Chapter 215 Formation Genius
The class of Dinggui class lasted from morning until the sun was setting, and a group of sword-holders were already standing outside the class.
These sword-holders temporarily acted as book boys. When school was over, these sword-holders would come to greet their masters.
But when Tian Lin went out, Yu'er couldn't get close to Tian Lin at all, and those sword-holders who greeted their masters also looked at their masters surrounding Tian Lin, a completely unrelated person.
"Junior Brother Tian, what exactly is sword intent, and how did you cultivate it?"
"Junior Brother Tian, you teach me sword intent in the future, and I will teach you mourning."
A group of people chattered, all of them wanted to become sword cultivators.
Tian Lin was also helpless, and he didn't know how to cultivate sword intent.
He grew his sword intent by eating water spirit rice, but this method only worked for him, and he couldn't let these people eat water spirit rice, right?
"Brothers, the methods of practicing sword spirit have been written in detail by the sages in the book. I am a Huahualang, how can I teach people better than the sages?"
"Forget it, if they want to keep it secret, can you and I force them?"
Someone said dissatisfiedly and simply left.
But many people present were not unreasonable. Even if they felt that Tian Lin was keeping it secret, they could understand it.
A group of people saluted each other, found their own swords and left.
As soon as Tian Lin returned to the cave, he took out the animal skins and other things he brought from the school from the storage bag.
The small cave was instantly filled with a foul smell.
"Master, what's that smell?"
"This is the homework that our senior brother assigned to us today. We have to make talisman paper and hand it in tomorrow."
After hearing what Tian Lin said, Yu'er hurried up and said, "I'll help you."
Tian Lin waved his hand, "Since it's homework, why should I let others interfere?"
He rolled up his sleeves, asked Cui'er to fetch a basin of water, and took medicine to start tanning animal skins.
Talisman makers always have medicine to air-dry animal skins, and Tian Lin spent half an hour on the operation.
He cut the animal skin into strips, and then made it into squares of the same size, and then took the talisman pen to start drawing talismans.
Tian Lin actually didn't have much interest in drawing talismans, but if he wanted to enter Class C, he had to take five elective courses in the monthly exam.
He spent the whole night drawing talismans and carving array patterns.
"Whether it is making talismans or setting up formations, I have no talent. As long as I can cope with the monthly exams, I don't have to worry about these unorthodox courses in the future."
Tian Lin actually has another method, that is the 'cold fragrant leaves' in the storage bag.
Mei Xiangu picked twenty or so cold fragrant leaves from the goddess tree and gave them to Tian Lin. These twenty or so cold fragrant leaves are equivalent to twenty or so pieces of enlightenment tea.
The hint of enlightenment tea is that it is a treasure that can be used to comprehend the great way, not just magical skills.
Making talismans and setting up formations are one of the three thousand great ways. If you use enlightenment tea to comprehend, the secrets of making talismans and setting up formations will be easy to understand.
But Tian Lin is reluctant to use cold fragrant leaves. His top priority is the five elements of Dharma body.
But at present, only Tianyisheng Water Pill can achieve the water Dharma body. Tian Lin can't find auxiliary pills for the other four Dharma bodies.
Tian Lin plans to use [Enlightenment Tea] instead when there is a lack of auxiliary pills, so he will not use it easily.
A few days passed like this. It was not long after Tian Lin arrived at the Dinggui class, but it was the time for the Dinggui class's monthly exam.
Early in the morning, the whole Hulu Peak and even the whole Wendao Sect were filled with crying.
Because funeral studies are easy to pass the exam, nearly 90% of the outer disciples of Wendao Sect have studied this subject.
These 90% of disciples wailed together, wouldn't it be a sound that shook the nine heavens?
Although Tian Lin had only studied for a few days, he also joined the crying team.
After crying, they had to write a eulogy silently. Fortunately, the questions in the Ding class's exam were not too difficult, and Tian Lin got a "medium-low" score.
"The formation exam is usually set by the candidates."
The person in charge of the Dinggui class's monthly exam was Senior Brother Changxue, but today's examiner was Elder Xue in addition to the teaching elder.
Because Elder Xue, a powerful Yuanying, came, everyone in the Dinggui class seemed particularly serious.
"My fellow disciples, there are twenty-one bamboo sticks in my stick holder. Each of you draw one stick from it, and those with the same number will ask each other questions."
After Senior Brother Changxue finished speaking, he suddenly showed a strange smile: "The person who draws the number eleven, I will ask questions to him."
The students in Class Dinggui obviously understood the rules, so they knew that this rule was not very fair, but no one said anything.
Soon, a group of people took bamboo sticks, and finally it was Tian Lin's turn.
He took a bamboo stick from the stick holder, glanced at the word "四" on the bamboo stick, and felt neither sad nor happy.
Only a fat man took the bamboo stick with a bitter face, looked at Senior Brother Changxue pitifully and said:
"Senior Brother, how can I compare with you in the art of array formation? I admit defeat."
Before Senior Brother Changxue could speak, the teaching elder above scolded: "How can we admit defeat when we seek immortality and ask for the way? If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will send you to the errand yard to be a errand disciple."
The fat man's face turned pale and he dared not speak.
Tian Lin also took a breath, raised the bamboo stick in his hand and said loudly: "I am number four, which senior brother also drew number four?"
