In fact, the construction task is not to build a house.
When Xu Ke came to the "construction site" with other "migrant worker" monks who also took on construction tasks, Xu Ke saw several formation masters.
A high-ranking disciple of the Formation Hall, together with several junior disciples, were holding a compass and turning around in the valley on the south side of Xishan Col, surveying the direction of the earth's veins.
"Senior Brother Peng, the manpower you want..."
The "foreman" who led the team handed over his report to the senior disciples of the formation hall.
"Don't make any noise! Stay aside!"
Senior Brother Peng yelled angrily, and then ignored him. He concentrated on surveying the earth's veins. While holding the compass to detect, he counted with his fingers. He looked very busy.
A group of "migrant monks" were treated so roughly, and they did not dare to complain at all. Instead, they looked at Senior Brother Peng with a bit of respect.
Those who thrive on technology are awesome.
It's just that... the flow of earth veins here is not complicated! Is it worth it to work so hard?
As long as we avoid the interference of the spiritual energy of the mineral veins over there, isn't it clear at a glance the direction of the veins? It's very simple!
Well... with my breakthrough "Kanyu Technique" and "Qi-Wang Technique", coupled with the talent of "Dayan Divine Calculation", the direction of the earth's veins is clear at a glance, but to others, it is not so clear.
I figured out the answer at a glance, but it took you a long time to figure it out.
Xu Ke raised his eyebrows. It turns out that the formation masters in your formation hall are only at this level!
At this moment, Xu Ke felt like a top student seeing a bad student.
Although these formation masters are somewhat "stupid", the formation formation methods they master are still very useful to Xu Ke.
Now that you have encountered it, of course you can't let it go.
Xu Ke had already made up his mind to carefully observe how they set up their formation later and take the opportunity to steal their lead.
Next, Xu Ke and a group of "migrant worker" monks waited in the valley for more than an hour, until Senior Brother Peng from the Formation Hall finally surveyed the direction of the earth veins.
Then, Senior Brother Peng from the Formation Hall put down his compass, turned to look at the "migrant monk", and reached out to point out a few people in the crowd.
"伱, you, and you, um... the one with the mountain ape, you are included, follow me."
Senior Brother Peng named a few people in the crowd and waved to others, "The rest of you will stay here and listen to the arrangements of my junior brothers."
After saying that, Brother Peng waved and walked out with a few "migrant workers" he named.
Xu Ke is the one who "brings the mountain ape".
Turning to look at the "migrant workers" named by Senior Brother Peng, Xu Ke discovered that the people named by Senior Brother Peng were all gold and earth monks, and their strength was above the seventh level of Qi training.
Only Xu Ke's realm is low, only the sixth level of Qi training is perfect, and he is still one or two days away from the seventh level of Qi training?
Moreover, Xu Ke was not yet a gold and earth cultivator, so being singled out by Brother Peng must have been a "bonus point" for the Mountain-moving Ape, a high-level earth spiritual beast with perfect Qi training.
Senior Brother Peng took Xu Ke and others to a cliff.
Pointing to the cliff in front of him, Brother Peng raised his hand to use spiritual power, made a mark, and told everyone: "Where I marked, dig down one foot, three feet and four minutes."
"Let me do it!"
Xu Ke wanted to "steal his skills from his master", so naturally he had to show off, since he didn't want to do it himself anyway.
With a flash of consciousness, he used the "Heart Seal Channeling Technique" to tell the mountain-moving ape the dimensions of the pit. Xu Ke waved his hand to the mountain-moving ape behind him, "Go!"
The mountain-moving ape quickly walked to the designated position, stretched out his hand to grab it, and the brilliance of earth-yellow spiritual power shone in his palm.
The next moment, the earth and rocks under the marked position seemed to come alive, turning into a debris flow, and were pulled out by the mountain-moving ape and thrown aside.
There is only a square pit left at the marked location, which is one foot, three feet and four minutes deep into the ground, no difference at all.
"good!"
Senior Brother Peng looked at the dug hole, then at the mountain-moving ape, and turned to Xu Ke and nodded, "This junior fellow from the Beast Control Hall has done a good job."
"Senior Brother Peng, I am not from the Beast Control Hall."
Xu Ke smiled "honestly" and said to Senior Brother Peng, "I am from the Sinong Palace."
"Huh? From Sinong Palace?"
Senior Brother Peng was obviously stunned for a moment, with an expression of "Are you kidding me?"
You are a farming disciple of the Sinong Hall, but you are a master of beast control with perfect qi training. How can you be embarrassed by the disciples of the Beast Control Hall?
Not only was Senior Brother Peng a little dazed, but the migrant monks nearby also looked at Xu Ke with surprise.
However, no one paid much attention to it. This beast must have been given by his parents!
Then, Senior Brother Peng began to arrange the array devices.
He took out a copper rod engraved with countless runes from the storage bag, and punched out a spiritual power-stimulating rune, and the spiritual light circulated endlessly on the copper rod.
Xu Ke looked at this rune copper rod and clearly felt that it was extraordinary.
