"When are you going to keep this from her? Your personal disciple doesn't even know the Spirit Taming Sect exists." Elder Fu looked at the silly Xue'er and shook his head helplessly.
Bai Lan raised an eyebrow. "Hide? I haven't hidden anything. If Xue'er asks, I will tell her the truth."
The problem is that Xue'er doesn't know anything, and no one will ask her something they don't even know themselves.
"... In that case, I'll ask you something, and you can't hide it from me." Elder Fu suddenly leaned closer and whispered, "Cultivators often get stuck on bottlenecks during their cultivation, sometimes for several years, sometimes for decades, sometimes for hundreds of years, without being able to break through their current bottleneck. But your cultivation seems to have no bottlenecks at all, as if water flows smoothly into a channel. What is the reason for this?"
Bai Lan spoke decisively, "Because I am exceptionally intelligent."
"You're just kidding! Even someone as talented as Long Aotian encountered many bottlenecks during his Qi Refining stage. Yet you, with only a basic Spirit Root, cultivate faster than him, who has a Heavenly Spiritual Root. I couldn't figure it out back then." The Elder Fu thought about it, the angrier he became. "I still can't figure it out now."
" Elder Fu, if you have some free time, why don't you study the array with Senior Jiuge? She has a high level of expertise in array formations. I don't believe that two Nascent Soul cultivator working together can't figure out the array that steals the luck of Suiyun."
By combining constellations, yin and yang, the eight trigrams, the yin and yang, and the Soul Locking Grand Array, along with the Ninth Tier Grand Array, one can replicate the Child of Destiny Seizing Array of True Lord Suiyun.
After True Monarch Jiuge submitted to Bai Lan, she took on the important responsibility of researching magic arrays. Previously, she had only made some minor modifications, incorporating some materials into the protective array of the Corpse Refining Sect, and with the help of True Lord He Gui, she refined and modified it. After several months, the ninth-order Soul Locking Grand Array of Magic Array No. 1 was completed.
However, there are still four major formations that remain unsolved.
The Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams are easy to explain; many people in the cultivation world use the power of the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams to create Killing Formation and the flow of the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams to create Trapping Array.
However, star formations are too rare, and it is mostly impossible to find them by snatching and piecing them together. In the end, Bai Lan will mostly have to refine them herself, so she still needs to develop the formation diagram first.
Elder Fu waved his hand with a headache. "My skill in formations is not as good as yours. If I were to interfere, I would only cause more trouble."
He had been studying that magic array for half a year without making any progress. On the contrary, when True Monarch Jiuge arrived, he completed a large array in just half a month.
As for the professional Guo Xing, it still needs someone like True Monarch Jiuge, who is skilled in using magic arrays and mechanisms, to do it.
"I'm not going anywhere else. I'll just watch you cultivate from here. If I watch for a while, I'll definitely be able to see through your tricks." Elder Fu stared intently at Bai Lan, trying to find some flaws in her.
Bai Lan simply smiled and patted Elder Fu on the shoulder, her expression indifferent, showing no concern whatsoever.
So what if he discovers it? He can't just learn the skill of reloading save files on the spot, or suddenly comprehend the Principle spacetime.
He is not True Lord Suiyun. Elder Fu's soul is already in Bai Lan Lan's hands, so there is no way he can escape Bai Lan's grasp.
Stepping into the center of the formation, Bai Lan sat cross-legged on the spot.
As the Spirit Gathering Formation began to operate, with a continuous supply of Spirit Stone, Bai Lan quickly entered a state of cultivation.
Bai Lan tilted her head back and drank a drop of Ice Flame Bone Wine. As a massive amount of spiritual energy surged into her meridians, the black and white Golden Core in her dantian slowly began to circulate and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Her primary cultivation technique has always been the Chaos Yin Yang Art, which incorporates the power of magic. Even though Bai Lan cultivated countless Divine Ability as a secondary cultivation method, none of her techniques conflicted with the Chaos Yin Yang Art.
This method is all-encompassing, combining spiritual power and gathering Chaos Qi, making it perfectly compatible with cultivators of Spirit Root.
All magical techniques are created by humans. The existence of this magical technique made Bai Lan suspect that there might have been a genius cultivator with a unique Spirit Root in the cultivation world in the past, and the Chaos Yin Yang Art was a magical technique left behind by this person before his ascension.
There's no point in thinking about it too much; all the mysteries can only be solved after she ascends to immortality.
What she needs to do now is cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate some more, so that she can reach the Late Core Formation stage as soon as possible, and then go to the Boundless Sea Region to find the method of Nascent Soul breakthrough a Spirit Root and Nascent Soul.
In the distance, Elder Fu lay on a rocking chair, intently watching Bai Lan, who was diligently cultivating, not missing a single sound during her practice.
The woman slightly closed her eyes, her breathing steady. From a distance, she appeared as calm and composed as an old monk sitting in meditation, but within her dantian, spiritual energy was surging and turbulent.
Every hour, she would drink a drop of Ice Flame Bone Wine to begin refining it. Once the wine was completely refined, she would drink another drop without stopping for a second.
Moreover, the Spirit Stone piled up around the Spirit Gathering Formation, forming a mountain-like structure, were decreasing day by day. The massive amount of spiritual energy formed a vortex around Bai Lan, continuously pouring into Bai Lan body.
She didn't seem to be cultivating; she was clearly filling her body with the vast amount of spiritual energy that flowed like a river.
Just moments before, Elder Fu had seen Bai Lan stop cultivating before breaking through to the mid Core Formation stage, and he frowned.
Her appearance clearly indicated that she had encountered a bottleneck, but the next moment she closed her eyes again, as if the bottleneck had disappeared into thin air. Bai Lan drank another drop of Ice Flame Bone Wine and began to try her best to break through the bottleneck.
It was as if the bottleneck from the previous second had never existed.
"What a wonder! What a wonder!" Elder Fu exclaimed. "I pride myself on my extensive knowledge, but I have never seen anyone cultivate like this before. He is truly a prodigy."
The system beside her burst out laughing, "Oh right, she's such a prodigy!"
The mysterious and unpredictable Bai, who was in front of Elder Fu, was stuck in the bottleneck of the mid Core Formation stage. Just a second ago, he was still training in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
She trained for a full year without breaking through the bottleneck. In the middle of the process, she thought she had gotten tired of killing the Demon Beast in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, so she wandered around the Qiyun Mountain Range.