Chapter 41: Small Green Bamboo Formation (Thanks to Xiao Nuan Yang_Silver Alliance Leader!)

One after another, fireballs of Samadhi True Fire were ejected, turning the bodies of the four people into ashes.

"Friend Wang, I hope you can successfully build your foundation in your next life."

Ning Daoran sighed.

He was not speaking without any hesitation and felt that Wang Chongyan should not have participated in this exploration of the secret realm.

After all, Wang Chongyan cannot rely on growing spiritual rice to become stronger. Like all immortal cultivators, he has to fight and seize opportunities when they arise, otherwise he will die in regret.

After packing up everyone’s storage bags, he glanced at the ancient monk’s cave behind the restriction.

There was no desire to explore the mystery at all, not even the desire to break the restriction and get the Liuhe Stone.

This cave is probably more than ten times more dangerous than the outside world! After a hasty soul search, he found two fist-sized pieces of Liuhe Stone in Master Zi Guang's storage bag. They were found by him in the nearby mountains and forests, which were enough.

The next thing we need is copper, which Wen Zichen has.

He frowned, thought about it carefully, and felt that he could go back, so he rode the green bamboo leaf and took the big stupid deer back to Huanglongfang City.

…

Wen family refinery.

"Fellow Daoist Ning, why did you come back so soon?" Wen Zichen was surprised.

"Breaking the ban is a little faster than we thought."

Ning Daoran smiled and said, "I have said before that I will only help to break the restriction. I will come back after getting the Liuhe Stone. Master Wen, I wonder if you can part with the half pound of copper in your hand?"

"Of course."

Wen Zichen smiled and said, "Ru'er, bring me my half pound of copper."

Not long after, Wen Ru came over holding an exquisite wooden box.

"Fellow Daoist Ning."

She raised her lips and said, "Purple copper, Liuhe stone... If I'm not mistaken, Brother Ning is going to refine a medium-grade small cloud formation, right?"

"really."

Ning Daoran said: "Miss Wen is indeed well versed in formations."

“Just a little bit.”

Wen Ru presented half a pound of copper.

Ning Daoran slapped his storage bag according to the market price, took out twenty spirit stones and gave them to Wen Zichen.

He looked at Wen Zichen deeply before turning and leaving.

This look made Wen Zichen stand there in a daze for a long time, not knowing what was going on.

He had no idea that just a moment ago, his head was almost smashed by the Qinglong Spear that he had recast with his own hands.

The cooperation with Master Zi Guang was guaranteed by Wen Zichen, but what Master Zi Guang had been plotting against from the beginning to the end was Ning Daoran and another unlucky Taoist priest named Wang.

Ning Daoran searched the soul of Master Zi Guang and learned that Wen Zichen was unaware of the matter. He really thought that Master Zi Guang's target was the ancient cultivator's cave, so he acted as a guarantor.

If he had any plans with Master Zi Guang, he would have died just now.

…

Qiongbi Peak, Courtyard No. 77.

In a secret room twenty feet underground, Ning Daoran began to check what he had obtained.

These casual cultivators and robbery cultivators are indeed poor. Master Zi Guang, Ning Jiaojiao, and Wang Chongyan are all great cultivators of the ninth level of Qi Refining, but they only have two or three magical instruments and a few hundred spirit stones on them.

The reason why they are so poor is that every step forward in their practice requires the assistance of elixirs, and those elixirs for improving their practice and breaking through levels are not cheap, enough to drain these Qi Refining cultivators dry.

There are many immortal cultivators in the world, but only one out of a hundred can truly build a foundation.

Establishing the foundation is the first threshold for cultivators, but most of the cultivators remain outside the foundation-building stage for a long time, which is really regrettable.

However, there were also unexpected gains.

Master Zi Guang is not only a cultivator, but also a formation master.

The killing formation he set up outside the restriction was called "Small Green Bamboo Formation", a first-level intermediate-grade formation. It just so happened that the inheritance of this formation was in the storage bag.

In addition, Ning Daoran had already taken out the small green bamboo formation. It was in the storage bag and could be used after a little refining.

As for the inheritance of the Small Green Bamboo Formation, Ning Daoran would naturally study it carefully. Even if he could not refine this kind of first-grade intermediate killing formation, studying the Small Green Bamboo Formation could complement his knowledge and understanding of the formation.

…

That night, he refined the Small Green Bamboo Formation once again, erasing all traces of the auras of Master Zi Guang, Ning Jiaojiao, and Zhu Ya.

Afterwards, Ning Daoran began to upgrade the small cloud and mist formation again.

Secret room for refining equipment.

The flags and plates of the Small Cloud Mist Array were taken out again, and Ning Daoran engraved a new combination of spiritual patterns. Nearly forty-eight fine spiritual patterns formed an array pattern.

Afterwards, use the Samadhi True Fire to refine the purple copper and Liuhe Stone into the formation flags and formation plates.

After three full days, I finally got out of the customs.

A new formation is out, a first-level, medium-grade small cloud formation! "Buzz~~~"

When the thick fog rose up like an ancient tree and covered a large area, the isolation, illusion and spirit gathering effects of the small fog array were greatly enhanced, and a maze effect was also added.

From now on, if anyone trespasses into the small cloud and fog array without permission, they will enter a maze of "clouds and fog" and will be unable to get out.

Either everyone can break the formation, or use magic power to directly push the formation aside, otherwise there is no other way to get out of this small cloud formation.

However, if one wants to sweep across a first-order, mid-grade formation connected to an underground spiritual vein, one must be at least a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, otherwise one will be trapped in it.

Ning Daoran is not currently trying to provoke cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, so he has no need in this regard.

