Junior Sister must ascend this time!

Yun Qing had a thorough understanding of the basics of formations, so she started thinking about how to get closer to Elder Ji. Just becoming familiar with him in class was too slow.

Elder Ji was giving a lecture at the top when his gaze suddenly fell on the corner where Yun Qing was standing, and he immediately frowned.

One was lost in thought, while the other bobbed its head up and down like a chick pecking at rice.

He threw a book at the two of them, yelling, "You two! Stand up!"

Just as Si Mingche was about to drift off to sleep, he was startled and mumbled sleepily, "Who threw something at me? I'll blast you away with one talisman!"

Yun Qing tugged at his sleeve and tried to signal him with her eyes, her eyes almost twitching from exhaustion.

Only then did Si Mingche get a clear look at Elder Ji, whose face was full of black lines. He immediately shrank back like a little quail, "Elder... Elder..."

Elder Ji already had a bad impression of these personal disciples; they had the best resources but were always idle and incompetent. Today, their attitude in his class was so nonchalant that he was furious.

"You two stand here and listen to the lesson! If you don't learn this formation today, don't even think about going home!"

The two stood in the corner, enduring the mocking gazes of all the disciples. Si Mingche blushed slightly. He had never been so humiliated since becoming a disciple, especially with so many of his admirers below him. His handsome image was completely destroyed!

He turned to look at Yun Qing, trying to comfort her, but saw a hint of...joy on his junior sister's face.

Si Mingche was completely confused, but he could understand. It was his junior sister's first time attending a class, so she naturally didn't know what kind of torture she would suffer if she was kept behind by Elder Ji.

First, Elder Ji will ask a hundred questions, ranging from basic array patterns to advanced array principles. If you can't answer them, she'll make you squat in a horse stance and draw array diagrams until your hands cramp up.

Secondly, he would have someone set up a formation on the spot. If you couldn't set it up, he would make you copy the "Basic Formation Diagram Explanation" a hundred times. After copying it, you would set it up again, and after setting it up, you would copy it again, and so on.

Yun Qing had been waiting for this opportunity; otherwise, she wouldn't have known how to get in touch with Elder Ji.

Soon, the class ended, and the other disciples left one after another, leaving only Yun Qing and Si Mingche standing obediently in the corner.

Seeing that their attitude in admitting their mistakes was acceptable, Elder Ji's expression softened somewhat. He walked up to the two men and said to Si Mingche, "You tell me first, what is the most important step in setting up this defensive formation?"

Although Si Mingche didn't pay attention in class, he had a good memory. "It's about calibrating the spiritual energy balance at the array's core nodes. A defensive array isn't afraid of being too strong, but it is afraid of being off-center."

Elder Ji nodded in satisfaction, then looked at Yun Qing, "You draw the diagram of the defensive formation, let me take a look."

Yun Qing nodded, picked up a pen, and quickly drew a diagram, even perfecting two parts of it.

Elder Ji initially frowned, then relaxed. He realized that these two areas could be arranged in this way, which would greatly increase the defensive effect.

He looked at Yun Qing with surprise, "How did you come up with all this?"

Yun Qing couldn't possibly say that she had researched it herself in her previous life, so she scratched her head and said, "I saw it by chance in an ancient book when I went to the library last time, and then I wrote it down."

Elder Ji was satisfied and didn't intend to make things difficult for the two children. "Now that you understand, you can go back. Remember, don't do this again in class next time."

"Understood, Elder."

Si Mingche tried to pull Yun Qing away, but found her standing there motionless.

Yun Qing asked again with a sweet expression, "Elder Ji, could you teach me how to set up an array yourself?"

Elder Ji frowned. "I remember your name is Yun Qing, right?"

He had seen her during the selection of personal disciples; she performed quite well during the trials, but she ended up having six different masters.

He utterly despised such behavior, believing she was just there to freeload. It's always been one disciple to one master; he wondered what the sect leader and the elders were thinking.

Having six masters isn't enough; they even come here to curry favor with him. It's better to give the direct disciples to someone who truly wants to learn than to someone like that.

Thinking of this, Elder Ji's initial goodwill vanished instantly. After receiving Yun Qing's affirmative answer, he decisively refused her, "No, I don't have time."

"Since you're interested in formations, I'd like to give you a piece of advice: if you want to achieve something, focus on one path. Trying to do too much at once will only lead to failure. Building connections won't help you at all."

Even if Si Mingche was stupid, he could tell from Elder Ji's tone that she was being unfriendly. "Elder, I understand if you don't want to teach, but isn't it going too far to talk like this? When did my junior sister ever try to curry favor with us? It was all because Master and my senior uncle insisted on taking her as a disciple..."

Yun Qing pulled him back, stopping him from continuing. She knew that the more she explained to such a rigid person, the more he would believe that his ideas were correct.

"Elder Ji, I'll set up a formation for you. If you can break it, I'll never bother you again. But if you can't, you'll have to teach me, okay?"

Elder Ji snorted coldly, "You little brat think you can stump me? You weren't even born when I first came into contact with array formations."

As she spoke, Yun Qing had already drawn a formation diagram, which was a task given to her by the Qingyuan Ancestor in the Stele Forest.

"I also saw this formation in an ancient book, but it's missing a part, so it's still a dead formation. Elder Ji, could you see if you can break it?"

Elder Ji took the array diagram from her hand, and his disdainful expression suddenly turned serious. He had been working with arrays for decades and had never seen such an array before.

He began to squat down and study it slowly, even chasing Yun Qing and the other person away for fear of disturbing him.

"You can go now, come back tomorrow. If I still can't solve it by tomorrow, I'll teach you myself."

When Si Mingche was pulled out of the Array Dao Hall by Yun Qing, he was completely stunned. His junior sister had only said she was interested in arrays, so how come she was so skilled at drawing array diagrams?

Even more unbelievable was that she even posed a question to Elder Ji! Elder Ji was truly stumped…

The case is solved! Junior Sister must have been hiding her true abilities!

In other words, Junior Sister is not only skilled in swordsmanship and alchemy, but also in formations! Si Mingche became more and more proud of himself. His master was so good at taking on disciples; his junior sister was truly amazing!

Thinking of this, Si Mingche suddenly asked, "Junior Sister, do you know how to draw talismans?"

What if?! Junior Sister is so versatile. If she really can do it, then he won't be lonely drawing talismans anymore.

Yun Qing thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, I've never tried it." In her previous life, she had no shortage of talismans, so she never thought of getting involved in this area.

However, Si Mingche would not let any possibility slip by. He pulled Yun Qing onto the flying sword, saying, "Come on, come on, your third senior brother will teach you how to draw talismans."

Then………

Thick smoke rose from Jiang Mian's courtyard.

Yes, while Jiang Mian was away on training, the two of them went to his courtyard to practice drawing talismans.

Si Mingche slowly exhaled a puff of black smoke, "Junior Sister... how about we call it quits? Junior Brother's courtyard is almost destroyed, and Third Senior Brother can't take it anymore..."