564: Chapter 564 The Star Pivot Discourse, Part Three

"Disciple uses the Formation to organize Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, converting it into the purest vitality. As the Spirit Beast cultivates within the Formation, the Impurities it sheds and the excess violent Spiritual Qi are absorbed by the Formation, which in turn nourishes the Array Patterns themselves."

He raised his head and looked at Master Xuan Heng.

"Endless life, a continuous cycle. This is Disciple's Dao of beast taming, and also Disciple's Dao of Formations."

On the main seat, Master Xuan Heng watched the large green Formation below, overflowing with rich vitality, and his second Disciple, who was smiling with such warmth.

On his face, which was always as still as an ancient well, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes relaxed in a rare display. A faint, extremely faint smile flashed across the depths of his eyes.

Second Senior Brother Qin Yi waved his hand, slowly dispersing the emerald-green Formation on the ground that was emitting such rich vitality.

The Spirit Mink seemed unsatisfied, lingeringly rubbing against the obsidian floor twice before turning into a streak of white light and darting back into Second Senior Brother Qin Yi's sleeve pocket.

Second Senior Brother Qin Yi turned, bowed respectfully to Master Xuan Heng, and then walked back to his original position with steady steps.

The moment Second Senior Brother Qin Yi's footsteps came to a halt, Luo Feng, standing beside Su Ming, took a sharp, deep breath.

He didn't look at anyone, his eyes even appearing slightly glazed, and he stood up straight and walked toward the center of the platform.

He walked extremely fast, his footsteps echoing heavily on the Star-Crushing Stones.

His messy hair swung in the air as he moved, the scorched black marks on his Daoist robe from years of experiments looked particularly glaring, and his wide cuffs were crumpled into permanent creases from him tugging on them nervously just moments ago.

Su Ming watched Luo Feng's nearly stiff back, a flicker of minute worry crossing his eyes.

"Senior Brother."

Su Ming's voice was very low, yet it was exceptionally clear in the silent hall. "Steady yourself."

Luo Feng's body stiffened briefly midway.

He didn't turn back, only giving a muffled grunt in his throat, but his pace slowed by half a beat; the near-uncontrollable impatience he had felt seemed to be forcibly suppressed by those two words.

Luo Feng finally came to a halt in the center of the platform.

"I am different from Senior Sister and Second Senior Brother."

Luo Feng spoke extremely fast, his voice filled with a near-manic excitement. "Senior Sister uses Sword Intent to kill, Second Senior Brother uses vitality to raise beasts. My Dao is the Dao of Formations itself!"

His hands suddenly plunged into his robes, frantically pulling things out with absolutely no decorum.

"Clang!"

Three palm-sized Formation Plates, their surfaces covered in complex and violent red patterns, were slammed heavily onto the obsidian platform.

Immediately after, a scroll of Array Diagrams with edges scorched black and curled was pulled out and casually spread beside the Formation Plates.

Finally, two Low-Grade Spirit Stones with somewhat murky luster were pinched precisely between his fingertips.

Luo Feng's eyes were fixed intently on those three Formation Plates, a few bloodshot veins even crawling onto the whites of his eyes. "Revered Master once said that Formations are a borrowing of the Laws of Heaven and Earth. But I think, at the moment of explosion, the stage where Spiritual Qi moves from order to extreme disorder is the true essence of how a Formation destroys everything."

He violently pressed a Low-Grade Spirit Stone into the groove of the first Formation Plate.

"Hum——"

Accompanied by the forced injection of Luo Feng's violent fire-attribute Spiritual Qi, the Formation Plate lit up with a blinding red light in an instant.

The surface of the Formation Plate turned red and scorching hot at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a heart-palpitating aura of destruction surged madly from those complex red patterns.

Under Su Ming's sleeve, his fingers had already quietly traced a water-element "Discharge" character incantation.

"Bang!"

A deafening roar exploded within Star Pivot Hall.

The first Formation Plate could not withstand the violent backflow of Spiritual Qi and exploded directly into a dazzling fireball, with countless burning, high-temperature fragments shooting wildly in all directions.

However, in that extremely short instant when those fragments flew three feet away from Luo Feng's body.

"Hiss——"

A harsh sound of Spiritual Qi friction suddenly rang out.

On the periphery of the explosion, a layer of faint yet incredibly tough light-blue constraint Array Patterns lit up without warning.

Those fragments, which were powerful enough to pierce the protective Spiritual Light of an ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator, collided with this layer of constraint patterns and were instantly locked dead in mid-air, as if they had struck an invisible iron wall.

The terrifying high temperature and shockwave produced by the explosion were precisely controlled within a radius of half a zhang around Luo Feng.

"It's not over yet!"

Luo Feng didn't pay attention to the locked-up fireball; the second Low-Grade Spirit Stone in his hand had already been ruthlessly slammed into the groove of the second Formation Plate.

The violent energy that had been forcibly intercepted by the constraint Array Patterns in the previous explosion did not dissipate. Instead, it flowed along several Spiritual Qi guide wires—almost invisible to the naked eye—and, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, poured madly into the second Formation Plate.

The second Formation Plate didn't need Luo Feng to inject any more Spiritual Qi at all.

The destructive energy of the first explosion was perfectly converted into the energy source to activate it.

"Boom!"

The second loud blast followed immediately. This time, the light was even more blinding than before, and the power of the explosion increased exponentially.

But just the same, the moment it flew three feet out, that layer of light-blue constraint Array Patterns appeared again, locking this even more terrifying power dead in its place.

Luo Feng stood in the center of the two giant fireballs that were locked in place, his messy hair flying, his eyes burning with a near-manic fervor.

"Chain reaction!"

Luo Feng's voice was even somewhat hoarse. "One of the most inferior Low-Grade Spirit Stones serves as the trigger. Minimize the energy loss of each explosion and channel it into the next node."

He suddenly raised his hand, pointing at the two fireballs that were still rolling violently. "With this one Low-Grade Spirit Stone, I can now create the power of a Medium Grade explosive talisman!"

Inside Star Pivot Hall, apart from the crackling burning sounds of the two fireballs within the constraint circle, there was no other sound.

Luo Feng stood there, his chest heaving violently.

He slowly lowered his head, looking at the third Formation Plate on the platform that had not been activated.

When his fervent gaze touched that Formation Plate, it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured over him; that manic emotion abruptly receded.

He slowly bent down and tucked the third Formation Plate back into his robes.

"Revered Master said last time that I..."

Luo Feng's throat bobbed, his voice becoming somewhat dry. "Said that I was always wasting the Sect's resources. I went back and thought about it for a long time."

He straightened up and looked at Master Xuan Heng on the main seat. The fervor in his eyes was replaced by an extremely exhausted clarity. "I think Revered Master was right."

He stretched out his finger, pointing at the two layers of constraint Array Patterns surrounding him that were still struggling to support the aftermath of the explosion.

"In the past, I only pursued making it explode louder and with greater power. I never considered how to retrieve this power. If I were truly on the battlefield, I wouldn't even know how far this Formation would explode."

Luo Feng gave a bitter smile and reached out to scratch his messy hair. "So this time, I gave up on the limit of power stacking and spent most of my effort on this constraint ring. I wanted to control the explosion within the range it ought to be controlled."

He took a deep breath. "Although this kind of constraint is not yet perfect, and sometimes it might even explode prematurely due to excessive internal pressure. But at least... at least when I go out to fight with others in the future, I won't end up blowing myself to ash as the first step."

After saying this, Luo Feng didn't wait for Master Xuan Heng's evaluation, but instead performed a respectful deep bow and then silently retreated back to his original position.