The road is vague

Chapter 129 Three Formation Diagrams
A few more days passed.

It’s the last day of December.

Lingmu Sect’s annual Foundation Establishment Disciple Trade Fair was held as scheduled.

Li Mo and Wei Cang came to the trade fair hall together. This time, Li Mo was familiar with the place. As the trade fair began, he kept walking around the hall. After searching for a long time, he finally saw someone selling flag arrays.

The stall owner was a cold-faced man with narrow eyes and scars.

He noticed that Li Mo was interested in this set of flag formations, so he gave a brief introduction.

"This is the spoils I captured from the State of Lu a few years ago. It's called the Nine Bends and Two Rivers Sealing Formation."

"Eighteen formation flags."

Li Mo frowned slightly.

Although this is much stronger than the five-colored psychedelic array that his master gave out for free, and theoretically enough to deal with two or three cultivators in the early and middle stages of foundation building at the same time, he is not satisfied.

"How many spirit stones?"

"Two thousand five hundred spirit stones, no bargaining."

Li Mo nodded, put down the flag formation, and continued strolling.

Then he discovered that someone was selling Piaomiao Demon Pills.

Seven Piaomiao Demon Pills from the Qi Training Stage would have been fine, but there were actually three Piaomiao Demon Pills from the Foundation Establishment Stage, so he immediately bought them all.

This way.

He now has nine Foundation Establishment Stage Piaomiao Demon Pills on him, waiting for him to refine them with auxiliary spiritual medicines.

After a few years, maybe I can save some more.

"what?"

After a while, Li Mo noticed a female monk selling spirit beasts.

These are two furry gray little wolves.

Spiritual beasts must be raised and cultivated with essence and blood during their childhood before they can be driven at will. He developed some interest in these two stupid demon wolves.

After all, among the various means that cultivators use to guard their caves, spirit beasts are the first choice.

"I accidentally captured these two Lantianyuan wolves from Tianyuan. They are good at guarding the cave. If you are interested, I will give you one thousand spirit stones."

"Oh?"

Li Mo looked surprised.

"Senior Sister, you've actually been to Tianyuan. I'm so sorry, so sorry."

The so-called Tianyuan is located in the south of Daqian Kingdom and is the central area of ​​the Central Plains.

There is a vast and broken plateau where countless Nascent Soul cultivators have founded sects and established more than twenty small and medium-sized countries.

According to legend, more than a hundred years ago, before the Daqian Kingdom's faction defected and the Hundred Years' War between the Qian Kingdom and the Lu Kingdom began, the focus of the major powers had always been on the Tianyuan area.

The six major countries engaged in a fierce competition here.

A large number of small and medium-sized countries were forced to be involved in endless wars, which was extremely chaotic and the people were living in misery.

It was not until the Hundred Years' War between Qian and Lu that the center shifted to Zhongshan, Han, Wei, and Chewu. The four Gobi countries were suddenly plunged into blood and rain, and the land of Tianyuan finally ushered in some peace.

In contrast.

Muzhou was originally just a border area in the eastern part of Daqian Kingdom. Although it had a sparse population and a declining economy, it was able to develop steadily in a remote corner.

After thousands of years of accumulation, Lingmu Sect has grown stronger and stronger.

However, as the Hundred Years' War between Qian and Lu broke out, Lingmumen, as the most frontier area between the two countries, was undoubtedly the most affected.

In terms of economy, although Muzhou received investment from the Daqian court and people's lives became increasingly prosperous, the Lingmu Sect declined and was no longer as prosperous as before.

I sighed for a moment.

Li Mo tried to input some spiritual power into the two wolf cubs to test their potential qualifications.

"Ow!"

The two wolf cubs cried out at the same time.

Li Mo frowned slightly, and finally sighed and let the two demon wolves go.

The potential of these two demon wolves is really not that good.

