Formation cultivator

Formation cultivators (阵修 zhenxiu) or array cultivators create formations that attack stuff

## Xia Chen

All he has to do is establish a formation that kills all the devil creatures that enter it. In terms of area attack, he can make it as big as he wants. No one else can compare to him.

From an aerial viewpoint, a petal-like image was on the ground. The petal was huge, covering a hundred thousand miles. This image had countless stone pillars stuck in the ground within it.

Those stone pillars were flashing with countless runes. They constantly interwove, forming a giant formation.

Any devil creatures that entered the formation were blown apart. The stone pillars would merely light up slightly to kill them, and anything of value on their bodies, be it their bone clubs, teeth, and claws, would vanish, sucked into a spatial ring possessed by Xia Chen.

This was an absolutely terrifying formation. Xia Chen was just sitting there, and he completely blocked this exit. He was like an idle trapmaster, just waiting for the devil creatures to come to him.

If people saw this, they would definitely be so angered as to cough up blood. This was practically cheating. Others were risking their lives and working as hard as possible to kill the devil creatures, while he was calmly sitting there, waiting for his prey to come to him. He looked far too relaxed.

## Devil core integration

Xia Chen changed some vital portions of the formation. The places that originally would have required spirit crystals to power had been switched with devil cores.

These devil cores’ most amazing point was that they were still alive in the sense that they continuously absorbed energy from the air that could be extracted to power the formation.

Those ancient formations didn’t have this ability and would instead require a huge amount of spirit crystals to function. Each time the formation was activated, it would cost a huge amount of spirit crystals. An ordinary sect wouldn’t even be able to afford that cost.

However, after being switched to devil cores, not only did that allow the formation to be activated to a certain level at all times, but any extra energy could be stored, saved for a real fight. It could also be converted to other kinds of energy. That was why these devil cores were such priceless treasures.

## Trivia

* 阵 refers to a formation as in a formation of troops, arrangement, or construct. The word 'array' is sometimes used such as a matrix array (矩阵) in mathematics.
* A formation cultivator didn’t necessarily have a good life. They could only move within the protection of their own formations. If they left their formations, they would be like plucked hedgehogs. They would lose all ability to resist. It was a rare profession in the cultivation world. They had both amazing powers as well as fatal weaknesses.
* Formation cultivator was a profession that burned the most money in this world. Furthermore, it was the kind of profession that cost greatly but didn’t get any return. Most of the time, a formation cultivator’s income would come from being hired by others to establish or design formations.
	+ Fortunately, the best money-making profession was alchemy. As long as Long Chen continuously refined pills, he would be able to raise this huge legion.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1687 (Wuxiaworld)
2. ↑ Chapter 1694 (Wuxiaworld)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 1722 (Wuxiaworld)
4. ↑ Chapter 1721 (Wuxiaworld)