This rune stick looks very high-end. It probably doesn't belong to Senior Brother Peng himself, but was given to him by the sect boss for his formation.
The qi-watching technique distinguishes the flow of spiritual power, the Kanyu technique analyzes the relationship between the copper rod runes and the earth's spiritual energy, the Xuanmen technique makes careful and rapid calculations, and the comprehensive knowledge of runes during the qi training period circulates rapidly in Xu Ke's mind.
In a moment, Xu Ke understood the function of this rune copper rod.
The function of this rune copper rod is to absorb spiritual energy from the earth's veins, and then transmit the spiritual energy to other locations through "wireless transmission".
This is the "formation base" of an array, used to build "formation nodes".
At this time, Brother Peng picked up the rune copper rod and carefully placed it in the newly dug pit.
"Fill it in!"
Senior Brother Peng waved to Xu Ke.
Xu Ke quickly ordered the mountain-moving apes to backfill the earth and rocks they had just dug out, and bury the rune copper rods in the ground.
After constructing a "formation node", Senior Brother Peng took Xu Ke and others to place copper rune pillars throughout the valley to construct a formation node.
After working for an hour, all the formation nodes were completed.
Through the Qi-gazing and Kanyu techniques, Xu Ke clearly saw from the perspective of "spiritual vision" that the entire aura of heaven and earth near Xishan Col was gradually changing its original trajectory under the influence of these formation nodes.
Spiritual energy poured in, and each formation node lit up.
A stream of spiritual power flows between the formation nodes, interacting with each other, constantly connecting, and gradually forming a whole.
Under Xu Ke's "spiritual vision", all the formation nodes were shining with bright spiritual light, like stars in the sky in the dark night.
The distribution of these "stars" is very regular.
Xu Ke calculated in his mind based on the number of formation nodes and found that these formation nodes were all arranged according to the "five elements magic number".
So, this is a Five Elements Formation?
The metal and earth spiritual powers are the main ones here, other spiritual powers are slightly weaker, and the water spiritual power is the weakest. The spiritual power of the Five Elements is seriously unbalanced. It shouldn't be the Five Elements Formation, right?
Xu Ke thought in his mind, maybe Senior Brother Peng wanted to use the principle of "the mutual development of the five elements" and use the two spiritual powers of metal and earth as the source to transform spiritual powers of other attributes?
Although his knowledge of runes was very strong, Xu Ke was not good at formations, and he was unable to judge Brother Peng's formation plan at the moment.
Then let’s see how he sets up the formation first!
The formation nodes have been constructed and the foundation for the formation has been laid. The next step is to manipulate these spiritual powers by arranging the formation to realize various formation functions.
It seems that Xu Ke is very useful. When Senior Brother Peng set up the formation, he called Xu Ke over to work as a laborer.
Well... to be precise, they used the mountain apes as laborers, and Xu Ke stood aside and "stealed" from them.
Next, Senior Brother Peng took Xu Ke to dig holes between the various formation nodes.
Brother Peng used his spiritual power to draw winding lines between the nodes of the formation, and then asked Xu Ke to direct the mountain-moving ape to dig pits along the lines.
In these pits, Brother Peng took out rune sticks with five elements attributes and placed them deep or shallow.
This operation seems no different from building the array node before.
Even the rune rods placed by Senior Brother Peng, apart from being smaller than the rune rods at the formation nodes, have no functional difference. They all serve the purpose of transmitting spiritual power.
All the spiritual power operating in the formation relies on "wireless transmission"? This will cause the spiritual power to dissipate and the loss will be serious.
Oh, what is lost is the natural flow of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, so that’s okay.
Since these small rune rods are used to transmit spiritual power, the key to realizing the function of the formation is not in these rune rods.
so……
Xu Ke looked at the spiritual lines drawn by Brother Peng on the ground.
These winding lines of spiritual power are the routes of spiritual power in the formation.
By analyzing the spells, Xu Ke had already deeply realized that spiritual power can achieve various spell effects by running in specific routes and frequencies.
Comparing the basic rune structure of the Yuan Fu Jing, Xu Ke suddenly discovered that...the spiritual power lines drawn by Brother Peng could all find corresponding structures in the basic runes.
I see!
If the spell is cast on paper, then the formation is like drawing the spell on the ground!
At this moment, Xu Ke already understood the essence of the formation.
Formation is to achieve various formation effects by arranging formation nodes, calling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and then operating these spiritual powers according to special trajectories and frequencies.
From the most essential point of view, spells, spells, and formations are all achieved by manipulating the trajectory and frequency of spiritual power.
There are three thousand avenues, different paths lead to the same destination.
Xu Ke's knowledge of runes obtained from the Yuan Fu Jing was more helpful to his practice than he imagined.
After clearly understanding the principles of the formation, the cooperation between Xu Ke and Senior Brother Peng became even more tacit.
Brother Peng had just finished drawing the spiritual lines, and after talking about the direction, size, angle and depth of digging the pit, Xu Ke immediately directed the mountain-moving ape to complete it quickly without any mistakes.
The whole process was completely error-free and without any hesitation. It was done very quickly and accurately.
