[Formation Master Class Advancement Trial Begins] [Trial Objective: Within one shichen, complete the derivation and drawing of a "Tier 1 Spirit Gathering Formation" formation pattern.] [Trial Rules: The trial space will transmit basic knowledge of formation patterns to you. Based on the transmitted content, complete the formation pattern derivation within your sea of consciousness, then successfully draw it onto the formation plate. Success completes the class advancement. Failure requires waiting three days.]
The next moment, Ma Xiaoling's consciousness was pulled into a strange space.
Nothingness stretched in every direction, while a ball of soft light hung overhead.
A round formation plate floated before her, its surface engraved with dense, intricate patterns, like a complicated circuit diagram.
Then, information flooded into her mind.
It was not written text, but formation pattern diagrams—lines, nodes, circuits, intersections...
They looked remarkably like circuit diagrams, yet also like geometry proof problems from a math exam.
Ma Xiaoling froze for a moment.
Isn't this... just drawing a circuit board?
She had studied computer science. Though she had not specialized in hardware, she had taken the foundational courses on digital circuits.
The logic diagrams for AND gates, OR gates, and NOT gates were seventy or eighty percent similar to these formation patterns.
Her fingers moved lightly through the air as she began deriving the paths of the formation patterns within her sea of consciousness.
A line extended from the starting point, passed through three nodes, then split into two branches.
Each branch contained different nodes. Some needed to converge, some had to detour, and some had to form loops.
In her mind, she broke the formation pattern down into modules, verifying them section by section as though debugging code.
The first section was correct.
The second section was correct.
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