"Hey! Mr. Qian, I heard that you provoked Senior Sister Luo recently, did you?"
A few days after Senior Sister Luo asked Qian Chao to refine the spirit-locking pile, it was the day when Qian Chao and the five of them usually got together. According to the agreement last time, they were still here at Lu Pingchuan. As usual, they lit a fire. There, Pingchuan was busy barbecuing while chatting and joking with a few people. Tang Ping heard some things about Qian Chao from somewhere, especially about Senior Sister Luo asking Qian Chao to refine spiritual weapons, so she asked Qian Chao curiously.
Qian Chao curled his lips and said, "How dare I provoke Senior Sister Luo? Don't be kidding me. You didn't see Senior Sister Luo when you were not in Chengqi Hall that day. As soon as Senior Sister Luo appeared there, it was like a nest of mice suddenly meeting an old cat. , all of them were so frightened that they either ran away or lowered their heads and said nothing, and I dared to provoke her!"
After hearing this, Yanxuan asked curiously: "Is this Senior Sister Luo so powerful?"
Tang Ping replied: "This Senior Sister Luo is quite powerful. At least she is already a high-level Qi Refining disciple. However, this is not the main thing. The key is that this Senior Sister Luo is one of their Nine Mysteries." Descendants of Senior Luo, and Senior Sister Luo has a weird and fiery temper. If she says the wrong thing, she will get angry, so no one dares to offend her. Alas, speaking of it, I feel a little scared when I see her! Hey! , Mr. Qian, is the thing she asked you to refine particularly difficult? If it’s not refined well, you’ll be rewarded!”
"Well, it is indeed not simple. It is said that there was only one senior brother in the inner hall who refined it for her in the past. This time, that senior brother was sent out by the sect, so it was replaced by me to refine it."
"What about the other senior brothers in your inner hall?" Tang Ping asked.
"How should I put it? What Senior Sister Luo wants is difficult for us Qi Refining disciples. It is actually not difficult for those inner cousin brothers who are building the foundation. I guess the other senior brothers who are building the foundation are too lazy. Let’s do it, but to say it’s not difficult, it took me several days to get the hang of it, and the refining process is also extremely troublesome. You will make mistakes if you are not careful, and you will have to start over again if you make a mistake.”
"Then what exactly is Senior Sister Luo trying to refine that can embarrass Brother Qian like this?" Lu Pingchuan asked curiously while grilling meat.
"Hey," Qian Chao took out an object. It was as thick as an arm and no different from a large iron nail. "That's it. It's called a spiritual lock stake. It's used for setting up formations. I heard Senior Brother Fang from the inner hall say. This thing is very wonderful. We Qi refining disciples are not easy to mess with low-level and high-level monsters. We need foundation-building cultivation to kill them with confidence. However, Senior Brother Fang said that he had seen Senior Sister Luo kill that monster. When monsters are introduced into the formation, the lower-level and higher-grade monsters will be weak and can only wait to be killed."
"So weird?" Li Jian was curious and couldn't help but get closer to take a look.
"Well, there are not many seniors who use this formation technique in the Jiuxuan Society. Senior Luo is one of them. It seems that there are several seniors who know this formation technique. However, unless you can become a disciple, there is no way to learn it! Qian Chao sighed after finishing speaking.
After putting away the spiritual lock pile, Qian Chao remembered something again and said, "By the way, have you got the book I asked you for a few days ago?"
It turned out that Qian Chao had been looking for these people in the past few days and asked them to go to the libraries of their respective sects to find out if there were any books written by former disciples about outside the sect, landscape pictures, or anecdotes. Books, if you have them, bring them to him. At that time, Qian Chao considered that Lu Pingchuan didn't know many Chinese characters, so he went to find him last. After Lu Pingchuan heard this, Qian Chao took him to the library of Houtu Temple to search, and then selected a lot of them. Lu Pingchuan would lend out his books, and Chao Chao would take them back to read if he had the money.
"Of course there is. I went to the library to look for it, and there were quite a few books like this. I got them all. The senior fellow there was still curious as to why I borrowed these books to read!" Yanxuan said as he read from He took out a thick stack of books from his storage bag and placed them on the stone table.
"Mu Xiufeng's library is too small, but almost all the books Brother Qian wants can be found here." Li Jian said and took out a lot of books.
Tang Ping even threw a small storage bag directly on the stone table. It seemed that she found a lot of books.
"Hey, Mr. Qian, what are you doing reading these books? What are you trying to do?"
Qian Chao was naturally beaming with joy when he saw so many books. He put them away and said, "Of course they are of great use. Can you sell them first?"
"No!" Tang Ping said angrily, "Say it quickly!".
"Okay then," Qian Chao asked when he saw several people looking at him, "I don't know how you feel, but these days, I feel like my cultivation level is about to break through again. Do you feel it?"
"Yes." Li Jian nodded first, "That seems to be the case. I have been feeling this way recently."
"If you don't make a breakthrough, what's the point of asking you for these books?" Tang Ping asked.
"If we break through to the third level of Qi Refining, we can really go out. But we don't know what it's like outside, the direction of the mountains and rivers, what good things are there, and what dangers there are."
With that said, Qian Chao had already put away all the books on the stone table, and then took out a long paper tube from his storage bag and spread it out on the stone table, attracting several people to come over and take a look.
