one's door

Zhang Yan now has four spirit-gathering talismans on his body, and the time of the breathing technique has also increased a lot, the effect of his breathing spiritual energy has naturally increased several times compared to the beginning.

What remained the same was that none of the aura that had been absorbed into Zhang Yan's body remained in Zhang Yan's dantian, and was cut off by the Wanxiang Pearl on his chest just like before.

There are also changes, that is, the multicolored streamer on the Wanxiang Bead is now more vivid, and at the same time exudes a wonderful atmosphere that makes Zhang Yan feel "connected by blood".

This reminded Zhang Yan of an ancient book he had read. There were many texts on it that he read as legends, and one of them was aimed at "immortal artifacts".

It is said that the fairy artifact has its own spirituality, and it needs to be warmed by the user to exert its power like an arm and a finger, and there is also a saying of "awakening".

This is also something that Zhang Yan has been thinking about recently.He speculated that the Wanxiangzhu used to be because the spiritual energy on the earth was exhausted and there was no longer any power to drive it. In order to keep itself from being rotten by the environment of the exhausted spiritual energy, it closed itself and was finally regarded as a dragon and tiger. The mountain is in the scroll of tears sealed in the age of legend and family rules and ancestral precepts.

Later, Zhang Yan obtained the Wanxiang Pearl by chance, and the flowing light flowing on it showed that it hadn't decayed like other so-called magic weapons in Longhu Mountain.

Zhang Yan remembered that when he was caught in the danger of death in the underground palace of the Tianzhu Kingdom, the Wanxiangzhu moved first, taking a breath of some kind of poisonous mist that turned people into bones from the underground palace mechanism, and then took him across to the barren sky. .

Is there a possibility that the poisonous mist actually contained a lot of aura, and Wan Xiangzhu relied on the aura in the poisonous mist to fight hard, and only after crossing over did Zhang Yan become what he is today?Now the aura that Wan Xiangzhu cuts Hu Zhang Yan into the body is actually a kind of active "warm nourishment", those breaths that make Zhang Yan feel "connected by blood" are the effect of "warm nourishment".Then all he needs to do is wait for the Wanxiangzhu to be slowly awakened by the spiritual energy?

However, although the speed at which the spiritual energy enters the body is several times faster than at the beginning, Zhang Yan understands that this is far from enough, at least there is still a lot of room for improvement in the gains he can achieve.

On the second day, Zhang Yan and his group did not go out of the fortress, but practiced in the camp. From this day on, Lao Yu began to teach them how to set up various traps.

In his spare time, Zhang Yan went to the Quartermaster in Qili and asked for a lot of yellow paper, a thick stack, and some cinnabar.

I drew four spirit-gathering talismans and one exorcism talisman with thin wood chips before, all of which were effective, and Zhang Yan also wore them all the time.However, the effect of the talismans painted on ordinary wood chips is greatly reduced. Now that it is convenient to rely on the Kongming Lantern, it is natural to further optimize the talisman thing.

Just when others thought that the lunatic Zhang was going crazy again, Zhang Yan crushed and threw away all the wooden talismans before, and replaced them with regular yellow paper talismans that were much more effective.And posted twenty pieces of spirit-gathering talismans for himself in one bite!

Although the previous wood chips were thin but hard, it was not easy to place too many close to the body.But the yellow paper is different, hands, feet, front, chest and back, sticking to the underwear will not affect the activities at all, and it is not easy to fall off.

In this way, the efficiency of directly incorporating Zhang Yan into the spiritual energy has increased by nearly ten times again!

However, doing so made it appear that Zhang Yan's behavior was different from ordinary people.Who would stick yellow paper with inexplicable drawings on clothes?What's more, Zhang Yan also explained that it was "safety paper".

Pooh!As expected of a lunatic.

Chapter 16

The change in Fishback Mountain Fortress came so suddenly.From top to bottom, all the old hands of Yubei Mountain Fortress can easily detect the difference between the two generals in charge of the fortress.

In the past when General Liu was around, the sound of the horn on Yubei Mountain was always frightening, because when the horn sounded, it meant that the enemy was close at hand, and life and death were often on the line.

And now that General Song came, just over a month later, the sound of the horn on Yubei Mountain became less panicky.Because the horn is sounding now, there is still a long period of time before the arrival of the enemy. Not only can we make full preparations so as not to rush, but we also need to be more calm psychologically.

