Chapter 60: Spirit Gathering Formation
Fang Yang's heart suddenly became enlightened, and he smiled knowingly at He Dong and said, "Then I'll thank Brother He."
If outsiders heard this, they would be scared to death. A foundation-building monk actually had a friendship with a Qi-training monk. This is something that no one in this world would dare to think about.
These days, Fang Yang provides elixirs, and He Dong teaches Fang Yang the formation method. The cooperation is very pleasant.
Under He Dong's careful guidance, Fang Yang's mastery of formations is now as good as the more outstanding Qi training disciples of Qingluo Peak.
As Fang Yang's strength improves, he may become even more powerful in the future.
He Dong took out a blue jade slip and gave it to Fang Yang and said, "Here are the secret formation techniques that only foundation-building monks can practice. At the same time, it also contains my insights into the formation method."
He Dong paused and then said: "By the way, your qualifications are not good. I also added a set of quite practical spirit gathering formations. You also know that I was already relatively old when I was cultivating, so I can build the foundation." What a fluke!”
"Brother He, you mean..." Fang Yang said in shock.
"Yes, this spirit gathering formation is an ancient thing that I got by chance. It has helped me a lot. I hope you, Brother Yang, will keep it a secret for me! Otherwise, we will all be in disaster!"
He Dong paused and then said: "With the Spirit Gathering Array, my cultivation has been going smoothly. However, after reaching the foundation building stage, my spiritual thoughts have been unable to rise. If I still can't break through, if it weren't for your spiritual elixir, I'm afraid In the future, I will stop at the foundation building stage for the rest of my life.”
He Dong was indeed fundamentally different from ordinary Foundation Establishment monks, because Fang Yang was of great help to him. He not only taught him everything he could, but also directly taught the Foundation Establishment monks the formation techniques.
It can be seen that He Dong not only trusts Fang Yang, but also believes that Fang Yang will achieve extraordinary things in the future.
Helping Fang Yang at this time not only made him a good friend, but also gave him a friend he could rely on.
After returning to Wanmu Peak from Qingluo Peak, Fang Yang began to tinker with the formation jade slips given to him by He Dong.
Of course, the first thing Fang Yang looked at was the spirit gathering formation recommended by He Dong.
Fang Yang discovered that this spirit gathering array was indeed very different from ordinary spirit gathering arrays.
Ordinary spirit gathering arrays only have a few and ten positions, but this spirit gathering array is actually divided into three sets.
They include 356 formation positions, 3,600 formation positions, and the last one is 84,000 formation positions.
The so-called formation position refers to the position that needs to be filled with formation flags or spirit stones when arranging the formation.
This is also a sign of the complexity of the formation.
The general three-talented spirit-gathering formation has three positions, and even the three-talented spirit-gathering formation with the five elements added has eight positions.
And the lowest layout of this spirit gathering array requires 356 positions.
"I wonder where Brother He found this weird spirit gathering array!" Fang Yang felt dizzy looking at the complicated array diagram.
"It seems that Brother He is right. He didn't start cultivation until he was twenty-five years old, and he reached the foundation-building stage in just over ten years! He really relied on this formation to do well!" Fang Yang became more surprised the more he looked at the formation.
"However, there is also a problem with this formation. That is, the spirit gathering formation can increase the spiritual energy of the place where you practice many times. The speed of practice is naturally faster, but the cultivation of your mind and spiritual thoughts need to be slowly improved!"
Therefore, there was a mismatch between He Dong Yuan Shen and the exercises, so that a serious bottleneck appeared in his cultivation.
"Because of this, my Purple Heart Nourishment Pill can be of such great help to Brother He." Fang Yang soon had the answer in his mind.
"However, with such a powerful spirit-gathering formation, if one is not careful, it may be possible to gather the spiritual energy of the entire Wanmu Peak!" Fang Yang frowned.
