Chapter 10 Formation Dao

"So, you just set up a formation on a whim, and then went back to the room to remember your experience, and forgot about me?" Tang Jie asked, staring at Xu Muyang.

Xu Muyang blushed: "I just forgot the time."

He is dignified and in a real state of mind, and it is also interesting that he looks like a child who has made a mistake when confronted by a half-grown child.

No wonder Tang Jie was angry. Anyone who was trapped in the formation for a few hours would not feel better.

Hearing Xu Muyang's answer at this moment, Tang Jie got up and left.

"Where are you going?" Xu Muyang asked in amazement.

"Let's go cook. I was stuck as soon as I got back, and the meal hasn't been cooked yet."

"..."

Not long after, Tang Jie had prepared dinner and brought it over.

The two ate together in the courtyard, but Tang Jie remained silent.

"What? Still angry with me?" Xu Muyang looked at Tang Jie with a smile: "Okay, I admit it's all my fault, I apologize to you, okay?"

Immortals are to mortals just like gods are to mortals, let alone being trapped for a long time, they are really killed, and others dare not say anything. But now Xu Muyang actually apologized to Tang Jie, it can only be said that Xu Muyang and Tang Jie are already very close.

Tang Jie shook his head: "I'm not angry, I'm just thinking, what is a formation and why is it so magical?"

When he was trapped in the formation before, he just felt like he was in a maze. The yard was obviously still the same yard, but he couldn't get out no matter how he walked. The hut was close at hand, but far away. At that time, I was still a little flustered and terrified. Looking back afterwards, I only felt that the mystery was infinite, so I couldn't help thinking about it even when I was eating, what is the principle that can make the original ordinary land into a god-like space.

"You also discovered it?" Xu Muyang laughed loudly: "Yes, the Dao of Formation is indeed a very magical knowledge, covering everything, implying the principle of heaven and earth, every plant and tree, everything can form an formation, it can be said that it is the world. The mysteries of the first level, even if a cultivator spends his whole life, he may not be able to understand one ten-thousandth of them, and the uses are even more extensive..."

As soon as he talked about his favorite things, Xu Muyang immediately started to talk non-stop, and he was even more generous in his compliments.

"What exactly is that Dao?" Tang Jie asked.

Xu Muyang replied: "The so-called Dao of Formation, in the final analysis, is the cultivation of heaven and earth!"

"The cultivation of heaven and earth?"

"That's right!" Xu Muyang replied sternly: "If you regard the human body as a world, we cultivators cultivate our own bodies. But outside our body, this vast world itself is a world. In this world Among them, there are mountains, lakes, land, and oceans. In fact, everything corresponds to our human body. The human body absorbs spiritual energy and releases immortal methods through use. The heaven and earth have spiritual energy, so why can’t they be used to produce immortals? ? Heaven and earth are unconscious and unable to use spiritual energy by themselves, but immortal cultivators can combine it through various means, this is the array!"

"So that's how it is." Tang Jie understood, this is simply the physics of his previous life!

The so-called array is like some kind of high-tech precision machinery, powered by aura, and uses array patterns instead of veins to run aura to achieve the specified effect.

It's just that the laws of the world are different, and the people who use them are different, so the phenomena and effects produced, and even the means of creation are completely different.

It is precisely because of this that the Dao formation has a very wide coverage in the world of cultivating immortals.

The four assistants of the Immortal Family, the Pill Talisman Array, among which the Dao of the Dao is the most versatile, not only can be used to make the guarding array of the sect, such as the Shoushan Grand Array, but also has an auxiliary effect on the three assistants of the Dan Talisman Artifact. Alchemy requires Formation formation, talisman making requires formation diagram, and weapon refining also requires formation formation. It can be said that it is ubiquitous and has far-reaching influence. Because of this, there are many kinds of formation methods.

