The road is vague

Chapter 123 Matrix Puppetry

Chapter 123 Matrix Puppetry
Three days later.

A streak of light fell into the Tianming Division of Bai'an County. Li Mo in the office noticed it and immediately appeared to greet him.

"Disciple Li Mo, I pay my respects to the Master!"

"kindness?"

Lu Qi, who was decisive and had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, let out a light exclamation when he saw Li Mo.

But when he saw Li Mo wearing the deputy general flag flying bird uniform, his eyes couldn't help but freeze slightly, and then he showed a little surprise.

"Have you established a foundation?"

"The disciple has successfully established his foundation."

Upon hearing this, Lu Qi was briefly surprised and then burst into laughter.

With Li Mo's respectful welcome, Lu Qi entered the backyard of the Tianming Division. Just a moment later, Jiang Feiyan, who received Li Mo's voice transmission note, also came to the backyard of the Tianming Division.

"Disciple Jiang Feiyan, I pay my respects to the Master!"

"Well, Feiyan is here. It seems that you and your junior brother are getting along well. One of you serves as the general flag and the other as the deputy general flag."

Jiang Feiyan acted coquettishly when she heard that.

"Master, you don't know yet?"

Seeing this, Lu Qi stroked his beard.

"what?"

So Jiang Feiyan told the story of how Li Mo had completed the foundation-building process before the final examination in the training hall.

Lu Qi immediately turned to look at Li Mo. Li Mo smiled and nodded in acknowledgment. Lu Qi was slightly surprised. It seemed that he could not believe for a moment that his disciple was the genius that Lingmu Sect only saw once in a thousand years.

He asked himself honestly, he was also a genius of Lingmu Sect.

But compared with Li Mo's experience, it is obviously inferior.

After a long time.

After Jiang Feiyan's exaggerated praise, Lu Qi's mentality underwent a complex change.

He first felt a slight hostility from the rivalry between geniuses, then a sense of satisfaction at being a role model. Finally, he thought of the Lingmu Sect's current weakness and the death of the All-Knowing Master over thirty years ago, which had led to the decline of the Lingmu Sect...

When he looked at Li Mo again, he seemed to see the hope of Lingmu Sect's revival!
But he remained calm on the surface.

"Very good, you are worthy of being my disciple."

Lu Qi nodded and praised.

"I have returned this time and will be in seclusion within the sect for a while. Now that you have established your foundation, you are my official disciple. It is time for me to guide you on your cultivation. So why not stay here for a while?"

"Thank you, master!"

Li Mo knelt on the ground and kowtowed, performing the formal ceremony of becoming a disciple.

Lu Qi couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face, and he kept stroking his beard and nodding.

"Very good. From today on, you will be the seventh disciple under my tutelage."

Sixth Senior Sister Jiang Feiyan covered her mouth and chuckled softly. After Lu Qi received Li Mo's gift, he flicked his right hand lightly, and a jade slip appeared in front of Li Mo. Six puppets, surrounded by spiritual light, gently fell down.

"During my travels, I killed a few ignorant youngsters and happened to obtain something useful for you. This jade slip contains the recipe for a pill called Flowing Fire Condensing Spirit Pill, which can help improve the mana of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage. Now that you are already a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, you should be able to feel that the mana required for advancement is far greater than that of the Qi Training stage. After all, daily practice requires accumulation through boring meditation. Pills can only serve as a supplement when the cultivation method stagnates."

Li Mo nodded respectfully.

It has been nearly a year since he was promoted to the Foundation Establishment stage, and his understanding of the Foundation Establishment stage has been deepening.

The process of accumulating mana during the foundation-building period is indeed as Chen Rong and Lu Qi said. The amount of spiritual energy required is incomparable to that during the Qi training period.

Therefore, for the vast majority of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, those pills that can help improve their magic power are like herbs that can dissolve blood clots. They will only choose to swallow them when their skills are stagnant.

The saved resources will then be used to purchase magical instruments, auxiliary cultivation techniques, pills that help break through bottlenecks, secret techniques, and so on.

However, this so-called stagnation of magic power seems to be related to aptitude, Tao heart, state of mind, artistic conception, and perception. Li Mo has not encountered the so-called stagnation so far.

Therefore, although his mana accumulation was slow, it was always improving steadily.

"As for these six humanoid puppets, although their appearance is crude and their grade is only mid-level, the unique thing is that the puppeteer has combined the puppetry technique with the formation. Not only can these puppets be combined into one, greatly increasing their strength, but they can also be divided and surrounded to form the Six Waves of Green Water Formation. It is quite mysterious."

Lu Qi watched Li Mo's second-year year-end assessment and naturally knew that this disciple had some knowledge of puppetry.

Li Mo was surprised and grateful when he heard this.

