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After the Trial Grounds were officially opened to the public, Xiao Lin naturally did not remain idle. Aside from occasionally practicing Dou Qi, Xiao Lin focused most of his energy on the path of Formations.
Although Xiao Lin had not deduced any new formations during the subsequent six months, he actually already had ideas for perfecting and strengthening the power of the several formations he had already mastered.
Furthermore, what made Xiao Lin feel most delighted was that his rank as a Spiritual Array Master had already broken through to Rank 4. However, on the Dou Qi Continent, he was unable to fully exert the power of a Rank 4 Spiritual Array Master due to a lack of Formation Diagrams.
Otherwise, if given a few Rank 4 Formation Diagrams, Xiao Lin was confident that by relying solely on his strength as a Spiritual Array Master, he would be enough to stand undefeated against any star level of Dou Zong.
It could be said that on the Dou Qi Continent, the performance of a Spiritual Array Master was ultimately restricted.
Regarding Spiritual Array Masters, the word "Spiritual" did not just distinguish them from ordinary Formation Masters. It was also because the energy level of Dou Qi was still slightly insufficient to fully unleash the power of a Spiritual Array Master.
Only by using Spiritual Energy, which was one grade higher than Dou Qi, to set up formations could one fully unleash the strength a Spiritual Array Master ought to have!
This point was currently impossible to achieve on the Dou Qi Continent. Therefore, if these Spirit Arrays created by Xiao Lin were placed within the Great Thousand World, their power would definitely be a level stronger!
However, there was no helping it.
Being able to become a Spiritual Array Master now was already a very lucky thing, so how could he demand so much?
As for the four formations Xiao Lin had set up in the Trial Grounds. Among them, the Mortal Heart-Tempering Formation tempered a person's will!
Jia Nan Academy was, after all, an organization of an academic nature. Many of the students within it actually had deficiencies in terms of their will compared to people who gained experience outside.
As for the Mortal Heart-Tempering Formation, since it was an Illusion Formation, it naturally tempered their willpower by setting up various illusions for those who entered the formation.
Will, this kind of thing, was actually quite mysterious when talked about.
But one point was certain.
That is, for a person with a strong will, your strength might not necessarily be strong, but for a person with a weak will, you are definitely a weakling!
Even if luck allowed you to fortunately practice to a certain level, in a battle between those of the same rank, you would certainly be inferior to someone with stronger willpower.
Aside from the Mortal Heart-Tempering Formation tempering a person's will, the Iron Stone Formation, a defensive grand formation, tempered a person's offensive capabilities.
People who blundered into the Iron Stone Formation needed to use every means they mastered to break through layer after layer of defense within it.
The Arrow Rain Formation, an offensive grand formation, was the exact opposite of the Iron Stone Formation, tempering a person's defensive capabilities and, naturally, their evasion abilities as well. Those who entered the Arrow Rain Formation had to face wave after wave of arrow rain.
Facing these incoming arrow rains, you could defend, and you could also evade.
As long as one survived the attacks of 12 waves of arrow rain, it was considered a successful breakthrough. The final Trapping Formation—the Labyrinth Formation—tempered a person's power of insight.
Within the Labyrinth Formation, there were countless intersecting paths, and only one path among them was correct. Of course, if it were only this, one could naturally find that single correct path as long as they spent a certain amount of time.
But since Xiao Lin had opened up such a Trial Ground, would he allow those attempting the challenge to succeed by relying on rote memorization? The answer was obviously no.
Inside the Labyrinth Formation, changes would occur after every set interval of time.
Perhaps it was a correct path one second ago, but once the change began, this correct path would become a dead end; conversely, a certain dead end might also become the correct path!
People who wanted to clear the Labyrinth Formation had to observe the patterns of change within it at every moment. Therefore, the Labyrinth Formation was what truly tested a person's insight.
At the same time, for the sake of temptation and to motivate the students attempting the challenge, Xiao Lin had also dropped many little items within these four formations.
These little items included cultivation techniques, Dou Techniques, medicinal herbs, and medicinal pills, as well as Fire Crystal Cards with different numerical values.
Students attempting the challenge sometimes had to face the temptation of choosing between picking up these items or successfully clearing the stage.
Take the Trapping Formation—the Labyrinth Formation—for example.
Xiao Lin had dropped many items within the Labyrinth Formation, and some of these items were distributed along the wrong paths. At such a time, that student needed to make a choice for themselves.
Regarding this, Xiao Lin naturally would not interfere much.
Additionally, for the sake of the students' safety considerations, Xiao Lin had also set up a trigger mechanism within these four formations that would automatically teleport them out once a challenge failed.
In short, with the passage of time, this Trial Ground opened by Xiao Lin was basically perfected. In the future, if Xiao Lin wanted to increase the difficulty of the Trial Ground, he could continue to deduce new formations and then arrange them inside.
As for the existence of such a Trial Ground, many students within Jia Nan Academy would also try to give it a go during their leisure time from cultivation, using it to test their own strength.
Everything here was developing according to Xiao Lin's plan. Unknowingly, from the time Xiao Lin proposed establishing the Trial Ground until now, another two years had passed.
It was already the fourth year since Xiao Lin arrived at Jia Nan Academy. In the first two years, Xiao Lin broke through from a Three-Star Dou Zong cultivation to a Seven-Star Dou Zong.
In the subsequent two years, because Xiao Lin put all of his heart and soul into the deduction of formations and only occasionally went to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate. Therefore, in the end, he only advanced from Seven-Star Dou Zong to Eight-Star Dou Zong.
Regarding his cultivation progress over the subsequent two years, Xiao Lin was actually not very satisfied. Now he had to spend two years to rise by one star; after entering Dou Zun in the future, he feared it would take more than three years to rise by one star!
After Dou Zun is cultivated to Nine-Star, there were also those god-awful Nine Changes Realm!
In other words, according to this cultivation speed, after the original plot begins, Xiao Lin might not even reach Nine-Star Dou Zun, let alone the Nine Changes of Dou Zun.
Xiao Lin's ambition was very large, and such a result was not something he was happy to accept. He wanted to become a "tiny bit" stronger after the original plot started!
However, Xiao Lin complaining that his cultivation speed was slow caused Grand Elder Su Qian to roll his eyes wildly. Even the two Guardians, Elder Qian and Elder Bai, were speechless. If they had Xiao Lin's cultivation speed, they would probably wake up laughing in their sleep.
Yet Xiao Lin was still not satisfied? Then what did their cultivation speed count as? A turtle's crawl?
Consequently, once when Xiao Lin mentioned this topic to Grand Elder Su Qian and the two Guardians, Elder Qian and Elder Bai, he nearly suffered a righteous gang-beating from the three of them!
By the way, ever since Xiao Lin personally masterminded the annihilation of the Black Prison Alliance back then, he also had exchanges with the two Guardians, Elder Qian and Elder Bai.
Also being Dou Zong powerhouses, Xiao Lin naturally had the qualifications to come into contact with the two of them. They were also sincerely happy about Xiao Lin's choice to join Jia Nan Academy and the series of things he subsequently did for the academy.
After all, although the two of them did not manage affairs. They still held very deep feelings for Jia Nan Academy. Now that Jia Nan Academy had become better than before, how could they not be happy?
Naturally, they also warmly welcomed Xiao Lin, who allowed Jia Nan Academy to have this kind of change today. If it weren't for the fact that only Headmaster Mang Tianchi had the qualification, they were even prepared to let Xiao Lin become one of the Grand Elders of Jia Nan Academy.
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