Chapter 12

In the days of cultivation, time always passes very quickly.

After a heavy rain at the end of summer, autumn comes quietly.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

In the past six months, Tang Jie followed Xu Muyang to wash his pulse, and his life was fulfilled and fulfilled.

In the yard today, Tang Jie was punching.

What he is doing at the moment is a set of open-arm fists, which Xu Muyang taught him, and is used to refine the meridians in conjunction with the Tibetan Elephant Sutra.

At this moment, he was fighting furiously, and from time to time there was aura flowing through his body, swimming around his whole body. Every time the aura flowed through his body, it brought Tang Jie an extremely comfortable feeling, and at the same time made his body stronger.

Xu Muyang said that this is a sign that his meridians have not expanded to the limit.

After punching once, Tang Jie felt the spiritual energy in his body disappear little by little, and he was very reluctant to let go.

Logically, he can continue to practice, but Xu Muyang said that the more diligent the better, the better. Too strong and domineering training methods will lead to overdrawing the potential of the human body, and may even injure oneself, leaving hidden dangers. The best combination of work and rest is the best.

So now he could only stop, but he couldn't help sighing and said: "I don't know when this day will end."

"What? Can't wait?" Xu Muyang in the pavilion was drawing on paper with a pen, but what he drew was some strange patterns and runes. Hearing what Tang Jie said at this moment, he laughed and said, "Yes. For you, the days of washing the pulse and laying the foundation may be boring, but you know how many cultivators are looking forward to God giving him a chance to start again."

"Brother Xu taught you the lesson." Tang Jie answered hastily.

Thinking back to my student days, I don’t know how many students yearn to go to the society earlier and get out of the cage-like days of school. Only after making a splash in the society and hitting a broken head, will I recall the beauty of school life.

Tang Jie is a person who has experienced one life. Although that life did not bring him any powerful golden fingers, it gave him a wealth of life cognition, which made his thinking break away from the shackles of age early, and he knows what is the most important thing. of. The sigh just now was just a momentary expression of helplessness. It really made him give up laying the foundation and practice directly, so he didn't do it.

Xu Muyang had met many disciples of cultivating immortals before, and they couldn't bear the loneliness and boredom. Even the talented ones often practiced hard every day because of their eagerness to practice as soon as possible.

In the world of cultivating immortals, there are not many cultivators who practice immortal arts without a solid foundation. The real many are those who don't know how to cherish their bodies in order to achieve success as soon as possible, and do not hesitate to backfire with a fluke mentality.

Therefore, he admired Tang Jie's calmness very much.

At this moment, he smiled and said: "After boxing practice, let's learn today's formation."

Tang Jie couldn't help but smile wryly.

Array Dao is the same as medical skill, it is also a field of knowledge with a greater reserve of knowledge than technical reserve, and it is precisely because of this that there is no need for restraint.

In the past six months, Tang Jie only practiced the Tibetan Elephant Sutra twice a day, and it took only half an hour to add up, and most of the time was spent learning formations.

Sometimes Tang Jie wondered, did Xu Muyang deliberately use this method to divert his interests?

Compared with the slow progress of pulse washing, Tang Jie can be said to have advanced by leaps and bounds in the study of formations.

This is not all because he has a good mathematical foundation.

The array itself is all-encompassing, easy to reason, spells, geography, and weather are almost all-inclusive. Considering the existence of some ancient arrays, and even adding history and humanities, spells are only one part of it.

The key is his adult thinking, which makes him learn things much faster than the average twelve-year-old boy. It is often said that children have strong learning ability, but children's strong learning ability means that they have been imitating, but they are far inferior to adults in terms of knowledge tolerance.

What a primary school student learns in a year is not as much as a high school student learns in a month.

Therefore, Tang Jie's learning in the Dao of Arrays can be said to be very fast, and the memory ability and skills brought by the exam-oriented education have laid a good foundation for him. In only half a year, Tang Jie has almost mastered all the basic knowledge needed for Dao of Arrays, making him very happy. Xu Muyang also praised.

At this moment Xu Muyang flicked his hand,

The previously drawn array rune record has flown into Tang Jie's hands: "Let's set up the array according to this picture."

"Spirit testing array?" Tang Jie glanced at the array map, and now he can clearly distinguish the function of each array map. This spirit test array is used to test the movement of the surrounding world's aura, so that it is convenient for the cultivators to find a place with abundant aura for cultivation, and it is also one of the simplest arrays.

Usually the cultivator himself also has the technique of hopeful qi, but the formation method coincides with the principle of heaven and earth, but the effect is much stronger than the technique of hopeful qi.

