"Difficult? What exactly was giving you trouble?"
Lan Qingyou understood how he felt at that moment, but did not point it out.
After all, she occasionally indulged in that sort of private satisfaction herself.
So she understood perfectly.
"The main issue was connecting the new magic array to the old one."
"Your mastery of magic arrays was so advanced, Teacher, that I ran into some difficulties when I tried to graft my protective magic array onto yours."
He took the bait.
Lan Qingyou raised an eyebrow.
As her student, he was part of her inner circle.
On top of that, he was a Black Witch himself.
Of course he would be interested in academic matters.
Sure enough.
All she had done was offer a gentle prompt, and Xiao Feng started rattling off the difficulties he had encountered.
"That doesn't make sense. I remember leaving plenty of study materials and papers, didn't I? With your talent, you should have been able to learn it."
"Yes, so I did eventually get the grafting to work."
Xiao Feng nodded.
Although Lan Qingyou had phrased it as a question.
He still heard his teacher's faith in him in those words.
In fact, his teacher had mentioned his talent when he was very young, too.
But that had been far too long ago.
Hearing her suddenly bring it up again today naturally delighted Xiao Feng.
Combined with their reunion after such a long separation.
He was no longer like before, when he could go three days without wanting to say a word.
He was even eager to chat with his teacher.
"But the Empire didn't have enough personnel back then, especially Array Masters."
"Otherwise, with someone helping me, I should have been able to make the outer protective magic array even better."
*Was he bringing