one's door

If this is really pure cultivation, that's all.There are few and few in the mountains, for the purpose of practicing, the three children following Zhang Yan can't always practice by themselves.So Zhang Yan carved more than a dozen stone tablets in the side hall in order to prevent himself from being in a daze and not seeing anyone for three to five days and leaving behind his apprentice's practice.There is a magic circle on the stele, mainly the magic circle, which can be activated with aura, and then you can see Zhang Yan's spells and exercises engraved in the magic circle to answer questions and explain.It is full of problems that are likely to arise on the road of the three apprentices.

Of course, new methods require face-to-face guidance.This is also the most solemn scene that will be held every once in a while in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain Gate.The three apprentices will listen attentively, and then ask questions in their hearts.

Just like the four masters and apprentices gathered today.It is not in the majestic Chuanfa Hall, but in the first building built on the cliff mountain, the Meditation Pavilion.

The small pavilion hangs on the cliff in mid-air, and you can touch the waterfall rushing down by reaching out.Amidst the roar of the falling water of the waterfall is a question-and-answer session about the methods of Shinto practice.

But in fact, sometimes Zhang Yan can't explain everything.Because of some things he himself has not been able to figure out until now.

For example:

"Master, the origin of the power of the divine descending technique is that there are gods all over the sky. But do they really exist? Where are they? If we can become immortals, can we also see them?"

Yang Rui's thinking is not the most detached and active among the three apprentices, but he is the one who likes to ask questions the most.

The method of Shinto belongs to Zhang Yan, who thinks that at this stage in the barren world, his cultivator is the most suitable method to use as a means of suppressing the bottom of the box.Even if the price is not small, it can be made up for by looking for pills.After all, the means of saving and fighting for life, the cost of this life span is actually very little.

However, teaching God's descending technique made it difficult for Zhang Yan to answer Yang Rui's question.

"Where are the gods? Where is the heaven? How can I see them? I want to know too."

Who knows that just as Zhang Yan replied, Liu Rui couldn't help but asked curiously: "Master, since the God's Subduing Technique can prove the existence of gods and can get what they want. Then why do they sit and watch the monster race rampant in the desolate sky?" , the human race is weak and ignores it?

Could it be that the people of the world are ignorant and hopeless, not worth saving?

Just like in the "Journey to the West" you mentioned, people have to save themselves first, and then the gods will take action? "

Chapter 383 Imagination

"Journey to the West"?

Zhang Yan was stunned by the question again.Strictly speaking, "Journey to the West" is about the kind of things in Buddhism, and it has the meaning of pushing Taoism.The reason for this is a lot of speculation.But when he moved to Huangtianyu, he never thought that it would be as possible as Liu Rui said.

Save yourself first, then attack?

In the absence of all kinds of previous events about "Journey to the West", combined with the reality of Huang Tianyu, it sounds like Liu Rui found a good excuse.

"Master, are you also a certain god who descended to earth? Like Monkey King's teacher in "Journey to the West"?"

This time it was Wang Nian who followed suit.He has always liked the Monkey King in "Journey to the West" and regarded him as his object of worship.Now when Liu Rui mentioned it, the first reaction was to join in the fun.With a quick brain shake, he compared himself to Monkey King, and Zhang Yan naturally became the Bodhi Patriarch who taught Sun Wukong all-powerful abilities.

He said it in a playful way, but as soon as the words came out and he pondered subconsciously, it was the turn of the three children to be stunned.In their opinion, if they think about the reason Liu Rui put forward, combined with Zhang Yan in "Journey to the West", it seems that Zhang Yan can perfectly fit with the fairy who descended to save the world in the story.

Could it be that Master is really a god? !

Zhang Yan could only smile wryly, no matter whether he explained it or not, it was inappropriate at this time.He could only shake his head, forcibly turned the conversation around, and brought the words back to the God's Arrival Technique.

The roar of the waterfall on the side, the use, limitations and disadvantages of the divine descent technique were all explained one by one.

This involves a "price" issue.And how to make up for the "price" of the shortfall, and the "price" derived from this "price" that runs through the door and is an important minor category, Dan Dao.

At the beginning, Zhang Yan started preparing alchemy on the way out of Yubeishan Fortress.At that time, he was aiming at the bone-strengthening pill, which had a low threshold for refining and had a great influence on Huang Tianyu.The confidence lies in the fact that he has the Wanxiang Pearl in his hand, which can change the best alchemy furnace suitable for him to improve the probability of alchemy and the efficiency of alchemy.