"Yes, this time you must set up a complete and usable spirit measuring array, and the range must reach three miles."

"Understood." Tang Jie replied seriously, and raised his hand, a spiritual light shot out from his hand, merged into a spiritual line in the air, and fell to the ground.

His Jade Gate has been opened, and he can breathe out spiritual energy, but the spiritual eyes have not been opened, so it cannot be stored, so as long as he absorbs the spiritual energy and uses it before it dissipates, he can still use it to arrange a spiritual formation, but this kind of formation The technique is extremely incoherent and cannot be completed in one go, the effect is limited, and the efficiency is ridiculously low. Its performance is basically the same as that of children's tracing red.

At this moment, Tang Jie was arranging the array stroke by stroke, and Xu Muyang was watching from the side, giving him some pointers from time to time.

After a whole hour of arrangement, the formation was finally drawn. Tang Jie input a spiritual energy to activate it, and saw a wave of cloud and mist appearing in the formation, tumbling up and down, and even a white column of air curled up.

"Success!" Tang Jie exclaimed happily.

The appearance of air pillars means that the formation has been successful. Those air pillars represent the aura around them. There are scales in the pattern, and different scales represent different positions. The air pillars are different in size and color. The difference represents the difference in the content of spiritual energy.

This is his first time setting up the formation, and the range is only three miles. If Xu Muyang did it himself, it would be completed in a short time, and the range of his spiritual detection is even more extensive.

At this moment, Tang Jie watched the column of air rising in the formation, and felt extremely happy. Thinking of the half-year hard work finally yielding results, he couldn't help but feel grateful to Xu Muyang from the bottom of his heart, and it even made him feel that it was a waste The formation of time is no longer so obtrusive, but I think it has some merits.

After all, many things can only be truly loved after enjoying their achievements.

Xu Muyang is also very satisfied with this: "There are still huge flaws in the connection of the formation pattern. The formation pattern is a place where spiritual energy can flow, and it is not enough to draw the formation pattern, you also need to clear the formation pattern so that the spiritual energy can flow without hindrance. Look at this formation pattern, you have repainted it twice before and after, and there is a broken mark in the middle. On the surface, they are connected as one, but in fact there is only a trace of spiritual energy. The formation is not a drawing, and it is not just a neat pattern. Yes, what is really important is the inside. Look here, here and here... There is certainly a reason why your spiritual energy is not enough to support the continuous formation, but there is also a reason why your skills are unfamiliar."

"Well, I understand. It means that the road needs to be dredged. No matter how wide the road is, if it is not properly dredged, it will still be blocked. Sometimes a breakpoint will cause the entire road to be paralyzed."

"Yes. Another thing is that you are too shallow in terms of Yi Li. The spiritual detection array is a formation for observing spiritual energy. Since it is an observation array, you should strengthen the operation of the Qianmen. The Qianmen is the sky, sit in the center of the square altar, and listen to all directions. Therefore, the spirit testing array should focus on the Qianmen, why are you going to strengthen the Xunmen?"

Tang Jie scratched his head in embarrassment: "Xunmen is the wind, light and agile, mainly changing and distance, I think you asked this spirit measuring array to be able to observe three miles away, so..."

"Abandon the basics and seek the end!" Xu Muyang criticized unceremoniously: "What you have to do is to set up the spirit test array well, not just to meet my requirements!"

"Yes, I understand." Tang Jie replied seriously.

Cultivating immortals is not an education for exams. While Tang Jie benefited from his previous life experience, he was also subject to his previous life thinking. Fortunately, Xu Muyang pointed it out in time, making him understand his mistake.

At this moment Xu Muyang continued to explain to him the various shortcomings of this formation. When it came to rising, he shot out spirit lines from his fingers to repair the spirit-testing formation for Tang Jie, and under his repair, the spirit-testing formation changed It is getting bigger and bigger, and the radiation range is getting wider and wider. Not only are the clouds and mist churning like the sea, but even the undulating mountains can be seen faintly. It seems that the whole world is included in a burst, and everything is under control.

In the hands of Xu Muyang, this spirit measuring array turned out to be a reflection of the real world, which made Tang Jie horrified, but Xu Muyang couldn't help but said: "The formations are connected, and sometimes it may be just A small change, the formation is completely different. When the spirit-testing formation is raised to the extreme, it can also reflect the world and become a big thousand formation, not only the spirit-testing formation, but also other formations. The combination, change, and improvement , is extremely complex and profound, and you may not be able to study it all in your life, so you still want to say that you have no interest in it?"

Tang Jie grinned: "I know I was wrong, I will definitely study hard in the future and make progress every day!"

