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"Mm, yup. Three chances. If you can inscribe the formation patterns that I've given you, then you are qualified."

Hei Ji lit the candle, randomly found a pen and ink, and spread out a white painting scroll. In just a few breaths of time, she skillfully carved out the recovery spell patterns.

Actually, drawing array patterns required a special pen and ink paper, but Hei Ji did not have these things on her right now. Moreover, she only wanted to test Ming Yu's Spiritual Strength.

Ming Yu looked at the painting and discovered that although the inscription patterns were simple, there were actually quite a few twists and turns that were very strange. Furthermore, the requirement was to draw a line in the right direction without making the slightest mistake.

Without thinking too much, Ming Yu started to sketch. He did not succeed the first two times and only drew it with difficulty after the third time.

Hei Ji moved closer to Ming Yu and looked at his painting scroll. Under the candlelight, her delicate face looked even more charming. Ming Yu could even smell a faint fragrance from her body through the scent of books and ink.

"Yes, it's so-so."

Hei Ji nodded. In her opinion, Ming Yu, as a prince, should have read and written often in the past, so if he were to draw three times, he would barely qualify. After all, even if it was his first time drawing this rune, he would still be able to draw it.

However, if Hei Ji knew that Ming Yu had almost never used a brush in his previous work and that the characters were so ugly that even he himself could not understand it, he wondered what she would think.

"Since you are qualified to become Array Pattern Master, I will first give you this formation technique." With that, Hei Ji pointed her index and middle fingers towards Ming Yu's forehead as a string of memories flooded into Ming Yu's mind.

"Fire Control Array, Level 1 Intermediate Rune, First Spell, Explosive Fire Array …"

The fire controlling array pattern was extremely complicated. Ming Yu was excited for a moment and was about to ask Hei Ji what she wanted to do, but who knew that Hei Ji had already walked to the window.

Ming Yu walked to Hei Ji's side and found that her mood had dropped. Even so, she was still so beautiful that anyone who saw her would feel their heart palpitate.

"What's on your mind?" Ming Yu asked softly.

Hei Ji looked up at the night sky and nodded her head. She then shook her head, "I don't even know what's on my mind … "I only have a few fragmented memories of my early years. I've always been thinking about what happened to me afterwards, but I just can't figure it out no matter how hard I try …"

"Then don't even think about it. Why don't you admire the starry sky? It's really beautiful." Ming Yu comforted her.

In the night sky, hundreds of millions of stars spread out like silver pieces, converging into thousands of different postures as they glimmered with a silvery white light.

Ming Yu actually liked the feeling of being infinitely deep. When he was young, he liked to look up at the stars like this and daydream about the fairytale world in his heart.

Hei Ji was a little surprised and her interest was piqued. "I didn't expect that you would also like to look at the stars. Do you know why I like the stars?"

"Because it symbolizes mystery and freedom."

Surprisingly, the two of them actually replied at the same time. For a time, they looked at each other with joy.

"Follow me." Ming Yu pursed his lips, held Hei Ji's soft and soft hand and climbed up to the roof. They sat on the roof tiles side by side and looked at the night sky.

There were countless stars in the sky, and each one of them seemed to be explaining its mystery.

"Wow, I didn't expect the starry sky to still be so beautiful five hundred years later. Look at that bright star, it's so beautiful." Hei Ji curled up her body, holding her chin with one hand and pointing at a bright star with the other, sighed with emotion.

Ming Yu explained, "That was Revolving Star, the first star in the Left Wall of Zi Wei."

Ming Yu had loved studying astrology since he was young, and he found these things very interesting.

"Do you even know this?" Hei Ji blinked her eyes and asked curiously, "Then …" "What about this?"

"This is also a star in the left wall of the Violet Wei Sect. It's called the Shaozhen [1]."

Ming Yu smiled, "Actually, the starry sky is divided into three walls, four elephants and twenty-eight nights, and you can only see half of them. In general, there are purple Wei wall, too small wall, and Sky City wall, while the four elephants are green dragon, white tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise. Each elephant is composed of seven stars, so there is a saying of four statues and twenty-eight nights."

"Wow, you're so strong." Hei Ji covered her mouth and said excitedly, "I don't know much about it. Can you teach me from now on?"

Ming Yu said, "You mean, I'll teach you how to use the stars, and you'll teach me how to use the patterns?"

"Mhmm." Hei Ji happily raised her chin and wiped away her previous depressed mood. She stretched out her pinky and said, "Pull the hook, don't go back on your word. Otherwise, I won't let you go."

Ming Yu felt that this girl was really simple and cute, so he stretched out his right hand: "I'll do as you say, pinky swear."

Under the starry skies, a youth and a young girl were just like this. After a very long time, when they once again thought back to their youth and youth, they all felt that it was so beautiful that it was hard to forget.

"Alright, it's about time for the soul embodiment. I have to go back and rest."

Hei Ji smiled maliciously. A burst of fragrance wafted over and actually separated her white legs. She straddled Ming Yu and pushed Ming Yu onto the roof. With her waist bent, her plump and graceful body went towards Ming Yu's chest.

"Hey, you …"

Ming Yu still wanted to say something, but he felt Hei Ji's lower abdomen suddenly become lighter. It was only then that he realized that Hei Ji had turned into a black stream of light and rushed into the Ancient Jade s on his chest.

"This is …" Was I fooled? "

Ming Yu was stunned for a moment, then replied with certainty: "Yes, I was f * cking tricked again …" I swear, there won't be a next time! "

After several attempts to wake up Hei Ji, who was among the Ancient Jade, to no avail, Ming Yu finally chose to give up.

Originally, Ming Yu felt that his life was quite fulfilling. However, after being made a ruckus by Hei Ji, he felt a little lonely.