According to Xu Muyang, formations are generally divided into two types: dead formations and live formations. A death formation is a fixed and immovable formation, such as the little rosemary formation Tang Jie experienced before is a death formation. The living formation is generally a battle formation, and it is generally a formation technique performed jointly by immortal cultivators, which can double the power and is also a magic weapon for the weak to defeat the strong.

In addition, there are also divisions based on functions. For example, when refining alchemy talismans, formations are also required.

Some people call this category the auxiliary formation, which means the auxiliary of the auxiliary.

In short, there are many sects of formations with a long history, but in fact there is no unified standard, each has its own way of judging, and even has different opinions.

For example, some people think that formations are for assistance, are the external expression of the will of the cultivators, and serve the cultivators. Therefore, this kind of people's view of Xu Muyang's so-called formation is the way of heaven and earth. dismissive.

Ideas guide behavior.

Xu Muyang's idea made him proficient in the formation of heaven and earth, he is good at arranging or breaking some large-scale formations of super grand scale, but he is not good at battle formations or small auxiliary formations.

In terms of the current understanding of large-scale formations, at least in this Qixia world, there is no one who is better than Xu Muyang.

At this moment Xu Muyang was talking eloquently, and when he talked about excitement, he was even more elated.

Tang Jie had never seen him be so proactive. Before learning how to cultivate immortals from Xu Muyang, he didn't know how much painstaking effort he had put into it, so that he almost survived death, and in the end he only learned the Tibetan Elephant Sutra.

Speaking of excitement, Xu Muyang suddenly said: "Why don't you learn the way of formation with me, how about it?"

"Huh?" Tang Jie was dumbfounded.

Xu Muyang said: "I learned this formation method by collecting books from all over the world. It does not belong to the Xu family's secret biography. It can be passed on to you. I think you are smart and suitable for learning!"

"But...my heart is on the great way, so it's not suitable for distraction..." Tang Jie replied hesitantly.

Although the formation is good, human energy is limited.

Now Tang Jie is no longer the chaotic kid who knew nothing about cultivating immortals. He already knows how difficult the road of cultivating immortals is. Many people may not be able to reach the top throughout their lives.

Why is the Patriarch of the Xu Family unwilling to learn the Dao of Formation for Xu Muyang? Isn't it because he was afraid that his energy would be distracted and delay the right path? Tang Jie asked himself that he didn't have Xu Muyang's aptitude against the sky. No matter how distracted, I am afraid that the future achievements will be limited.

"You can't say that." Xu Muyang shook his head and said: "Cultivation is a journey, and the road is so difficult. In addition to hard work, you must also have understanding. Formation and cultivation both contain the principles of heaven and earth, and the two are not necessarily the same. They cannot complement each other. Furthermore, one of the formations may not be useless in battle. In the battle of Cuiwei Mountain, my strength was far inferior to that of He Chong, but he was defeated with the help of the eight-door lock heavenly formation I arranged in advance. Ran."

If you are willing to listen to your father's concentration on cultivation, I'm afraid that He Chong, who can beat him without using arrays, will be fucked, Tang Jie swears in his heart, but seeing Xu Muyang's happy look, he really can't bear it and dare not hit him.

Most of the Xu Muyang he saw these days were taciturn and imposing, but only the current Xu Muyang truly showed the aura of ordinary people.

It can only be said that he really loves Dao.

Xu Muyang has continued to say: "Besides, you are only washing your pulse now, you can't practice, and you are idle if you are idle. I promised to teach you something, but I can't teach you the immortal method of my Xu family, so I will teach you what I have learned in my life. If you don't want to learn in the future, I won't force you, what do you think?"

"Okay..." Tang Jie replied weakly.

Seeing his reluctance, Xu Muyang couldn't help being angry and funny, and slapped him on the head: "You boy, you are so good at taking advantage of it. Do you know how many people want to worship me and learn from me?" None."

