Chapter 91: The Old Senior Trapped in a Black Hole

  The old man sat cross-legged, his clothes worn and tattered from the wind, his skin as dry as an withered old tree, only a thin layer of wrinkled skin covering his skeletal frame. His head was bowed, and even the hair on his head had dwindled to just a few strands. A faint glow flickered around him, a weak but refreshing aura that seemed to sustain this small, fragile life.

  Noticing the old man's life was hanging by a thread, Chen set up an illumination array and just as he lifted his foot, the old man suddenly moved. He slowly raised his head, taking a full minute to do so, revealing a withered face that made one wonder if it was still a face at all - just a shriveled skin membrane with sunken eye sockets containing eyes that were dull and cloudy, staring at Chen in apparent shock, opening his mouth but unable to utter a sound.

  It's clear that the old man's spiritual power has already declined, leaving only a small amount to maintain his own life-supporting array. Seeing this, Chen Luo immediately stepped forward and added a small life-revitalizing array for him. Whether it was for someone else or himself, using arrays would consume his own spiritual power, and the stability of the array method was far inferior to ordinary fixed arrays. If he had the resources, Chen Luo had at least dozens of ways to quickly restore the old man's vitality.

  An hour passed, the old man's life breath was still very weak, Chen Luo immediately added three more arrays to supplement his life breath: 'Yuanyuan Wenyu Array', 'Putuo Yangling Array' and so on. These three array methods were all high-level life arrays, extremely consuming spiritual power. To be on the safe side, Chen Luo sat cross-legged in front of the old man, resonating with his soul, starting to meditate, recovering his own spiritual power, and supplying four or five arrays at the same time.

  In the spiritual sea, his spiritual power was burning slowly like a spark, and since signing the illusory contract, his soul had changed, and for some reason, his spiritual power had also become this spark. Even the new spiritual power he had thought of was this flame-like spirit. Fortunately, his spiritual power hadn't weakened, but instead became even more powerful than before. Chen Luo didn't bother to study it further, nor did he have the mood to delve into it now.

  "Who... who are you..."

  A hoarse and weak voice entered his ears, Chen Luo immediately stopped meditating, opened his eyes, the old man's body was still as withered as before, but his life energy seemed to have increased a lot.

  "Are you the Wind Master of the Central Array Tower?"

  Chen Luo had heard Mo Qingxiu mention before that the previous tower master of the Central Array Tower was sent back here by her master. According to rumors, Feng Qianbei was a camel, so people called him Feng Tuozi, and he was also a great master of space-based array techniques. Thinking of the countless talismans around, Chen Luo guessed it might be him as soon as she saw the old man.

  "Old... I am Feng Xiulian, young man... who are you and how did you end up here..."

  The old man's voice was very weak and hoarse, and it sounded like a great effort to listen. Fortunately, it was quiet here, so Chen Luo roughly told his story. The old man's thinking seemed to be very slow, and after a long time, the turbid eyes finally showed deep shock. After another moment, he murmured: "So she's already dead... dead... even her own disciple... Alas, perhaps this is fate."

  "Feng Lao, do you know that woman? What is she doing building a palace in the Tianji Xiaoling realm?"

  Looking at the slow-reacting old man, Chen Lu was actually very anxious. After a long while, the old man finally shook his head slightly, sighed and said: "That woman is a genius in the Array Sect, as for why she would create such an underground palace, I still can't figure it out..."

  "Senior, ten years ago why were you thrown in here by that woman?"

  Feng Xiulin was a world-renowned spatial array grandmaster and the tower master of Central Array. He mysteriously disappeared ten years ago, causing a stir in the array community, which Chen Luo had also heard about.

  "Ten years?" The old man hesitated, closed his eyes, as if recalling, shook his head slightly, and whispered weakly: "It seems that the flow of time in this space is much slower than I imagined, it's been too long, so long that I can't remember clearly, hmm...it should be several hundred years."

  "Hundreds of years?"

  When he heard this, Chen Luo's expression was shocked. In the past few days, he had been convinced that time here had not flown by quickly, but he had never thought it would be so slow. Outside, only ten years had passed, yet Feng Lao said he had been sitting here for hundreds of years? This was really too terrifying, Chen Luo couldn't understand how a person could live for hundreds of years, and even more couldn't imagine what the concept of being cooped up here for hundreds of years would be like.

  "Hey young man, thank you for casting the Holding Array for me. I appreciate your kindness. However, please withdraw your array now. My physical body has long been dead, and my Spiritual Tree withered away. It's only a matter of time before my Spiritual Sea is exhausted, sustaining my soul consciousness by burning it out. You don't need to waste your precious spiritual energy on me."

