On the third day, Mo Hua finally managed to draw the Formation Pivot.
The Formation Pivot is the core structure of a Compound Formation and the gateway to Divine Sense in such an enchantment. Once the Formation Pivot is realized with a single thought, it signifies success in a major part of the task. Everything afterwards would become much simpler.
Mo Hua heaved a sigh of relief.
“Have you finished?” Elder Yu asked in a hushed voice upon seeing this.
“Not yet, but the Formation Pivot is done. The rest will be quick,” said Mo Hua with a smile, wiping the sweat from her forehead.
Her face was smeared with red and black Spiritual Ink, making her look somewhat grubby.
Elder Yu used his sleeve to wipe her face, offering words of encouragement.
Master Chen also chimed in from the side, “You are doing very well!”
Although he had no idea in what way.
After eating something, Mo Hua sat in meditation to recuperate her Divine Sense, took a short walk to relax her spirit, and then continued with her Formation Painting.
With the Formation Pivot completed, the framework of the Compound Formation was established.
Up next was the First-grade Melting Fire Formation to be drawn.
Among First-grade Formations, the Melting Fire Formation was a bit more difficult, but it was nothing compared to a First-grade Compound Formation.
Mo Hua didn’t take long to complete the First-grade Melting Fire Formation.
Now, she could not draw any more formations for the time being. The next step was to use the First-grade Melting Fire Formation to test whether the Formation Pivot was effective.
If it wasn’t effective, Mo Hua would still have to erase and redraw everything.
Thinking of this, and considering how much of the Spiritual Ink she had already wasted drawing and erasing, drawing and erasing, Mo Hua felt a surge of distress.
Indeed, a Taoist Stele that could draw formations without the need for ink was the best!
There was no need to worry about wasting ink when drawing on a Taoist Stele.
Mo Hua sighed and began to verify whether the Formation Pivot was effective.
“Oh right, there’s also a Spirit Gathering Array,” she suddenly remembered.
Mo Hua recalled that the Spirit Gathering Array was the Formation Eye of the Compound Formation, needing to absorb Spirit Stones to provide Spiritual Power and to set the enchantment in motion.
Previously, the formations Mo Hua drew weren’t particularly powerful, and most of them were one-off, or at most reusable a limited number of times, so there was no need to draw a separate Spirit Gathering Array.
For those formations, it was sufficient to incorporate a Spirit Gathering Formation Pattern or to rely on the inherent ability of the Formation Patterns to adsorb Spiritual Power.
But now things were different.
A large Artifact Furnace required immensely powerful heat, meaning it would consume copious amounts of Spirit Stones to supply a vast amount of Spiritual Power, which would then be converted into heat through the complex formations.
At the same time, the Artifact Furnace needed to be long-lasting, able to function repeatedly and to supply fire efficiently and consistently.
This meant that the enchantments on the Artifact Furnace must contain a Formation Eye, Formation Pivot, Formation Patterns, and Formation Media, making up a stable Spiritual Power supply circulation system.
The Formation Eye provides Spiritual Power, the Formation Pivot controls it, Formation Patterns convert it, and Formation Media bear it.
Only this constitutes a true Formation energy circulation system, the most fundamental structure of Spiritual Power circulation within a Formation.
To be able to create and apply such a Spirit Power circulation in a Compound Formation signifies true mastery of the basic logic of Spiritual Power operation in Formation principles, marking a genuine ascent in the way of Formation Mastery!