There are too many representative figures in the Taoist sect, but most of them are from the legendary era of the earth. After the decline of spiritual energy, many Taoist sects broke away from the foundation of spiritual energy and explored the nature of heaven and earth. There are many records of this in the miscellaneous notes of Longhu Mountain.
Among them, there are also many who have made various exploratory attempts and achieved breakthroughs based on the famous "Bagua Pan" of Taoism.
For example, Zhuge Kongming, the founder of the Kongming Lantern, whom Zhang Yan used in exchange for credit, is one of the typical representatives of the post-Taoism era who prefers natural sciences.
Now that we have already taken the Kongming Lantern, it is reasonable to take another Bagua Formation, right?
The "Bagua Formation" is actually two different things from the "formation" that the monks call it. It is more of a battle formation, but it has many differences from a battle formation.
Moreover, Zhang Yan has long been familiar with the Bagua array. I remember that when he was learning Taoism from his master, he had always played the Bagua array as a puzzle game. He would often sit across from his master and compete in deductions of the Bagua array. Winning or losing is secondary. It can make the master forget to check the recitation of Taoist scriptures. This is the main reason why Zhang Yan likes the Bagua array.
Of course, the reason why Zhang Yan chose the Bagua Array this time was not just because he liked the Bagua Array, but because it was just the right place for the Bagua Array to be placed in Yubei Mountain.
Utilize the existing and artificially changed environment to create a visual effect similar to "eyesore". For example, it is obviously a roundabout road, but you will look like you are walking in a straight line. Or you may mistakenly think that you have gone back to the previous place in a place that you have clearly not walked through, leading to such misconceptions.
If nuisances such as traps are added, it is even possible to form some ambush and encirclement killing points in the Bagua array. Not to mention that this blinding effect can be used to warn the sentry in advance.
Zhang Yan even felt that if the effect was good, the demon tribe would hesitate to move forward because of the unknown fear of this method.
However, this matter cannot be rushed. It needs to be planned slowly, making good use of your status as a temporary instructor for setting up traps, and setting up a sentry as an example bit by bit. Once the actual results come out, there will be no need for Zhang Yan to promote the Bagua array himself. The leaders of Yubei Mountain Fortress will naturally come to praise him. When the time comes, the worst thing to do is to throw your head back to the hanging "miscellaneous studies".
In addition, another reason why Zhang Yan dared to take out the Bagua Array is that this is the wilderness, not the earth, and there are many strange things that are not found on the earth. For example, he mentioned the "thorn vine" before when he and Lao Yu set up traps.
The thorn vine in the wilderness is a kind of vine with poisonous thorns and is extremely tough. It grows very quickly and is easy to transplant. If it clings to trees, it can easily form thick thorn vine walls in some inaccessible places. This thing can climb several feet high.
With the help of thorn vine, a natural "wall-building" material, Zhang Yan had the confidence to move the Bagua Array to Yubei Mountain.
The situation went well. Zhang Yan came up with an idea. Wasn't Lao Yu, a newbie in machine learning, so stunned? Even if Qin Hao knew about Zhang Yan's actions, he still nodded and said yes, because Zhang Yan's transformation did have obvious benefits. On the same day, Qin Hao asked two warriors to find a lot of thorn vines from under the ravine, move them up, and insert them according to the position mentioned by Zhang Yan. After that it’s all about waiting and adjusting.
When Zhang Yan was stationed at the sentry post, he often went over to see the growth of the thorn vines. They almost looked the same every day. After just five days, the positions of the plastic walls around the sentry post that he had figured out were all closed, and the long thorns looked like they were growing. People don’t want to get close. The only drawback is that it's not tall enough or thick enough. It is estimated that it will take another half a month to grow into what Zhang Yan envisioned.
In fact, although this thorn vine looks like crazy when it grows, in fact it cannot appear naturally in a large area because it attracts insects. A small flying insect that attacks thorn vines. Unless someone specializes in insect control, thorn vines will usually be eaten away by insects after one or two years of growth.
Apart from insects, the only way to clean the thorn vine is to saw it bit by bit, which is time-consuming, laborious and troublesome. If you are not careful, you can easily be stung by the poisonous thorns on it. Even scratching a little oily skin can make you miserable. Extreme itching for several hours.
Burning? Zhang Yan actually tried it. But the thorn vine is not afraid of you burning it at all. Even if you use kerosene, you can only burn the oil-stained section, and it will not continue to burn. To use earthly terms to describe this thing, it is flame retardant.
What's more, there are Yushan fruit trees on Yubei Mountain. Neither the demon clan nor the human clan will set fire to the mountain. Otherwise, once the fire gets out of control, if the Yushan fruit trees are burned, wouldn't it be like throwing a stone at one's own feet?
The half-moon passed quickly, and no one noticed the wonderful changes brought about by the thorny vine walls that gradually grew taller and thicker. It just facilitates the placement of traps on various trails.
Until the last thorn vine wall was perfectly closed in Zhang Yan's expectation.
"Huh? Why can't you get through this place?"
"Go forward. The thorn vine wall here is closed. We need to take a detour ahead."
Zhang Yan followed the team and felt a sense of accomplishment as he looked at the closed thorn vine wall. He didn't say anything when he heard the conversation between team leader Qin Hao and his companions. Since I'm here, I naturally want to stop by and try out the Bagua formation that I spent more than a month setting up here to see how effective it is.
"No, why does this road go around again?!"
"Hiss... yes, ahead is the trap area we set up. I still remember the rock on the side, but how could we come back when we have been walking forward?"
"Something's wrong! Everyone, be alert! Don't get separated, go back!" Qin Hao looked alert, his strength increased, and he was ready to fight at any time.
But when the group returned along the "original road", they entered a real dead end. In front of us, we could either climb the tall thorn vine wall, go down the trap-filled trail next to it, or go back further.
Except for Zhang Yan, everyone's expressions turned ugly. An inexplicable sense of tension made them clearly feel that something was wrong but they didn't know where the problem lay.
I kept going in circles for a full hour, and finally turned into the dead end again.
Qin Hao's face was already ashen. Because he found that he didn't seem to know how to lead his men out of this weird circle. What's even weirder is that this place is near their sentry post. He can't think of a good terrain that he knows so well, why does it suddenly become like this? And he didn't even smell the enemy's breath at all.
At this time, Zhang Yan, who had been giggling in the team and was thought to be crazy, stood up and said to Qin Hao: "Commander, why don't you take a break? I know the way, how about I take the lead?"
