"Well,"
Seeing this scene, Jiang Yun knew that he might have said something wrong.
"Junior Brother Jiang, Senior Brother Zhuang is a first-level formation master and is trying to break through to become a second-level formation master. A second-level formation master can combine formations of different attributes. Senior Brother Zhuang is still a little short. The Thick Earth Formation is only a first-level formation, but the Five Elements Thick Earth Formation is a second-level formation. You can add formations of other five elements to it. So..."
After Xiang An finished explaining, he hurried into the inner room.
"Brother Zhuang, please forgive me. Junior Brother Jiang has just entered the sect and doesn't know much about formations. Please forgive me."
Zhuang Huai walked out at this time, holding a formation plate and a formation flag in his hands.
"I'm not angry at Junior Brother Jiang, but I hate myself for always missing something and not grasping the key points. Here, this is the Thick Earth Formation."
Jiang Yun picked up the formation plate and four formation flags. It was a square, khaki-colored formation plate, densely engraved with lines on and inside. There were also five small depressions on the formation plate. Jiang Yun had a strange feeling that he had seen these lines somewhere before.
"Put the spirit stones on the array plate and set up the array. Okay, I'm going to continue my research. You guys should leave early!"
Zhuang Huai finished speaking and immediately ordered him to leave. Jiang Yun wanted to ask how many spirit stones it cost, but Xiang An pulled him back and said:
"Okay, Brother Zhuang, get busy. We'll leave now."
"Is this a talisman pattern?"
Jiang Yun suddenly remembered what these looked like. Weren't these the patterns on talismans he had seen before? Although he had never drawn talismans, he did have a set of talisman techniques passed down from a second-level master, and he had studied them several times. Now, looking at the patterns on the array plate, he immediately thought of talismans. Could these be the same?
"Ignorance, although all things are interconnected, there are still differences between talisman patterns and formation restrictions." When Zhuang Huai heard Jiang Yun's words, he couldn't help but explain.
"Junior Brother Jiang, you may not know that talismans and formations actually have some similarities, but they are still two different skills. One mainly involves learning the formation's restrictions, while the other only requires mastering the drawing method."
Seeing that Zhuang Huai was also interested, Xiang An explained a few things to Jiang Yun.
Jiang Yun looked at the formation plate in his hand as if he had thought of something.
"Brother Xiang, weapon refining is most closely related to formations!"
He thought of the records he had read in Zixiao Xuanlu. Restrictions were the root, and talismans, formations, and refining equipment were all different carriers of restrictions.
"What? What's the connection between weapon refining and formation?"
Xiang An was a little confused.
"Look at this formation plate. Isn't it just a special magical tool? It's made of the same material, but one has more restrictions and the other has fewer."
Jiang Yun picked up the formation plate in his hand and said:
"Ah? Do I need to engrave restrictions when refining a weapon?" Xiang An was a little confused. How could he not know this when he was refining a weapon?
"How do we transmit the mana of the magic weapon? Isn't there any pattern on it?" Jiang Yun was also confused. He understood that all magic weapons had patterns for transmitting mana inside. Could it be that they were directly forged like the blacksmiths in his previous life?
"Wait, give me a break. The transmission of mana within the magical instrument? I get it! This is the forging technique. Haha, Jiang Yun, you're amazing. I didn't expect that you could actually crack the instrument refining technique by accident."
Xiang An immediately danced with joy.
"I know how to advance to the master of weapon refining. In fact, learning the technique of hammering the weapon step by step is the process of carving restrictions inside the weapon. However, this process is not as straightforward as the formation."
As soon as Xiang An finished speaking, Zhuang Huai jumped up and said,
"Brother Xiang, let's work together to refine a magical array disc and give it a try!"
"Okay! Let's go, take your carving knife and go to my refining room."
After Xiang An finished speaking, the two of them took their things and walked out, and Jiang Yun hurriedly followed.
After leaving Zhuang Huai's cave, Xiang An turned around and said:
"Junior Brother Jiang, thank you very much. If you can succeed, you will be the first person to combine formation and weapon refining."
"Uh, I thought it was like that."
"Haha," Xiang An laughed loudly, pulling Zhuang Huai along to explore new possibilities. Jiang Yun was left alone, disheveled in the wind. He had already broken new ground with just one sentence. This one was too easy to break. Was this Zixiao Xuanlu really something from the immortal realm?
Jiang Yun, holding the Thick Earth Array, came to his cave. After tidying up the stone cave he had dug, he took out the Thick Earth Array disk and began to input mana to refine it.
The innate purple energy in Jiang Yun's body slowly entered the array plate, and the originally yellow array plate was immediately stained with a layer of purple.
"Alright," he felt his mana seeds remaining in every node of the array. He took out five spirit stones and placed them into the depressions on the array.
Then he buried the formation plate underground at the entrance to the cave. He placed the four formation flags in the four corners. Suddenly, a khaki hood enveloped the cave entrance.
"Excellent," Jiang Yun felt the power of this formation. Although it was only a level one formation, it was still a top-grade one. Ordinary Qi Refining cultivators could not enter. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators could hold it back for a while.
"It's a pity that there are no mid-grade spirit stones, otherwise the power of the formation would be increased." Jiang Yun felt the speed at which the spiritual power in the formation plate was consumed, and immediately knew that the spirit stones in this formation plate had to be replaced once a month.
"The next step is to open up the cave."
Looking at the well-protected cave entrance, Jiang Yun turned and walked inside. The stone wall inside the cave was decorated with night-shining pearls that Jiang Yun bought at the market, illuminating the entire cave entrance.
Jiang Yun walked along the stone cave and soon arrived at the innermost natural cave. There was a deep trench dug at the bottom of the cave, from which traces of rich spiritual energy drifted up. At the top, tiny holes were just enough to let the sunlight shine through.
"Yes, we can plant here." Jiang Yun poured out the spiritual soil he had dug from Jiang Qiuyue on Feilai Peak, just enough to fill the deep ditch.
Then he carefully opened the jade box in his hand and planted three spiritual herbs on it.
"Spiritual Plant Magic!" Jiang Yun watched as the branches and leaves of the three spiritual herbs drooped after being planted, and he quickly used the spiritual plant magic he had mastered.
"Great, it really works."
After a round of baptism by spiritual plant magic, the originally drooping branches and leaves slowly stretched out.
"Okay, then I won't have to worry about the foundation-building pills. Next, I just need to practice hard and we'll talk about it in half a year."
Every day that followed, Jiang Yun's cave was filled with rumbling sounds, the Thunder Shock Technique taking effect. Besides his morning Purple Qi training, Jiang Yun focused all his energy on the three spiritual herbs. These medicinal herbs, originally only a few decades old, were slowly growing larger.
Time quickly passed and half a year later, the day of Jiang Yun's final choice arrived.
Jiang Yun came to the Government Affairs Hall again, and this time he was much more confident.
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