Unfortunately, the limits of his cultivation left his Divine Soul too weak.
It could not sustain him through breaking any more arrays.
"Oh, all right."
Wei Beichen knew perfectly well what state he was in. He did not try to save face by forcing himself onward.
Instead, he took the opening Luo Yi had given him, lay down on the ground without a care for appearances, and closed his eyes to rest.
The art of arrays was far too intricate and tangled. Breaking someone else's array drained mental energy at an even greater rate.
Yan Ruyu understood how much the soft-featured young man had exhausted himself breaking the array.
But the array contest was not even over yet. Would it really be all right for him to fall asleep like that?
Then again, she had never said he could not rest midway through their contest.
For a moment, the situation left her at a loss.
"Forget it. Go sit down and listen to the lecture!"
As though he had seen through his disciple's dilemma, Elder Gongsun smiled and patted Yan Ruyu on the shoulder.
"What isn't forbidden is allowed. Since you were in a hurry and set no rules beforehand, there's nothing wrong with him resting midway through breaking the array."
"But I don't have time to spend waiting here with you."
"Why not do this old man a favor and call it a draw?"
As he spoke, Elder Gongsun glanced at Luo Yi for his opinion.
Luo Yi naturally nodded his agreement.
After all, he had come to the Heavenly Star Sect to see what the world beyond the Tiannan Continent was actually like.
He had not come to waste time watching a group of immature brats compete in arrays before him.
"Let's end the array contest here. We