Trading system, I exchanged vegetables for golden pills.

Ye Chen turned back and came to Ah Long's side.

At this moment, Ah Long had a stone in his hand that was about the same size as the previous one.

Ye Chen's forehead was covered in...

I don't even know what to say anymore.

Without a doubt, this is yet another array stone!

There must be a formation here.

The possibility that the stones were moved from other places during the construction of the forest park has been ruled out.

Ye Chen used his mental scan to find the locations of the two array stones and deduced the location of the next array stone in his mind.

The process of going from 0 to 1 is more difficult and complicated, but starting from 1 is much simpler.

Having discovered a pattern, Ye Chen also found a formation stone this time.

After half an hour of searching, a total of 18 array stones were found.

Adding the 3 stones on Ah Long's body, there are a total of 21 array stones.

Ye Chen had already formed the outline of an array in his mind.

The formation is not small in scale.

He eventually found the location of the formation's core under a large tree.

These array patterns were ones that Ye Chen had never seen before, but that did not prevent him from understanding their layout.

Just like once you've learned the multiplication tables, no matter how the numbers change, they can't be separated from those few algorithms...

Of course, advanced mathematics is an exception...

Ye Chen had studied the Hundred Solutions to Formations, so restoring this formation wasn't too difficult.

"Ah Long, give me the array stones you bought, and put the two array stones we just found back in their original places. Now let's recreate this old array!"

"Okay!" Ah Long nodded and immediately went to carry it out.

Ye Chen then took the array stone that Ah Long had bought and, based on the location of the array in his mind, went to a tree by the roadside and placed the array stone there.

"Brother Ye, I've put it away!" Ah Long called out.

"Okay, come over to the center of the formation!" Ye Chen reminded him.

Ah Long came running over excitedly and asked, "Brother Ye, what's next? Are we done? It doesn't seem like anything's changed!"

"No rush, the formation's energy should be almost depleted!" Ye Chen waved his hand.

The next moment, he slowly poured spiritual power into the array's core.

However, nothing changed around them!

Upon seeing this, Ye Chen frowned and pondered, "This formation seems incomplete!"

Ah Long didn't say anything to disturb Ye Chen's thoughts, but just watched quietly from the side!

Ye Chen poured in his spiritual power for a few more moments, but the formation still did not react.

Ye Chen slowly withdrew his spiritual power and sat down to ponder.

That's strange, there are no other array stones left, so the array feels a bit lacking.

Was it because human excavation destroyed part of the formation later on?!

He had just felt that the formation was a bit lacking, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what the problem was.

Ye Chen scanned the surroundings again with his mind, and found that the range of the array did not extend beyond the area where humans could move around.

The western area is clearly a remote and sparsely populated area; most people who want to hike go east to the main peak.

Therefore, even if it was damaged, it was only damaged once during the development process.

Of course, there is another possibility: that this formation was never a complete formation to begin with.

Perhaps the formation master failed to set up the formation; it is an incomplete formation.

The array diagram reappeared in Ye Chen's mind, and he felt that the probability was quite high!

There are basically only these two possibilities.

All that hard work for nothing, and things didn't go as smoothly as expected.

Ye Chen looked at A Long and briefly explained his guess.

Ah Long seemed to understand but not quite, but he remained nonchalant about it:

"Brother Ye, it doesn't matter that the formation isn't complete. There are so many formation stones, and they contain a lot of spiritual energy. They're good for cultivation, so our efforts weren't in vain!"

"You're quite optimistic!" Ye Chen smiled and shook his head.

Ah Long grinned: "Hehe, so many pieces! If we get Beidou back, we might be able to get some benefits by reporting it!"

Ye Chen nodded: "This is the worst-case scenario. Anyway, there's still plenty of time. I'll try to see if I can improve this formation!"

Next, Ye Chen picked up a tree branch and swept a patch of open ground to draw on the ground.

After analyzing it, based on his experience, he concluded that the formation contained a certain sharpness of "breaking".

Ye Chen was somewhat puzzled, as this feeling was unlike any of the formations he had seen before.

Using the process of elimination, this kind of "break" doesn't belong to a highly offensive defensive formation; rather, it seems to have the feeling of breaking through something.

If we use this characteristic to break the formation, it's not bad; we can break the formation in one go.

But there's only one formation here. What's the purpose of setting up this type of formation?

This is precisely what Ye Chen doesn't understand.

Could it be that this formation master wants to break through something in the mountain?

Ye Chen's divine sense covered the mountain again. Could it be that there was something on this mountain that he didn't know about?

"Wait here for me!"

Ye Chen gave Ah Long some instructions, then flew back into the sky, once again overlooking the entire Xunlong Mountain Forest Park.

However, he looked at it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out or make any sense of it.

Ye Chen landed back on the ground and let out a long breath. Well, it seems that opportunities really can't be forced.

"By the way, Brother Ye, I remembered a rumor about Xunlong Mountain. I wonder if it will inspire you!" Ah Long hurriedly spoke up as if he had just remembered something.

"Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier? Tell me!" Ye Chen said irritably.

Ah Long scratched his head: "I just remembered. I heard this back when I was studying in the county town. I haven't heard anyone mention it for many years!"

"It was rumored that Xunlong Mountain had two main peaks facing each other from the east and west, but later, for some reason, the main peaks suddenly became much shorter."

"There are rumors that tectonic movements caused that mountain to sink, and the West Peak we are standing on now is the original main peak."

"There's also a rumor that a real dragon coiled up there, crushing the mountain peak, which is why later generations named it Xunlong Mountain (Dragon-Seeking Mountain)!"

"There are even rumors that the mountain was moved away by gods!"

"In short, there are all sorts of rumors, but no one has seen it with their own eyes. Only the county annals record that the western peak of Xunlong Mountain differs from previous accounts!"

"However, it's also possible that the ancients made a mistake, and gradually no one mentioned it anymore."

"Brother Ye, that's roughly the rumor. So, is there any useful information?"

After Ah Long finished speaking, he stared at Ye Chen expectantly.

Ye Chen listened attentively without saying a word, his curiosity about the mountain growing even stronger.

The mountain peak suddenly shrank by more than half? This...

Could it be that it's been sealed away by something?

If that's the case, how powerful must the person who sealed it be?

At least Ye Chen himself believes he can't do it now, let alone not be able to.

There was no sign of him being sealed off from his appearance.

If it's truly a seal, why go to all that trouble to seal a mountain peak?

Have the mountains come to life?

Is this unfinished formation meant to break the seal?

If that's the case, then I can understand.