20: Chapter 20: The Black Tortoise Heavy Armor Killing Formation!

In the fifty-sixth year of the Divine Calendar.

The mighty power of the time acceleration card still silently flowed across the sky of the ten-square-kilometer wasteland.

Though only a few short hours had passed in the outside world, an unprecedented military formation revolution was already being intensively carried out within the divine kingdom.

Ever since he was bestowed a name by the Main God and promoted to Grand Priest, a frail boy named "Xi" had completely taken over the command of the drill for the three thousand human cultivator heavy-armor warriors.

Initially, this revolution proceeded with extraordinary difficulty.

The three thousand "muscular brutes" who were accustomed to swinging heavy weapons and hacking directly found it utterly agonizing when facing complex formation changes.

"The left flank retreats three steps, the Kun position fills in, and the Zhen position thrusts its spears!"

On the parade ground, Xi stood on the high platform, waving the formation flags in his hands and loudly issuing commands.

However, down below, it had descended into complete chaos.

The armored soldiers on the left flank retreated four steps, the soldiers in the Kun position did not know where they should go, and the soldier in the Zhen position even thrust a spear right into the shield of his own comrade.

Clanging and banging sounds echoed continuously, and the originally majestic heavy armor legion was forcibly turned into the posture of a street fight among hooligans.

"Stop!"

Xi rubbed his brow helplessly.

Although he could instantly deduce hundreds of formation changes, he had overlooked one point: the brains of this group of armored soldiers simply could not keep up with his deduction speed.

They could not read, did not understand the eight trigrams directions, and understood even less about the traction of vital energy.

"Grand Priest, the brothers have truly tried their best."

A centurion shouted with sweat all over his face and a wronged expression, "We can't understand those fancy-sounding words you use! If you told us to kill ten wind wolves, we wouldn't even blink an eye, but this footwork is harder than giving birth!"

Xi fell silent.

Over the next few days, Xi locked himself in the temple, neither sleeping nor resting.

He meticulously dismantled the 《Basic Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Talents Military Formation Catalog》 inscribed on the ten-zhang jade wall!

He removed all the obscure descriptions regarding the profound principles of heaven and earth, retaining only the most core killing actions. Then, he transformed these actions into the simplest and crudest commands in the military camp.

A few days later, Xi stepped back onto the high platform of the parade ground.

"From today onwards, forget all directions and vital energy!"

Xi's voice was crisp and resolute, spreading across the entire field.

"Listen to my commands!"

"Red flag raised, front row raise shields, back row thrust forward!"

"Blue flag waves, three steps to the left, sweep across a thousand armies!"

"Black flag falls, the whole army shrinks back, true qi protects the body!"

This command, simple to the extreme, instantly allowed the three thousand brutes to find their groove.

"Red flag!" Xi abruptly raised a bright red formation flag.

"Roar!"

One thousand armored soldiers in the front row stepped forward simultaneously, and the huge fine iron tower shields crashed to the ground, resembling a wall of steel. The two thousand armored soldiers in the rear took the opportunity to fiercely thrust their long spears out from the gaps in the shields!

Neat and uniform, without the slightest bit of drag!

Leader Yan Er stood aside, watching this scene, a bright light erupting in his eyes.

To fully cooperate with Xi's reforms, Leader Yan Er directly brought out the most rigorous military law.

"Whatever the Grand Priest's formation flag points to is where our human race's military blade shall head! Anyone who dares to take a single wrong step in the formation and drag down the entire army will be given fifty heavy military staves! Their spiritual rice quota for three days will be stripped!"

Under the martial suppression of Leader Yan Er, a late tier-one powerhouse, and the guidance of Xi's supreme wisdom that turned the complex into the simple...

The Three Talents Military Formation finally took initial shape on the wasteland.

Another three years passed.

