Of course, even with the jade plaque worn close to his chest, it was still very difficult for Qian Chao to find and determine the spiritual veins in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. If he used the talisman method to find the spiritual veins outside the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, he would have caught it with a fishing net. In terms of fish, now he is like fishing with bare feet in muddy water in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, and this is Qian Chao's attainment in the study of spiritual veins in the examination school.
Simply put, the practice of monks is to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth for their own use. From this perspective, monks can be compared to vegetation, then spiritual energy is the water indispensable for the growth of vegetation, and spiritual veins are streams formed by water. Small rivers and even mighty rivers.
A long time ago, monks discovered that spiritual energy does not come from the eternal sun, moon and stars in the sky, nor does it come from the endless vitality coming from the lush vegetation all over the world. They discovered that spiritual energy is emitted by the passing spiritual veins. from. Later, the monks also discovered that spiritual veins are divided into strengths and weaknesses, and have paths and rules of operation. Over time, a science was developed, which is the study of spiritual veins.
Generally speaking, the study of spiritual veins can be divided into three parts. The most basic one is to find the spiritual veins and determine the strength and direction of the spiritual veins. Then, it is to classify the found spiritual veins. The last and most important thing is to be able to classify the spiritual veins. Use the spiritual veins you find.
Before Qian Chao met Mr. Zhuang, he mainly taught himself the knowledge of spiritual veins from all kinds of books he read. He read a lot of books, and what he learned was mainly practical. At that time, Qian Chao The so-called study of spiritual veins was naturally messy, disordered, and unsystematic until he met Mr. Zhuang.
What Mr. Zhuang taught Qian Chao were mainly two subjects, one was the study of runes, and the other was the study of spiritual veins.
However, Mr. Zhuang is not a Central Continent monk. As a Yingzhou monk, he is fundamentally different from the Central Continent monks in terms of blood. Therefore, Qian Chao cannot practice many of the methods he is proficient in. Another important point is that Mr. Zhuang is determined to When it comes to teaching Qian Chao, he actually doesn’t have much time left. If he wants to teach Qian Chao everything he has learned in his life within a limited time, then the only thing he can teach Qian Chao is “Tao” , Regarding "skills", first of all, time does not allow, and secondly, Qian Chao does not have the immortal blood of the Yingzhou monks and therefore cannot practice, so Mr. Zhuang rarely teaches Qian Chao specific methods, even if Qian Chao uses them to find spiritual veins. The talisman method was also figured out by Qian Chao himself. Of course, Mr. Zhuang asked him to demonstrate it in person in Yimingxuan's courtyard, and then made improvements to it, which doubled Qian Chao's efficiency in using this method to find spiritual veins.
The Mo Zu from Yuhu Mountain also has profound attainments in the study of formations and spiritual veins. The biggest difference between Mo Zu and Mr. Zhuang is that he is a Central Continent monk himself, so he is not interested in teaching Qian Chao how to use the study of runes. And the study of spiritual veins has greater advantages than Mr. Zhuang. The few books he gave to Qian Chao in the name of returning them contained many methods that Qian Chao could learn from or even use directly.
It's a pity that Qian Chao's current cultivation level is really low, just the cultivation level of Qi refining. Even though he now has the cultivation level of foundation building, he relies on the "Tao" taught to him by Mr. Zhuang, combined with the instructions in Mo Zu's books. According to the "skills" recorded, Qian Chao must be more comfortable in this thousand-needle pine forest.
Talking back to what Qian Chao is doing now, the biggest reason why spiritual veins are difficult to find is that monks in Zhongzhou cannot directly see spiritual veins with their own eyes. In Yingzhou, monks with pure immortal blood have the means to directly see spiritual veins. Visually observe the location of the spiritual veins.
Although Qian Chao had his own "Blue Eyes Technique", it only allowed Qian Chao to see spiritual energy, but not spiritual veins. After Mr. Zhuang used his method, he could easily find all the spiritual veins within his field of vision.
