The original repairer

Chapter 114 Natural Formation

It was pitch black and extremely quiet here. Shi Chen's spiritual sense could only sense a range of ten feet.

With no other choice, he could only slowly advance along the seabed, taking a hundred steps forward and then a hundred steps back, carefully using his spiritual sense to sense whether the surroundings were consistent and whether there were any differences in the objects he encountered.

Then, he walked back and forth tentatively in various directions, and finally returned to the position where he had just dived.

After walking a hundred steps forward, left, and right, he discovered that the seabed was entirely composed of fine sand and seaweed, with even coral reefs being extremely rare. He could not sense the flow of the seawater at all; it seemed as if the water was stagnant.

Shi Chen really couldn't see any trace of the formation, not even a trace. His intuition told him that he had entered a complex large formation.

Fortunately, this complex formation does not contain any offensive formations. Otherwise, with Shi Chen's cultivation level at the middle stage of foundation building, he might not be able to withstand the power of the formation at all, and he would be unable to move forward.

After three days of sensing the situation at the bottom of the sea, Shi Chen had no clue and could not find any possibility of breaking the formation. In desperation, he had to keep moving forward.

Move forward firmly along the seabed towards the island you have identified.

After walking for more than two hours, Shi Chen was surprised to find that he had returned to the place where he had originally dived.

He walked for two and a half hours, about four and a half hours. Walking under the sea, each stride took about one and a half seconds, and each stride was about three feet long.

After four hours, he walked about eight kilometers and finally returned to the starting point.

Throughout the entire process, Shi Chen felt that his direction was straight, but in the end he returned to the starting point. This means that he walked a big circle in these four hours, with a circumference of about eight kilometers.

According to this circumference, this place is about 1,200 meters away from the center of the circle he is walking on.

Whether he circled left or right, as long as Shi Chen walked in one direction, he would intersect with the previous direction. If he returned to the current starting point, it meant that the formation was affecting his judgment of direction.

Through some calculations, it can be concluded that you need to take a few steps in the straight direction and then take a few steps to the left or right, so that your judgment of the direction will not be affected by the formation.

As soon as he thought of it, he put it into practice. This time, Shi Chen turned 90 degrees and walked straight to the left.

This time, it took him only one hour instead of more than two hours to return to the starting point.

We walked about sixteen miles, which was not much different from the first time. If we measured it accurately, the difference was less than one foot.

Shi Chen already understood in his mind that if he wanted to walk in a straight line, he would have to change direction or angle every time he walked a certain distance. Otherwise, he would be affected by the formation, walk in a circle, and eventually return to the starting point.

The length of this loop must be measured accurately in order to determine how many steps or yards to take before changing direction.

However, Shi Chen has a foundation in formations. The elements of formations summarized by predecessors all started from natural formations and then evolved into various formations.

Most natural formations are based on seven as the base number, or nine as the maximum number. To pass through a formation, one must find the formation base, formation center, and formation rules.

In natural formations, the formation base and the formation eye are hidden very well, and few formation masters can find them. Those who can find them are mostly by chance, or they are top formation masters.

The rules of formations are different. As long as you have a basic understanding of formations, you can summarize the formation rules. When breaking a natural formation, the first step is to find the formation rules.

Shi Chen also did it according to this idea, however, the rules of the natural formation were not easy to find.

The dumbest way is to test again and again, to explore the patterns again and again, and to find out the rules of the natural formation.

He walked seven steps straight, then took seven steps thirty degrees to the right, then took seven steps thirty degrees back to the right, then took seven steps thirty degrees to the right again, and so on.

Two hours later, Shi Chen walked to the bottom of the sea covered with aquatic plants.

This meant that he passed through an underwater area and stood in front of the seaweed. Shi Chen couldn't help but frown and sighed in his heart that the natural formation was really difficult to break.

When I surfaced, there was still thick fog on the sea surface, but this place was only about twenty feet away from the seabed and was close to the island.

Shi Chen didn't dare to rush into the seaweed directly. The dense seaweed would naturally affect his sense of direction. If he didn't have the right method to enter, he would definitely get lost in the seaweed.

He carefully observed the seaweed in front of him, trying to find some patterns.

Some were single strands of seaweed, some were two strands together, some were three strands entwined, and some were as numerous as nine strands in a clump, but their positions were completely random.

Shi Chen could only try to identify them one by one. He first chose to walk on a single seaweed. No matter how many clumps of seaweed were in between, as long as it was within the ten-foot range of his spiritual sense, he would walk to the single seaweed and then look for the next single seaweed.

Two days passed, and Shi Chen was walking in the seaweed.

But he failed to get through the seaweed patch. He started by looking for a single seaweed, then later he looked for nine seaweeds in a clump. Now, he was trapped in the seaweed patch, surrounded by seaweeds growing together.

Three more days passed, and Shi Chen was still in the seaweed. However, after exploring for a few days, he discovered some patterns.

Some seaweed in the seaweed bushes is actually an illusion created by a natural formation. If you don’t touch it, you can’t tell that it is an illusion.

This happened when Shi Chen was trapped in the seaweed and walking around in a panic. He accidentally discovered that a piece of seaweed actually passed through his body, but he didn't feel anything. Only then did he realize that not every piece of seaweed in this area was real.

So, he began searching for patterns, starting with finding a single strand of transformed seaweed, then searching for the one that was transformed among two intertwined strands, and finally finding the one that was transformed among three intertwined strands. Following this method, after five days, Shi Chen finally emerged from the seaweed thicket.

Before him was a sea of corals and reefs. Following the patterns of seaweed, he discovered that none of the corals and reefs were illusions.

Entering the new maze, Shi Chen swam to the coral reef and kept swimming forward. After three hours, he found that he seemed to be spinning in place and there was no longer a seaweed bush behind him.

He was lost in the coral reef forest and was in a dilemma.

Formations, whether naturally formed or artificially arranged, always follow certain patterns. The rules of natural formations may be complex, but if you look carefully, you can still find some clues.

Over the course of several days, Shi Chen found something unusual in the coral reef forest.

Whether it is coral or reef, it is normally connected to the seabed. He found that some corals or reefs can move, and some coral reefs are not connected to the seabed.

Following this pattern, Shi Chen continued searching in the coral reef forest.

A day later, after simply climbing over a movable reef, he suddenly appeared on the shallow seashore, the water reaching his chest. There was no more thick fog in front of him, but there was thick fog a foot behind him.

A beach came into view. It was a colorful beach, about twenty feet wide, extending along the edge of the island. Behind the beach were grasslands and trees.

Shi Chen had never seen such a beautiful beach. Every grain of sand seemed to have colorful patterns, and every shell was also colorful, which was beautiful beyond words.