After transmigrating, I cultivated immortality by smelling the scent.

Chapter 188 Learning Formations, Discovering Unexpected Gains

Ye Xiaobai is not a person who enjoys crowds.

After sharing his alchemy insights, Ye Xiaobai left in a hurry.

Upon returning to his cave, Ye Xiaobai immediately began studying the array formation insights left behind by the Five Elements Venerable.

A novice array master draws the array on array flags or array plates, and others can control the entire array by manipulating the array flags or array plates.

The formations Ye Xiaobai used before were prepared by other formation masters, so he could use them directly without having to learn how to make them himself.

Now, Ye Xiaobai needs to learn the way of formations, and he can only start from the most basics.

Formations are actually a means of manipulating spiritual energy. By inscribing different formations, the direction of the flow of spiritual energy and the conversion of spiritual energy can be controlled to achieve a certain desired effect.

For example, the Spirit Gathering Array can manipulate the spiritual energy around the array to slowly converge into the array by drawing special array patterns, which can greatly improve the cultivation speed.

Without further ado, Ye Xiaobai took out a blank array flag and began to trace the patterns of the Qi Gathering Array on it.

Ye Xiaobai's control over spiritual power was already extremely high when he was refining pills before, but now drawing arrays with the spiritual brush feels different.

When drawing the array patterns, I could clearly feel the restless spiritual energy at the tip of the brush, as if it were about to explode at any moment.

Ye Xiaobai could only concentrate on controlling the spiritual power within the spirit brush, hoping to finish drawing it in one go.

However, an unexpected incident occurred. During the drawing process, Ye Xiaobai applied a little too much force when putting pen to paper, causing the array patterns to explode due to uneven spiritual energy.

The battle flag was also burned with a hole, rendering a blank battle flag useless.

"Drawing this formation is really difficult!" Ye Xiaobai couldn't help but exclaim.

That would be too wasteful of the flags. You can practice on blank paper first, and then practice on the flags after you are familiar with them.

So good!

Afterwards, Ye Xiaobai put away the blank array flags and took out a piece of white paper to start practicing.

Sure enough, practicing on blank paper was much easier, and Ye Xiaobai easily completed the drawing of the array pattern in one corner of the formation.

While the iron was hot, Ye Xiaobai drew several more array patterns, and only then did he feel as if he had grasped something.

Three days later, Ye Xiaobai was able to draw the array patterns of the Spirit Gathering Array on a blank sheet of paper in one go.

Next, they drew the array patterns on the array flags.

Ye Xiaobai took out a blank array flag, carefully placed it on the table, and then began to carefully draw the array patterns of the Spirit Gathering Array on the flag.

Ye Xiaobai was now confident and the drawing process went very smoothly. In a short while, he had completed the array pattern of an array flag.

Seeing that the patterns on the array flags he had drawn matched those described in the Five Elements Venerable's array technique manual, Ye Xiaobai was extremely excited. He had finally taken the first step in drawing an array.

Next, Ye Xiaobai took out a blank array flag from his storage bag and began drawing the second array flag.

If nothing else, there was an accident.

After successfully drawing one array flag, Ye Xiaobai became arrogant, thinking that drawing arrays was nothing special. As a result, he failed to draw the second array flag.

Ye Xiaobai immediately realized that forming an array was not such an easy thing.

Fortunately, Ye Xiaobai maintained a good attitude. Although she failed to draw again, she quickly adjusted her mindset.

Where the heart leads, there will be progress day after day!

If you keep striving towards your goal, you will definitely make progress. This applies to cultivation as well as learning formations.

The current goal is to improve one's array formation skills. With that in mind, Ye Xiaobai began to draw array patterns on the array flags again.

Ten days later, after ruining countless blank array flags, Ye Xiaobai finally completed the drawing of the array flags for the Spirit Gathering Array.

At this moment, Ye Xiaobai was officially considered a beginner in array formation, and he couldn't contain his excitement. He immediately set up his newly crafted array flags to see the effect.

With the four array flags placed in the four corners of the cave and the spirit stones placed in them, the spirit gathering array was officially activated with a "hum".

Ye Xiaobai immediately sensed the spiritual energy around the cave beginning to converge on his location, and he immediately began to meditate and refine this spiritual energy.

After a short while, the spiritual energy had been refined to a near-complete degree. Ye Xiaobai clearly felt that this spiritual energy had caught up with what he had gained from several days of hard work. However, the spiritual vein where the cave was located was originally thin in spiritual energy, so the effect of the spirit-gathering array was much worse.

Furthermore, the spirit-gathering array that Ye Xiaobai crafted was of the lowest level, which also limited the array's effectiveness.

Nevertheless, seeing such obvious benefits from his first array formation, Ye Xiaobai was immediately excited. Learning array formations was truly an interesting thing.

Subsequently, Ye Xiaobai refined several sets of spirit-gathering array flags, and sure enough, the success rate was much higher. This was largely due to his previous experience in refining pills, which gave him a spiritual sense strength far exceeding that of ordinary Core Formation stage cultivators, as well as extremely strong control over spiritual power.

With the guidance of the Five Elements Venerable's insights into formations, Ye Xiaobai was able to quickly grasp the essence of formations.

Next, he studied the composition and crafting of other formations. Ye Xiaobai quickly took out the Five Elements Venerable's formation insights and studied them carefully.

Ye Xiaobai felt as if the Five Elements Venerable's insights into formations were a vast treasure trove, and he was like a thirsty person, constantly absorbing the knowledge within. Each learning session filled him with immense excitement and satisfaction, as if he were in a completely new world.

He found his understanding of formations deepening, and previously vague concepts gradually becoming clearer. The complex formation patterns and runes were no longer incomprehensible symbols, but rather vibrant entities. They intertwined and combined to form wondrous and powerful formations.

As time went by, Ye Xiaobai's knowledge of formations grew at an astonishing rate. He could feel his connection with formations becoming increasingly close, and his control over formations became more and more adept.

This filled him with confidence for the future, and he looked forward to becoming a true master of formations one day.

However, all this knowledge of formations is still theoretical. To truly become a master of formations, one must constantly practice and learn.

Just as Ye Xiaobai was browsing through the Five Elements Venerable's array formation insights, he suddenly discovered that the insights recorded a hidden chamber within the secret realm, but there was no description of what was inside.

However, the Five Elements Venerable's hidden chamber sounded incredibly tempting, and Ye Xiaobai naturally wanted to explore it.

There might be some undiscovered treasures out there, and Ye Xiaobai definitely wouldn't want to let them go.

It should be noted that Ye Xiaobai's success in forming his core was largely due to the Five Elements Venerable's cultivation techniques and elixir formula.

Since the secret chamber is recorded in the knowledge of formations, it must require a special formation to open it.

Sure enough, in his subsequent notes, Ye Xiaobai discovered the solution to the locked room puzzle.

Upon seeing this, Ye Xiaobai was overjoyed.

"The treasure in the secret room is waiting for me!" Ye Xiaobai chanted loudly in his heart.

Afterwards, Ye Xiaobai packed up a bit and set off again for the secret realm of the Five Elements Venerable in Yue Kingdom!