Therefore, Qian Chao could only rely on his own talismans outside the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, but inside the Thousand Needles Pine Forest, he mainly relied on the jade plaque on his chest.
Now it’s time to talk about the classification of spiritual veins. The simplest classification of spiritual veins is to divide all spiritual veins into those running in the air, those running on the ground and those running underground.
Spiritual veins spread and stretch in the world, just like the blood vessels in the human body, connected vertically and horizontally, and almost nothing in the world can block it. Monks can use formations to influence the direction of the spiritual veins, but it is impossible to completely cut off a spiritual vein. of operation. There is also the fact that the trajectory of the spiritual veins is by no means straight, but is as winding and twisted as streamers in the wind, up and down, and may even split somewhere and become two or more spiritual veins moving in different directions. If they go, several spiritual veins will merge together to form a larger spiritual vein somewhere, just like streams and rivers merge into the river. Although their running trajectories can remain unchanged for a long time, due to the spiritual The veins themselves cannot be seen, so it becomes very difficult to trace the trajectory of one spiritual vein or even multiple spiritual veins.
Take this vast Thousand Needle Pine Forest as an example. There are many spiritual veins running through this area. Some of them are floating in the air like smoke and clouds, some are meandering on the ground, and some are sneaking underground, chaotically. There seemed to be no rules at all, and what Qian Chao had to do was to find them one by one.
This is also another reason why spiritual veins are difficult to find. For example, right now, Qian Chao is following the spiritual vein he found outside the Thousand Needles Pine Forest a few days ago. It is very likely that the spiritual vein he is following is directly connected somewhere. It drilled into the ground, making Qian Chao no longer able to determine its whereabouts; it is also possible that the spiritual vein has been carrying Qian Chao straight up to the clouds; and Qian Chao can always find it drilled directly from the ground in the Thousand Needles Pine Forest. Spiritual veins, and he could not find such spiritual veins outside the Thousand Needles Pine Forest a few days ago, so he needed to record them specially.
The second classification of spiritual veins is based on their five-element attributes.
Most of the world's spiritual veins are ordinary spiritual veins without attributes, and a few are five-element spiritual veins with attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
The Five Spirit Sect is the largest gathering place of spiritual veins in the south of Central Continent. Even so, most of the spiritual veins gathered in the Five Spirit Sect are non-attributed spiritual veins. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth that monks generally absorb during their practice is also made of This kind of attributeless spiritual veins radiates out, and then uses its own spiritual roots to transform it into spiritual energy with its own five-element attributes. At this point, I must mention that the caves built by many Danjie seniors in the Wuling Sect were all built based on spiritual veins, such as Tang Ping’s master Guhuo Xianzi, Lu Pingchuan’s master Kang Fu, etc. There is a secret room in their cave specifically for retreat practice, which is directly in the spiritual veins, so that they can absorb the pure spiritual energy there during practice, and almost all the disciples of Senior Jiedan are willing to Living next to the master's cave is also because it is close to the spiritual veins. It is a good place with rich and abundant spiritual energy, which is of great benefit to one's own practice.
In fact, there is another place within the boundaries of the Five Spirit Sect that was once the gathering place of spiritual veins, and that is the Little Lotus Lake in Youming Valley. However, drastic changes occurred there, and the spiritual veins gathered there gradually dried up. Even though In this way, such spiritual veins also helped Qian Chao a lot. When Qian Chao was refining his body in Youming Valley, because of his inferior spiritual roots, he was unable to gather spiritual energy with his own Dantian. It would be impossible for Qian Chao to become a monk in the long run. In desperation, he made great efforts to find a spiritual vein that converged in Xiaolianhua Lake. With the help of that small spiritual vein, Qian Chao finally embarked on the path of spiritual practice.
There are also differences between spiritual veins without attributes. The difference is that some spiritual veins are like raging rivers, while others are just like gurgling streams.
As for spiritual veins with five elements attributes, they are rare and difficult to find.