On the paper, a pen was used to carefully describe the mountain ranges, the peaks, and the direction of the rivers in the mountains. However, it was obvious that the map was not completed, and there were still large areas of blank space on the paper.
"This is a map. Where is the map?" Tang Ping looked at it and asked Qian Chao curiously.
"It's the map outside our sect, but it's not completely drawn, and I don't know if many places are correct or not. We can only verify it when we go out later," Qian Chao said.
Yanxuan didn't understand why Qian Chao wanted to draw this map and asked, "What's the use of this? Is it possible that we will get lost outside in the future?"
"It's not a big deal if you get lost, but it's always useful," Qian Chao replied, "Here, take a look at this."
As he spoke, Qian Chao took out another piece of paper from his storage bag. It was also a map, naturally much smaller. There wasn't much writing and ink on the paper. It looked like it wasn't written by the previous dynasty. There were a few simple drawings on it. The most conspicuous thing about the mountain ridge and the woods between the mountains is a curved line marked with thick ink. This line finally points to a small circle at the foot of the mountain somewhere in the painting.
"What kind of picture is this? Why can't I understand it?" Tang Ping asked.
"Well, this picture originally cost twenty spirit stones!" Qian Chao said.
"What! Did you buy it for twenty spiritual stones?" Tang Ping asked curiously.
"Of course not. A senior brother from Chengqi Hall bought this from someone else before he went out. Look, do you see this small circle?" Qian Chao pointed at the picture. "There is a cave there. That cave There are some ores in it that are relatively rare and rare. The senior brother bought this picture and followed it to dig out the ores in the cave. After that, the picture was naturally of no use, so I asked for it."
Seeing that several people still couldn't understand clearly, Qian Chao asked again: "Do you know where the cave in this picture is outside the sect?" Without waiting for an answer, he pointed to the large map he had drawn with his hand and said "Look at the direction of the mountain, hey, there is also here, this mountain forest and this river. From what the senior brother said, I roughly know the direction where he left the sect, and the cave is probably at this location." Qian Chao said. He tapped his finger on his map.
Several people identified the place pointed by Qian Chao's finger for a while. Sure enough, the direction of the mountain range on the big map was very similar to that on the small map.
"Then...did you draw this map first or did you get this small map from that person first?" Tang Ping asked.
"Of course I drew this map first."
"You've never been out, how did you draw this map?"
"Of course it's from books. Our Jiuxuan has a lot of books about what we have seen outside. After reading more, I drew the mountains and rivers mentioned in these books on paper, and started to mark them. Where are the products, where are the dangers, and then I stitched them together page by page, and then I just drew this big one, but after I drew it, I realized that here, here, and here are all blank."
Qian Chao pointed to the blank space on his map and said
"I asked myself that the orientation and proportions were correct. Is it because there is nothing produced there and it is not worth going? Or is there some powerful monster there that is not suitable for Qi refining disciples? This is not clear. So I want to start from I'll also take a look at your master's collection of books. If there are no records of these places in your books, then when we can leave the sect in the future, we need to be more careful about those places. Maybe for Qi Refining disciples, there are It’s a more dangerous place.”
Li Jian couldn't help but nod after hearing this, and praised: "Well, what Brother Qian said makes sense!"
Tang Ping also nodded and said: "You are really thoughtful."
"Actually, this picture has other uses," Qian Chao added. "In our sect, no matter where there are any products, such as spiritual herbs, even if they are taken away, they will probably regenerate over time." , I compared it," Qian Chao said, drawing a line on his map with his finger, "along this line, all the spiritual grasses that can be written in the book must be rare spiritual grasses." As he spoke, he drew another line on the map with his finger, "And along this line, there are many minerals. In fact, if you want to find it again, you can draw many such lines, although not every place on this line has mined minerals." Something, but..."
Yanxuan understood and interrupted: "It means that you can find those spiritual herbs by following the direction of the line on the map, right?"
"Yes," Qian Chao said with a smile, "Actually, these lines are probably..."
Tang Ping also added: "These lines are probably the distribution of spiritual veins outside the sect, right?"
"Yes," Qian Chao said, "When we go out in the future, what we can get at Jingshiyuan is nothing more than looking for some spiritual herbs or minerals outside, and bringing us back with us to find some things ourselves. With this picture, we It will save you some detours."
The other people listened and nodded.
"Then...why is there no ready-made map for use in the sect?" Yanxuan suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but ask.
"Well, maybe Zongwai is just too big." Qian Chao said while looking at his map.
"Well," Tang Ping nodded, "Firstly, the outside of the sect is too big. Drawing it on a piece of paper is too general and impractical. Secondly, I guess the sect also did this intentionally, so that the disciples can go out No matter what you are looking for and you don’t know where it is, you will naturally ask people with rich experience. Even if you go out, you will naturally be more cautious because of the long distances and dangerous roads. They will walk together with each other, look after each other, and gain more experience. This will be the same as in the future. It’s the same when walking in the spiritual world.”
Hearing this, Lu Pingchuan looked at Qian Chao's map and said, "Oh, speaking of it, I am the only one among us who has ever been out, but hey, looking at Brother Qian's map, I really don't know where we have been. Anyway, when we go out in the future, you can just lead the way."
