In fact, there was no need for Puyol to say anything. Xia Ruofei already had an answer in his heart when he first saw the pool.
He said lightly, "Very good! Puyol, you have completed your task. Now you can go back … This is your reward! "
After that, Xia Ruofei casually took out a pile of biscuits, bread, cola, and other food and drinks from his backpack. He even gave him two packs of cigarettes. Puyol's eyes lit up when he saw them. He even temporarily forgot his fear of the pool and the python in the pool.
He said excitedly, "Thank you! Thank you, Sir Immortal … "
Puyol hurriedly put all the things Xia Ruofei had rewarded him into his backpack. He carefully put the two packs of cigarettes into his shirt pocket as if he were carrying two peerless diamonds.
Xia Ruofei said lightly, "By the way, before I go back, I don't want anyone to appear within a 500-meter radius of the pool, including yourself."
Puyol quickly said, "Understood! Understood! Please rest assured, Sir Immortal! Even if you asked us to come, we wouldn't dare to! After I go back, I will restrain my subordinates and make them stop hunting in the forest without your order! "
Xia Ruofei didn't want to be disturbed by others, so he only drew a 500-meter restricted area with the pool as the center. Puyol directly sealed off the entire forest. Xia Ruofei was, of course, happy to have peace and quiet.
He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well! Then you go back first! "
Puyol didn't want to stay there for a long time. He always had a feeling of fear and trepidation beside this quiet pool.
After Xia Ruofei spoke, he felt as if he had been granted amnesty. After turning around and taking two steps, he turned back and said carefully, "Sir Immortal, please be careful. That python is really scary. If it's not necessary, don't provoke it …"
Puyol still had a glimmer of hope that this "Sir Immortal" could take him away from this deserted island and return to human society.
This was much more important than the biscuits and drinks in his backpack.
If the "Great Immortal" was accidentally buried in the snake's belly, then wouldn't his glimmer of hope be dashed?
Xia Ruofei smiled faintly and said, "I know, thank you for your reminder! Puyol, it's time for you to leave... "
Although Xia Ruofei's tone was gentle, Puyol was shocked and quickly said, "Yes! Yes! Yes! "
Then, he hurriedly turned around and entered the forest. Soon, he was far away from this area. He quickly moved in the direction of the camp, not even daring to look back.
Xia Ruofei's psychic power had been radiating. Next, she needed to get close to the pool to observe the enchantment. She even needed to make some experiments. Naturally, she had to prevent Puyol from sneaking around and peeping, although the possibility of that was very low.
After confirming that Puyol had really left without looking back, Xia Ruofei didn't immediately approach the pool.
He directly took out some jade and other materials for setting up enchantments from the Ring-Tu space and set up an alert enchantment in a ten-meter radius around the pool. Once the enchantment was activated, he would be able to detect it immediately.
There wasn't even the sound of insects in the vicinity. Xia Ruofei had also carefully probed with his psychic power. It was indeed dead silent. There weren't even any insects, let alone wild rabbits, foxes, and other animals. So, if the enchantment was activated, then it was basically the survivors of the camp who had broken in.
After setting up the enchantment, Xia Ruofei carried his backpack with one hand and carefully approached the pool step by step.
When he was about two to three meters away from the pool, Xia Ruofei casually threw his backpack on the ground. Then, he maintained a state of alert with his psychic power radiating. His true energy was also circulating throughout his body according to the essentials of the Dao Formula. He carefully continued to move forward.
In this state, if there was any danger, Xia Ruofei would be able to react in time and burst out with his strongest attack.
In fact, when Xia Ruofei's psychic power probed in the direction of the pool, he had already discovered something different. When he was one meter away from the pool, his psychic power encountered an invisible barrier that simply couldn't penetrate.
When he observed with the naked eye, there was clearly nothing, and the situation of the pool could be seen at a glance. On the other hand, his psychic power, which was difficult to block by a physical barrier, simply couldn't break through.
If Xia Ruofei closed his eyes and completely relied on his psychic power, he wouldn't be able to discover the pool at all. He would only sense that there was a blind spot in that direction.
