Chapter 12 Study Array
Liang Yan chose a room in the right corner of the courtyard. The room was thick with dust. Liang Yan did some simple cleaning, put down his luggage, and was about to meditate. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of two people walking far away on the path, one fat and one thin, both wearing the same style of gray clothes.
Liang Yan did a little exploration and found that both of them were only at the first level of Qi training, and their spiritual energy was weak. They were just slightly better than ordinary warriors.
The two came to the hospital and found that there was one more person, which seemed quite surprising. Liang Yan walked out of the room, saluted first and said, "Liang Yan, I am a new disciple. Please take care of me in the future."
The fat senior brother smiled kindly: "It turns out that I am a new disciple. Junior brother, hehe, junior brother, there is no need to be polite. My name is Li Dali and his name is Sun Qianli. Just call us Brother Li or Brother Sun. We usually call them that way."
Before Liang Yan could answer, Sun Qianli immediately interjected: "If you have anything to say, please talk slowly. I'll go back first." After that, he walked to his room and closed the door with a snap. .
Li Dali smiled awkwardly and said: "Brother Liang, don't mind. Brother Sun is not in good health at all. Our handyman disciples work very hard. He always looks very tired. As long as he comes back from work, he just sleeps."
Liang Yan smiled slightly and said that he was not concerned about it. After talking to Li Dali for a few words, they went back to their rooms.
After a night of meditating and practicing martial arts, Liang Yan was already fully dressed at dawn the next day. He reported to the Li Pavilion and the Law Pavilion according to the map given by Uncle Zhou, and received the sect's laws and a set of gray handyman disciples. apparel.
When he hurried back to the attic in the middle of the apricot forest, Li Dali, Sun Qian and Li had already arrived, but Wang Yuan had not arrived yet. Liang Yan stepped forward and stood side by side with the two of them. Li Dali gave him a friendly smile, while Sun Qian and Li still looked indifferent.
The three of them waited for another stick of incense before Wang Yuan appeared on the path with a yawn and walked over leisurely. Li Dali and Sun Qianli seemed to have been used to this for a long time, and they didn't feel weird at all.
Wang Yuan glanced at Liang Yan lazily and said: "You, southern Lingmu District, fifty bundles of Lingmu District, Jinxiu Peak Lingquan to carry water, ten tanks, remember to transport these to the sundries Please register it under my Zhenmai name. Come to the library to clean it after you finish your work.”
Then turning to Li Dali, Sun Qianli said: "As for you two, you are still in the same place. If you are clear about it, just go to work."
The three of them received the task and went to the miscellaneous place again. After picking up the tools, they headed towards their respective mission areas.
Liang Yan walked towards Lingmu District as shown on the map, and soon he saw a green forest. The trees were lush and green, and they were all over five feet tall.
He picked a relatively small spiritual tree and chopped it with the ax. There was a "click" sound before the ax cut into the tree seven inches.
Liang Yan couldn't help but secretly smacked his lips when he saw this: "The skills I practice are good at physical body, but it is so difficult to chop this spiritual tree. According to the cultivation of those two people, I am afraid it will really take a whole day. It seems that the life of this handyman disciple is really difficult. Let's get through it."
Thinking like this, Liang Yan silently started to use the unknown method taught by the old monk, and struck down with the ax with full force. This time, the ax cut into the whole piece, almost to the middle of the trunk. Liang Yan then showed a look of satisfaction, then put away the ax and struck again.
When he finally finished chopping fifty bundles of spiritual wood, it was already close to noon. Then he rushed to the Jinxiu Peak Spiritual Spring to fetch water without stopping for a while. When everything was done, Liang Yan Enduring the pain all over my body, I returned to the library.
Wang Yuan didn't seem to expect that he had completed the task so quickly. He gave Liang Yan a meaningful look and his attitude seemed to have changed. He just asked him to clean the first floor of the attic and didn't say anything else. What's up.
Liang Yan nodded and obeyed. Within an hour, Liang Yan had cleaned up and down the first floor. At this time, Li Dali and Sun Qianli had not returned yet. Obviously, for them, the task of this handyman disciple was impossible. Liang Yan completed it so quickly.
"The tasks have been completed. We must seize the time to enter the library to learn the formation." Liang Yan thought to himself.
The reason why he works so hard is actually to save more time to read the books in the Zhenmai Library. After all, he still has a six-year contract with him. If there is no achievement, it will be all in vain.
Liang Yan walked into the library. Although it looked like a small attic from the outside, it was surprisingly large inside. Various classics were placed in categories on rattan bookshelves.
Liang Yan had already set his sights on the target when he was cleaning before. At this time, he walked to the left side of the outer layer, reached out and took out a book with a tan cover, which clearly read "Preliminary explanation of the formation." "" Four big characters, Liang Yan sat on the floor and began to look at it with relish.
Time flew by, and it was evening in a blink of an eye. Liang Yancai took a deep breath and raised his head from the book.
“It turns out that the formation together is profound and profound.”
Liang Yan murmured to himself: “In the final analysis, the formation is about monks applying their understanding of the great ways of heaven and earth to the control of spiritual energy. . Excluding some absolute formations in the early Yuan Dynasty, the formations created by the masters of later generations can be roughly divided into killing formations, illusion formations, trapping formations, forbidden formations, and sealing formations.”
