No matter how dumb one is, can they still fail to learn formation tactics

[Year 14, Age 33.]

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["Vocal Cords Left at Home" (White Common): You speak softly, and others cannot hear you clearly.]

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[You chose No and cursed.]

[Under the name Chen Dong, and with what outsiders believed to be Golden Body Realm cultivation, you joined the array Dao inheritance of the Nine Palaces Island in the Xiaoyao Holy Land.]

[All the candidates had to work hard to improve their realms for at least ten years before the finals began.]

[The finals wouldn't care about your realm; everyone would compete on the same stage.]

[But you didn't need to work too hard.]

[You just needed to slowly release the aura of a higher realm.]

[Of course, you didn't slack off on your actual Soul Condensation Realm cultivation either.]

[It just didn't take up too much time, as it mostly relied on popping pills anyway.]

[You spent your extra time studying the Dao of Arrays and the Dao of Incense.]

[The Dao of Incense was profoundly mysterious, and you were completely baffled by it.]

[With the trait effect buffing the Dao of Arrays, your progress was still rapid, changing with each passing day.]

[Coupled with the rotational teachings from the array masters on the Nine Palaces Island, your array level gradually approached the master ranks.]

[Arrays were divided into five grades: Low, Mid, High, Earth, and Heaven.]

[The grade of the array one could set up determined the grade of the array master.]

[Now, your level had already reached that of an Earth-grade array master.]

[However, because your true inheritance was Old Shen's 30,000 years of research, it contained many ancient array mysteries that had long been lost.]

[Therefore, many of your insights into the Dao of Arrays were considered highly beneficial even by the Heaven-grade array masters on the Nine Palaces Island.]

["The saying that the Dao of Arrays is 'channeling the power of heaven and earth' was something I once only saw as a school of thought. But seeing your demonstration today makes me realize this is the true origin of arrays!"]

[Such sighs of admiration frequently appeared during the teaching sessions with your array masters.]

[You were obviously the student, yet these teachers often learned things from your casual insights, which they found incredibly wondrous.]

[Needless to say, the old folks of the Nine Palaces Island had realized that a sect prodigy had arrived!]

["It seems our Nine Palaces Island finally has a successor. Perhaps Chen Dong has the potential to become an Immortal-grade array master in the future, stepping into a realm beyond our reach!"]

["This is truly a blessing for our Nine Palaces Island! Over the years, the geniuses entering the Holy Land have preferred the Nine Martial inheritances. The Nine Daos are hard to learn and rarely patronized, especially our array inheritance, which is the most obscure. We were almost facing a generational gap!"]

["Now it's great. With Chen Dong, the Nine Palaces Island is bound to prosper for the next hundred years! We must support him to become the Holy Son. By then, he will definitely break through to the Martial King realm, gain a longer lifespan, and the Nine Palaces Island will prosper even longer!"]

[Everyone up and down the Nine Palaces Island now treated you as a treasure.]

[Because not only were you a peerless genius in arrays, but your martial arts were not bad either.]

[The elders on the island searched every day for treasures and secret techniques to help you improve your cultivation, terrified that you wouldn't reach the Martial King realm in your lifetime.]

["Actually, I've always had a small wish since joining the Xiaoyao Holy Land."]

[As soon as they heard you had a wish, over a dozen high-ranking, immortal-looking old men surrounded you.]

["Feel free to speak, beloved disciple. Although our Nine Palaces Island is not favored by young disciples, the Dao of Arrays is crucial in many aspects such as artifact refinement, pill refinement, and mountain protection! We old folks still have some say in the Holy Land."]

["It's actually nothing major. I want to meet God Xiaoyao. I heard he is the current Martial God, and I have admired him for a long time."]

[The old men stroked their beards and laughed loudly.]

["This matter is hard to say, but also simple to say."]

["What do you mean?"]

["Do you know how many years God Xiaoyao has been alive?"]

["I heard from some senior brothers and sisters that it seems to be over ten thousand years."]

["The theoretical lifespan of the Martial God realm is a thousand years. How could he live for ten thousand years?"]

["I suppose he has some secret technique?"]

["No, it's a secret treasure!"]

[The masters of the Nine Palaces Island told you that God Xiaoyao once accidentally obtained a treasure, which he called the 'Time Room'.]

[This item was incredibly miraculous.]

[If a person stayed in the Time Room for one day, a year would pass in the outside world!]

["That miraculous?"]

["Yes, but this room can only be used by God Xiaoyao himself; it is useless for others to enter."]

[You understood. God Xiaoyao had spanned such a long period of time by relying on the 'Time Room'.]

[To the people of the Holy Land, he was mostly nowhere to be seen, but he would come out every once in a while to preside over some major events.]

[For example, the canonization ceremony of the Holy Son and Holy Maiden.]

["If you want to see God Xiaoyao now, no one can invite him out for you, because he is in the Time Room, completely cut off from the outside world. But if you can become the Holy Son, he will take the initiative to find you when the time comes. He will also use the 'Divine Revelation Method' to help you break through to the Martial King realm. This is also what is circulated in the outside world, the so-called 'stable method to break through to the Martial King' in the Holy Land. In fact, there is no 'stable method', it is just because there is a Martial God at his peak state."]

["Thank you, masters, for telling me this."]

["Hahaha! A small matter, a small matter. Does our beloved disciple have any new insights recently? Tell us and let your masters study them with you?"]

[Year 15, Age 34.]

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["Capture Meng Huo Seven Times" (White Common): When you cross-dress, you look more feminine than a woman. Every time other men see you, they will forget that they had previously discovered you were a man.]

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[You chose No and cursed even more foully.]

[Your days on the Nine Palaces Island were very comfortable.]

[Not only did your Dao of Arrays progress rapidly, but your martial arts cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds with the help of the old men.]

[Now you have stepped into the ninth level of the Soul Condensation Realm.]

[On the other hand, Long Yang, who chose the Nine Palaces Island inheritance with you, was in a miserable state.]

[He couldn't learn arrays, and his martial arts were also delayed.]

[The masters of the Nine Palaces Island didn't treat his Heaven-grade bone structure or special physique as treasures.]

[Just this?]

[You can grab a whole bunch of them in the Holy Land!]

[In the eyes of the masters of the Nine Palaces Island, anyone who couldn't learn arrays was a piece of trash. Don't mention martial arts aptitude to them.]

["No matter how stupid a person is, can they still not learn the 'Basic Explanation of Arrays' in two years?! Unbelievably foolish! Look at Chen Dong, he's almost stepping into the ranks of Heaven-grade array masters!"]

[The masters criticized Long Yang a lot, and often compared him to you, the "other family's child," mocking him until he had nowhere to hide his face.]

[Long Yang often knelt by the sea, crying out sorrowfully to the sky.]

["Women fear marrying the wrong man, and men fear entering the wrong profession!"]

[Fortunately, one could "change majors" in the Holy Land.]

[The Divine Sword Island, the inheritance of the Dao of the Sword, after hearing about Long Yang's situation, sent two Martial King realm masters who volunteered to take Long Yang to the Divine Sword Island.]

["Thank you for recognizing my worth, Senior!! Long Yang is eternally grateful!"]