On the way home, Zhang Yan encountered the first life-and-death fight after arriving in Huangtianyu. In the end, he had to use the divine descent technique to turn defeat into victory, and he paid the price of his life for this.

It is precisely because of the lack of longevity that Zhang Yan will continue to explore new and more difficult pills, Biqing Dan, to make up for his previous lack.

"Master, can we learn alchemy?"

Wang Nian directly asked the expectations in the hearts of his junior brothers and sisters.In fact, it is also the extension direction of a divine method that Zhang Yan had anticipated today.

As far as the divine descent technique is concerned, without the support of alchemy, the importance of the divine descent technique will be directly reduced by at least [-]%.

"The Dao of Pills is originally a means of secondary cultivation, and it runs through the whole practice. The Peiyuan Pill you take and the Bone Strengthening Pill we take out are all products of the Dao of Pills. It is also the foundation of your current cultivation base that you can try to start. the wrist of."

Hearing this, the three apprentices were very happy.Novel means always make people eager to try.

After that, there was a new project in the practice in the mountains: alchemy.

Of course, it's not about refining directly, but you need to understand the medicinal materials and medicinal properties of the elixir used for training, and then you need to be familiar with the refining process and refining techniques on the elixir.After all of these are thoroughly familiarized, you can start to set up the alchemy stove and get started.

Liu Rui chose a basic elixir that can detoxify.Both Wang Nian and Yang Rui chose bone strengthening pills.

Liu Rui's choice is all based on interest.But Wang Nian and Yang Rui obviously discussed it.Most of the selfishness in it comes from Yang Rui, while Wang Nian is helping out out of loyalty. Anyway, what kind of alchemy is not alchemy for him?

Zhang Yan knew what Yang Rui was thinking.The more bone-strengthening pills that come out of the door, the more benefits Nanyuan Kingdom will get.But Zhang Yan was a little worried.It's not because of Yang Rui's selfishness, but Yang Rui's obvious motivation to "repay the kindness of upbringing".Once this kind of motivation is exhausted, and Yang Rui has expressed his interest in Zhanqing earlier, does that mean that Yang Rui's "Tao" will be the fastest among the three apprentices?

While the apprentices were getting familiar with the alchemy and medicinal properties, Zhang Yan got into the refining room.He needs to prepare teaching aids for the three apprentices.

After all, in the late stage of Entraining Qi Realm and early stage of Profound Veining Realm, alchemy consumes a lot of spiritual energy, unlike Zhang Yan who had the help of Wanxiangzhu at that time.So now Zhang Yan also hopes to provide his apprentices with better alchemy furnaces as much as possible.

At least it needs to be the best alchemy furnace in the low-grade magic weapon level.And be sure to be strong enough to avoid the fryer as much as possible.

While Zhang Yan was busy in the refining room, the three young apprentices got together to confirm each other.

"Little Mantou, why didn't you choose bone-strengthening pills? Wouldn't it be good to help Xiaomu's family?" Wang Nian carefully sorted the medicinal materials in his hand over and over again, and then compared the pill formulas. His memory was not as good as the other two, so he only This kind of stupid method can be used to speed up the speed of getting familiar with medicine and pills.

Liu Rui said with a smile: "The Bone Strengthening Pill can only be used by warriors, ordinary people and us monks can't use it. It's not suitable for the three of us to choose it. You have to prepare for the time when you travel far away in the future, right?" Liu Rui still smiled like a porcelain doll.But the wisdom and precocious mind in his eyes are already higher than that of a royal family like Yang Rui.There is even more assertive planning in the words.

Wang Nian and Yang Rui didn't blame Liu Rui for not choosing bone strengthening pills with them, they were just curious why they chose a detoxification pill.Hearing what Liu Rui said now, he even looked sideways.

"Ah? What do you mean?"

"Brother Shitou, think about it. Before we mentioned the matter of "Journey to the West", Master was silent. Don't you think that Master was hit by us by mistake? Master went down to save the world, but the world It's hard to cheer up ignorance, so we accepted the three of us as medicine primers. Just like Monkey King, Sha Wujing, and Zhu Wuneng in "Journey to the West".

Now we are like Sun Wukong cultivating in the mountains, Zhu Wuneng is majestic in the heavenly court, and Sha Wujing is on duty in Yaochi, all of which are foreshadowed in the storybook.Then it's westbound or eastbound.Brother Stone, Brother Wood, do you think what I said is right?At that time, with so many obstacles on the road, I thought that the antidote pill would come in handy. "

Wang Nian and Yang Rui opened their mouths unconsciously after hearing Liu Rui's words, they were beyond surprised. They didn't expect their junior sister to think so far, and they were sure that Master was the fairy in the story.

