eight pm.
Su family villa.
Second floor, living room.
"Xiaomeng, bring me the pen."
"okay!"
"Bring me the spiritual ink, too."
"Come here!"
The palm-sized Xiao Meng ran over holding a spiritual pen that was even taller than herself.
After putting down the spiritual pen, she ran back again, picked up a bottle of spiritual ink with a whoosh, and walked to Su Mo's feet with a puffy face, looking like she had collapsed from exhaustion.
Su Mo looked at her panting expression and said helplessly:
"I told you, just stay aside. Now you're busy, you know you're tired, right?"
"No! I have to be useful!"
Xiao Meng put her hands on her hips and said with an air of pride.
Su Mo was speechless, but did not refuse.
To be honest, he has mental strength and lung talent, so he can pick up anything with ease.
Xiaomeng messing around was just wasting his time.
But don’t think too much about utilitarianism in everything.
It's rare that this girl is interested in setting up the formation, so just let her watch from the side.
Su Mo picked up the slender spiritual pen, opened the sealed magic bottle, dipped it in the blue spiritual ink with a deep brilliance, and began to draw the pattern of the spirit gathering array on the ground.
The spirit gathering array is not actually a formation, but a type of formation, including many spirit gathering arrays of different levels and different effects.
Such as the Starlight Spirit Gathering Array, the Grass and Tree Spirit Gathering Array, the Vast Sea Spirit Gathering Array, etc. Different Spirit Gathering Arrays have different characteristics, and even the effects of gathering spirits are also very different.
For example, the starlight spirit gathering array can be accelerated by starlight, and the speed of gathering spirits at night is much faster than during the day.
The grass and tree spirit gathering array has a better effect of gathering spirits in places where flowers, plants and spirit trees are planted.
In addition, there are many different levels of the Spirit Gathering Array. The lowest level can only be used by one person, and the coverage is extremely small.
The highest ninth level can even cover an entire country, turning it into a divine kingdom on earth. The concentration of spiritual energy in the formation can even reach hundreds of times that of the outside world, which is extremely terrifying.
Now Su Mo is drawing and carving a formation called Starlight Spirit Gathering Array.
After all, he had to go out for takeout during the day and stay at home at night, so the Starlight Spirit Gathering Array was most suitable for him.
In addition, it is also related to the fact that the Starlight Spirit Gathering Formation is a first-class formation and is easier to draw.
After all, he is just a beginner who has just started learning to draw formations.
Even though the strength of a martial arts master can be used to reduce errors in drawing formations, after all, one has to start from scratch and proceed step by step, and it is impossible to draw a high-quality formation at once.
Su Mo dipped his spiritual ink into the ground and drew fine lines on the ground. During the drawing process, he constantly used his own spiritual power to reconcile the lines to ensure that the flow direction of the spiritual power would not go wrong.
Even though he was careful enough, he still made mistakes.
Seeing the luster of the spirit pattern dimming quickly, Su Mo sighed and wiped it away, preparing to draw it again.
This is the first time since he traveled to this world that he encountered such a daunting problem.
The arrangement of the formation will naturally not be that easy, otherwise it will not form a profession.
According to the description in the classics, high-level formation masters can use their own spiritual power to wave their hands to set up formations, or they can also use the general trend of heaven and earth to set up formations.
But beginners like him can only use tools such as spiritual pens and ink to assist in setting up formations.
Naturally, he does not have these tools. What he has obtained now, including some classics related to formations, were traded from Bai Shichang and Song Ruyuan, and should be used to supplement resources such as spiritual grass and spiritual plants.
After all, even the Magician Alliance and the Civil Security Bureau have very limited inventory related to spiritual plants.
Not to mention that they also have to refine elixirs such as the Tide Ancient Pill, and it is impossible to trade them all.
As for the insufficient share, other resources and items will be traded according to Su Mo's requirements, including but not limited to formation minutes, formation resources, historical books, spiritual stone resources, etc.
It can be said that with the help of this transaction, he got a lot of help from the two major organizations. Not only did he obtain many urgently needed resources, but he also greatly made up for his lack of experience.
Moreover, this kind of transaction is not a one-time transaction, but a long-term cooperation that can be adjusted at any time according to your own needs.
Su Mo calmed down and started drawing the formation pattern again.
It took a full ten minutes, and after twelve attempts, he finally completed the first spiritual pattern of the Spirit Gathering Array.
The entire starlight spirit gathering array is composed of nine spirit patterns.