Yes, your father told you not to learn the Dao of Arrays, but you still want to learn;

Others want to learn from you and don't teach, I don't want to learn from you but want to teach;

What I want to learn is Immortal Art, but what you want to teach is Array Dao;

You belong to the donkey, you specialize in fighting against people——Since knowing that Xu Muyang can't predict his mind, Tang Jie's slander has become more and more fierce.

But whether he wants to or not, he still has to learn this way.

After dinner, Xu Muyang began to teach Tang Jie.

"The way of the formation is broad and profound, but no matter what kind of formation it is, it cannot be separated from the formation eye, formation pattern, formation door and formation source. The so-called formation eye is the center of the formation, where the core is, just like the human brain , to control everything, is the most critical part. Without the eyes of the formation, the formation cannot run according to your will. Such a formation is the real death formation. The so-called formation patterns are the lines for the passage of spiritual energy, such as the blood vessels and meridians of the human body , the road of the world, if there is no pattern, the formation cannot operate. The gate of the formation is also the door. It can allow people to enter, it can let people out, and it can also keep the enemy out of the door. Life and death are all in it. The source of the formation is the big formation The source of mobilization. People have spiritual energy to cast spells, and the formation is also the same..."

"Understood, the formation eye is the brain, which is the command; the formation pattern is the blood vessels, muscles and bones, which are the support; the formation gate is the place where the real power is exerted, which is the limbs; the formation source is the heart, the source of power, just like an engine... oh No, it's like the spiritual eyes in our body, isn't it?"

"That's right. The cultivator uses the spiritual sea in his body as the power to cast spells, and the source of the array is powered by external objects such as spirit stones. Of course, the cultivator himself can also help it."

"That's weird. I didn't see any spirit stones in the little rosemary array you used before."

"That's because I added a small spirit-gathering formation, which can automatically absorb spiritual energy. This is called formation within formation."

"Doesn't that mean that as long as there is a spirit-gathering array, it can automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the spirit-gathering array is the source of the array? But how does the spirit-gathering array activate? Self-sufficient? Perpetual motion machine?" Tang Jie's eyes were full It's about to protrude.

Xu Muyang had never heard of the term perpetual motion machine, but he could understand its meaning literally, and said with a big smile, "How could such a good thing happen. The spirit-gathering array itself needs external force to activate, and it was I who injected another spirit energy to make it work." It is working. Even so, the gathering spirit array can only gather the nearby aura, and once the nearby aura is absorbed, it will have no effect. This little rosemary array is just a temporary game of mine. It will dissipate on its own in a matter of days.”

"So there is still no real perpetual motion machine." Tang Jie sighed: "That is to say, there is no real formation in the world that can last forever, and each formation actually needs someone to maintain or have enough aura resources to exist?"

Hearing this, Xu Muyang replied: "Perhaps there will be no formations that last forever, but formations that have existed for tens of thousands of years still exist."

"Existing for tens of thousands of years?" Tang Jie was taken aback by Xu Muyang's statement.

"That's right, not long ago, I experienced it myself." Xu Muyang's expression has become solemn, with infinite admiration in his eyes, as if he recalled something.

After a long time, he sighed and said: "Compared to the great power of the ancients, I am still far behind. If not, it is impossible to only open the first portal..."

He didn't go on, but changed the subject: "Forget it, don't mention these, this is not something you can understand now, let's go back to the way of the formation. Among the four cores of the formation, the pattern and the source of the formation are the most complicated. I I will teach you the basic pattern first."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and made a few swipes in the void, and there were strange lines shining in the air, which faded and disappeared after a while.

"Draw the pattern I drew just now, remember to follow the order I drew, one stroke at a time, without the slightest error." Xu Muyang said lightly.

Drawing formation patterns is the basic technique of formation masters, and it is often also an entry test. Although Xu Muyang wanted to teach Tang Jie, he also wanted to see if Tang Jie had the talent in this area. If he really has no talent in this area, he will not force it.

