"Brother Chu Feng, how confident are you?" Chu Ruoshi asked.
"Eighty percent," Chu Feng said.
"Eighty percent? You're really spouting lies without even blinking."
The moment Chu Feng said that, he immediately drew scornful remarks from Chu Haoyan and Chu Huanyu.
Perhaps because they harbored genuine resentment toward Chu Feng from the bottom of their hearts, they simply refused to believe that Chu Feng could break through the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram.
What they didn't know, however, was that the eighty percent Chu Feng had claimed was still a conservative estimate. If he had to be precise, Chu Feng was at least ninety percent confident that he could break through the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram.
Still, Chu Feng didn't bother explaining much to them. He merely glanced at Chu Haoyan and Chu Huanyu before saying, "If you don't want to walk away with nothing, you'd better shut your mouths and stop interrupting me while I search for the method to decipher and break this formation."
"You brat — how dare you speak to me in that tone! Who do you think you are?"
Chu Feng's words immediately ignited the fury of Chu Haoyan and Chu Huanyu.
But before they could finish their retort, Chu Ruoshi spoke up.
"You two came in here presumably to advance your cultivation. Right now, the situation is essentially a dead end, and Brother Chu Feng is the only one who can break us out of it. So stop causing trouble."
"Chu Ruoshi, you should know that the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram has nothing to do with the art of world spirits and nothing to do with martial cultivation methods."
"Countless seniors over the generations have failed to break through this Yin-Yang Formation Diagram. Do you really think that he, Chu Feng, can break it?" Chu Haoyan asked, clearly displeased.
"Whether he can break it or not is one thing," Chu Ruoshi replied. "But right now, among all of us, Brother Chu Feng is the only one who even dares to try."
Hearing this, Chu Haoyan's brow furrowed, but then his expression shifted almost immediately.
He seemed to realize something.
Ever since Chu Feng had returned to the Chu Heavenly Clan, he had been stealing the spotlight everywhere, accomplishing practically everything that they themselves could not.
However, the difficulty of the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram was extraordinarily high.
Nobody even knew how to decipher it, let alone how to break it.
If they let Chu Feng make his attempt and he ended up failing — which was the most likely outcome — then they wouldn't really lose anything. But Chu Feng's momentum would be broken, and his standing in everyone's minds would drop.
So he said nothing more and simply stood off to the side, quietly watching everything unfold.
Chu Huanyu did the same.
…
At that moment, nobody wanted to disturb Chu Feng.
The entire space had fallen silent, and Chu Feng was finally able to devote himself fully to deep thought.
Indeed, if one wished to break through the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram, contemplation was the most important step. Once the method of deciphering it was figured out, the way to break the formation would naturally reveal itself.
Chu Feng stared at the diagram for a full hour. During that time, he didn't move a muscle — didn't even blink once — gazing upward above him as though he had turned to stone.
"Chu Ruoshi, you saw it for yourself. It's not like I didn't give this Chu Feng a chance. An hour has passed and he hasn't made a single bit of progress. In my opinion… he has absolutely no idea how to break this Yin-Yang Formation."
After the hour had elapsed, Chu Haoyan could no longer contain himself and began seizing the opportunity to taunt Chu Feng.
"Seems like someone really wants me to fail."
But the moment Chu Haoyan finished speaking, Chu Feng — who hadn't moved for so long — suddenly stirred.
"It's just that I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you again." Chu Feng looked at Chu Haoyan and said.
"Brother Chu Feng, have you found the method to decipher the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram?" Chu Ruoshi asked eagerly.
"I already know how to break through the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram," Chu Feng said.
"Brother Chu Feng, are you serious?" The moment those words left Chu Feng's lips, not only Chu Ruoshi but most of the people present lit up with anticipation.
"Everything I say from this point on will be critical to successfully breaking the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram. So I need everyone to memorize what I'm about to say, because in order to break this formation, every single one of us here must work together," Chu Feng said.
He then proceeded to explain, in front of everyone, the method for breaking the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram.
In truth, the method Chu Feng described involved issuing instructions to every person present, assigning each of them a specific task.
Simply put, the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram had been designed specifically for the younger generation gathered here. Therefore, in order to break it, every single person had to participate.
As for Chu Feng's instructions, the others were only half-convinced at best. Chu Haoyan and Chu Huanyu, in particular, were initially too disdainful to follow Chu Feng's orders.
But the allure of the treasures hidden here was simply too great. Even if they only half believed him, they were willing to take their chances.
For the sake of their shared interest, they truly did follow Chu Feng's instructions and dutifully went about their assigned tasks.
After everyone had departed, however, Chu Feng did not leave.
He sat down cross-legged and, weaving together the power of martial force and the power of the formation barriers, began setting up a formation of his own.