Lu Nazhi and Xie Jingshan's letters both mentioned the same thing, saying that they had recently moved to Tianjian Peak, where Lord Guanghan Sword Master was in charge, and lived with the inner disciples who practiced swordsmanship.
I had to get familiar with the environment, deal with chores, and learn new sword techniques, so I didn't go to the lecture hall.
Now that everything is settled, I will meet Jiang Yuebai in the lecture hall tomorrow.
After reading the letter, Jiang Yuebai carefully put the letter into his storage bag.
In the small courtyard, Tao Fengnian placed a complete set of leather armor in front of Jiang Yuebai.
"After a long delay, I finally made this set of wolf pattern armor on your birthday. Go inside and try it on."
Jiang Yuebai nodded and happily went back to the house to change clothes.
A moment later, Jiang Yuebai came out of the room, equipped with black leather armor, arm guards and leg guards, leather boots, and a dark patterned wolf head on his chest, looking very heroic.
The leather armor is light and close to the body, and like the gray coat of the handyman, it can change its size on its own, and the gray coat of the handyman with wide robes and large sleeves is not noticeable.
Jiang Yuebai took two steps, her body was as light as a swallow and seemed to be carried by the breeze. She immediately took out her spear and performed a trick, like a majestic little general.
"Grandpa, I like this set of wolf pattern armor. You did a great job."
Tao Fengnian said with a smile: "Grandpa is still old. Otherwise, he could refine the eighth-grade spiritual armor, but now he can only reach the upper-grade ninth grade. This leather armor uses iron-backed wolf skin and green rock monkey skin, both of which have very good defense. It's so strong, even if you don't inject spiritual energy into it, it's hard for a ninth-grade magic weapon to hurt you."
"If spiritual energy is injected into it to activate the defensive talisman, the eighth-grade magic weapon spell can also resist for a while. There is a rock shield talisman on the arm guards, which can activate a small rock shield, and there is a wind talisman on the leg guards and boots to speed up the body."
Jiang Yuebai smiled with crooked eyes, "Grandpa is not old. This set is equivalent to many ninth-grade magic weapons. But grandpa is obviously a spiritual cultivator, so why did he learn to refine weapons instead of elixirs?"
Tao Fengnian said, "Who said that being able to grow elixirs means you must be talented in elixir refining? My father was originally a blacksmith. Although he devoted himself to providing me with education and did not let me forge iron, the inheritance of my blood allowed me to enter the world of cultivation and I still learned to make alchemy. Weapons. Familiarize yourself with the talismans of the Wolf Pattern Armor, and grandpa will serve the food."
Jiang Yuebai nodded and activated the talisman formations on the wolf-patterned armor one by one in the courtyard. He drew his spiritual energy in front of his cross-arm, and a blue rock shield as big as a basin appeared on his arm, which was the same as the blue rock monkey's innate spell.
Taking off his star-chasing steps, the breeze wrapped around his body. Jiang Yuebai jumped onto the roof, and the wind traveled back and forth along the roof of the house.
The moonlight was bright and Jiang Yuebai was having a great time.
"Come down and eat, little Pi Monkey."
Tao Fengnian was happy today and took out a jar of the spiritual wine he brewed, and Jiang Yuebai also got a small cup.
After drinking the sweet spirit wine, it was like a ball of fire burning down his throat. Jiang Yuebai felt that his Dantian was burning, and the spiritual energy he had just consumed was quickly replenished.
"Grandpa, can this spiritual wine quickly replenish spiritual energy?"
Tao Fengnian nodded, "Well, many monks will bring a gourd of spirit wine with them when they go out for training, which is very useful in battle."
After drinking and eating, Jiang Yuebai's face turned red and her head felt dizzy. She shook her head vigorously, and a green light rushed out from the center of her eyebrows, transforming into a palace lantern. She also shook it left and right as if she was drunk.
"Is this... a ghost lantern?" Tao Fengnian asked confusedly after seeing the lantern clearly.
At this time, the palace lantern had returned to its original state, with the wick shining with silver light and surrounded by two phosphorus fires, making a fierce feint of impact towards Tao Fengnian.
