However, Qian Chao didn't want to dwell on this issue, so he looked at the book in his hand and said, "Senior Brother Ma, the spiritual weapon you asked me to refine is a musical instrument. Although I have refined the horn, , but this one is much more complicated than the one I used, and it will take some time to refine it."
"Oh, sure enough you can refine it," Ma Hu looked very happy when he heard it. "Well, I asked many people to help me refine this thing before, but they couldn't do it. Hehe, if it hadn't been last time After being blown by your horn outside the sect, I really thought that none of the qi-refining disciples in the sect could refine this musical instrument. Speaking of which, although you guys hurt your hands, you had to do it when you did it. It's not that you underestimated your horn, you really couldn't control me, but later I thought about it, even if I hadn't been pestered by those guys like Zhou Tong at that time, it would not be easy to resist the sound of your horn. When I return to the sect, I I just inquired about it, and then I found out that your boy's weapon refining skills are really good, and that's why I came to you to refine this thing."
Qian Chao smiled softly after hearing this. He was noncommittal about what Ma Hu said, but he still had questions to ask him about the spiritual weapon in the book.
"Senior Brother Ma, in my opinion, this frightening drum is not very powerful for monks, but it is very powerful against some specific monsters and insects. Senior Brother Ma, what do you want this spiritual weapon to be used for? "
"That has nothing to do with you, you just need to help me refine it."
After hearing what Ma Hu said, Qian Chao frowned slightly, and then said: "Well, that's fine, let's talk about how many spiritual stones are needed to refine this spiritual weapon."
When Ma Hu heard this, he was a little nervous. Refining this spiritual weapon would definitely require a lot of spiritual stones. Although his pocket was not empty now, he was still very shy. Therefore, when Qian Chao mentioned the reward, he felt a little embarrassed. , after all, there are too few spiritual stones that I can take out now.
"Hehe, eh, if you guys hadn't disturbed my good deeds, the things in Zhou Chan's bag would really be worth a lot of spiritual stones. If you could really take those things to the sect and sell them, how much do you want? How much can I really give you? Well, tell me, don’t ask too much. I definitely don’t have enough, but if you tell me a number, I’ll go out and grab it again.”
Qian Chao was stunned when he heard this. He really didn't expect that Senior Brother Ma would pay him like this. This was really unbelievable.
"Otherwise, what should I do?" Ma Hu looked at Qian Chao and said angrily, "What do you think I was doing by robbing Zhou Cun's things? Of course, it was also to collect the spiritual stones needed to refine this spiritual weapon. At that time, I I am planning to collect a large amount of spiritual stones, and then find a foundation-building senior brother to refine them for me, but I don’t want to run into you guys, hum! Tell me quickly, how many spiritual stones do you want!"
Qian Chao shook his head and said: "Senior Brother Ma, of course I can refine this drum, but the reward does not have to be spiritual stones. If Senior Brother Ma is not convenient at the moment, then after refining, this book will belong to me. ,how?"
Qian Chao said and shook the book in his hand towards Ma Hu.
"Ah?" This time it was Ma Hu's turn to be confused. He looked at the book shaking towards him in Qian Chao's hand and asked in disbelief, "This book? What do you want it for?"
Qian Chao looked at the book in his hand and said, "Although this book is a little worn out, there are a few spiritual weapons in it that I am more interested in. I can use this book to offset the cost of refining them." ,how?"
"Hey!" Ma Hu slapped his thigh and said, "So you like these things. You should have told me earlier! Come on, come on... I'll give them all to you!"
As he said this, he saw Ma Hu take out a small bag from his arms, looked inside, muttered "There's nothing in this", threw it on the stone table, and then took out one after another from his arms. small bags, looking for them while looking, and finally they were all piled up in front of Qian Chao.
"Hey, look for it yourself. I have taken away the spiritual stones in these bags long ago, and I have sold the materials long ago. There seem to be a few books left in them. You can pick them out and take them away. "
"This..." Qian Chao looked at the pile of storage bags on the stone table and looked at Ma Hu in surprise, "Brother Ma, are these... hard to come by?"
"Of course they were all stolen, otherwise how do you think I got my reputation?"
Well, Qian Chao felt that he shouldn't be entangled with this issue with Senior Brother Ma. Since he said there were books inside, let's look for them first.
