In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed. This day is the sixth day of every month. Qian Chao and other five people will gather together once a month on this day to eat some delicious food and talk about their spiritual practice. The next day, I went to Jingshiyuan to pick up a few assignments and then went to the outside of the sect.
As usual, Lu Pingchuan was in charge of the cooking that day. Senior Kang Fu had taught him many new dishes in recent days, and Lu Pingchuan was holding back and showing off a lot today.
As usual, Qian Chao and Li Jian were the first to arrive. Li Jian had something on his mind and wanted to discuss with Qian Chao about finding a spiritual spring outside the sect to nourish his Green Bamboo Spirit Sword. Therefore, when he saw Qian Chao arriving, he asked Qian Chao. .
"Brother Qian, it is said that there is a kind of spiritual spring hidden in some secret places outside our sect. Do you know?"
"Well, I've heard about it. Tang Ping also asked me a few days ago that she wants to use the water from the spiritual spring to make wine. Brother Li, what are you doing with that spiritual spring?"
Li Jian did not avoid Qian Chao. He took out the book that Fairy Lengyue left for him and handed it to Qian Chao.
"This is what a senior from Mu Xiufeng gave me when he gave me some advice. There is a method in the book that can nourish my green bamboo and make it sharper when I use it as a sword. But I have to find the spirit first. Only the spring will do."
"Heart Shaped Objects, What a strange title," Qian Chao flipped through it briefly and asked Li Jian in surprise, "Isn't this... the method you are practicing, Brother Li?"
"Exactly, but I don't know where the spiritual spring is. The senior only said that there is one outside the sect, but we need to look for it carefully."
"Well, no problem. Let's go out and look for it tomorrow."
After chatting for a while, Tang Ping and Yanxuan also came. When Qian Chao saw them, he took out a small bag and handed it to Tang Ping and said: "This is the utensil for steaming and brewing the spirit wine you asked for last time. It has been refined for you. alright."
Tang Ping took the bag and looked inside, then turned to Lu Pingchuan who was busy and said, "Brother Lu, as long as we go out and find the spiritual spring water, I can brew that kind of liquor for you."
"Hehe, okay!"
Qian Chao had one more thing to try this time. When he saw that everyone had arrived, he said: "Among the five of us, Brother Li has the most astute sense. We gained a lot last time we went out. After we come back, I have also put some thought into it, but I still don’t know how it will work. We are all here today, Brother Li, Sister Yan, and Miss Tang, how about we give it a try?"
Li Jian, Yanxuan and Tang Ping were all confused. Tang Ping asked: "What are you trying?"
"Don't worry," Qian Chao continued, "Brother Li, even if you are carrying your back, you can still sense something behind you, right?"
"Well, that's right," Li Jian nodded and said, "It is indeed possible."
"Then please first ask Brother Li to turn his back and face Brother Lu."
After hearing this, Li Jian turned around and faced Lu Pingchuan. Although Lu Pingchuan was busy cooking delicious food, he was also very curious when he saw Qian Chao's actions and couldn't help but look over.
After Li Jian turned around, there were only Qian Chao, Tang Ping and Yan Xuan behind him.
"Brother Li," Qian Chao said from behind Li Jian, "can you feel how many people are behind you now?"
"Three," Li Jian said without thinking. Although he turned around and couldn't see behind him, he could sense how far away the three people behind him were from him and where they were standing. Clearly, "Brother Qian is on the left, Miss Tang is in the middle, and Miss Yan is on the right, right?"
"That's right," Qian Chao said behind Li Jian, "Brother Li, wait a moment."
Then under Lu Pingchuan's gaze, Qian Chao began to get busy. After a while, he gestured to Tang Ping and then said, "Brother Li, try sensing it now."
"Um?"
This time Li Jian was a little surprised. Although he knew that the three people behind him could not go far, according to his induction, he could only detect the presence of two people behind him, one was Qian Chao and the other was Yan Xuan.
"What's going on? Where did Miss Tang go?"
Lu Pingchuan looked at them interestingly with a frying spoon in his hand. In his opinion, there were clearly three people behind Brother Li, but why did Brother Li say that Tang Ping had gone somewhere? Interesting!
"Brother Li, don't look back yet." Qian Chao's voice came to Li Jian's ears again.
"Now, Brother Li, you are giving it a try."
This time, according to Li Jian's perception, only Qian Chao was left behind him, and the previous auras of Tang Ping and Yan Xuan disappeared without a trace.
"What's going on? I can only feel Brother Qian behind me now. Where are Miss Tang and Miss Yan?"
"Don't worry, Brother Li," Qian Chao said, taking a step closer to Tang Ping and Yan Xuan, who were also curious next to him, "Brother Li, what about now?"
"This..." In Li Jian's induction, Qian Chao suddenly disappeared, but his voice came after his breath disappeared. This is really strange. Not only that, but also The Lu Pingchuan he faced looked at him strangely, as if he wanted to tell him that the three people were actually behind him.