Fang Yang concluded that after using this spirit gathering formation, the concentration of spiritual energy was also very high, and a better formation to isolate the spiritual energy was necessary, otherwise it would be easy to be discovered and cause serious trouble.
While Fang Yang was studying this spirit-gathering formation, he also began to study the concealment formations on the jade slips and several formations to isolate and shield spiritual energy.
More than two months have passed, and Fang Yang has basically mastered the key points.
Then he quickly went to the Hall of Merit with Zhang Lin and Nuopo.
"Senior brother, are there any sect missions recently? We have been holding back on Wanmu Peak for a long time, and we all want to go out and relax."
As Fang Yang spoke, he stuffed a dozen low-grade spiritual stones into the late-stage Qi-training monk who handed out the mission, and the monk immediately burst into laughter.
"How about there is a mission to hunt down the fourth-level rhinoceros vulture, and you can go out for two months, and the contribution is worth 20,000, what do you think?" The monk who issued the mission smiled.
"Ah? Hunting monsters is not my strong point. I have been planting spiritual grass in Wanmu Peak. Do you have any experience in this field?" Fang Yang asked again.
"Yes, yes, but it's a bit difficult to complete. It only takes half a year. You can go out for more walks, but if you can't complete it, you will be deducted 5,000 points of sect merit!" The monk seemed a little embarrassed.
In the end, Fang Yang and the three of them accepted the sect's task of collecting thousand-year-old elixirs, and then left Wanmu Peak in a big way.
You know, in today's world, due to the prosperity of cultivation sects, the treasures of heaven and earth are becoming less and less.
Even foundation-building monks may not be able to collect the Millennium Spirit Grass.
The monk also thought that Fang Yang and the others just wanted to go out for fun, so he let them go as if they were laughing.
In fact, Fang Yang had many Millennium Spirit Herbs, but the reason he chose this was to find a safe place to set up the Spirit Gathering Array to practice.
At the same time, you can openly exchange some spiritual herbs for contribution points, so why not do it?
More than half a month later, Fang Yang and his team appeared under a remote cliff in the Linglan Mountains.
Fang Yang, Zhang Lin, and Nuo Po worked together to dig a stone cave on the shady side of the cliff, reaching deep into the cliff.
The cliff was hundreds of feet deep, and then Fang Yang and his team dug a simple stone chamber deep in the cliff.
While perfecting the stone chamber, Fang Yang began to arrange the spirit gathering array and the spirit locking array.
The spirit gathering array is naturally for gathering spiritual energy.
And the spirit locking array is of course to prevent spiritual energy from leaking out and avoid attracting the prying of other masters.
In this way, the three of them divided the work and cooperated, and it took seven days to complete it.
Fang Yang arranged three spirit locking arrays in the stone chamber, and then began to arrange the spirit gathering array.
Although Fang Yang had enough spiritual stones, he did not dare to arrange too complicated when he was not clear about the changes in the array.
Besides, Fang Yang and his team only had less than half a year, so they didn't dare to delay too much.
Fang Yang used 365 spirit stones as the simplest positions of the spirit gathering formation.
Then he used a special method to connect the positions according to a certain rule, and then input spiritual energy to continuously drive the formation to run.
Three hours later, spiritual energy gradually overflowed from the spirit stones, automatically driving the positions to run continuously.
"Okay, the simplest ancient spirit gathering formation has been opened!" Fang Yang smiled, "Quick, try the effect first."
Fang Yang and the other two were overjoyed, and immediately closed their eyes and sat down, and the spiritual energy in their bodies circulated along the meridians of the whole body according to the Great Zhoutian.
As the spirit gathering formation was running, the spiritual energy around them continued to surge, one, two, three, six, eight, twelve times, until the spiritual energy was so rich that it was about to condense into a fragrant mist, and then it gradually stabilized.
"It can actually increase the spiritual energy so much!" Fang Yang was even more surprised.
The three of them were unwilling to waste time and this rare opportunity to practice, and the three of them immediately circulated the Zhoutian.
