Mu Xiufeng, purple bamboo forest.
Li Jian looked at the sky, and saw two figures flying towards him.
"Miss Yan, Brother Qian."
It was Qian Chao and Yanxuan who came.
However, today Qian Chao is not as embarrassed as when he came a few days ago, and has become his usual elegant and refreshing look again.
"Brother Li," Yanxuan greeted as soon as he landed, "it was Brother Qian who found me. He said he wanted to test his newly refined shield for him."
"Brother Qian should ask me to go to Miss Yan's place together." Li Jian said.
"Brother Li, I thought so at first, but after all, your place is the cleanest and has the fewest people. No matter how hard we try, it won't attract anyone's attention."
After hearing this, Li Jian was puzzled and secretly wondered how much noise Qian Chao wanted to create?
Qian Chao took out a shield. It looked no different from the shield he had used before. After setting it up, Qian Chao couldn't help but pat the shield lightly. He turned around and saw Yan Xuan and Li Jian was looking at him and smiled: "Oh, this thing has cost me a lot of effort. If I can pass the test today, then our armor will have to be replaced."
Yanxuan said: "You found us together. How do you want us to help you test it? Are we still going to be as ruthless as last time?"
"That's right," Qian Chao said, and then took out a spiritual sword and handed it to Li Jian, "Sister Yan, Brother Li, you two are free to attack this shield without hesitation."
Yanxuan said: "Then I will come first."
After saying that, Yanxuan took a step forward, waved one arm, and with a "whoosh" sound, a Phoenix Feather Fire Saber several feet long appeared in front of the three of them.
When Yanxuan swung his sword, Li Jian and Qian Chao, who were hiding aside, felt that the burning aura was getting stronger and stronger. After a "dang-dang" sound, Yanxuan slashed hard with all five swords. On top of that big shield.
After putting away the sword, Yanxuan was also curious about what Brother Qian's newly refined shield looked like, so he followed Qian Chao and Li Jian and went over to take a look.
There is only a shallow knife mark on the shield surface, where Yanxuan's five swords were all slashed. However, the shallowness of the sword marks only proves that this place has been attacked, but the damage caused by Yanxuan's five swords to the big shield is still there. It seems almost negligible.
"So powerful!" Yanxuan said in surprise, "It seems to be much stronger than last time."
Li Jian nodded after seeing this and said, "Okay, it's my turn next."
Yanxuan and Qian Chao hid aside.
Li Jian stepped back a certain distance, then floated up, and directed his body towards the big shield with a blazing sword light.
There was a sharp "ding" sound, and before Li Jian's body even landed on the ground, he turned back with a somersault. Li Jian knew that this sword did not cause any damage to the big shield, so he paused in the air, and then struck towards the shield. The sword light was even more intense before.
Another "ding"!
After five sword strikes, Li Jian stopped.
These five swords are the same as Yanxuan's five swords, they all stab at the same place.
It's just that there is only a small shallow pit on the shield surface where Li Jian stabbed him continuously, which hardly causes any damage to the shield.
"Well, it's really much stronger than the shield Brother Qian brought last time!" Li Jian said as he looked at the shield.
"Brother Li," Qian Chao looked at his shield and was very satisfied. However, there was still another test that Li Jian had to do. "Let's try again. This time we will ask you to put on your Green Bamboo Spirit Sword. We still have no reservations." Take action."
"Oh?" Li Jian was a little surprised. "Didn't you only get two runes from the hard wings of the armored tapir?"
Li Jian still remembered the Penta-armored tapir. Qian Chao couldn't hurt it, and Yan Xuan couldn't hurt it. Even Lu Pingchuan's strange power couldn't cause fatal damage to that guy, but his Green Bamboo Spirit Sword could kill that guy. He expected that Qian Chao's newly refined shield might have something to do with the hard wings of the armored tapir, so he asked himself to stab it with the Green Bamboo Spirit Sword. Can this shield withstand it?
