one's door

It was also because of this kind of nourishment that Zhang Yan completed the "refining" of the Wanxiangzhu, and officially became the new owner of the Wanxiangzhu.This is also the reason why with Wanxiangzhu's awakening, Zhang Yan felt more and more connected with his blood.

Now, after more than half a year of nourishment, Wanxiangzhu has a spirit, and has broken away from the self-proclaimed state, and has established a conscious connection with Zhang Yan.It seems that there is a huge message body in Zhang Yan's consciousness.

With the experience of receiving the body's original memory after time travel, Zhang Yan seemed very calm this time.

With his eyes closed, Zhang Yan also used the relationship between Wanxiangzhu to immerse himself in consciousness for the first time, and then followed the connection between consciousness and Wanxiangzhu to enter Wanxiangzhu.

Wonderful feeling.

Zhang Yan even felt that the word "watch" could be used to describe his current feelings.After he entered the Wanxiang Pearl following his consciousness, what he "saw" was actually a tall tower!There are nine layers stacked on top of each other.

Zhang Yan was shocked on the spot for a long time, and even in his consciousness, he could feel the terrifying oppression emanating from the towering tower in front of him, just like an ant looking up at a giant peak.

"The book once said that the Wanxiang Pearl is a thing in the fairy world. It can transform all phenomena and carry all things, so it is named 'Wanxiang'. Could it be that this tall tower is what is stored in the Wanxiang Pearl?" Zhang Yan said in a mood Unavoidably excited, he once thought that those classics in Longhu Mountain were all boasted by the predecessors, and they were all imaginary stories with no credibility at all.Now it seems that he is too self-righteous.The records in the classics should all be true.

The tower has no name, but the gate on the first floor is open. A kind of call makes Zhang Yan approach the gate unconsciously.

After entering the first floor of the tower, there is no concept of "architectural style" or "furniture" as Zhang Yan thought, and there is no sense of direction, except for many faint golden light spots hovering in the air. In addition, there is an upward staircase, and the rest is dark.

"Here...what are those?" Zhang Yan "walked" forward, and the sense of reality around him almost forgot that he was only consciously coming here at this moment.

There is no need to guess the upward stairs, it must be the passage to the upper floor of the tower, but after walking through it, I found that the passage was not open and I couldn't go up.Then a enlightenment struck, making Zhang Yan understand that the reason why he couldn't go up was because his cultivation base was too low, or he didn't have any cultivation base at all at this moment.The reason why he was able to enter the first floor was because he refined the Wanxiangzhu by chance.

Unable to go up the stairs, Zhang Yan turned his gaze to the floating golden lights around him.

If you get closer, you can see that these golden lights are actually small glowing beads, and the streamers on the beads are spinning, and when you touch them lightly with your hands, another understanding will flash in your heart, allowing Zhang Yan to understand what is in these beads.

"These are... skills?! There are also magic methods?!"

As the dots of light touched one by one, Zhang Yan understood what was hidden in this tower.All of them are the first-class cultivation methods and techniques collected and preserved in the Wanxiang Pearl by the monks of Longhu Mountain.

At this time, Zhang Yan also figured out some of the abilities of his own consciousness for this Wanxiangzhu.

"What are the foundation-building techniques practiced by the heads of Dragon and Tiger Mountain in the past?"

With just one thought, more than a dozen golden beads stood out from the countless dots around, and flew to Zhang Yan like a shooting star.

There are more than ten kinds of exercises, all of which have detailed sources and generations of masters who have chosen them as their own foundation-building exercises, and the advantages and disadvantages of each exercise are clearly listed.

There are aggressive ones, and some steady ones.Although it is only a method of building a foundation, if a high-rise building is built on the ground, if the foundation cannot be solidified, it may be difficult to achieve too high achievements in the future.Zhang Yan doesn't know what realm he can cultivate, but he can do his best from the beginning.

Although radical exercises are more advanced, they are dangerous.The predecessors were able to choose because the predecessors had the guidance of a master, and if they went astray, they could be corrected in time.But Zhang Yan is now the only monk in Huangtianyu, who can he guide?He can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

Therefore, Zhang Yan will only choose among the stable foundation-building exercises.

In the end, after repeated comparisons, and because of the pleasing fate, Zhang Yan chose a foundation-building exercise called "Returning Qi Method".

There are two reasons for choosing this foundation-building exercise with a simple name.First, this is the most stable foundation-building technique chosen by all the successive heads of Longhu Mountain. The simple and unadorned step-by-step will bring about solidity and no pretense. Possibility of enchantment, so safe.

