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Cultivation knew no years. In the blink of an eye, a year had passed since the auction at Lianyun Manor. Aside from his regular cultivation and consulting Elder Chen Guo on the Dao of formations, Lu Xiaotian had spent the rest of his time refining pills. The Lingxu Cauldron truly lived up to its reputation as a supreme-grade pill furnace capable of refining Nascent Soul Pills. With the Lingxu Cauldron, Lu Xiaotian's success rate had advanced by leaps and bounds. Even with the extremely difficult-to-refine Hundred Poisons Pill, his success rate had risen considerably.
Throughout this year, his secondary Primordial Spirit had spent most of its time deducing formations. The Dao of formations was indeed obscure and difficult to master. After a year of deduction, his secondary Primordial Spirit had only managed to gain a rough understanding of the first-level formations among the Five-Element Formation. Even so, Elder Chen Guo had been amazed by Lu Xiaotian's talent in formations, asserting that Lu Xiaotian had accomplished in one year what would have taken a formation apprentice at least four or five years of effort. However, Elder Chen Guo felt that Lu Xiaotian was already astonishingly accomplished despite his young age, so he did not urge Lu Xiaotian to devote himself entirely to formations. In his opinion, with Lu Xiaotian's cultivation talent, he could completely try to break through to the Golden Core Great Dao. He must not let his mind wander.
In truth, Lu Xiaotian felt somewhat ashamed of Elder Chen Guo's praise. After all, Elder Chen Guo did not know that he had another secondary Primordial Spirit that could continuously deduce and calculate formations. Ordinary cultivators—even formation masters who