19: Chapter 19: He was given the name Xi!

The tattered ancient book transformed into a stream of light and fell into the Creation Backpack.

Lin Yunfei took a deep breath, and his mental power, resembling a surging tide, crashed into and connected with the core of the Wasteland Divine Kingdom.

In the boundless Wasteland Divine Kingdom, at the central plaza of the Megalithic City-State.

At this moment, the city-state was at its liveliest time of the day.

The fires of the forging camp blazed fiercely, the shouts of battle shook the heavens on the drill grounds, and thousands of heavy-armored warriors were sweating and sparring in martial arts.

Suddenly, high above the originally clear firmament, the winds and clouds drastically changed!

The pervasive gray clouds were forcibly torn apart by a boundless and mighty force.

A dazzling, sacred pillar of light plunged straight down from the nine heavens, crashing thunderously before the altar at the very center of the Megalithic City-State!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The earth trembled violently, and violent waves of air rolled outward in all directions.

The thirty thousand members of the human race within the city immediately stopped what they were doing, knelt reverently on the ground one after another, and kowtowed in worship toward the direction of the pillar of light.

The light gradually dissipated.

A wordless jade wall standing ten zhang tall, emitting a warm white light throughout its entire body, stood quietly in the center of the plaza like a towering little mountain.

Immediately following, Lin Yunfei's majestic, grand divine voice exploded thunderously deep within the souls of everyone.

"This is the 《Basic Heaven, Earth, and Man Three-Talents Military Formation Atlas》!"

"The great calamity is approaching, and the sea of stars is boundless. I bestow upon you the foundation of formations; the entire army shall comprehend it immediately. Only by fully grasping its mysteries can you forge the undying military soul of our human race!"

The divine voice lingered, slowly dissipating between heaven and earth.

Hearing the highest divine oracle personally issued by the Lord God, the current leader of the human race, Leader Yan Er, abruptly raised his head, his eyes filled with fanaticism and excitement.

"The Lord God has bestowed a technique!"

"This is a supreme formation that belongs exclusively to our human race!"

Leader Yan Er suddenly stood up, grabbed the fine iron spear beside him, gathered his breath into his dantian, and let out a roar that resounded throughout the entire city: "All armored soldiers above Tier 1, immediately put aside everything in your hands and gather in front of the altar! Those who violate this order will be dealt with according to military law!"

In less than the time it takes to burn an incense stick.

A full three thousand heavy-armored cultivation warriors, radiating astonishing blood Qi and white True Qi throughout their bodies, marched with uniform steps, converging in front of the jade wall like a torrent of steel.

They sat cross-legged, their gazes like torches, staring intently at the ten-zhang-tall sacred jade wall before them.

Under the blessing of the Lord God's mighty power, the content on the originally tattered ancient book now transformed into glowing, arcane lines and geometric patterns, slowly flowing across the surface of the jade wall.

Points, lines, and planes.

The spiritual momentum traction of the three directions of Heaven, Earth, and Man, the complex routes of True Qi circulation, and the pivot nodes of footwork changes.

The three thousand armored soldiers held their breath and focused, attempting to engrave these formation patterns, which represented the supreme principles of heaven and earth, into their minds.

However, only a quarter of an hour passed.

A laughable scene appeared.

"Hiss! What on earth is this drawing?!"

A burly centurion over two meters tall, who could tear apart a Tier 1 Iron-Bristled Wild Boar with one hand, clutched his head in agony.

He only felt that the lines on the jade wall were like countless twisted venomous snakes, making his vision blur and his eyes go dark.

"My head hurts so much! It feels like my brain is growing!"

Another elite armored soldier rubbed his temples fiercely, his face full of despair: "This is a hundred times harder than practicing the Primary Qi Gathering Art! As long as the True Qi in my body follows the routes on this thing to circulate, my meridians feel like they're about to explode!"

Not just them, but all three thousand heavy-armored warriors on the entire plaza were like frost-bitten eggplants at this moment.

They were used to tempering their blood Qi, used to wielding heavy weapons in close combat with beasts on the wasteland, and used to straightforward violent crushing.

Now, they were asked to sit here and understand this kind of formation geometry that required extremely high logical deduction and spatial imagination capabilities?

This was simply more agonizing than killing them!

Even Leader Yan Er, who had supreme talent and had already stepped into the late Tier 1 stage, was covered in sweat at this moment.

Leader Yan Er stared fixedly at the jade wall, the thick True Qi within his body rolling violently, attempting to forcibly break through the profound barrier on the formation atlas.

But his brain full of muscle memory and straightforward combat instincts simply could not process this kind of intricate energy transformation.

"No..."

Leader Yan Er sighed dejectedly, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and his eyes were filled with helplessness and shame.

"I'd rather go to the wasteland and single-handedly fight a hundred Iron-Bristled Wild Boars than look at these winding lines again! The Lord God has bestowed such a divine object, yet none of us can understand it—it is simply a supreme humiliation!"

Three thousand martial-virtue-abundant cultivation brutes faced an enlightenment-grade formation jade wall, and the entire army was wiped out, collectively blinded and at a complete loss.

Above the nine heavens, Lin Yunfei watched this scene below, feeling helpless for a moment; the path of formations was difficult to begin with!

Just as the entire army was at its wit's end and shrouded in gloomy clouds.

Within the logistics camp on the edge of the Megalithic City-State, an inconspicuous figure caught Lin Yunfei's attention.

That was a very thin and frail young man.

In this tribe where the average height approached two meters and muscles bulged all over, this young man looked simply like a malnourished bean sprout.

He had a pale complexion and weak blood Qi.

Due to the flaws in his congenital constitution, he couldn't even properly circulate the most basic Primary Qi Gathering Art, and to this day he hadn't even touched the threshold of the mid-mortal body stage.

