Zhang Yan is not in a hurry at all to build the cliff mountain. Even if it takes three to five years, it is considered quick for him. According to legend, the span from the beginning to the final completion of the Longhu Mountain Gate was nearly thirty years. What was there to be anxious about?
What's more, there are only three registered disciples under the sect now. The reason why the sect was established was not because there was no place to teach disciples, but because the establishment of the sect itself was a training for the disciples.
Since the purpose is to hone the disciples, the longer the time, the better. It would also give Zhang Yan more time to move his spiritual veins and cultivate Cliff Mountain itself.
There is no rush to cultivate Duyashan. The convergence of spiritual veins is an unexpected blessing, but it also requires the help of time. Moreover, the mountain itself needs to slowly digest all the changes brought about by the increase in spiritual energy. A spiritual mountain is not only rich in spiritual energy, but the vegetation and wild animals will also change due to the increase in spiritual energy gathered by the spiritual veins.
Therefore, for monks, many things take time to ferment and are rarely accomplished overnight.
Of course, Zhang Yan was not idle either. The things at hand are currently proceeding step by step. The most important thing, besides practicing and teaching disciples, is refining weapons and elixirs.
Although the demand for Peiyuan Pill is not large now, it is only used as a supplementary consumable to match the spirit stone, but it will definitely be different in the future. After Zhang Yan established the sect, he could not always have just three disciples. Prepare more now to avoid having to rush later. For this reason, Zhang Yan also specially ordered a lot of large jade boxes one foot square. It doesn't matter how good the jade is, it just needs to be big and strong enough. Bring it back and engrave it with a magic circle that solidifies the spirit, so that you can place the elixir for a long time without worrying about the spiritual energy dissipating and losing its potency.
And weapon refining is more complicated than elixir refining. A simple daily routine is to refine a ghost-catching bell. It takes an hour and a half to do this every day, which takes a lot of energy from Zhang Yan. Thirty percent of the finished product will be given to the demon species, and the rest will be given to Beiwu Kingdom.
In response to this, Bai Yu, a kind of demon, also came to Zhang Yan and expressed some ideas in a very tactful way, trying to see if he could increase the price in exchange for the exclusive right to the ghost-catching bell, so that it would not fall into the hands of Beiwu Kingdom. After being rejected by Zhang Yan, he didn't dare to speak again.
In fact, Zhang Yan is getting a little tired of practicing the ghost-catching bell. After all, this thing was originally a magical weapon that Zhang Yan brought out for emergency use, and his level of weapon refining was limited at the time, so overall the upper limit of the ghost-catching bell was not high. Even though he has improved it many times now, it still remains the same. It is not as good as Zhang Yan's current level of weapon refining.
The reason why I am obsessed with improving my weapon refining skills is because in the wilderness, I have no way to rely on others except myself. If you want to use a good magic weapon, you can only do it yourself. Now, what Zhang Yan needs to prepare is a storage-type magic weapon.
The difficulty in refining storage magic weapons mainly lies in the tempering of materials and the matching and use of magic arrays.
The basic material of the storage instrument is not a combination of one or several materials, but needs to be smelted together to form something called "beard" that does not exist in nature. This kind of thing is the first difficulty in refining storage magic weapons.
The function of "whisker" is to become an anchor point for "turning reality into virtuality". This magical combination product can perfectly cooperate with the space array to anchor a space gap captured through the space barrier in a fixed place so that it will not float away again. It also makes it possible to open and close the same space gap at any time. Otherwise, the storage type magic weapon can only be empty talk.
After getting the "beard", it is the inscription of the magic circle. The difficulty lies in the word "enlightenment". The same magic circle can show greater effects if it is understood thoroughly. This is especially obvious in space magic circle.
Zhang Yan didn't know whether his understanding of space was good or bad, but when he studied the space array, he didn't feel it was very difficult, and it was fairly easy to understand. In addition, he had the expectation that "everything will be difficult at the beginning" from the beginning, but after the results came out, he felt satisfied.
The first refined product was a large box three feet square. The main body of the box is made of iron essence, and it is dotted with particles made of "whiskers" arranged in nebulae. Even though this compromise method has been used, it still consumes a lot of "beards", and the cost is already equivalent to all the magical weapons Zhang Yan has handled before.
This shows how expensive storage instruments are.
Open the box and follow a specific method to open the magic circle, and then you can open the space mezzanine inside it. The space is very large, which is also the result of Zhang Yan inscribing several space arrays on the huge box. Although the technique is still crude and rough, the practicality is not bad at all.
A volume of six feet square is already much larger than the small warehouse in Zhang Yan's home. It is enough to pile up the best spiritual stones and medicinal materials. More importantly, this is a beginning, marking that Zhang Yan can refine hundreds of these storage instruments as long as he wants in the future. The confidentiality and safety coupled with the huge storage capacity can satisfy Zhang Yan's needs. The idea of Shanmen as a foundation guarantee.
Of course, one box is not enough. At least all the things piled up in the Jiangwu Academy in Langyuan City must be removed first. According to Zhang Yan's estimation, he needs to refine five more storage boxes of this kind. If the consumption and income are to offset part of it, he can refine one every three months. This does not include the increase in storage space that will be brought about by his improved refining skills in the future.
But when Zhang Yan was refining the third storage box, his brows furrowed inexplicably and he interrupted the refining three times. Although the refining was completed in the end, the confusion on his face showed that he must have encountered some kind of accident.
"It seems that the space array is not very stable when grabbing the gaps in space. It needs to be anchored so that it does not vibrate. This...is this different from what is said in the Taoist book?" This is Zhang The reason why Yan frowned.
According to the Taoist books, there are always gaps in space and they are blocked. It can be grabbed and used at any time. It does not have to be as dangerous as "void" and can easily backfire. This is the prerequisite for the continuous use of space instruments.
He didn't notice Zhang Yan's first storage magic weapon when he was refining it, but after he became familiar with it, the second and third items caught his attention. When grabbing the cracks in space, it was not as smooth as the Taoist book said, but there was a pulling force that seemed to prevent Zhang Yan from grabbing the cracks in space.
Can the cracks in space also have an owner? This speculation made Zhang Yan afraid to continue refining. Instead, he quickly meditated, immersed himself in the tower inside the Wanxiang Pearl, and read all the records about the gaps in space.
When Zhang Yan regained consciousness, although the doubts on his face were lessened, his brows were furrowed deeper.
The Taoist book says that the gaps in space are endless, stable and usable, and can be grabbed at any time. The situation that Zhang Yan encountered will not happen. But there are exceptions, that is, the space itself is not stable.
