My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

"I'm sorry, I'm not in a good state right now."

Luo Hanying bowed politely and declined, saying, "I hope you fellow Daoists can understand that I urgently need to sort out my thoughts."

Luo Hanying glanced at Ruan Chayan, gesturing for the two of them to leave together.

Tongming then stepped in front of Luo Hanying: "Fellow Daoist Luo, when do you have some free time?"

I heard you had an epiphany after watching my competition. I'm curious and would like to learn a thing or two from you.

Luo Hanying touched her flushed face, pondered for a moment, and gave a time: "Three days later. I will come to Yunzhong Square to watch the arena match again in three days."

"Let's exchange our spiritual imprints and keep in touch."

As she spoke, she took out a communication jade slip.

People around also took out jade slips, expressing their desire to become friends with Luo Hanying.

Tongming watched as Luo Hanying, surrounded by admirers, waved her hand in refusal and fled on her sword as if escaping. He couldn't quite describe the feeling in his heart.

The illusion that Luo Hanying displayed seemed to resemble the fragment of the array she had obtained.

She had studied for nearly a hundred years and could only use three formations, but Luo Hanying had an epiphany just by looking at them. How unfair is the way of heaven!

Tongming was filled with disappointment and resentment. She clenched her fist, calmed herself down, and turned to head to the next match.

*

Luo Hanying took Ruan Chayan to the Floating Life Altar, where there were ready-made formations. The two could not only chat, but Luo Hanying could also practice what she had just learned.

"I've had an epiphany! I've actually had an epiphany! Oh my God!"

As soon as the formation was activated, Luo Hanying couldn't hold back any longer and started shouting and jumping up and down on the spot, "Even the people here might not be able to achieve enlightenment, but I actually did!"

Ruan Chayan felt envious and kept laughing. She never hesitated to praise: "Okay, okay, I heard you! Xiaoxue, you are really amazing! You are so great!"

Could you explain in more detail? I don't quite understand.

I saw you standing there in a daze, and then there was an array, and light fell on you.

Actually, I can't quite explain it either.

You know I was completely obsessed with studying formations before. Back then, I wondered if poetry could be used in conjunction with formations, but it was just an idea; I had no idea how to do it.

Luo Hanying described her recent behavior: "When I'm upset, I like to recite all kinds of poems, right? Recently, I've written a whole bunch of them, but I just can't calm down."

But today I witnessed Tongming setting up the formation; she performed a complete formation right in front of me, and suddenly I understood it.

Luo Hanying took out her brush, twirled it between her fingers, and after a moment's thought, she wrote in mid-air, "Red flowers bloom in abundance, snowflakes fall in profusion, overlapping and cascading throughout the small garden."

Ruan Chayan saw the two lines of poetry disperse like mist, and in the blink of an eye, Luo Hanying's figure disappeared.

As the apricot trees in the field of vision change from the red of newly opened buds to the snow-white of fully bloomed blossoms, they bloom in a beautiful display of varying heights, and a gentle breeze causes the petals to fall in a colorful shower.

Ruan Chayan was amazed by the scene before her, but suddenly felt a sharp pain on her cheek. The illusion vanished abruptly. Luo Hanying, feeling guilty and anxious, said helplessly, "I'm so sorry! Aunt Cha, I was wrong! I didn't mean to. Are you alright?"

Ruan Chayan realized that she had been injured by Luo Hanying's illusion mirror when she saw the red mark on her fingertip.

"It's nothing, it's not a serious injury." Ruan Chayan circulated her spiritual energy to her face, and the wound slowly scabbed over and then fell off, leaving her face smooth as before.

Luo Hanying breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Ruan Chayan was unharmed: "You scared me to death. I think my self-control is not very good. It's so strange. Why does this formation still have a killing move even though I don't want to hurt people..."

Ruan Chayan comforted Luo Hanying for a few moments, praising her new ability: "Your formation is amazing, so natural. If I hadn't been in pain, I wouldn't have even realized that those flower petals could kill."

“I also think it’s pretty amazing,” Luo Hanying replied proudly, then said, “But, I feel like, it doesn’t, um… I feel like it hasn’t brought out its full potential.”

Ruan Chayan tried to understand, but to no avail: "To be honest, I don't quite understand what you're saying."

Luo Hanying pondered for a moment and said, "It's probably a feeling that I haven't fully shown the scene I imagined."

Although it's already pretty good, I don't think I can write out the whole poem for use. I just finished setting up the formation at Yunzhong Square, and it would be quite difficult to set up another one now.

"If I create a formation on my own, it can drain half of the spiritual energy in my dantian. If I encounter an enemy and can't kill them with a single blow, my chances of survival will decrease. If that happens, I feel that what I've realized will be pretty useless."

“Ah…” Ruan Chayan said after thinking for a moment, “But your formation should be unbreakable, right? Someone of my skill level can’t even tell that the formation is working.”

Even if you know the scene before you is abnormal, and you have no way to solve it, you can only wander aimlessly within the formation like a headless fly. If you then kill people with flower petals like you did before, who can withstand that?

Luo Hanying was embarrassed by the praise: "There are always people better than you. You know I sometimes like to worry unnecessarily."

"But killing is still quite terrifying. It's one thing to talk about it, but I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to do it if I actually encountered it."

"If you ever encounter someone who wants to kill you, you have to do it even if you don't dare to."

I know what you mean, but thinking about it, it seems like we're capable of doing something like that. Even a rabbit will jump over a wall when cornered, let alone you and me, whose lives are in danger.

Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Let those things cause your future self anxiety, okay?

Speaking of this, Ruan Chayan recalled Qi Huixian's actions and recounted the events that occurred during Luo Hanying's enlightenment.

Luo Hanying was a little overwhelmed after hearing Ruan Chayan's words: "Those illusions are what we used to look like. How am I supposed to explain this to those cultivators if they ask?"

She scratched her head in distress.

"Just say you don't know," Ruan Chayan explained her opinion. "Your state at the time didn't seem like you knew what you were doing."

You insist you don't know anything about those phantoms; they can't exactly open your head to see if you're telling the truth.

Luo Hanying chuckled twice, but said, "But I don't think that makes sense. I recited the poem, and I created the illusion..."

Never mind, let's just say we don't know anything. This thing is truly inexplicable.

Ruan Chayan: "Listen to me, what you say will definitely be fine."

Recalling Ruan Chayan's description, Luo Hanying felt a sense of crisis. She said, "Yu Chen Daozun is truly amazing. He actually managed to separate me from my formation with a single arrow..."

"If we had his level of cultivation, wouldn't we be less afraid?"

Ruan Chayan said with a sigh, "That's for sure. There aren't many experts at the Refinement Realm in the Canglan Realm."

"Cultivation is really difficult. I wonder when I'll be able to accumulate enough experience points to advance."

Luo Hanying touched her lower dantian. "Don't people in novels who have an epiphany usually advance in their cultivation? Why don't I have any reaction?"

Ruan Chayan said helplessly, "That's just a novel after all, and there's still a gap between it and reality."

Luo Hanying shrugged: "Okay, I just feel like my life is as unreal as a novel. If it isn't, then forget it."

"Do you still want to practice? Do you want me to accompany you?" Ruan Chayan asked Luo Hanying how she was feeling.