Chapter Seventy-Five: Settle In
Previously, the senior brother slashed half of the mountain with a sword. The boulders on the top of the mountain crumbled into large and small stones and rolled down the mountain.
Mu Wan picked a piece of grinding disc size from it, which was relatively flat, lifted it with one hand, and tried it.
Well, it weighs about 100 pounds. Lighter.
With a glance, she spotted another piece of gravel ten paces away. This piece was about a long strip, thick at one end and thin at the other, more than four feet long, and at least twice as large as the previous one.
Mu Wan walked over and lifted the long gravel. Sure enough, it weighed more than two hundred, less than three hundred pounds.
It's pretty good. That's you! Mu Wan took out the peachwood sword and carefully flattened the thick end.
So, the stone pestle used to pound the foundation of the roof was made!
Carrying the stone pestle and a few vertical jumps, Mu Wan returned to the open space at the top of the mountain. The elder brother's swordsmanship is good, and the open space is very smooth. Therefore, she does not need to level the ground anymore, as long as she cleans out the gravel residue from the open space and then directly uses a stone pestle to tamp the ground.
The open space surrounded by flowers is not large, and it is rectangular, about three zhang long and two zhang wide. Mu Wan has always been quick to do things, holding a stone pestle, "bang bang bang", in less than a quarter of an hour, the open space was flat and solid, not worse than the foundation left by his predecessor.
The timing was just right. At this time, Uncle Zhang also came back from chopping wood.
He carefully checked the flatness of the ground, nodded and said, "Okay, you can build a house." β
Mu Wanxing asked with starry eyes, "Uncle Shi, can the disciple also help?" "For the first time in two lifetimes, I built a house with my own hands. And the house was built for himself. Therefore, Mu Wante wanted to do it herself. However, after seeing the skills of the monks in the foundation building period, she was very ashamed of herself. With her ability to do this, she is afraid that it will slow down the progress of the project.
However, my sister is really unwilling!
Uncle Zhang smiled: "Your own house, of course you have to make a big effort." As he spoke, he pointed to the wood piled up in the canyon, "Whew." The wood also needs to be trimmed. I only cut one. Go and cut all the thick timber of the bowls. Leave the rest untouched, leave it to me to deal with. β
"Yes." Mu Wan happily jumped down the mountain and went straight to the canyon.
A clearing in the canyon was filled with large and small pieces of wood. The thickest is more than a foot in diameter, and the smallest is as thick as a baby's arm.
Uncle Zhang is very careful. According to the thickness. All the timbers of similar specifications were stacked together.
Mu Wan found the pile of thick wood at a glance.
Look at the piles of wood that look like a hill in front of you. She couldn't help but gasp - oh my God, that's it!
Each piece of wood is thick and straight. It is more than two feet long, and it is neatly stacked there. Next to it is a separate piece of wood that has been disposed of. It is cut lengthwise into two of different sizes, with the larger one accounting for about two-thirds thick. The cut section is very smooth, almost like a mirror.
And said that it is not extravagant! The cultivation realm is indeed not comparable to the mortal realm. Mu Wan shook her head, lifted the peachwood sword, and began to try to cut the wood.
Cutting the wood lengthwise into two sticks, one large and one small, was very easy for her, with just a sword. However, to cut it so smoothly, it requires that in the process of moving the sword, the strength must not only be very even, but also stable, which tests her ability to control spiritual power.
Thinking of the word "cutting", Mu Wan's mind couldn't help but think of the sword of the previous senior brother. She closed her eyes and pondered carefully, and when she opened her eyes again, her understanding of the "sharpening sword" of the Tai Thirteen Swords was a little deeper.
Taking a deep breath, she silently memorized the essentials of the "Sharpening Sword" in her heart, pinched her left hand into a sword finger, and injected five-colored spiritual power into the sword path with her right hand, and at the same time, with a slight rotation of her wrist, she turned the sword surface to the level, from left to right, against the top of the wood, and cut it flat.
"Wow-", the five-colored sword qi flashed, and the wood split into two in response.
Mu Wan strode and jumped onto the pile of wood, lifted one end of the wood, and looked closely.
Well, it's fairly flat, and there are no burrs on the profile. Satisfied, she waved her hand and separated the two logs and placed them in the clearing.
It's just this sword, her spiritual power and divine sense have consumed a lot. With her current cultivation, she can use up to ten swords in a row.
And there are at least hundreds of them in front of me!
Mu Wan touched the storage bag on her waist, sighed, and switched to wood aura. If you use only one Reiki once, the strength will be reduced by 20%, but the effective utilization rate of Reiki will be greatly improved. Moreover, the five elements are born together, and the recovery speed of the aura is at least three times faster. With a combination of factors, she estimated that she should be able to use more than fifty more swords.
Standing on the pile of wood, she aimed at the other one at her feet and used the "sharpening sword".
