For several days, Qian Chao stayed in his small courtyard without leaving.
From the room to his small courtyard, from his bed to the stone table in the courtyard, almost everywhere was in a mess, filled with papers and books.
Countless pieces of paper filled with calligraphy and drawings were spread out on his desk. There were also many papers that looked like Qian Chao was crumpled into a ball when he was thinking about something. He couldn't think smoothly and was upset. On the ground at his feet, all kinds of books that he got from the library, were given by others, or were obtained from outside were placed randomly on the desks. If they couldn't be placed on the desks, they were placed on the bed. On the book, he also used unused yellow talisman paper as bookmarks for important chapters in the book so that he could refer to them at any time.
On the white wall on the side of his desk, Qian Chao pasted a large piece of white paper, and that paper was filled with various runes, which Qian Chao had collected so far. All the runes included, not only the six most basic runes such as "Running Wolf", "Ruyi", and "Flying Bird" that he commonly used when he first entered the sect to practice weapon refining, but also for refining the lock spirit for Luo Ying. The runes obtained from the piles, the runes obtained from the formations found outside the sect, and the rune-like texture on the hard wings of the monster called the Penguin Tapir, found in the books in the Jiuxuan Library The runes, and of course the various runes recorded in Yu Xian's "Wenlin Secret Notes", were densely written on the entire paper, and there were more than two hundred in number.
Qian Chao stood in front of the paper with a pen in hand and thought deeply, letting the ink drip from the pen tip little by little. After a long time, he raised his hand and added a few runes to the paper. At this time, he The runes of knowledge were all on this piece of paper, and Qian Chao fell into deep thought again.
With Qian Chao's Blue Eyes technique, it was not difficult for him to find formations that had been buried for unknown ages in the deserted areas outside the sect. Regardless of whether those formations were still effective, the remaining runes in the formations were naturally destroyed. He recorded it, or maybe he found the rune-like texture on the monster beast like the Pengo Tapir. He always suspected that it was also a rune, otherwise the Hard Wings of the Pengo Tapir would not be bigger than his big shield. Still solid.
Obtaining unknown runes is not a rare thing for Qian Chao, but even if he obtains unknown runes, they are still unknown runes.
This piece of paper on the wall contains at least 60% of the 100% runes. Qian Chao doesn't know what its use is. If he could use these runes with ease, it would be a different story.
How to know the functions of those unknown runes is the problem that Qian Chao wants to solve most now. Rather than learning more new runes from books, Qian Chao now wants to know if there is any way to do it. He realized the purpose of those unknown runes on his own.
If there was such a method, he might be able to use the runes obtained from formations in refining weapons. After all, there are three branches of rune science: talismans, formations, and weapon refining. The literature is of the same origin.
Holding the pen, Qian Chao fell into deep thought again.
When he felt everything outside him again, dusk had fallen in his small courtyard, but Qian Chao didn't care about this. He raised his pen to write something on the paper, and then he realized that the ink on the pen had already dried. , and the same was true for the remaining ink in the inkstone. He had to pour some herbal tea from the teapot, grind the ink in the inkstone for a while, then dip his pen in the ink and sketch on the paper.
The night passed.
On the stone table in the small courtyard, both the sheets of paper and the stacked books were wet with the morning dew.
At this time, Qian Chao was still staring at the piece of paper on the wall.
The piece of paper has been filled with circles, dots, or lines. It seems that countless ideas came out of this night's money rush. He also used a fine pen to make a lot of drawings next to some runes. Even one piece of paper was not enough, so he pasted a lot of papers on the wall next to that piece of paper, and they were all filled with words, and he even connected them directly to the big piece of paper with a line of pen. There were a lot of ink marks on a certain circled rune, even on the white wall.
…
A few days later, Qixia Mountain.
Hearing someone knocking on his courtyard door in the room, Yanxuan walked out of the room.
When he opened the door, Yanxuan found that Qian Chao was standing in front of the door. However, Qian Chao looked a little embarrassed at this time. His eyes seemed to be bloodshot because he had not rested for a long time, and his hair seemed a little messy. It seemed that he had not combed his clothes for a while, and even his robes had many wrinkles. This was very different from the usual image of brother Qian who was neatly dressed and well-mannered. Yanxuan was stunned for a while. .
"Brother Qian, what are you...?"
"Sister Yan, I have something to ask you for help."
"Okay." Yanxuan immediately thought that Brother Qian might be tanning the leather of some monster beast, so he ran to him to find some spiritual herbs to prepare potions.
