Bamboo Mound

"Huh?" Ning Chang was a little confused as he looked at the bamboo leaves that had suddenly disappeared.

"How could it just disappear like that? That shouldn't be possible. What kind of formation can make matter vanish so easily?"

After sensing it again, I found that there was indeed not a single bamboo leaf fragment in the array.

Looking at the small ball of spiritual light hovering in the center of the formation, he suddenly had a feeling that he could control that ball of spiritual light, just like he could control spiritual power.

With a thought, the spiritual light began to flicker. Compared to spiritual power, the spiritual light generated by this formation was easier to control.

After getting used to the feeling of spiritual light again, he took out another bamboo leaf and placed it into the formation.

The bamboo leaf easily passed through the light shield formed by the array and landed on the array patterns, while the spiritual light remained in place without his control.

In order to figure out how the light caused the bamboo leaves to disappear completely, he decided to experiment a few more times.

Tear the bamboo leaf into four pieces, control the spiritual light to separate a wisp, and slowly approach one of the pieces.

The moment the light touched the bamboo leaf, the leaf melted away silently, like ice and snow.

The parts that were not touched by the spiritual light remained unchanged, unaffected in the slightest.

"It vanished without a trace, not even a puff of smoke? Is your sub-atmosphere miasma?"

The principle behind this spiritual light was completely incomprehensible. Ning Chang had no choice but to give up and use the wisp of light to wipe away the remaining bamboo leaves.

Then, he prepared to control this ray of light to return it to the whole.

"Hmm?" At this moment, he suddenly felt the feedback from the spiritual light disappear. When he looked again, the wisp of spiritual light had melted away along with the bamboo leaf.

"It even has consumption costs, huh? Tsk."

This lowered his expectations for the formation somewhat.

Now that he was familiar with controlling the spiritual light, he thought that when he activated the formation again, he could directly control the spiritual light so that it could appear even without a target.

So he removed the control over the array, letting it dissipate on its own, and then used the spiritual energy to redraw an array pattern.

However, after waiting for a few moments, the formation remained motionless in its original position, and the small ball of spiritual light hovered quietly in the center, showing no sign of exploding.

"You've finally stabilized by now?"

He narrowed his eyes and stared at the array in his hand for a few more moments.

Suddenly, he realized that the light shield generated by the formation was actually absorbing the spiritual energy from the outside world!

Seemingly realizing something, he sensed the interior of the formation.

"Sure enough, the spiritual energy inside the formation has been completely absorbed!"

"This formation can actually absorb spiritual energy to maintain its operation on its own. So it seems that my formation is set up too small, allowing it to absorb spiritual energy on its own to maintain its operation."

Upon discovering this phenomenon, he came up with a few more ideas that needed to be verified, but those required the next formation to complete.

"I originally wanted to absorb the dissipated spiritual energy to save some effort, but it seems I'll have to absorb it actively now."

This formation was originally formed from his spiritual power, so there was no problem with absorbing it as spiritual power. Although the spiritual power used to form this formation was indeed insignificant to him, he could not waste it for no reason just because it was insignificant.

So he began to absorb the spiritual energy that formed the array from his palm. Strangely, his absorption of energy at one point did not cause the array to collapse directly. Instead, the array gradually faded and collapsed after a few breaths due to insufficient spiritual energy.

At this moment, the reaction force generated by the collapse of the formation is equivalent to a gentle breeze.

After looking around and finding nothing unusual, Ning Chang lowered his head and began to condense the third array pattern.

This time, he drew the array pattern on a larger scale and drew some spiritual energy into the intended area of ​​the light shield.

He then channeled spiritual energy to activate the array, and the moment the light shield formed, he tried to directly draw out the spiritual light based on his previous feeling of manipulating it.

Just as the array patterns began to flicker with light, showing signs of impending explosion, Ning Changcai managed to draw out his spiritual light.

It also bumped against the light mask a few times because of unstable control.

When Ning Chang stopped the spiritual light, he found that most of the spiritual energy he had drawn in before activating it had been absorbed, and the remaining energy would be absorbed in just a few breaths. At the same time, spiritual energy from the outside also began to converge towards the light shield.

After letting the spiritual light merge with a few more bamboo leaves, Ning Changcai finally completed his investigation of the formation.

"It's alright. I don't know its name, but its power is decent. It makes up for the direct attack method I'm currently lacking."

Apart from this formation, all he can do right now is channel spiritual energy into his body and let bamboo leaves enter his ears.

Although completing the setup would easily subdue the enemy, it would be easily detected, since before it was completed, he could only use the Azure Cloud Step to dodge and the leaves to interfere.

With this formation, the opponent can be made to believe that the bamboo leaves are interfering in order to make the spiritual light hit, thus making them less wary of anything other than the spiritual light.

With this thought in mind, he withdrew the formation and began to look around the arena to see if there were any other matches that interested him.

Seeing that Ning Chang had stopped moving, the elders exchanged glances and saw the shock in each other's eyes.

In their shock, they began to communicate with each other telepathically.

"Old man, what's wrong with your disciple?"

"Well, I don't know either. I never taught him this thing!"

"Do you think we believe that? We all know that the sect doesn't have the diagram for the Five Elements Dragon Trapping Formation. If you didn't teach him, how could he have learned it after just one look?"

"That... that's actually quite possible. Didn't you see how his formation exploded as soon as he drew it? And those two times after that, weren't they all things he figured out on his own?"

"That makes some sense."

"Isn't this a bit too outrageous? Old Meng from the Huayu Sect took a week to learn this back then!"

"You must have drunk too much last time and misremembered. He learned the Spirit Gathering Array in a week."

"Huh? Did I remember wrong? Old Meng said that when he first started learning formations, the fastest he took was only a week, which means your apprentice's talent for formations is even higher than Old Meng's?!"

"That certainly seems to be the case."

"With such great talent and rapid cultivation, won't you have to leave the sect in less than a year?"

"Yeah, old man, isn't it a pity that your first apprentice graduated in less than a year?"

Upon hearing this, the Grand Elder fell silent for a moment, a rare occurrence.

"What a pity! My disciple Ning Chang graduated in less than a year, that's his skill! Can you find someone like him again?"

Besides, our Qingyun Sect is just a small sect, how could we possibly keep such a genius?

Besides, what's meant to happen will happen. You're all getting on in years, don't you understand yet?

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit somber, he quickly stopped talking about it.

"Alright, let's leave this topic at that and get back to the game."

However, after ending the telepathic communication, he glanced at Ning Chang almost imperceptibly and let out a long sigh.

At this time, Ning Chang was unaware that the elders had already watched his entire process of learning formations and had even discussed it with him.