63 Formations

'Let's start with the offensive and defensive formations before getting to the explanation of restricting and suppressing formations.' Su Zhu said before she started explaining to Meng who was attentively listening to her voice while engraving into the walls of the cave some symbols as he kept on listening to Su Zhu's explanation.

Chu Yueli was a bit curious about what he was doing but she decided to not bother him.

Under Su Zhu's guidance, another 2 months passed in a flash with Meng focusing his mind on the formations and his Physiques.

Meng was sitting on a bigger boulder while engraving something into it. Chu Yueli was watching this with folded arms right under her breasts while looking at Meng with an upset expression.

'It has already been a whole week since I have "seen" her changing her clothes...She is still sulking over it, women are really strange, it was just an accident that was bound to happen one day even if we were on our guards against such events.' Meng glanced at Yueli's slightly pouting expression.

'I don't think she is sulking over the fact that you have walked on her while she was changing her clothes...' Su Zhu replied.

'Then why?' Meng asked, he already apologized to her even though he wasn't exactly at fault but he was indeed careless and got too used to living together with her.

'Well maybe because in your apology, you have said that "there was nothing to be seen"' Su Zhu replied with an amused tone, thinking that if he wouldn't have apologized at all, she would have already forgotten about it but she knew how women's hearts worked.

'And where is anything wrong with the words I have said when she was still in her undergarments? There was literally nothing to be seen.' Meng rolled his eyes and continued engraving the symbols into the boulder.

'I have no idea from which plane you have arrived but haven't your parents taught you that seeing a woman even in her undergarments is a big deal to her? Everything was revealed to your eyes except for her private parts...Not to mention this must have been the first time something like this had happened to her so your weak reaction with that "I apologize" while having that tranquil expression of yours most likely offended her pride as a woman. But I am not surprised that you have never thought of her as a woman since she cultivates Frozen Heart Arts that removes her desires.' Su Zhu explained before continuing with a serious tone...

'Meng, always remember that no matter what kind of woman you meet, she is still a woman and takes some pride in it. The most common thing among women is that they pursue beauty and eternal youth even if they show complete disinterest towards the opposite gender.'

'...Seeking beauty despite being cold and indifferent...where is the point in that? I believe that there must be numerous sinister arts that can make someone much stronger within a short amount of time in exchange for their "appearance" if they really desire to become stronger.'

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[Name: Su Meng]

[Cultivation: 4th stage of Earth Profound Realm (Yin-Yang energy) 44 open Profound Entrances]

[Physique: Hell Suppressing Physique (Minor Completion), Void Imperfection Physique (Initial Stage)]

[Personal Skills: Cloud Steps(Lv. Max), River Crossing Slash(Lv. 4, Yin), One with the Shadows (Lv. 6), 7 Moves of Ferocious Sun (Lv. 5 - 5 moves, Yang), The Void Shattering Step (Lv. 5), Sacred Garden (Lv. 2)]

[Skill Points: 31.715]

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"Aand done~" Meng said in a happy tone before jumping from the bolder on the ground. He also put into these cravings a few Profound Beast Cores as to test of the formation could be also powered this way.

"Yueli, can you please...?" Meng asked while motioning with his head towards the boulder. In those 2 months, they grew a bit closer and one day they decided to drop the surnames as it became too long when they were addressing each other on daily basis numerous times.

Chu Yueli was by now at the 9th stage of the Sky Profound Realm. Her cultivation speed was quite astonishing to her but if she knew that Meng was also the reason why she was advancing slower than she could have, she would have been shocked to death. Anyone in the Blue Wind Empire knew that advancing just 1 stage in Sky Profound Realm was extremely hard. She could have reached this level perhaps in half time if not for Meng's interference but Meng didn't want her to think of him as some kind of treasure being able to increase the cultivation of women within a short time.

"Hmph~" Chu Yueli snorted before extending her hand towards the boulder and attacking it with her ice-cold energy. Before the energy hit the boulder, the runes engraved on it glowed in a light grayish-blue color and an illusionary image of the moon appeared right in front of the boulder to protect it and completely absorbed her attack, slightly surprising her.

"Eh? It was able to block 40% of my power...Who taught you about formations?"

