My Taoist Companion is the White Wolf

Humans are easily insatiable creatures.

That night, Yunhong secretly placed an order to buy a brush that no dog can escape.

Cough cough, white wolf and so on are also canines, so they are probably about the same.

The big demon's perception was extremely sharp, and when Yunhong peeped again, he was caught straight.

He simply looked generously, "It's almost Chinese New Year, I have prepared a gift for you."

He also specifically asked the seller not to include words such as "pets" and "dogs and cats" on the boxes and lists he sent.

Otherwise, the guardian officer who is full of self-esteem may explode.

White Wolf sneered, "Superficial."

It's an apology!

Do you think monsters can be bought at will just like human beings?

Early the next morning, Yunhong poured spiritual energy into the medicinal seeds and roots he brought back to nourish him.

He bought Bupleurum, Polygonatum, Chonglou, Han Pinellia and other varieties suitable for winter cultivation. Some of them may not be very expensive, but they are very versatile and used in large quantities, so they are necessities.

After finishing this, Yunhong went to body training again, and then began to study the book of formations he brought back.

Arrays can be roughly divided into three types: defensive type, offensive type, and auxiliary type, and the spirit-gathering array belongs to the last type.

The more he watched, the more Yunhong realized how risky his act of drawing the spirit gathering array was.

For something like a formation, if you insist on using something in the real world as an analogy, the most appropriate analogy is a nuclear fusion reactor.

It's just that behind the nuclear fusion reactor stands an entire team and even a country, and each person only needs to be responsible for a part.

And everyone's spiritual power is unique, and spiritual power from different sources cannot be compatible, which means that the drawing of the same formation can only be done by one person "from one to the end".

Drawing an array requires a lot of spiritual power. The more complicated the array, the larger the area, and the stronger the power, the more spiritual power is needed.

However, the spiritual energy declined a thousand years ago, and now the speed at which the monks absorb and recover the spiritual energy in drawing formations is far from being able to keep up with the consumption.

In this way, a paradox arises:

If you can't draw a spirit-absorbing array, you won't be able to store a large amount of spirit energy in a short period of time;

And if you can't store a large amount of spiritual energy in a short period of time, it is not enough to support the drawing formation...

If this problem gets entangled, it will be even more endless than the Möbius strip!

No matter how you look at it, how desperate!

Yunhong remembered one thing, "Is there a gathering spirit array in Ziyun Cave?"

The richness of the aura is almost catching up with the headquarters of the Biedong Bureau.

The white wolf hummed, "The current human monks, no."

It has been a long time since a new Spirit Gathering Formation was born in the world.

Most of the advanced formations existing in the world today are passed down from sects with profound foundations, and each sect guards them like an eyeball.

It is said that only a handful of people still have such abilities nowadays.

But they also encountered the same problem and dare not try easily:

Because the aura is thin and the progress of practice is slow, they have not broken through for a long time, and their physical bodies have begun to decline.

Once a large amount of energy is consumed in order to draw the formation, the realm will inevitably drop, and the decline of the physical body will accelerate. Even with the blessing of the spiritual energy of the successful formation, it may not be able to break through again before the death god arrives...

This is a big gamble. If you win the gamble, you will go one step further and continue for another thousand years;

If you lose the bet, you will lose both body and spirit.

If they were young, they might have such courage and pride.

But they have really lived too long, and they have been pampered for too long, so long that all their blood is wiped out by the day-to-day sensuality, and they dare not take any risks.

If we maintain the status quo, we can survive for decades at least.

But what if, what if you lose?

lingering on... How ironic, the monks who used to be rampant for a while, now have to shrink into a corner, lingering on their last days.

Seeing that Bai Lang said so firmly, Yunhong couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

However, at the next moment, I heard it say again: "But you, maybe you can."

The white wolf got up and walked towards him, with every step he took, his figure became bigger, and when he got close to Yunhong, his eyes were on the same level as him.

"They are just cultivating, and you are cultivating immortality."

Cultivation? !

There was a buzzing sound in Yunhong's head, as if something had exploded, making him dizzy.

Is it the cultivator I understand?

"Bringing Qi into the body is the first step in cultivating immortality," Bai Lang said calmly, "Ordinary monks cannot contain the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. They can only quench their bodies with this, so they cannot be called immortals."

"Now that you have energy in your dantian, you can look inside at others. It's not cultivating immortals, what is it?"

Compared with immortal cultivators who can store aura, today's cultivators are like poor moonlight clansmen, who absorb a little from the outside and immediately miss it.

Do the moonlight people still want to buy a house in this life?

Dream it!

So no matter how long they practiced, they would never have enough spiritual power to draw the formation.

If in the past when the aura was strong, at least he could still breathe while leaking, but now?