Second, the "Returning Qi Method" focuses on "breathing and continuation", which has the best effect on the use of the art of breathing, and is also the most suitable for monks like Zhang Yan who are poor and have no pills to assist their practice.

After choosing "Returning Qi Method", Zhang Yan chose three more techniques.They are the most basic means.He can't use more or more profound ones now.He understands the reason why you can't chew more than you can chew.

One light body technique "God Walking Step", one defense method "Five Elements Qi Shield", and one attack method "Entraining Qi Sword Art".

They are all means to start cultivation with zero threshold and zero foundation, and they can also be used as basic means to derive more advanced techniques, with high growth potential.

Finally, the issue that Zhang Yan is most concerned about is how to use the other side of the Wanxiang Pearl.

Storing everything is one of Wanxiangzhu's skills, and Zhang Yan has already seen it.However, Wanxiangzhu's "can transform all phenomena" has not yet been seen.

So the consciousness withdrew from the Wanxiangzhu, and glanced at the burning oil lamp beside it, the wick did not change at all, indicating that the experience of Zhang Yan's immersion in consciousness and hooking up with the Wanxiangzhu just now was only a moment. There is a huge difference in the sense of time.

He took off the Wanxiang Pearl from his chest, put the necklace on his wrist in a circle, and then learned to link the Wanxiang Pearl with his thoughts.

The result was unexpectedly smooth, and there was no jerky feeling at all. With Zhang Yan's thoughts here, the Wanxiang Pearl on his wrist has changed accordingly, and a dark red wooden sword appeared in his hand in the blink of an eye.

Chapter 23

It was a mahogany sword, and it was Lao Muxin's best ancient mahogany sword.

Zhang Yan also had this kind of sword before, which was passed down from his master. It is said that it was made by a certain generation of masters from a thousand-year-old peach wood.

In the past, Zhang Yan naturally scoffed at such claims as "exorcising evil spirits and suppressing demons", "magical uses of Taoism", and so on. Even though he later relied on this set of arguments to resign, in the final analysis, he did not take those claims from the legendary era seriously.

It's different now.

According to the classics, monks can choose the most basic and simple magic weapon as a handheld when they start practicing.The mahogany sword is a natural thing with a certain magic weapon attribute.

Of course, the mahogany sword in Zhang Yan's hand is not a general mahogany sword, although it is almost exactly the same as the one handed down by his master in Zhang Yan's memory.

"receive!"

With another thought in his mind, the mahogany sword in his hand disappeared in the blink of an eye, replaced by a colorful bead hidden in Zhang Yan's sleeve.

This is the ability of Wanxiangzhu to "transform all phenomena".

Then Zhang Yan seemed to be playing vigorously, and the Wanxiang Pearl in his hand kept changing its appearance.Eighteen kinds of weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds were changed by him, even steel armor and shields were tried.It's just a pity that the pistol, a weapon that shoots projectiles, can't be transformed, or it can't be used after it has been transformed, because Wanxiangzhu can't separate itself as a bullet.

"At present, I can only change some ordinary things. The mahogany sword is still the most suitable for my current situation."

I changed everything I could think of, and finally returned to the mahogany sword.At any rate, this thing can have a little bit of the characteristics of Taoism, and it will also have a buff effect when combined with the magic technique that Zhang Yan got out of the Wanxiangzhu this time.In addition, having an extra wooden sword in his hand wouldn't make people suspicious, at most, it would just add an extra touch to his madman's name, which was irrelevant.

After tidying up his mood, Zhang Yan was extremely happy.

Another change after the awakening of the Wanxiangzhu is that it will no longer retain Zhang Yan's aura as before, but will only absorb [-]% of the aura in Zhang Yan's body for nourishment, and the remaining [-]% can be retained To do Zhang Yan practice income.

In other words, Zhang Yan can finally practice normally from now on.

breathe... breathe... breathe... breathe...

It is still the art of breathing in "Sweeping the Sky". Zhang Yan has completely adapted to it in the past half a year. He does not need to deliberately adjust his breathing rhythm. With the inclusion of aura.Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to wake up the Wanxiang Pearl so quickly.

But when Zhang Yan cooperated with the "Returning Qi Method", the breathing technique "Sweeping the Sky" seemed to become another method that was completely different from before.

"Exhale...inhale..." Although the rhythm of breathing has not changed, the effect of each exhalation has changed greatly.Whether it's the turbid air spit out or the spiritual energy in the body, they are all going up somersaults.

