Formation Calms Sea Area
Five lumps of white light carry Fang Yuan, Miao Ming Shen, Gui Qi Ye, Feng Jiang and Hua Die from the Merit Obelisk to a vast sea area, where each uses an investigative killer move. Five small islands lie in the raging sea: jade shaking island, white bone island, hidden space island, sword wind island and treasure moon island. Three have begun to drift with the current, sword wind island fastest, and jade shaking island, its pillars broken, will soon follow. Hidden space island alone stays firmly entrenched, filled with phantom path dao marks. Impact currents deep under the sea, grown so large that they endanger the sea itself, cause the drift. The large-sized mission is to suppress them, restructure the ecology and restore the five-islands chain. ch. 1901
Fang Yuan deduces that the sea area once had an ecology centered on the chain, which the impact currents now wreck. The others are dismayed. Miao Ming Shen counts the cost as an extremely large sum of immortal materials, essence and energy. Their morale slips, and they regret following Fang Yuan blindly, but giving up would require exchanging for another title. Miao Ming Shen asks Brother Chu, as they call Fang Yuan, to plan with them. ch. 1901
Deducing together with his time path clone, Fang Yuan already has a perfect plan. He tells Miao Ming Shen to follow his instructions and they will definitely complete the mission. Miao Ming Shen doubts it, but with his own confidence gone he can only pin his hopes on Fang Yuan, whose equal footing pleases him, unlike Shen Cong Sheng. Fang Yuan posts Miao Ming Shen on jade shaking island, Gui Qi Ye on sword wind island, Feng Jiang on treasure moon island and Hua Die on white bone island. He will deal with hidden space island first. With the four immortals at work, the islands are quickly suppressed and drift at a controllable speed. ch. 1901
Fang Yuan lands on hidden space island, leaves quickly, then throws immortal materials about on white bone island to set up a formation. Hua Die, seeing Fang Yuan build a formation for the first time, is shocked that he must have grandmaster formation path attainment. Such grandmasters are very rare. He used transformation path methods against Ge Wen, so she wonders whether he cultivates two paths. He links the sub-formation to the main formation on hidden space island, and white bone island anchors to the sea and stops moving. Hua Die sees that hidden space island is the base stabilizing the rest, but fears the currents will keep hitting the formation until it breaks. Fang Yuan does not dispel her doubts and sets up his formation on the three remaining islands, stabilizing them all. ch. 1901
Miao Ming Shen and the rest, lacking water path methods, can only think of attacking the currents bit by bit, a crude plan that would badly damage the sea area. Then Fang Yuan rises and activates the whole Gu formation, and pillars of light blossom on the five islands as its power breaks its original limit. The islands’ dao marks are so dense that together they count as one gigantic immortal material, which his formation draws on. He announces that he will draw in the impact currents and tells them to defend their islands against beasts and waves. The currents surge toward jade shaking island, the closest. Miao Ming Shen resists a ten-foot wave with his killer move, turning the currents aside, but white bone island’s formation draws them on toward Hua Die. They realize Fang Yuan is attracting the currents onto the islands on purpose, the thing they wanted to avoid at all costs. ch. 1901
The currents strike the five islands one after another, each impact cutting their power by one level. After the last island they hold less than half their power, and Fang Yuan turns them around into the second last island, frightening the defenders again. After five impacts and a return to jade shaking island, they are almost ordinary currents. The islands shake lightly as the formation stabilizes completely, and the currents flow evenly around them as a protective layer. Destroying the currents as planned would surely have ruined the sea area, while his move turned the calamity into a blessing and greatly strengthened its natural foundation. The four Gu Immortals are stunned. ch. 1901
They are impressed, since even water path Gu Immortals could not manipulate the currents, and weakening them to a near-perfect balance took precise calculation. Fang Yuan says the biggest problem is resolved, and next they repair the immortal formation and restructure the island’s ecology, ignoring everything beyond the currents. He is quite satisfied. New currents that form will be engulfed by the existing ones. He will leave his will and a large amount of immortal essence, and while they remain the five-islands chain will be very safe. ch. 1901
