Chapter 166: The Way of Battle Formations

Very quickly, Xun Yu deduced the new formations in front of everyone and imparted the mental cultivation methods to them.

Fantasy formations are not like military battle formations where standing in position is enough; they also require connecting everyone's soul power.

Just like the Master's Heterotype Fusion Theory, this theory is the only one among the Master's ten great theories that Nan Feihuang finds worthy of notice.

Everyone's martial soul nature is different, and their soul power attributes are also quite different—some are rigid and fierce, some are gentle, and some are light and agile.

Therefore, like the Seven-in-One Fusion Skill of Canghui Academy, it must be completed by seven people with the same type of martial soul and the same cultivation direction.

Yet the Heterotype Fusion Theory can allow soul powers of completely different types to fuse; this is something not many people can do.

Although Nan Feihuang really dislikes this guy Yu Xiaogang—most of the ten great theories are common knowledge, and a small portion are likely plagiarized from the Spirit Hall—this heterotype fusion is indeed quite good. Its origin is unclear; after all, even Bibi Dong and Ning Fengzhi cannot do it, so there is indeed a small chance he researched it himself.

Except for some relatively secret ones, like the Shadow Demon Beast which only a few people know about and which is recorded in the Spirit Hall's confidential files, he is like an encyclopedia when seeing conventional Spirit Beasts.

The Seven-Star Flying Hammer Formation, used by Chain Hammer Soldiers, is also a formation laid out in the shape of the Big Dipper. By standing in the positions of the Heavenly Pivot Star, Heavenly Rotating Star, Heavenly Grain Star, Heavenly Balance Star, Opening Heat Star, Opening Yang Star, and Heavenly Excellence Star, they surround the enemy in the formation. Each person attacks at will, and each flying hammer turns one into seven, producing a vigorous internal energy that makes the enemy feel their breath circulation is obstructed; if this lasts for a long time, the opponent can be trapped to death.

In addition to the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, he also created many other formations; some are like the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, requiring everyone's cooperation to complete.

The expressions of the others were also similar to his; they had seen many geniuses—Nan Feihuang, Dian Wei, and Lv Lingqi were all such—but this was the first time they had seen such a theory freak.

But now, even Jia Kui, the former captain, is completely convinced by Nan Feihuang.

His Mystical Gate Dunjia is even further behind when compared to Zhuge Kongming; in fact, he wanted to try researching Zhuge Liang's Eight Trigrams Formation, but unfortunately, he could never find the method.

She could not keep up with the two's train of thought at all and was still in a daze regarding the team's subsequent tactics.

Everyone laughed dumbfoundedly, almost forgetting that there really was one person here who got the position purely through connections.

When the Goose Wing Formation in the front finishes its volley, the Archer Soldiers spread out from the middle to the two wings, and the cavalry charges through the middle.

For Xun Yu's various formations to succeed, they cannot do without the help of Battle Generals like Nan Feihuang and Dian Wei.

As expected, that great formation can only be set up by Zhuge Liang and his father-in-law, Huang Chengyan.

Xun Yu has clearly only studied martial soul theory for a few years, yet he has likely already surpassed most people of this era.

Therefore, it is generally used in the rear to support the Arrowhead Formation, one of the most offensive formations in ancient times and one of the twelve formations mentioned in The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The Arrowhead Formation uses an arrowhead as its image, dividing the entire army into vanguard, main force, and reinforcements, forming a formation that is sharp in the front and wide in the back; it is a formation Xun Yu prepared for future cavalry.

The Goose Wing Flying Formation, an Archer Soldier formation, has a troop configuration like a diagonal line of flying wild geese to fully exert the power of the shooting branch; its disadvantage is that its ability to charge is very weak.

It can also be considered an optimized version of the Haotian Formation; the Haotian Formation is a powerful formation that allowed Tang Xiao to take on three experts of the same level alone.

I fear that even if all the academy's teachers were tied together, they would not compare to this guy in front of me.