The next moment Tang Jie picked up a branch and began to draw lines on the ground. He didn't have the inspiration that Xu Muyang picked up at random, so he could only work on paper honestly, but the strokes and strokes were extremely neat.

Xu Muyang didn't care at first, but he was surprised when he saw Tang Jie draw the line.

Because Tang Jie almost perfectly reproduced the lines he drew before, when Tang Jie finished drawing, Xu Muyang found that Tang Jie's strokes were almost all correct.

"You... how did you do it?" Xu Muyang was shocked.

"It's very simple, isn't it just a combination of dotted and solid lines?" Tang Jie was a little puzzled. In his eyes, although these patterns are complicated, they are nothing more than geometric figures, which can be memorized with a little effort, after all, he was very familiar with such things when he was in school. Since Xu Muyang asked him to draw it, he followed suit.

He didn't know that Xu Muyang asked him to draw it, but he never expected him to draw it all.

It is not that there is no mathematics in the Qixia world, but the status of this knowledge is not high in the Qixia world, and the depth is far worse than that of the earth. Those who understand may not be able to cultivate immortals, and those who cultivate immortals do not necessarily need to understand, and only those cultivators who study the way of formation will study this aspect of knowledge.

Therefore, the extremely simple pattern to Tang Jie may be confusing to others.

Hearing Tang Jie said it was very simple at this moment, Xu Muyang hurriedly drew another complex figure on the ground, but this time he no longer asked Tang Jie to copy it, but pointed to the pattern on it and said: "This point is the Starting from this point and ending at this point, find three connecting lines that do not cross each other."

Tang Jie only glanced at it briefly, then imitated a few times with twigs: "This one... this one... and this one."

Xu Muyang was shocked, it is not difficult to find three non-interfering connecting lines in this pile of complex patterns, but it is not easy to find them at such a fast speed.

Xu Muyang asked another question, this time it was a question for the school to calculate the size of each route and area.

Tang Jie didn't expect that learning formations would become a math test, and he didn't know how far he had to go to be considered qualified, so he could only bite the bullet and follow Xu Muyang's requirements step by step.

Tang Jie didn't have much interest in mathematics, but his mother was a mathematics teacher, and once whipped him to study hard, saying that he would not learn well enough to lose face as a mother. Now that he has graduated for two years, he has not had time to learn all I still have to learn everything, and the questions Xu Muyang posed are not too difficult at this moment, so Xu Muyang posed questions all the way, and most of them were solved by him.

But Xu Muyang became more and more frightened the more he looked at it.

Because he discovered that Tang Jie used several solutions that even he didn't understand.

The way of arrays has extremely high requirements on the number of Yili spells, but there are very few people who are really interested in studying them. Those who pursue the way of arrays often pursue the power of arrays. , that is completely uninteresting, and it is extremely painful to learn one by one.

It can be said that Xu Muyang has never seen a few good maths in his life, and he didn't realize it until this moment. He was surprised and happy in his heart, and suddenly grabbed Tang Jie and shouted: "Monster! Genius! You still said you don't want to Learning? You are a genius in cultivating formations!"

Tang Jie was taken aback by his grasp, and even said what was in his heart: "But I don't want to learn."

"Nonsense! With such a talent, how can you say you don't love it?" At this moment, Mu Yang became excited. He didn't have the elegant demeanor of the past. Seeing that Tang Jie refused to admit that he had the talent in this line of work, he was even more heartbroken. : "You don't know what love is!"

He is an attitude determinist through and through, convinced that only love can achieve great things.

His achievement in the formation is because he deeply loves the formation and also loves the magic number. In his opinion, Tang Jie's talent is his love for the art of magic, otherwise how could he have such attainments.

Tang Jie had never seen him like this before, and he was stunned: "Brother Xu, but I really don't feel anything about this."

"Then how do you explain your talent?" Xu Muyang still did not give up.

Tang Jie replied helplessly: "How do I know...Maybe I don't love Zhen Dao, but Zhen Dao loves me!"