Chapter 79: The Heart of Victory and Defeat

  The fourth update is done!!!

  After a brief moment, Liu Sheng's long spear thrust out with the force of thunder, sending the three Golden Armor Guards flying to the ground one by one. His current strength was just right, enough to send the Golden Armor Guards flying, yet not harming them in the slightest.

  Three golden armored guards fell down and immediately jumped up, their faces expressionless, staring at Liu Sheng's long spear, with their long swords pointing afar.

  "I'm so tired~~~" Zhang Chong was also standing there, although it was only ten breaths, but he was really exhausted.

  Lin Ye watched from the side, he saw it most clearly, and was also the most surprised. He saw that the three golden armored guards, after starting to move with a strange body method. He could then clearly feel that there was a special connection between the three armored men, as if there was an invisible breath that locked them firmly in one place, and this connection gave people a sense of being unbroken.

  Just like a rotating sphere, no matter where it is attacked, the defensive strength encountered is the same, and under this rotation, the attacking force will be greatly weakened.

  This is why, with Liu Sheng's current domain attack power, facing these three Golden Armor Guards who are only at the sixth level of Body Refining, he still needs ten breaths to win. Zhang Chong's actual strength displayed using these three Golden Armor Guards has far surpassed his previous control over six Golden Armor Guards, almost doubling it.

  In other words, the strength displayed by these three Golden Guards was almost equivalent to that of twelve Golden Guards. How could this not shock Lin Ye?

  Moreover, judging from the scene of the battle just now, Zhang Chong is not yet fully familiar with this formation method. It can be imagined that if he is completely familiar with it, its power will definitely increase even more.

  Zhang Chong breathed softly, his eyes closed tightly, and he meditated for a long time before opening them to look at Liu Sheng.

  "Come again~~~"

  "Great!!!"

  Liu Sheng was also full of fighting spirit at this moment, holding a black long spear and charging forward again.

  "Bang bang bang ~~" Three golden armored guards, once again fought together with Liu Sheng.

  Half a day's time had passed, and even Lin Ye, who was watching from the side, felt somewhat tired. But Liu Sheng and Zhang Chong, however, did not feel the slightest bit of fatigue, and after resting for a while, they would start fighting again.

  After this period of fighting, Zhang Chong's Golden Armor Guards could actually hold on for twenty breaths.

  "Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation"

  Just as they were fighting again, Lin Ye heard a voice with great interest coming from beside him. He looked over and saw that it was indeed Bai Li and Liu Shaobo. They had obviously been standing there for some time.

  As they saw the two approaching, Zhang Chong and Liu Sheng also stopped their fight. After this period of fighting, Zhang Chong's understanding of the Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation had reached a new level. He realized that formation techniques were actually just collections of multiple talismans, and talismans usually used paper as a medium. However, paper was not the only medium; for example, the large formation in this ancient city used other materials as a medium, allowing it to last for thousands of years and still exert its continuous effects.

  The highest state of the formation method is to use humans as a medium, through the physical movements of the person setting up the formation, causing the large formation not only to exert its effects endlessly but also to change at any time.

  Zhang Chong shared these ideas with Bai Li and Liu Shaobo, and after listening to Zhang Chong's idea, they also felt enlightened. Bai Li couldn't help but laugh and say:

  "I do have the Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation's incantation, but I only use it as is, never having connected the formation and incantation like Zhang Chongshi brothers did, linking them together in one go. The Zhang Chongshi brothers' thinking is so flexible, while we seem clumsy and stiff by comparison."

  All of Zhang Zhong's understanding came from the "Zi Mu Xin Jing" and was also inspired by it, which connected the symbols and the array in front of him. Now hearing Bai Li say this, it seemed that no one had ever done it this way before.

  However, this is not surprising. The power of heaven and earth in the talisman is predetermined, and even if other materials are used to set up an array, the amount of material can be predetermined, which allows the formation of a large array. But if people are used as an array, then each person's force must be considered, and they must all be balanced. If everyone fights like a single soldier, exerting their maximum and most skilled strength, it would actually weaken the effect of the array method. This is why when many people fought against Luo Mudan together, although there were many people, they couldn't bring out the effect of superimposing their strengths. If they could bring out 50-60% of their strength, that would already be very good.

  In today's generation, the war between immortals and demons places more emphasis on the strength of individual cultivators. If it is a large-scale battle, some formations used are absolutely some of the few that have been passed down from ancient times, and when directing these formations, there will not be too many changes.

  Listening to Bai Li say these words, Zhang Chong also understood why the symbol array had to be compared with the formation method today. The main reason lies in two bottlenecks that are extremely difficult to solve. Firstly, it is the mind of the person commanding the formation method. Like Zhang Chong, his mental cultivation is already considered to be extremely talented, but he can only cultivate the Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation, controlling three Golden Armor Guards. If he were to control more Golden Armor Guards, there would be no way to perfect the formation method. Secondly, it is the cultivators participating in the formation. Whether they are immortal cultivators or demon cultivators, each person's strength is different. However, the perfect operation of the formation method requires that each person's power not stand out too much, so as to fully bring out the effect of the formation method.

  The second point is the most difficult one.

  "The way of cultivation, the more talented and powerful one is, the more they hope to stand out from others. But in order to achieve this, they need to sacrifice their own performance for the sake of the overall display. How can they be willing to do so? I think that's why most formations that require precise coordination have declined. This is the cultivator's mentality of winning and losing." White Li said leisurely.

  "What's the use of having a competitive heart if you can't even win, and it's not like you can eat it for dinner?" Zhang Chong found this point extremely hard to understand. He didn't know that precisely because there were countless cultivators who couldn't break free from this competitive heart, they wholeheartedly sought victory, and although their abilities were extremely high, it was difficult to find a few kindred spirits.

  In Zhang Chong's heart, however, there was not a single bit of this winning or losing mentality. What he had, perhaps, was only a crystal stone in his heart, and what he held in his hand was the real thing. If he performed extremely well but ultimately lost big time, then what would be the point? In the end, wouldn't it still be that he had neither the crystal stone nor his life? This was Zhang Chong's true inner voice.

  Unexpectedly, he stood up with a solemn expression and said, "I didn't expect that young Zhang would see through all this, having no thought of winning or losing in his heart. Indeed, he has a broad mind, and his future achievements will surely be astonishing."

  This time Bai Li's words were truly heartfelt, he had risen to fame at a young age, but not long ago, he had encountered an enormous bottleneck, after reaching the third stage of the Golden Elixir, his excessive pursuit of success had backfired, and he was unable to move forward any further.

  It was also because of this that he decided to venture into the Beast Mountain Range with his beloved wife, Lan Xue, in the hope of breaking through this bottleneck by tempering himself through battles with the beasts. However, upon entering the mountain range, they found that many beasts had been killed, yet their own state of mind had not improved in the slightest.

  The pride of his life, the desire for victory, after breaking through to the Golden Elixir level, instead made him unable to move forward even half a step.

  And when he heard Zhang Chong's words about the formation method, it also touched his own heart and said some words about the mind of winning or losing. However, he did not expect that Zhang Chong, who was young, would suddenly say a word that pierced through the clouds, saying that fame and fortune were like floating clouds. How could he not admire him?

  He didn't know that this was because his heart had been filled to the brim with crystal stones.

  Jing Shi, Jing Shi, you are indeed very overbearing in this world!!