The Seven-Star Heavy Hammer Formation. Used by Heavy Hammer Soldiers, it is arranged according to the positions of the Big Dipper. Each holds a heavy hammer to attack the enemy; its wonder is that every time they attack, one hammer can turn into seven, stringing together into the Big Dipper constellation, neat and uniform, continuous and endless, leaving no room for attack.

"Wait, what about me? There's still me! I'm the vice-captain, I didn't understand, explain it to me again!" Nan Feiling, this academic failure, raised her hand and pouted in dissatisfaction.

On the future battlefield, to achieve victory with fewer troops, battle formations are one of the most useful things.

At this very moment, everyone in the team completely recognized Captain Nan Feihuang and team strategist Xun Yu. Originally, they felt that although these two had deep cultivation, they were too young and lacked leadership experience, and that they could become captains only because their status was too high.

"So amazing, how is this person's brain grown? Is he a monster? Besides, the captain is not far behind either." Jia Kui looked at Xun Yu in fear; he discovered that his own brain was likely not even half as good as the other's. As for Nan Feihuang, he also felt deep admiration; here, only he could keep up with Xun Yu's train of thought and complement his shortcomings.

Those who don't know might think he is also humble-bragging, but in fact, he is truly not very satisfied.

The Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is a semi-finished product like Cao Ren's, not as good as the one set up by his former lord, Cao Cao.

Xun Yu displayed the formations he currently mastered to everyone one by one.

After deducing all the formations, Nan Feihuang nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, Wenruo, then this tournament is a good time for us to test these sets of formations."

Xun Yu's Mystical Gate Dunjia is like an enhanced version of heterotype fusion, and through the mutual cooperation of the eight gates in the formation, it simplifies the Ring Fusion that must be used during fusion.

The Absolute Blade Eight Trigrams Formation, a formation for Great Blade Soldiers or Pudao Soldiers. This formation is in groups of nine; eight people stand in the eight positions of Kan, Li, Dui, Zhen, Xun, Qian, Kun, and Gen, and the other person stays in the center to provide support, attacking the enemy with fast blades, advancing and attacking together. The nine people are like one body; if the opponent tries to break them one by one, they will inevitably be injured under the chaotic blades.

The Twelve Heavenly Gates Formation, although the name is very similar, is not the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation from the primordial era that requires the power of the twelve ancestral witches to set up. If that formation were really successfully set up, I estimate this plane would be gone. Xun Yu's is one of the forty-nine Taoist formations; inside the formation, there are Life, Death, Empty, Solid, Void, and the three talents of Heaven, Earth, and Man, totaling six directions and twelve portals, void and solid, making it a supreme control-type formation.

"My lord is too kind. Wenruo is not skilled in formations; after researching theory for many years, I have only researched these few formations and still need my lord to help me check for gaps and make up for them. It truly makes me ashamed," Xun Yu said in a low voice. "Besides, no matter how strong a formation is, it needs someone to preside over it. After all, I, Xun Yu, am weak in strength and still need you, my lord, the strongest Battle General, to act as the eye of the formation to bring the formation's power to its limit."

Xun Yu and Nan Feihuang discussed each set of formations; Xun Yu set the formation, and Nan Feihuang broke the formation, describing the shortcomings of the formations from the perspective of a martial general.

Not only that, in these few years, he has already memorized all the materials in the libraries of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Gulei Kingdom, and he is not inferior to anyone in terms of knowledge about Spirit Beasts.

There are also some that he can set up by himself.

"Hey... what are you laughing at? I am the vice-captain, you all must respect me, otherwise I'll have my brother beat you up!" Nan Feiling's angry, puffed-up voice echoed in the lounge.

This instead triggered even greater laughter from everyone. They suddenly discovered that having Nan Feihuang and Xun Yu was enough for leadership, and adding a cute and easy-to-bully happy-go-lucky vice-captain to the team seemed not bad either.

(End of this chapter)