This situation was very strange, but it was also within Xia Ruofei's expectations.
He walked step by step to the invisible barrier and tried to reach out his hand.
A gentle resistance came, and Xia Ruofei's hand couldn't move forward at all.
He poured his true energy into his arm and gradually increased his strength.
At the same time, the invisible resistance also increased. In the case of using true energy, this kind of force could even move a truck, but in the face of this invisible resistance, it had no effect at all.
This resistance was a bit like a water wave, not at all rigid, but very resilient. No matter how much strength Xia Ruofei used, the formation boundary at most caved in a little. When Xia Ruofei's hand moved away, it immediately returned to its original state.
Xia Ruofei was no stranger to this situation. In the cave in the Ring-Tu space, there were several such defensive boundaries. His "human" jade talismans and "earth" jade talismans were all taken out from the boundary.
The method to break the boundary wasn't complicated. To put it bluntly, it was to break the boundary with force.
Today, he intended to use the same method to try.
Xia Ruofei secretly gritted his teeth, and the true energy in his body suddenly sped up. Then he took a bow posture, and the muscles all over his body tightened in an instant. All the strength was concentrated in his right fist. After a loud shout, he waved his fist and smashed it at the invisible boundary.
This punch almost condensed Xia Ruofei's greatest strength, and it even made a sound of breaking the air.
When the fist hit the invisible boundary, Xia Ruofei clearly felt the whole boundary caved in.
However, before Xia Ruofei could show an excited expression, the boundary emitted a light visible to the naked eye. Then Xia Ruofei felt a huge rebound force, and his whole body was bounced back by this force.
Xia Ruofei hit a tree hard, making a dull sound.
The pain in his back was secondary. Xia Ruofei's right fist felt like the bones were about to crack, and his whole right arm couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.
He shook his fist, and it took him a long time to recover feeling in his fist.
In fact, when the rebound force came, Xia Ruofei realized that he had done something stupid.
Although in the space cave, he had broken the small enchantment by force, but not by brute force. Instead, he mainly relied on his mental power to mobilize the invisible power of space, constantly increasing his strength, and finally breaking the enchantment.
This kind of boundary was very tough, and there was no way to break it with an instantaneous burst of strength.
Although there was no invisible power of space to mobilize in the outside world, and Xia Ruofei could only rely on his true energy to break it, he shouldn't have chosen to concentrate all his strength in an instant.
However, judging from the situation just now, even if he gradually increased his strength, it would be very difficult to break this boundary.
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but feel troubled.
He clearly knew that there was a Boundary Stone in this pool, and that there might be other opportunities, but he could only watch and couldn't enter at all.
He thought hard for a long time and finally thought of a possibility — Puyol had accidentally taken one or two steps into the boundary, which meant that the boundary might have been damaged to a certain extent due to the passage of time.
Then, if he could find the damaged position where Puyol had entered the boundary, the difficulty might be reduced a lot.
Thinking of this, Xia Ruofei was motivated again.
He immediately took action, following the invisible boundary around the pool, and tried little by little.
The sky gradually darkened, and Xia Ruofei had been trying for more than two hours by the pool. Although he didn't gain anything for the time being, he had enough patience.
Back then, Puyol was just an ordinary person, but he could take one or two steps in. As a cultivator at the sixth level of qi refining, there was no reason that he couldn't be better than Puyol.
Unless this formation boundary had the ability to repair itself.
This possibility was extremely low, and basically negligible, because if this boundary could repair itself, Puyol wouldn't have been able to walk in so coincidentally back then.
Finally, after two and a half hours of trying inch by inch, Xia Ruofei found a position where the boundary's energy was obviously much weaker.
In fact, it was only a matter of time before he found this position. Xia Ruofei's luck wasn't very good, which was why it took him so long.
When he felt that his mental strength probing over, the resistance of the boundary at a certain position was obviously weaker, and he knew that this was most likely the position where Puyol had mistakenly entered the pool back then.
Xia Ruofei's spirits were lifted, and he hurriedly controlled his mental strength to pass through this gap.
