Lines and lines of formations slowly emerged from Li Qi's fingertips.
Even the most ordinary straight lines drawn by Li Qi's hand were imbued with the profound principles of formations, an unparalleled mystique.
Had anyone knowledgeable in formations seen this, they would have been unconsciously captivated.
At this moment, the profound formations being drawn by Li Qi's hand never ceased.
Sometimes vertical, sometimes askew, sometimes twisted...
Finally, a formation of intricate patterns, dizzying to behold, took shape in Li Qi's hands.
With a slight flick of his finger.
This formation vanished beyond the boundary of the Earthly Void Realm.
Thus.
In Li Qi's hands, the first of the three hundred and forty-six formations was completed.
And Li Qi's hands did not rest, for besides this first one, there were still three hundred and forty-five remaining.
His palm flickered again, and formations, more intricate than the grand net woven by the stars in the firmament, began to form once more.
After the first formation was sketched, Li Qi's speed increased even further.
Li Qi's expression remained unchanged as, in his hands.
One, two, three... formations were continuously sketched.
Until finally, the last of the three hundred and forty-sixth formation was drawn.
With a point of his finger, this final formation also vanished beyond the Earthly Void Realm.
Even though these isolating formations were merely hidden and not yet truly activated.
If any cultivator were to pass by the Earthly Void Realm, they would perceive no fluctuations of spiritual energy or heavenly will when looking towards it, believing it to be merely a lifeless star.
Li Qi frowned slightly. As the master of this plane and the creator of the recently completed formations, he naturally perceived this.
Although the vast majority of cultivators, under the concealment of these formations, would consider the Earthly Void Realm a dead star.
This was only the vast majority.
Over time, a small fraction of cultivators would discover the strangeness of the Earthly Void Realm, where life and heavenly will existed, yet there were no discernible energy fluctuations.
Li Qi understood the principle of extremes giving rise to the opposite.
With a slight shift of his intent, Li Qi manipulated the formations, leaving a small gap beyond the Earthly Void Realm.
If a cultivator were to pass by now, their divine sense would only perceive the Earthly Void Realm as an ordinary, low-level minor world.
Such ordinariness was precisely what made it hardest to detect.
Li Qi finally nodded in satisfaction.
He then closed his eyes slightly, and in the next moment, murmured with a hint of surprise.
"Hiss, it took so long to modify and set up these formations."
From the first day Li Qi began his research until now, a full eight years had passed.
Eight years. This was with Li Qi's hundredfold amplification in his research. If it were for someone else, it would have taken eight hundred years.
"But it's still not enough."
Li Qi shook his head slightly.
Despite the fact that the isolation intensity of these three hundred and forty-six formations could completely cut off the Earthly Void Realm's aura even before activation.
The matter of the Earthly Void Realm's Heavenly Dao breaking through to the Mahayana stage could not be taken lightly.
After all, it was the Mahayana stage, a realm that even Li Qi currently had no confidence in dealing with.
"Let's continue to collect more."
Li Qi's thoughts shifted slightly, and he sent messages to his two natal spirit puppets, who were far away in the prosperous Green Sorrow Domain.
After Li Qi sent the instructions, his aura gradually calmed down.
The high-intensity operation of his divine soul over the past few years was no less taxing than modifying medicinal recipes back then.
At this moment, Li Qi was not cultivating but relaxing his divine soul.
Even a cultivator of his realm could encounter many problems if their divine soul remained tense for too long.
For instance, inner demons, or other issues.
By the time Li Qi emerged from his relaxation, more than half a year had passed.
Numerous messages from his two natal spirit puppets had been sent to Li Qi during this half-year period.
Most of these messages were, naturally, about new isolating formations.
Li Qi glanced at them briefly.
In over half a year, his two natal spirit puppets had collected more than four hundred types of isolating and concealing formations for him.
"Looks like I have a period of intense work ahead again."
Li Qi murmured to himself, wasting no time. With a turn of his mind, he once again began modifying these more than four hundred types of isolating and concealing formations.
Time flew by, and another decade passed.
These more than four hundred isolating formations were naturally and effortlessly set up by Li Qi within this decade.
By now, outside the Earthly Void Realm, there were nearly eight hundred powerful isolating formations arranged by Li Qi.
After completing the formations, Li Qi naturally conducted some tests.
For example, Li Qi personally left the Earthly Void Realm, activated the isolating formations, and then commanded the Earthly Void Realm's Heavenly Dao to continuously exert its heavenly pressure outwards.
Initially, for the sake of caution, Li Qi instructed the Earthly Void Realm's Heavenly Dao to exert only ten percent of its heavenly pressure.
Until finally, under Li Qi's command, the Earthly Void Realm's Heavenly Dao fully exerted its one hundred percent heavenly pressure, even overexerting itself to the point where the "fat, lazy Heavenly Dao," which had been dormant for so long, almost gasped for air.
But even when the Earthly Void Realm's Heavenly Dao had unleashed its maximum heavenly pressure, Li Qi, standing outside the Earthly Void Realm and separated by the isolating formations he had arranged, perceived the Earthly Void Realm as a dead, lifeless star.
With a slight thought, Li Qi's palm gently tapped once more.
In the next moment, the nearly eight hundred formations that completely isolated the inside and outside of the Earthly Void Realm were deactivated, leaving only a trace of aura that outsiders would perceive as an ordinary minor world.
At this moment, the Earthly Void Realm once again returned to its usual concealed, ordinary appearance.