Her Bottleneck, Broken With Ease

Inside the cave, there was silence.

Qiong Xiao slowly opened her eyes, a brilliant golden light flashing and disappearing from their depths.

She somewhat blankly extended her hand, her fair, jade-like palm facing upward, quietly feeling.

An unprecedentedly powerful force surged through her limbs and bones, like a waking dragon, filled with explosive might.

Is this the strength of a Mid Golden Immortal?

Qiong Xiao's mind sank into her purple mansion, looking at the immortal platform that was more than ten times steadier than before, and the vast, pure immortal essence in her sea of qi, like misty waves. The entire person was lost in an unreal daze.

Repair Dao Foundation, Increase Cultivation.

From a cripple whose path was severed and was on the verge of death, to a Mid Golden Immortal expert with a stable foundation and soaring strength.

This earth-shattering change occurred within the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn.

And the one who bestowed all of this upon her was the man sitting cross-legged on the stone platform before her, his expression unwavering.

Qiong Xiao's beautiful eyes completely lost focus, staring blankly at Lin Feng.

Shock, confusion, disbelief.

Various emotions intertwined, finally transforming into extreme piety and fervor.

In her eyes, Lin Feng's figure had completely merged with some indescribable, unfathomable, supreme Dao.

She took a deep breath, suppressing the thunderous emotions in her heart, and knelt down with utmost solemnity, her forehead touching the ground deeply.

"Thank you, Master, for the grace of remaking me!"

This time, her voice no longer held any shyness or panic, only reverence and submission emanating from the depths of her soul.

Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes, his calm gaze falling upon her. He watched her revel in the joy and excitement of her surging power, but he merely shook his head slightly.

This subtle movement was like a basin of ice water, instantly extinguishing all the fervor in Qiong Xiao's heart.

She suddenly raised her head, her beautiful eyes filled with astonishment and confusion.

Master... is shaking his head?

Could it be that this transformative change, this rebirth, is still not worth mentioning in his eyes?

Qiong Xiao's heart tightened for no reason.

"Your realm has improved, but your vision has not yet caught up."

Lin Feng's voice was not loud, but it was like a heavy hammer striking the lake of Qiong Xiao's heart, stirring up thousands of giant waves.

"Your formations are still only scratching the surface."

BOOM!

Qiong Xiao's mind buzzed, turning blank.

Scratching the surface?

Her Innate Divine Ability, the Thirty-six Transformations of the Heavenly Dipper Formation, which she was born with, had been immersed in for endless years, and was her pride, is merely scratching the surface in the eyes of this Master?

How is this possible!

A feeling of utter absurdity surged into her heart.

She knew that with this Array Technique, she was almost unrivaled among those of the same level, and could even contend with a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Such a powerful technique that allowed her to look down upon all immortals was actually evaluated as... scratching the surface?

If this was considered scratching the surface, then what would be considered truly mastering it?

Qiong Xiao's breathing stopped. She opened her mouth, wanting to argue, but the words at her lips were swallowed back down.

She suddenly realized.

What is my identity?

And what kind of existence is this person before me?

An supreme being who could reverse the heavens and reshape foundations with a wave of his hand, and whose cultivation could soar and break through bottlenecks with a single thought.

How could her vision and her level be fathomed by her?

What seemed like an earth-shattering technique to her might truly be just childish play in his eyes.

Upon thinking of this, the slightest bit of unwillingness and doubt that Qiong Xiao had just felt instantly vanished, replaced by a deeper sense of shame and fear.

That's right, I've truly been looking at the sky from the bottom of a well.

I just received a little insignificant benefit and became complacent, almost losing my Dao Heart.

If not for the Master's sharp reprimand, I probably wouldn't have known how far I would have gone down this wrong path.

After understanding all of this, Qiong Xiao had no more distracting thoughts. She kowtowed deeply again, her voice extremely sincere, even with a hint of a tremor.

"Qiong Xiao is dull-witted, please guide me, Master!"

Lin Feng looked at her eager-to-learn appearance, his face still expressionless.

He didn't say much, merely extending a finger.

A perfectly ordinary, slender, and clean finger.

It pointed gently at the empty space in front of him.

There was no earth-shattering power, no phenomena of laws manifesting. It was just like a mortal idly gesturing over the land.

But Qiong Xiao's gaze was completely captivated the moment that finger was raised, so much so that she forgot to breathe.

Hum!

As Lin Feng's fingertip descended, a tiny speck of light appeared in the void.

Immediately after, starting from that speck of light, threads of pure spiritual energy formed golden lines that began to appear out of thin air, intertwining and sketching in the sky.

Lin Feng used his finger as a brush and spiritual energy as ink, actually beginning to evolve a formation in the void!

Qiong Xiao's beautiful eyes widened instantly, her mind profoundly shaken.

The very first rune he drew, she was all too familiar with. It was the starting move of the [Thirty-six Transformations of the Heavenly Dipper Formation]!