"It's just that everything has animism. It's been countless millions of years since various races began to practice Taoism and seek immortality. Among them, there are many amazing and talented people who have improved the original formations and even created their own formations. This is complicated. Countless variant formations have been born, and their functions are exquisite. They are no longer limited to the five major categories. "It's just that no matter how they change, they are always inseparable from the four essentials of the formation. These four essentials." They are array eyes, array weapons, array patterns and array sources. The array eye refers to the core of the array, which is like a person's Dantian. It is usually a magical weapon or the like. Once the array eye is broken, it will be difficult to maintain the formation. ; and array devices refer to professional implements that assist in setting up arrays, which can be compared to human acupuncture points. Generally, array plates, array flags, array beads, etc. are used, and the requirements vary depending on the size of the array; array patterns refer to It is the Dao pattern carved by the person who set up the formation, which is like a person's meridians; as for the source of the formation, it is usually used as a spiritual stone, or it can be replaced by other treasures with sufficient spiritual energy. The source of the formation is like the spiritual power in the human body. If it is empty There are Dantian, acupuncture points, and meridians, but if there is no spiritual power flowing in them, they will not have any effect.”
This "Preliminary Interpretation of Formation" can be said to be extremely detailed. It explains the basic knowledge of formation in detail, and it can be regarded as introducing Liang Yan to the gate of formation.
Liang Yan had an amazing memory. He could read ten lines at a glance. It only took him an afternoon to forcefully memorize the summary of the book in his mind before he opened the door.
At this time, there were three people standing outside the door, none other than Sun Qianli, Li Dali and Wang Yuan.
Sun and Li had obviously just returned from work. They did not expect that Liang Yan, as a newcomer, would actually complete the task before them, and they were a little surprised for a moment.
What surprised them even more was that Liang Yan would actually spend time going to the Library to learn formations.
You must know that the most important thing for practitioners in this world is their own cultivation. It is reasonable to say that they spend time on the alchemy line. After all, some elixirs have the effect of overwhelming the world and can greatly assist their own cultivation and even break through bottlenecks. This This is also the reason why people in the world are obsessed with alchemy.
But the formation method is illusory. Except for certain needs at certain times and occasions, its help is minimal when fighting people on the spot, so few people are willing to delve into this method.
Even Sun Qianli and Li Dali, as members of the formation lineage, rarely practice formation techniques. When they have time, they almost always meditate and practice qi, trying to break through the second level of qi training. Moreover, they originally Choosing Formation Pulse was not his original intention.
Liang Yan was not aware of their doubts. He just thought they were curious about how he could complete the task so quickly, so he said goodbye to Wang Yuan and left.
Liang Yan returned to the dormitory and meditated all night. He completed the task early the next day and continued to dive into the library.
This Zhenmai library is full of books related to formations, and there are no books on cultivation techniques. Even the outer disciples of Zhenmai are not very likely to come here. It takes ten days and a half for one person to come here to check it out. Liang Yan was given the advantage of letting him read quietly in the library alone.
In this way, Liang Yan practiced chopping wood in the morning, studying the formations in the afternoon, and practicing Qi in the evening. In such a blink of an eye, three months passed in an instant.
On this afternoon, in the Zhenmai Library, Liang Yan was holding a black book and shaking his head, reading with gusto. On the cover of the book, there are six characters "Pictures of the Eight Formations of the Wind Queen" written in gold foil.
While reading, Liang Yan suddenly frowned. He turned to the last page of the book and used spiritual power on his fingertips to induce vomiting. After hesitating for a moment, he wrote on it:
"Eight Transformations" , Tianfu is the leader of the army and the master of the formation. If it is done too hastily, it will be defeated and destroyed. It should be hidden in the hidden dragon and cannot be used unless it is a matter of life or death."
After thinking about it, he wrote: "The earth carrier is the vanguard. It is difficult to stop the enemy. It has unlimited use. However, trapped animals cannot be fought for a long time. It can be supplemented by clouds. The earth carrier is square and the clouds dominate the four corners. If they are attacked, they will collapse."
Then he wrote: "The wind and poplars are invisible, attached to the sky, and the clouds hang down to the earth. They are invisible at first. The wind turns into snakes, the clouds turn into birds, and the bullfights. And shooting the Sirius, these four became living formations, as for the flying dragon, the winged tiger, the flying bird, and the flying snake."
Liang Yan was hesitant at first, but as he wrote, he became more and more involved, and wrote At the rising point, the eyebrows are dancing, the handwriting is jumping and eloquent, and it turns out that the eight changes in the eight formations behind the wind are combined in pairs to derive endless changes.
If there was a senior who knew the formation here, he would be so shocked that he would not be able to close his jaw.
You must know that although the "Eight Formations after the Wind" is not a profound formation, it is definitely not an easy-to-understand entry-level method. It contains: sky covering, earth carrying, wind popping, cloud hanging, and dragon flying. , tiger wings, flying birds, and snakes and snakes.
Every ordinary person would not make much progress without spending months studying, but Liang Yan was able to overturn the book in just three months. He thought of ways to improve it. It would not be too much to say that he was a genius in formation. of.
Of course Liang Yan himself would not know this. In order to make a six-year agreement with the Pavilion Master, he had spent all his time studying the formations from the first day he joined. In addition to working and practicing, he only read books. Studying deeply, almost to the point of obsession.
Liang Yan eloquently wrote the method of improving the eight formations on the last page of the book. Suddenly I realized that I was just a Taoist apprentice for a while, but in this library, I used my pen instead of my words and spoke nonsense. It was really ridiculous.
As I thought about it, my face turned red, so I wrote in the last line at the end of the article: "The crazy scholar talks nonsense."
After finishing writing, I closed the book and looked out the window to see the sky. It was already dusk, so I got up and cleaned the library before going out to the dormitory.
(End of this chapter)