But if you find it, it will be easier to determine its attributes. For example, Qian Chao, he is a monk with the golden spiritual root. If he is in the spiritual vein of the fire attribute, the fire spiritual energy is rich and completely envelopes him. Among the five elements, fire overcomes metal. , so he will definitely feel very uncomfortable, and he will definitely be hurt if he stays in it for a long time, but if it is Yanxuan, he will be extremely useful in it. Another example is when they were in Shouwo Mountain. The place was full of earth spiritual energy. Others were fine in it, especially Lu Pingchuan who felt completely comfortable. Only Tang Ping could not stay in it for long because of her water spiritual roots. If it weren't for Qian Chao's formation to protect her throughout the whole process, Tang Ping would never have been able to go to that trip to the Wo Mountain.
Of course, spiritual veins are not only non-attributed and divided into metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. There are other rarer spiritual veins that will be found by Qian Chao and others later.
The last and most important thing is the use of spiritual veins.
The simplest and most practical use of spiritual veins is to build caves based on their direction.
In the world of cultivation, all large and small aristocratic families and some small sects are established along the lines of spiritual veins. Only in this way can the practice of monks be guaranteed. Often, the more powerful the aristocratic families occupy, the better the spiritual veins of the places they occupy. It's also obvious. And some large sects occupy places where spiritual veins and spiritual energy are extremely abundant, such as the Five Spirit Sect. The place where the Five Spirit Sect is located is the largest gathering place of spiritual veins in the south of Central Continent, and the Muyang Sect is located where This place is basically where the main spiritual veins gather in the middle of Central Continent. The same is true for the other four major sects: Lion Forest, Meng Cai Tower, Motian Cliff and Jiu Genyuan. However, the spiritual veins gathered in their respective places are smaller than The Wuling Sect and Muyang Sect are a little worse, but they are much better than those big and small families in the cultivation world.
There are quite a few casual cultivators in the world of cultivation. Although most of the casual cultivators mentioned in the previous article are Qi refining cultivation and foundation building cultivation, there are also many casual cultivators who form pills in the cultivation world. These people The caves are all remote and hard to find, but they must have been built according to the spiritual lineage. However, unlike the caves built by the Danjie monks in the major sects, the caves of the Danjie monks are fortified layer by layer in order to prevent other Rogue cultivators make up their own minds.
Of course, relying on spiritual veins or building a cave or establishing a sect is not the only way to apply spiritual veins. More advanced methods of using spiritual veins must be coordinated with the study of formations.
Here I must talk about Qian Chao. In the Five Spirit Sect, not to mention the Qi Refining disciples, even compared to most of the alchemy monks in the sect, Qian Chao's attainments in the study of spiritual veins have now surpassed them. , all that is lacking is cultivation. Qian Chao has long been unique in his application of spiritual veins. For example, he used a formation to kill the eight-foot peck. For example, he used a formation to force out the blind stingray hidden in the ground and then Qingluan killed it. Killing, although these methods are formations, they must rely on the arrangement of spiritual veins. If there is no spiritual veins and only formations, he cannot deal with the eight-foot peck or the blind sting at all. Therefore, the above can also be regarded as Qian Chao's attack. Application of spiritual veins.
There is also Qian Chao's original "spirit-guiding formation". In Shouwo Mountain, Qian Chao used this formation to repel many mid-level monsters competing for Pingpeng's young son. People in the spiritual world believe that only sword cultivators can It is possible to cross levels to kill people, but there are very few swordsmen who can actually do this. Even Li Jian has never had such an experience, and Qian Chao used the "Spirit Guiding Array" to kill mid-level monsters. , but it is enough to prove that he also has the ability to kill people across levels, but the limitations for him to do this are even greater. He must set up a formation in advance at a suitable place with his spiritual veins and at the same time lead the opponent to that vicinity.
Of course, the simplest use of spiritual veins is to follow the spiritual veins and you can always find extremely rare spiritual herbs, well, and extremely powerful monsters!
