Su Ming suppressed his excitement and threw himself wholeheartedly into this novel form of cultivation.

Time passed unnoticed.

The room fell silent once more.

While Su Ming was immersed in his cultivation, Lin Yu inside the ring was not completely idle.

He had recovered a sliver of soul power, and his spiritual perception was now much sharper than before.

He could sense that within the courtyard, Zhang Meng in the West Room was snoring like thunder, and Manager Zhao in the North Room had a long, steady breathing rhythm; both had fallen into deep sleep.

Except for…

Lin Yu’s soul sense silently extended toward the South Room.

The South Room was pitch black and utterly silent.

Yet, Lin Yu could clearly “see” that the menial named Li Kai was sitting cross-legged on his bed, neither sleeping nor cultivating.

His breathing was extremely faint and carried a unique, barely perceptible rhythm.

It was a breathing technique that could only be formed through long-term suppression of one’s own aura.

Lin Yu’s soul sense swept over Li Kai’s body in a flash, not daring to linger.

Interesting.

This Courtyard Ding-Qi truly had hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

A mathematical genius from the Hanlin Academy, and a silent youth harboring unknown secrets.

Lin Yu’s thoughts returned to Su Ming’s room.

He “looked” at Su Ming’s profile, flushed with excitement from his initial success, and began to scheme internally.

It seems the ‘Way of Survival Array Cultivator’ plan needs to be moved up.

Soundproofing arrays and breath-concealing arrays must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

…….

Inside Su Ming’s room, it was quiet and still.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, eyes closed, his entire mind immersed in guiding that wisp of cyan spiritual energy within his body.

Following his master’s instructions, he no longer forced commands but used his intent to “pave a path” for the spiritual energy.

It was a bit clumsy at first, but with repeated attempts, that wisp of spiritual energy became increasingly docile.

It was like a cheerful little stream, flowing smoothly and happily along the “channel” opened by Su Ming’s intent, coursing through his parched meridians.

An unprecedented sense of control spontaneously arose.

Just as Su Ming was immersed in cultivation, Lin Yu’s soul body within the Xuantian ring quietly began to move.

Digesting those two spirit stones had solidified his weak soul body a little.

Although he was still a translucent shadow, he could at least move freely now, and his spiritual perception had recovered somewhat.

He drifted aimlessly around the ring’s space for a bit.

Then, his soul sense landed on the jade slip titled *Basic Overview of Formations* that Su Ming had placed by the bedside.

Lin Yu’s soul sense, like an invisible tentacle, gently extended and touched the jade slip.

*Hum.*

A massive stream of information instantly flooded into his soul.

Three thousand six hundred basic runes.

Seventy-two types of spiritual energy circuits.

Nine fundamental array models.

The obscure ancient texts, the mysterious and profound explanations, the content that gave Su Ming a splitting headache, presented a completely different picture within Lin Yu’s soul.

“Hmm?”

Lin Yu’s soul body trembled slightly.

“This ‘Gathering’ character rune… isn’t this just an energy funnel model? The three main strokes construct a gravitational field, the node in the middle is responsible for compression, and that final hook sets the output direction?”

Within his soul, that complex rune was instantly deconstructed into lines and symbols he was extremely familiar with.

“And this ‘Defense’ character rune… holy crap, isn’t this a simplified version of a Faraday cage? Guiding external impact forces to dissipate along the surface by constructing a closed energy circuit?”

“This ‘Sharp’ character rune focuses energy onto a single point, increasing pressure… isn’t this middle school physics!”

The logical thinking, geometry, physics, and even a bit of programming foundation from the modern world transformed at this moment into an indestructible key.

Instantly, it unlocked the seemingly mysterious and heavy door of array studies!

In Lin Yu’s eyes, what was so profound about these arrays?

This was clearly… applied spiritual energy physics!

Runes were the most basic circuit components!

Spiritual energy circuits were printed circuit boards!

And the entire array was just the simplest automated program with predefined inputs and outputs!

“So that’s how it is…”

Lin Yu’s soul body floated in the air, falling into a prolonged silence.

A profound sense of absurdity filled his soul.

The problem that had troubled Su Ming for over a month, making him scratch his head in frustration and unable to find the way in, seemed to him…

Like asking a PhD student to solve an elementary school word problem.

No, even simpler than that.

Because he could not only understand it, but also spot the errors and redundancies at a glance!

“The author of this *Overview* is absolutely a hack!”

Lin Yu’s soul sense swept over the jade slip’s contents again, his soul of outbursts burning fiercely.

“Why does this ‘Three Powers Dust-Repelling Formation’ use three spirit stones of the same attribute as array foundations? The energy fields will interfere with each other! Isn’t that just like pointing three speakers at each other and getting a muddy mess of sound?”

“Just replace one of them with a mutually-generating attribute, and you can form a micro energy cycle, increasing efficiency by at least thirty percent! It even reduces energy loss! What were these ancient people thinking?”

“And these runes here, they’re completely superfluous! Passed down for thousands of years, and no one noticed these strokes are completely redundant? What is this, some ancient code spaghetti?”

As Lin Yu read, he rapidly performed optimizations and deductions in his mind.

In the short time it takes an incense stick to burn, this *Basic Overview of Formations* had been restructured in his brain into *Basic Overview of Formations – Lin Yu’s Modified Edition V1.0*.

It pointed out at least seventeen design flaws and provided thirty-two optimization solutions.

“However…”

Lin Yu’s soul sense sank deep into the Xuantian ring again, comparing it with the incredibly complex Spirit Gathering Array that had been constantly nurturing his soul body.

“Although the Cloud Hidden Sect’s entry-level arrays are crude and primitive, compared to the one in the ring, it’s like the difference between an abacus and a supercomputer…”

“But precisely because they are primitive, every part of them is based on the most fundamental, basic principles.”

“There’s nothing more suitable than this for laying the foundation.”

Lin Yu understood clearly in his heart.

Asking someone who doesn’t even know how to lay bricks to directly build a skyscraper isn’t training, it’s murder.

What Su Ming needs right now is to start from mixing mortar and laying bricks.

A clear, complete teaching plan instantly took shape in Lin Yu’s mind.

He even came up with the course name.

*Zero to Hero: The Beginner’s Guide to the Way of Survival Array Cultivation – Theory and Practice*

Chapter 2: Runes – No Rote Memorization! Understanding the “Circuit Diagrams” of the Array World.

…

Chapter 10: The Ultimate Chapter – An Introduction to Escape Studies: Simplification and Application of Short-Distance Teleportation Arrays.

“Perfect.”

Lin Yu nodded with satisfaction at his own teaching syllabus.

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