In the evening, Zhao Lin was sitting in his living room.
There were two boxes filled with spiritual stones in front of him, and he was going to use these spiritual stones to practice the patterns of the Spirit Sealing Formation.
"It seems that I really don't have the talent to draw formation patterns, at least I'm not a genius. If I continue to compete, what if I draw the formation patterns in ten and a half months? There are still fifteen formation patterns behind me."
"This is only the first-level entry-level magic circle. The gap will be even greater in the future. Besides, I don't have much energy to spend on it."
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin opened the box and revealed the neatly arranged spiritual stones inside.
"It's important for people to be self-aware, so it's better to be honest and practice spiritual cultivation!"
To perfect a spell, one thousand and twenty-four spiritual stones are needed.
Although I am not sure how many spiritual stones are needed to practice a formation, the total of 500 spiritual stones in the two boxes should be enough.
Zhao Lin is now rich and has accumulated nearly 10,000 spiritual stones. It can be said that he is wealthy.
However, he was still very careful and transported the spiritual stones to his home in batches to avoid being noticed by interested parties and unable to explain the whereabouts of the spiritual stones.
In fact, according to Zhao Lin's original intention, what he wanted to practice most was the offensive and defensive array, but after careful consideration, he thought that the spirit sealing array was also very suitable.
The Spirit Sealing Formation is a basic magic formation, and many magic formations will use its formation patterns. The key is not the formation itself, but the knowledge and skills related to drawing the formation patterns.
Otherwise, the Spirit Sealing Formation would not be the first formation to get started with.
The spiritual cultivation map has nine grids, seven of which are used to practice spells, covering the six spiritual roots of wind, fire, water, ice, wind, and thunder, plus one non-attribute spell, which is enough.
The remaining two grids are used to practice formations.
No matter how powerful the spell is, he is just a reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill, but the formation is a strategic weapon of the sect and must be mastered!
"let's start!"
Zhao Lin took out a hundred spiritual stones and grabbed one in each hand.
Ling Xiu Tu reacted immediately, let out a low cry, stretched out dozens of long tentacles, and went straight to his fingers along his arms to absorb the spiritual energy in the spirit stone.
The spirit stone dimmed quickly, and a wisp of bright red seeped into the petals in the eighth grid.
The spiritual map has a faint red light, flickering on and off.
Swish!
The two spiritual stones turned into powder.
Zhao Lin kept his hands on and grabbed two more spiritual stones, counting them silently while paying attention to the spiritual cultivation chart.
Fifty-two yuan, fifty-four yuan, fifty-six yuan... sixty-four!
After absorbing sixty-four spiritual stones, the petals were as red as blood, and the tentacles were slowly retracted.
"It's done!"
Zhao Lin felt happy and breathed a sigh of relief.
"One formation consumes sixty-four spiritual stones, making a total of sixteen formations. Multiplied by the two, it happens to be one thousand and twenty-four, which is the same as the spiritual stones consumed to cultivate a spell."
Zhao Lin knew it well, and such consumption was within his acceptable range.
After analyzing the formation patterns in the spiritual chart, a breeze seemed to blow through the body, and a stream of light flew out from the petals and penetrated into the sea of consciousness between the eyebrows.
A memory about carving formation patterns immediately flooded into my mind: how to position the sword, how to control spiritual power, how to sense the way of heaven...
Everything is clear.
Zhao Lin moved his hands, opening and tightening his fingers, feeling as if there was something extra.
"Very good, let's see tomorrow!"
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Formation class, the sixth day.
In front of Xie Yongtai, Zhao Lin moved his sword like flying. It only took less than three breaths of effort to carve out a pattern.
The whole process was done with ease, the lines of the drawn formations were smooth, and a ray of spiritual light flowed in the lines.
Xie Yongtai was stunned for a while, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, "Yes, although you are a slow learner, you are the best at painting. Your power fingering is impeccable, which shows that you have worked hard."
"Now you can practice the second formation pattern."
"Senior brother, please teach me the Dharma."
Zhao Lin said respectfully, with no trace of pride on his face.
"Okay, look carefully!"
Xie Yongtai picked up the array pattern knife and demonstrated the second array pattern to Zhao Lin.
After a while, the second petal appeared in the eighth grid of the spiritual map in Zhao Lin's mind...
That night, Zhao Lin used another sixty-four spiritual stones to analyze the captured second array pattern.
Zhao Lin looked happy, thinking that with the help of the spiritual cultivation chart, he could master the two formations effortlessly.
And use this as a basis to practice other formations.
"Eight grids have been used in the spiritual cultivation chart. It is necessary to review it again."
Zhao Lin thought for a moment, took out the jade slips he carried with him, and recorded the spells and formations he had mastered on them.
Rock Armor Technique (Earth Element): Dacheng, the upper limit is Dacheng.
Ice Blade Technique (Ice Movement): Great achievement, the upper limit is perfect.
Flaming Arrow (Fire Element), Dacheng, the upper limit is perfect.
Qi-Wang Technique (no attributes): Dacheng, the upper limit is Dacheng.
Air Trap Technique (Fengxing): Mastery, upper limit of mastery.
Waterbending (water element): Dacheng, upper limit is Dacheng.
Thunder Blade Technique (Thunder Movement): Mastery, upper limit of mastery.
Sealing Spirit Formation: Two formation patterns (sixteen lines in total).
"It seems that it is necessary to raise the upper limit of spells."
Zhao Lin frowned slightly and whispered to himself.
His current cultivation level is at the fourth level of Qi refining, and his goal this year is to break through to the fifth level of Qi refining.
When you reach the fifth level of Qi Refining, you will have the ability to use perfection-level spells and become a person like Miao Kefa, truly unmatched in the Qi Refining Realm.
