170: You guys are all ignorant.

Xiao Buyu was a life-skill player.

A life-skill player refers to someone who doesn't participate in PVP activities, dungeon activities, or even combat-related story quests.

They only focus on the rear, gathering Spirit Medicine, mining, or engaging in various other leisurely activities.

Xiao Buyu was a well-known life-skill player in other games, particularly fond of business and trade. He had an extremely keen grasp of market changes, achieving raw material monopolies in multiple games, making him universally reviled.

After entering the Xuanhuan World, Xiao Buyu initially also wanted to achieve a raw material monopoly.

He first set his sights on Alchemy, so he specifically invested money to buy Spirit Medicine gathering related skills, hiring mercenaries to explore the surrounding mountain ranges, hoping to monopolize the rarest Spirit Medicine.

However, he discovered that the Xuanhuan World was indeed different from other games.

Even life-skill professions, even a Herbalist, couldn't gather high-grade Spirit Medicine without some Cultivation.

When Xiao Buyu saw a Spirit Medicine uproot itself, its roots slapping at him like palms, he was completely stunned.

After he finally managed to improve his Cultivation and Cultivate a professional team, he could finally gather Spirit Medicine on a large scale, stockpiling it to make a fortune.

He suddenly realized that the Xuanhuan World was too damn vast.

A super-large Xuanhuan World meant that basic Spirit Medicine were not scarce at all. If he monopolized the Spirit Medicine in his immediate area, others could easily buy them elsewhere via teleportation arrays or flying shuttles, and players had it even easier, being able to trade through their built-in Void Trading System.

As for rare and precious Spirit Medicine, Xiao Buyu couldn't find them.

Thus, Xiao Buyu lost money again and again, eventually deciding to give up being a profiteer.

He realized that to achieve a monopoly in the Xuanhuan World, one must have sufficiently powerful Cultivation; there was simply no place for ordinary merchants here.

He quickly shifted his focus and discovered another business opportunity.

Many players entered the Xuanhuan World for Cultivation, forming a massive group of combat players.

Other life-skill players, whether gathering Spirit Medicine, mining, Alchemy, or Artifact Refining, had their own ways of playing, but these were all tasks that one person could complete alone and also trade with others individually.

However, a Formation Master was different. Those who could afford Formation were usually a certain power, a Family or a Sect.

A Formation Master's customers were no longer individuals, but one power after another. The resources consumed were often not provided by themselves, but by the client.

A Formation Master sold technology.

After Xiao Buyu discovered this, he became energized. He immediately bought Formation Master related skills, diligently studying them. Before this character's Lifespan ran out, he finally became a Seventh Grade Formation Master, also the highest-grade Formation Master among the player community.

Therefore, when Midnight Gao Sou and others were stuck outside the Scripture Pavilion, unable to break the Formation for a long time, the first person they thought of was Xiao Buyu.

"I can't break this Formation."

Xiao Buyu observed for a while and directly shook his head: "I'm just a small Seventh Grade Formation Master, how could I possibly break a Formation from someone else's Nascent Soul Inheritance?"

Midnight Gao Sou frowned: "Are you saying this Formation is at the Nascent Soul level?"

"Not really, it shouldn't be that strong, but it's definitely higher than Seventh Grade. Anyway, I don't know where to start."

Xiao Buyu shook his head.

Midnight Gao Sou and Wang Long exchanged glances, both frowning, feeling that things were becoming difficult.

Unable to break the Formation, should they force their way in?

At this moment, Xiao Buyu added: "However, I can't break it, but my Master can."

Midnight Gao Sou was stunned: "You have a Master?"

"What's so surprising? Which Formation Master doesn't have a Master?"

Xiao Buyu waved his hand indifferently.

Initially, Xiao Buyu also thought that a Formation Master was similar to a Cultivator, able to Cultivate independently with a Legacy.

But later, he realized that wasn't the case.

Many detailed techniques had to be learned with a Master's guidance. More importantly, you had to personally consume Materials and practice hands-on repeatedly. Unless one's innate talent was truly Heaven-Defying, self-study would yield no results.

Xiao Buyu was lucky. He found a native NPC, became his disciple, successfully learned Formation, and thus became a Seventh Grade Formation Master, extremely popular among the player community.

Midnight Gao Sou also frowned after hearing his account.

He didn't want to invite a native here, fearing unexpected complications.

Wang Long, however, said: "Since someone can break the Formation, then quickly have him come."

He didn't care, confident that he could control the situation no matter what happened.

Soon, Xiao Buyu invited his Master, a white-haired old man, stooped but with bright, piercing eyes.

After he arrived, he simply circled the snake-like mountain peaks a few times, used a compass to find a few locations, and quickly identified the Formation's eye and Formation Flag's location. Then he had Wang Long and others work together to forcibly extract the Formation Flag.

As the Formation Flag rose from thin air, ripples flashed through the air, the Formation shattered, and the flight suppression disappeared.

"Thank you, Senior."

Midnight Gao Sou bowed to the old Formation Master, feeling a sense of awe.

He realized that the long-standing underestimation of professions like Formation Master was problematic. Player Formation Masters might not be very strong at this stage, but they all had a Legacy, and could at any time bring out some Senior to easily solve problems that ordinary Cultivators found difficult to resolve.

The Hundred Arts of Cultivation, almost every single one was important. An ordinary Cultivator mastering one Dao was already remarkable; many things had to be entrusted to others.

To put it bluntly, the Xuanhuan World wasn't just about fighting and killing; it also involved human relations.

Midnight Gao Sou also suddenly had some enlightenment, understanding another reason why those powerful individuals established Sects. After all, no matter how strong a powerhouse was, he couldn't be omniscient and omnipotent in every aspect.

'Our Great Love Sect must also Cultivate talent in this area in the future.'

Midnight Gao Sou thought to himself. He relied on Star Fiend Daoist's guidance to disguise himself as a Formation Master, but he could only set up some evil Cultivator Formations, which didn't make him a true Formation Master at all.

Talent still needed to be cultivated.

"No worries, this Formation is quite profound, and I have also gained a lot from it."

The old Formation Master looked at the Scripture Pavilion and then slowly spoke again: "However, the arrangement here is not the key. The most important arrangement in the entire Mingshui Heaven is that great river. That is the true core. If I am not mistaken, the Legacy should be within the great river, not in this Scripture Pavilion."

Upon hearing this, everyone present was stunned.

Wang Long also frowned: "Old man, what do you mean 'within the great river'? Shouldn't this Legacy, whether it's a Jade Slip or a book, be kept in the Scripture Pavilion?"

Midnight Gao Sou also nodded in agreement. No matter what the Legacy was recorded on, it should be properly stored in the Scripture Pavilion; this was everyone's consensus. Duan Kong Cave, Qingling Sect, and Heshui Prefecture all did it this way.

However, the old man shook his head and smiled: "You all, you are all so short-sighted."