Time flies, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
Zhao Lin has already broken through 11 of the twelve spiritual orifices on the fourth level of Qi Refining, and there are still two left to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining!
The first stage of the nine-turn spiritual concentrating skill is about to be completed, and it is expected that the second stage of practice will be started before the end of the year.
Every time a level of Qi Refining Realm is broken through, the spiritual consciousness increases by ten feet, and the first turn of the nine-turn divine condensation skill increases by thirty feet.
In other words, Zhao Lin's spiritual consciousness can reach eighty feet by then, which is no less than that of most monks in the later stage of Qi Refining, solving the shortcoming of insufficient attack range in fighting skills.
This cultivation speed is much faster than Zhao Lin expected.
Hard work accounts for only a small part of the credit, and more lies in his constant investment regardless of the cost.
Zhao Lin exchanged his good deeds for a bottle of chalcedony liquid and upgraded his spiritual root level to the top grade. This lasted for a month, and he never stopped using precious elixirs such as Ning Yuan Dan, Huanggu Dan, and Yanghun Pills.
He would stay in the spiritual cave for one or two days every three to five days. At the critical moment of attacking the spiritual orifice, he would practice in the best spiritual cave.
Zhao Lin's speed in cultivation also made many disciples jealous.
Especially those disciples with high-grade spiritual roots, who were obviously more talented, but were left behind by Zhao Lin in practice. Even Lin Chaoran, who had earthly spiritual roots, felt threatened.
In the middle of the year, Lin Chaoran and three high-grade spiritual root disciples approached Elder Nie and asked to go out on a mission.
They were interested in a gold-level monster hunting mission, and wanted to go out together to earn some good deeds, so that like Zhao Lin, they could use their good deeds to exchange for elixirs or the qualification to practice in the spiritual cave.
Elder Nie didn't say anything, but only made one condition: let four people fight with Zhao Lin. If they could persist for a quarter of an hour, regardless of victory or defeat, they would be allowed to go. Otherwise, they would have to stay in the Spiritual Dao Academy.
Lin Chaoran and others felt extremely insulted. No matter how powerful Zhao Lin was, he could not defeat one against four, so he agreed without hesitation.
He also actively requested to increase the difficulty, changing from a quarter of an hour to a half-quarter of an hour. If he could not defeat Zhao Lin, he would give up going out to perform the mission.
Elder Nie smiled noncommittally and pulled Zhao Lin aside to give him a few words.
The fight was held in public, attracting all the disciples from the Spiritual Dao Academy, and even some monks from other mountains came to watch the fun.
Before the competition started, everyone was not very optimistic about Zhao Lin.
Although everyone knew that he was powerful in fighting, Lin Chaoran and the others were not weak in strength. With four fighting against one, it could be said that they had a great advantage.
But the result was beyond everyone's expectations: the fight lasted less than twenty breaths, and Zhao Lin easily won with dazzling spells, cleanly and without even using martial arts.
The scene was completely silent except for Zhao Changxing who shouted excitedly: "Senior Brother Zhao is my uncle, and my uncle won!"
Everyone burst into laughter, even the two elders couldn't help laughing. Zhao Changxing realized there was something wrong with his words and quickly shut up.
When everyone calmed down, Elder Nie asked Zhao Lin at the right time: "Zhao Lin, do you think the four of them are capable of going out and making a living?"
Zhao Lin understood, shook his head and said: "It's almost a fire, let's practice more. The strength of a high-grade monster is comparable to that of a monk in the late stage of Qi Refining. It will be dangerous if you encounter it."
Elder Nie turned his head and looked at Lin Chaoran and others, "Do you know your own weight now?"
The four of them were dejected and never mentioned going out on missions again.
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The mountain behind Daodao Peak is where the disciples of Lingdao Academy live.
The night was dark and the disciples had already rested. Only a stone house near Beiling was still lit.
Zhao Lin held the array pattern knife in his hand, rotating his wrist up and down, and carving array patterns on a formation stone with concentration.
The formation stone is only half the size of a palm, with a smooth and round surface, dark brown color, and a very hard texture.
This object can store spiritual energy and sense changes in the heavens. It is a special spiritual stone.
Array stones are used to create array patterns, and multiple array stones can form a magic array.
What Zhao Lin is depicting is the Mist Magic Formation, which has only eight formation patterns and is the simplest of all formations.
With the help of the spiritual cultivation chart, Zhao Lin mastered the sixteen patterns of the Spirit Sealing Formation.
By analogy, Zhao Lin's ability to move the sword and carve formations was greatly improved. Zhao Lin learned simple formations like the Mist Magic Formation through self-study.
"It's carved!"
After a while, spiritual light circulated on the formation stone. Zhao Lin picked up the formation knife and said with a smile.
Then he pushed the formation stones outward and placed them together with the other eleven formation stones on the table.
There are only eight types of formation patterns in the Mist Fantasy Formation. In principle, only eight formation stones can be used to form the formation.
Zhao Lin engraved four additional formation patterns in order to make the formation more complex and difficult to crack.
This is the advantage of being an array master: you can modify and expand the array according to your own ideas. Monks who do not practice this art can only use ready-made arrays and know nothing about the methods.
Something like this happened in the past: a monk bought a defensive array in Fangshi to guard his cave.
As a result, he was accidentally exposed, and the array master who sold the array secretly sneaked into his cave and looted all his belongings.