The Liuhuo Ningling Pill is a pill recipe for the Foundation Establishment Period, so its preciousness is needless to say. These uniquely shaped puppets also moved Li Mo.

In other words.

The puppetry of this sect is completely different from that of other sects. It does not pursue a single quality, but a balance between quantity and quality. When advancing, it can be transformed into a super puppet through matrix combination to exert greater power. When retreating, it can form a formation and launch a defense.

The reason why Li Mo was surprised was that his puppetry was best at precise structures, which seemed to be suitable for using this peculiar matrix puppetry.

As for the formation required for this puppetry, it is a difficult problem, but he has experience in runes, so he is confident in learning the formation.

As far as he knows.

In the eyes of monks, formation masters refer to those who can independently create, deploy and break formations. The real name of these people should be rune formation masters.

An ordinary formation master is only someone who can refine certain fixed flag formations, understand formation diagrams and arrange large formations, and arrange military formation barriers.

There is an essential difference between the two, similar to the difference between a weapon refiner and a blacksmith.

"Master, do you know where these puppets came from?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Qi looked relieved.

"Master knew you would be interested in this, but unfortunately, I was furious at the time and killed him without thinking. Looking back, he seemed to call these puppets matrix puppets."

"It's indeed the Matrix Puppetry Technique."

Li Mo had seen a similar introduction in his master's hidden power pavilion, and now his guess was confirmed.

Lu Qi looked at Jiang Feiyan again.

"Li Mo is very talented. Since he has chosen to serve here, you, as his senior sister, must take good care of him, guide him, and maintain local security. Do you understand?"

"Don't worry, Master!"

Seeing Jiang Feiyan agree with a smile, Lu Qi took a sip of the spiritual tea handed to him by Jiang Feiyan.

"Has anything major happened in the sect during the year or so I was away?"

Jiang Feiyan thought about it for a moment after hearing this.

"As for the sect, I heard that the two acting sect leaders have both gone into seclusion, and there haven't been any other major events. However, a minor incident did occur in Bai'an County. About half a year ago, a fox girl named Xiangxiang claimed to be from the Dongling Piaomiao Nine Fox Clan..."

Jiang Feiyan told Lu Qi everything about Xiangxiang. Lu Qi looked at Li Mo and praised him again.

"You have done a very good job on this matter. Speaking of the matter, it is indeed necessary to inform the sect first, but the court must not be left behind."

Li Mo nodded modestly without saying much.

Then Lu Qi looked thoughtful.

"This matter is indeed worth a thorough investigation. The Dongling Piaomiao Clan is undoubtedly the demonic people that the cultivators of the seven eastern states of Lu have spoken of. The reason why Lu was at a slight disadvantage in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War with us was not only due to the prosperity of our Great Qian, but also because of the constraints of those small states. And those small states are deeply entangled with the Piaomiao Clan. If Lu were to annex those small states to the east, the consequences would be disastrous. Similarly, for the Dongling Piaomiao Clan, if Lu defeats our Great Qian, they will also bear the brunt of the consequences."

Jiang Feiyan heard this and spoke her mind.

"Those who are not of my kind must have different hearts. Cooperating with them is not necessarily a good thing."

"Ah."

Lu Qi nodded.

"National affairs are decided by the imperial court, but this matter also involves the sect's main cultivation method, so we really need to investigate it thoroughly. After she mentioned this, I also remembered that our sect's main cultivation method, 'Eye of the True Spirit,' does have some similarities with the cultivation methods of the four countries in Lingdong."

Jiang Feiyan and Li Mo couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this.

night.

After Li Mo returned to the mansion, he looked at the gift Lu Qi had given him today.

First is the recipe for the Liuhuo Ningling Pill.

Li Mo took a look at the spiritual medicines needed to refine this pill. The main medicine was the thousand-year-old Blazing Flame Flower, and the one that was eight or nine hundred years old was barely enough. However, this so-called Blazing Flame Flower was quite precious among the spiritual medicines. It was only produced in places with abundant fire spiritual power in the crater. There were relatively few such landforms in Muzhou.

Then he looked at the method of alchemy and couldn't help frowning again.

To refine the Flowing Fire Soul-Condensing Pill, one must use the so-called flowing fire.

This is because the alchemist's fire control skills must reach a certain level, and the flame can form a characteristic like a stream of water, which can be described as a constant flow.

His current alchemy technique is based on the thunder refining method, which is of infinite use when refining low-level elixirs. However, if he is refining mid-level elixirs, unless the demon elixir is used as the main material, the rate of shattering the elixir will increase greatly, not to mention refining the so-called Flowing Fire Condensing Spirit Pill.

"Should I trade the recipe, or rebuild my foundation and practice fire control?"