"Brother Li, just give it a try. If I can't withstand your sword, it means there is something wrong with what I have been thinking in the past two days. I can only think of ways to correct it when I get back."
"Well, that's good." Li Jian said, and handed the spirit sword back to Qian Chao. A green bamboo branch appeared in his hand with a casual hold of his right hand.
With a slight shake of his hand, the green bamboo branch was infused with Li Jian's sword energy, and suddenly the brilliance flowed, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a spiritual sword with cold light.
Still rising up, Li Jian and the green bamboo spirit sword in his hand almost turned into a white meteor and shot straight towards the big shield.
There was a "ding" and Li Jian's body rushed back.
"What a shield!" Li Jian shouted, "Look at my sword again!"
After that, Li Jian rushed out again. This time, halfway towards the big shield, the green bamboo spirit sword in Li Jian's hand suddenly surged, and the sword blade of more than ten feet hit the big shield. Up, the big shield was pushed back by the sword light for a while and then stopped. However, Li Jian knew clearly, and Qian Chao even more understood that the shield could withstand the sword!
"No need to try again, brother Qian, the sword just now is the strongest sword I can use now. Your shield is really good." Li Jian said.
Qian Chao put his shield close and looked at it carefully. Sure enough, Li Jian's sword just left only a shallow pit on the shield.
The hard work these days has indeed been in vain! Qian Chao thought to himself.
"Have you come up with another idea?" Yanxuan asked.
"Yes, I have been thinking about it for the past few days and finally got some ideas. There is a formation on this shield that I have arranged with runes. With this formation, it seems that this shield can now not be afraid of gold, wood and Huo, well, I originally wanted to ask that girl Tang Ping to help me test it to see how her ice spell would work on the shield. But when I got there, I found out that the guy was grounded by her master, Senior Guhuo. Find her later."
"Grounded?" Yanxuan didn't know what happened to Tang Ping, so he only asked Senior Guhuo to punish her because she didn't know what trouble she had caused.
"Formation?" Li Jian heard the key from Qian Chao's words. "Brother Qian, I don't know how to refine weapons, but I remember you said before that it seems that the spiritual weapons you refine are all runes. How about the formation?" Can it also be used in weapon refining?"
After hearing what Li Jian said, Yanxuan asked: "Yes, formations. Your Soul Locking Formation and Hidden Spirit Formation are formations, but they require several spiritual weapons to set up one formation. Why is it like this?" Can the formation still get a spiritual weapon?"
"Sure," Qian Chao said, "There is a natural formation on the hard wings of the Penguin Tapir. For a long time, I only saw the two runes inside, but I ignored that it was actually a formation. Later, I finally figured it out, and then I tried to refine this shield."
"I remember that the penguin-armored tapir couldn't kill wood? At that time, only Brother Li's sword could hurt that thing." Yanxuan asked.
"Indeed, the penguin tapir cannot defeat wood, but I found the rune representing 'wood', and placing it in the formation will have the effect of restraining 'wood'. In my opinion, this shield The formation inside is just a simple formation. If you can find or figure out a higher-level formation in the future, the shield should be stronger. Moreover, this method can also be used to refine armor, but It's just a little more troublesome than the previous refining method. When we go out next time, you should change all the armor on your body, so that it will be safer when you go out."
Hearing this, Yanxuan and Li Jian nodded.
But Qian Chao thought of something else and couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.
"It's just that I still haven't thought of a way to deal with the evil sword. In my estimation, this shield is now facing that person's evil sword. Alas, it's a pity that I can't try it myself. I still don't know what to do. "
"It's not a rush," Li Jian said, "We encountered it once. If we encounter it again in the future, we won't be as panicked as last time. Besides, where are there so many evil swords? I also talked about this with a senior a few days ago. She told me that in this world of cultivation, there are many people with ulterior motives, and there are still very few people who use evil swords. Compared with evil swords, you have to be more careful when going out. Those with bad intentions, after all, evil people will always do evil regardless of whether they have evil swords or not."
