Chapter 20, Reward
Back in the hall, Qingshi saw at a glance the old man Hu Bai in a circle of light on the left, smiling and waving for him to come over.
Qingshi put away his sword and walked into the circle of light where Hu Bai was. The scene in front of him changed again, and he instantly arrived at another circular space of about the same size. When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, Qingshi couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.
I saw that in this circular hall with a diameter of one hundred feet, with the central aperture as the center, starting five feet away from the aperture, rows of arc-shaped wooden shelves were neatly placed in circles.
The wooden shelf is six feet high and two feet wide, with three shelves in the middle. It is of fine texture and excellent workmanship. There are eight rows in each circle, making a total of twenty-eight circles. Each circle is spaced more than ten feet apart, forming huge concentric circles, starting from the center. Eight wide radial walkways spread out, dividing the entire area into eight sectors.
There are all kinds of items on the shelves, including books, weapons, armor, ores, metals, medicinal materials, spiritual weapons, etc. There are also many strange and unnamed items, all arranged in categories. Neatly, there are wooden boxes of various sizes placed on some shelves, and I don’t know what treasures are inside.
Seeing Qingshi's surprised look, Old Man Hu Bai said proudly: "Most of these were collected one after another when the master took us to travel around the world before sealing the seal. It took a full five thousand years." As he said this, he led Qingshi away. Into between the collection shelves.
Passing by a row of shelves with exotic flowers and herbs, Qingshi glanced at it. This is the fifth-level spiritual grass, the soul-enchanting grass, this is the sixth-level spiritual fruit, the snake fruit, and this is the seventh-level spiritual grass, the Silo flower. Most of them are recognized, of course, thanks to Xiao Lou's memory, but these memories are like an encyclopedia in the mind, very abstract. Now that I see these things in front of me with my own eyes, I can see and touch them, and Qingshi still feels So excited.
Old Man Hu Bai stopped, stood in front of a row of collection shelves, and said, "You can choose one of the secret books here."
This is a curved collection shelf about eight feet long in the fourth row. There are books laid flat on the three-tiered shelves, some are paper, leather, bamboo, wood, or even engraved on jade or metal plates. of.
Qingshi took a closer look and found that the bottom layer had the fewest secrets, about fifty or so, all of which were yellow-level mid-level techniques. Qingshi was not interested in them at a glance. These techniques were not comparable to the Great Huang Kung Fu. Tsinghua Gong is not necessarily better.
Looking at the middle layer, there are more than ten times more than the one below. Because there are too many, some are stacked on top of each other. These are all yellow-level middle-grade martial arts.
Qingshi looked through it quickly, paying attention to attribute martial arts. Finally, he found that there were eighty-four attribute martial arts in total, and Qingshi was most satisfied with three of them.
One is the Fire Cloud Sword, which is a series of eighteen palm techniques. It is extremely powerful when used with fire-attribute energy, and practicing this palm technique is helpful for alchemy. The first is the Fire Cloud Sword Technique, which is similar to the Fire Cloud Hand. Obviously It was created by one person; the other is the water-type water-splitting method.
In terms of attributes of Qi, Qingshi currently has the best knowledge of fire. He likes to use swords, so the Fire Cloud Sword Technique should be the best choice. However, he has two yellow-level top-grade daggers with water attributes. If they are water-attributed, If he uses the water stabbing technique, his combat power will definitely surpass that of the fire cloud sword technique, unless he also has a yellow-level high-grade spiritual sword with fire attributes. And Huoyun Shou's enhancement of alchemy techniques also made Qingshi a little reluctant to part with it.
What Qingshi lacked the most was martial arts. At this moment, these three martial arts are undoubtedly very suitable for him at this stage, so he was hesitant for a while but wanted all three martial arts.
After thinking about it, Qingshi turned to Hu Bai and asked: "Old Bai, why can I only choose one among martial arts, exercises and spells? It seems more reasonable to choose the same for each one, right? Look at so many secret books here, in fact, each one It doesn’t matter if you choose a few varieties.”
"Hehe, you are not the first one to be so greedy," the old man said with a smile, "If you have the ability to clear the nine levels and become the master, then all these things will be yours, but now, hehe, you still have to press Follow the rules."
Qingshi sighed, knowing that there was no hope, and couldn't make a decision at the moment, so he simply didn't rush to make a choice and continued to read the magic secrets on the top shelf.