At the beginning, no one took seriously the "Traveling Banner" which was obviously just a "flag" organization but was in charge of the general level. Didn't everyone think that the fortress was just for defending?Do you want to fight the monster race in the wild by setting up a wandering explorer flag?I think it's just a gimmick made by General Song when he took office.

But when the guard posts were deployed one by one, and the patrol flag began to be on guard day and night in a planned way, the battle in the fortress was no longer hasty.

Often when the enemy is far away from sight, a clear black smoke column can be seen rising from the fortress.And the fortress will blow the horn and start to prepare for battle in a calm manner.

At night, a kind of lantern that is said to be able to fly was placed in the sentry post by You Tanqi. Once you find that kind of light that rises slowly to a height of more than a hundred feet, although it is too far away to be dazzling, it can be seen in the dark night. But it can still be easily seen, that is the signal of enemy attack.

Flying lights?Everyone is curious, but except for those who travel to Tanqi, there are all hearsay outside, and no one has seen the real thing, and there is an order in the army, so don't talk about it, so even if you feel as uncomfortable as a cat scratching, you can only suffer with.

It was these changes that quickly made the people traveling Tanqi famous in Yubei Mountain Fortress.From when no one took it seriously at the beginning, to now they give thumbs up, which shows that it is normal.After all, Yu Tanqi's anticipation of the enemy actually reduced the casualties on the fortress by about [-]%.

Eat and deliver the best things in the fortress.

To use is to give the most and the best.Even the leather armor is the kind inlaid with wire, which can only be enjoyed by warriors in other camps, but in You Tan Banner, everyone has two pieces!

However, Youtanqi's battle damage also began to climb slowly.

The monster race is not a fool, and there is no difference between the spiritual wisdom and the human race.Seeing the beacon fire in front and the flying lanterns rising in the night, where do you not know Yubeishan's new move?

If you see a trick, just dismantle it.If you build a sentry post, then I will remove your sentry post.You have a small group of elites, don't I?

Under the premise that neither side was prepared to ignite the battle at Yubei Mountain, the tit-for-tat confrontation began, and You Tanqi was the first to bear the brunt.

Even though the number of fighters in the Tour Tan Banner accounted for [-]%, which was the most densely populated place in the entire Yubei Mountain Fortress, it still suffered a lot from the monster clan's countermeasures.

Generally, warriors in the middle stage of Body Tempering Realm can kill low-level monster soldiers one-on-one, and even fight with middle-level monster soldiers.But when encountering the first-class monster soldiers, the warriors in the middle stage of the quenching state are somewhat difficult to resist.What's more, if the monster soldiers infiltrate in a small group, the long Yubei mountain range can't be leaked with sporadic guard posts. After the monster tribe sneaks in, they will encounter or sneak attack, and it is often the bigger loss on the side of You Tanqi.

So the pressure is now on Lin Zedong.

If You Tanqi's loss is too large, then the overall loss of the fortress will be equalized again, and Song Qinghe's series of actions immediately lose most of their meaning.

Let's see how Lin Zedong responds.He needs to keep the battle damage as low as possible while maintaining the existing sentry effect.

Of course, Yaozu's response to Song Qinghe and Lin Zedong was also expected in advance, and they never thought that the other party would only be beaten but not fight back.It's just that I didn't expect the other party's response to be so fast.Originally they thought it would take at least two to three months for the Yaozu to respond.Now it seems that he still underestimated the other party.

However, although it was half a beat slow, the new tricks on Yubei Mountain have already started, and it will have the expected effect after they are all rolled out.

Inside the Exploration Banner Camp.

"Old Yu, isn't your broken leg clip too small? The monster race is much bigger than our human race. I'm afraid this clip won't be able to hold them?"

"Don't worry about whether the clip can hold it or not, just tell me if you have learned it?"

"This... I have already thought about it, but there are some small problems. I always accidentally touch the mechanism when I pretend. Do you think this thing is too easy to provoke?"

"Bah! How can you trap people if you are not sensitive? Let me tell you, when the actual layout is made, these blades will be sprayed with medicine. If you still touch the machine like this, once you hurt yourself, then ……hey-hey."

Apply medicine?The man swallowed, he wouldn't put some tonic on the trap, would he?So he looked at the shelf in his hand and the haystacks for practice beside him, sighed, and continued to practice honestly.

Not everyone can dance with knives and do fine organ arrangements.It takes high-intensity repeated practice.That's why You Tanqi has been able to see not weak warriors lying in front of the haystacks all day long in the past half month, sweating profusely and throwing traps and artifacts.Many people talk in their dreams when they sleep, they are scolding Lao Yu and other veterans who are responsible for teaching them how to set traps.