Later, after investigation, it was discovered that the array master had tampered with the array and left a "back door" for himself.
After carving the formation stone, Zhao Lin took out a formation disk from the lock bag.
The formation plate is also called the Dunjia plate, and it follows the laws of heavenly stems, earthly branches, and Qimen Dunjia.
The material is the same as the formation stone, with a diameter of more than seven inches. It is shaped like a Bagua diagram, with three rings carved from the inside to the outside, and a depression as big as a fist in the middle.
In order to practice the formation, Zhao Lin spent hundreds of spiritual stones to buy formation knives, formation stones, formation disks and other objects.
In fact, none of the four arts of elixirs, talismans, weapons, and formations is economical. If you want to practice to a certain level, you must invest a lot of spiritual stones and even good deeds.
But once it's done, the rewards are considerable.
Zhao Lin had accumulated a large amount of spiritual stones during his overseas missions, so he was willing to spend such a large sum of money.
The disciples who practiced formation techniques with him can only practice on black armor or discarded formation stones.
Zhao Lin picked up the array pattern knife and carved a simplified array pattern on each of the eight directions on the array plate.
The simplified formation pattern is not a real formation pattern, it is only used to control the formation. What really works is the formation pattern on the formation stone.
The formation plate was almost completed, and in the final stage, Zhao Lin moved his sword like flying, and it took him half a cup of tea to carve it out.
"It took half a month to carve a simple mist illusion formation. It was really not easy!"
Zhao Lin sighed softly, remembering his experience as a coder in his previous life.
When I was in school, my teacher said programming was an art. But after I started working, I realized that art is just hard work.
Zhao Lin put away the formation plates and formation stones, stood up, walked outside the courtyard, and walked around the house.
"Seventy-eight steps long, forty-two steps wide, the circumference is 240 steps. Life, death, rest, injury, Du, scene, surprise, open... first arrange the birth gate!"
Zhao Lin surveyed the terrain while silently deducing the layout of the array.
brush……
A formation stone came out of his hand and was sent deep into the ground.
Then walk seventeen steps eastward along the formation stone, walk four steps north, and throw out the second formation stone...
The formation pays attention to the orientation, and is arranged according to the eight trigrams of Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Dui. The formation stones echo each other, which coincides with the eight trigrams and is easy to count.
If you want the magic circle to exert its maximum power, you must make precise calculations.
When Zhao Lin buried the last formation stone into the ground, the twelve formation stones trembled at the same time.
They let out waves of low sounds, echoing each other, forming a large net, and sending out waves of mana.
After a moment, a thin layer of white mist enveloped the entire house.
"It's finally done!"
This was the first magic circle that Zhao Lin had set up, and he felt a strong sense of accomplishment in his heart.
Next, he picked up the array plate and placed three spiritual stones in the depression in the middle.
The center of the array lit up, and the three spirit stones disappeared instantly, as if there was an invisible mouth swallowing up the spirit stones.
Then the formation disk shot out twelve white lights and flew into the location of each formation stone.
The white light is the spiritual energy transformed from the spiritual stone. As long as there are enough spiritual stones, the magic circle can keep running.
Zhao Lin stretched out his palm and held down the array plate. He felt that he was integrated with the array, and all the subtle changes in the array were clearly understood.
"Try the effect."
Zhao Lin muttered, put the formation plate on the ground, and walked slowly to the door of the house.
The purpose of this is to test the effect of the array. If the array plate is brought, the array and the array plate will react, and there will be no resistance.
Squeak...
Zhao Lin pushed open the courtyard door and immediately saw a thick white mist billowing towards his face.
His eyes could only see the scenery within one foot, and it was very blurry.
His spiritual consciousness was also disturbed, making it difficult to detect places three feet away.
"very good."
Zhao Lin nodded with satisfaction.
With the protection of this magic circle, once an outsider breaks in, the magic circle will immediately generate a response and alert the owner of the magic circle in time.
If outsiders want to break the formation, they can either use their strength to attack simply and crudely with spells, or they can be familiar with the structure of the formation and bypass the barriers.
No matter what method is used, it will buy time for the people in the formation.
Of course, the Mist Fantasy Array is still much weaker than the Three Yin Fantasy Killing Arrays deployed by ghost cultivators in the Yin Wind Realm.
It has neither attack power nor the ability to create illusions.
Only the white mist blocked the sight and hearing, but after all, this was the first magic circle he had carved, and Zhao Lin was already very satisfied.
After testing the array, Zhao Lin picked up the array plate and returned to the room.
He picked up a jade tablet on the table, carved a special pattern on the jade tablet with a formation knife, and placed it on the formation plate.
The formation disk emits a red light and flies into the jade tablet.
The material of the jade token is jade slips, which can replicate the simplified formation pattern on the formation plate and function as a token.
In this way, Zhao Lin does not need to carry the array disk, and can move unimpeded in the array as long as he holds the jade tablet.
If he is willing, he can also make a few more jade cards and distribute them to trusted relatives and friends.
"The formation is really useful!"
Zhao Lin secretly thought to himself, feeling lucky that he had chosen this Taoist art in the first place.
Early the next morning, a messenger came to visit and handed Zhao Lin a messenger charm.
Each county of Chenghua Zong has a messenger tower, which is specially used to receive messenger talismans and Hongyan talismans.
There are several messengers in the tower. After receiving the talisman, they will search for it according to the picture and send it to the corresponding monk.
(End of chapter)
