ATG: Formation Master c19

She promised not to disappoint, but Chu Yueli had no idea what she was supposed to do.

“My Prince, then do you agree? To become Frozen Cloud’s Guest Elder?” Gong Yuxian moved in to confirm the other side of the deal if she is to give her other daughter figure to the Formation Prince.

“That is if you are to my conditions. I want to improve my Profound Palace and improve my citizens.” He countered her question with his own.

“I do need more details. As you might know, I don’t mind adding more girls to Frozen Cloud, but our arts are dangerous for less talented ones.”

“We will discuss that once we are out of this Realm. I will inspect your art before making alterations, " he explained to her. His confirmation made her nod in agreement, and she was delighted about that.

It would seem she secured a great deal!

“Wonderful, then we are in agreement.” Gong Yuxian nodded.

“Indeed. Now let’s continue, I want to see what else I can find in this place.”

~~~

For the remainder of several hours, the trio explored the realm until they were ejected.

One after another, Sect Masters, Clan Masters, and their elders emerged where the entrance to the realm should be.

Soon, people noticed that one… particular individual was missing.

“Where is Villa Mistress!?” The Sword Villa’s Elders panicked. 

They began to look around. But this is where Cang Long smiled to himself.

“I have this feeling that you did something to her.” Chu Yuechan walked over; she felt that it was his doing.

“Well, she is gone.” ‘Or a version of her at least.’

“Hn…” She slowly nodded, not commenting further. Soon enough, the elders began to really panic!

“I will be taking your Villa over for the offences your Villa Master did. If you don’t like it, we can fight.” Cang Long spoke loudly, attracting everyone’s attention.

“Y-Your Highness…”

“If she were still alive, she would have been teleported back here. Inside the Realm, I fought a Tyrant Profound Beast.

She could have faced one as well. Maybe even getting eaten by it.” Cang Long explained, and Frozen Cloud fairies moved in to assist with this reasoning, not knowing that this is a plot…

“We watched the fight from a distance.”

“He is right, we heard loud sounds, fighting sounds.” Other Sect Members confirmed. 

The Sky Profound Elders could only look downwards. This was not good… at all…

“My Prince, we won’t resist, but Villa Mistress was a Xuanyuan. Our Empire could be in danger," One of the Elders said in a panicky tone.

“I see. If that is the case, I will think of something.” Cang Long smiled, causing the elders to feel a bit relieved. However, they did wonder what he could possibly do to calm down the Sword Region.

“For now. The tournament is over, everyone, except Frozen Cloud, you may leave.” Cang Long declared. No one resisted or complained.

The clans and sects began to leave. Just hearing the name of a Sacred Ground mentioned made their backs crawl with fear; they didn’t want anything to do with this.

The elders took him to the main villa. They wanted to know how he would save them and his butt from danger.

“May we enquire how you will save us from the anger of Sacred Ground’s wrath?”

“A formation, of course. Watch closely.” 

Cang Long has copied Xuanyuan Yufeng’s memories several times. He can use them to create a construct that could pretend to be her.

“Is that… even possible?”

“You will see.”

First, he created a circle of profound energy before adding symbols. The symbols began to pile up to the point that he needed to stack them.

Several hours later, he was done and looked at the elders. 

“Now bring me a profound core. Even Nascent Profound will do.” 

The elders who looked at him work the whole time scrambled to visit the treasury to get one for him.

Less than fifteen minutes later, they had a True Profound core for him.

“Good, time to make it into a core.”

He once again created another formation in which profound energy surged and refined the Profound Beast core into something else.

It became a glass-like core. To finish it, Cang Long transferred modified memories into the Glass-like core.

With that done, he brought the core to the stack of formations.

And dropped it into it.

The whole construct glowed and began to change…

Becoming human-like…

“Impossible…”

“To think… that this is possible!”

“Genius!”

What they were looking at was Xuanyuan Yufeng, a living formation.

“Yufeng.” The Prince spoke to the living formation.

“Yes, my Prince?” The formation was respectful to her creator.

“From now on, you will deal with anything related to the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region.”

“Leave it to me,” she nodded, showing a bit of the arrogance of a Princess of Sacred Ground.

“H-How is it… possible!? She looks real!”

“The core operates like the heart and brain; it stores her knowledge, it sends pulses to other formations that execute her orders.” He didn’t go into much more detail, but it was based on the principle of electrical pulses.

A converter reads the memory and sends a pulse. For example, when the desire to move an arm is met, the converter reads it and sends a pulse to execute such a request.

It utilises mind-based symbols. However, the issue with this living formation is that it will need to recharge its profound energy.

Something like Profound Energy absorption Formation doesn’t work as it doesn’t have Profound Veins and Profound Entrances.

To counter that, the formation on the ground will recharge her once her reserves are low.

“In other words, what you are looking at is a shell or illusion that makes her look real. It should be enough to fool Sword Region people.” He reasoned.

“But what about her cultivation? I am sensing only True Profound.” One of them was concerned about that!

“The concealment formation needs to charge up.” He looked at the formation circle below.

“Oh…” they dumbly nodded and took a step back as their feet were on the edge of the circle.

“Yufeng, charge it up.” 

“Yes, my Prince.” She walked over and glowed, transforming into an orb with rings of profound energy rotating around it.

‘It looks strange! Almost creepy!’ Some of the elders realised that they can’t even trust this prince to have human followers! What if he had armies for these things?

“Now that this is out of the way, we can begin integration of Heavenly Sword Villa into Blue Wind Profound Palace.” 

The prince smirked as he saw how the elders didn’t like that idea.

Not that he cared.