Xu Muyang laughed at what he said, and was about to say something more, when suddenly there was a flash of purple light.

Xu Muyang was slightly stunned, and looked into the formation, only to see that there was a faint flash of light in the formation.

"Purple Qi soaring to the sky?" Xu Muyang blurted out, his complexion suddenly changed.

"Purple Qi soaring to the sky? What is that?" After all, Tang Jie had only a short time to cultivate immortality, so he didn't understand the meaning of it.

Xu Muyang didn't speak, but fell into deep thought.

"Is something wrong? Brother Xu." Tang Jie saw that Xu Muyang's expression was not right, and asked with concern.

Xu Muyang pondered for a while, then suddenly chuckled and said: "It's nothing, you don't need to ask about this matter. Oh, by the way, you and I have been together for half a year, but it seems that we haven't had a drink together yet? What are you talking about today? The success of the formation for the first time should also be celebrated. How about this, you go outside to buy some food and drink, and today, our two brothers will sing to the moon and have a drink. Oh, yes, I want Lao Chen Remember the sauced duck."

"But Chen Ji is in Anyang Mansion." Tang Jie replied with some embarrassment.

"Then let's run for a while, what's the matter." Xu Muyang waved his hand casually and replied.

"It's getting late, it's not a good time to go to Anyang Mansion now, and Chen Ji's ducks are always sold very well, and they usually don't sell until late at night."

Xu Muyang's face froze, Tang Jie said: "But there is old wine in the kitchen, which was left by the owner of this house earlier. In addition, there are two chickens in the backyard. If brother Xu wants to eat, I will go Slaughtered and served wine to Big Brother Xu."

After speaking, before Xu Muyang could speak, he hurried to the kitchen.

Xu Muyang frowned, after all he didn't say anything, just sighed helplessly when he saw the purple radiance in the formation.

Tang Jie's hands and feet were quick, and after half an hour, the dinner was ready.

At this time, the sky was dark, and the moon hung in the distance.

Xu Muyang and Tang Jie sat opposite each other in the small booth, drinking rice wine with white chopped chicken.

The moonlight was beautiful, Xu Muyang stared blankly at the sky, under the reflection of the golden glow, the moonlight turned into colorful light, falling in this courtyard, bringing a piece of golden night glow.

"This evening glow... is so beautiful!" Xu Muyang said suddenly.

"Hmm." Seeing Xu Muyang's strange expression, Tang Jie didn't dare to answer casually.

Xu Muyang said to himself: "This sunset glow is the afterglow of the golden flame. It protects us from the invasion of foreign enemies, protects the Qixia Realm, and keeps its aura to circulate continuously, so that it will not go outside. Yi, but it is also our shackles, the shackles of the Qixia people, preventing us from leaving this world easily... The Star Luo Daqian Realm, I really want to go out and have a look.”

Xingluo Daqianjie is the collective name of those immortals who have ascended to the Dao to the worlds outside the Qixia Realm. It is said that there are countless large and small worlds outside the Qixia Realm.

If the Qixia Realm is the earth, then the Xingluo Daqian Realm is undoubtedly the universe.

It's a pity that leaving the Qixia Realm is not an easy task, the golden flame wind shrouding the sky is like a natural barrier, even the spiritual energy cannot escape, ordinary cultivators will be burned to ashes even if they just get close. Only the real immortals who set foot on Xiantai can fly out of the world against the wind of golden flames and enjoy themselves for nine days.

Some people say that this is a self-protection measure of the Qixia Realm. It is because of the golden flame wind that most immortal cultivators are forced to return to the local market, and the aura stolen from the heaven and earth is also returned to the heaven and earth, making it possible to go back and forth , endlessly.

If there is no golden flame and strong wind, the immortal cultivators will leave at will, and the spiritual energy will be exhausted for a long time.

Because of this, in the eyes of some extremists, every immortal who ascends and leaves is also a sinner who steals spiritual energy and does not return it.

Fortunately, there are very few people who can ascend, and the real spiritual energy lost in Qixia Realm is only a drop in the bucket.

At this moment Xu Muyang suddenly mentioned Xingluo Daqianjie, Tang Jie was also a little confused.

Xu Muyang had already drank the wine in his glass, filled it up for himself, and said in a self-talking way: "When I was young, my father disciplined me very strictly. Every day I was either practicing or learning how to manage the family. I was naturally rebellious and always found Sneak out to play at various opportunities. Every time I was caught by my father, it was a good meal. At that time, my second sister protected me. I remember one time, I sneaked out to play, and I was naughty for a while, and even burned down the small attic at home. The second sister stood up and said that she burned it. Unfortunately, my father was not confused, so he still found me as the real culprit...It really hurt when the board fell."