"Well, what Brother Li said makes sense." Yanxuan said.
"By the way, Brother Li, I need a few spiritual bamboos to refine the spiritual weapon." Qian Chao said while looking at Li Jian's bamboo forest.
"It's all on the hillside. Brother Qian, go get it yourself."
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Qian Chao returned to his residence. At this time, his residence was no longer as messy as before. The writing papers on the floor had been picked up, and the books scattered everywhere were put away by him. The walls were originally covered with The paper was gone, and even the handwriting he left on the white walls and even the curtains of his bed that day when he woke up from his dream and wrote furiously were gone. His small courtyard was restored to its previous tidiness.
Sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard, Qian Chao took out the shield that had been tested by Yanxuan and Li Jian and looked at it carefully.
It’s done. Qian Chao said in his heart, it really happened.
Qian Chao's understanding of the art of weapon refining this time, no, not only the art of weapon refining, but also the study of runes, will have a profound impact on him in the future.
Previously, when Qian Chao first learned the art of weapon refining, he only thought that the so-called weapon refining technique was to melt metal and stone materials into the embryonic shapes of various spiritual weapons, and then engrave runes on them with spiritual energy to become spiritual weapons.
When he had never learned the Talisman Technique, Qian Chao's guess about the Talisman Technique was to use cinnabar as ink to write the runes containing the laws of heaven and earth on the rune paper, and then use the runes in a certain way to achieve something. Endless uses.
Including the arrangement of formations. For example, when Luo Ying asked him to refine the spirit-locking stakes, he only thought that the arrangement of the formations must also be composed of spiritual weapons engraved with runes.
In the eyes of Qian Chao, the three branches of rune science: formations, talismans and weapon refining were three majestic mountains standing between heaven and earth. They could be seen from a distance. He started to practice it. It's the weapon refining technique. After a lot of hard work, I stood at the foot of the mountain called "Weapon Refining". Looking up, I only felt that the clouds and fog were bleak, and the mountain road was rugged and difficult to climb. Looking around, there were two other mountains with different names. The mountains known as "talisman" and "formation" were hidden in the mist. It is often said in the world that "looking at the mountain will kill the horse". At this time, he didn't know how far away from the other two mountains or how to walk. But if you want to climb high and see far, you can only start from the mountain in front of you and climb up bit by bit. And if you want to climb the other two mountains, you can only reach the top of the mountain at your feet, or you can look down from above, and you can see the distance, or you can find the way to those two mountains.
But now it's different.
After Qian Chao's understanding of the study of runes, a lot of clouds and fog have been cleared away, allowing him to see more clearly. In Qian Chao's current view, the "formation", "talisman" and "weapon refining" "The three mountains are not three isolated mountains, they are just three different peaks of a high mountain, and this high mountain is called "Learn of Runes"!
Everything started to be realized from the hard wings of the penguin tapir.
The strength of the hard wings was comparable to Qian Chao's large shield. Qian Chao was even sure that he could turn it into a spiritual weapon for use, but the two runes he found in the hard wings did not work when he used it to refine the weapon. This troubled him for a while, and then Qian Chao discovered the formation hidden in the hard wings. It was that natural formation that allowed the two rune suits that were originally mutually exclusive to each other to play their own roles. After discovering this formation, Qian Chao also thought of the spiritual connection between several companions that he accidentally saw when he broke through the cultivation level on Jumu Island. It seemed to be a formation, and then Qian Chao used his own and other companions' I boldly speculated whether I could complete this formation. Later, in my dream, I thought of what happened to the five of me at Xiaolianhua Lake in Youming Valley. That time in the Xiaowuling Formation, the pillars behind everyone The runes on it seemed to be the most basic five-element runes, which represented the spiritual root attributes of the five people trapped in the formation at that time.