Even though the storage bags given to disciples by the Wuling Sect are of different sizes and colors, they can all be distinguished in terms of shape. Based on this, Qian Chao soon divided the pile of storage bags in front of him into two parts. Most of them were the storage bags of the Wuling Sect. It seems that Ma Hu snatched these from the disciples of the sect; the rest There are so many different shapes, materials, colors and sizes. Is it possible that Senior Brother Ma snatched these from the casual cultivators outside the sect?
If this is really the case, the fate of those casual cultivators must not be too good.
Ma Hu seemed to have guessed what Qian Chao was thinking. He smiled softly and said nothing.
Qian Chao rummaged through the bags, and sure enough he found some more books in these bags. There were about a dozen books, all stacked together and placed on the stone table. He found that the probability of finding books in the bags of disciples within the sect was Not very big, but on the contrary, one or two books can often be found in the storage bags of those who are suspected of being casual cultivators. I have briefly read them, including some about cultivation methods, medicine, weapon refining, and some miscellaneous books that are difficult to classify.
"Well, that's all. Since Senior Brother Ma said you would give them all to me, thank you very much. I will start refining this drum for Senior Brother Ma tomorrow. Well, I estimate that it will take about ten days."
"Okay, then I will come back to you in ten days. Well, Junior Brother Qian, you are really good. You are much better than the other guys I have seen in the sect. I really appreciate what I said to you today. You, okay, I’m leaving and I’ll come back in ten days.”
After saying that, Ma Hu stood up, ignored the pile of empty storage bags on the table, and flew away.
When Qian Chao saw it, he shook his head, packed them all away, and then returned to his house with the pile of books in his hands.
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In the room, after Qian Chao closed the doors and windows, he did not look at the pile of books he got from Ma Hu. Instead, he took out something from the storage bag and played with it. It turned out to be for Senior Sister Luo and Wen. The disc refined by senior sister.
This time Qian Chao had a lot to do after returning from outside the sect. He had been studying the two formations on the small island in the river since he finished refining the weapons for Senior Sister Luo. He also used the books given by Senior Sister Wen. I have been reading it all the time, plus I have to meditate and practice on weekdays, so my time every day is also full.
But this disc was something he had always been curious about. After refining it for Senior Sister Luo and Senior Sister Wen that day, Senior Sister Luo actually took back the papers she gave to Qian Chao. But how could this be such a rare thing for Qian Chao? The next day, Qian Chao relied on his own memory and quietly refined another disc according to the original shape.
Although Senior Sister Luo had agreed with him at that time that she could no longer refine this disc for anyone else, especially Wen Zhang. Qian Chao refined another one himself, but it didn't count as breaking his promise. It was refined for him, and he was determined not to give it to Wen Zhang, and he didn't know where the magic circle that this disk could open was located. However, he just wanted to study how to use this disc. As soon as he figured it out, he planned to return to Chengqi Hall and destroy the disc on the fire eye.
There must be something weird about this disk. It definitely can't be opened by just placing it somewhere where you got the formation. There must be a weird way to use it to make it work. Otherwise, after it is refined, , Senior Sister Luo and Senior Sister Wen would not carry him to another room to test it. They must not want Qian Chao to see the method of use.
But it doesn’t matter if you don’t let them see it, so let’s try some stupid methods.
Tonight, Wen Zhang came to see him again, which was not what he expected. Compared with Wen Zhang, Qian Chao was more unwilling to quarrel with Senior Sister Luo and Senior Sister Wen because of this Yuan Pan. What's more, now, he felt a little bit indifferent in his heart. Go up to Na Wenzhang and Han Tian.
However, what Ma Hu said was right. You can't use your own limits to judge others, otherwise you will really suffer. After tonight, Wen Zhang will definitely hate himself, and that Han Tian, I don't know what will happen to them in the future. When dealing with yourself, you need to be more careful.
While thinking about it, Qian Chao continued to test the disc with his own spiritual energy. He didn't know which runes were touched, which caused the disc to tremble slightly. Qian Chao suddenly calmed down and looked carefully. Follow the changes of this disk.
Unfortunately, the disk only trembled slightly, and soon returned to calmness, becoming motionless again.
