Is This What a True Genius Looks Like? Going to Snatch a Disciple!!

In the rear courtyard of the Formation Hall.

Fang Hong stood there with an innocent look on his face.

Chang Chunbo, meanwhile, lay sprawled lifelessly across a chair.

His right hand clutched tightly over his heart.

Su Yuquan looked worriedly at his "haggard" master.

Chang Chunbo held his chest, but his gaze remained fixed firmly on Fang Hong.

"So you're saying that from knowing absolutely nothing about formations yesterday to being able to initially stir Heaven and Earth's Momentum now, it only took one night?"

"Uh, yes." Fang Hong nodded.

"Hiss~"

Hearing Fang Hong's answer, Chang Chunbo immediately clutched his chest in pain.

"Master!"

Seeing this, Su Yuquan cried out anxiously.

After taking a moment to recover, Chang Chunbo's expression eased slightly, and he waved a hand at Su Yuquan.

"So, in one night, you truly comprehended in full the Detailed Explanation of Formation Basics I gave you?"

Chang Chunbo stared intently at Fang Hong and asked again.

Fang Hong nodded somewhat innocently. "That's right."

"Hiss~~"

Chang Chunbo sucked in another sharp breath, his hand clamped even tighter over his heart.

It took quite a while this time before Chang Chunbo finally calmed himself.

"Just now, you said that in your perception, you could clearly sense that everything in existence, even the entire world, was interwoven and linked together into an enormous Qi Flow, like an exceptionally perfect and terrifying formation?"

Having only just calmed down, Chang Chunbo's eyes became complicated. Even his voice trembled slightly as he asked once more.

Hearing that, Fang Hong looked a little puzzled, then nodded with some surprise.

"Yeah. Could it be that what I sensed was wrong, or is the Heaven and Earth's Momentum you sense not like this?"

Fang Hong asked curiously.

"Urgh—!!"

Before Fang Hong had even finished speaking, Chang Chunbo suddenly clutched his chest, his face twisting in pain.

His eyes even began to roll back.

"Master!!"

Seeing this sudden scene, Su Yuquan shouted in fright.

Fang Hong was startled as well.

No way, was something going to happen to the master of the Formation Hall?

"Medicine, medicine..."

Chang Chunbo's face was pale as he called out weakly in pain.

"Oh, oh, oh, I'll get it right away!"

Hearing Chang Chunbo's words, Su Yuquan came to his senses and immediately ran into the room to fetch the medicine.

After Su Yuquan returned and fed Chang Chunbo a special medicinal pill.

Chang Chunbo finally let out a long breath, and some color returned to his face. He no longer looked as pale, pained, and frightening as before.

Having recovered, Chang Chunbo's two long white eyebrows drooped weakly, yet he stared at Fang Hong with an exceedingly complicated expression.

Astonishment, disbelief, and a deep, unshakable envy!

Though Chang Chunbo was very old, he was not the sort of person who clung stubbornly to old ways and refused to adapt.

Besides, someone incapable of adapting could never master formations.

So he was not the kind of person who refused to admit his mistakes.

Compared with someone like Zhao Tianchen, who was like a dead duck with a hard beak—stubbornly saving face even at the cost of everything—he could calmly admit his errors outright.

Just now, he had personally seen Fang Hong stir Heaven and Earth's Momentum.

So he admitted that he had indeed misjudged Fang Hong yesterday.

Not only did Fang Hong possess talent for learning formations, that talent was exceptionally powerful.

But he truly could not understand it.

He truly did not understand!

You said your formation talent had been hidden? Fine, he accepted that!

You said your formation talent was monstrously terrifying, and that you had completely comprehended that book on formation basics in a single night? He accepted that too!

But why was a beginner who had only just started learning formations able to directly sense the Qi Flow of all heaven and earth?!

He truly couldn't stand this!

Even less could he understand it!

That was a realm countless formation masters dreamed of reaching!

Even he could only barely sense a portion of heaven and earth's Qi Flow with the aid of certain special formations!

Yet Fang Hong, this guy who had only learned the basics of formations for one night, could already directly sense the Qi Flow of all heaven and earth!

I'm really... fuck!

Fuck!!!

At this moment, Chang Chunbo truly wanted to curse his mother.

Was this the world of true geniuses?

And here he had spent all these years calling himself a top genius in the art of formations.

He had even shamelessly said as much in front of Fang Hong yesterday.