There are clumsy ones and there are also dexterous ones.For example, Madman Zhang.

When the crazy Zhang Yan was thought by everyone to be unable to learn how to set traps, unexpectedly, he learned it in just one click, and even in three or two strokes, he was able to reach the level of a soldier who was born as an old Orion. The level is just dumbfounded.

Just kidding, when Zhang Yan was on the earth, he often opened ancient tombs with those who were fighting all over the world, such as Tianzhu, Guluo, Inca... how many traps he has dismantled and how many murderous intentions have been concealed by relying on Longhushan's geophysics?The tricks of Orion taught by Old Yu are not even superficial to him, and he will be able to get started after reading it twice, which is not difficult at all.

Crazy Zhang still has this ability?

Song Qinghe mentioned that Madman Zhang might be the descendant of the "Miscellaneous Learning" lineage, and Lin Zedong also had to pay attention to it. Now seeing that Zhang Yan seemed to be very familiar with the traps of the agency, he waved Zhang Yan's hand. Yan also regarded it as a temporary "teaching", and asked him to step up assault training against other stupid people in the flag with Lao Yu and the others.

Time waits for no one!The Yaozu's reaction was too fast, and Yubei Mountain had to speed up, otherwise You Tanqi would not be able to bear the loss like now.

Chapter 17 Arrangement

Zhang Yan has adapted to his current life.Except for the fear every time I follow the patrol out of the fortress, everything seems to be going well.

And compared to the offensive and defensive fights on the city wall, Zhang Yan felt that You Tanqi was clearly taking care of him on purpose. He was obviously an assassin, but he was placed in the center of the battle formation, not like an assassin. As far as the back end is concerned, he can be protected by all aspects, at least he can have a buffer in case of unexpected changes.

In addition, from time to time, the general manager Lin Zedong would come over to chat with Zhang Yan, both overtly and secretly trying to trick him.Zhang Yan was taken aback for several times when he mentioned the words "Miscellaneous learning is also a treasure of wisdom, not inferior to martial arts".

What does this mean?Have you noticed something about me?

It shouldn't be!Even if the origin of the Kongming Lantern is unclear, it is still useful.

However, Lin Zedong's words seem to have other insinuations, and what does the "miscellaneous learning" repeatedly mentioned mean?Could it be... In his eyes, the strangeness in me comes from this so-called "miscellaneous learning"?

Zhang Yan also felt a little taste in his heart.Combined with the care he received in Youtanqi later, it seems certain that Lin Zedong has treated him as a special talent belonging to the "miscellaneous studies".

As for what "miscellaneous learning" is, this Zhang Yan has no way to ask, so he can only deliberate on his own.Fortunately, with the Kongming Lantern as a reference, at least I can guess a little spectrum.

"Perhaps, the so-called miscellaneous studies are not considered mainstream in this world, and even belong to an extremely unpopular school of natural science?" Although he is not sure, Zhang Yan feels that it should not be too far behind.

And this guess is also the most referenced by the precedent of the earth.On Earth, after the aura is exhausted, the schools of practice also show signs of slowly shifting from the root of practice to the study of natural sciences.Perhaps there is a similar situation in the wild world.

This is definitely great news for Zhang Yan.

Although the unknown can arouse people's thirst for knowledge, it can also attract repulsion and hostility at the same time.The former is fine, but the latter is not something Zhang Yan can bear at present.If it weren't for earning credit as soon as possible to clear his crimes, he would not take out the Kongming Lantern to take the risk.Deliberately deepening the impression of people around him as "crazy" is also a remedy for worry.

But if someone else took the initiative to find a reason, it would be a great thing for Zhang Yan.

Miscellaneous studies, although Zhang Yan doesn't understand the specific context, is definitely his best windshield so far.

"Is it possible to use this so-called miscellaneous learning to gain some benefits for myself?" Zhang Yan thought that if the time was right, he could try again.

The recent incident of You Tanqi's traps being tossed around made Zhang Yan see some opportunities.

Now that life has settled down, Zhang Yan habitually thinks about the things around him, especially about You Tanqi, which may be a matter of life and death, so he can't help but think about it.

For example, Zhang Yan has personally experienced the recent loss in Youtanqi twice.After the Yaozu understands the purpose and usefulness of the sentry post in front of the Yubei Mountain Fortress, they will definitely not stare blankly. Targeted removal and destruction are the inevitable results, which will lead to the wandering flag soldiers who go to the sentry post to lurk and patrol. The small group of Yaozu is attacking the target against the force.

