Jiang Mang was inside the trial room in front of the eleventh formation. He sensed that it was a trapping formation of the unity concept with the wood element as the core and support that used twenty-three diagrams.
He laid an offensive fire element formation that used 36 diagrams out in three seconds. This formation used a second to break the other formation. He had broken through this formation in fifteen seconds.
He repeated the same feat for the next nine, and it only became more difficult when he arrived at the twenty-first formation. This formation used the unity concept and water element as support with the life diagram as the core to form a defensive formation.
Jiang Mang could either lay an offensive formation that slowly destroyed the formation for a minute or lay a trapping formation used to destroy the support functions of other formations. These formations were a subtype of the trapping type called formation breakers.
Jiang Mang decided to lay an earth element formation breaker. He laid it using five formation flags and took six seconds. After the formation is formed, it instantly broke the other formation. The entire process of analyzing and breaking the formation took twenty-five seconds. He again repeated the same feat nine-times until he faced the thirty-first formation.
This formation finally contained a duality concept of the water and fire elements and the illusion diagram as its core. It was a trapping formation. Jiang Mang chose to use again a unique formation that was a subtype of the offensive type called a neutralizing formation.
He laid a wood elemental offensive formation that would neutralize the duality of water and fire by creating a temporary cycle of water, wood, and fire that ended with fire and thus neutralized the duality of supporting and reïnforcing each other. He broke this formation within thirty seconds and broke the next 39 formations within fifteen minutes. He had broken a total of 70 formations within 32 minutes and had still eight minutes remaining to break the remaining thirty formations, which were the hardest as they all used the trinity concept that was the strongest and most stable concept.
Outside the trial room, grandpa Feng was astounded bu the boy's progress rate and knew that to advance that fast, he thoroughly understood level one formations and countered each type of formations with uncommon subtypes, which were neutralizing formations, formation breakers, and the subtype of the defensive formation branch called core overload formations. The last subtype is used to break continuous offensive formations by overloading the core of the offensive formation through returning all the energy from the attack until the formation breaks itself through an overload of energy.
GRandpa Feng, however, knew that the last thirty would require the boy another fifteen minutes to break as he would probably be to keep his pace. This fact disappointed him a bit, but he was still happy to have gained such a genius added to the formation hall. He looked in Zhu Ming's way and spoke his thoughts out, but her answer confused him as she just responded with one word:
" Wait"
Jiang Mang was in front of the 71st formation, but he didn't analyze it and just summoned five other formation flags that he could use. He then used ten seconds to form his two strongest offensive formations, which used the concept of the trinity to support the life diagram and the other the death diagram. These two formations attacks attacked at the same time at one spot and when the two attacks touched they created a destructive force due to their opposing attributes.
The opposite formation was instantly broken, and Jiang Mang continued to the next and repeated his actions.
Because he can form level one formation with the minimum amount of five formation flags. He can use ten formation flags to deploy two formations to attack and use brute force to break formations.
Jiang Mang used fifteen seconds to break a formation using this brute force method and managed to break the record with fifty seconds to spare. He stepped outside the room and returned to his master's side. He noticed another person standing next to her but couldn't determine his status as he couldn't see his identity medallion, so he asked his master. She chuckled and introduced grandpa Feng.
The old man allowed Jiang Mang to call him grandpa Feng and even personally administered the new record, updated the boy's membership to level one, and awarded him with two thousand merits.
He also explained that blueprints for level one formations could be acquired for free at the formation hall. Level two formations and higher would require merit points to exchange for a blueprint. Books about theoretical knowledge about the first four formation levels cost one hundred merits to buy a copy of all their knowledge, while higher-level books about theoretical knowledge would be priced at a thousand and more merits. Formation flags and other formation markers could also be bought or customed ordered by members. Non-members could buy formation plates or higher a formation master to lay a formation using merits while members could sell formation plates and offer their services in exchange for merits.
It was well only possible to sell formation plates to the hall or offer their services if they had completed the level four trial. This was because formation masters below level four weren't of use to the formation hall or the disciples of the palace.
The good news was that there were only three hundred level four members in the formation hall. It was also hard to engrave level four formations, and its strain on the soul was significant so that the price for level four formation plates was three hundred merits when sold to the formation hall. Three hundred merits were equal to three months of passive distributions for inner hall disciples and also to a peak Di tier technique.
These pieces of information were handy for Jiang Mang, who would probably require many merits in the future. He was now planning to put more effort into his formation master occupation as it would show him returns for his efforts when he completed the fourth level of the trial.