Now, compared to a true genius like him—

He was nothing but a fart!

Not worth mentioning at all!

"You..."

Looking at Fang Hong, Chang Chunbo wanted to say something, but once he opened his mouth, he had no idea what to say.

In the end, he could only wave a hand, and a huge pile of formation books flew out of the room.

Volume after volume, book after book, they all landed before Fang Hong.

"Sit here and read through these formation books."

"I want to see just how terrifying the formation talent of someone who can fully perceive heaven and earth's Qi Flow as a beginner truly is!"

Gritting his teeth, Chang Chunbo said fiercely.

Yet no matter how one listened, his vicious tone sounded more like envy, jealousy, and resentment.

"Uh, sure."

Fang Hong looked at Chang Chunbo's "fierce" expression, then at the pile of books on the ground before him. He blinked and nodded.

Then he sat down on the spot and began flipping through the books.

As for Chang Chunbo, his eyes were bright as he stared fixedly at Fang Hong's every movement.

Then came that all-too-familiar routine.

Read through them a hundred times, space out and "gain enlightenment," take pills, continue reading through them a hundred times, continue "gaining enlightenment," continue taking pills...

Time steadily slipped away.

Night turned to day, day turned to night, night turned to day again.

It was now the third day.

Nearly two days and two nights seemed to have passed in the blink of an eye.

One book after another—Fang Hong had now finished reading every book on the ground and had "comprehended" them all.

Beside him, Chang Chunbo and Su Yuquan both had hollow, lifeless eyes, like corpses.

Merely two days and two nights meant nothing to martial artists at their level of cultivation.

So the two of them had stayed with Fang Hong the entire time as he read.

During that time, disciples of the Formation Hall came to report on matters, only to be driven away.

Zhao Tianchen also came by once. When he saw Fang Hong "gaining enlightenment" and Chang Chunbo looking utterly stunned—

He immediately chuckled before leaving.

Over these two days and two nights, Chang Chunbo and Su Yuquan watched Fang Hong "gain enlightenment" again and again.

Their gazes went from envy, jealousy, and resentment, to utter horror, and finally to their current state of listless emptiness—hollow and lifeless, like corpses.

Who knew what kind of mental turmoil they had gone through these past two days.

In any case, they only had one feeling now.

Their Dao hearts had completely shattered!

Still study formations?

Study my fucking ass...

Am I worthy?

Worthy my ass!

Fang Hong also let out a slight breath, frowning as he rubbed his temples.

Then, when he saw the two men with hollow eyes, like the dead, he too was startled.

"Elder Chang, Senior Brother Su, what's wrong with you?"

Hearing Fang Hong's voice and question, Chang Chunbo and Su Yuquan suddenly snapped back to their senses.

The look in Chang Chunbo's eyes as he regarded Fang Hong became even more complicated than before.

After pondering for a moment, Chang Chunbo suddenly asked, "How should the Big Dipper Seven Stars Formation be arranged, and what must be noted?"

"Sense the distribution of the local Heaven and Earth's Momentum. Set the seven formation eyes one by one at the intersections of the Big Dipper's stellar configuration and Heaven and Earth's Momentum."

"Three Jade Chargers above, three Jade Measures below, linked through the central palace; occupy the seven positions of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang. Let it circulate without end, sealing in and trapping the enemy."

Fang Hong merely raised an eyebrow before answering directly.

"And how should the Heavenly Origin Flying Stars Formation be arranged?" Chang Chunbo asked again.

"Using the Heavenly Origin's stellar configuration, distribute the formation eyes and link them with the terrain..."

Fang Hong answered with complete composure.

Chang Chunbo continued asking question after question, and Fang Hong still answered every one of them with incomparable calm.

As he listened to Fang Hong's answers, Chang Chunbo's gaze grew increasingly fervent.

After Fang Hong answered his final question, Chang Chunbo asked with a smile as radiant as a blooming chrysanthemum, "Fang Hong, what do you think of the Way of Formations?"

"It's quite good. Profound and exquisite, beyond imagination," Fang Hong replied after thinking for a moment.

Hearing this, Chang Chunbo's face immediately lit up with wild joy.

Then he abruptly grabbed Fang Hong and shot straight into the sky, piercing through the clouds.

Seeing this, Su Yuquan was horrified and shouted, "Master, what are you going to do?!"

"Go snatch myself a disciple!!!!"

Chang Chunbo's exceptionally excited voice only drifted down from the heavens after a long while.