  Chen Luo only knew that spiritual power could burn, but had never heard that the spiritual sea could also be used. However, he didn't have the mood to study this now, and asked: "You are a grandmaster of the spatial system's great array method, can't you even get out of here?"

  "Although I have been studying space all my life, I have only grasped its surface."

  Hearing Feng Lao's humble words, Chen Luo couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. In his heart, he secretly thought that if even a great master like him only understood the surface of things, then what about others? Shaking his head, he looked around at the countless talismans and said: "You've already dissected the structure of this space so thoroughly, how...

  Chen Luo's words were not yet finished, when Feng Xiulin's turbid eyes suddenly contracted, as if shocked. After a moment, he said: "Young man, how did you know that I was analyzing the structure of space?"

  "Old senior, I am also an array master."

  Chen Luo had just set up the Additive Array, and Feng Xiulian naturally knew he was an array master. However, he was even more aware of the complexity of these formulas he had deciphered. If one didn't have a certain level of attainment in the spatial domain, or if they weren't a grandmaster specializing in spatial arrays, it would be impossible to see that this was a symbol for decomposing spatial structures. Looking at this blue-clad youth, who seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, could he already be a grandmaster?

  "Hey young man, can you decipher these ancient formulas of mine?"

  "To be honest with you, before I met you the other day, I had been sensing your decomposition formulas all along, but there were too many of them. Even now, I haven't finished sensing them all. Some I can understand, while others I don't."

  "Can you understand that formula above you?" Feng Xiulin's voice was still old, weak and hoarse, but it was mixed with shock.

  Chen Luo raised his head and glanced at the section of symbolic formula above, saying: "This is a twelve yuan traction formula, often used in spatial array methods to pull Xuan Ya array positions, namely Kun Gong position, Zhong Gong position..."

  "What is the formula three meters to your left?"

  "This is a compound formula, used in spatial array method..."

  "What is the formula six meters to your right?"

  "This is a chemical formula, used in spatial array method..."

  Feng Xiulin asked about a segment of the formula, and Chen Luo was able to perfectly explain the name, function, and subtlety of this segment. He asked hundreds of formulas, and Chen Luo explained them all. When he asked again, Chen Luo answered again, and asked hundreds more formulas. Feng Xiulin finally stopped asking, his dull eyes staring fixedly at Chen Luo. After a long time, he muttered: "Prodigy! Young man, your attainments in the field of spatial array methods are simply unbelievable!"

  Feng Xiulin is a world-renowned Array Grandmaster and the Master of the Central Array Tower. He has spent his entire life studying arrays and is well aware that even specialized spatial array masters may not recognize all the formulas he asked about earlier. Yet, this 16- or 17-year-old boy not only recognizes them but can also explain the intricacies of each formula segment. This leaves Feng Xiulin shocked, as in his lifetime, he has seen nearly a thousand geniuses, but never one as extraordinary as this boy, whose talent is so exaggerated that even a grandmaster like himself finds it hard to accept.

  Chen Luo didn't react much and just said he was blindly feeling his way around.

  "Hey young man, has your spiritual tree already bloomed and borne fruit?"

  In the Xuan Huang world, the orthodox array master condenses a spiritual tree, starting from the opening of the spiritual sea, then condensing the spiritual seeds, sprouting and spreading leaves, blooming and bearing fruit, finally forming a spiritual tree.

  Opening up the spiritual sea is for the beginner's array master.

  Condensing spiritual seeds is for intermediate array masters.

  Scattered leaves, is for high-level array masters

  Blossoming is for the grand formation

  The result is for natural array master

  The spirit of achievement is for the pioneers.

  Feng Xiulian's spiritual tree has already borne fruit, so he is a grandmaster of the natural formation method.

  "I'm just a wandering array master."

  Upon hearing this, Feng Xiulian was taken aback for a moment, seemingly not expecting Chen Luo to be a wandering array master. Her eyes were complex, and she didn't continue questioning him. Instead, she said: "Young man, can you tell me all the formulas you've recognized?"

  "This..."

  Chen Luo gazed at the dense, countless symbols surrounding him, hesitated for a moment, and was about to say that this was too much, but when he met the old man's expectant gaze, he ultimately didn't speak up. He let out a sigh, figuring that since he had nothing better to do while idling around here anyway, he might as well start talking.

  One day, two days, three days...

  Chen Luo spoke for three whole days before he finished explaining the formulas he knew, and Feng Xiulin also listened for three whole days. For three days, he didn't say a word, because he simply didn't know what to say. The shock brought by this blue-clothed youth was too great. After a long time, he finally sighed: "In the world of formation methods, there has always been a saying that 'all geniuses come from orthodox schools', but now thinking about it, it's really a huge irony!"

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