Double...Twice...Finally stopped at five times the previous breathing effect before stabilizing.If there are any changes in the future, it will be time for the "Returning Qi Method" to be refined.

In the dead of night, Zhang Yan was not sleepy in the tent. He sat cross-legged on the bunk, closed his eyes, and calmly practiced the first time in his life.Feeling the wisps of aura in his breath being tempered by the breathing technique and the "Returning Qi Method", and then following the trajectory of the "Returning Qi Method" for a week, it finally gathered in his lower dantian and stored it.

One strand after another, unconsciously Zhang Yan could feel his lower pubic region slowly begin to warm and fill, and those auras also seemed to slowly form themselves and shake regularly.

I have never eaten pork, and I have seen pictures of pigs in books.Zhang Yan had never experienced spiritual energy entering his body before, neither his master nor his master's master had this experience, but fortunately he had read a lot of classics and miscellaneous notes in Longhu Mountain, and he knew everything he should know, and now put himself in the same place Not too flustered.

"Aura forms a ball, and when it trembles, it is an opportunity to spin!" Such a sentence was written on the front of the Longhushan people's practice books, and it can be seen in almost every practice book, and it is still vivid in Zhang Yan's memory. new.

Now the aura has gradually formed into a group in the lower dantian, and it does vibrate autonomously and regularly, just like the precursor to the formation of a cyclone described in the classics.

"But... isn't this too fast?!"

Zhang Yan was extremely surprised, he never thought that he would be able to rush to the level of a condensed cyclone the first time he absorbed the aura seriously for the first time.According to the records in the classics, under normal circumstances, it takes half a year or even a year to slowly accumulate spiritual energy to form a cyclone, and it takes at least four or five months for a few geniuses to do it.

And Zhang Yan, just one night is enough to form a cyclone?

"Could it be that I sensed something wrong?" Zhang Yan was also a little uncertain.

But as the aura cluster in the lower dantian became tighter and the tremor became more and more obvious, Zhang Yan realized that he couldn't wait any longer, and this should really be the sign of the formation of a cyclone as mentioned in the classics.As for why he was able to achieve such an effect in just one night, there can only be two reasons to explain: First, the aura in the Desolate Heaven Territory is so abundant that just one night of breathing can be worth as much as The amount of half a year before the earth's aura is exhausted.Second, the cultivation talent of Zhang Yan's current body is ridiculously high, and it belongs to the kind of monster-level figure that appears once every ten thousand years.

But whether it is the first reason or the second, or both, Zhang Yan has no way to tell for the time being.He devoted himself to operating the "Returning Qi Method" he practiced for the first time, and carefully stirred the cloud of spiritual energy in his lower dantian with the method of moving the spiritual energy in it.

I don't know how long it took, the tense emotions in Zhang Yan's heart finally relaxed after the aura in the lower dantian began to slowly rotate in one direction.

"Success!"

In Zhang Yan's induction, the air mass in his lower dantian has started to rotate in an orderly manner under his careful guidance, forming a complete cyclone.And the aura that is subsequently incorporated into the body will consciously submerge into this cyclone instead of flowing randomly like before.

After the cyclone started to rotate, it even brought the aura in Zhang Yan's meridians to circulate much faster.This means that the efficiency of Zhang Yan's respiration in the future will become faster than before.It is equivalent to the art of breathing, the circulation of the sky, and the dantian, which now form a complete and effective closed loop under the interspersment of the cyclone.

As the saying goes: Qi enters the pubic region and forms a whirl, generating new energy to assist Zhou Tian, ​​and after that, the life cycle goes on and on, which is called the state of entraining Qi.

Chapter 24 Spiritual Food

If you are used to the life on Yubei Mountain, you will not be able to relax.

Because on Yubei Mountain, the time for each meal is very tight, and every three days is a fight. Even if there is no horn sounding for a day, it is a rare opportunity to repair the city wall, prepare the defense materials and replenish manpower.Nothing like a day of fighting.

Even a crazy "idleman" like Zhang Yan would not really be idle.In addition to regularly inspecting the various sentry posts, he mainly checks whether the Bagua array needs to be adjusted, where there is a need for maintenance, the pest control of the thorny vine wall, and so on.Even the path of the gossip array needs to be changed from time to time, so as to avoid the loss of personnel due to the luck of the monsters who find the correct path.

In fact, Yaozu's attitude towards the gossip formation has stabilized over the past six months, and they are no longer so frightened that they dare not set foot in the formation as they were at the beginning.Now they can also see that the gossip array is a method of the human race, but they have never seen it before, but it arouses the desire to find out, and the spying on the sentry post is much more frequent than the beginning, almost every day. Will go there every two days.