There are about three hundred magic secret books. Qingshi took a quick look and saw that about half of them were about alchemy. They were all about how to identify herbs, how to control furnace fire techniques, etc.
The remaining 70% are about weapon refining. The ones about mysterious formations are the least, with only about 20 books. The various spells and secrets are only yellow-level mid-level and not very good. Compared with the various spells in memory, Not even close.
Qingshi's mind was still thinking about how to choose martial arts, so looking at these techniques was just a formality. However, after reading it, he seemed to feel that something was wrong. After thinking about it, he quickly raised his head to read the mysterious formation secret books again. It was fixed on a bundle of bamboo slips and could no longer be moved.
Qingshi suppressed the excitement in his heart, stretched out his hand to take the bamboo slips, and secretly counted the number of bamboo slips. There were actually one hundred and eight bamboo slips. Qingshi was secretly happy, and calmly opened it to take a closer look, but did not look at the recorded content but at the bamboo slips themselves. .
I saw that the bamboo slips were golden in color, each one was extremely smooth and flat, one foot two long and about one inch wide, as thick as a thumb, heavy in weight, and actually had a square cross-section.
The bamboo slips are not connected by leather ropes with holes in the middle like ordinary bamboo slips. Instead, the back of the bamboo slips is adsorbed on a thin animal leather belt in a magnetic-like manner. The leather belt is very wide, about half of the bamboo slips, and wraps the middle part of the bamboo slips, with each end of the bamboo slips attached to it. Extend the belt about three inches.
Looking at the content of the description, the entire article is about 2,000 words long, and the title is Theory of the Basics of the Mysterious Formation. Qingshi secretly said that this is the reason why the treasure has been reduced to a yellow-level mid-level secret book.
Yes, just looking at the title and content of this theory on the basics of the Mysterious Formation, it is indeed considered to be at most a yellow-level medium-grade book. However, the preciousness of this secret book is not in the content but in the bamboo slip itself.
These are not ordinary bamboo slips. This is a set of array sticks made from bamboo pieces imitated from the bones of the seventh-level spiritual beast Golden Jiao. It is an absolute earth-level mid-level array treasure.
Qingshi put away the array stick, rolled it into a scroll, and said to the old man: "I choose this, is it okay?"
"Of course," the old man replied, "I didn't expect you to study the formation method, it's amazing. However, this basic theory of the mysterious formation is not too advanced, you can choose this formation method as a preliminary."
"Does Mr. Bai really not know?" Qingshi saw that the old man had a serious look on his face and that he was really thinking about himself. He couldn't bear to be deceived and immediately said, "This scroll is not an ordinary secret book. This is a set of formation sticks, an earth-level formation method. A treasure."
"What?" The old man's eyes almost popped out of his head. He grabbed the scroll and looked at it carefully. After flipping it over and over for a while, the old man said, "Wait a moment. I'll come right away." He took the scroll and walked into the center. It disappeared within the aperture, and its moving speed was beyond the reach of Qingshi.
Qingshi smiled bitterly and shook his head. He picked up the three martial arts books he liked. He thought to himself that since he couldn't get the treasured array stick, he should think about how to choose martial arts. After thinking for a while, he decided to choose Huoyun Sword Technique. After all, he still likes to use swords.
Just when he made up his mind, a white light flashed before his eyes, and old man Hu Bai was back.
The old man held the scroll and stared at the bluestone in surprise and asked: "How did you recognize this is a magic weapon? There are no energy fluctuations on it?"
"Well, I just recognize this," Qingshi said lightly, "There are no energy fluctuations because the creator is clever, and this magic weapon has not been used yet. The energy fluctuations will appear after it has been used once."
"There are such means? It's amazing!" The old man praised it and said, "You can just take it away, why do you have to tell me?"
"I don't know why I have to tell you. In fact, I regret it a little." Qingshi sighed exaggeratedly.
"But I know," a familiar female voice sounded in the air, still only heard but not seen, "because you are an honest child."
"Senior, you are so complimentary," Qingshi smiled and said, "Thank you, senior, for the gift of the sword."
"That sword is of very low grade and is not worthy of mentioning." The female voice said, "This scroll is indeed a low-grade earth-level formation treasure, but it is not wrong to say that it is a yellow-level mid-grade formation secret book, and we When classifying it, it is regarded as the latter, so you can still choose it.”
