falling on their heads than being attacked by their enemies. After all, enemies can be killed, but punishment from the heavens cannot be erased by them. He bows his head before Taiyang, as he already has an inkling about this young man's identity. After all, when he lost his eyesight before, the last thing he had divined was actually something to do with that man who had connections with this young lord and Yue Xuexia. Elder Kun with his head lowered, said, "Thank you for your benevolence, my lord." "You guys can be considered the family of my Xue'er. Receiving help from this lord should be acceptable," said Taiyang. After a while, their group chose to stay at the ancient mansion's courtyard to rest. Elder Kun still taught Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu about formations. Yue Xuexia and Taiyang were listening at the side. The former wasn't that interested about formations, but listening to the discussion of Elder Kun cannot be ignored. There was a time when Yue Xuexia did it whimsically and tried to do the formation explained by Elder Kun. It's a new formation that can be used as a small domain where one can restrict enemies at a certain range. This can be used as a life-saving trump card in case of emergency It's a mid-grade defensive formation and needed for the controller of the formation to engrave some runes on the gemstones. Using a knife for carving gemstones, Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu followed the instructions of Elder Kun. Yue Xuexia, who was listening to the side, had followed the steps because she was bored. She didn't even notice the skeptical expression that appeared on Taiyang's face, who was watching her movements at the side. Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu were having a hard time engraving runes as it needed them to control their qi and left some of it inside the gemstone. They did some trial and error and would destroy a few gemstones in the process; even so, the two of them didn't give up. Meanwhile, at the sideline, Yue Xuexia casually brought out a gemstone ore in her inventory and started engraving. What Yue Xuexia didn't notice was that the movements of her hands are so fluid, and her control of input and output of her qi was so top-notch that it left Taiyang and Shen Jueyang, who were watching quietly at the side with shock on their faces. Yue Xuexia unexpectedly successfully made a mid-grade defensive formation in one try. Moreover, with the purity of the qi in her body, it even mutated the formation. She activated the formation and targeted a butterfly not far from them. As expected, after the formation was activated, the butterfly's movement halted, but immediately after that, a frost covered the butterfly in thin air and fell on the ground. It was frozen just like that. Taiyang even couldn't help but mutter in silence, "What the---" This scene left Taiyang, Shen Jueyang, and Elder Kun, who turned his head at this moment to witness the scene, dumbfounded. This is the first time they saw a formation mutate due to the special physics of the creator of the formation. The old man exclaimed in shock. "How did you do that!?" asked Elder Kun in disbelief. Yue Xuexia was surprised and the activation of her formation was stopped. Everything around her had returned to normal, and the frost-covered butterfly came back to life and flew away as if nothing had happened to it just now. "Did I... do something wrong?" asked Yue Xuexia. Yue Ruxia and Tan Bingyu didn't see what the effects of Yue Xuexia's formation were just now. The exclamation of Elder Kun woke them up from their concentration just now. Bewildered, Yue Ruxia asked, "Eh? What happened? Why did Grandpa Kun scream?" "I think the Mistress has done something amazing just now," commented Tan Bingyu. Even though she didn't see what happened, she had indeed glanced in her mistress's direction once and saw her trying to make the formation Elder Kun had been explaining just now. So, she thought that maybe something happened when they were concentrating on their own formation, and it was sometimes shocking that it caused the elder to exclaim so loudly. Elder Kun asked, "Xiao Xue, what did you do just now? How can you add an ice element to the defensive formation just now?" Looking so confused at the question of the senior before her, Yue Xuexia responded honestly. "Grandpa Kun, I don't know what you mean? I just followed everything you have said just now. I didn't do anything different from your instructions," said Yue Xuexia. Taiyang explained it to Yue Xuexia, as he knew the reason for what happened just now. "It's her physique. Xue'er possessed a special physique of Yin, which is even stronger than Tan Bingyu's Nine Yin Meridians. Moreover, today happens to be the period where her physique is the strongest and it caused the formation she made to mutate. She didn't do anything in the formation. It's her qi that caused it to mutate and cause her target to be converted into frost. Tan Bingyu, whose physique is similar to Xue'er, should also be able to do it after her control over her qi got better and cause her target to be converted into frost. Tan Bingyu whose physique is similar to Xue'er should also be able to do it after her control over her qi got better and more precise," said Taiyang. Tan Bingyu finally understood what happened. It seems that the target of her mistress's formation was affected by her yin qi and instantly covered the target with frost after it's movement was restrained. But this might only be possible because of the purity of her Mistress's qi. Yue Ruxia, on the other hand, looked interested and asked her elder sister to show her what happened just now. "Dajie, do it again! I want to see it this time," said Yue Ruxia. Yue Xuexia looked at the gemstone in her hand that had long turned to dust and threw it away. She brought out another gemstone and did another engraving. Finally, under everyone's eyes, she activated the newly made formation in her hands. The butterfly from before had been long gone and flew away. Thankfully, there's a dragonfly coming over and using it as her target this time. The scene from before had replicated. After the dragonfly stopped moving, frost immediately spread all over it, and it turned into an ice figure of a dragonfly. She immediately deactivated the formation and saved the life of the little dragonfly. This time everyone saw the mutation in Yue Xuexia's formation, and they were collectively surprised by the scene. Yue Ruxia said, "Wow! That's amazing! You can control ice, Dajie?!"