"My master, obviously...Hmm, not bad but it's still not enough..." Meng replied with a provoking smile before staring at the runes on the boulder with a thoughtful expression.

'So am I officially your master, Meng?' Meng suddenly heard an excited female voice inside his head.

'...Regarding formations, yes, I guess'

'Huh? What does that even mean? Do you need numerous masters for cultivation, formations, and other stuff separately?!' Su Zhu questioned with an "upset" tone.

'I take only what's the best' Meng replied in his head with a bright smile.

'Heh, I am not sure what kind of emotions will those words cause once your future wife hears them. Maybe she will think that she is the best in your eyes or maybe...she will be afraid that you will be smitten by someone "better" so she will imprison you at home' Su Zhu replied which caused Meng's expression to darken as his words indeed sounded a bit weird.

"Not enough?" Chu Yueli muttered with an absent-minded expression.

"Please proceed to walk to that spot, be careful" Meng pointed while also warning her.

Chu Yueli felt frustration from being used in this way but she knew that she owed him at least this small stuff plus it wasn't like he could do this with anyone else as there was no one else around other than her. She walked towards the spot and when she was a few steps away from it, a few rune circles on the walls lit up in amber-colored light and shot a few golden spears at her from each direction.

She quickly dodged but there were also a few rune circles anticipating that, targeting the positions around her so she had to create an ice prison around her formed from Ice blossoms which effectively stopped the golden spears.

"Good, it's working as intended. I didn't put in too much power as I didn't want it to be too dangerous but looks like it was still quite strong and fast." Meng nodded his head as Chu Yueli released her ice blossoms around her.

'Formations are really wonderous and very magical. Maybe I can even create 2 gathering formations for attracting moonlight and sunlight separately in the future. Still, when I previously thought that Alchemy was quite expensive, I had no idea how expensive Formations can be...'

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[Elementary Formations (Lv. 9)+]

[Skill Points: 31.715]

[The host has an insufficient amount of points to upgrade the Formations to Intermediate level]

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'Like...this is truly ridiculous but it should be because of crossing the threshold between Elementary and Intermediate level.

"Let's leave this place, we have been here for 3 months already, it's not good to get too attached to one place when cultivating unless it is what you are willing to call home." Meng said, storing all the stuff into his inventory while acting as if he is storing it into the spatial ring visible on his gloves.

"Huh? Where are we going? Isn't this place good enough already? There is a good amount of Profound Beast to train with and it's also far away from the civilization." Chu Yueli asked with folded arms. Although she was still upset with what Meng has done, she grew more talkative around him with the time they spent together.

She even subconsciously didn't want to leave this cave as it held her memories of her quick breakthroughs and well, some of those memories were also Meng and her talking about all kinds of stuff. They were training everyday most of the day so they usually talked about other things than cultivation itself. Philosophy was usually a very frequent subject of their night talks. Even Chu Yueli after these talks truly stopped treating Meng as a junior but someone equal.

Meng who was aware of their harmony between them during the cultivating knew that she truly started opening up to him despite not showing it. At first, their "Dual-Cultivation" efficiency was only around at 5% but after those 3 months it was already around 20% which increased their cultivation speed but Meng himself wasn't too focused on his cultivation base these 2 last months. Maybe 20% seemed quite shallow but even if 2 people loved each other dearly and were willing to die for the other, their "Dual-Cultivation" efficiency would still be only around 60-75%

His Void Imperfection Physique was also nearing the Minor Stage by now.

"I would like to go to the Snow Region of Extreme Ice" Meng said

*Scree* Even Little Chan was pleased with his answer as it would return to its natural habitat but Chu Yueli didn't share its enthusiasm.

"Why Snow Region of Extreme Ice of all places?" She asked with a slightly worried expression.

"Isn't that region the best place for you to cultivate your Profound Arts? Why do you look so down to go back there?" Meng questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"That..." She couldn't just say that there was a much higher chance for them to be discovered together by someone from her sect. Her Palace Mistress still had no idea what she was doing and maybe she wouldn't react harshly after seeing her progress but it doesn't change the fact that she never mentioned to her that she is going to spend 6 months around a man.

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