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"Mm, yup. Three chances. If you can inscribe the formation patterns that I've given you, then you are qualified."

Hei Ji lit the candle, randomly finding a pen and ink and spreading out a white scroll. In the time it took to take a few breaths, he skillfully drew the recovery spell symbol.

In fact, the inscription patterns required a special pen and ink paper, but right now, Blackie did not have these things on her body. Furthermore, she only wanted to test Mingyu's mental strength.

Mingyu looked at the painting and discovered that although this inscription pattern seemed simple, there were actually quite a few twists and turns that were very strange. Furthermore, one could not make the slightest mistake when drawing a line.

Without thinking too much, Ming Yu started to draw. The first two times were unsuccessful, it was only on the third time that he managed to draw it.

Blackie moved close to Ming Yu to look at Ming Yu's painting scroll. Under the candlelight, her exquisite face was even more moving. Ming Yu could even smell a faint fragrance from her body through the scent of the book.

"Yes, it's so-so."

As a prince, Mingyu should have read and written often in the past, so drawing three times would barely qualify her. After all, for someone with talent, even if it was the first time she drew this rune, she would still be able to draw it with one stroke.

However, if Hei Ji knew that Ming Yu almost never used a brush to work in the past, and that the word 'ugly' was something even he could not understand, he wondered what she would think.

"Since you have the qualifications to become an Rune Master, I'll first give you this Formation Technique." As she said that, Blackie's index and middle fingers pointed at Mingyu's forehead, and a string of memories flowed into Mingyu's mind.

"Fire Controlling Technique, rank one middle rank formation runes. First form of the formation spell, Explosive Flame Formation …"

The fire control spell's runes were extremely complex. Ming Yu was immediately excited, and was about to ask Hei Ji what to do, but who knew that Hei Ji had already walked to the window.

Mingyu walked to Blackie's side and discovered that her mood had dropped. Even so, she was still as beautiful as ever, so beautiful that anyone who saw her would feel their heart palpitate.

"What's on your mind?" Ming Yu asked in a soft voice.

Hei Ji looked up into the night sky and nodded her head, but then shook her head. "I don't even know what is on my mind … "I only have a few fragmented memories of my early years. I've always been thinking about what happened to me afterwards, but I just can't figure it out no matter how hard I try …"

"Then don't even think about it. Why don't you admire the starry sky? It's really beautiful." Ming Yu comforted him.

In the night sky, hundreds of millions of stars spread out like silver pieces, converging into thousands of different postures as they glimmered with a silvery white light.

In fact, Ming Yu liked this kind of endless feeling very much. When she was young, a person would look up at the stars and dream of the fairytale world in his heart.

Blackie was slightly surprised. She immediately became interested. "I didn't expect that you would also like to look at the stars. Do you know why I like the stars?"

"Because it symbolizes mystery and freedom."

Surprisingly, the two of them actually replied at the same time. For a time, they looked at each other with joy.

"Follow me." Ming Yu pursed her lips, holding onto Hei Ji's delicate hands as she climbed up to the roof. She sat beside Hei Ji on the roof, gazing into the night sky.

There were countless stars in the sky, and each one of them seemed to be explaining its mystery.

"Wow, I didn't expect the starry sky to still be so beautiful five hundred years later. Look at that bright star, it's so beautiful." Hei Ji curled up her body, holding her chin with one hand and pointing at a bright star with the other as she sighed.

Ming Yu explained, "That was Revolving Star, the first star in Zi Wei's left wall."

When he was young, Ming Yu liked to study astrology, and he found these things very interesting.

"Do you even know this?" Blackie blinked her eyes and asked curiously, "Then …" "What about this?"

"This is also a star in the left wall of the Violet Wei Sect. It's called the Shaozhen [1]."

Ming Yu laughed, "Actually, the starry sky is divided into three walls, four elephants and twenty-eight nights, and what you can see are only half of them. In general, there are purple Wei wall, too tiny wall, and Sky City wall, while the four elephants are green dragon, white tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise. Each elephant is composed of seven stars, so there is a saying of four statues and twenty-eight nights."

"Wow, you're so strong." Blackie covered his small mouth and said excitedly, "I don't really understand. Can you teach me from now on?"

Ming Yu said, "You mean, I'll teach you how to use the stars, and you'll teach me how to use the runes?"

"Mhmm." Hei Ji raised her chin happily. She wiped away her previous depressed mood, stretched out her pinky and said, "Pull the hook, don't go back on your word. Otherwise, I won't let you go."

Ming Yu felt that this little girl was both innocent and cute, so she stretched out her right hand. "I'll listen to you, pinky swear."

Under the starry skies, a youth and a young girl were just like this. After a very long time, when they once again thought back to their youth and youth, they all felt that it was so beautiful that it was hard to forget.

"Alright, it's about time for the soul embodiment. I have to go back and rest."

Hei Ji smiled maliciously. A burst of fragrance wafted in the air, and actually separated her tender white legs, straddling Ming Yu's body. She pressed Ming Yu onto the roof, bending her waist, and pressed her plump and graceful body against Ming Yu's chest.

"Hey, you …"

Ming Yu still wanted to say something, but she felt the lower part of her stomach suddenly lighten. It was only then that she noticed that the black girl had already turned into a black stream of light and entered the ancient jade on his chest.

"This is …" Was I fooled? "

Ming Yu was stunned for a moment, then gave her an affirmative reply: "Yes, I was f * cking tricked again … …" I swear, there won't be a next time! "

After several attempts to wake up the black Ji within the ancient jade, Ming Yu finally chose to give up.