After hesitating for a while, Li Mo put the recipe of Liuhuo Ningling Pill aside and looked at the six so-called matrix puppets.

The workmanship of these six puppets is indeed quite crude.

Even Li Mo, who was a novice in puppetry, found it hard to look at these six puppets. But as Lu Qi said, these six matrix puppets did have their own unique features.

Li Mo has now come into contact with five types of puppetry.

There are the external mechanical armor of the Shenji Sect, the beast army of the Puppet Sect, the humanoid puppets of the Zaizao Sect, the bone puppets of the Wangu Sect, and the corpse puppets of the Piaomiao Transformation Technique.

The Lu family's animal-shaped puppetry can be considered a branch of the puppet school.

This so-called matrix puppet can be said to be a unique lineage.

Judging from the fact that Lu Qi knew nothing about matrix puppets, the sect or individual who created this puppetry was most likely just an insignificant little character.

Li Mo inputted magic power into these six palm-sized puppets.

After landing on the ground, the six puppets quickly expanded and grew to the size of normal people. They had rough and simple appearances, looked dull, and held green flags in their hands, standing quietly in the courtyard.

Li Mo first manipulated these puppets to fight independently, and soon gave a fairly objective evaluation.

These basic puppet individuals were just the humanoid puppets of the Re-Creation Sect that he had obtained during his second-year year-end assessment, which was equivalent to the strength of the seventh or eighth level of Qi training.

Then he made a gesture with one hand and pointed at the puppets.

The six puppets actually generated an astonishing extreme magnetic force between each other, and quickly combined into one, turning into a giant puppet nearly ten feet tall, standing majestically in the center of the courtyard.

Even though Li Mo was prepared, he was still shocked after seeing this scene with his own eyes.

"go with!"

Li Mo then tested the strength of the giant puppet. Although its combat strength was only equivalent to the peak of the twelfth level of Qi training, its physical strength and survivability were quite amazing. It would not be easy for a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building to destroy it.

"It's probably because the puppeteer's skills are insufficient, and the quality of each puppet is too low. The number of combined puppets is also insufficient, which is why this matrix puppet cannot reach the strength of the Foundation Establishment Stage."

Thinking like this.

Li Mo once again made a hand gesture and pointed at the matrix puppet that was nearly ten feet in front of him.

The matrix puppets that were originally combined into one due to the extreme magnetic force suddenly split into six and ran in different directions. Li Mo vaguely sensed the best positions for the six puppets, so he gave corresponding orders to the six puppets according to the design of the matrix puppets.

After the six puppets are in place.

The six magical weapons in the six puppets revived, and the runes on the weapons shone one after another, forming six rays of spiritual light rising into the sky. Then, countless black seal characters were connected to each other as one. The blue spiritual power visible to the naked eye quickly condensed, and the sound of rushing water could be heard faintly.

Faintly.

The entire courtyard seemed to be shrouded in an invisible vortex of water spiritual power.

Within this vortex, the enemy's spiritual thoughts will be greatly affected, and the power of various spells and magic weapons will be severely weakened. At the same time, magic power will be continuously drawn away and converted into spiritual power to maintain the formation.

"Is this the Six Waves of Green Water Formation?"

At this moment, Li Mo was at the center of the formation. After feeling it for a while, he became thoughtful.

This is a real formation based on magic weapons. It is essentially the same as the mountain protection formation of Qingming Mountain, but the scale is very different and far from being comparable to the flag formation.

Compared with the flag formation, the large formation is naturally more stable and more difficult to break, and can deal with more enemies at the same time.

The so-called Six Waves of Green Water Formation only has six formation bases.

Therefore, even if it is a real large formation, it is only a miniature formation used to deal with enemies in the Qi training stage. It poses limited threat to cultivators in the foundation building stage, and requires the caster to be the eye of the formation and preside over it personally.

After a while.

Li Mo stopped the six waves of green water formation.

He opened his spiritual eyes, moved closer to the six-wave green water matrix puppet, and observed it carefully.

"These array-based magical instruments are actually hidden in the Ministry of Energy. Using puppets to set up the array is quite mysterious!"

After observing for a moment, Li Mo closed his spiritual eyes and showed a look of deep thought.

"These beginner-level, mid-grade puppets are worth the equivalent of six mid-grade magical instruments, or even more. Add to that the six formation instruments, and the total value is at least twelve mid-grade instruments. It seems that if you want to master the matrix puppet technique, you first need a substantial financial foundation."

After sighing, Li Mo did not back down.

Compared with the several types of puppetry he knew, this matrix puppetry was undoubtedly more in line with his future development direction.

“It’s good to have a master.”

Looking back on the hardships I faced when I was alone in the training hall, now that I have a master, I feel like I am doing things with ease.

(End of this chapter)

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