Yet, even though it was the same starting move, the rune Lin Feng drew was worlds apart from hers!

The formations she used were powered by Immortal Essence, operating along predetermined paths.

What flowed from Lin Feng's fingertip was not formation runes at all. It was... the Dao! It was the personification of the ultimate principles of heaven and earth!

First Transformation, [Heavenly Dipper Solidifies Formation].

What Qiong Xiao learned was to use thirty-six basic array cores to construct a stable space for trapping enemies.

But with a flick of Lin Feng's finger, three thousand six hundred minute threads of law intertwined in the void, instantly locking down a section of space. That space was no longer simply "trapped"; it was conceptually "stripped" from the entire Primordial World!

Qiong Xiao's spiritual sense merely brushed against it and felt a terrifying power capable of crushing a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. She was horrified.

This was no trapping formation; it was clearly a killing formation!

Second Transformation, [Heavenly Dipper Illusion Formation].

Lin Feng's finger tapped lightly. Within the stripped space, light and shadow shifted, earth, water, fire, and wind surged, instantly evolving into a small thousand worlds. Sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, grass, and trees appeared, lifelike and indistinguishable from the real world.

Qiong Xiao's scalp tingled.

Her illusion formations could at most create illusions that confused the mind.

But Master's illusion formation directly created a real world! Anyone trapped within would likely never realize they were in an illusion until they died!

Third Transformation, [Heavenly Dipper Killing Formation]...

Fourth Transformation, [Heavenly Dipper Thunder Formation]...

Qiong Xiao was completely mesmerized.

Lin Feng's evolution had opened a door to a new world for her.

What he demonstrated was no longer simple formation changes; he had traced each transformation of the [Heavenly Dipper Formation] back to its most fundamental Dao origin.

Why could this change invoke killing intent? Because its core was the embodiment of the laws of slaughter.

Why could that combination produce illusions? Because its essence was the interweaving of the great Daos of reality and illusion.

Countless previously obscure and difficult-to-understand bottlenecks that had troubled her for a million years were resolved one by one under Lin Feng's direct, origin-pointing demonstration.

It was like a primary school student who only knew addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division suddenly seeing a university professor solve the same math problem using calculus and linear algebra.

The shock of that dimensional reduction strike, the ecstasy of glimpsing truth, made her entire soul tremble and ascend.

Lin Feng's fingers moved unhurriedly, tracing profound and beautiful trajectories in the air.

Tenth Transformation...

Twentieth Transformation...

Thirtieth Transformation...

As the evolution deepened, the profoundness of the formation surpassed Qiong Xiao's ability to comprehend.

She couldn't understand it, but she was deeply shocked.

She didn't need to understand it. She only needed to imprint the "Dao Charm" demonstrated by Master deep within her soul, and that would be enough for her to benefit for a lifetime.

When Lin Feng's fingertip reached the thirty-fifth transformation, the void of the entire cave began to tremble violently, as if unable to withstand the terrifying power contained within the formation, threatening to collapse at any moment.

Qiong Xiao's complexion had turned pale. Merely observing made her feel as if her Primordial Spirit was about to be torn apart by the vast Dao Charm.

Finally, Lin Feng's fingertip drew the last stroke.

Thirty-sixth Transformation, [Heavenly Dipper Returns to Origin]!

Hum!

The terrifying Great Formation, exquisitely complex, encompassing all phenomena of heaven and earth, and containing all ultimate principles of life, death, illusion, and destruction, suddenly contracted inward the moment it was formed.

All the light, all the laws, all the Dao Charm, collapsed into a singularity billions of times smaller than the tip of a needle, and then completely disappeared.

It was as if the formation evolution, which was capable of destroying heaven and earth, had never occurred.

The Great Dao is simple; return to simplicity.

Seeing this scene, Qiong Xiao's entire body trembled violently, as if struck by a divine thunderbolt of creation on the crown of her head.

She understood.

She completely understood!

The ultimate profound meaning of the [Heavenly Dipper Formation] wasn't about changes, nor slaughter, nor protection, but rather... returning to the origin! It was about evolving all phenomena, and then encompassing all phenomena, ultimately returning to a single point, transforming into the initial "Dao"!

BOOM!

An unprecedented enlightenment, like a mountain torrent and a sea tide, instantly washed away the last shackle deep within her soul.

In Qiong Xiao's eyes, two rays of enlightenment divine light, so brilliant they were impossible to look at directly, erupted and pierced through the void.

The bottleneck that had troubled her for countless years, preventing her from pushing her formation mastery to a higher level, was, at this moment, completely shattered by Lin Feng's casual point!

Qiong Xiao didn't have time to utter a single word, nor even the slightest expression of gratitude.

Her body, already following the instinct of enlightenment, immediately sat down cross-legged, her eyes tightly shut, and her entire being instantly plunged into a deep state of enlightenment.

Brilliant Dao Charm radiance completely enveloped her figure.