Li Jian couldn't help it anymore and turned around, but as soon as he turned around, he saw Qian Chao, Tang Ping and Yan Xuan standing two feet behind him. Qian Chao looked at him with a smile, and the two women Like Li Jian, he looked a little confused and curious.
In order to confirm again, Li Jian closed his eyes and sensed the three people carefully. Unfortunately, with his eyes closed, no matter how hard Li Jian tried, the three people were still breathless. But when he opened his eyes, the three people were still there. Stand there.
"What's going on?" Li Jian was really surprised now. Not only him, but Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were also extremely curious. After getting along for a long time, everyone has seen Brother Li's reaction.
"Hey, it's interesting." Lu Pingchuan had been facing a few people just now, so he could see clearly, "Brother Qian, is this the deception that people say?"
"There is no blinding trick, but it's just a formation we got the last time we went out." Qian Chao said, and with a flick of his finger, he saw many small iron stake-like things suddenly appearing in the ground and floating above the three of them. The three of them were surrounded by waist height. These iron stakes emerged from the ground, and Li Jian could immediately sense the three of them.
"Last time we went out, we found two formations near the small island in the center of the river." Qian Chao reached out and grabbed an iron stake and motioned to Li Jian, "This is one of them."
Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were also curious and took an iron stake with their hands to look at it. Li Jian also came over. Lu Pingchuan also wanted to see what was going on, but after taking two steps, he returned and took a wooden lid to cover a large pot. But then he came over.
"I remembered," Yanxuan said, holding an iron stake. "The quality of the spiritual grass on that small island was very good. At that time, we were wondering why there were such good spiritual grasses, but there were no monsters on that small island. After staying there, Brother Qian found a lot of runes around the island the next day. They were said to be magic circles, which were used to prevent the breath of the spiritual grass from escaping to attract monsters. Could it be that this is Did Brother Qian do it according to that formation?"
When Yanxuan said this, several people also thought of the small island and looked at Qian Chao.
"That's right, we found a total of two formations near the island, and this is one of them. The other formation that guides the spiritual veins to change its direction is something I haven't figured out yet, but this one is not. Disaster."
Tang Ping also recalled the search for the magic circle that day, but she found something different and asked: "Boy Qian, I remember that we found more than 20 runes around the island. Why?" You only have a dozen here?"
"This magic circle is made by repeatedly superimposing three runes. In fact, if it is used by just one person, only three such stakes are enough, but these are all prepared by me for our outing. , when we are tired and resting outside, um, especially at night, we should arrange them so that no matter what kind of monsters or monks pass by nearby, they will not find us, so that we can feel more at ease outside. Some."
When a monk is outside, whether he detects any danger or discovers something, he relies on nothing more than experience, eyesight, and sound. The most important thing is to detect the aura emitted by the other party, and the so-called aura, It is nothing more than the spiritual energy that the other party exudes inadvertently.
Just like monks, it is impossible not to inhale and exhale. The spiritual energy derived from their own practice is always unavoidably emitted inadvertently. Although the emitted aura is very small, as long as this is the case, it can be absorbed by nearby people. It can be sensed by monks and even monsters, not to mention people like Li Jian who are born with extremely keen senses and have deliberately honed them repeatedly. Therefore, when he could not detect the auras of Qian Chao and others, Li Jian was naturally very surprised.
After hearing this, Tang Ping thought it was good, but she had other ideas, so she said to Qian Chao: "Your method is good, but in my opinion it is not the best. Brother Li just turned around and could Seeing the three of us, it would be best if your formation skill could hide the monk's aura and make the person looking for it unable to see it even in front of him."
Yanxuan felt a little impossible after hearing this, so he said: "How can that be possible! This is great. We can feel more at ease when we go out and spend the night outside. Otherwise, we will hear the strange sounds of the beasts and monsters outside at night. It’s really heartbreaking.”
"Well...Sister Yan, don't say it's impossible," Qian Chao said after hearing this, "The study of runes is profound and profound. There must be a way to do what Miss Tang said, but I only know how to use a few runes now. Alas! But maybe I can actually do it in the future."
After Li Jian knew why he couldn't sense a few people, he couldn't help but marveled: "This formation is really wonderful!"
"Okay, with this, I can sleep peacefully outside. Not bad!" Lu Pingchuan said and hurriedly ran back to his stove to get busy.
Li Jian thought of something and asked Qian Chao to rearrange the formation. He went to the formation to sense the situation outside the formation. Sure enough, although he could not sense the people in the formation outside, he could not sense the people inside the formation. , Li Jian's senses could detect the situation outside without any hindrance, and then he felt relieved.
"This formation is the first one I figured out. I don't know what it was originally called, but now I've named it the Hidden Spirit Formation."