But in the face of the Bagua Formation, a method that has been continuously evolved and improved in Taoism for thousands of years, Yaozu wants to figure it out without any foundation, and it is unnecessary to think about it for several years or even ten years.On this point, Zhang Yan was very relieved.

In addition to going round and round to inspect the guard posts, Zhang Yan also went to the area outside the defense line, which is the resource of Yubei Mountain that was actually contested by the human race and the monster race, that is, the Yushan fruit forest.

Before seeing the real thing, Zhang Yan would not have thought that the Yushan fruit tree would look like this, it looks different from a "tree" in the general sense.It's more like a wooden stake with some leaves attached and some fruits attached to it. There are almost no branches except the thick trunk, which looks very strange.And one after another always grows in patches, and the distance between two trees will not exceed two steps.

Moreover, dead leaves, young leaves, fruits, and flowers can be seen on the tree at the same time, which is so fantastic that it is incomprehensible.

The appearance of Yushan fruit is also very special, making Zhang Yan immediately think of corn on earth.It is also golden in color, and the granules on it are full, but the corn is columnar, while the Yushan fruit is round, the size of an adult's fist.If you get closer, you can smell the fragrance from the fruit, which makes people want to take a bite.

Zhang Yan did not go for a walk or play in the Yushan fruit forest, but General Song of the Yubeishan Fortress wanted him to go around and see if he could come up with a way to solve the problem of Yushan fruit harvesting, and fight for it as much as possible. Go in front of the Yaozu in the grab, instead of relying on soldiers to pick them one by one while bleeding.

It has to be said that now that Zhang Yan has confirmed his status as a "school of miscellaneous studies", many people in the Yubei Mountain Fortress have high hopes for him, hoping to use the methods of the school of miscellaneous studies to solve some of the problems they have been dealing with. Problems that have been at a loss for a long time.

Zhang Yan went to the Yushan fruit forest many times, and it's not that he didn't think of a solution, but he just kept thinking about it and didn't say it.On the contrary, the number of times he asked for Yushan fruit became more.

It's not a big deal to ask for four or five at a time. No one will be serious with Zhang Yan. I just hope that he will suddenly come up with some proud thoughts when he is happy.

The first time I ate Yushan fruit was actually purely out of curiosity. I heard that this stuff is also soft, glutinous and sweet, so I was greedy for a plate. It turned out to be really good. The texture and taste are much better than the noodle soup in the fortress. .

After one mouthful, Zhang Yan was stunned when he ate the second one. He actually felt a trace of aura spreading out from his stomach, and was captured by the "Returning Qi Method" that was running all the time, and finally flowed into the lower dantian.This is also the first time that Zhang Yan has not obtained the aura through breathing.

"This Yushan fruit actually belongs to the category of 'spiritual food'?!" Zhang Yan was immediately shocked in his heart.

The so-called spiritual food literally means usable plants with spiritual energy.This is recorded in many classics and miscellaneous notes in Longhu Mountain.There are many kinds, and some are accompanied by ups and downs of legendary stories.For example, "Millennium Ganoderma lucidum", or "Millennium Ginseng", and even more exaggerated "Peach" and "Ginseng Fruit".Of course, the latter two can no longer be counted as spiritual food alone, and they can be called "the merit of taking away the good fortune".

However, spiritual food has long been extinct on the earth, earlier than the exhaustion of spiritual energy.So Zhang Yan saw it for the first time.

"In this way, strange species like Yushan fruit in the wild world may belong to spiritual food? Even if it is not spiritual food, there is a high probability that it can be related to spiritual energy. Then there will be no shortage of medicinal materials for alchemy in the future?"

Zhang Yan's first reaction was that he might really be able to bring the "Dao of Alchemy" in the Taoist school in the future.There must be no shortage of related doorways in Wanxiangzhu.

The types of medicinal materials may not be exactly the same, but as long as the medicinal properties are similar, they can be mixed and used.Maybe you can really practice the "elixir" of the eight classics.

But alchemy is still too far away for Zhang Yan now.He has just entered the door of cultivation and is in the early stage of entraining Qi, and alchemy requires a lot of real energy, which is far beyond what the Qi entraining can afford.According to the records in the classics, if one wants to make alchemy, the alchemist must have at least the Profound Vein Realm, which is the next big realm of Entraining Qi Realm, in order to be good enough.

After that, Zhang Yan really fell in love with the Yushan fruit tree.

