"Can I start the position now?" Chu Feng asked.
"Of course, if you'd like to," the white-browed man said with a smile.
Chu Feng then walked directly to the pill-refining formation array and began refining pills.
Once Chu Feng started refining, not only did the white-browed man not leave, but the other formation masters also gathered around.
They all wanted to see what kind of talent this amnesiac fellow recommended by the Senior Elder actually possessed.
But the moment Chu Feng made his move, they were thoroughly disappointed.
Chu Feng's pill-refining speed, for someone who had just taken on the role, wasn't exactly slow—but it fell far short of their expectations.
At first, they thought it might be because Chu Feng simply hadn't gotten used to things yet.
But as time passed, his speed showed no improvement whatsoever.
The crowd of onlookers dwindled bit by bit, until eventually not a single person remained.
Chu Feng even overheard plenty of gossip. They all felt the Senior Elder had made a misjudgment.
Their subsequent interactions with Chu Feng grew noticeably less enthusiastic than they had been at the start.
But what they didn't know was that Chu Feng was doing it deliberately. He intentionally kept his performance below the required threshold, because meeting that threshold would result in a forced transfer away from this particular formation array.
After all, this formation array was the only one within this Formation Hall that allowed Chu Feng to glimpse the power of the formation deep beneath the earth's surface.
Chu Feng stood before the formation array, appearing to refine pills with great concentration, but in reality he was juggling three tasks at once.
He refined pills, probed the formation's power, and eavesdropped on the conversations of those around him—all simultaneously.
Chu Feng wanted to gather information about Little Fishy.
Sure enough, the formation masters here knew far more than low-level formation workers like Three-Nine-Nine.
First, Chu Feng learned more complete information about this place.
In the Star Sea World, there were several hundred cities.
Aside from the Star Sea Main City, each city was governed by a City Lord.
Below the City Lord were Vice City Lords, then the various Hall Masters, followed by Senior Elders, Middle Elders, Junior Elders, formation masters…
But even the City Lord was not the most powerful figure in the Star Sea World.
Above the City Lords were the Chief Elders, and among the Chief Elders there was a Grand Chief Elder.
The Grand Chief Elder was the single most powerful and authoritative person in the entire Star Sea World.
Even seeing a City Lord was quite difficult. The Chief Elders were figures most people would never meet in their entire lives, and the Grand Chief Elder was like a legend.
Of course, Chu Feng didn't care about any of that. What he cared about was Little Fishy.
And now Chu Feng knew that Little Fishy and that person called Jie Tian were both currently in the Star Sea Main City.
This so-called Star Sea Main City had no City Lord—it was where the Chief Elders and the Grand Chief Elder resided.
It was also the highest-ranking city among all the cities in this place.
The Star Sea Main City was a permanently sealed location. Without an audience granted by a Chief Elder, not even the City Lords of the other cities were permitted to enter.
From their conversations, Chu Feng had also learned the approximate location of the Star Sea Main City.
The Formation Hall closed at night, so Chu Feng and the others naturally had their own free time.
Chu Feng seized this opportunity to head toward the Star Sea Main City.
Though Chu Feng's own barrier power was unusable, thanks to the special barrier energy enveloping his body, his barrier techniques could still function.
His concealment methods were usable as well.
He masked his figure and set out for the Star Sea Main City, wanting to see if he could get inside and find Little Fishy.
But as Chu Feng neared the Star Sea Main City, he was stopped by a layer of barrier—a remarkably powerful one, utterly beyond what Chu Feng could break in his current state.
By Chu Feng's estimation, one would need at least the level of a White Dragon Divine Robe to have any chance of cracking such a barrier.