"You know about this formation, and Old Li isn''t surprised."


    "After all, the fact that Senior Lu Wuya left a formation in the heart of Spine Mountain ismon knowledge among the cultivators here; it''s no secret."


    "Moreover, there''s someone guarding the formation every day, just to prevent any Immortal ve from sneaking in to destroy it."


    "Upon hearing your request, Old Li thought for a moment and then personally led you there."


    "You sessfully entered the heart of Spine Mountain and arrived at the formation left by Senior Lu Wuya."


    "In the following days, you constantly observed and pondered over this formation using various formation knowledge."


    "But aside from feeling dizzy, you gained nothing. You realized you were too impatient."


    "With your current formation skills, this formation is like a book written in an unknownnguage."


    "The principle of formations is to use various basic formation symbols to create differentbinations to achieve various effects!""You couldn''t even see the most basic formation symbols, let alone learn them."


    "You knew it was because your formation skills were too low. Thebinations of those symbols were tooplex for you toprehend, so you couldn''t see them."


    "So, you had to leave, deciding to return once your formation skills improved."


    "During this time, Old Li followed you closely."


    "You knew it was because the formation left by Senior Lu Wuya was too important, and Old Li might not fully trust you yet."


    "In the seventeenth year, you secluded yourself again, diligently studying formations; for this, you even temporarily gave up cultivating the Immortal Dao and Martial Dao."


    "The reason was simple: you knew that Senior Lu Wuya''s formation wouldn''t hold until the next descent of Heavenly Thunder and would copse."


    "You wanted to fully enhance your formation skills to try and repair this formation."


    "You thought that if you could repair this formation, you could hide inside it when the Heavenly Thunder descended, thus extending the simtion time!"


    "Moreover, you now had the ''Longevity of the Southern Mountain'' talent, which increased your lifespan by a thousand years."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    "As long as you could repair this formation, you could cultivate for a thousand years, and you felt the benefits were immense."


    "In the twenty-third year, you sessfully set up a mid-grade Gathering Spirit Array, bing a fourth-grade Formation Master."


    "At this point, you finally understood that breaking through formations wasn''t as easy as you had imagined."


    "After fully digesting the Formation Dao jade slip, it took you six years to advance one grade."


    "Old Li, upon learning this, was even more excited than you."


    "He asked if you wanted to observe the formation left by Senior Lu Wuya again."


    "You were a bit puzzled."


    "Until finally, Old Li asked you to set up more mid-grade Gathering Spirit Arrays in Spine Mountain."


    "Only then did you realize he was asking for your help!"


    "Upon reflection, you thought it was reasonable."


    "After all, the cultivators here usually used basic Gathering Spirit Arrays."


    "The reason was simple: few cultivators in Spine Mountain had any talent for formations, and even ordinary Formation Masters were rare."


    "They could only set up basic Gathering Spirit Arrays."


    "It was said that there used to be advanced Gathering Spirit Arrays, but they had long since decayed and be ineffective."


    "The spiritual energy here was already thin, and without good Gathering Spirit Arrays, it was no wonder the cultivators of Spine Mountain often organized raids on the Spirit Stones of the Immortal Spirit Sect."


    "After all, cultivating here was extremely difficult; even with cultivation talent, without spiritual energy, it was all in vain."


    "You agreed to Old Li''s request without hesitation."


    "In the twenty-fourth year, you spent an entire year setting up hundreds of mid-grade Gathering Spirit Arrays in Spine Mountain."


    "This greatly enhanced your understanding of formations."


    "And what you did earned the gratitude of many cultivators in Spine Mountain, who all gave you Spirit Stones as a token of thanks."


    "Although the people here didn''t have many Spirit Stones, with thousands of cultivators each giving a little, you amassed 580,000 Spirit Stones."


    "For you, this was already a huge fortune."


    "In the thirty-first year, you sessfully broke through to a fifth-grade Formation Master."


    "In the thirty-ninth year, you reached the level of a sixth-grade Formation Master."


    "After that, you felt your progress in formations slow down significantly."


    "But you weren''t surprised; after all, as a sixth-grade Formation Master, if given time to set up formations, you could already rival a Void Refinement Realm cultivator."


    "If you could continue progressing at such a high speed, wouldn''t the Formation Dao be invincible?"


    "In the fortieth year, you entered the heart of Spine Mountain again, arriving at the formation left by Senior Lu Wuya."


    "This time, you could barely see some of the formation symbols within the formation."


    "This opened your eyes; the formation symbols you could see alone numbered in the millions."


    "These symbols intertwined, forming variousbinations and interweaving with each other."


    "For a moment, you were dazzled."


    "And what you could see was only a part of the formation; there was still arge portion you couldn''t make out."


    "You estimated that setting up this formation would require at least a billion formation symbols."


    "This was simply unimaginable."


    "A billion formation symbols, how manybinations would that entail?"


    "Now, as a sixth-grade Formation Master, the formations you could set up required only tens of thousands of symbols, with just a few hundredbinations."


    "Even so, in Old Li''s eyes, you were already an extremely skilled Formation Master."


    "You couldn''t imagine how powerful Senior Lu Wuya must have been."


    "Of course, what worried you more was the sealing formation outside the Southern Regions."


    "If the formation left by Senior Lu Wuya used so many symbols, how powerful must the formation sealing the entire Southern Regions be?"


    "Thinking of this, you couldn''t help but feel a bit hopeless."


    "Soon, you reminded yourself that this was within the simtion, and you still had time to improve."


    "You calmed your mind and carefully observed the formation symbols you could see, studying their patterns and operational principles."


    "After a day, you had a splitting headache."


    "Clearly, with your current formation skills, you couldn''t easily understand theplex patterns of these intertwined symbols."


    "This formation was still tooplex for you."


    "You had to leave the ce."


    "However, a day''s study still benefited you greatly."


    "You learned many different symbolbinations. If you could understand thesebinations, your formation skills might improve significantly!"


    "In the forty-first year, you triggered a random enlightenment, gaining a tenfold increase in cultivation speed and more active thinking."


    "This enlightenmentsted for ten months, during which you broke through to a seventh-grade Formation Master."


    "At this point, your formation skills far surpassed your cultivation level. A seventh-grade Formation Master,pared to cultivation, could be considered a Body Integration stage expert."