Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 61

In order to understand the difference and struggle between Wu Ye and Shi Hai, one must understand how formation works and how talent is distinguished for special occupations like formation or talisman.

Formation is essentially using the environment--like mountain, rivers, location or Feng shui--to borrow or levy the mighty power of Heaven and Earth.

In the early stage of cultivation, formation masters required to use formation flags and origin stone as energy. However, as they grow more powerful, they will slowly abandon exterior aids--even the environment-- and use their cultivation to instantly set up formation.

When it comes to talent, formation masters need to have great calculating abilities to be able to scan and map out the environment. Then, they will need a powerful and sensible soul to be able to engrave the divine runes that make up formations.

According to the archaic book in Wang Wei’s hand, Shi Hai had a very high affinity with runes, as such he could easily memorize them and understand them. Additionally, he had a powerful soul that allowed him to carved out any runes, no matter how fine and detailed they were.

Wang Wei turned the page and continued reading.

"That damn Shi Hai had a truly Heaven defying talent. Our master always complimented him and compared him to me. At that time, although I always envied him a little, I was happy for him as he was my sworn brother. After all, we came from the same village and grew up as neighbors."

"Despite my lack of soul power for carving runes, my perception and understanding of runes was not worse than his. So, I did not give up on my path studying formation. I always believe that I might be able to find a way to fix or make up for my talent in the soul department.?

"And I succeeded. One day, suddenly I thought, why should I only use the soul to carve out runes? Why couldn’t I use my body as a source instead?"

Upon reading here, all three of Li Jun, Yan Liling, and Wu Ming were shocked. If what Wu Ye wrote in the journal is true, this man has managed to revolutionize the Dao of Formation. Just this idea is enough to bring about a new glorious era for cultivators who practice the Dao of Formation.

Wang Wei was the only one who did not have much change. As a transmigrator, he has read too many of these things from the novels in his past. Compared with the brain-hole or imagination that the authors in his past life came up with, Wu Ye’s idea is nothing.

In fact, Wang Wei still admires him. Although the Myriad Emperor Plane has a history spawning billions of years and has created a terrifying civilization, the inherent thinking of the people in this world is actually fixed or linear.

As their culture ingrained in them the idea of respecting the ancestors, respecting the sages that came before, the thinking of must people became in fact restraint. As long as someone talks about an idea that does not fit with the "predecessors", two things will likely happen to them.

One, they will be labeled as heretic and destroyed by the masses. Or they will become unparalleled geniuses that bring prosperity to the whole world. The former being the most likely scenario. This is another reason that Great Emperors are venerated in this world, because no one dares to question them when they decide to improve or contradict the beliefs and ideas of their predecessors.

In essence, every Great Emperor has the ability to become a path finder for the entire Myriad Emperor Plane. And, the majority of them do so.

After waiting for the other people to calm down, Wang Wei continued to translate and read the journal out loud. In fact, the person who was most happy about this situation is Wu Ming.

His Wu family is only a small family in the Southern Vermillion Bird Continent whose highest cultivator was in the Void Shattered Realm. If he had taken this journal back to the family, it would take them years to find a way to learn the ancient scripts and translate it.

But now, he can learn the content of the book and memorize it. Although his current life and death is unknown, he still has a hint of hope due to the fact that these people did not immediately kill him.

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