Yue Fan returned to his room and, following Elder Yan’s advice, tried simply drawing the Formation Patterns. As he did, a new clarity bloomed in his mind.
That night, when he practiced on the stele before bed, his progress was startlingly swift.
Aspects of the formation that had been inscrutable before suddenly made sense after he had traced their components a few times. Once he had a firm grasp of the basic patterns, their variations were no
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