"That's true!" Qingshi said with great joy, "Thank you so much, senior. I will choose it." After a pause, he continued, "May I ask senior what your name is?"
"It's not appropriate to tell you now. I'll meet you when I have the opportunity in the future." The female voice said, "To reward your honesty, you can choose another one."
"Thank you, senior!" Qingshi was naturally no longer polite, "Then I will choose this martial art, Fire Cloud Sword Technique."
After selecting the secret book, the old man took the bluestone to another collection shelf. This shelf is located in the last row and is more than twenty feet long. The upper two floors are full of weapons, and the lower floor is full of various weapons. Armor.
Regarding the choice of weapon, Qingshi already had a clear goal, which was a fire-attribute sword. Since he chose the Fire Cloud Sword Technique, it was inevitable to equip him with a fire-attribute sword.
Generally speaking, weapons are made of metal, so they are naturally metallic. Of course, there are also wooden sticks, stone hammers, jade swords, etc.
It is very difficult to make a weapon have attributes other than its own material. First of all, it needs special materials with other attributes that can be integrated with the weapon. Secondly, it needs to be carefully designed and forged by the weapon refiner. That is not just two things. It’s as simple as mixing materials with different properties together.
According to the principle of the five elements mutually reinforcing each other, it is basically impossible to forge a weapon with wood attributes using metal as the basic material. However, it is relatively easy to forge weapons with earth attributes, followed by water attributes, and fire attributes. It's more difficult. So it is not easy to find a fire attribute long sword.
In fact, it is not easy to forge weapons with earth, water, or fire attributes. Because of this, every attribute weapon is a higher-grade spiritual weapon or even a treasure weapon.
Regardless of weapons or other implements, generally the Yellow level is called a low-level spiritual weapon, the Xuan level is called a high-level spiritual weapon, and the Earth level or above is a treasure or magic weapon.
Sure enough, Qingshi took a closer look and found that among these weapons, although swords were the most numerous weapons, with more than a hundred handles, and there were more than 20 handles with five elements attributes other than metal, they were all of earth and water types. None of them are fire-attributed. Qingshi felt a little disappointed.
Old man Hu Bai knew Qingshi's thoughts and comforted him: "If you can't find a fire attribute sword, it's because the yellow-level middle-grade weapon is too low. Generally, if a weapon refiner wants to forge a spiritual weapon with a fire attribute, he will forge a high-level one. There will be more fire-attributed spiritual swords at the Xuan level than at the Yellow level. If you can pass two more levels, you can choose a Xuan-level fire attribute spirit sword."
After listening to the old man's words, Qingshi nodded and said, "Thank you, Mr. Bai, for reminding me." He no longer hesitated and lowered his head to look at the armor.
These protective gears are nothing more than some goggles, shoulder pads, knee pads, shoes, helmets, etc. Qingshi doesn't like these clumsy things, so this kind of grade ones doesn't make much sense. He thought to himself: Bai Lao is right, you need to If you want good things, you can only pass more levels. But I don’t know how the next level will be tested. It seems that I have to find out more.
With this thought in mind, my eyes returned to the weapon. I still had to choose one. This time, there was no target that I was eagerly looking for, so I looked more carefully. As I looked, I suddenly found a weapon with high attributes. I couldn't help but be shocked. It turned out that this was a long, thin sword. It turned out to be a A sword with wind properties.
Obviously, spiritual weapons with high attributes are more precious than spiritual weapons with the basic attributes of the five elements, and are generally of a higher grade. This sword has wind attributes, but its grade is only yellow-level middle grade. It is really strange.
Qingshi took the sword and inspected it, and found that its basic material was actually cloud fine iron, and the special material with added wind attribute should be the blood essence of a flying monster. Both materials are very precious, especially the latter. .
The problem lies in the forging. This sword should have failed during the forging. The sword body is full of cracks, and the wind attribute performance is not obvious. It seems to have passed the yellow level, because it is supposed to be a scrap.
Looking closely at Qingshi, he found that the bottom of the sword hilt was engraved with the word "Xiu Feng".
