Sword Forms Have Grades, Sword Intent Has None

Si Kongyan controlled the ball of spiritual energy and blasted it out. The entire combined array shuddered under the impact, and the spiritual energy walls around it rapidly faded, weakened by a great layer. Yet the formation merely trembled once; no exit appeared.

Si Kongyan sat on the ground, gasping for breath, staring around her in disbelief. She had clearly felt the formation cracking beneath that strike, yet the spiritual energy walls, more than half of which had been shaved away, were now slowly recovering.

Outside the formation, Fang Xinping likewise watched ahead with tightly furrowed brows. She too could not understand why Si Kongyan's strike had failed to break the formation. Where exactly was the problem?

As she watched the spiritual energy walls slowly recover, a flicker of surprise crossed Fang Xinping's eyes. In a daze, she seemed to see not one formation, but two identical formations superimposed upon each other. Si Kongyan had indeed broken the formation, but she had broken only one of them.

"Yan'er, get up. Don't let the spiritual energy walls recover. Strike it once more, and this formation will surely break," Fang Xinping called into the formation.

When Lu Feng heard Fang Xinping reveal the next step to breaking the formation, he could not help sighing inwardly. Even the layered inscription technique of Double Imprint Inscription has been seen through. This Instructor Fang has no simple background.

"Yes, Instructor." Si Kongyan weakly rose to her feet and swallowed another Spirit Replenishing Pill. Just as she raised her hand to gather spiritual energy again, Lu Feng's voice came from outside the formation.

"Stop."

After stopping Si Kongyan, Lu Feng said to Fang Xinping, "A second strike would indeed break this formation, but have you considered where all the spiritual energy from her previous attacks has