He was not discouraged. He had tried this method countless times since the disc was refined. Every time he failed to achieve results, he wrote down in his mind the steps that had stimulated the spiritual energy but failed. His memory is amazing, and he has failed like this no less than a thousand times. After each failure, he will think of a new way to continue trying.
This Ma Hu is also an interesting person. Although outside the sect, it is said that he lost to five people for a reason, but after all, he is a high-level Qi refining disciple and should be ashamed of it. However, he doesn't care, and he even changes his mind. He deliberately wanted to refine the spiritual weapon for him, and he took great pains for the reward of refining the weapon.
This person is definitely a villain, but now Qian Chao's view of this person has changed a bit. Although he has done evil, he can be regarded as an upright character. He dares to act and can afford to lose even if he wins. This way Although you can't interact with him often, you don't need to deliberately avoid him. In addition, he came to the sect much earlier. According to this person's temperament, he probably knows some anecdotes about the sect, especially the Jiuxuanmen. He is relatively familiar, so you can talk to him more next time you meet him.
But according to what he said, is Ruixuan Town really that dangerous? It can be seen from the pile of storage bags that Ma Hu has done a lot of dirty business!
Just as he was thinking about this, suddenly the disk that Qian Chao kept testing changed. A faint white light emitted from the disk. With a "chacha" sound, the disk turned according to the lines on it. Split, not disintegrated, but divided into many parts and then spliced together, changing from a circle to a ring.
The runes originally engraved on it began to shine regularly under Qian Chao's Blue Eyes Technique, and the entire disk began to rotate slowly.
After staring at the ring in silence for a while, Qian Chao remembered all the changes in it. Finally, he took a long breath and changed the ring into the shape of the original disk. Qian Chao took a pen and paper from the book bank and began to write and draw on it.
What was drawn in the center of the paper was the arrangement of the thirty-two runes on the circular paper. He also marked the order of these runes, which represented the order in which the runes flashed. Then he began to work backwards based on this. He kept writing or drawing outside, using the same thirty-two runes, one inside a circle. However, Qian Chao later discovered that if he continued like this, these circles composed of runes might become infinite. many.
After understanding this, Qian Chao also had a preliminary understanding of the art of formation. To put it simply, the so-called formation is nothing more than relying on the power of this rune, either two by two or three. They are combined together, or even more runes are combined to block the spiritual energy and prevent the spiritual energy in it from flowing. Only by seeing through this formation, and then prescribing the right medicine, using the runes to restrain the runes, can the spiritual energy originally locked in it be released. , thereby achieving the purpose of breaking the formation.
Qian Chao's idea at this time was only a preliminary inference. It might not miss the mark, but it was definitely not far away. According to his idea, there might be some things in the magic circle that Senior Sister Luo and Senior Sister Wen wanted to break that he had never seen before. The previous runes are working, and only these thirty-two runes are enough to crack them. The formation he deduced should be simpler than the original formation. After all, the runes he mastered are not Not much, but the principles are similar.
Thinking of this, Qian Chao's heart moved. He rummaged through his storage bag and finally found a few items.
That was when he was at the second level of Qi refining. After he refined five spirit-locking stakes for Senior Sister Luo, out of curiosity, he imitated the five extra soul-locking stakes that he refined and compared them with the five that Senior Sister Luo had taken away. The roots are exactly the same.
Taking out a spirit stone and placing it on the ground, Qian Chao began to try the five spirit locking piles. It seemed that the method of using the spirit locking piles was somewhat similar to that of the disc, or Qian Chao was already refining Qi at this time. The cultivation, knowledge and experience of the third level are no longer comparable to those of the second level of Qi Refining. After trying the skill of two cups of tea, the five spirit locking stakes have gradually become more comfortable in his hands.
With a "click", five piles were driven into the ground at the same time. In the middle of the piles was the spiritual stone. Under Qian Chao's still slightly unfamiliar control, the spiritual stone moved at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like a piece of ice meeting fire. It disappeared like a roast, just like when Senior Sister Luo demonstrated it to me.
Qian Chao didn't feel sorry for the spirit stones. He took out a few more pieces and tested them. His technique became more and more proficient. Finally, he put away the five spirit locking stakes.
Senior Sister Luo, Qian Chao said secretly in his heart, I didn’t expect this soul-locking stake to be used like this. You were more careful with me, but you didn’t expect that I would learn it secretly after all!
