Chapter 12 Learning Formation

Liang Yan chose a room in the right corner of the courtyard. The room was filled 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 power was weak. They were just slightly better than ordinary warriors.

When the two came to the hospital, they seemed surprised to find that there was one more person. Liang Yan walked out of the room, bowed first and said, "Liang Yan is a new servant disciple. Please take good care of your two senior brothers in the future."

The fat senior brother smiled kindly: "So you are a new junior brother. Haha, junior brother, no need to be polite. My name is Li Dali and his name is Sun Qianli. You can just call us Brother Li or Brother Sun. We are always like this. Called."

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. This brother Sun is not in good health at all. Our handyman disciples work very hard. He usually looks very tired. He always sleeps when he comes back from work." .”

Liang Yan smiled slightly and said that he was not worried about it. After chatting with Li Dali for a few words, they went back to their rooms.

After a night of meditating and doing exercises, 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 uniforms for a handyman disciple.

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, fifty bundles of spiritual firewood from the southern Lingmu District, and ten tanks of water from the Jinxiu Peak Lingquan. Remember to transport these to the debris department and register them in our array." Under the name of Mai. After you finish your work, come to the library to clean."

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, went to the debris store to get tools, and then walked separately towards their respective task areas.

Liang Yan walked towards the Lingmu District as shown on the map. Not long after, he saw a green forest with lush trees that were over five feet tall.

He picked a relatively short spiritual tree and chopped it down 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 tongue when he saw this: "The skills I practice are good at the 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 to work. Look. The life of a handyman disciple here is really difficult."

Thinking like this, Liang Yan silently used the nameless method passed down by the old monk, and struck down with the ax with all his strength. This time, the ax cut into the whole piece, almost to the middle of the trunk. Liang Yan then showed a satisfied look, and then Sheathed the ax and chopped again.

By the time 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 endured the pain all over his body and returned. Go 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.

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. If he has no achievements in the formation, then he will be useless. The basket was empty.

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, with the four characters "Preliminary Solution to Formation" written on it. Liang Yan 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 is broad and profound."

Liang Yan murmured to himself: "In the final analysis, formations are about monks using their understanding of the great ways of heaven and earth to control spiritual energy. Except for some absolute formations in the early Yuan Dynasty, the formations created by the masters of later generations can probably be It is divided into killing formation, illusion formation, trapping formation, forbidden formation and sealing formation."

"It's just that everything has animism. It's been countless tens of thousands of years since various tribes 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. The roots are complicated and the birth of There are countless mutant formations with exquisite functions, and they are no longer limited to the five major categories."

"It's just that no matter how you change, you can't leave behind the four essentials of the formation. These four essentials are the formation eye, the formation weapon, the formation pattern and the formation source. The formation eye refers to the core of the formation, just like a person's Dantian, which is usually used Once the formation's eyes are broken, it will be difficult to maintain the formation, such as magic weapons and spiritual weapons. Array tools refer to professional artifacts that assist in setting up the formation. They can be compared to human acupuncture points. Generally, formation plates, formation flags, formation beads, etc. are used. , the requirements are different due to different formations; formation patterns refer to the Dao patterns carved by the person setting up the formation, just like a person's meridians; as for the source of the formation, it is generally used as a spiritual stone, or other treasures with sufficient spiritual energy can be used Instead, the formation source is like the spiritual power in the human body. If there are empty Dantian, acupuncture points, and meridians, but there is no spiritual power flowing in them, it will not be able to exert any effect."

This "Preliminary Understanding 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's memory was astonishing. 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, and then he opened the door and came out.

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 actually took the time to go 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 ethereal. Except for certain needs at certain times and occasions, its help is minimal when fighting with people on the spot, so few people are willing to delve into this method.

Even Sun Qianli and Li Dali, as people of the Formation Pulse, 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 chose the Formation Pulse. Out of intention.

Liang Yan didn't know 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, meditated and practiced all night, 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 few outer disciples of Zhenmai will 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 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.

As he was reading, Liang Yan suddenly frowned, turned to the last page of the book, used his fingertips to induce vomiting, hesitated for a moment, and wrote on it:

"The eight formations change, and Tianfu is the leader of the soldiers. If the master of the formation is too hasty, he will be defeated within. He should hide 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 a snake, the clouds turn into birds, they rush towards the bull and shoot the wolf. These four become living formations. As for the dragon flying , tiger wings, birds flying, snakes and pans.”

Liang Yan was hesitant at first, but as he continued to write, he became more and more immersed in it. When he got to the point where he was writing, his eyebrows were dancing, his handwriting was jumping, and he was eloquent. It turned out that the eight changes in the eight formations after watching the wind were combined in pairs to derive endless changes.

At this time, 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 poplar, cloud hanging, dragon flying, tiger wing, bird flying. , eight changes of snake and pan.

Ordinary people would not make much progress without spending months studying. However, 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 and studied, almost to the point of being possessed. the point.

Liang Yan eloquently wrote down 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.

Thinking 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.