What he needed most were actually the two major properties of the small cloud and mist formation: isolation and spirit gathering. From now on, he could plant spiritual herbs on the underground floor without restraint, without having to worry about being detected by others' spiritual sense!

Looking at the Chaos Sect, except for the eldest senior sister who has reached the Jindan stage, even the consciousness of the three inner sect elders in the late foundation building stage may not be able to penetrate the isolating effect of the medium-grade small cloud mist formation!

…

"Chen Weimo, come and eat!"

In the early morning, Ning Daoran roared like a dragon and a tiger.

Chen Weimo, who was practicing at Spirit Field No. 79, came over immediately. Ning Daoran marked the small cloud and mist formation with Chen Weimo's mark, allowing it to come and go freely.

Breakfast is simple, not too much meat, the most important thing is to be full. Just five pounds of spiritual fish, a fat chicken, and a pot of green bamboo rice.

"Chen Weimo."

"Uncle, you say!"

The little girl opened her big watery eyes, looking so harmless.

Ning Daoran took out a set of array plates and flags from his storage bag. It was the first-level medium-grade small green bamboo array. He said, "You put your soul mark into it. From now on, this killing array will be yours."

"ah?"

Chen Weimo was stunned: "Uncle... I... I am worthy of a first-level mid-grade formation? I am just a spiritual farmer, and my shabby house... There is nothing worth thieves to worry about..."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

“Tsk tsk.”

Ning Daoran said sarcastically, "Good fellow, do you think this small green bamboo formation is used to prevent thieves? With your extremely poor belongings, it's hard to believe that someone would covet your property.

This formation has other uses. You can take it back, bury the formation flags and formation plate, and activate the formation according to the method I taught you.

This array is not only a killing array, but also a maze effect, which is quite useful. If anyone asks about it, just say that I gave you this array."

"Okay, thank you uncle!"

"You're welcome. Just practice well."

"yes!"

Thus, quiet days began again on Qiongbi Peak.

After completing the Body Tempering Technique and practicing the Evergreen Technique to the tenth level, Ning Daoran felt that he was full of blood and energy every day and had endless energy, so he helped Chen Weimo to plant green bamboo rice on the three acres of spiritual land at No. 79.

The people outside the sect saw it but didn't say anything.

Among the elders in charge of managing the spiritual land, there are few who have not received benefits from Ning Daoran, either a few spiritual fish or dozens of kilograms of second-level spiritual rice.

Therefore, they just turn a blind eye to such things. If the higher-ups really investigate, they will just say they didn't find anything and think it's a small matter anyway.

Besides, Ning Daoran is such a young second-level spiritual farmer, the sect is trying every means to protect him. As long as he doesn't go too far, they will not suppress him at all.

On the Qiongbi Peak, except for Ning Daoran and Dabenlu, everyone else's cultivation speed was slow.

Chen Weimo's aptitude is average, and he is practicing the Changqing Jue, so it is normal that his advancement speed is slow.

The reason why Ning Daoran taught her the Evergreen Secret was mainly because among Chen Weimo's five spiritual roots, the sensitivity of the wood spiritual root was slightly stronger than the others.

Moreover, the Changqing Jue can increase one's lifespan, and he also hopes that Chen Weimo can live longer so that he will have more opportunities to build a foundation.

Huangshan still practices hard every day, although the effect is minimal.

Qin Xiang was unknown and had a very low sense of presence. If Ning Daoran had not used his spiritual sense to scan his cultivation many times, he would probably have thought that he was also an alien with a system.

Old Ma was still a lazy guy, and most of the spiritual stones he earned from growing spiritual rice were used to take care of the fairy "Kun Xiu" in the messy area of ​​Huanglongfang City.

On the ridge of the field, Ning Daoran was pushing the body-tempering pole, the power of the Evergreen Technique in his body circulating, while the big stupid deer was carrying Chen Weimo and playing, rushing back and forth on the ridge of the field like a mad deer.

"Fellow Daoist Ning."

Ma Quanyou took off his bamboo hat and sat down, looking serious as he said, "I went to the shack area in the market town a few days ago. Guess who I met."

"who?"

Ning Daoran grinned: "Could it be another fairy?"

"That's not the case."

Ma Quanyou sneered: "I saw Zhong Yan, she was dressed very gorgeously, sitting on the doorstep waiting for guests."

"ah?"

Ning Daoran shuddered all over.

“Isn’t it ridiculous?”

Ma Quanyou said: "In all these years on the Qiongbi Peak, Daoist Fellow Zhong Yan has always been a virtuous and gentle woman in my mind, but I never thought that she would fall into prostitution now. In addition, she is now old and ugly, and has few customers.

Those guests came here mostly because of her status as a cultivator in the early stage of Qi Refining. Even many wealthy mortals would spend their money and treasures with her to enjoy a night of love with a cultivator."

"That's enough old horse."

Ning Daoran frowned: "Stop talking."

"Um."

Lao Ma patted his shoulder gently and said, "Fellow Daoist Ning, you are now in the late stage of Qi Refining, and you have the hope of building a foundation.

Zhong Yan and I, as well as Qin Xiang, Huang Shan, and Xiao Weimo, are destined to be separated from you by a gate to immortality in the end. You can build your foundation, but we will never be able to do so..."

He seemed to be a little sentimental, and said: "Perhaps hundreds of years later, you will still be in your prime, but we will have long since turned into dust. I wonder if you will still remember us, your old friends."

…

Ma Quanyou’s words made Ning Daoran feel a little confused.

He originally planned to go down the mountain to see how Zhong Yan was doing now.

But in the end I thought about it and decided not to go. If I really went, it would seem unnecessary.

(End of this chapter)