Chapter 261: Array Magic: Dugu Yan Finally Sees Her Grandfather

The third array, a defense array, the Fire Ring Array.

The function of the array is to form a circular ring of fire in the surrounding area; if an external creature intrudes, it will activate the array, the flames of the fire ring will rise directly to form a wall of fire, and then fireballs will be launched from the fire wall to attack.

It is one ring nested within another; the second array is the Fire Ball Array, and the third array directly integrates the Fire Ball Array into itself, providing both defense and accompanying attacks.

If one has not learned the second array and starts learning the third array directly, one will absolutely be completely confused.

Tang San feels that the person who released the array teaching materials is very impressive; it is a systematic study that progresses layer by layer, from shallow to deep, and is very methodical and organized.

In this case, Tang San feels that his own study of arrays will be much easier; he only needs to follow the materials and learn level by level, no longer studying by blindly fumbling around.

Previously, he had thought about having Yu Xiaogang help him organize things and focus on studying, but now it seems there is no need at all; the materials from the Spirit Hall are already very complete.

Jerry, although there is still a gap between me and you now, it is just because your platform is good and your starting point is higher than mine; now that I have started studying the Spirit Hall's materials, one day, I will trample you under my feet.

This is what Tang San thinks in his heart; he has never felt that there are any areas where he is inferior to Jerry.

In terms of Spirit Master talent, he has Innate Full Spirit Power, while Jerry has Innate Half-Level Spirit Power; there is simply nothing comparable.

In terms of alchemy talent, he learned it very quickly as soon as he came into contact with it, and besides the medicinal pills published by the Spirit Hall, he has also researched the refining of Poison Pills; in this respect, he is one step ahead of Jerry.

In terms of array talent, once he entered the door, he learned the second-level array with ease; as for other arrays, it is only a matter of time.

The only thing he is a bit unconvinced about is the Soul Guidance Master talent; he does not have this talent, but Jerry does.

He had witnessed Jerry's combat before; once he made a move, the sky was full of Soul Guidance Devices.

While everyone else was still researching the technique of controlling objects, Jerry had already started controlling Soul Guidance Devices.

This must be your trump card, I have already seen it.

Among the arrays, there is a Magnetic Force Array, which specifically restrains metal weapons, even Soul Guidance Devices.

Once I learn it, your Soul Guidance Devices will no longer be a threat.

Tang San has always had an obsession with Soul Guidance Devices; besides the fact that he liked crafting items in his previous life, another reason is the battle between Jerry and Poseidon at that time, where with a wave of his hand, the sky was full of Soul Guidance Devices, all activated, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

Moreover, Tang San also learned at that time that Jerry's own strength was not very high, but relying on the Soul Guidance Device Control Technique, he fought Poseidon until the world was turned upside down, and Sea God Island was almost destroyed.

If placed on a battlefield, it would simply be one person capable of resisting a thousand armies.

It is for this reason that Tang San did not let his believers stir up trouble on a large scale; it was simply useless, and even if the believers gathered together, they could only test whether Jerry killed quickly or not.

Facing Jerry, it is no longer a matter of winning by numbers.

In the past, if he had to face this method of Jerry's, Tang San would still have some concerns, but now that he has come into contact with arrays, such concerns have long since ceased to exist; when the arrays are perfected, Jerry's methods can be broken in the snap of a finger.

For the third array, the Rule Runes can be copied, but the array pattern routes and the degree of complexity are far from being comparable to second-level runes.

Just looking at the blueprints to reverse-engineer the array pattern routes, there are at least ten thousand possibilities.

One in ten thousand!

Tang San spent a month on the third array and still did not learn it.

The time spent on this array was longer than the time spent on the previous two arrays.

However, Tang San did not feel it was difficult; progressing layer by layer and increasing the difficulty is a matter of course; if it were really that simple, array masters would not be appearing in droves.

Although he failed many times, Tang San is very patient.

In his previous life, when crafting Hidden Weapons, some people in the entire sect spent their whole lives without succeeding, yet he spent only a few short years to craft the top-grade Hidden Weapons of the Tang Sect.

Therefore, in terms of patience, Tang San is relatively outstanding.

The repeated failures instead reminded Tang San of when he was crafting Hidden Weapons in his previous life, also researching all by himself; he understands a principle: to succeed, one must be able to endure loneliness and withstand failure.

The previous failures are just accumulating experience for future success.

Therefore, the failure of the third-level array instead ignited Tang San's desire for a challenge.