The intensity is reduced by 20%, which does not affect the effect at all. She blinked, summed up the experience of the first two times, and quickly came to the conclusion that each time she didn't need to exert all her strength, just use half the strength.
Clenching the peachwood sword, she tried again.
Sure enough, the strength of this sword was moderate, and the wood cut out was the smoothest.
Mu Wan looked at the pile of wood under her feet and laughed from her heart: Haha, great! The loss of spiritual power and divine consciousness has been reduced by half! Sister only needs to swallow the Spirit Raising Pill and Huishen Pill once halfway, and she can get this pile of wood!
A sword, a sword, another sword...... The pile of lumber beneath her feet quickly grew shorter, and two new piles of lumber, one large and one small, were whizzing up in the clearing next to her.
After Uncle Zhang built the frame of the house, he waved his hand and sucked all the small piles of wood that came out of the new pile to the top of the mountain.
These are useless scraps. He felt that Mu Wan had cut it so seriously that it was a pity to abandon it, so he temporarily decided to spread them on the ground and add a layer of wooden flooring to the house.
He first lined up all the smooth sides of the fine wood in mid-air, then landed them on the ground together, and then compacted them with a wave of the Qibao folding fan. In this way, the floor of the living room is paved!
He deliberately stood on it and tried to step on it twice.
Thick, flat, and much more comfortable than tamped dirt!
It was an unintentional move, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good. The corners of Uncle Zhang's two mouths couldn't help but curl up - in fact, as soon as he entered the sect, he was selected by Chiyang Zhenren as his personal disciple. This is also the first time he has built a house with his own hands. For this reason, he worked hard with Chiyang Zhenren last night, and finally got a detailed house building strategy.
The probe looked into the canyon, and Mu Wan had newly cut out more fine wood, and he waved his fan and lifted it up. As concocted, all spread on the ground.
In the blink of an eye, three-quarters of the roof foundation was covered with wooden floors.
Joinery is not enough for the time being. Uncle Zhang stopped first and brought in a larger piece of wood. Between two erected pillars - these large pieces of wood were used to build the walls.
He'd dealt with both the long and the short before. So, at this moment, he first put the smooth one facing the inside of the house, and the bark side facing outward, one by one, to the top of the column. And then next to the pillar. Wooden wedges half a foot long are used at both ends of the wood. Nail two pieces of wood to hold the wall in place.
And that's it, a wooden wall is done!
When the larger wood runs out. The small timbers in the canyon are bubbling up again. Uncle Zhang stopped the work of building the wall, picked up small timbers, and laid the rest of the foundation with wooden floors.
After laying the floor, Mu Wan hadn't saved enough wood on his side, so he began to work on details such as windows and door frames.
Anyway, try not to work as hard as possible, and strive to build a house before noon. In this way, he can take Mu Wan to Waimenfang City in the afternoon to familiarize himself with the situation, and by the way, add all the furniture - he really doesn't have much time. Chiyang Zhenren only gave him one day and ordered him to retreat for a period of time starting tomorrow in order to consolidate his realm.
After Mu Wan swallowed the top-grade Cultivation Spirit Pill and Huishen Pill once, it took another quarter of an hour to cut all the wood under her feet.
Unable to wipe the sweat from her face, she looked up at the top of the mountain and couldn't help but exhale: "Ah, so fast! β
At the top of the mountain, among the flowers, a brown wooden house has begun to take shape. Uncle Zhang is waving a folding fan and laying wooden rafters on the roof.
He moves fast. When Mu Wan came back to his senses, he had already laid the last rafters.
Glancing at the canyon, he "snapped" and closed the folding fan in his hand, jumped down, pulled out a string of afterimages, and landed in front of Mu Wan: "Xiaowan, when the market exchanges the tiles and furniture, you can settle down." β
"Hmm!" Mu Wan nodded vigorously and no longer thanked him. Uncle Shi has done so much for her, which is a thank you!
Looking at the newly renovated mountaintop, she was a little relieved, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly: "Uncle Shi, if we all go to Fang City, then, what if someone comes?" β
Uncle Zhang smiled: "It's okay. Each mountain in the outer gate is equipped with a mountain protection formation, you only need to inject spirit stones into the formation eye to activate the mountain protection formation, so that others will not rush into the mountain without your permission. β
In this way, the cost of the outer disciples is quite a lot. Mu Wan raised her eyes and looked around, trying to find the eye of the formation.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhang raised his fan and tapped her head: "If you can find the eye of the formation just by your own formation cultivation, then wouldn't the mountain protection formation be like an ornament?" β
"Oh yes." Mu Wan touched her head and smiled. However, a pair of big black almond eyes still flew around without giving up.