With these, Qian Chao then tried again and again. What he wanted was not only to use that formation on his shield, but also to have all five elements of runes in that formation!
After repeated failures, he was not discouraged. He made modifications again and again and continued to test. The formation gradually began to work under Qian Chao's hard thinking and attempts. He first tested it by himself and passed his own test. After passing the test, Yanxuan and Li Jian were invited to help him test. Although Tang Ping was banned and couldn't test it, the test at least showed that this shield had strong resistance to "gold", "fire" and "wood", and at least half of it was successful.
This is the case on the spiritual weapon. Looking back at the talisman technique, Qian Chao got several complete talismans from Yu Xi. Looking at the originally mysterious talismans now, Qian Chao could already see some clues. Although he has not yet mastered it, the talisman is nothing more than a formation drawn on the talisman paper with a vermilion pen as a guide, cinnabar as ink, and multiple runes. Without runes, there is no formation, and without formation there is only Runes cannot become talismans.
Whether it's a simple low-level talisman or a complex high-level talisman, it's all like this!
After looking at the talisman, look at the formation. Common formations all use spiritual weapons to carry the runes and then arrange them according to the direction. This is very similar to making talismans. The runes on the talisman paper also have relative positions when they are written. , otherwise it will not take effect. Then the monks who arranged the formation used their own spiritual energy to connect these runes like pen and ink to form the formation. This is very similar to the talisman. If it is different, it is just that the talisman dissipates after use, while the spiritual energy of the formation is formed. The device can be used repeatedly.
At this time, Qian Chao realized that regardless of weapon refining, talismans or formations, the most basic thing was still runes. It was only the materials and different uses of the runes that gave rise to the three branches of the so-called runes!
It was from this point on that even though Qian Chao was still inferior to many of his inner brothers in the art of refining weapons, he was unable to refine those high-level and complex spiritual weapons. However, his understanding of the art of refining weapons was far beyond his level. Many senior brothers.
Not only that, Luo Ying and Wenyuan are no longer as good as Qian Chao in terms of their understanding of formation techniques and talisman techniques. Of course, this only means that if someone is willing to teach Qian Chao the formation techniques and talismans, Qian Chao's progress will be much greater than those of these two. Senior sisters, it does not mean that Qian Chao can now beat these two senior sisters in these two spells.
Qian Chao still had a long way to go before he could learn these two spells, even the weapon refining technique.
But Qian Chao’s vision is different from the past!
Qian Chao is not going to use the hard wings of the Pentacarpus tapir in his hand. All his gains are due to it. Besides, with the newly refined shield, the use of these hard wings will not be great. It is better to Keep it in the storage bag as a souvenir.
There are still many things to be busy with, and now is not the time to be idle and lazy.
(Thinking to myself: The foreshadowing is now complete, and anything new happening to Qian Chao in the future will not be so sudden. When I originally conceived this story a few years ago, I planned to write it with Qian Chao as the only male protagonist. , and I started to write some, but later I felt that the role was too high-level and comprehensive, and it was difficult to continue, so I stopped writing. After thinking about it again and again, I separated the skills that originally belonged to Qian Chao and gave them to others. There are four characters. If there are more characters, there will naturally be more stories. It’s easy to cheat on the word count, haha! Another friend of mine read this story of mine and asked me, if your surname is not Qian, why does the protagonist have to be surnamed Qian? This Well, I am not afraid of showing my age. At my age, at least in my mind, the surname Qian is at least a surname full of wisdom, which is consistent with the setting of Qian Chao. In addition, the word Qian is surrounded by gold, at least in the folk custom of Five Elements. The medium belongs to gold, so I set Qian Chao's spiritual root to gold. In my conception of the story, I gave Qian Chao the weakest spiritual root, but also gave him the strongest wisdom. The story is unfolding. Come, dear readers, I am honored to invite you to witness the continuation of this story!)
