“These basic formulas haven’t been explored to their fullest either, there’s plenty left for us to discover. We need time to excavate more and perfect them,” remarked the Formation Sovereign. “I employed formula dao just now and determined that the formulas of formation dao should resonate with the major cycle. There should be three hundred and sixty-five of them, but I’ve sadly only found one hundred and eight.”

Every basic formula discovered beyond the one hundred and eight would be a qualitative improvement for formation dao. The basic formulas were the foundation of everything; the more there were, the more advanced formulas they could coalesce and thus the more formations that could be derived.

Every formula represented a certain pattern. Patterns were the underlying rules of everything; they were the product of law and order. The existence of pattern meant trending toward a great dao.

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