Chapter 126 Spiritual Storm 7
After observing with her spiritual power for a long time, Lin Xia couldn't find any problems. She couldn't even see anything wrong with the spirit-avoiding array.
Although she couldn't see anything clearly, she felt relatively safe here, and Lin Xia finally breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since she came to this world, she had been running, literally running on both legs. Now that she finally had some free time, she took out the jade slip and prepared to take a look and make some notes.
Lin Xia retrieved the Complete Guide to Basic Array Formations from his spatial storage and probed it with his spiritual power, where he saw introductions to the Eight Trigrams and the Nine Palaces.
The eight trigrams are: Qian (Heaven), Kun (Earth), Zhen (Thunder), Xun (Wind), Kan (Water), Li (Fire), Gen (Mountain), and Dui (Lake).
The nine-square grid divides the formation area into nine palaces, with different formation bases arranged in each palace.
Simulate the trajectory of stars, arrange and combine them to form various large formations, including composite formations, interlocking formations, and formations within formations.
The methods of setting up formations are also varied. This jade slip doesn't provide any detailed introductions, only a general overview of the formations and their appearances, but it doesn't mention how to set up or dismantle them. No wonder it's so cheap.
Lin Xia was somewhat disappointed, so she picked up the Talisman Basics again and looked at it. Inside, there were instructions on how to make talisman pens and talisman paper, the materials needed, and what a basic talisman looked like. She wrote them all down.
But she had already given up hope, as she couldn't obtain the necessary materials herself, but she still memorized the method for drawing the talismans.
Both the weapon-refining and alchemy sections provided general introductions to common techniques, formulas, and required materials, but both required a furnace and earth fire, neither of which Lin Xia possessed, let alone the necessary materials.
Somewhat disappointed, looking at it this way, only formations are worth studying. After all, this has a long history in her own world. I'll go back and find some books to see if it's as magical as she thought.
Jiang Yansheng returned after making his rounds: "Fellow Daoist, what do you think of this place? By the way, how should I address you, Fellow Daoist?"
"How can she see it? She can't understand it no matter what," Lin Xia thought to herself, but didn't show it on her face: "My surname is Lin."
"Fellow Daoist Lin." Jiang Yansheng sat down and nodded.
Lin Xia's knowledge of this place was limited to those few jade slips and maps. Of course, she didn't want this place to be destroyed, because there would definitely be few places to hide. But she would say as little as possible. This Jiang Yansheng seemed to only regard her as a person with great fortune who had escaped death.
Sure enough, she didn't speak, and Jiang Yansheng didn't press her further. He didn't seem too nervous either. Lin Xia thought to herself, this person must have something that can save his life.
Lin Xia looked at the mineral vein in front of her and carefully probed the mining area with her spiritual power. She found that this place was really not big, much smaller than the energy mine under her small island, but the further in she went, the more translucent the spirit stones became.
Before long, spirit stones comparable to high-grade energy stones appeared, and there were more and more as she went deeper. Strangely, she did not feel any hindrance to her mental power when she got here.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Xia still extended her mental energy forward. She always had doubts about the safety of this place. She wanted this place to exist for a longer time, but she was also afraid that unknown dangers would cause her to suddenly collapse.
Or perhaps an unforeseen danger suddenly descends; it's better to investigate thoroughly, as information is crucial.
As her spiritual energy continued forward, she saw a slender, rhomboid spirit stone. Its spiritual light was restrained, and it was extraordinary just by looking at it. This should be a top-grade spirit stone that was even purer than a high-grade spirit stone. According to the records in the array, top-grade spirit stones are the best array base for setting up some arrays.
Until Lin Xia saw the center of the entire spirit stone mine, there was a small cavity with something resembling amber in the middle, emitting a soft glow. Lin Xia's spiritual energy lingered around it, wondering what this thing was, whether it contained a living creature or something else.
Lin Xia hesitated, unsure whether she should use her mental power to look inside. This world was no ordinary world, and she dared not act recklessly.
Suddenly, the amber expanded, instantly enveloping Lin Xia's mental energy, leaving her no time to react. Her mental energy spun, and she entered a bizarre and fantastical space.
She saw the flourishing of various schools of thought, the active participation of all kinds of practitioners in the world, and the fact that almost all of humanity revered cultivation. Various ideas and practices collided and merged, creating a dazzling spectacle in the world.
It was a magical world, where all kinds of Taoist magic and spells resonated, and the collision of various ideas was dazzling. It was an era of freedom and an era of creation!
But in that world, changing the world and becoming a mountain king could be decided in a single battle. Death could occur at any time, and ordinary people drifted along with the tide.
Conflicts occur every day, involving the maintenance, inheritance, and status of traditions; a single disagreement can lead to a complete upheaval.
That was an era when bloodshed and death were commonplace.
On the one hand, it is dazzling, eye-catching, and free.
On the other hand, there is chaos, disorder, and despair.
Suddenly one day, the spiritual vein broke, the spiritual energy disappeared, and everyone changed. In the struggle for spiritual energy, spiritual stones, and spiritual springs, everything lost its order.
The powerful beings sealed themselves away, sects entered a "dark forest" mode and devoured each other, mortals became "food", martial arts civilization regressed to a barbaric era, and ultimately perished in mutual fighting and encroachment.
Lin Xia's mental energy was expelled by Amber. She squinted, her mind a mess, all her memories intertwined.
It seemed like a long time before her mind cleared and she sorted everything out.
She temporarily called that amber the Time Amber. It contained fragments of time and space. She had a feeling that it must have been something that had happened before, but she didn't know exactly where.
The feeling was so familiar; wasn't it just like all the similar post-apocalyptic worlds she had experienced? Lin Xia was somewhat dazed. When she saw Jiang Yansheng's surprised gaze, she realized that her face was already covered in tears.
Wiping away her tears, she realized they weren't hers; they were the lament of that era. Yet, for some reason, the sorrow and resentment in her heart lingered.
Having experienced so many worlds, she had never truly witnessed the demise of a world before. This was the first time she had watched a civilization perish and the world fall into silence.
Before she could calm down, a crisp cracking sound rang out, followed by many more cracking sounds coming from inside the mine. The sound startled everyone, and many people looked at the 'Spirit-Avoiding Array' in horror, but it was completely intact.
"Is something about to come out of there...?" someone said in a panic.
Some people's eyes lit up, thinking that a treasure was about to be unearthed...
Lin Xia's spiritual power rushed into the mine and saw that the cracking sound came from spirit stones. It was the sound of spirit stones shattering. As she went further in, all the spirit stones shattered, but the spiritual power inside did not leak out at all. Instead, it all rushed into the 'Time Amber'. This unexpected turn of events caught Lin Xia off guard and made her heart pound with fear.
After all the spirit stones shattered, the 'Time Amber' turned into a small, golden ball. Without any visible movement, it instantly merged into Lin Xia's spiritual power.
Then it disappeared...
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