However, Ming Yu quickly calmed his heart as he knew that there were still many things waiting for him to complete. Perhaps only by learning the array patterns would he be able to earn the ability to earn three million Black Jade a month, and only by doing so would he be able to buy the Crimson Gold Blood Lingzhi to prolong his mother's life!

Early the next morning, Ming Yu left the palace, traded three stalks of Purple Blood Lingzhi for eighty thousand Black Jade, and then bought three hundred pieces of cyan Array Pattern Paper s, a set of brush pen and ink, a Array Pattern Ring and eleven black Array Pattern Bead s in the market. Only then did he return to the palace.

There were different levels of Array Pattern Paper, and the higher the grade, the more powerful the Array Pattern Paper could withstand, so the success rate of condensing a pattern was naturally higher as well.

The cyan Array Pattern Paper were considered the lowest level of Array Pattern Paper, and the level of formation that they could endure was limited, moreover, the success rate of condensing a pattern was extremely low. Only the extremely powerful Array Pattern Master had the ability to successfully condense a pattern using only the cyan Array Pattern Paper.

Ming Yu had considered buying the better red-colored Array Pattern Paper, but the price was a thousand Black Jade each, ten times more than the green Array Pattern Paper. Ming Yu's heart ached because he couldn't afford it ….

The price of the Rune Brush Pen and the made up big jar of ink combined was a whole twenty thousand Black Jade.

Array Pattern Ring s were the most expensive with a single price of twenty thousand Black Jade.

As for Array Pattern Bead, a price of one thousand Black Jade, buying ten of them would give one Array Pattern Bead, that was the rule, because if Array Pattern Master bought ten of them, he would add one more so that the buyer could learn how to open the array with the chants.

Therefore, whenever Array Pattern Master sold a set of ten-time limit Array Pattern Bead, he would add an extra Array Pattern Bead to it for the buyer to test and learn how to open it.

Buy a set of basic Array Pattern Master configuration, and the eighty thousand Black Jade will disappear just like that …

Ming Yu finally understood that Array Pattern Master was a profession that burned through money.

Returning to his room, Ming Yu carefully took out a green Array Pattern Paper and spread it out on the table. He took out a large jar of prepared ink, took out a little and put it into the inkstone, then dipped the black thin brush in the ink and prepared to draw.

In Ming Yu's mind, memories about the Fire-Resisting Formation Technique were drawn out. The first technique was called "Explosive Fire Array".

It was a circular circular circular pattern. Once the caster released the Explosive Fire Array, the circular pattern would absorb the fire energy of heaven and earth and explode in all directions. It was extremely powerful, a type of area-of-effect formation.

Just from the Explosive Fire Array alone, it was at least the highest quality amongst the middle grade one array patterns!

This level of inscriptions, even the noble disciples in the palace would crazily fight over it!

The pattern of the Explosive Fire Array gradually appeared in Ming Yu's mind. It was complicated yet also exquisite, like a drawing made by a god, it had an ancient yet heavy sense of beauty.

Ming Yu raised his brush and started drawing.

To draw it successfully, one would need to draw every line on the Array Pattern Paper, and the ratio of turns would be exactly the same as the template runes. In other words, a strong Array Pattern Master could perfectly copy the runes onto the Array Pattern Paper, and Wu Tie had obviously failed for the first time.

However, Ming Yu did not give up. He did not lose heart and did not change the paper, but continued to draw on the original Array Pattern Paper. Although there were several deviations in the process, he still insisted on finishing the array.

Just drawing an array pattern took a full half an hour.

Ming Yu did not stop at all. After changing the Array Pattern Paper, he meticulously described again. This time, he made fewer mistakes and used less time.

Just like that, Ming Yu continued to draw without any hesitation. This was his method.

Talent is important if you want to do something well, but experience is even more important. Only by constantly deepening your own memories and forging while the iron is hot can you grasp the trick and the demon spirit more quickly.

When the sun was about to set in the afternoon, the room was already full of waste paper, but Ming Yu was still concentrating on drawing with a pen and ink, as if a painter was using inspiration to finish a great work.

Time after time, Ming Yu's strokes became more mature, and when Ming Yu finished the last stroke on the seventy-third green Array Pattern Paper, he saw that the black ink had all turned crimson, absorbing the green Array Pattern Paper into the array patterns. Soon after, it floated in the air, like a burning flame.

"Ha ha!"

Ming Yu almost laughed out loud subconsciously. He had worked hard for a whole day and finally succeeded in condensing it. The feeling of successfully getting it through hard work was something he couldn't hide at all.

Furthermore, Ming Yu felt a sense of accomplishment when he saw how miraculous and lifelike the formation runes were.

"Come here."

Ming Yu took out a thumb-sized Array Pattern Bead and activated its zhen qi. The Array Pattern Bead trembled, and the scarlet red pattern seemed to have felt the summon and turned into a stream of light, piercing into the Array Pattern Bead.

Ming Yu wiped the sweat off his forehead and said with emotion: "Just drawing a Grade 1 Intermediate Rune, and it actually wasted seventy-three of the Cyan Array Pattern Paper, it's really time-consuming and not simple. It seems like if I want to become a qualified Array Pattern Master, I still have a long way to go."

As he said that, he rested for a moment before returning to the next inscription.

If someone who knew how to do it heard Ming Yu's words, they would definitely vomit blood in anger.

A level one Array Pattern Master, using a hundred cyan Array Pattern Paper, could successfully condense a level one middle rank formation once, which was considered very outstanding. On the other hand, Ming Yu's first time learning formation patterns, only used seventy-three cyan Array Pattern Paper, which was already enough.