"Yinyin, is it okay to make this mound of dirt this high?"

"Yinyin, is this stone buried deep enough?"

"Yin Yin..."

Yinyin held the blueprints and was pulled aside by her fellow students one by one for questions.

"Yinyin," Lin Jingjing ran to her younger sister's side, "the road on the west side of the mountain gate is almost finished, do you want to come and take a look?"

“Look,” Yin Yin was checking the layout in front of her with the blueprints in her hand, “Sister, wait for me, I’ll come over after I finish looking at this.”

Lin Jingjing agreed and stayed by her side, watching over her.

After Yinyin finished her inspection here, I followed her to the west side.

After all the checks were completed, Yin Yin closed the blueprints in her hand and announced, "Thank you all for your help. The setup is finished. Now... we can play around with it ourselves for a while."

"Play with it by ourselves?" Everyone looked at each other. "Yinyin, do you mean we can try it out first?"

“Yes,” Yinyin said, “this is a trap formation, not a killing formation. Now we can familiarize ourselves with it, and then we can go in to play hide-and-seek later.”

After two busy days, the girls were exhausted. They couldn't see any results from going down the mountain, so Yinyin offered to let them give it a try, and quite a few of them were willing.

From then on, everyone was divided into two groups. Those who didn't want to move stayed at the highest point and watched, while those who wanted to try went with Yinyin to the outside of the mountain gate.

When the group came out with Yin Yin, they didn't think anything of it. But when they stood still outside the formation and turned around, they suddenly felt that something was different.

The once clear road now seemed shrouded in fog, making it difficult to see clearly.

"Wow!"

The girls immediately started chattering amongst themselves.

"Is this the effect of the formation?"

"When we came down, it was bright and sunny, but when we turned around, it was like fog had rolled in, and the road was gloomy and we couldn't see it. How amazing!"

"Yinyin, can we just go straight in?"

“Of course,” Yin Yin even suggested, “We can split into several teams and see who gets there first.”

“Yinyin, don’t underestimate us,” one of the girls said. “We buried these stones ourselves, and we’re used to walking this mountain path. We can’t just get lost in here.”

This remark drew a chorus of agreement.

Yinyin didn't say much: "Anyway, it's just us playing. Everyone will know once we try it out."

After hearing her words, the girls split into several lines and went in one by one.

Lin Jingjing didn't rush to join them, but stayed by her younger sister's side.

"Yinyin, when are we going up?"

"Wait a little while," Yinyin said, pulling her sister to find a clean spot to sit down. "Otherwise, if we go up, we'll have to come down to find someone."

The two sisters hadn't waited long when they heard exclamations coming from inside the formation.

"Oops! How did we end up back here again?"

"Didn't you head west? How come we've run into each other again?"

"Zilan, has anyone seen Zilan? That girl was at the very back, how did she disappear?"

"Yinyin, it's done!" Lin Jingjing was clearly exhausted, but hearing the shouts coming from the formation, she was full of energy. "Let's see if they dare not trust you again!"

Yinyin's lips curled up slightly: "Sister, it's getting dark. If we don't go back soon, we'll miss dinner."

Yinyin pulled Lin Jingjing along the route up the mountain, picking up people as they went. By the time they returned to the mountain gate, everyone was there.

By this point, everyone, whether they had personally entered the formation or were watching from a high vantage point, gave Yin Yin a thumbs up.

Back inside the gate, after dinner, the power of Yin Yin's array had already been shared with the steward aunts.

Instead of going to find Yin Yin immediately, they went to try it themselves.

Compared to the daytime, the formation is much darker at night, making it even more difficult to find one's way.

Fortunately, they had been careful and had someone light torches at a high place to indicate their location; otherwise, they might not have been able to find their way out without breaking the formation.

When everyone gathered together again, one of the managers said, "Although it has limited effect on first- and second-rate people and above, it is quite effective against third-rate people and below."

Qiu Shui, who had initially been least hopeful, immediately spoke up: "That's enough. Yin Yin is so young, yet she can set up such a powerful formation. In the future, she will surely be able to set up even more powerful ones."

"Now, this formation can only slightly trap the three Bo brothers, which is enough for us to attack them separately."

Hongyao nodded and said, "Starting tomorrow, we'll all familiarize ourselves with the formation. We mustn't go in and get lost before we even see the enemy."

After everyone else agreed, Hongyao specially kept Qiushui behind: "This formation was set up in a hurry, but the effect is quite good. However, after our battle, there will definitely be a lot of damage, and we will have to trouble you to lead people to repair it."

"Don't worry," Qiu Shui said, now that she knew there were real benefits, she wouldn't refuse in the slightest. "After this is over, I'll go find Yin Yin again, and maybe we can even improve it further and create a real mountain-protecting formation."

“That won’t do,” Xiangsi refused before Hongyao. “Arrays are ultimately external things. They’re enough to serve our purposes. If we let Yinyin spend too much energy on them in the future, thus delaying her martial arts progress, it would be undesirable.”

“Xiangsi is right,” Hongyao nodded in agreement. “A person’s energy is limited. Yinyin is not at an age where she should devote too much energy to miscellaneous studies.”

Qiu Shui understood that what they said made sense, but she couldn't help feeling regretful: "If only Yin Yin had this talent."

Don’t even say it!

Hongyao and Xiangsi exchanged a glance. If it weren't for the sisters Yinyin and Lin Jingjing, they could all persuade people to go down this path.

After all, her talent is truly outstanding. If she continues to study in this direction, her future is limitless.

Fortunately, they weren't in front of Yin Yin, otherwise Yin Yin would have pretended to be obedient on the surface but secretly told the truth in her heart.

She has years of research and experience in array formations; it's not just a matter of talent.

"Yinyin," Hongyao hadn't returned yet, and Lin Jingjing was already sleepy, but perhaps because she was too excited, her head was spinning with sleepiness, but she still didn't want to lie down. "Your formation is amazing. If you had more time, could you set up an even better formation?"

of course can.

Yinyin silently replied, but deliberately added a hint of self-doubt: "Maybe I can do it in the future? But the powerful formations Master talked about all take many years to complete. The arrangement of trees, flowers, and stones in the formation requires careful calculation, which I definitely can't do now."

"It's okay," Lin Jingjing comforted her sister. "You can revise it slowly as you learn more. Who knows, maybe the formation you design will be able to trap even the top experts."

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