~~~

After a full day of reviewing the management details of the Heavenly Sword Villa, the Prince contacted his men and the Emperor about what would happen.

He received an excited message from the Emperor, who was more than happy to have Heavenly Sword Villa under direct control.

 While the Emperor himself arrived quickly to oversee some things, the Prince Formation battalion will take a bit of time.

The Prince will take their swordsmen under his wing.

“I wasn’t expecting that you even made a deal with Frozen Cloud.” Cang Wanhe didn’t foresee that the aftermath of this tournament would lead to absorbing the most powerful sect after the royal family and getting fairies out of isolation.

It’s a great victory in his eyes.

“Our formations have fascinated them to a large degree.” Cang Long looked at Chu Yueli, who was a bit embarrassed to look at them.

It was not the best theme to discuss with her.

“We understand; that's good to know. We will leave this for you to handle. Once you return to the capital, there are things that we need to discuss.” That said, the Emperor floated and flew away with his small escort of bodyguards.

‘Even the Emperor is Sky Profound.’ Chu Yueli recalled that the Emperors of Bue Wind never crossed over to Earth Profound until now.

“Now that this is out of the way, we shall wait for the response of Mighty Heavenly Sword Region.”

The Prince smiled a bit, as he knew that Xuanyuan Yufeng’s sons had gone to the Sacred Ground, and it would take them a while to arrive with their small escort.

Once there, the Elder either sends his minion Ling Kun or someone else. Either way, he is prepared to deceive them.

They all trust their senses of Profound Energy just as much as their eyes.

He can trick those, but not anything more complex like Divine Sense. He doesn’t even know where to begin with that.

Mind, space, basic elements, even time, are easy for him. He learned theory in school and mixed it with his novel knowledge.

It’s just that this reality is easy to mess with. He is certain he will be able to trick divine senses once he learns one himself.

But now…

“Let’s get back.” He said to the Frozen fairies and his fairy.

“I wil go back to the capital, big brother, this place is getting boring to me.” Cang Yue decided that she had had enough. The tournament was boring, but the exploration was interesting.

Now that she has tasted the thrill of exploration, she is thinking of travelling the Blue Wind Empire.

“Very well.”

With that said, the princess summoned her mount and got on it.

“I will go with her, don’t take too long.” Chu Yuechan followed after the Princess. She looked at Chu Yueli for a second. Her eyes told her not to mess up before flying after the white bird.

Chu Yueli understood… to some degree, sadly, it’s uncharted territory for her.

“Now, why don’t we go and talk about the project we will start together?”

“...Project?” The Palace Mistress is a bit confused. This is the first time she has dealt with Imperials like that. Weren’t verbal promises with honour not enough?

“Indeed, let’s discuss how the details will work.”

~~~

A day later, Xuanyuan Yufeng’s communication talisman heated up. The living formation reacted and answered it.

Not long after, Cang Long and the Fairies walked over to inspect.

“I am a bit dissapointed with them. I expected an inspection party.” The Prince, with crossed arms, replied.

“Isn’t it for the best? These people are Overlords and Monarchs, the further they stay from us, the better.” Gong Yuxian replied, she doesn’t feel the same way as the Prince or has fascination with poking a sleeping dragon.

“I guess it is.” He shrugged.

The message is simple. It’s from Ling Kun, Xuanyuan Yufeng’s uncle. He told me that he would visit in three years. In the meantime, Sword Region will train her children, and they will crush the Blue Wind Empire in the next tournament in three years.

‘They took it personally.’ 

The Prince chuckled as he could sense a bit of anger in Ling Kun’s voice. Clearly, he is getting roasted for something, as the elders don’t have a target for their frustration.

“Now that this is solved, can we move forward with our alliance?” Gong Yuxian is getting a bit excited. They have done the groundwork, noted everything down in ink and paper, and set the rules for their alliance. 

Now what is left is the exchange. The Prince will help with Formations and assist in improving their core technique.

In turn, the fairies will open doors for females to join and expand their resource-gathering efforts.

“Very well.”

“I will need to see the whole formula for your Frozen Cloud.” He told them what he needed.

The pair of fairies nodded as they all walked back to the main Villa.

In the villa, the two of them became extremely serious. This was the first time he saw how serious one can be about their arts.

Chu Yueli created a profound energy bubble, and Gong Yuxian began to recite it and note down with Profound energy into a solid slab of ice.

What he got was a tablet from ice with text on it.

“Interesting…” Cang Long stroked his chin as he looked through the text. It was more complex than Heavenly Sword Villa's arts or Burning Heaven Clan’s arts.

Clearly, it was not as basic as those, indicating their far more profound roots.