Under the day-and-night drills of the three thousand armored soldiers, the formation became increasingly proficient. Three people formed a small array, one hundred people a medium array, and three thousand people a large array. As true qi flowed between them, they acted as horns supporting each other, and their attack power displayed a terrifying surge of several times over!

During one drill, a hundred-man phalanx, relying solely on the strangling power of the formation, actually ground to death a mutated berserk wild boar equivalent to the combat power of a mid tier-one without taking any injuries!

The entire army cheered and leaped with joy, and everyone was immersed in the joy of their soaring strength.

However, Xi, standing on the high platform, didn't have a shred of a smile.

His brows were locked tightly together.

"Not enough... far from enough."

Deep in the night, the people inside the Megalithic City-State had long since entered dreamland.

Xi, however, alone and draped in a thin outer garment, paced aimlessly along the city wall.

He was the grand formation master of the entire army, and his vision was further-reaching than anyone else's.

In the recent few real-combat deductions, he acutely discovered a very fatal flaw.

The Three Talents Military Formation was born from the most basic killing catalog. Its attack power was indeed incomparably sharp; once it charged, it was like a sharp knife entering flesh.

However, its defensive power was exceptionally weak!

"Our armored soldiers have too thin a foundation; once the formation is broken and they fall into the quagmire of fighting individually, casualties will inevitably be extremely heavy."

"The formation must integrate offense and defense!"

"However, how can absolute defense be integrated without destroying the sharpness of the Three Talents Array?"

Xi racked his brains, even pulling out several strands of his own hair.

He had a habit: whenever he encountered a difficult problem he couldn't figure out, he liked to walk while thinking, letting the rhythm of his body drive the thoughts in his mind.

Unconsciously...

Xi walked out of the gates of the Megalithic City-State, following the grass on the wasteland all the way to the main river running through the divine kingdom.

The river water was crystal clear, shimmering with ripples under the moonlight.

Xi blankly watched the flowing river water, his mind still crazily carrying out deductions and collisions of various geometric patterns.

Just at this moment...

"Splash!!!"

A loud sound of breaking through the water shattered the peace of the night.

Xi was startled, instinctively stepping back half a step.

Seeing the river water roil, a strange beast the size of a millstone slowly crawled from the clear river bottom onto the riverbank full of aquatic plants.

That was a Star-Patterned Land Turtle!

After decades of reproduction and multiplication, this land turtle had absorbed a massive amount of spiritual qi from the micro spiritual veins, and its body had become incomparably huge.

The land turtle shook off the river water from its body and slowly crawled toward the cluster of spiritual grass on the bank.

Xi originally just glanced at it casually, but the next second, his gaze, as if caught by a magnet, was nailed dead onto the turtle's broad, heavy turtle shell!

Under the illumination of the moonlight, the patterns on the land turtle's back were clearly visible.

Those were perfect hexagons one after another!

Countless hexagons were closely fitted together without any gaps. The edges of each hexagon extended outward with delicate starlight patterns, locking tightly with the adjacent bone plates.

When the land turtle rubbed against the rocks, that hexagonal structure distributed the external impact force incomparably evenly to every corner of the turtle shell, and its defensive power could be called flawless!

"Boom——!"

As if a bolt of lightning crashed down explosively in Xi's mind!

His sea of consciousness, which had been cleansed and marrow-washed by the Main God, stirred up monstrous waves at this moment!

"Hexagons, tightly fitted, power dispersed!!!"

"If three 'Three Talents Array' small arrays are used as the three vertices of a hexagon!!!"

"If the heavy shield guards on the periphery carry out circular interlocking according to the pattern of the turtle shell..."

Xi's breathing became incomparably hurried, and his eyes shone startlingly bright.

Suddenly acting like a madman, he directly lay down on the muddy wetland beside the riverbank. Picking up a stone, he frantically drew on the mud using the moonlight!

Without the slightest hesitation, he shattered the rigid triangular Three Talents Array in his mind that had only attacks and no defense!