Challenging difficult things and succeeding afterward is the only way to make himself feel incomparably satisfied.

This feeling is one he experienced in his previous life, and it is also a feeling Tang San very much wants to experience again.

The more he fails, the more it can stimulate Tang San's fighting spirit.

Because he is thinking about arrays day and night, Tang San is always distracted even when he is at work, and his behavior and mannerisms seem even more strange to others.

As long as it does not affect work, the management personnel of the guard department do not care.

After all, these guard management personnel are also considered public officials of the Spirit Hall and will not specifically go out of their way to find fault with someone.

From this point of view, Jerry's management system is executed quite well by the personnel below; at the very least, in every department of Wuhun City, there have not been any incidents of colleagues ostracizing each other or engaging in internal strife.

Tang San takes his Mobile Phone to study arrays whenever he has free time, and this scene is also seen by his colleagues; another one who wants to change his destiny through other professions.

There are many people whose age has passed the entrance age for the academy, and they cannot meet the special recruitment standards, but they are unwilling to give up.

People who come to the academy to be guards with this purpose are everywhere, but as time passes, they have long since lost their original intention.

Working as a guard at the Spirit Hall Academy, they have seen too many geniuses, and these geniuses are also very hardworking.

Their own talent was not good to begin with, they do not have the learning conditions of these students, and they are not as hardworking as them either.

Over time, their initial self-confidence was shattered to pieces.

Moreover, the treatment for guards is also very good, and gradually, their original intention was gone.

Among these guards, many were high-spirited when they first arrived, but now look at them, nine-to-five, plain and simple, as if they have already accepted their fate.

In their eyes, Tang San is just like they were in the beginning.

Some people even make bets on how long it will take for Tang San to give up.

A few people saw that Tang San was working so hard and bet on a longer time, so they do not hope for Tang San to give up so quickly; every day when they see Tang San studying, they walk over to encourage him.

"Tang Yin, come on, don't give up, you can do it!"

"Tang Yin, persistence is victory."

"Tang Yin, I see you are studying arrays; I know an array teacher, I can help introduce you."

"Tang Yin, come on, you are the best!"

"Tang Yin, come on, you must study hard; I will cover your guard shift today; after you succeed, let them see that there are also geniuses among us guards!"

"Tang Yin, you study hard, I will go get your meal for you."

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Various words of encouragement made Tang San feel deeply warmed; it turned out so many people cared about him.

This only further solidified Tang San's intention to study.

Whether for his own sake or not, at the very least, he could not let these colleagues who cared about him down.

Moreover, it also made Tang San feel that the atmosphere for learning here was truly excellent; whether it was the students or even a guard, as long as one loved to learn, everyone respected them.

Sigh! If only he had listened to Yu Xiaogang earlier and come to the Spirit Hall Academy sooner, how good that would have been.

It was a pity there was no regret medicine, but it was not too late now.

The ones he had a grudge against were the high-level personnel of the Spirit Hall; when the time came for him to overthrow the Spirit Hall, this academy must be preserved.

If Jerry knew about these thoughts, he would make Tang San sober up and think things through properly.

Tang San wanted this, and he wanted that.

At first, he wanted all kinds of information on the Spirit Hall, then he wanted the Cultivation Tower, the Gravity Field, the Spirit Ring manufacturer, the Soul Ring Enhancer, and so on.

Now he even wanted the academy; it felt like apart from the Spirit Hall, he wanted everything else in Wuhun City.

Without the Spirit Hall, do you think the other various departments could function normally?

Would you know how to manage them?

Would Yu Xiaogang know how to manage them?

Tang San, you are thinking of things too simply.

Under the various encouragements of his colleagues, Tang San studied the Array even more diligently, working during the day and researching overnight, practically becoming obsessed.

The Five Great Envoys entered Wuhun City, and now two were obsessed.

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Dugu Yan had been very conflicted during this period; she increasingly felt that the old man looked like her grandfather.

Thinking about her grandfather's affairs every day, it was inevitable that she would be somewhat distracted at work.

Today, while catching a thief, she actually lost focus and failed to apprehend them in time, resulting in a chase that lasted over a dozen streets; in the end, the thief was unlucky and ran into a passerby who liked to meddle, who blocked him for a moment, which finally gave Dugu Yan the time to catch up.

Although she successfully caught this Spirit Guidance Bus thief in the end, it took too much time and she almost let the thief get away.

The original plan was to catch the thief on the spot after the theft.