Originally, Mingyu felt that her life was quite fulfilling. After being harassed by Hei Ji, she actually felt somewhat lonely.

However, Ming Yu soon calmed himself down. He knew that there were still many things waiting for him to accomplish; he was afraid that only by learning the array patterns would he have the ability to earn three million inkstones a month. Only then would he be able to purchase the Crimson Gold Blood Lingzhi to extend his mother's life!

On the morning of the second day, Ming Yu left the palace, exchanging three stalks of Purple Blood Lingzhi for 80,000 ink-jades in the pawnshop. He then bought 300 blue-colored array patterns paper, a set of array patterns ink, an array ring, and 11 black array pattern beads, and returned to the palace.

There were different grades to the rune paper. The higher the grade of the rune paper, the higher the strength of the array. Naturally, the success rate of the rune paper was also higher.

The blue rune paper was considered the lowest grade of rune paper. The probability of successfully forming a rune was also extremely low. Only extremely powerful rune masters would be able to use just the blue rune paper to successfully form a rune.

Ming Yu had considered buying the better red-colored array pattern paper, but the price was a thousand black jades, ten times higher than the blue array pattern paper. Ming Yu's heart ached. He couldn't afford it …

The price of the set of formation pattern brushes and the large jar of ink that had been mixed together costed a total of twenty thousand inkjades.

The rune ring was the most expensive item on the set. It only cost twenty thousand inkstones.

As for the Rune Beads, each bead was priced at a thousand black jades. Buying ten Rune Beads would give one Rune Pearl, which was a rule, because if an Rune Master were to buy ten Rune Beads, they would add one more in order for the buyer to be able to learn how to activate the Rune Beads along with the chants.

Thus, every set of ten-time limited array pattern beads sold by an inscriptionist would be supplemented with an extra bead for the buyer to test and learn how to open them.

Buying a basic set of inscriptions master configuration, 80,000 inkstones gone just like that …

Ming Yu finally understood that an Inscription Master was a profession that burned through money.

Returning to his room, Ming Yu carefully took out a green rune paper from his storage bag and spread it out on the table. He took out a large jar of ink and placed some into the inkstone before dipping the black thin brush into the ink, preparing to draw.

In Ming Yu's mind, memories of the Fire Controlling Array were drawn out. The first was called the 'Explosive Flame Array'.

It was a circular circular circular pattern. Once the spellcaster released the Explosive Flame Array, the circular pattern would absorb the fire energy of the world and explode in all directions. It was extremely powerful, a type of area-of-effect formation.

In terms of just the Explosive Flame Array, it was at least the highest quality medium-grade first-grade array patterns!

This level of inscriptions, even the noble disciples in the palace would crazily fight over it!

The patterns of the Explosive Flame Array slowly appeared in Mingyu's mind. It was complex, but it was also exquisite. It was like a masterpiece drawn by a god of nature, and it gave off an ancient and heavy sense of beauty.

Ming Yu raised her brush and started drawing.

In order to draw a line successfully, one needed to draw every line on the array paper. The proportion of turns to turn was the same as the template array patterns. In other words, a powerful array master could perfectly copy the array patterns onto the array paper, and Ming Yu had obviously failed for the first time.

However, Ming Yu did not give up. He did not lose heart and did not change the paper. Instead, he continued to draw on the original paper. Although there were several deviations in the process, he still insisted on finishing the inscription.

Just drawing an array pattern took a full half an hour.

Ming Yu almost did not stop. After changing another piece of paper with formation patterns, she meticulously described once again. This time she made a few fewer mistakes and used a bit less time.

Just like this, Ming Yu continued to draw without the slightest hint of hesitation. This was his method.

Talent is important if you want to do something well, but experience is even more important. Only by constantly deepening your own memories and forging while the iron is hot can you grasp the trick and the demon spirit more quickly.

When the afternoon sun was about to set, the room was already littered with papers, but Ming Yu was still concentrating on drawing with a brush and ink, as if a painter was using her inspiration to complete a great creation.

Again and again, Ming Yu's strokes became more and more mature. Just as Ming Yu finished the final stroke on the 73rd green array paper, the black ink unexpectedly turned crimson, completely absorbing the blue array paper into the array pattern and then floating in the air, like a burning flame.

"Ha ha!"

Ming Yu laughed out loud subconsciously. After working hard for the entire day, he had finally succeeded. The feeling of successfully obtaining the fruits of his hard work was something that couldn't be concealed.

Moreover, seeing that the runes were so mystical, as if they were life itself, Ming Yu felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Come here."

Ming Yu took out a thumb-sized array pattern bead and stimulated her true essence. The array pattern bead trembled, and the crimson array pattern seemed to be summoned. It turned into a stream of light and pierced into the bead.

Ming Yu wiped away the sweat on his forehead and sighed with emotion, "Just drawing a first-grade, medium-grade array rune would actually waste 73 pieces of blue array paper, and it would take a great deal of time and effort. It seems that I want to become a qualified array master, and the lines are very long."

As he spoke, he rested for a moment before Ming Yu returned to the next inscription.

If someone who knew better heard Ming Yu's words, they would definitely be so angry that they would vomit blood.

A rank 1 inscriptionist, using 100 pieces of blue paper, could be considered outstanding even if he succeeded in condensing a rank 1 middle ranked inscriptions once. As for Ming Yu, his first time learning an array pattern, he only needed 73 pieces of blue paper to do it.