Seeing Qingshi playing with the sword and shaking his head, the old man couldn't help but sigh: "You must have noticed it, too. It's such a waste of natural resources to make such a thing out of such good materials. Why, you don't know how to choose This, right? But it’s okay to choose. Although you can’t use it, you will definitely not lose money if you just sell it as cloud fine iron. The money you use to sell it is more than enough to buy ten yellow-level mid-grade weapons. "
"Yes," Qingshi also said, "But it is a pity that the demonic beast's essence and blood will be scrapped. It is probably because of this reason that the refiner did not destroy it and recast it. By the way, how do you know that I use No?"
"Tch~" the old man curled his lips, "Just those few sword-breaking moves of yours make me blush for you. How do I know that you can also fly with a sword?"
"Flying Sword Technique?" Qingshi originally thought that the old man said that he couldn't use it because he didn't know that he had wind attribute Qi. But now that he heard what the old man said, it didn't seem to be the reason.
"Yes, this is a flying sword," the old man said with contempt on his face, "You don't even know the art of flying swords, do you?"
"Uh~ I really don't know about this." Qingshi didn't blush at all.
"There are very few people in the Flying Swordsmanship Association," the old man said, shaking his head, "but it is very famous, and there are probably not many cultivators who don't know about it." He looked at the blue stone sideways, and then said, "Back then, the Qinglian Sword Immortal He relied on the Flying Sword Technique to traverse the Taihao God Realm. This sword was obviously made for the Flying Sword Technique. Look at the sword body. It is so thin and thin. The hilt and the sword body are forged in one piece, making it slippery. And there is no sword. Ge and Jian'e. These are the typical characteristics of Feijian. Ah! That's right! I remembered, this was originally left by Qinglian Sword Immortal."
"I see, the boy has learned a lesson." Qingshi said sincerely, and then asked, "Is this really what Qinglian Sword Immortal left behind?"
"Yeah, look at my memory," the old man patted his forehead, "I even forgot that the Xiufeng Broken Sword was an item left by the Qinglian Sword Immortal. That...I still thought of you just now. I don’t blame you for saying that I have never heard of Flying Sword Technique. It seems that there is no Flying Sword Technique in your world at all, at least not in Tianlong Continent. At most, there are only some legends. When I say that everyone knows it, I mean my original world. , and the realm of gods.”
"Tch~" Qingshi gave the old man a roll of his eyes, imagining the heroic posture of Qinglian Sword Immortal controlling the flying sword in his mind. Suddenly, he had an idea and asked, "Since Qinglian Sword Immortal left this flying sword, what about his flying sword skills?" Did you stay too?"
"Yes," the old man said, "This is a divine martial art. Do you really want to practice this flying sword technique? I don't even know how to do it."
"Why?" Qingshi asked doubtfully, "Could it be that only people from the God Realm can practice?"
"That's not true," the old man replied, "the so-called divine world and mortal world are just different places and different names, but people are all the same, there is not much difference, so theoretically speaking, people in this world of flying swordsmanship and heavenly dragons can also do it A practitioner, haha, as long as he has this talent." After speaking, Qingshi gave Qingshi a roll of his eyes.
"What kind of talent is needed?" Qingshi continued to ask.
"First of all, you need strong mental power or will power. The monks in your Tianlong World do not pay attention to the cultivation of mental power, and there is no special mental power cultivation method at all. Mental power basically increases naturally with the growth of cultivation." The old man said disdainfully, "Just talking about the mental requirements of flying swordsmanship, I estimate that you have to practice at least to the perfection of the Yuan Dan state or even the Jin Dan state to achieve it. You are a little guy in the Qi gathering state, can you do it?"
"Uh~ Well..."
"Don't interrupt me, I haven't finished speaking yet," the old man shook his head and said, "In addition to the mental requirements, you also need to have wind attribute Qi. Do you have it?"
"Well actually..."
"Listen to me," the old man shouted, "Finally, in essence, this flying sword technique is an array control technique rather than a pure martial arts. I dare to ask Qingshi, how can you use this array technique? Do you know? Have you started?"
After finishing speaking, the old man Hu Bai looked at Qingshi with a teasing look on his face. After a few breaths, he saw that Qingshi didn't respond and said, "Hey, why aren't you talking? Are you scared?"
"No," Qingshi said lightly, "I'm afraid you haven't finished speaking yet. Have you finished speaking?"
"That's it."
"Well, I seem to have all the conditions you mentioned."
"Shenma! You mean Shenma?"
"You asked questions about mental power, wind-attributed Qi, and formation techniques. My answer is: "I can do it, I have it, and I can do it!" "
"I'll do it!..."