Then, taking the starlight hexagons on the back of the land turtle as the skeleton, he refilled the three thousand armored soldiers into it!

The periphery was an absolute heavy shield defense interlocking ring by ring, while the interior was the Three Talents long spear strangulation that could penetrate the gaps of the shields at any time!

"It connects... it all connects!"

"Offense like the Three Talents absolute kill, defense like the starlight iron wall!"

"This is the supreme formation most suitable for our human race's heavy armor legion!"

"Hahaha! I have comprehended it! Main God blesses, I have comprehended it!"

Xi laughed looking up at the sky, not even bothering to pat off the mud on his body, and turned around, running wildly like a madman in the direction of the Megalithic City-State.

Early the next morning.

The sleeping Megalithic City-State was completely awakened by a burst of urgent and violent war drums.

Leader Yan Er put on his armor neatly and rushed to the parade ground at the first moment.

Seeing that Grand Priest Xi's eyes were bloodshot, but his spirit was excited to the extreme. He stood on the high platform, waving a brand-new, huge formation flag embroidered with turtle shell starlight patterns in his hand.

"The whole army assemble!"

"Change formation!"

Following Xi's command.

The three thousand armored soldiers who had just woken up instinctively ran swiftly according to the new commands urgently issued by Xi in the middle of the night.

"Raise the formation!" Xi roared, and the formation flag in his hand heavily pounded onto the high platform.

Boom!!!

Three thousand cultivator armored soldiers roared simultaneously, and the white true qi within their bodies gushed out like hundreds of rivers converging into the sea!

Under the perfect traction of the brand-new formation, these originally scattered true qi actually condensed into a terrifying phantom standing dozens of zhang in size above the military formation!

That was a semi-transparent starlight turtle shell shield that looked as solid as substance! And at the edges of the turtle shell, countless sharp true qi long spears protruded out!

Still as a Xuanwu resting rock, moving as a meat-grinder storm!

Leader Yan Er felt that terrifying might above the military formation that was enough to destroy heaven and earth, and his usually calm eyes also revealed unbelievable shock.

He had a strong intuition that if it were yesterday's loose Three Talents Array, he, a top-tier powerhouse at the late tier-one, could carve a path in and out seven times even if he had to risk severe injury.

But facing today's brand-new starlight killing array.

If he dared to charge in, within ten breaths, he would be ground alive into minced meat by the true qi condensed into one by those three thousand people!

The weakness of the individual was completely smoothed out by the formation at this moment!

"Grand Priest, what is the name of this array?" Leader Yan Er asked loudly with excitement.

Xi stood on the high platform, facing the first ray of sunlight in the early morning, and said excitedly.

"This array integrates offense and defense, merging the solidity of the Xuanwu with the sharpness of the Three Talents."

"I call it—Xuanwu Heavy Armor Killing Array!"

The three thousand armored soldiers roared in unison, and the huge wave of sound rolled like mountains overturning seas, rushing straight into the clouds.

Above the nine heavens, in the room of the old apartment.

Lin Yunfei sat upright in front of the creation terminal, looking at the data panel of the Xuanwu Heavy Armor Killing Array shining with dazzling golden light on the screen, feeling the massive formation foundation pouring back from the divine kingdom.

The corners of his mouth finally curved into a satisfied smile!

The basic catalog bought with three hundred faith points had actually brought him such an unexpected pleasant surprise!

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Right at this moment...

The starnet communicator on Lin Yunfei's wrist emitted an extremely piercing and continuous buzzing sound.

A red light flashed rapidly in the slightly dim room.

A top-secret message with the highest authority of the federal military popped open explosively in mid-air in the form of a holographic projection.

[Highest Federal Directive: All regional senior high school freshman deities, please take note!]

[The novice protection period has completely ended.]

[The practical combat exam will officially begin at eight o'clock tomorrow morning!]

[Target plane coordinates locked: Abyss Contaminated Area — "Skeleton Wasteland"!]