Looking down at the medicinal materials in his hand, not only Wang Nian felt so, but Yang Rui also felt that the bone strengthening pill that he was actively preparing in his hand was really not very fragrant.Refining some other pills seems to be more useful as Liu Rui said.

Chapter 384 Vision

Zhou Cang is now quite famous in Xiyuan County. He has been stationed in the area of ​​Baimashi for more than two years and has never had any problems. He firmly guards the first line of defense of Nanyuan Kingdom.

The soldiers under his command also transferred another battalion in the middle of last year. Now he has three battalions in his hands, with a total of 3000 people, including [-] cavalry.

This kind of force is already an absolutely powerful force in Nanyuan Kingdom, especially in the frontier army.You must know that the total strength of the entire West Route Army is only 5, but it is responsible for the defense of the entire Xiyuan County.

Especially the two hundred cavalry among the 3000 people, which would have been unimaginable in the past.Because there are always very few cavalry in Nanyuan Country, they are usually left in the central army, and are rarely deployed on the front line of the garrison.

It's not that they can't afford cavalry, but that they lack horses, horses that can be used as war horses.This has always been the root cause of Nanyuan Kingdom's inability to develop large-scale cavalry.Because not all horses can be used as military horses.

And [-]% of the few military horses in Nanyuan Kingdom were exchanged from Beiwu Kingdom, but the horses from Beiwu were all gelded, and the number was very small, and this was also used to control Nanyuan Kingdom to prevent Nanyuan Kingdom from developing. Threats to themselves after a powerful cavalry.

But things have changed in the past two years.The number of Beiwu's high-quality horses entering Nanyuan Kingdom has more than doubled compared to previous years. Although they are still gelded, it is enough for the frontier army of Nanyuan Kingdom to have more cavalry than before.Zhou Cang only got [-] riders.

Of course, two hundred cavalry is not a small number. Even though there are many more horses than before, there are too many places to use horses in the huge Xiyuan County. There are naturally special reasons for deploying so many cavalry for Zhou Cang. .

Because Zhou Cang is not only responsible for guarding the front line of Baimashi, but also responsible for monitoring the monster clans who are active in Baimashi, keeping an eye on them all the time.And because some groups of the Yaozu, such as those with hooves, run extremely fast, if there are not enough horses, they will not be able to keep an eye on them.

At the beginning, Zhou Cang was extremely complicated about this new job, even very reluctant.His emotions are not unique, almost all the West Route Army has similar emotions.Facing the Yaozu, they can risk their lives to fight with them.It is impossible to wash away the blood and hatred in it.Now you want the soldiers of the West Route Army to watch and not to engage in conflict, which is undoubtedly a kind of spiritual injury.

Fortunately, in the end, there was a forced order in the army, and some hysterical generals were transferred away, and only then did they have the current state of being able to restrain each other with the Yaozu tacitly.

At the beginning, Zhou Cang was exhausted enough.Because he was not at ease, he followed those monster races around all day long. From dawn to sunset, there was almost no rest, and he was always on guard against whether those monster races would have malicious intentions.The mental and physical exhaustion was no more relaxed than when he was sticking to the first-line army in Baishi City.

But after a few months later, Zhou Cang found that those monster races didn't mean to play tricks, nor did they deliberately want to get rid of them, but were really trying to find something.

With this understanding, Zhou Cang was gradually relieved.After half a year, he no longer ran with the Yaozu every day, and divided the following cavalry team into three, using Feiyu to communicate with each other, taking turns, so that they could have proper rest and not be too tired.

Although he wasn't as nervous as he was at the beginning, Zhou Cang still didn't slack off. Every day, he would report the follow-up information one by one according to the requirements of the chief yamen above. Even if there was no abnormality, he had to report it.

After a long time, Zhou Cang also summed up the characteristics of the monsters who entered the territory of Nanyuan Kingdom and their behavior.

For example, the Yaozu who came to Nanyuan country usually act in a team of 50 people.But there are very few real fighting groups in this team, less than fifteen.The rest are all non-combat groups that rarely appeared in front of the human race before.For example, Dwarfs and Rockrats.There are more than [-] monsters in these two clans, and the rest are large monsters with hooves.

These monsters will not approach the military camp, or they will avoid it from afar. They seem to be running around like headless chickens, but in fact, if you count all the places where they have stopped, you can find the special features. place.