After hearing Tian Lin's words, a tall man came out. He bowed to Tian Lin and said: "I am number four, Junior Brother Tian, please be patient. Let's wait for the other senior brothers to finish their competitions before we talk."
Soon, the two disciples who drew the number ‘one’ came out. After they exchanged greetings, the teaching elder stood up and drew two circles on the huge hillside.
These two simple circles were actually restrictions set by the teaching elder. People in the circle could not see things outside the circle.
Tian Lin and others who were watching watched the two disciples in the two circles start to set up the formation -
The students in Class D did not have any particularly powerful formation methods. The materials they had were only formation stones and five-element spirit stones.
“Senior Brother Xiao is going to set up the Fire Spirit Formation. He used seven formation stones - huh? What is Senior Brother Yu doing? He is going to set up a five-star formation?”
“The five-star formation is not that easy to set up - sure enough, Senior Brother Yu failed.”
The disciples watching outside the circle whispered, and because the restrictions set by the teaching elder could isolate sound, they were not afraid that their voices would be heard by people in the restriction.
Tian Lin did not understand the five-star formation and the Fire Spirit Formation. He could not even afford the formation stones and could not carve the formation pattern.
Today's monthly exam, he didn't worry about the results at all, he came here just to broaden his horizons.
Soon, Senior Brother Yu on the right started to set up the formation, holding the broken formation stone in his hand, with a depressed look on his face.
A quarter of an hour later, Senior Brother Xiao on the left had finished setting up the formation.
The teaching elder standing next to Elder Xue raised his hand, and the restrictions in the circle were removed by him, and the people in the circle could finally see the situation outside the circle and the opponent.
"Both disciples can break the formation."
After the teaching elder said, Senior Brother Yu and Senior Brother Xiao exchanged positions.
The two looked at the open space in front of them, with vigilance on their faces.
Senior Brother Xiao walked into the circle where Senior Brother Yu was, holding a compass in his hand.
The formation compass didn't have any response, but Senior Brother Xiao didn't dare to be careless.
He took the first step, and then took the second step.
His cautious and tentative actions were really ridiculous to outsiders who knew about it.
Many disciples had a playful look on their faces, watching Senior Brother Xiao's jokes.
At the same time, Senior Brother Yu also stepped into the circle that Senior Brother Xiao had set up earlier.
As soon as he entered the circle, the compass in his hand began to vibrate.
He carefully observed the pointer on the compass and quickly came to a weed along the pointer.
Looking at the weeds on the ground, Senior Brother Yu smiled confidently, raised his hand and pointed directly at the weeds.
Under this finger, the weeds snapped and revealed their true form, which turned out to be a disguised engraved formation stone.
Outside the circle, many disciples shook their heads when they saw this.
Tian Lin heard a senior brother next to him say: "Although the formation compass can sense the engraved formation stone, this engraved formation stone was obviously placed in the open by Senior Brother Xiao for Senior Brother Yu to find."
Sure enough, although the engraved formation stone disguised as weeds was broken, it caused the activation of the fire spirit formation.
In an instant, seven fireballs flew from seven directions in the circle.
Fortunately, the seven fireballs were not all flying towards Senior Brother Yu, so Senior Brother Yu could easily block the two fireballs with his flying sword.
But these seven fireballs were just the beginning. Then there were continuous fireballs flying towards Senior Brother Yu from all directions.
These fireballs flew more and more densely, almost to the point where they were unavoidable.
Senior Brother Yu was only concerned with resisting the fireballs for a while, so how could he have time to find the engraved formation stone on the ground?
He rushed left and right, and after a quarter of an hour, he was already covered in dust.
Everyone sighed at his strength and felt sorry for him.
In a quarter of an hour, the fire spirit stone used to activate the formation had already exhausted the fire spirit energy. The formation was finally automatically broken because of insufficient spirit energy.
Senior Brother Yu, who was in a mess, was ashamed and angry. He bowed to Senior Brother Xiao opposite him and said: "Senior Brother, you have a profound attainment in formation, and I am willing to admit that you are inferior."
Senior Brother Xiao knew at this time that Senior Brother Yu had failed to set up the formation, so there was no need for him to break the formation.
From the beginning, he had already won.
"Junior brother, why are you discouraged? Although my formation is better than yours, my alchemy is weaker than yours. Let's go later--"
As soon as he finished the word later, the teaching elder's nose was crooked with anger: "You two are not so good at setting up formations, and you still have the face to brag to each other? Get down and take the alchemy test."
The senior brother Changxue said: "The rest of you continue the formation test, and junior brothers Xiao and Yu will take the alchemy test next."
Fortunately, the venue is large enough, so there is no delay in allocating a piece of land for senior brothers Xiao and Yu to take the alchemy test.
Soon, one after another, disciples continued to take the alchemy test after taking the formation test.
And the formation test was finally Tian Lin's turn.
Elder Xue, who had been watching coldly, narrowed his eyes at this time, and his attention was all on Tian Lin.
The teaching elder was not blind. How could he not know that Elder Xue came for Tian Lin at this time?
He also narrowed his eyes, wanting to see who Tian Lin was, and how he could be valued by a Nascent Soul expert.
But when he found that Tian Lin entered the arena empty-handed, he frowned and thought to himself: "This kid is not only a genius in swordsmanship, but his attainments in formations have also reached the point where he can set up formations out of thin air?"