According to many field observations and understandings, Zhang Yan already has a very clear understanding of the characteristics and distribution of Yushan fruit trees.This thing is called a "strange species" in the wild world, mainly because it is very different from other plants.It is very rare for a single flower to bloom and bear fruit in four seasons, not to mention that after brewing, it has a very good effect on strengthening the bones and tendons of warriors.

Since the four seasons are the picking season, it means that a normal harvesting method is needed, so as to maximize the profit under the premise of cooperating with the sentry.

In the end, Zhang Yan drew a prop on paper after returning home, and handed it over to the supply camp for their craftsmen to try to make one.When asked what it was, Zhang Yan said casually: Pulley.

He is not an expert in strategy at all, how could Zhang Yan come up with any way to "grab the harvest".The only thing that can be done after thinking about it is to shorten the delivery time after picking the fruit, in a disguised form, so that the fruit pickers have more opportunities to pick more fruits and transport them away, so as to achieve the goal of "grabbing harvest" that Song Qinghe hopes.

Zhang Yan went around the mountain a few times, and the area with dense fruit forests in Yushan is relatively flat, but it will be rough when going down, and the transportation is all carried by manpower in the back of the basket, and the efficiency is extremely slow.Of course, if there is no threat from the monster race, this method of transportation is not impossible. Anyway, Yushan fruit will not have any problems if it is left for a month.However, this mode of transportation is extremely inappropriate when there are monster races robbing it.

Therefore, Zhang Yan is going to try to see if he can get the pulley out, and then there will be a lot of articles to do on transportation.

Chapter 25

Zhang Yan didn't know how difficult it was to manufacture the pulley, so when the first wooden pulley weighing ten catties appeared in front of him, he didn't dislike it. Instead, he took a closer look at the structure and found that apart from being much larger, Besides, it is basically not much different from his sketches.

After the structure is determined, it is necessary to further improve the size.After all, the most basic use of the pulley is to serve as a support point for "fixation" and "directional movement".

Zhang Yan didn't want to think about steel cables, which required extremely high craftsmanship, but hemp ropes as thick as an arm's length could be used as a substitute.

After several times of repeated revisions, a pulley box weighing five catties, moderate in size, and made of a mixed structure of wood and iron was made, and after many suspension and sliding experiments in the station, it basically reached the tension. Yan expected appearance.

The Yubei Mountain Fortress is no stranger to Madman Zhang's crazy words and weird behaviors.Coupled with the appearance of the Eight Diagrams Array and Kongming Lantern, everyone has a little more respect for this lunatic.Although he didn't know what he was fussing about all day long, he agreed tacitly and didn't bother him.

Until the day when Zhang Yan was going to officially let the pulley meet with the high-level officials of Yubeishan Fortress.

The place was chosen in a Yushan fruit forest. Except for Lin Zedong, everyone in the fortress who could get out of the fortress was present, even the chief general Song Qinghe came in person.

This was the first time Zhang Yan met the person in charge of Yubei Mountain Fortress.What Zhang Yan felt was that the other party was not like a general, but more like a teacher. Even though he had the strong oppressive force of a warrior, at the same time, the calm and breezy affinity was even stronger.

"Subordinates see the general!" Zhang Yan hastily followed the rules here and saluted Song Qinghe honestly.He also didn't expect Song Qinghe to come here in person.

"Hehe, don't be too polite. Zhang Yan, I heard that you made another interesting thing. I happened to have time to come over with Lin Zedong to have a look. This thing was made by you repeatedly asking the supply camp to help you out. What is a pulley, right?"

"Yes, my lord, this time it is thanks to the manager of the supply battalion, otherwise this thing would not have been produced so quickly." Zhang Yan would never let things go smoothly, and he was still standing behind Song Qinghe with a smile on his face. The Blooming Baggage Battalion thanked the Chief Ma Sanqiang.

Song Qinghe also turned his head to look at Ma Sanqiang, smiled, and continued to say to Zhang Yan: "I didn't know the purpose of the pulley you made before, but now it seems that it is a means for the Yushan fruit tree? Can you tell me? "

"My lord, the pulley is actually an aid. The purpose is to allow a faster method of moving things to be realized on Yubei Mountain. It is more troublesome to explain in words. Now that my lord is here, let's see the actual effect, so that it will be easier to understand." .”

"Okay, let's see what changes this pulley can bring to Fishback Mountain."

It's just a single pulley, not a pulley block, so the transformative nature of this thing has not been shown right now, and Zhang Yan doesn't need it to do disruptive things at the moment, he just needs to make it easy to transport Yushan fruit.