For example, it is all low-lying terrain, and I like to drill into some lakes and caves, and I will also make holes on some gravel beaches.

It gave Zhou Cang the feeling that what these monster races seemed to be looking for was hidden underground.

Anyway, in order to avoid accidents and the last question from above, Zhou Cang himself marked all the places in his jurisdiction that were stamped by the monsters.Anyway, it didn't take him much effort.

Another point is that the Yaozu is really dangerous in Xiyuan County.They have no bells to warn them of, but they have other means of protecting themselves, by a strange little flying beast.But that kind of flying beast can't take care of everything, and there are often monsters who die inexplicably.

Especially in the last two months, the number of deaths of Yaozu in Xiyuan County has risen almost linearly. Zhou Cang saw it before, but five or six died in January.It is not uncommon for ten people to die in January these days.This also greatly reduced the time each Yaozu team spent in Xiyuan County.He didn't know if the other demon clans who entered Xiyuan County were like Baimashiyixian, anyway, he reported all these situations to the report.

These things will not attract the attention of Zhou Cang's family, because in his opinion, it is a good thing for the Yaozu to die more.It is no secret that there are a group of invisible monsters in the territory of Xiyuan County.Those beasts hunt the living.The human race can avoid it by relying on the bell, but it is difficult for the monster race to resist effectively because they are scattered.What's so strange about how many more people died now?Maybe it's because of the sudden increase of those ominous creatures?

As the sky was getting darker, Zhou Cang walked around the military camp in uniform. This was his last necessary procedure every day, checking the integrity of the fortifications in various places in the military camp and whether there was any shortage of standing weapons.

"My lord, Cheng Cheng ordered them to come back and said that there is something urgent to report to your lord, and he is waiting outside the big tent at this time." The adjutant came in a hurry, and he was going to work for Zhou Cang who was just about to inspect the last fortification in the army. report.

Zhou Cang nodded, and rode back to the big tent after completing the inspection, and saw one of his generals waiting there from a distance.

"My subordinates, see the adults!"

"Well, I heard that you are in urgent need of me? Let's go, let's talk about it later." Zhou Cang didn't greet the other party, opened the curtain and walked in first.

"Tell me? What's the matter?"

After sitting down, Zhou Cang was also very curious.The school order in front of him is one of the chief officers of the two cavalry teams under his command, and they are taking turns to follow the Yaozu this time and come back to recuperate.If there is something urgent, it should be related to the Yaozu, right?

Sure enough, I heard the school order say in a deep voice: "My lord, something happened to those monster clans!"

Chapter 385 Black Spot

"An accident? What happened?" Zhou Cang suddenly felt nervous.The school order in front of him is not a recruit or a young officer, but a veteran who has actually killed many times with the Yaozu.For more than a year, he has never looked so terrified as he is now.

Cheng Xiaoling paused, as if swallowing the saliva in his throat, then pursed his chapped lips and said: "My lord, more than half of the group of monsters who entered the territory recently died yesterday afternoon. The rest are less than Ten of them were picked up by the monster clan who followed behind."

"Wait! You mean the group of monsters who just passed through Baima Rock yesterday?"

"Yes, my lord. It's the group of monsters who just passed the White Horse Stone yesterday."

"How is it possible!" Zhou Cang frowned.Although the Yaozu couldn't resist the attacks of those invisible and intangible monsters, they couldn't be so unbearable. They just came in yesterday and today there are less than ten left?

Cheng Ling also understood that what he said was unreasonable, but it was the truth, so he nodded vigorously and explained: "My lord, my subordinates are absolutely right! Most of the group of monsters really died, and The situation is very strange.

Probably last night, the group of monsters camped on the rocky beach in the north. You know that every group of monsters that come in will have a meal there and then make holes.Some are to drill new holes, and some are to continue drilling down on existing holes.

We have been staring at the group of monsters, and at first saw them camping on the rocky beach, and didn't think it was a big deal.Later, they began to find some holes made by the monster race in front and continued to drill down.And he was very persistent, the earth and rocks dug out outside were as high as mountains. "

The Yaozu's ability to drill holes is not due to any special tools, but the rock rats in their team.Each of them is like a living drilling machine, and they are the main force of the Yaozu digging holes in Xiyuan County.

The voice of the school order has stabilized, and continued to say: "There was no problem all night, and I heard them shouting for a while late at night, as if they had dug something, but finally found that it was a black ice-like The things quickly dissipated. Our people could see clearly even if they were not far away. The monster races behind did not continue to dig down.

It wasn't until dawn that something happened to them.First, three rock rats died in the camp for no reason.He died in his sleep, and no one noticed it.