In this era that advocated martial power and universal military mobilization, he was regarded as a useless "good-for-nothing" in the military camp, and could only be assigned to the logistics camp to do odd jobs like washing and carrying firewood.

Although the warriors wouldn't bully him, those occasionally revealed gazes of pity were even more piercing than knives.

At this moment, this thin young man was holding a bucket of water, standing dazedly on the edge of the plaza.

His gaze crossed over the three thousand strong armored soldiers ahead, and locked tightly onto that ten-zhang-tall wordless jade wall.

When others felt their heads split with pain looking at those lines.

In the young man's eyes, those lines seemed to come alive!

"So... so that's how it is!"

"The airflow between heaven and earth is not chaotic..."

The bucket in the young man's hand dropped to the ground with a "clatter", splashing water everywhere, but he was completely unaware of it.

As if enchanted, he stumbled forward a few steps.

In his field of vision, the patterns on the jade wall were no longer lifeless lines, but vibrant, pulsing spiritual Qi meridians!

The young man trembled all over with excitement.

He suddenly squatted down, and frantically scraped on the mud at the edge of the plaza with a withered tree branch.

Horizontal, vertical, sweep, fold.

Crooked lines that nonetheless exuded a certain wondrous rhythm quickly took shape under his tree branch.

Immediately following, the young man looked around and picked up a dozen or so of the most ordinary stones from a nearby pile of rubble.

While recalling the patterns on the jade wall, he carefully placed these stones at the intersection nodes of those lines on the mud.

"Heavenly position, governs yang, facing the wind."

"Earthly position, governs yin, sinking earth."

"Human position, in the center, harmonizing blood Qi..."

The young man muttered words under his breath.

When he placed the very last stone into the most core position of that crude formation diagram.

A sudden change occurred!

Hum—!

A very faint yet truly existent fluctuation of spiritual Qi suddenly rippled out from that pile of broken stones!

A wisp of breeze on the plaza, which originally blew aimlessly, now seemed to be pulled by an invisible force.

The breeze swirled around those stones, actually whipping up a tiny, visible miniature cyclone on the mud!

Without using a single bit of his own True Qi.

Simply by using the most ordinary stones and tree branches, he forcibly pried open the stray spiritual Qi between heaven and earth, creating a resonance!

In anyone's eyes, this was an unimaginable miracle!

"That is..."

Leader Yan Er, who had originally been frowning with distress, suddenly sensed the unusual fluctuation at the edge of the plaza.

He suddenly turned his head, widened his eyes, and stared intently at the thin, filthy young man squatting on the ground.

The three thousand armored soldiers also turned their heads one after another, their faces full of astonishment.

"That good-for-nothing kid from the logistics camp who couldn't cultivate True Qi?"

"He actually stirred up spiritual Qi? How is this possible!"

Above the nine heavens, Lin Yunfei quietly watched this scene, his eyes bursting with a bright light.

"Good! Very good!"

Lin Yunfei's voice carried an undisguisable excitement.

"The human race truly has infinite potential; there will always be geniuses emerging to lead people toward further exploration!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yunfei directly mobilized the purest power of the world's origin within the divine kingdom.

Boom!

A golden divine light tore through the clouds like lightning, precisely descending upon that thin young man!

This wasn't to endow him with muscle strength capable of destroying everything, but a true cleansing of the marrow and reshaping of his divine soul!

Enveloped by the divine light, the young man slowly rose into mid-air.

His blocked meridians were instantly cleared, and his frail bones were repeatedly washed by spiritual spring water, becoming crystal-clear.

More importantly was his sea of consciousness!

Under the opening of the Lord God's mighty power, a brand-new universe seemed to explode within the young man's mind, and his deduction capability and spatial perception capability ushered in a crazy surge of a thousandfold at this moment!

"I am the Lord of Creation."

Lin Yunfei's irresistible, awe-inspiring divine voice, accompanied by golden rain of light, poured down across the entire Megalithic City-State.

"This child's comprehension reaches the heavens, and he has insight into the laws of heaven and earth. Truly, this is the great fortune of our human race!"

"Today, I bestow upon you supreme divine grace, and personally bestow a name upon you!"

"Your name shall be—Xi!"

The divine voice rolled on like thunder, echoing in the ears of everyone.

"From now on, Xi shall be the first High Priest of the human race, as well as the Chief Formation Master of the entire army!"

"His status is on equal footing with Leader Yan Er! The entire army, top and bottom, must obey his formation dispatches and must not disobey!"

Silence.

The entire Megalithic City-State fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone was shaken beyond measure by this sudden miracle.

A good-for-nothing from the logistics camp had ascended to the heavens in the blink of an eye, becoming a supreme existence on equal footing with the leader!

But in this kingdom that believed in the Lord God, the divine oracle was truth.

When the divine light dissipated, the young man named "Xi" slowly landed.

His figure was still slightly frail, but his eyes were as deep as the boundless starry sky, exuding a wisdom and etherealness all over his body that people could not ignore.

Leader Yan Er did not have the slightest dissatisfaction or jealousy.

He strode over to Xi's presence.

This fellow, who was like an iron tower, solemnly placed his right hand across his chest and knelt on one knee.

"Leader Yan Er respectfully obeys the Lord God's decree!"

"High Priest, starting today, the three thousand armored soldiers of the human race are at your disposal!"

Following Yan Er's kneeling, the three thousand heavy-armored warriors in the rear simultaneously knelt on one knee, their weapons smashing against the ground and producing a deafening roar.

"Greetings, High Priest!"

Xi took a deep breath.

He raised his head to glance at the high sky, then turned around, looking with a firm gaze at that ten-zhang-tall wordless jade wall, as well as the three thousand iron army kneeling below.

He knew that his mission had just begun!