Because Dugu Yan was distracted and did not act in time, she only reacted when the vehicle arrived at the station and stopped, but by then the thief had already gotten off, which led to what happened later.

Her superior soon found Dugu Yan, mainly because she had been restless and distracted lately, and the superior could tell she had something on her mind.

"Dugu Yan, you have been distracted a lot lately! Is there something on your mind?"

The captain of the Patrol Team, out of concern, wanted to ask what exactly was going on.

"Captain, it's nothing, it's just that my Cultivation has hit a bottleneck recently, so I am a bit troubled."

Dugu Yan could not say the real reason, so she found a random excuse to brush it off, and this excuse was one that could not be faulted.

Everyone would have bottlenecks, and this could not be tested; as for whether it was a real bottleneck, no one would know.

"A bottleneck, huh? I can't help you with that; you have to rely on yourself. How about I adjust your work and you don't go on field duty for a while?"

The captain knew that once a bottleneck appeared in Cultivation, it would cause a person to fall into distress.

Some people could let it go, while others would get stuck in a rut at such times.

This was hard for outsiders to help with; one could only rely on one's own realization.

Hearing the captain say this, a glimmer of light flashed in Dugu Yan's eyes.

"Okay, thank you, Captain! Could you arrange for me to go to the Spirit Hall Transformation Field? It is quieter there and far from the city; I want to Cultivate there for a period of time to seek a breakthrough."

Dugu Yan knew that if the captain wanted to help her, he would basically arrange for her to do some clerical work at headquarters if she didn't go on field duty, so she directly spoke up about the place she wanted to go, hoping the captain would agree.

"Are you sure? Although it is quieter outside the city, there is quite a lot of work there, and most of it is outdoors."

The captain was also visibly stunned for a moment; the Spirit Hall Transformation Field was outside the city and quite arduous, so most people would not go there. It seemed Dugu Yan wanted to use the external environment to temper herself, which was why she chose to go outside the city.

"Captain, I am sure! I am not afraid of hardship!"

Dugu Yan stood up, looked at the captain, and said firmly.

"Sigh... alright! I will issue a transfer document for you, but it is agreed: notify me once you have a breakthrough, and I will transfer you back immediately."

The captain still thought highly of this young girl, Dugu Yan; she was young and motivated.

Since joining, she had been proactive in her work, and her own strength was not bad. He had already received news that he was about to be promoted, and he was preparing to cultivate her as his successor.

He hoped she would break through her bottleneck soon; it would be great if she could take over the position before he was promoted.

Having received the transfer document, Dugu Yan went to the Spirit Hall Transformation Field that same day.

Previously, she could only scan the Spirit Hall Transformation Field from the outside with her divine sense, but now she could finally enter it openly and honestly.

Moreover, the reason she found was quite good; if the person inside was not her grandfather, she could just say she had broken through and be transferred back immediately.

The work was arranged quickly and was very easy; as a supervisor at the Spirit Hall Transformation Field, she only needed to sit and supervise, which was a bit easier than being a guard as she did not need to stand.

On her first day, she organized her belongings and rested for a day, officially starting her post on the second day.

Although it was only a short day, Dugu Yan's heart could no longer be calm, and she urgently hoped for this day to pass quickly.

Finding her grandfather had weighed on her heart for many years; this was the closest she had ever been to success.

For her, this day passed with extreme slowness.

She even suffered from insomnia that night and did not sleep at all.

On the second day, when she started her shift, her colleagues saw Dugu Yan's dark circles and assumed she was not used to the environment since it was her first day and she hadn't slept well, so they even came over to comfort her.

Dugu Yan could only pretend she hadn't adjusted yet and thanked her colleagues for their concern.

After the supervisors and guards arrived at their posts, the prisoners undergoing transformation came over in a line.

Dugu Bo was, as always, at the back of the line, chatting with others while walking, when he suddenly saw an extra woman among the supervisors and couldn't help but take a few extra looks.

Once he looked, his eyes could no longer look away.

A surge of hot tears welled up directly into his eyes; how many years had it been, he had finally seen his granddaughter again.

At this moment, Dugu Yan also looked over here, and when the two locked eyes, Dugu Yan had already confirmed that this was her grandfather.

Just like Dugu Bo, her eyes were also filled with tears.

However, both of them stopped at the same time, not letting the tears flow out.

Now was not yet the time to acknowledge each other.

Dugu Yan had many questions to ask her grandfather.

Dugu Bo felt the same.

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(End of this chapter)