It was as though the other party had deliberately set up one useless formation after another as a joke, running them ragged for amusement.
So even though the formations could be repaired, the deputy had never considered that the other party would actually send someone to repair them.
Although they had yet to deduce the Grand Formation's overall structure, they knew that formations like this were interconnected; not a single link could be missing. If someone wanted to activate it, there simply would not be time to repair them one by one. Activation would only be possible if multiple Formation Arts Artists repaired them simultaneously.
In short, as far as the deputy was concerned, neither the Grand Formation nor the minor formations could possibly be activated.
"Actually... it isn't as though there's no way to repair them simultaneously..."
Before Ning Fan could finish, the other disciples began waking up one after another.
The deputy was still staring eagerly at Ning Fan, hoping to get a definite answer out of him, but Ning Fan fell silent.
"Whether it can be activated or not, our first priority now is to determine the overall structure of this Grand Formation."
Only once they knew its structure could they discover what the person who had laid it intended to do.
But to determine the Grand Formation's structure, they first needed to work out the pattern in which the minor formations were arranged. They had not even found all the minor formations yet, so how could they possibly understand the pattern connecting them?
One quick-witted disciple caught on and said quietly, "In other words, all we can do now is keep looking until we've found all those formations?"
Their silence was undoubtedly an answer.
The deputy was still thinking about what Ning Fan had left unsaid