The crowd focused their attention with concentration. A ray of light entered each of them present, but when they tried to deliberately perceive it, they only felt it was a simple imprint.

And within this imprint contains the natural formation of the entire academy, without any other energy fluctuations.

"Even the mentor and the dean are not clear about it? Your bodies have the most formation eyes!"

Jiang Chen smiled gently.

"Formation eye?!"

The crowd was stunned, and then Hu Yiqiu and Jian Cangqiong's faces suddenly changed dramatically.

"Using humans as the eyes?!"

"Is this formation divine art using humans as the eyes?!"

Hu Yiqiu and Jian Cangqiong exclaimed in shock, their eyes widening so much that their eyeballs almost popped out. Their hearts pounded as they looked at Jiang Chen with disbelief.

"Yes, it's using humans as the eyes, but my understanding of formation is still not enough. I can't make it so that humans can be used as formation eyes long-term, only as a one-off!"

Jiang Chen nodded, explaining quietly, "The light within all of you is the formation eye of the academy's great array, while the formation base is the natural formation generated by the place where the entire academy is located."

"If something actually happens one day, even if the wrongdoers control the formation eyes in various parts of the academy, they can still use your formation eyes to activate and reverse the great array."

Jiang Chen continued, "But this only has one chance. Once used, the formation eye energy will return to the formation eyes at various places and cannot be used again!"

"Laying down formation, using humans as eyes, using momentum as the base! These are all formation divine arts!"

Hu Yiqiu exclaimed in amazement, "Young man, what have you given the Heavenly Dao? Making it grant you such an extraordinary talent? You, you, you must be a monster, right?"

"Not human! Simply not human! Definitely not human!"

Jian Cangqiong was so shocked he couldn't speak normally.

"I..."

Jiang Chen was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, looking at Hu Yiqiu and Jian Cangqiong with grievance. He murmured softly, "What the hell! Helping you all out so much without any reward. And you're still afraid of me? Is there any semblance of a mentor, any dean's virtue left?"

Pfft!

"Haha!"

"Haha..."

Seeing Jiang Chen's expression resembling a wronged woman, the crowd burst into laughter, a sense of closeness arising spontaneously.

Jiang Chen had always been too indifferent, his performance too extraordinary. Even though the crowd were all top experts, they still felt a considerable distance from Jiang Chen.

But now, Jiang Chen's sudden revelation of true feelings made everyone feel close, and the distance between them no longer felt so vast!

"That's right!"

Hu Yiqiu suddenly shouted loudly.

The crowd all jumped in shock, looking at Hu Yiqiu in astonishment.

"I say, Dean, you're really not playing fair!"

Hu Yiqiu looked at Jian Cangqiong with an expression of settling scores after autumn: "Let's talk about it, after Jiang Chen came to the academy, he first increased the power of the Valley Mystery Array, then healed the Great Dao Foundation injuries of the two meritorious elders, then uncovered the conspiracy of that old scoundrel Lu Buping, and now he's risked his life to help us improve the formation. With no reward at all, isn't this too unreasonable?"

"Yes, it really is unreasonable!"

"Absolutely unreasonable!"

"If it were me, I'd have left this exploitative place long ago!"

"Yes, this place has no warmth, no clear rewards or punishments!"

The crowd nodded in agreement, joining in the banter.

Jiang Chen glanced at everyone, his mouth curling into a warm smile.

The normally high and mighty top experts, now showing their true feelings, reminded him of You Xuan, Dragon Saint, Long Tianze, and other seniors on Yuan Star, causing his eyes to slowly moisten, his heart warm.

"Dean, look, the junior brother is so aggrieved he's crying!"

Yun Tao noticed the sparkle in Jiang Chen's eyes and spoke without thinking. As soon as he said it, he froze there, looking at Jiang Chen in surprise.

Crying?!

The crowd was stunned, looking at Jiang Chen in disbelief.

Jiang Chen was abruptly snapped out of his emotional state by Yun Tao's words, glaring hard at Yun Tao.

Noticing the peculiar looks from the crowd, he smiled wryly and said softly, "I'm not feeling aggrieved, rather... I'm feeling warm!"

Jiang Chen looked up, gazing at each person, deeply looking into their eyes. In his eyes, large shadows appeared behind them, all seniors and siblings on Yuan Star.

The warmth in Jiang Chen's gaze, the gentle aura he exuded, and the blissful smile at the corner of his mouth made the crowd's hearts twitch.

This...

This feeling...

The crowd didn't know how long it had been since they'd felt this sensation, unable to think of words to describe it!

"When everyone was teasing the dean just now, I felt warm, just like..."

Tears appeared again in Jiang Chen's eyes, showing nostalgia, longing, and a hint of guilt: "Just like those elders I had, those brothers and sisters."

Jiang Chen's expression stirred the crowd's hearts once more. The various emotions in his eyes revealed the bitterness behind it, the beauty behind it, and at the same time, a complex and difficult to understand story.

In that hint of guilt, there was no sign of a guilty conscience, indicating that Jiang Chen's guilt was merely a pure emotion, not the remorse after doing something wrong!

This let the crowd see the helplessness in that hint of guilt, as if telling everyone that even knowing the ending, knowing the guilt, if given another choice, he would still do it that way!

That helplessness made everyone feel a deep sense of heartache!

"When I came here, I felt like an outsider, a passerby, a wanderer without a hometown, wandering everywhere just to cultivate and improve, just to find estranged relatives."

"But just now, I felt the warmth of home, that genuine care regardless of strength levels or status, that genuine relaxation, that feeling, it's like this place is my home, and everyone is my family!"

Jiang Chen's eyes lost focus, as if his mind was in an indelible environment!

Family!

The crowd's hearts trembled deeply, finally finding the defining word for that long-lost feeling!

Family, an extremely ordinary and yet incredibly precious word.

This word, which seemed so normal in ordinary secular families, appeared incredibly precious to cultivators like them, especially those with great power.

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