Talk:Sima Yi (Reines)/@comment-4802891-20190503101310/@comment-27971189-20190504103848

IMO it seems good amount of things mixed up in Taufu explanation. This at least what I know:

Waver's NP is stone sentinel maze, thus you see the animation is making formation with stone pillar. The intention of said strategy is to forces enemies to retreat as they advancing (NP Drain) due to inability to regroup properly (Defense Down) caused by confusion (Stun) from exploring the maze.

The curse part maybe from some iteration that saying Zhuge Liang formed the maze with magic / shamanism. Ba Gua formation Taufu talking about indeed what rises Zhuge fame as strategists. The real advantage itself actually not coming from solid formation but how the formation playing with geographic factor.

Calling an alchemist as Xian Ren is similar to calling Zhuge a magician because he's very good at what he did. The usage of Xian Ren to refer 'genius alchemist' itself happened due to Qin Shi Huang do-or-die project of obtaining immortality medicine.

Ancient Chinese have several versions of 'immortality medicine': fruit, flower juice, etc. Mercury is popular on latest iteration due to: how it played on Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor, history itself and it does fit usual trait of immortality medicine depicted on stories, "a shiny liquid".