This made Senior Brother Peng look at Xu Ke with admiration in his eyes.
There is no need to explain to him in detail or repeatedly emphasize the position, angle, size, shape and depth of each pit, and there is no need to correct mistakes and rework. You only need to make a request and it can be completed accurately and quickly.
With the cooperation of such an assistant, the formation was so smooth, so relaxed, and so comfortable.
Don't look at it as just a dug hole. The orientation, angle, size, shape and depth of each hole need to be very precise.
Array masters are accustomed to using "Xuanmen magic numbers" to explain these data, but which monk in general would specialize in Xuanmen magic numbers?
In the past, when setting up formations, we had to stress many times before digging a hole, and have to rework many times after digging a hole, which made people very angry.
Now, Xu Ke only needs to say the request once, and Xu Ke can complete it accurately and quickly.
An assistant who can understand the data expressions of "Xuanmen magic numbers" and can quickly and accurately complete tasks as required is really a comforting assistant.
With the close cooperation between the two, the formation became very smooth.
It took more than half a day for Senior Brother Peng and Xu Ke to accurately and quickly arrange the connection routes between the various formation nodes.
After the completion, Xu Ke enlarged his vision to the whole, taking all the formation nodes and connecting lines into his vision.
As a result, all the structures of this formation were completely understood.
It was completely consistent with Xu Ke's previous guess. It was indeed a Five Elements Formation.
This Five Elements Formation makes use of the abundant earth spiritual energy in Xishan Col and the gold spiritual energy in the mineral veins. Through the transformation of the formation, it becomes complete in the five elements' spiritual energy, realizing the five elements' vitality and endless growth.
Judging from the effects of the formation, there are attack, defense, control, and weakening, which can be considered very comprehensive.
Next, Senior Brother Peng set up an altar in the center of the Five Elements Formation, buried the formation plate, planted the formation flag, and successfully completed the task of setting up the formation.
This altar, these formation disks and formation flags are all used to manipulate the spiritual power in the formation and control the operation of the formation.
Moreover, these formation plates and formation flags are also of high quality. Under Xu Ke's Qi Watching Technique, the auras on the array disk and array flag were dazzling.
The sect boss has spent a lot of money by taking out so many high-grade formation weapons.
At this time, the altar was set up, and Brother Peng fired a burst of spiritual power to activate the formation.
Auras of spiritual light shone, and the five elements of spiritual energy flowed rapidly along the formation nodes. The formation ran very smoothly without any hindrance, and the formation was very successful.
"It's done!"
Senior Brother Peng smiled and nodded, then turned to look at Xu Ke. Just as he was about to speak, he paused again, "Uh... Junior Brother, you did a good job!"
This is because Senior Brother Peng found that he didn't even know Xu Ke's name.
"Senior Brother Peng, my name is Xu Ke."
Xu Ke smiled and cupped his hands, "It's all the credit of Senior Brother Peng, I just dug a few holes. Oh, I didn't dig them all, it was the mountain ape who dug them."
"Don't underestimate digging a hole. It's not easy to dig well."
Senior Brother Peng smiled and said, "I just learned the formation, and I followed the master to dig holes for several years!"
Just as he was talking, suddenly an alarm bell rang.
"Dangdangdang..."
A rapid bell rang.
"The tide of beasts is coming, and the defense line on the top of the mountain is tight. Everyone immediately enters the defense line on the top of the mountain to support!"
Deacon Wang’s roar echoed in the mountain col.
Beast tide is coming?
Xu Ke's expression changed and he quickly saluted Senior Brother Peng, "Senior Brother Peng, I'm going to the top of the mountain to support the defense line..."
"No need to go!"
Senior Brother Peng waved his hand, "You stay here and protect me. The formation has been set up. I activate the formation, which is the best support."
"good!"
Xu Ke would naturally have no objections. Who doesn’t like fishing in an aboveboard way?
The next moment, I saw Senior Brother Peng waving his hand and unleashing a burst of spiritual power. The altar shook slightly. In the array plate placed on the altar, strands of spiritual light flickered in and out of the runes.
On the formation flags arranged around, runes appeared one after another, and as the spiritual light circulated, images of the five divine beasts, the green dragon, the white tiger, the suzaku, the black basalt, and the unicorn, emerged.
"Wutu formation, get up!"
Senior Brother Peng stood on the Dharma altar, stepped on the Yu step, pointed the Dharma sword, and a thick yellow spiritual light rushed out and hit the Qilin formation flag.
With a "boom", the whole earth shook violently, and the strong spiritual power of the earth rippled out like light waves.
In an instant, all the monks covered by the spiritual light of the earth, as well as the buildings on the defense line, all lit up with a thick and solid earth shield.
The next moment, Senior Brother Peng waved his magic sword again, "Gengjin Formation, rise!"
A ray of white light hit the white tiger formation flag, and another sharp and cold wave of light swept out, blessing all the monks.
All attack! Everyone is on defense!
The formation master is really awesome!
This is the reason why Xu Ke wants to learn the formation from Senior Brother Peng.
(End of chapter)