Tang Jie listened silently without speaking.

Xu Muyang still cared about himself and said: "So I started to plan to escape, wanting to escape from the Xu family. Unfortunately, I ran three times and was caught back. One of them, I even ran out of Moqiu, but was still caught by my father Here, another beating."

Speaking of this, Xu Muyang laughed softly: "It was only later that I found out that I have the blood of the Xu family in me. When I was born, this blood was recorded in the ancestral hall and left a life lamp. Regardless of Wherever I go, people from the Xu family can find me through the life lamp, unless I can escape from the Qixia Realm and enter the Xingluo Daqian Realm. So since then, I have fantasized that one day I will leave this place The world. Of course, it was just wishful thinking at that time, and it was only later that I realized how difficult it is to become a fairy. My Xu family is one of the four major families, but I can't even get out of the Zifu Zhenjun. If I want to escape this world I can only think of another way. That is, from then on, I began to delve into the Dao of the formation... The way of the formation is so deep that it can be divided into a prison and a world of its own. This Qixia Realm is like a cage of heaven and earth. It can be regarded as a grand formation of nature and nature. I devoted myself to breaking the formation and devoted myself to the way of the formation. After a long time, I fell in love with it completely, and the more I cultivated it, the deeper it became. On the contrary, I forgot the original purpose."

He looked at Tang Jie: "You said that you want to be free and free, but you know that this dream looks simple, but it is actually extremely difficult. In life, it is impossible to have real freedom. Even if one day you really succeed in cultivation , as long as you are still trapped in this Qixia Realm, trapped in this cage of heaven and earth, you will not be at ease, you will be at ease!"

"So as long as you're still in the Qixia Realm, you won't be able to avoid being hunted down, right? That purple aura soaring into the sky...was someone from the Heavenly God Palace chasing after you?" Tang Jie said indifferently.

Xu Muyang was stunned, and finally shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I know I can't hide it from you."

"Then you asked me to buy Chen Ji's sauced duck, just to take the opportunity to drive me away?"

"En." Xu Muyang nodded: "But then I thought, I don't know when they will come. What if they don't come when you go, what if they bump into you when you come back? So you If I don’t go with an excuse, I’ll let it go, why don’t I just explain it to you here, so that you don’t get confused and die.”

"Then why don't you run?"

"I can't run anymore... I was in a maze in Cuiwei Mountain. They haven't chased me for half a year, so it's impossible for them to find me again. Now that they're chasing me, they naturally know where I am. No matter how hard I run, it's useless." .” Xu Muyang shook his head slightly, with deep sorrow already in his eyes.

Tang Jie was shocked, he remembered what Xu Muyang said about the blood of the Xu family before, finally understood, and blurted out: "Your family betrayed you! The purple energy soars to the sky... the purple mansion realm?"

Tang Jie understood everything at once.

Purple Qi means huge fluctuations in spiritual energy. Purple Qi soaring into the sky is the appearance of a person with powerful spiritual pressure, and the number of Zifu Realm in Qixia Realm is very small, and it is almost impossible to meet them in this remote place.

At this moment, the purple qi in the spirit measuring array is still approaching Anyang Mansion, and it is actually going straight for this place.

If there was a hint that it might be a passing Zhenjun of the Purple Mansion before, then looking at the straight-forward momentum now, it is clearly aimed at Xu Muyang.

The speed is not too fast, if it's not that the opponent is not good at flying, or he has a strong chest, he is not afraid of him escaping at all. Considering the horror of Zifu Zhenjun, it is probably the latter.

Xu Muyang couldn't even beat an ordinary Heavenly state of mind in Tianshen Palace, now that the True Monarch of the Zifu is here, how can he resist? Tang Jie looked at Xu Muyang with horror, but Xu Muyang was calm inside, like an ancient well without waves.

"How could they treat you like this? You are from the Xu family!" Tang Jie stood up and shouted.

He will not be angry when Tianshen Palace chases him, and Xu Muyang will not be afraid, at worst, he will just run away.

But people from the Xu family betrayed Xu Muyang, which made Tang Jie completely incomprehensible.

But Xu Muyang just shook his head: "If you can survive for half a year, it's considered the best of humanity. Tang Jie, you still don't really understand the cruelty of the world of cultivating immortals, and you don't understand the status of the six major sects in this Qixia world. What four Big families, in front of the six major factions, are all just small fish and small shrimps... The True Lord of the Purple Mansion can sweep away the four major families by one person. Each of the six factions has at least three or more True Monarchs, Celestial Venerables, and even great powers from the Immortal Realm. Father, he has to bow his head!"

