Chapter 69: The Symbol Array

  The formation of the Forbidden Array and the Symbol Array is far more superior to that of the Object Array, as setting up the Forbidden Array and the Symbol Array no longer requires ordinary objects. The symbols or restrictions required for setting up the array are entirely derived from the person setting it up themselves. After the array is set up, it will not have such obvious drawbacks like the Object Array does. Among cultivators who practice array techniques, those who can set up a Forbidden Array or Symbol Array have basically reached an extremely high level of attainment in array techniques, with even the worst being at the Great Success stage.

  Ding Yan's gaze dispersed and he began to search for the hidden runes within the formation one by one.

  "Now!" Ding Yan bent his finger and pointed, a green light shot out and shone on the edge of the square table.

  Under the blue light, a symbol flickered for a moment, but soon disappeared.

  "What a pity..." Ding Yan shook his head.

  Took out a piece of jade and recorded the previous hand movements.

  Even if the runes are calculated, it is impossible to easily take them out. Moreover, after a failure in breaking the formation, the position of the runes will change rapidly. Next time, you want to find the hidden runes, you must recalculate.

  An hour later, Ding Yan raised his hand again to take the talisman.

  But it failed again, and on top of the jade stone, there was another record added.

  Time just passed by second by second...

  Time and time again, trial after trial, failure after failure. Half a day later, the jade stone in Ding Yan's hand was already filled with records of failures. With a flick of his sleeve, he took out another jade stone and continued to calculate.

  Master-level formation, extremely difficult to break through. With Ding Yan's formation skills, he could only make guesses about the method of breaking the formation through repeated attempts.

  One day passed and Ding Yan had carved three jade stones.

  Two days passed and Ding Yan had five more jade stones in his hand, all engraved with records.

  Time just passed by day after day...

  One day.

  Two days.

  Until Ding Yan finished engraving the fifty-sixth jade stone, he finally stopped calculating. He opened his eyes and slowly stretched out his right hand, only to see a green glow condensing on top of it. He raised his hand, palm facing down, and swept it over the square table from above.

  A faint light flickered, a wisp of breath seeped onto the square table below.

  The desktop shook slightly, and then a brown rune was taken out from the square table by Ding Yan and merged into his palm. After the rune was taken out, the square table shook again, and after a crisp sound, a crack appeared at the corner.

  "Did it finally succeed..."

  Holding the jumping runes in his hand, Ding Yan's mouth revealed a faint smile. After observing for a while, Ding Yan took out another jade stone and made new records. Then he closed his eyes and started calculating again.

  However, this time the calculation speed is much faster than before.

  Half a day later.

  The square table in front of Ding Yan trembled and suddenly shattered, turning into a stream of air that disappeared. In his hand, however, were more than fifty glittering symbols. These symbols were the foundation of the original table, and after Ding Yan extracted them, the table lost its foundation and naturally shattered.

  "These seals, if taken one by one, would require at least ten years to break this formation..." Ding Yan looked at the talisman in his hand, without much joy.

  Deciphering a talisman inside a square table took Dingyan half a month. If he were to extract them one by one, wanting to break through this realm would probably take ten years.

  "Ding thought for a moment, still unable to find any feasible solution, so he could only try to see if he could extract more runes at once."

  Closing his eyes, Ding Yan's mind once again sank into the depths of the Dao Array.

  The runes contained in the space are obviously much more complex than those on the table, and after sinking into it, Ding Yan's calculation speed has slowed down significantly. However, relatively speaking, with the increasing difficulty of the runes, Ding Yan's understanding of the formation is also getting deeper and deeper.

  Originally only a small accomplishment boundary of array method standard, in the calculation process continuously refined...

  As he delved deeper, Ding Yan gradually discovered that the symbols within this spatial array also fell into several categories.

  The runes on the table in front of you are the simplest, followed by the runes on the ground. The runes on the ground are more difficult than those on the table, but compared to the runes that construct space, they are much simpler. The runes contained within the space are the foundation of this array and also the most complex kind.

  Nowadays, Ding Yan can easily unlock the first type of rune. As for the second type of rune, it doesn't require much effort either. However, as for the third type of rune, he still hasn't been able to extract even one so far.

  Moreover, extraction is just extraction, and Ding Yan has also tried to depict similar symbols before, but all failed. It's clear that deciphering and depicting are two different things, and deciphering is much easier than depicting. Just like destruction and creation, the latter is absolutely easier.

  Half a month later.

  Ding Yan, who had been sitting in the same place all along, suddenly stood up and walked towards that void.

  At the moment of stepping into the void, a terrifying force of recoil pressed down on Ding Yan, as if it were a giant's palm.

  Ding Yan's expression was calm and composed, he did not retreat but instead took another step forward.

  In his eyes, a yin-yang aura slowly rotated. At this time, the force suppressed in his eyes was not this space, but a piece of connected text. These texts were arranged in order, intersecting and connecting with each other, forming a terrifying force that wanted to press Dingyan back onto the ground.

  Ding Yan saw the situation and with a casual wave of his right hand, he struck out several seals. This seemingly slow movement was actually done in the blink of an eye.

  The seal flew out and heavily struck those runes.

  The space formed by the runes was compressed backwards after being struck by the seal, but this situation did not last long. A more terrifying force followed, and in Ding Yan's eyes, he clearly saw several runes flashing with purple light.

  "The fourth rune!" Ding Yan's eyes flashed as he remembered the position of the runes and then flashed back to the ground.

  BOOM!!

  The enormous rebounding force directly shattered several seals that Ding Yan had thrown out, and the terrifying power reverberated through space...

  Two days ago, Ding Yan had already figured out a way to extract the third type of rune. However, as his understanding deepened, he soon discovered that there were even more profound runes hidden in the depths of space. Today's move was just to test and confirm his own conjecture.

  On the ground, Ding Yan sat down cross-legged again.

  In front of him, three runes were lined up one by one, and began to arrange them in the order of his memory.

  As his understanding of the formation method deepened, Ding Yan was already able to use these existing talismans to set up a few simple formations. Unfortunately, so far, Ding Yan had not been able to successfully engrave a single talisman.