"Hiss! It looks like this first formation will only take an hour and a half to complete."
“But for beginners, one and a half hours is already a very good result.
It would take at least three or four days for an ordinary magician to draw the first formation with the support of sufficient spiritual power.
That is to say, I, with my profound martial arts skills and extremely precise control of details, can shorten the time to this extent. "
Su Mo looked at the complete spiritual pattern drawn on the ground and felt quite proud.
Just as I was thinking about it, a handmaiden's voice suddenly came from beside me:
"It's time to eat. Have you finished drawing the formation here?"
"It's still too early for the drawing to be successful."
Su Mo pointed to the spiritual pattern on the ground and said:
"It will take nine more spiritual patterns like this to be drawn, and a single spirit gathering array is not enough to cover the entire villa. According to my prediction, at least twelve spirit gathering arrays must be carved in the villa to increase the concentration of spiritual energy. To the standards I want.
Based on my current speed of drawing formations, I estimate that I will spend most of the night here. "
"Is it that troublesome?"
The hand girl frowned slightly and said:
"Why don't you let me help too."
Su Mo couldn't help but be slightly startled when he heard this:
"But can you use spiritual power here?"
"Would you like to know if you try it?"
The hand girl didn't waste any time, and directly took the magic pen lying next to her with her right hand.
After she dipped her hands into the spiritual ink, she immediately continued to draw along the spiritual patterns drawn by Su Mo.
It looked a bit awkward at first, but after the second spiritual pattern was drawn, the speed immediately increased dramatically.
Under Su Mo's dumbfounded gaze, the hand girl drew all the remaining ten spirit patterns with a "brush". The whole process did not even take more than a minute.
And when all the spiritual patterns are drawn, the spiritual powers in the many spiritual patterns are connected with each other, harmonious, and instantly bloom with bright luster.
Starlight Spirit Gathering Array, drawn successfully!
Seeing this scene, Su Mo's face was full of bewilderment:
"How did you do that?"
The hand girl asked in confusion:
"Isn't it enough to have hands?"
The corner of Su Mo's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.
The hand girl looked at the spirit gathering array on the ground, a look of contemplation flashed across her face, and then said:
"I just thought about it, the simple spirit gathering array may not be very effective. After all, Xiaomeng and I are not human beings, and the efficiency of using spiritual energy is extremely low. It is better to let it gather Yin energy at the same time, and you can absorb it. Spiritual energy, Xiaomeng and I absorb the Yin energy, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort."
Su Mo was completely stunned:
"But this is just a pure spirit gathering array, it can only be used to gather spirits."
"It doesn't matter, just change it."
The hand girl seemed to have thought of a modification plan, and added three more spiritual patterns to the spirit gathering array with a few strokes, and made some detailed modifications based on the original spiritual patterns.
Seeing this scene, Su Mo was quite speechless, because the position and strokes of the spirit pattern were all summarized through experiments by generations of formation masters. It does not mean that you can just randomly form an formation with a few random drawings.
The hand girl seemed to have no idea what was going on, and prepared to modify it into a new formation without thinking.
Su Mo was about to give her a few words of advice when he saw the brand-new spiritual patterns emitting gleams of light, forming a new formation.
"Nah! Is this okay?!"
Su Mo looked in disbelief.
The hand girl activated the new formation on the ground. Looking at the effect of the formation, she frowned slightly, seeming to be a little dissatisfied:
"This formation is not very efficient at gathering spiritual energy and yin energy, and there is even some loss due to the difference in energy.
However, if you want to modify and perfect it, it is not possible to rely on this spiritual pen and spiritual ink, and it must be prepared again.
It is best to draw the formation on the formation plate, so that it can be taken away at any time and it can also exert a stronger effect. "
Su Mo listened and quickly replied:
"You can record the materials you want first, and I will find a way to get them later."
The hand girl listened, but shook her head and said:
"Let's use this formation for the time being. The modified formation is not that clever. As the energy of the world recovers, it will be replaced soon. There is no need to change it again and again until the second wave of spiritual waves. After arriving, we can rearrange the new formation, which saves both time and resources."
Su Mo thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Then, the hand girl picked up the spirit pen and spirit ink and began to draw new spirit gathering formations in various places in the villa.
The number of formations she drew was far more than twelve.
In the meantime, the spiritual ink ran out several times, and Su Mo reconfigured it. Xiao Meng took on the task of transporting it. In order to save time on running, she even specially picked up the green snake and rode the snake back and forth.