I thought it was another inexplicable dead person like usual, but there was something wrong with that corpse!When our people went to record the number of dead monsters, they saw that the bodies of the three rock rats were covered with black markings, one inch at a time, densely covering the whole body.

At noon, the group of monsters began to have problems one after another, and then died soon.There is a sign before they die, that is, the black markings will appear on the dead monsters! "

Zhou Cang stared at him, jumped up from his chair and grabbed the collar of Cheng Ling, and asked in a deep voice, "Where are your spies? Did they follow you back to the camp?!"

Cheng Xiaoling was startled by Zhou Cang's violent action, and quickly replied: "My lord, don't worry, those spies are all staying at each other ten miles outside the military camp, and they also feel that something is wrong. One of the spies' hometown once had plague , so we are very vigilant about this kind of thing. We were five feet away from the spies when we finally spoke."

Hearing this, Zhou Cang recovered from the anger that was almost missed.Because what I just said is too similar to that kind of plague that kills people invisible.And the source of the plague should be the black "ice" that the group of monsters dug out last night.

But Zhou Cang was still worried, and said: "Now you will immediately let all your people take you to the tent and you are not allowed to go anywhere! Forget it, don't go."

Then he turned his head and ordered to the adjutant next to him: "The camp where the first cavalry team is located will be closed immediately, and all people who have been in contact with the first cavalry team will be sent in and taken care of together! The meals will be delivered to them. Anyone who dares to enter or leave without authorization will be killed." !" After finishing speaking, he looked at the school order in the tent and said, "You stay here with me!"

And the adjutant honestly let the standard bearer deliver the order from a distance, and he didn't leave the tent at all.

"Shut up for three days first to see if anyone dies. Once someone dies, we will immediately set off and go to the opposite side of the White Horse Rock to find trouble with the monster clan." Zhou Cang's face was serious at this time, and what he said seemed to be joking , but the adjutant in the account and the school order Cheng knew that what Zhou Cang said was true.

Zhou Cang spent three days in torment.Not only Zhou Cang, but everyone in the entire Baima Shijun village was feeling uneasy.Although most people don't know what happened, they also feel something unusual.

Fortunately, in the past three days, no one in the military camp had any problems, not even the three spies from the cavalry who stayed outside the military camp.

Only then did Zhou Cang feel relieved.But the spies outside the military camp will stay outside for another three days. After all, they are the ones who have been close to the group of monsters at the closest distance, so they need to be more careful.The spies understood too.As long as there is water and food, they can find a forest to stay, let alone three days, it doesn't matter 30 days.Isn't this much more comfortable than running around every day?

Only then did Zhou Cang in the military village dare to pick up a pen and start writing letters to Baishi City.Before, he worried that if he spread the plague from Feiyu to Baishi City, wouldn't he be finished?So I kept waiting, and today I found that there was nothing wrong with the army, so I sent the note I had written long ago to Yu Feiyu.

Black "ice", resembling plague, dark spots, with extremely short death times.These keywords came into the hands of Yang Shiming, the commander of the West Army of Baishi City that night, which also shocked Yang Shiming.

Baimashi Zhoucang is fine, but in Yang Shiming's eyes, other places in the huge Xiyuan County are also facing similar dangers.While understanding Zhou Cang's prudence in reporting it three days later, he secretly scolded the report for being too slow.Feeling conflicted, Yang Shiming even felt inexplicably flustered for the first time in many years.You must know that he didn't panic when facing the monster army's pressure before.

Plague!That thing can't stop it at all, it can only hide, if it can't hide, there will be too many dead people too fast.Even a bad West Route Army in Xiyuan County will quickly collapse.

Yang Shiming didn't dare to delay, he quickly left Baishi City with an urgent order, and flew to all the military bases in Xiyuan County responsible for tracking the monster clan in the same shape as a flying feather.In it, all the findings of Baimashi are attached, including the emergency method on the side of Baimashi.At the same time, some details have been added. For example, if the spies find a similar situation, they cannot return to the camp. They can only light the beacon, and when they pass by, they will shout and pass the news from the position of five feet against the wind, etc...

Only two days later, the "black spot death" incident occurred again in Xiyuan County.Exactly the same as the first time.

Chapter 386 Benefits

Shen Wujiu is no longer in charge of the special case department of a county.Instead, he was separated from the actual duties of the special case department and was responsible for dealing with all matters related to Zhang Yan.The post has been upgraded by one level than before, but the establishment is still in the special case department, and he is now the deputy commander.