Every time the ring called him into the space, there was a reason for it. Either it was a new skill that Lin Mu received or a technique. But now it was nothing like that. This left him confused.
This was of course until, he looked at the runes that faintly glowed on the altar. These runes would change every so often and looked to be random at first. But the more Lin Mu looked at them, the more he found them to be understandable.
"Wait a minute… aren't these… similar to the ones used in the formation nexus?" Lin Mu recognized.
He placed his hand on the altar once again and focused on the runes that he had recognized. They appeared on the altar once again and this time they didn't disappear, allowing Lin Mu to understand them better.
He combined the information and knowledge he had learned earlier with the current runes in front of him before coming up with something he had never expected to be able to do this.
Lin Mu opened his eyes that glowed with a new found motivation.
"This might just work!" Lin Mu said and returned to his body in the cave.
"What just happened there? I lost connection with you for ten seconds." Xukong said in a concerned voice.
"Huh? I was just there in the ring senior." Lin Mu spoke.
"No, you weren't. Your body was here and I would have felt if you entered the space in the ring." Xukong replied.
"Strange… then was it just my mind that entered the ring?" Lin Mu wondered.
"Perhaps… the ring is a mystery as always. Anyways, what exactly happened?" Xukong questioned.
"Ah yes! I think I may have a way to improve this minor plane." Lin Mu spoke.
"Improve it?" Xukong said feeling doubtful.
"Or rather make it better for our use… a bit more convenient." Lin Mu added.
He then went on to explain the formation array modifications that he could do that would allow him to link the minor plane with his ring instead of being restricted to the Hong Lin forest.
Xukong heard everything carefully and was actually surprised internally but did not show that.
'He actually managed to modify a spatial formation enough that he could add a different spatial junction to the anchor… while this was done with some assistance, it is no less than a miracle for someone of his level.' Xukong thought.
"So what do you think senior?" Lin Mu asked after being done with his explanation.
Xukong came out of his thoughts and looked at his disciple.
"You can try it of course. Just be careful and don't force it if the formations don't move like you want them to." Xukong replied.
"Alright, senior." Lin Mu nodded his head.
He looked at the formations in front of him that were almost completed and were ready for his binding. Lin Mu knew that the process of modification was sensitive and would have to be done in a time period when the core of it was open.
"What better time to make the modification than when binding with it?" Lin Mu chuckled and took out the short sword.
Pricking his hand, he drew out some blood which he then dropped on the formation runes. The blood acted as if there was no gravity and started to float in mid air. The drops of blood merged and split apart in a strange harmony as the energy of the runes permeated them.
~SHUA~
The runes suddenly let out a spirit Qi fluctuation that made the blood drops turn into an extremely thin screen. A very small amount of blood was stretched into a screen that was about a foot wide and a foot tall.
The runes that were floating around started to pass through the screen and were getting stained by the blood. The amount staining them was very less yet it was enough to add a little bit of Lin Mu's aura to the runes.
Lin Mu spread his spirit sense around, and chanted the calming heart sutra while keeping a close eye on everything. His window of opportunity was very narrow and once he lost that it would be close to impossible for him to act.
Five minutes passed by which felt like hours to Lin Mu. His focus was at the peak as beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. Him being able to do this would greatly affect his entire mission of fighting Gu Yao and the invader, thus the pressure on him was significant.
Finally, Lin Mu saw that the blood screen had dissipated fully and the blood had been incorporated into the formation.
'NOW!' Lin Mu said in his mind as his spirit sense moved like tens of tendrils.
All of them entered through the gaps of the formation and started to link up with the core. Lin Mu commanded them with his mind and they started to change the formation array.
The runes shifted, they were removed, they were flipped, they were added and new ones were written.
Different actions were done by Lin Mu as he combined all the knowledge that he had learned about formation till now. This was his most difficult and most important work on formations and he was learning even more while doing it all.
His experiences combined with the information in his mind before transforming into reality as the formations kept on changing. Time turned into a blur as Lin Mu got into a flow.
His hands moved like shadows as the runes flitted around his fingers. Writing them and flicking them around Lin Mu looked like a painter who used his fingers as the brush.
Spirit Qi interwove like the contrasting fibers of yarn and merged into the formations according to the will of Lin Mu.
Lin Mu's eyes darted around and followed the runes making sure all of them went into the right place as he flipped through the layers one by one.
"This shall be a success!" Lin Mu said to himself.
