Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 387: The White Jade Slip

“Did you come up with this?” Xuanheng asked.

“Your disciple figured it out while repairing those scrapped formation plates in the Repair Hall.”

Su Ming kept his expression unchanged as he redirected the credit toward “practice makes perfect.” “Back then, the materials were poor, and spirit stones were scarce. Going head-on wasn’t an option, so I had to find ways to cut corners—letting the formations borrow power on their own.”

“Cut corners…”

Xuanheng savored those two words, and the corner of his mouth—rarely ever seen to move—curved into an extremely faint arc.

“The great path is simple, and all paths lead to the same destination.”

Xuanheng gave a slight nod, no longer concealing the admiration in his eyes. “So many people spend their entire lives studying formations, always focused on thickening the formation walls, compacting the spiritual energy, yet they forget the original purpose of a formation—to borrow the power of heaven and earth. These two words of yours, ‘cut corners,’ actually align with a trace of the Dao’s essence.”

Inside the ring, Lin Yu clicked his tongue twice. “See? That’s the art of language. What was originally a miserly tactic from the ‘Way of Survival’—saving on spiritual energy and money—once someone reinterprets it, it instantly becomes grand and elevated.”

Su Ming replied in his mind, “The Master taught well.”

Xuanheng withdrew his hand, and the air currents in the great hall returned to stillness.Without a single superfluous word, Xuanheng looked calmly at Su Ming and directly asked, “Earlier, at Spirit Beast Peak, you repaired the incubation formation at the Cold Pool. Its formation cores were one earthly fire and one profound ice—water and fire clashing. The previous Formation Master used the ‘Suppress’ principle to forcefully restrain them. Why did it keep failing?”

This question cut straight to the core of how Su Ming had resolved Lei Hu’s dilemma.

Su Ming pondered for a moment, organizing his words, then replied, “In answer, Master, blocking is not as good as guiding. The forces of earthly fire and profound ice are both grand powers of heaven and earth. Forcibly suppressing them only allows them to accumulate greater strength. When they erupt, the backlash is even more violent. What your disciple did back then was merely borrowing the concept of Taiji’s two polarities.”

“Your disciple arranged eighteen formation flags at the nodes of the earth veins and the Cold Pool, drawing the earthly fire energy to flow clockwise, forming the Yang fish; and drawing the profound ice energy to flow counterclockwise, condensing into the Yin fish. The two connected head to tail, each supporting the other, creating a dynamic equilibrium. Thus, instead of clashing, they nurtured each other and stabilized the formation.”

no

Its core is the ‘Big Dipper Seven Stars Demon Sealing,’ but after ten thousand years of repairs, it’s become chaotic and mixed. If I asked you

broader and far

Ming’s brow

mind, the vast and complex formation diagram emerged. Countless nodes, countless flows of spiritual energy, countless

might have started from the most severely damaged nodes, patching them

now, he had the Border Defense True Seal, and a

disciple would not start from any specific node.” Su Ming opened his eyes, his

brow twitched

disciple would

“Standards?”

the formation’s runes, the spiritual energy transmission

be classified into different levels, each with a corresponding repair plan, and specify the material standards and time standards for each repair. Every disciple responsible for maintenance would

Masters to waste their mental energy. We would only need to focus on the truly core problems

how fast repairs are done, but from… making sure everyone knows what they need to do, and can do

from the Repair Hall and Iron Wall

quietly, without

Ming had finished did he slowly speak, posing a third

Response Spider Web’ is quite novel. It doesn’t rely on spiritual energy, only on resonance for communication. But its flaws are also obvious—it’s easily interfered with, and the transmission distance

Su Ming’s heart tightened.

went straight to the core weakness of his early

silent for a moment, as if weighing

meeting Xuanheng’s gaze, and said

surprise finally flickered in

avoid his gaze and continued to explain, “Your disciple’s ‘Spirit Response Spider Web’ is essentially a shortcut. It uses the finest vibrations transmitted through the earth, like tapping on the surface of water and relying on ripples to convey information. This method works within a small range, but once the scope expands