But immortal cultivators are different. They themselves are containers for storing spiritual power. As long as there is enough external spiritual energy and the time is long enough, drawing formations and runes is no problem.

Yunhong stood still and digested for a moment, "Is it really possible for me to fly?"

The white wolf looked at him with a bit more hatred for iron and steel: no future!

"A true immortal cultivator can destroy a country with one blow, and can do anything by moving mountains and filling seas, so what's the point of flying in the air!"

Yunhong was curious, "Have you seen it?"

Bai Lang was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a complicated expression, "Naturally."

The early stages of cultivating immortals can be roughly divided into Qi training, foundation building, Jindan, Yuanying and so on.

Practicing qi, which is Yunhong's current stage of introducing qi into the body, the cultivator begins to transcend ordinary people, can release spiritual consciousness and perceive others, as long as he does not commit suicide, he can easily live to two hundred years old.

During the foundation building period, the sea of ​​air in the dantian gradually liquefies, and the lifespan can reach three to five hundred years. Those with high comprehension can shrink the ground to inches and fly in the air.

And as the Tao continues to deepen, the life span also increases, so in theory, it is really possible to live as long as the sky.

Yunhong was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Then what about you, how old are you?"

It has seen other immortal cultivators.

The white wolf was slightly startled, and then lay down again.

After a long time, he said, "I don't remember."

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Early the next morning, Huayang came over.

Yunhong subconsciously looked at the white wolf behind him:

Anyway, it is also a national second-class protected animal...

Hua Yang followed his line of sight to look back, but saw nothing.

"what happened?"

The white wolf doesn't like to be in contact with humans very much, so he glanced at Yunhong with a half-smile, and then wandered to the yard to bask in the sun.

Its hometown is covered by ice and snow all year round, cold and humid, and it is rare to see such a good day.

The sun shone warmly on his body, as if it had returned to where it used to be... Where did it come from?

It only vaguely remembered that it seemed to have been asleep for a long time, and when it woke up again, it couldn't remember many important things.

It's fine if you don't see it.

Yunhong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly shook his head, "It's nothing, by the way, Brother Yang, when are you going back to the city?"

Seeing that he was indeed not injured and his expression was normal, Hua Yang finally felt relieved and said with a smile, "Why, you kicked me away when you first arrived?"

Yunhong laughed, "Where can I do it? I just want to go to the city to buy something and get a ride."

"Then let's go," Hua Yang is also a quick-fried man, "I'm off duty today."

Then Yunhong bought a bunch of tools related to surveying and mapping, which caused him a lot of pain.

Huayang is very puzzled, now people who study Chinese medicine have to be so versatile?

After returning home, Yunhong got busy.

First, he lay down on the formation book he brought back from the other bureau, squinted his eyes to measure the distance between each layer of the defensive formation, the angles between the arcs, and calculated the arcs and corners...

Then, with the small courtyard as the center, a large circle was drawn, and the various data of the defensive formation were enlarged in proportion.

Accurate to three digits after the decimal point.

Yunhong held a laser pointer in his left hand, a wooden stick in his right, and a marker pen in his ear. He ran around the house, sweating all over his forehead in the winter.

The black hair was dark maroon under the sun, and it trembled as he ran, like passionate waves.

Huayang was dragged into a strong man, and drew lines in the direction of the laser pen, and then the more he drew, the more confused he became:

What is this about performance art?

Until the office called to ask him to go back to work overtime, Yunhong was still busy.

Looking at the ghostly symbols all over the floor, Hua Yang hesitated to speak several times, and finally patted Yun Hong's shoulder solemnly, and said earnestly: "Ah Hong, you can't engage in evil/religion!"

Yunhong: "...I engage in performance art."

At this time, the white wolf flying in mid-air had already had a panoramic view of Yunhong's day's hard work, and there was a rare trace of shock in the eyes of the beast.

What appeared at its feet was a defensive formation that hadn't been filled with spiritual power!

The Yaozu absorbs the aura and transforms it into demon power, so it cannot draw and use formations, but this does not mean that it does not know what the traditional drawing process is like:

Hundreds of years ago, human immortal cultivators had to memorize the formations thoroughly in advance, and then carefully control and distribute the spiritual power, while thinking about the next arrangement and direction... With one mind and two uses, it is not bad to succeed once in ten times .

But now, someone actually engraved the formation on the ground in advance, and even marked the order and drawing direction with different colors!

This means that later Yunhong only needs to concentrate on inputting spiritual energy.

The humans standing on the ground looked up at it, their eyes were as bright as stars.

With his arms akimbo, like a child who has been given candy, he couldn't wait to announce to the only audience:

"My lord, the times are different, we need to cultivate immortals scientifically!"