According to Li Mo's test, after these two demon wolves grow up, they will at most be at the seventh level of Qi training. It's not that they can't continue to grow, but they must go through all kinds of hardships and opportunities, similar to the arduous training of humans, or become gods, which is fraught with difficulties.

It would be fine if these two demon wolves had some special mutant talents.

The key point is that these two demon wolves are mediocre and not worth training intensively.

Just this still costs one thousand spirit stones.

From this, it can be seen that it is not easy to obtain a satisfactory spirit beast to guard the cave.

When Li Mo was in the training hall, he had seen Ye Yimeng's five-colored spiritual bird and Ye Fuhu's king leopard, and his potential was immeasurable.

Even the mutant demon wolf king that he transformed into had much greater potential than these two ordinary demon wolves, and also possessed mutant talent spells. Naturally, he looked down on this ordinary spirit beast.

"Ugh."

Li Mo sighed, shook his head at the senior sister and left, continuing to look for a suitable flag formation.

However, there were not many formation masters in Lingmu Sect, and naturally not many people selling flag formations. The kind of flag formation he wanted that could deal with cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage, or even Golden Core cultivators, never appeared.

However, when he strolled past an old acquaintance's stall, he unexpectedly discovered something.

"Senior Brother Xue, how are you?"

This person was none other than Wei Cang's good friend, the cultivator at the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, who was regarded by Wei Cang as one of the strongest Foundation Establishment cultivators in the sect.

Last year, Li Mo bought the Piaomiao Demon Pill from him.

A year passed, and the fat man was still bare-chested, fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan.

"It turned out to be Junior Brother Li!"

Xue Tai laughed and pointed at the things on the stall in front of him with his palm-leaf fan.

"Junior Brother Li, take a look if there's anything you're interested in and I'll give you a discount." Li Mo nodded and picked up three books, namely "Eight Trigrams Spirit Gathering Formation", "Six Dings and Six Jias Void Formation", and "Heavenly Gang and Earthly Evil Hundred Refining Formation".

"Senior Brother Xue, where did you get these formation diagrams?"

Xue Tai took a look and sighed.

"These were all spoils of war captured from the Lu Kingdom during the war there. However, the guys with me speculated that these formation diagrams were originally from the disciples of the Daowen Sect. After becoming spoils of war, they were lost to the disciples of the Lu Kingdom. Later, we killed them and brought them back to the Daqian Kingdom."

Li Mo nodded in amazement.

This also indirectly reflects the cruelty of war.

The formation diagram is the key to learning the formation. Different formations have different focuses and the abilities they evolve are also completely different.

For example, these three battle formations.

One is the Spirit Gathering Array, one is the Void Array, and one is the Hundred Refining Array.

Just by listening to the names, you can tell that one focuses on gathering spiritual energy, one focuses on spatial prohibition, and one focuses on guarding and killing.

The power of a formation is determined by the number of formation bases and the strength of the formation core.

The number of array bases introduced on the array diagram is not absolute.

For example, the Bagua Spirit Gathering Formation.

It seems that only eight array bases are needed to set up the array, but in actual operation, it can be further differentiated to form the number of eighty-eight, sixty-four array bases, or even differentiated twice to become five hundred and twelve array bases.

The same applies to other formations.

The original array base can be continuously differentiated into more basic array bases, so theoretically the power of each large array is endless and has no upper limit, but after each differentiation, the test of the array layout will also be exponentially improved, so few array masters are willing to do so.

And this refers to the situation when a large formation is arranged using magic tools as the formation base.

The flag formation cannot be further divided into formation bases and can only be arranged according to the formation diagram. In theory, a maximum of ninety-nine formation flags can be arranged, which means eighty-one formation bases.

Similar to the Tiangang Disha Bailian Formation, this large formation requires 108 formation bases and cannot be arranged using formation flags.

"Since there's nothing suitable, why not just make a set of battle flags yourself?"

Thinking this in his heart, Li Mo looked at Xue Tai.

