Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life-Chapter 182: This isn’t an array.

Su Ming took out a blank bamboo scroll and began the work he was most skilled at—data recording.

He didn't comment on the other party's operations;he simply followed behind Manager Sun, silently taking notes.

"Manager Sun, may I ask how many times per day this Dew-Gathering Grass medicinal field is irrigated? And what is the volume of water each time?"

"Uh... this... it's all based on Junior Brother Wang's feel. He's the best herbal farmer in our garden."

"What about the spiritual energy concentration? Is there a standard?"

"This... Junior Nephew Li is the most sensitive to spiritual energy. If he says it's enough, then it's enough."

...

After an hour of investigation, the bamboo scroll in Su Ming's hand was filled with various primitive records like "based on feel," "go by experience," and "close enough is fine."

He closed the scroll and offered a polite yet confident smile to Manager Sun, who was looking at him with anticipation.

"Manager Sun, it's not a big problem. In three days, I'll provide you with a completely new solution."

...

Back at the Repair Hall, Su Ming immediately gathered all core members and held a "Spiritual Plant Garden Project Kickoff Meeting."

Under the remote guidance of Lin Yu, the "Chief Engineer," a set of revolutionary "fool-proof" operational procedures and matching simple formation plates were quickly designed.

However, while conceptualizing the core circuit of this new formation plate, Lin Yu's soul consciousness fell into a rare silence.

His divine sense involuntarily "looked" once again toward the ancient, incomplete, and finely cracked Spirit Gathering Array on the inner wall of the Xuantian ring.

Usually, he only felt this array was complex and obscure, far beyond his comprehension. He could only barely maintain its minimal operation to nourish himself.

Today, he discovered that the most basic energy guidance circuit, the underlying structure, of the crude and shoddy "Spirit Gathering Array" in the Spiritual Plant Garden actually bore a faint resemblance to this ancient array inside the Xuantian ring!

This... how could this be?! The array inside the Xuantian ring is far more exquisite and complex than I can comprehend.

How could something as common as the Spiritual Plant Garden's... This discovery was too shocking. Lin Yu immediately suppressed this thought firmly and did not reveal a word of it to Su Ming.

...

The new formation plate Su Ming made eliminated all complex fine-tuning functions.

In their place were several clearly marked dials.

One dial controlled lighting, with three settings engraved: "Shady," "Sunny," and "Intense."

One dial controlled humidity, divided into five levels from "Dry" to "Wet."

One dial controlled spiritual energy concentration, also corresponding to five levels of spiritual energy output.

What the herbal farmers needed to do was no longer to operate based on feel, but to consult a thick manual provided by Su Ming titled "Standardized Cultivation Handbook for Common Spiritual Herbs." They could look up the corresponding spiritual herb like using a dictionary, then simply set the pointers of the three formation plate dials to the scale required in the manual.

Simple, crude, but effective!

When Su Ming handed over this "Su Standard" set and three sample formation plates to Manager Sun, the other's expression was one of bewilderment.

However, under Su Ming's promise of "no extra charge, refund if ineffective," the Spiritual Plant Garden, half-believing and half-doubting, allocated an experimental plot.

...

One month later.

The news spread as if it had wings, traveling from Pill Cauldron Peak throughout the entire outer sect of the Cloud Hidden Sect.

In the experimental plot at the Spiritual Plant Garden that adopted the "Su Standard," the yield and quality of the spiritual herbs, compared to the adjacent control plot meticulously tended by senior herbal farmers, had increased steadily and precisely by thirty percent!

This figure completely shook the entire Spiritual Plant Garden and also startled Formation Peak.

Formation Peak, as the core of the sect's array research, had always taken pride in designing complex, exquisite, and powerful arrays. They could not tolerate that a menial hall under the External Affairs Hall had achieved such astonishing results in their area of expertise using an almost "insultingly" simple method.

A talented inner disciple from Formation Peak was ordered to come and investigate.

This person was named Luo Feng. At only twenty years old, he had already reached the mid-stage Core Formation cultivation and possessed extraordinary talent in the path of formations. He had always been arrogant and looked down on others.

When he arrived at the Spiritual Plant Garden and saw the formation plates that the herbal farmers were praising endlessly, he almost laughed in anger.

He picked up a formation plate. The feel in his hand was rough and simple. Probing with his divine sense, the internal rune structure was simple to a "shocking" degree, devoid of any technical elegance.

The energy circuits were straight and direct, like the simplest shack built by mortal craftsmen, lacking even a trace of the spiritual insight and ingenuity expected of a formation master.

"This... what is this thing? It's practically a disgrace to the world of formations!" Luo Feng's voice was filled with contempt.

Manager Sun, standing nearby, hurriedly put on a flattering smile. "Senior Brother Luo, this item... its effectiveness is indeed good."

"Effectiveness?" Luo Feng sneered coldly. He walked to the edge of the experimental plot and looked at the Dew-Gathering Grass that was clearly more robust and glowing with stronger spiritual light than elsewhere. The mockery on his face gradually solidified.

Impossible...

This doesn't make sense!

How could this crudely made "toy" achieve such precise control effects?

His formation mastery, his pride, the heritage he took such pride in—at this moment, they seemed to face an unprecedented challenge. Luo Feng stood on the ridge, looking at those simple formation plates and the thriving spiritual grass. For the first time, a look of confusion and bewilderment appeared on his handsome face.

...

In Bing Character Seven Courtyard, the afternoon sun was just right, casting a warm golden hue over everything in the yard.

The air didn't have the expected spiritual energy fluctuations. Instead, there was only a faint fragrance of spiritual ink mixed with the slightly heated smell of metal parts being polished.

The yard was bustling with people. Over twenty menial disciples performed their duties quietly and efficiently. Only the rhythmic "clack" sounds of tools and parts colliding echoed in the courtyard.

On the wall, next to the huge "Data Wall," a new wooden board had been added—"Spiritual Plant Garden Spirit Gathering Array Optimization Project Progress."

This place didn't resemble any cave dwelling on Formation Peak. There was no heaven-and-earth-swallowing spiritual energy, no mysterious and profound array diagrams, and certainly no formation masters lost in crazed contemplation.

This place was like... an accounting office.

Luo Feng's frown, which had formed the moment he stepped into the courtyard gate, never relaxed.

His inner disciple attire stood out starkly against the simple, bustling atmosphere here.

His eyes immediately found Su Ming in the center of the courtyard.

Su Ming wasn't inscribing runes or deducing arrays. He was holding a bamboo scroll, discussing something in a low voice with Old Wang. That focused expression was exactly like a shopkeeper checking accounts in the mortal world.

This scene completely ignited the fire in Luo Feng's heart.

He strode forward. The sharp aura belonging to a talented formation master made the surrounding menial disciples' breaths catch, and they all stopped their work.

"Are you Su Ming?" Luo Feng's voice was clear and bright, yet carried undisguised arrogance.