Tang Jie felt despair in his heart: "Could it be that you just accept your fate like this?"

"So what if you don't accept your fate?" Xu Muyang smiled, drank the wine in the glass again, and then continued: "Actually, I knew this day would come, and it is luck to be able to survive for half a year. This is also the last time the family treats me. I owe my family too much. If I can have an afterlife, I can only repay it in the next life. Tang Jie, let me tell you, you can’t hate my family for this matter, and you are not allowed to seek revenge from them in the future.”

"What... what?" Tang Jie was taken aback, revenge?

Where does this start?

Xu Muyang said quickly: "Yes, remember, I was born as a member of the Xu family, and died as a ghost of the Xu family. In the future, if you will succeed in cultivation, if you can still remember the good things I have done to you, then you can only be kind to the Xu family. Repay kindness, not revenge."

"But why should I..."

"Just rely on this!" Xu Muyang flipped his wrist, and stuffed the Xuanbing Sword that he never left his hand into Tang Jie's arms: "The Jiuli Xuanbing Sword is the key to breaking the formation left by the soldier master. The formation pattern on it is The Nine Absolute Immortals Formation can evolve naturally, with endless mysteries. Only by understanding it can the Nine Absolute Immortals Execution Formation be truly deciphered. Moreover, when I studied the Bingjian, I found that there seemed to be a strange mentality besides the formation pattern on it. I have never been able to understand this matter, but even Tianshen Palace didn’t know about it. I just thought that this military guide is the key. It's that simple. Although the Nine Absolute Zhuxian formation is an ancient formation with extraordinary power, it is also for us. It may not be effective for those existences that can make him fall. In this case, it is obvious that only one large formation It’s not enough, and the mystery may be in this military book.”

Then Xu Muyang handed over a thick booklet, a few bottles of pills and his own sword to Tang Jie: "The book is the experience of my cultivation of formations over the years, you put it away, Before your formation has reached the level of inborn phantom and insight into fire, it is best not to try to comprehend Bingjian lightly, otherwise your mind will be restrained and your life will be in danger. As for the blue light sword is my only magic weapon, although you can't play its role yet , but it is enough for self-defense, and the others are considered ordinary, so sell them for money. I am not aggressive, so I have no love for foreign objects such as magic weapons, and there is really nothing good for you, but as long as you study carefully I leave you with the true understanding of the formation, comprehend the formation diagram, sooner or later you can break through the Nine Absolute Immortal Execution Formation and obtain the inner secret treasure."

"But……"

"No, but, get out of here quickly, they haven't seen you, don't know your existence, even if I die, I won't let them get the Xuanbing Jian!" is getting closer.

"No! I won't go! I don't care about the family, I only care about you!" Tang Jie shouted, "I won't leave you alone!"

At that moment, he suddenly understood that after getting along for half a year, although Xu Muyang had feelings for him and treated him like a younger brother, why didn't he regard him as his own big brother?

In any case, he can't just watch Xu Muyang die like this!

Xu Muyang smiled and said: "You don't have to be so excited, I'm not going to die for you, if I really want to survive, as long as I hand over my soldier's guide, there is still a chance of survival. It's just my strength No big deal, if someone wants to plot against me, I must repay it. Instead of gambling on the possibility of survival, it is better to take revenge! I handed over the military guide to you, and I am using your hand to take revenge on the Temple of God. It is for you It brings danger and trouble, so you don't need to be too moved. Besides, if they don't have the military guide, my family will be much safer!"

Speaking of which, Xu Muyang stood up, grabbed Tang Jie, and countless spiritual threads appeared like silk threads, wrapping Tang Jie like a spider web. Then Xu Muyang took out a piece of paper, folded it a few times, and it turned into a piece of paper.

Xu Muyang drew a few strokes on the horse on the paper and threw it on the ground, only to hear Herod neighing, and a strong white horse appeared.

Xu Muyang threw Tang Jie onto the horse's back, the spirit thread automatically entangled the white horse, he slapped the horse's buttocks hard, and the horse jumped out.

"Brother Xu, don't let me go!" Tang Jie shouted desperately on the horse.

Xu Muyang has already shouted: "Go north, don't come back!"

"No!" Tang Jie yelled desperately, but the unbreakable spiritual thread bound him tightly to the horse, and the horse galloped all the way without stopping.

Watching Tang Jie's back disappear, Xu Muyang finally sat down.

He picked up the pot of wine and filled it up for himself, and murmured in a low voice: "It's a pity... After all, I didn't have time to send you to the Moon Washing Sect, and you can only go on your own in the future."

With that said, he began to quietly wait for the fate to come.