Formation

**Formations** - enable groups of people to have the strength to fight stronger powers, enabling each member to have the strength of the whole based on the efficiency of the technique. In Desolate Era, 2 million man formations that form large war machines that look like creatures are good examples of a Formation.

**Arrays** - standalone formations that use formation flags to trap, harm, kill others or for other specific purposes such as defense or gathering spiritual Qi.

This story tends to call arrays as formations, but other stories tend to use these two categories separately to identify the differences.

**Formation Carving** is a secondary part to blacksmithing, jeweler or armorsmithing in which engravings of formations are added to equipment to enable the bonus effects of a formation onto equipment. An Essence Gathering Formation may act quite like a Holy Bracelet, but not as effective. Alternatively, a four elements formation on a sword can summon the wind, rain, fire, earth.

**Duality Minutest Formation** - A binding formation. This formation was split into six gates, namely, life, death, dark, light, illusion and perish.

**Five Elements Minor Formation** - Also known as the Five Elements Minor Killing Formation. The Five Elements Minor Formation made use of the reinforcing nature of the five elements to be able to instantaneously focus all the powers of the five onto a single person. This required strong teamwork between the five. If unleashed well, their abilities could be increased multiple times. However, it required good coordination in their footwork and in the formation. With good coordination, if they moved quickly, they
would be able to kill their opponents very rapidly.

**Spirit Gathering Formation** - Through the use of some gemstones or precious items
which were rich in spiritual Qi to set up this formation, amassing the
Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, the people in the formation would have their
cultivating speed increased greatly. The amount of spiritual Qi gathered was
related to how powerful the Spirit Gathering Formation was. It was suited for
people who were training in seclusion, increasing the chances for them to
achieve their breakthroughs.

**Spirit Sealing Minor Formation** - This formation could seal up a small area, causing the
spiritual Qi outside to be unable to enter.

**Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation** - This formation is split into eight gates, namely healing, life, pain, limit, view, death, wonder and opening. There are multiple combinations it could form and is a much more powerful binding formation than the Duality Minutest Formation. It is also a killing technique because as long as one could successfully master the Nine Palace Steps, they would be able to freely kill enemies who were multiple times stronger than themselves.

**Four Perfections Formation** - Also known as the Four Symbols Formation. This was a type of death formation that stood in correspondence to the position facing the eye of formation towards the Core Qi. After the formation was completed, the offensive and defensive ability of the four people would be boosted rapidly, simultaneously increasing their resistances to the five elements as well. According to the legends, if the cultivation of the completed Four Symbols Formation had reached the peak level, the silhouettes of the Four Symbols would rise up to assist in the battle. These silhouettes could unleash a prowess unlike what anyone could imagine.

**The Ten Paramitas Formation** - Also known as the Black Tortoise Formation. This formation needed at least ten people and its only effect was its great defensive powers. It was a very simple formation and the more people there were, the stronger the defense.The defense also included protection against spirit energy. This formation only increased their defenses and nothing else. It was said that if one were to gain the greatest level of mastery in this formation, Black Tortoise (Xuanwu) would appear, providing an inestimable level of defense.

**The Divine Nebula Formation** - a killing formation formed rapidly when the spirit energy imitated the stars in the sky. It was all controlled by spirit energy. It was really profound and was considered to be a powerful killing formation. The Divine Nebula Formation increases the offensive and defensive strength of spirit energy. And also, increase the capacity of spirit energy stored in one’s body

Five Elements Major Formation, Twelve Celestials and Demons Formation, Great Heavenly Stars Cycle Formation, Bei Ming Hidden Killing Formation, Godly Dayan Formation, Great Cosmic Formation, Amoghasiddhi Formation, Five Demons Pestilence Sword Formation, Eight Trigrams Formation, Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation, Twelve Heavenly Gates Formation, Immortal Vanquishing Formation, Five Elements Spirit Sealing Formation, Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Reversal Formation, Big Dipper Formation, God Slaying Devil Devouring Formation