"If it was obtained from the battlefield, why didn't Senior Brother Xue take it out last year?"

"Ugh!"

Xue Tai sighed helplessly.

"I have an earth spirit root. After I came back, I saw that the various flag formations of my master were quite popular. Naturally, I wanted to try to refine them to see if I had any talent in formation. Unfortunately, over the past two years, I have been completely confused. I have failed several times in refining flag formations according to the formation diagrams, wasting a lot of materials. I had no choice but to give up."

Xue Tai looked deeply distressed, as he had obviously wasted a lot of spirit stones.

The formation master refines the flag formation as a complete set, and any move can affect the entire body.

Although refining the flag formation seems to be very profitable, if it fails, it can also be a heavy loss.

"If Junior Brother Li is interested in the art of formations, I'll sell you these three formation diagrams for a low price of 300 spirit stones. How about that?"

Although Li Mo didn't know the specific value of the formation diagram, three hundred spirit stones was obviously within the range of loss he could afford.

So he completed the transaction immediately.

Next, Li Mo continued to stroll around and saw someone selling basic puppet materials such as Five Elements Glue, drive shafts, soul-guiding silk, and ignorant spirit essence. So he spent nearly a thousand spirit stones and bought a large batch.

These basic materials will definitely be useful in the future.

"Excuse me, do you have any polar magnets here?"

Li Mo asked casually.

This is a special material needed to refine matrix puppets. It is not very valuable, but it is rarely found on the market.

"Haha, you've asked the right person. I actually have a batch of polar magnets here!"

Next, Li Mo used only ten spirit stones to buy more than three hundred pieces of polar magnets. It seemed that this material was not special. For puppeteers, it would only be used in some special situations, so its value was not high.

Now all he needs to refine the matrix puppet is the basic spiritual wood.

However, when refining and assembling matrix puppets, great emphasis is placed on the uniformity of the materials of each puppet. Therefore, the preciousness of the basic materials is not pursued, but the batch size of the basic materials is pursued. Therefore, it is impossible for such a small stall trading market to produce the large batches of basic spiritual wood with uniform material, uniform year, and uniform properties that he needs.

after awhile.

Li Mo meets up with Wei Cang.

Wei Cang looked worried, and Li Mo knew that he had not found the elixir that could break through the bottleneck of the late stage of foundation building.

"Junior Brother, I remember you're good at alchemy. Someone over there is selling a thousand-year-old beauty flower for 3,800 spirit stones. Although it's a bit more expensive than the market price, it's a thousand-year-old spiritual medicine after all. It's a rare opportunity. Are you interested?"

Li Mo was naturally quite interested.

But he changed his mind and realized that although he had a lot of spirit stones on him, he still had to learn the art of formation, try to refine the flag formation, and also try to refine and assemble the matrix puppet, which would cost a lot of money.

In addition, he still needs to practice alchemy again. Even if he is worth a lot of money, he probably doesn't have any extra spirit stones to buy the thousand-year-old elixir.

"Forget it."

Li Mo naturally knew how to advance, retreat and give up, and finally shook his head.

"You also know that what Junior Brother lacks most right now is a way to protect his life in the cave."

Wei Cang nodded after hearing this.

"In fact, my senior brother also thought so at the beginning. Time flies, and there is no regret in life. Alas."

The two then left the trading hall.

Listening to Senior Brother Wei Cang's sighs, Li Mo couldn't help but recall the past of this third senior brother. He had to choose between the bottleneck-breaking pill that he didn't need at the moment, or the Six Meridians Yunxiao Sword. He finally chose to refine the sword.

now.

Based on Li Mo's own experience, this cannot be said to be a wrong choice.

After all, if Senior Brother Wei Cang had chosen the elixir, he might have died from some danger and become a symbol in his memory like the fourth and fifth senior brothers?

As the saying goes, life is unpredictable.

There is no absolute right or wrong in the world.

(End of this chapter)