It was also Zhang Yan's first time encountering the attack of a high-ranking demon soldier. Seeing the opponent's violent power that could break mountains and crack rocks with his fleshy palm, he felt like he was two of the low-ranking demon soldiers he had stabbed to death. Different species, the difference in strength during the period is simply beyond his imagination.

Fortunately, the team leader Qin Hao's strength is also not bad, he is a warrior in the middle stage of the Kaiyuan Realm who has cultivated inner strength and vitality, and he can face the best monster soldiers with ease, and even be able to cut the opponent under the sword in the end.

Of course, the two magic spells and the yellow paper exorcism charm on Zhang Yan's body are equally effective. Others think that the opponent's demon soldier made a mistake or lost his mind, but Zhang Yan understands that all the low-level demon soldiers who died in his snatch can't escape affected by invisible weakening.

But the fact that Zhang Yan and his group can escape danger doesn't mean that others can too.

Therefore, Youtanqi had an advanced strategy after encountering the attack of the monster soldiers on the sentry post.That is to use the trap area along the road as an early warning and defense for the sentry.

Monster soldiers have rough skin and thick flesh, maybe ordinary traps can't kill or maim them, but if they are smeared with poison, the situation will be different.Moreover, the trap can also be connected with some mechanisms such as ringing bells, so that the lurking monster soldiers can expose their whereabouts in advance and be discovered by the soldiers of the patrol flag, so that they can actively choose to retreat or fight.

Zhang Yan still has some research on mechanism techniques, but he is not optimistic about Yubeishan Fortress's strategy of using traps to contain the monster race, and even thinks it is a bit too simple.

After all, although traps can indeed warn, it seems too weak to block the monster clan's attack on the sentry post by relying on traps alone.After all, the effect of the trap will be greatly reduced when the Yaozu has been on several occasions and is prepared.

Zhang Yan thought about it for a while, and he knew it. He had the means to show off.

On this day, Zhang Yan's group went out of the fortress again to patrol and rotate the guard posts.It is also necessary to repair the beacon tower on the sentry post, and arrange and supplement some necessary traps.

"These places have been destroyed. Rearrange them. In addition, pay attention to the traces on the trees, and don't miss them. Don't let those monsters take advantage of them."

When he arrived at the sentry post, Qin Hao immediately ordered the people in the group to start working after replacing the former garrison soldiers.

Zhang Yan belongs to the temporary teaching of traps, and is also the main force in setting traps in the group. At the same time, he and Lao Yu are responsible for checking and modifying the traps set by his companions.

"Old Yu, don't you think it would be better to plant a thorny vine in this place? In that case, the road on the side can be cut off. At that time, unless those monsters violently cut the thorny vine, they will have to leave us. This road with traps set up. And we can hang some bells on the thorny vines as a warning..."

"You... how did you come up with this?" Old Yu was dumbfounded.At first, I thought Zhang Yan was insane. Who set up a trap and moved a piece of thorny vine to plant it?But after hearing it, there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment.Because the method Zhang Yan said is indeed feasible, and the effect should be very good, and the path leading to the front guard post can be successfully strangled.

Zhang Yan pouted.For a rookie who only knows how to arrange traps according to local conditions but does not know how to actively change the environment to increase the effect of traps, he is really not interested in explaining.

And what Zhang Yan is doing is not just setting up traps?

Changing the environment is just a means, and the purpose is to form an ancient means from the earth.

Chapter 18 Gossip

There are too many representative figures in Taoism, but most of them are in the legendary age of the earth.After the decline of spiritual qi, many Taoists broke away from the foundation of spiritual qi and explored the natural sciences between heaven and earth. This is recorded in Longhushan's miscellaneous notes.

Among them, there are not a few who have made various exploratory attempts based on the famous "Bagua Pan" of Taoism and achieved breakthrough results.

For example, Zhuge Kongming, the founder of the Kongming Lantern that Zhang Yan used to exchange credit for before, is a typical representative of the post-Daoist era who is biased towards natural sciences.

Now that we have taken Kongming Lanterns, it makes sense to take another Eight Diagrams Formation, right?

The "eight trigrams formation" is actually different from the "formation" mentioned by the monks. It is more of a battle formation, but there are many differences from the battle formation.