It was not until half an hour later that the three of them almost simultaneously let out a long sigh of relief, exhaled the turbid air in their bodies, and opened their bright eyes.
The formation gradually stopped, and the light gradually dimmed. This was not because there was something wrong with the formation, but because the spiritual power in the spirit stone had been used up.
"Oh my God, this formation is too powerful. I feel that the spiritual energy that I can't see or touch on weekdays is about to condense!"
Nuo Po said in a loud voice.
"Yes, I just meditated for half an hour, which is almost equivalent to my half-month practice!" Zhang Lin also nodded.
In daily practice, you must constantly absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and then use the true essence to purify and compress it.
After a series of complicated methods, you can gradually absorb it, but at this time it is almost like soaking in the spiritual energy, saving a lot of effort, and the spiritual energy is also more refined.
"I think this formation is really amazing, but the consumption of spirit stones is too scary. More than 300 spirit stones were used in half an hour, which is equivalent to a medium-grade magic weapon." Nuo Po said with a pursed mouth.
"Two brothers, before my family fell, there was an ancestor in the late foundation building period, so there was a certain amount of savings secretly."
In order to dispel the doubts of the two, Fang Yang made up an ancestor in the foundation building period.
Indeed, many cultivation families can only continue to develop because of the presence of predecessors.
However, if the predecessors of the family fall, and the descendants are unable to hold on, it is also a common occurrence in the cultivation world to gradually fail and become a casual cultivator.
"Brother Fang Yang, we thank you very much!" Nuo Po and Zhang Lin smiled.
"In the future, when my cultivation level is improved, I will definitely earn more spirit stones, but I can't let you suffer a loss!" Nuo Po also grinned, looking honest and simple.
"We have been out for less than half a year, so we must hurry up to improve. Otherwise, if we cannot stand out in the future sect competition, we will not be valued by the sect and will get very few resources!"
"Yes, if time drags on, I am afraid we will have no hope of building a foundation." Zhang Lin said worriedly.
The three of them have great ambitions to practice, so they are naturally eager to advance to the foundation.
However, they are all casual cultivators. It is a coincidence that they can join the sect. If they cannot improve their cultivation quickly, the possibility of becoming a foundation cultivator will be very slim.
Fang Yang seemed to be more familiar with the second formation, and he quickly completed the formation.
In addition, Fang Yang also took out enough pills for the three people to take during the practice. In this way, Fang Yang and the other two continued to practice for nearly twenty days.
In these twenty days, everyone gained a lot. With the rich spiritual energy and the blessing of a steady stream of pills, the three of them can be said to be unstoppable.
Fang Yang reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi training.
Although Nuo Po has only reached the middle stage of the ninth level of Qi training, he is born with divine power, and his strength is estimated to be in the late stage of Qi training, which is not weak.
Zhang Lin has reached the tenth level of Qi training by chance.
The three of them rested for two days, and Fang Yang arranged five more soul-locking formations.
In this way, the soul-locking formations were strengthened to eight, and then Fang Yang began to arrange a new soul-gathering formation.
This time Fang Yang used 365 medium-grade spirit stones, so the spiritual energy increased by leaps and bounds, three times, ten times, fifteen times, twenty-three times, fifty times... one hundred times!
It increased to a hundred times, such a rich spiritual energy, even the caves of the rare Yuanying ancestors in the entire Linglan Mountain are far behind.
You know, the spiritual energy content of medium-grade spirit stones is a hundred times that of ordinary spirit stones.
So Fang Yang deliberately added the Soul Locking Array before using the mid-grade spirit stones.
Two months passed like this, and Fang Yang had consumed more than 3,000 mid-grade spirit stones.
When the spirit stones were exhausted, Fang Yang stopped. At this time, Fang Yang had successfully broken through the ninth level of Qi training and reached the middle level of the tenth level of Qi training.
Nuo Po was also at this stage, and Zhang Lin's aptitude was slightly better, having reached the eleventh level of Qi training.