Not to mention the talent of his youngest disciple that had far surpassed his expectations, she had also managed to create her first formation deserving of the abysmal rank during the past few months… And although it wasn't attached to one of the blobs of slag metal that she created through blacksmithing, it still ended up becoming rather well known among the formation masters and younger disciples of the sect.
All for the simple reason that her formation happened to have been created by her time at a training ground frequented by the younger disciples of the sect and caused the training ground in question to change into a space filled to the brim with some kind of slimy substance that seemed to have been created by the formation from absorbing the surrounding qi in the air.