Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 245: Seeding Formations

The chill of late autumn had deepened. Outside the valley, most plants and trees had withered to yellow, but within this Clear Stream Valley, thanks to the regulation of the "Minor Heavenly Cycle Water Rhythm Formation," a moist and constant coolness was still maintained.

Su Ming stood at the eastern side of the valley floor.

This area was originally a stretch of rocky, uneven ground, but now it had been leveled by him, roughly half an acre in size.

Not a single spiritual herb was planted in this plot of land. Instead, it was densely planted with various types of Formation Flags, and the ground was crisscrossed with trenches, carved full of unclosed spiritual energy circuits.

This was Su Ming's newly designated "Formation Field."

Planting crops was to harvest grain; planting formations was to harvest experience.

"The water energy in the Kan position is too strong, causing the fire-attribute warning runes in the Li position to remain unstable."

Su Ming squatted before a small earthen pit, his fingers dipping into a bit of soil and gently rubbing it. A fiery-red formation plate was buried at the bottom of the pit, currently flickering intermittently, emitting a series of grating, sizzling sounds.

"Water and fire failing to aid each other naturally makes it difficult to succeed."

Lin Yu's phantom figure floated to the side, idly teasing the water mist in the air with a withered stalk of grass as he spoke nonchalantly, "Disciple, your thinking is still too 'rigid'. Trying to embed a fire-attribute warning system within the overarching environment of the Water Rhythm Formation is like trying to light a lamp in water. If you force it, it will definitely go out. You need to give it a cover.""A cover?" Su Ming pondered thoughtfully.

"An isolation layer." Lin Yu pointed at that formation plate. "Use 'wood'-attribute runes as an intermediary. Water generates wood, wood generates fire. Add a 'Generation' character rune in the outer circle to transform the oppressive water spiritual energy pressing in from the surroundings into gentle wood spiritual energy, then feed it to the core fire formation. This is called... ahem, this is called the 'transformer' principle."

Su Ming's eyes lit up.

He immediately took out his carving knife. Instead of directly working on that formation plate on the verge of collapse, he casually picked up a scrap piece of Sinking Star Wood and began carving with flying fingers.

Deep blue water spiritual energy condensed at his fingertips, transforming into extremely fine threads.

The 'Generation' character rune started with a rounded stroke and ended with a concealed edge.

A moment later, Su Ming gently embedded this carved wooden rune into the edge of the earthen pit.

*Hum—*

The originally wildly flickering fiery-red formation plate, the moment the wooden rune was embedded, seemed to be soothed by a gentle hand, its agitation calming down.

energy was no longer its enemy. After being filtered through the wooden rune,

glaring, but instead

"It's done."

a long sigh of relief, then excitedly recorded in the jade slip in

Seventeenth Attempt: The mutual generation and restraint of the five elements is not absolute opposition; intermediate attributes can be used for 'circulation'. Using wood as a bridge, water and fire can coexist. This method can

his head and surveyed this half-acre "Formation

types of small compound formations

were responsible for creating mist, some for simulating swamps, and others were simply spiritual

still

a hard turtle shell. But hiding inside the shell, I cannot hear the movements outside. If I only become aware when someone has already reached my doorstep, that would be far

surveillance?" Lin Yu raised an

mind to cultivation terminology. "Correct. This disciple intends to upgrade the 'Minor Heavenly Cycle Water Rhythm Formation' to add the abilities of 'listening

...

he had to change it

choose those expensive "recording stones" or "sensing plates"

things had too strong spiritual energy fluctuations. Hanging them at the valley entrance would be like hanging a lantern, telling others "there's a

to return to the most primitive

obscure annotations on the 'Resonate' character rune and the 'Shadow' character

divine

light, but

barefoot into

Stream Valley, and finally flowed into the outer sect area. It was a natural

"Right here."

Ming selected a pebble bed at the bottom of the stream. He took out a mica

Qi Refining realm allowed him to perform

him into its simplest three strokes, corresponding

into a spiral pattern, used to record the

"Go."

his finger, and this miniature rune stone flake

after, his hands formed a seal, and a thread of spiritual energy from the "Like Water Art" extended out,

spot, two

For three full days.

and eight miniature nodes along the stream and the edges