"Follow me, brother Qian. The person on duty in the Lingcao Garden today should be Senior Brother Meng. You can get more from him." Yanxuan walked in and prepared to take Qian Chao to the Lingcao Garden.
"No, Sister Yan, I don't want to use spiritual grass, but... find a secluded place. I have something that I want Sister Yan to kill twice with your fire knife skills." After listening to Yanxuan's words, Qian Chao knew Yanxuan misunderstood what he meant
"Oh?" Yanxuan was a little curious. What is Brother Qian going to do?
Although she was puzzled, it was easy for Qian Chao to do what she did, so Yanxuan took Qian Chao to the secluded place where she practiced the Feng Ling Fire Sword every day.
"Wait for me a moment," Qian Chao said, taking out a small shield from his storage bag. After a few tricks, the small shield grew to the size that Yanxuan had seen every day. "Sister Yan, use your fire knife to cut on this shield and try it."
"Is this your newly refined shield?" Yanxuan asked, knowing that Qian Chao's shield was destroyed last time he went out.
"Yes, but it's a little different from the previous one. Oh, no, this side is still the same as before. Sister Yan, don't hold back, just chop." Qian Chao said.
Hearing Qian Chao tell her not to hold back her hand, Yanxuan stretched out her right arm and let out a "whoosh", and a fire knife several times long appeared in her hand with blazing flames.
"Then I'm going to kill him."
After saying that, Yanxuan swung the knife horizontally.
There was a "boom" sound, and the big shield shook under the attack of the fire knife.
Then Qian Chao came over to take a closer look.
Although the large shield was not cut open by Yanxuan's sword, a knife mark was left on it. The knife mark was still hot and steaming at this time.
"Are you going to test how strong your shield is?" Yanxuan also came over to take a look. At this time, she almost guessed what Qian Chao was going to do.
"Well," Qian Chao nodded, pointing to the knife mark, he looked at Yanxuan, "Sister Yan, can you hit this spot several times in a row?"
"Yes, but wouldn't your shield be destroyed?"
"It doesn't matter. I can recast it if it's broken. Don't worry. If you hit it with a few more blows, I'll see how many more blows this shield can withstand."
"All right."
After listening to Qian Chao's words, Yan Xuan no longer held back when he swung his sword again. Following Qian Chao's will, Yan Xuan used all his strength to strike three swords, and saw the shield cut in half with a "crack".
"Four swords." Qian Chao leaned over and looked at the destroyed shield on the ground.
"Then what?" Yanxuan guessed that Qian Chao must have something else for him to do.
Sure enough, Qian Chao took out another shield from the storage bag. This shield looked no different from the shield that had been chopped open just now. Qian Chao arranged the shield and then said to Yan Xuan: "Yan Xuan. Sister, I made this shield using a new method, you give it a try, now cut it four times, don't hold back, otherwise you won't be able to test whether my method is effective."
"Yeah" Yanxuan agreed.
Yanxuan really didn't hold back at all with these four swords, he used all his strength. After the four swords, the shield was still there, and the two of them went over to take a look.
"Hey, Brother Qian, this shield of yours is much stronger than the one just now. Look, there is only a shallow knife mark on it." After Yanxuan looked at it, he pointed to Qian Chao at the shallow mark on the shield. look.
"Sister Yan, please estimate, if you use your fire knife to cut open this shield like just now, it will probably take a few swords to do it."
"It's hard to say this. I didn't reserve the four swords just now, but they only left such shallow marks on them. If I continue, I can also cut them open, but it will take a lot of time. It takes a while to do that.”
After hearing this, Qian Chao nodded and said, "Well, it seems that my efforts over the past few days were not in vain."
Yanxuan asked strangely: "Brother Qian, is it possible that you have been working hard on this these past few days and haven't had a good rest?"
"I squinted for a while because I was tired, and I finally got something." Qian Chao put away both shields and said, "Okay, Sister Yan, I'll leave first. I may come back to you in a few days." .”
"OK."
Watching Qian Chao's figure disappear in the air, Yanxuan shook his head. Brother Qian, has he found some way to make him so excited?
…
Mu Xiufeng, purple bamboo forest.
Li Jian was practicing beside the bamboo forest, but he stopped and looked into the sky.
"Brother Li."
Qian Chao, who had just left Yanxuan, came to Li Jian non-stop.
"Brother Qian, why are you...?"
Li Jian's impression of Qian Chao was similar to that of Yan Xuan. This brother Qian was usually so polite, so why did he look so embarrassed today?