Moreover, Zhang Yan has long been familiar with the gossip array.I think that when he was learning Taoism with his master, he always played the Bagua formation as a puzzle game, and often sat opposite the master to compare the deduction of the Bagua formation.Winning or losing comes second, and the main reason why Zhang Yan likes Bagua array is to make the master forget to inspect the reciting of Taoist scriptures.

Of course, the reason why Zhang Yan chose the Bagua formation this time is not only because he likes the Bagua formation, but also because it is just right for the Bagua formation to be placed on Yubei Mountain.

Use the existing and artificially changed environment to form a visual effect similar to "blindfolding".For example, it is obviously a detour, and you seem to feel that you are walking in a straight line.Or you may mistakenly think that you have turned around and returned to the previous place where you have not gone, and choose to go backwards, resulting in such erroneous perceptions.

If nuisances such as traps are added, it is even possible to form some ambush and siege points in the gossip formation.Not to mention that using this kind of effect similar to blindfolding can completely warn the sentry in advance.

Zhang Yan even felt that if the effect was good, the Yaozu would choose to hesitate because of the unknown fear of this method.

It's just that this matter can't be rushed, you need to figure it out slowly, make good use of your status as a temporary instructor set up as a trap, and set up a sentry bit by bit as an example.When the actual effect comes out, there is no need for Zhang Yan to promote the Bagua formation by himself, and the leaders of Yubeishan Fortress will naturally come to praise him.At that time, it will be a big deal to throw your head on the "miscellaneous learning" that hangs in the air.

In addition, another reason why Zhang Yan dared to take out the gossip array is that this is the barren world, not the earth, and there are many strange things that do not exist on the earth.For example, the "thorny vine" he and Lao Yu mentioned before when they set up traps.

The thorny vine in the wild sky is a kind of vine with poisonous thorns and abnormal toughness. It grows quickly and is easy to transplant. If it is attached to the trees, it is easy to form a thick thorny vine wall. This thing can climb several feet high.

With thorny rattan, which can be called a natural "wall-building" material, Zhang Yan has the confidence to move the Eight Diagrams Array to Yubei Mountain.

The situation is also going well, Zhang Yan put forward an idea, isn't the rookie who is old in this institution stunned for a while?Even if Qin Hao knew about Zhang Yan's actions, he nodded and agreed, because Zhang Yan's transformation did indeed have obvious benefits.On the same day, Qin Hao asked two warriors to find a lot of thorny vines from the bottom of the ravine and move them up, and inserted them according to the position Zhang Yan said.After that it's all about waiting and adjusting.

When Zhang Yan was stationed at the sentry post, he often went over to see the growth of the thorny vines, which was almost the same every day. After just five days, the positions of the plastic walls around the sentry post that he figured out were closed, and the long thorns seemed to make people feel uncomfortable. People don't want to be close.The only downside is that it's not tall enough and not thick enough.It is estimated that it will take half a month to grow into the shape Zhang Yan expected.

In fact, don't look at this thorny vine growing like crazy, in fact, this thing can't naturally appear in a large area, because it attracts insects.A tiny flying insect that stings thorn vines.Unless someone specially deworms it, the thorny vine will be eaten up by bugs after a year or two.

Apart from the bugs, the only way to clean the thorny vines is to saw them bit by bit, which is time-consuming and troublesome. If you are not careful, you can easily get hurt by the poisonous thorns on it. Even scratching a little bit of oily skin can make you want to die. Huge itching for several hours.

fire?Zhang Yan really tried.But the thorny vine is not afraid of being burned by you at all. Even if you use kerosene, you can only burn the part that is stained with oil, and will not burn down.To describe it in terms of the earth, this thing is flame retardant.

What's more, there are Yushan fruit trees on Yubei Mountain. Neither the monster race nor the human race will set fire to the mountain. Otherwise, if the fire gets out of control and the Yushan fruit trees are burned, wouldn't they throw stones at their own feet?

Half a month passed quickly, and no one noticed the wonderful changes brought about by those thorny vine walls that gradually grew taller and thicker.It's just to facilitate the arrangement of traps on the various trails.

Until the last thorn rattan wall was perfectly closed in Zhang Yan's expectation.

"Huh? Why can't I get through this place?"

"Go forward, the thorny vine wall is closed here, we have to go around a little bit ahead."

Zhang Yan followed in the team, looking at the closed thorn vine wall, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.He didn't say a word when he heard the conversation between the gang leader Qin Hao and his companions.If you are here, you will naturally have to stop by and try to see how effective the Eight Diagrams Array has been arranged here after spending more than a month.