White Wolf: "..."

Science, cultivating immortals, these two words together are very strange.

People work efficiently in a state of excitement.

After finishing the big project, Yunhong didn't care about rest at all, and started thinking about "charm filling".

This is one of the most commonly used runes by modern monks, and it is affectionately called a charging treasure in private...

It is similar to the primary version of the spirit gathering array, which can store a certain amount of spiritual energy and stop when it is full.The amount is not much, but the drawing threshold is low, easy to get started.

When "the body is hollowed out", you only need to activate a small amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth to activate it, which can relieve the urgent need. It is simply a must-have item for traveling and dueling to subdue demons and subdue demons. It is sold in major practice shops.

The industry generally defaults to using yellow paper and cinnabar for drawing symbols, but after Yunhong's research, he found that there is no difference in the actual effect between yellow paper and homework paper, sketch paper, and even toilet paper.

To put it bluntly, as long as it is paper, even wood chips or bark will do.

Because mild wood materials are closer to nature and more stable, they are easier to be spiritual carriers.

The reason for choosing yellow paper may be that rough yellow paper was cheaper than fine white paper in ancient times, and most practitioners had religious beliefs. Yellow paper, as the most common variety in Taoist temples and temples, naturally became the first choice.

Over time, it becomes the default custom.

Cinnabar is a little more particular.

The nature of cinnabar is fire, and together with the paper carrier, it coincides with the law of the five elements of "wood makes fire", which makes it easier to arouse spells.

But at the same time, the tyranny of fire is far from being as peaceful as wood, and it also subtly disrupts the balance of the five elements, and the purity of the spiritual power line is reduced after being mixed with cinnabar, and the power it exerts is also weakened.

Then, why can't you just use your fingers as the pen and spiritual power as the ink, just like drawing the formation?

Yunhong, who was studying the above, tried several sets of different materials. At first, he was not proficient, and a few pieces were wasted, and then he started to feel like a fish in water, becoming more and more fluent.

Practice has proved that traditional runes have cinnabar as the medium for the same spirit-filling talisman, making it easier to draw, but the amount of spiritual energy actually contained is only about [-]% of that of empty-handed talismans.

A full [-]% difference!

Little things add up, and in an era of lack of aura, this amount is very impressive.

Yunhong sat cross-legged on the kang, touched his chin and asked his guardian in doubt: "So, since spiritual energy is precious, why do you still use cinnabar to draw symbols?"

White Wolf: "..."

They do!

To be honest, how can ordinary people think so much!

What the seniors do, I just imitate it myself, what are you messing about, is it short of the cinnabar money?

And "draw symbols with spiritual power"...

This is like asking someone who lives in a small house, "Why don't you buy a villa, do you not like it?"

Yet this is not the end.

Yunhong pondered for a moment while looking at the amulets filled with spirits, and then stretched out his index finger to the void.

He seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while, he solemnly drew his first stroke.

Ripples instantly appeared in the originally calm air, as if someone was gently gliding across the water, which was the trace brought out by the aura.

And then the second, the third...

After seeing clearly where his index finger was going, An Ge felt a storm in his heart, and his pupils trembled for a while.

This kid actually draws symbols in the void!

Throughout the entire history of cultivating immortals, even before the decline of aura, there are only a handful of people who can draw talismans with bare hands.

This is no easy task.

Drawing symbols without any medium and carrier means building a spiritual power structure from scratch in the void, and all instabilities are infinitely magnified:

How to eliminate the interference of irrelevant free spiritual energy, how to make one's spiritual power form according to the idea... the difficulty is more than ten times and a hundred times higher!

Even though the spirit charging talisman was just a basic talisman, Yunhong died only halfway through it.

He looked at the semi-finished charm frame that spread out like light smoke in front of him, and sighed regretfully.

so tired.

The energy consumed by the void spell is completely different from that of the paper spell.

But Yunhong still laughed.

Because he has already grasped the rules, what he lacks now is the proficiency in controlling spiritual power, as long as he perseveres, it won't take long, and he will definitely succeed.

He seems to have opened a brand new door, and even if he only got a glimpse of it by chance, the deep, novel and gorgeous scenery inside left a strong mark in his heart.

The white wolf gave him a deep look, as if looking at some humanoid monster.

Does this kid know what his actions just now mean?

If the wind spreads, the entire practice world will set off turbulent waves.

There may be places in this world where there is no water, and where there is no light, but air is everywhere, and spiritual energy is everywhere!

Once Yunhong has mastered the Void Talisman, it means that he will completely get rid of the limitations of lack of tools and spiritual energy, and completely pull himself to the level of ancient immortal cultivators.

He is the formation, he is the spell!

In time, if he really grows up, no modern cultivator will be able to compete with him...