Jiang Yuebai said: "I call it Xiaolu. It is a ghost lantern but not an ordinary ghost lantern. I don't know what it does..."
Jiang Yuebai told Tao Fengnian about Yinfengjian.
Tao Fengnian tried to use his spiritual sense to explore, but Xiao Lu's whole body was filled with phosphorus fire. Tao Fengnian's brain was burning and tingling, and his spiritual consciousness was completely burned by the phosphorus fire.
He thought for a moment and took out the small white jade bottle from the storage bag. There were several groups of gray light inside.
"This is the remnant soul I collected from the corpse of the Blue Rock Monkey when I was refining the leather armor."
Tao Fengnian uncorked the bottle, and a gray ball of light emerged. The little green hungry tiger pounced on the food and directly hit the ball of light and swallowed it up. The silver light of the wick and the two balls of phosphorus fire suddenly became brighter.
"Eh?"
Jiang Yuebai's beautiful eyebrows frowned, and her mind sank into the sea of consciousness. She had been carving the divine machine stone these days. The wheat seedlings in the sea of consciousness grew from three leaves to five, and the falling snowflakes were still three.
At this time, Xiaolu swallowed up the remaining soul, and a wisp of yellow breath suddenly appeared below the wheat seedlings, wrapping the roots and turning them into soil.
"Grandpa, my consciousness has increased. What's going on?"
Tao Fengnian understood this and swallowed all the remaining souls in Xiao Lu's hands.
"You are really lucky, girl. The phosphorus fire of this mutated ghost lamp can burn the monks' consciousness, and it can also nourish your consciousness by devouring souls. This is a ghost way, and it cannot be said to be good or evil. There are also many righteous monks who swallow monsters. The beast soul comes to cultivate spiritual consciousness.”
"Spiritual consciousness has a very special status in practice. It has an impact on bottleneck breakthroughs, spells and battles, alchemy, weapon formation, etc. However, except for demons and ghosts in this world, there are few ways for people to improve their spiritual consciousness."
"Swallowing beast souls or even human souls is the easiest method, but swallowing too many souls will have a great impact on the mind. It can range from mental confusion to demonic madness and self-destruction of the path to immortality."
"You are devoured and refined by this mutated ghost lamp. Even if your improvement is small, there is no disadvantage. The accumulation of spiritual consciousness over time is far superior to ordinary people. I have been practicing for forty years and have never heard of or seen such a thing."
"This is the rune used by the contracted spirit beast. You use your spiritual consciousness to engrave it on the ghost lantern. It will not be able to hurt you in the future. Also, the secret of this ghost lantern must not be leaked, otherwise someone will seize the treasure and kill people. Do you understand? ?”
Jiang Yuebai wrote down the runes that Tao Fengnian drew for her. In fact, she felt that Xiao Lu's wick contained Ye Shiming's obsession. Xiao Lu would never hurt her before finding the Wuweishan people.
To be on the safe side, I’d better listen to grandpa.
It was a quiet night, and Jiang Yuebai rarely did not practice, so he had a good sleep with the help of wine.
Early the next morning, Tao Fengnian was asked to send her to the lecture hall.
The appointment with Lu Nazhi and the others was in the afternoon, and there happened to be a class taught by Master Neimen Zhendao in the morning. Jiang Yuebai took a good seat early to listen to the class.
"...The Qimen Formation Technique originated from the ancient "Dragon Armor Divine Chapter". It involves magic and is based on the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes. It has eight gates and nine stars, yin and yang, five elements, three oddities and six rituals and other elements."
"The Formation Dao is the most difficult to learn and master among the six arts of cultivation. To enter the Formation Dao, optical talismans are not enough. You must first lay a good foundation in spells and numbers..."
The uncle of the inner gate foundation master preached loudly. In the foggy sky and white clouds, he didn't understand most of the words. He suddenly felt how complicated the array was. Just from the list of basic books, the uncle of the array master listed ten. Book.
After finally waiting until the lecture was over, Jiang Yuebai rushed into the library and borrowed all the books such as "Hetu Luoshu", "Tai Xuan Jiazi Shu" and "Yin Yang Yingxiang Theory".