After all the formations were drawn, there were actually seventy-two.
At first, Su Mo was worried that so many formations gathering in one place might cause conflicts, which would reduce the effect of gathering energy.
As a result, after the seventy-two formations were inscribed, all formations burst out with bright light and then disappeared.
At the same time, countless energies floating in the air gathered crazily towards the villa, reaching three times the level of the outside world in the blink of an eye.
"This, this is a composite formation!"
Feeling the energy rich in the air, Su Mo felt very surprised.
Composite formations enable multiple formations to form a large formation that exerts greater power through the nesting of formations.
Under normal circumstances, the sect-protecting formations of many sects in ancient times were composite formations. Different formations such as illusion formations, killing formations, and confusion formations were used to form a high-quality formation, which had various effects.
For example, the Resurrection Spirit Control Formation can also become a sub-formation of the Sect Protector Formation.
However, the difficulty of arranging a composite formation is almost dozens of times more than that of a single formation.
After all, one has to take into account the position of different formations and the flow of spiritual energy. Only formation masters of level three or above can reach the threshold of composite formations.
As a result, the hand girl finished the cloth for him directly!
Could it be possible that she was actually a formation master during her lifetime?
Su Mo thought a little puzzled.
Then he put aside his doubts and said to the hand girl with shining eyes:
"How about we set up another defensive formation later?"
The hand girl glanced at Xiao Meng and nodded.
"It's possible, but you have to see the formation diagram first."
"Have you ever set up a formation before?"
There was a look of confusion on the hand girl's face:
"I don't know about this, but I'm very familiar with the formations. I should have arranged them a lot during my lifetime, but I can't remember anything now. The formations are all based on instinct."
Su Mo nodded and secretly decided to get some more formation diagrams from the Civil Security Bureau and the Magician Alliance to show the hand girl, maybe it would help her recall what happened during her lifetime.
"Okay, the formations are all set up, let's go eat first."
The hand girl looked at the two of them and said in a soft voice.
"Wait a minute."
Su Mo ran into the large backyard.
He looked around, selected a pruned flower bed, and with a swipe, he picked up a small, dry and skinny tree from the green armor blade.
The small tree looked only about one meter tall, skinny and frail, but there was a faint vitality inside. It was the spiritual tree that was discovered in a foreign land before.
This spiritual tree was originally polluted by mirages and was lifeless. Later, a large amount of yang energy was collected during the chaos of the game, and then it regained its vitality.
Originally, he had kept the spiritual tree inside Qing Jia Ren because he could not find a suitable planting site outside.
But now there are a large number of spirit gathering arrays arranged here, and the level of spiritual power inside is only slightly inferior to that of the underground spiritual land, but it is more than enough to plant this spiritual tree.
Su Mo carefully planted the spiritual tree next to the flower bed according to some of the techniques and details recorded in "Spiritual Planting Farming".
After planting, he took out a small bottle of spiritual liquid.
This spiritual liquid was originally used to prepare spiritual ink, and it contains extremely abundant spiritual energy. Now it is not a waste if it is used to cultivate spiritual plants.
He poured half a bottle of spiritual liquid under the tree.
The spiritual energy emitted from the spiritual liquid, and the flowers in the surrounding flower beds instantly swelled and became extremely prosperous.
But Su Mo stared at the spirit tree without blinking.
Watching the thin spiritual tree grow slowly, its surface gradually turned green.
"It's sprouted! It's sprouted!"
Xiao Meng rode on the green snake, clapped her little hands and shouted excitedly.
Su Mo looked at the new green buds and stretched branches, and his heart fell safely into his stomach. He turned to the hand girl next to him and smiled:
"It looks like we will have spiritual fruit to eat in the future."
"Spirit fruit? Maybe it can also be used to make wine."
The hand girl looked at the increasingly vibrant spiritual tree, with a hint of expectation in her eyes.
Returned to the house and had dinner in a joyful atmosphere.
Su Mo finished washing the pots and dishes, and after saying good night to his handmaid Xiao Meng, he returned to his bedroom.
Looking at the stars shining outside the window, he took out the small star-catching cauldron.
With a little injection of spiritual power, the palm-sized cauldron immediately transformed into a simple medicinal cauldron about half a person tall.
Touching the spiritual pattern engraved on the surface of the medicine cauldron and smelling the faint medicinal smell inside, Su Mo murmured to himself:
"If you don't have any talent in forming formations, then you don't have any talent in making alchemy, right?"
(End of chapter)
