"What did you find?"
This young master’s talent for Formations was extraordinary, and Mr. Zhuang was also a Formation Master. Perhaps he really had discovered something.
The young man in white frowned and shook his head:
"I only know that the Formation in this Spirit Field is out of the ordinary, but I can’t see what’s unusual about it. It will take some time to study it."
The middle-aged cultivator asked the old man, "Do we still have time?"
The old man said, "Whether we have time or not doesn’t depend on us, but on his mood. If he wants to give us time, we have time; if not, then we don’t."
After pondering for a while, the old man continued:
"Since you want to study it, go ahead and study it. Anyway, we’re not in a rush these few days."
The young man in white showed a look of joy, "Thank you, senior."
In the following days, the three of them stayed in Thousand Families Town.
When he had nothing else to do, the young man in white also went to the Spirit Field. He wanted to know what kind of Formation was drawn there.
But after a few days, there was still no progress.
What was drawn in the field were clearly simple Formations like the Cultivating Soil Formation, yet the entire Spirit Field radiated distinct vitality.
The young man was baffled.
It wasn’t until one day, when he climbed a mountain and looked far off, taking in the entire Spirit Field at a glance, that he suddenly had a revelation, an epiphany.
The entire Spirit Field turned out to be one large Formation!
The young man in white told the old man and the middle-aged cultivator about this discovery.
Both were equally astonished.
The gaunt old man nodded and said:
"Indeed, this kind of unimaginable Formation is indeed like his handiwork."
The middle-aged cultivator asked the young man, "Do you know what kind of Formation this is?"
The young man shook his head.
"Isn’t it a first-grade Formation?" the middle-aged cultivator asked.
"It’s first-grade."
The middle-aged cultivator was somewhat surprised, "You’re a Second-Rank Formation Master, is there a first-grade Formation you don’t know?"
The young man spoke awkwardly, "This should be a unique first-grade Ultimate Formation."
"Ultimate Formation?" The middle-aged cultivator didn’t understand, "Even if it’s Ultimate, isn’t it still just first-grade?"
The young man in white shook his head, "It’s different."
But he didn’t elaborate.
Explaining such esoteric matters about Formations to cultivators who aren’t Formation Masters is incomprehensible, no matter how you explain it.
"What do we do now?" the middle-aged cultivator asked once more.
The gaunt old man said, "This Formation can prove that the person indeed came here. We just need to keep searching."
Then he muttered to himself:
"Being pursued by so many, yet still having the leisure to draw a Formation? The actions of a true expert are indeed inscrutable..."
The middle-aged cultivator felt slightly disheartened, "Spent all this time searching, isn’t it the same as not having searched at all? What does one Formation prove?"
The middle-aged cultivator brushed his sleeve and left.
The old man said to the young man in white:
"He’s impatient, don’t mind it. Finding an Ultimate Formation is a great discovery in itself, and this is very likely a Formation personally laid out by him, which is extraordinary..."
"Carefully copy down the Formation Patterns, make no mistakes, and then we can set off."
"Mhm." The young man in white nodded.
Afterward, he spent a day copying down all the Formation Patterns of the Spirit Field, then, out of curiosity, he attempted to study them himself.
But he found he couldn’t master it in a short time...
"It seems this must be Mr. Zhuang’s handiwork..."
The young man in white sighed and put the matter aside for now.
The next day, the three set out, leaving Thousand Families Town and continued their search in the direction pointed by the Compass and the Three Talents Divination.
The accuracy of the Three Talents Divination Copper Coin might not be reliable, but it was their only clue.
...
After the three had left, and some time had passed, a strange and oddly shaped person came walking up the mountain road to Thousand Families Town.
He wore a conical hat, covering his face.
There wasn’t the slightest hint of breath around him.
As he walked, his footsteps were uneven, as if someone on stilts hadn’t gotten used to the bamboo poles under their feet.
Passersby looked at him as if they saw nothing, as though he didn’t exist at all.
The person followed the mountain path, passed through Thousand Families Town, passed East Mountain Village, and arrived in front of the Spirit Field. He took off his conical hat and stripped off his straw coat.
He revealed a Taoist’s attire.
At the same time, a strange breath emanated from him.