Whatever you are afraid of, you can always understand by reading more and memorizing.
As soon as I left the library, a person blocked my way.
"I knew I'd find you stinky girl here."
Jiang Yuebai raised his head, his heart skipping a beat, Jia Wei!
She glanced around with her peripheral vision. People were coming and going outside the library. If he wanted to cause trouble for her, he would not choose this place.
"What do you want to do?"
Jia Wei didn't care, "I won't get into trouble with a little girl. I'm here to remind you that if you don't recognize people clearly, you will lose your life."
"Are you talking about yourself?" Jiang Yuebai said bluntly.
Jia Wei sneered, "Do you think Tao Fengnian is unselfish in his kindness to you? I might as well tell you directly that his life span is less than a year. Training you is just a new body for himself, and he will take you away when the time comes. , he can be reborn!"
Jiang Yuebai stared at Jia Wei with a trembling heart.
Jia Wei laughed darkly and said, "You can do it yourself."
Jia Wei left, and Jiang Yuebai felt cold all over.
He just said... Grandpa's life span is less than a year? So grandpa’s health has been getting worse and worse during this time?
Jiang Yuebai didn't want to believe it, but when he thought about it carefully, his grandfather entered Taoism at the age of thirty, and he has been practicing until he is seventy years old. Two failures in foundation building exhausted his foundation...
She originally thought that her grandfather would have to live to be a hundred years old, or even eighty years old.
"It's impossible. Grandpa can't be wanted so soon..."
Jiang Yuebai didn't dare to think about it anymore and immediately ran towards Huaxi Valley.
In the Huaxi Valley, there is a small courtyard with green bricks.
Tao Fengnian was a little dazed when he heard Jiang Yuebai's weeping question. After a while, he said: "You are only worried that I am about to die, but you are not worried that I will really take away your body?"
Jiang Yuebai cried and shouted, "I'm not a stick! How could I believe Jia Wei's words!"
Tao Fengnian laughed and shook his head.
Jiang Yuebai was so angry that she wiped away tears, "You're still smiling!"
"You yourself said you can't believe Jia Wei's words, and you're still crying?"
Jiang Yuebai was stunned, and his nose ran down.
Tao Fengnian rubbed Jiang Yuebai's head, "Don't worry, it turns out that life is approaching, but last time I went back to Nangufang City, grandpa had found a way to temporarily extend his life."
"How long is it for now?"
"Three years, as long as you can pass the exam as a spiritual cultivator within three years, grandpa can ask the sect for a ten-year life-extending pill, and then attack the foundation building again, and then you will have enough time to plan."
"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Tao is natural and cannot be forced. Grandpa doesn't want you to practice under pressure."
Jiang Yuebai wiped away her tears, "I will never let you die, and you will never abandon me, you swear!"
Tao Fengnian saw that Jiang Yuebai was stubborn, so he had to pretend to swear to comfort him. Although it was a false alarm, Tao Fengnian always had a bad feeling about why Jia Wei suddenly told Jiang Yuebai about this.
Jiang Yuebai was the same, feeling uneasy.
After thinking about it, she decided not to wait for three years.
Extending life is an act that defies heaven. Even if the life extension pill is only for ten years, it will suffer calamity after refining it, and it is difficult to guarantee the output.
Jiang Yuebai went to the lecture hall again, and both Lu Nanzhi and Xie Jingshan said they would try their best to help.
But no one can guarantee when it will be available.
The originally bright day was cast into a haze. After that day, Jiang Yuebai stopped leaving the valley and locked himself in a small courtyard, practicing spiritual farming skills day and night.
Tao Fengnian was right, Taoism is natural. Although it was hard for her to practice magic in the past, she was happy every day as long as she made progress.
Nowadays, there is a huge stone in her heart, and she feels that the progress is not enough, and she is still far away from the goal. She keeps pushing herself to the limit, and she is so tired that she can hardly breathe.
Furthermore, spell proficiency does not increase as much as it once did.
Too much is not enough, and it is counterproductive, she gradually realized.
After practicing hard day by day, only writing letters to Lu Nanzhi Hongyan could relieve her depression.