However, the upper limit of most spells is Dacheng. The sky trap and thunder blade skills are only proficient. Even if the realm is broken through, the spell attainments cannot be simultaneously improved.
Zhao Lin likes to make decisions before taking action. He doesn't want to wait until he reaches the fifth level of Qi Refining before catching spells everywhere.
Although you don't have to be perfect in everything and have to cultivate all seven spells to perfection, you must at least cultivate one or two more perfection-level spells.
Don't worry about the Qi-Wang Technique. You only need to look at yourself when you meet a monk with a perfect level of Qi-Wang Technique, and you can capture this spell.
The spells of waterbending, air trapping, thunder blade, and rock armor still need to be strengthened.
"But where can I find people who have perfected these skills?"
Zhao Lin touched his chin and pondered.
It is difficult to practice magic to perfection, but there are more than 100,000 monks in Chenghua Sect. Looking at the entire sect, there are not many such people.
It's just that it's difficult for me to get in touch with these people. Even if I see them, I can't directly ask others to cast spells on me.
It would be great if there were people like Miao Kefa to preach, but this kind of thing is something you can only encounter but cannot seek.
Last year, a foundation-building monk came to Lingdao Temple to preach, but unfortunately his spells were not suitable, and Zhao Lin did not learn any useful spells.
"Perhaps you can buy a few newspapers and see if any powerful magicians have sent letters to Chijun recently."
Zhao Lin suddenly thought of a way.
The Chenghua Sect publishes di newspapers and bulletins every ten days, publishing the recent military, political and people's livelihood of the sect, and the state government also has similar documents.
Zhao Lin would buy a few copies every now and then to learn about the sect's major and minor affairs.
After morning class the next day, Zhao Lin went to the market in Songyu Peak.
"Here are some of the latest newspapers."
Zhao Lin walked into a shop and said to the waiter who came up to him.
Many monks have the habit of reading the newspaper, so no matter what kind of items are sold in the store, they will basically put a few copies of the newspaper in a conspicuous place when they enter the door.
"Master Immortal arrived by chance, Sanfenfang has just reported to the store."
The waiter smiled and said, "One from the sect, one from this state, and one from a neighboring state. Which one do you want?"
"Let's have one each. How much does it cost?"
"A total of six spirit coins."
Zhao Lin gave the spirit coin and walked out of the shop with the newspaper.
After leaving the market and walking halfway up the mountain, I saw a big stone under the shade of a tree on the roadside. I walked over and sat down, picked up a newspaper and started reading.
"Based on my three years of experience as a monk in the Denis sect, monks in the Denis sect are rigorous and organized in their work. They always do things according to the rules without exception."
"The style of conduct is in sharp contrast to that of monk Chenghua Sect."
"Therefore, although the magic weapons made by Denisong are high in price, they are durable..."
The first article in the newspaper made Zhao Lin frown.
This article is an article written by a Chenghua Sect monk based on his experiences in the Deni Sect in the West Luo Realm.
He spoke highly of the Denis sect and analyzed the reasons why the Denis sect's magical instruments are of excellent quality and have an outstanding reputation.
He also deeply reflected on the reasons why the Chenghua Sect began to decline over the millennium and why it was strong when it was no longer ancient.
"Shameless person, what nonsense did you write!"
Zhao Lin felt depressed and quickly turned to the next page before finishing reading.
I didn't expect that in the world of immortality, I could encounter such a thing that admires foreign things and sucks hemorrhoids.
If he didn't receive money from Denizong, he just naturally likes to kneel.
Unexpectedly, the article on the second page made Zhao Lin frown even more.
The title of the article is: One Year of the Di An Sect, Discussing the Differences Between the Disciples of the Cheng Hua Sect and the Di An Sect’s Lingdao Academy.
The person who wrote this article was an elder from a certain spiritual Taoist temple. He was talking about an article he published after visiting the Dian Sect’s spiritual Taoist temple and feeling the differences between the disciples of the two sects.
In his opinion, the disciples of the Di An Sect are more independent and rely almost entirely on self-study to practice Taoism. They dare to venture into the dangerous small world after one year of joining the sect.
Disciples of the Di An Sect do not forget to practice when exploring, and they can also use the spiritual rice and spiritual stones they carry carefully, and do not rely on the sect's seniors when encountering danger.
In comparison, the disciples of Chenghua Sect were much inferior. In the same situation, they ate half of the spiritual rice on the first day...
Not surprisingly, the article ends with a reflection on the Chenghua Sect’s training methods.
"Another bastard!"
The more Zhao Lin looked at it, the angrier he became, and he threw the newspaper to the ground.
What are the intentions of the people who wrote these things? They actually wrote praises for those ruthless people on the island. They are simply forgetting their ancestors!
"If I take charge of Chenghua Sect, I will..."
An idea suddenly came to Zhao Lin's mind, but he quickly shook his head and laughed dumbly.
If you want to take charge of a sect, you must at least be in the Purple Mansion realm and be a highly respected person, but I am still far from it.
Besides, the current general direction of the sect is completely correct, vigorously developing weapon refining, formations, talismans and other Taoist arts, and cultivating young disciples regardless of the cost.
If you were to go up on your own, there's a high chance that you'd have too much ambition and too little skill.
His eyes were stained just now, so Zhao Lin was not in the mood to read the original newspaper again, so he picked up the one from Nanhezhou.
The local newspapers in this state are much more pleasing to the eye. They mainly introduce the affairs of the state, the operating status of each city, and the latest tasks released, etc.
Zhao Lin turned over and over, but couldn't find what he wanted.
Just when he was about to put down the newspaper and change it to another one, he saw an obituary in the margin.
My condition has basically recovered. Next month I will challenge my weakness and strive to update 4,000 words a day and get perfect attendance!
(End of chapter)