The next moment, he suddenly felt a chill, as if even his mental strength could be frozen.
This feeling was, of course, very uncomfortable. Xia Ruofei resisted this discomfort and used his mental strength to scan the boundary of the formation.
There seemed to be nothing special about the pool of blue water except that its temperature was slightly lower.
However, Xia Ruofei still gained a lot — he sensed that many complex formation patterns were engraved on the edge of the pool, and the pool was the center of these formation patterns. All the formation patterns eventually returned to the pool.
Xia Ruofei's formation skills had improved greatly, especially after he spent time studying formation knowledge. At the same time, he had recently processed a large number of basic materials for refining spirit puppets and engraved countless formation patterns. His formation skills had also improved continuously.
Although Xia Ruofei had never seen the formation beside the pool, he could still infer the general principle of this formation through the formation patterns he had probed.
The more one studied formations, the more one would feel that their knowledge of formations was lacking.
This was a broad and profound knowledge, and Xia Ruofei had only grasped a little. However, most of what he had mastered was basic formation knowledge, so even if the formation he saw today was very complicated, he could still try to analyze it from the most basic formation composition.
In fact, every formation, no matter how complicated it was, was made up of countless basic formations, including the internal formation of the spirit puppet that Xia Ruofei had not been able to complete for the time being.
When he sensed the formation patterns, Xia Ruofei was quickly immersed in it and was not in a hurry to try to "break it by force" with his vital energy.
This was because he had considered the terrifying python that Puyol had mentioned. From Puyol's description, Xia Ruofei had no way to judge the strength of the python, but he was sure that the python could not leave the range of the formation. If he really broke the boundary of the formation with brute force, the python might be able to break free of the formation's shackles.
It would be fine if the python's strength was average, but if it was not even Xia Ruofei's opponent, the survivors on the island would have no hope of survival if such a terrifying monster was released.
Xia Ruofei could only escape, and he would not be able to covet the opportunity in the pool.
On the contrary, if he entered the boundary by analyzing the principles of the formation, Xia Ruofei would have a way out if he could not defeat the python. As long as he retreated out of the boundary, he would be safe.
After making up his mind, Xia Ruofei was no longer in a hurry. He simply sat down beside the barrier. His spiritual power penetrated through a small crack in the barrier and constantly probed the situation of the array pattern. At the same time, he outlined the array pattern in his mind and began to deduce it.
Xia Ruofei entered a very focused state. His solid foundation in formations was his biggest help.
"The combination of a basic trap formation and a protective formation can produce such an effect?"
"This formation pattern is very special. It seems to be able to connect several small basic formations!"
"Why would there be two formation patterns with completely opposite attributes combined together, and the degree of fusion is so high?"
…
Xia Ruofei analyzed while talking to himself. Sometimes, he would even use his fingers to draw in the air.
In this state of concentration, he had no concept of the passage of time.
The sky had completely darkened, especially in the forest, where it was pitch-black.
Through the gaps in the leaves, a round moon hung high in the sky.
Xia Ruofei was completely unaware of this, and did not realize that the moon seemed to be quite round today …
Time passed by minute by minute. Xia Ruofei was like a clay statue, sitting on the ground motionlessly.
He had been in this state for a long time. In the beginning, he would use his fingers to draw various formation patterns in the air. Later, he did not even move his fingers and just sat there quietly.
The dark night gradually passed. The sun jumped out of the sea and began to sprinkle rays of sunlight on the forest. Xia Ruofei was still sitting cross-legged, motionless.
For the entire day, Xia Ruofei did not move at all. He was completely immersed in the vast and profound knowledge of formations.
The sun rose and set. The second night Xia Ruofei came to the island quickly arrived.
Xia Ruofei, who had been sitting there for more than ten hours, first raised his eyelids and revealed a look of pleasant surprise.
"I understand now!" Xia Ruofei could not help but wave his fist and say excitedly, "So the direction of my research was wrong at the beginning! The two sets of formation patterns that are like twin sisters are the core and key of the entire formation! "
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