"Brother Li, I came to you to ask you for a favor."
"Oh, easy to say." Li Jian said as he saw Qian Chao take out a large shield and place it in the open space beside the bamboo forest.
"Brother Li, originally I could have tried it myself with the spirit sword, but the power of my flying thrust with the spirit sword is much worse than the power of brother Li's sword thrust. In order to test how good my shield is, I still have to ask Li Brother, try it for me."
As he spoke, Qian Chao also took out a spiritual sword.
"Brother Li, don't use your green bamboo sword, use this one of mine, newly refined."
Li Jian took the sword handed over by Qian Chao and looked at it in his hand. The sword was so cold that Li Jian couldn't help but squint his eyes. He secretly thought that brother Qian's skill in refining weapons seemed to be more advanced. This sword But it was much better than what he had refined before.
"Brother Qian, this sword is very good. I don't know how to refine weapons, but when you hold this sword in your hand, you can tell that it is much better than the ones you made before."
"Well, when I refined this sword, the runes I used were different from before."
Li Jian nodded. He didn't understand the science of runes, he only knew that this sword was extremely sharp.
Qian Chao said: "Brother Li, strike that shield with all your strength."
"good!"
As Li Jian spoke, he raised his whole body and flew forward like a big bird. Then he aimed at the shield and in a burst of incandescent sword light, both the man and the sword were fired at it.
With a "ding" sound, the spiritual sword pierced the shield, and a sword sprout nearly a foot long emerged from behind the shield.
"Huh?" Li Jian was puzzled. Why is Brother Qian's shield so vulnerable?
Qian Chao also came closer at this time and took a closer look.
"This is……"
"It's okay, Brother Li, this shield is still the same as the shield I used before. I have a shield made with a new method here," Qian Chao said and took out a new shield. This shield was not the one that was used before. The side that Yanxuan's Fire Sword had struck was a brand new one. After Qian Chao arranged the shield, he said to Li Jian, "Brother Li needs to strike with all his strength on this shield."
"New shield," Li Jian walked up to the new shield and flicked it gently with his hand, "Okay!"
It turned out that Brother Qian not only wanted to test the sturdiness of the new shield, but also compared it with the shield he used before.
A ray of sword light passed by, and there was another "ding" sound, but this time Li Jian jumped back, and the sword was still in his hand. This time the sharp sword in his hand did not pierce the new shield. , Not only that, Li Jian also felt that when the spiritual sword stabbed the big shield, the counterattack force was not small, which surprised him. Brother Qian's new shield looked very good.
"it's here."
Li Jian pointed with his hand and left a shallow sword mark on the big shield where the sword tip struck.
"Brother Qian, your shield is much stronger than the one you used before."
"Yes, the hard work these days has been in vain." At this point, Qian Chao thought of something again, and then said, "Brother Li, how about you use your green bamboo spiritual sword to strike at this shield? "
Li Jian had already had this intention. He also wanted to see how his Green Bamboo Spirit Sword compared to Qian Chao's newly refined spirit sword.
The incandescent sword light flashed, and with a "click", Li Jian's Green Bamboo Spiritual Sword pierced the shield, and the tip of the sword penetrated, but that was all, the sword body was tightly bitten by the shield itself, and then Can't move forward either.
But in the end it was still much stronger than Qian Chao's spirit sword, which made Li Jian very satisfied.
"Sure enough," Qian Chao looked at the big shield for a while, "it can overcome fire and metal, but cannot overcome wood."
"It can overcome fire and metal, but not wood. Brother Qian, what does this mean?" Li Jian was very curious after hearing this.
"Brother Li, do you still remember the penguin tapir we met in Pipa Ridge?"
Naturally, Li Jian remembered that monster. The hard wings on that guy were very strong. Brother Qian's spiritual weapon, Brother Lu's fist, and Miss Yan's fire knife could not hurt it. Only his green bamboo sword could kill it. .
Li Jian asked: "Of course I remember, oh... I remembered it. At that time, you said that there were natural runes on the hard wings of the penguin tapir. Could it be that they have been used on this shield?"
"Well, that's right, but this shield is only a semi-finished product. I'm ashamed to say that the Penta-armored Tapir is born with the ability to accommodate different runes on its hard wings, but I can't do it. Well, that's right I have some ideas, but I still need to work harder after I go back. Brother Li, thank you very much. I will go back first, and I may come to you in a few days to continue to help."
"good."