Uncle Zhang was in a hurry, so he pointed to the foot of the mountain with a fan and said directly: "All the mountain protection arrays here are the same, marked by boundary stones. Within the sect, it is strictly forbidden to kill each other. At the outer gate, destroying people and protecting the eyes of the mountain array, the sin is the same as the mutilation. β
I see. Mu Wansai took off his sword and rushed to the foot of the mountain. Sure enough, in front of a small tree next to the river beach, I found a boundary stone - a white marble two feet high, half a foot wide, and five minutes thick. The boundary stone is clean and clean, without any carvings.
Uncle Zhang flashed, stood side by side with her, and pointed out: "There are spiritual veins in the ground here, so as long as you symbolically place two spirit stones on top of the boundary stone, the formation can be maintained for a full thirty days." β
With a look of emotion on his face, Mu Wan took out two spirit stones, placed them on top of the boundary stone, and activated the formation.
Uncle Zhang gently blocked her hand with a fan: "Don't worry, activate your identity jade card first." Put the identity jade plate and the two spirit stones on top of the boundary stone together to be effective. β
Mu Wan nodded, took out the identity jade plate, held it in his hand, and injected spiritual power.
The five-color flash of inspiration, and the small cinnabar characters on the front of the identity jade plate were gone. Compared with the previous one, the whole jade plaque is crystal clear, warm and smooth.
Uncle Zhang explained: "The main reason why I stopped you in the personnel department and didn't let you activate the identity jade plate in front of the disciple surnamed Yuan is because there are many people in the outer door, and your spiritual power is different. If it attracts the attention of someone who cares, your senior brother and I are both in the inner gate, it is inevitable that we will not be able to reach it. Oh, and also, in the future, in front of people, it is better to use only a single spiritual power. Me too. This is one of your and my biggest secrets, and it is easy not to divulge it. Xiaowan, even Master, I am ready to wait for the time to be ripe in the future, and then choose the opportunity to report. In the future, if I meet other sect elders or family elders to ask, I will only say that it is because of the exercises. Do you understand what I mean? β
"Yes, disciple understands." Mu Wan's heart sank, and she immediately realized that even within the sect, it was very complicated, so she couldn't take it lightly.
Uncle Zhang nodded and took the fan.
Mu Wan put the two spirit stones and the identity jade plate on the boundary stone together.
Immediately, the boundary stone "εΎ" lit up, bursting out of a snow-white and dazzling circle of light. In the blink of an eye, the aperture rapidly widened and disappeared into the air.
On the front of the boundary stone, two simple and vigorous vermilion characters suddenly appeared.
"Okay, this mountain will be named after you, called Muwan Mountain. Without your permission, everyone else will be blocked from the boundary stone by the formation. "Uncle Zhang sacrificed the flying sword, "Now, let's go to Fang Market to buy tiles and furniture." β
"Okay." Mu Wan suppressed the excitement in her heart, and also sacrificed the flying sword - my sister finally put down her first family business and settled in Taiyizong!
Earlier, at the check-in office, she had looked at the map and knew that Waimenfang City was located on the border to the west of Waimen.
Uncle Zhang explained to her the origin of the outer gate on the road - it turned out that the Taiyi Sect was founded by Master Zu. Originally, when the ancestor opened the mountain and established the faction, the Taiyi Sect was not called the Taiyi Sect, it was called the Taiyi Sect. And there are many sects in this area, and the Taiyi faction is just one of the new sects that does not enter the stream. Patriarch Peak is the birthplace of the Taiyi faction. Later, the Taiyi faction rose rapidly and successively annexed the Golden Lotus Peak and other mountain ranges, and the territory became larger and larger. By the time the ancestor ascended, the Taiyi faction had become the first-class sect in Donghuazhou and was renamed the Taiyi sect. When the ancestor ascended, the cultivators with heads and faces in the whole East Huazhou rushed over to say goodbye. It was also at that gathering that the Taiyi Sect was unanimously recommended by everyone as the first sect in Donghuazhou and officially renamed the Taiyi Sect. However, at that time, Taiyizong's territory only included the current inner gate. After that, under the leadership of the second generation of the second generation of the master, the eldest disciple of the ancestor and the Guangcheng Daojun, after a hundred years of conquest, the Taiyi Sect completely integrated this large area of the Xiuzhen sect and classified it as its own outer sect.
"After clearing out the other sects in the surrounding area for more than a thousand miles, Guangcheng Daojun returned to seclusion. Since then, the sect has also been governed by the Jindan Zhenren. Therefore, the successive generations of leaders have taken observance as their duty, and the sect has not expanded outward. β
"Waimenfang City was originally the largest scattered workshop market in this area. Even after being absorbed by the sect, thousands of years later, there are still many time-honored shops opened by other sects or families in the market. There are outside forces in the Fang market, therefore, for the sake of safety, the sect forced the outer gate Fang City, Chen Zheng opened the market, and Youmo closed the market. All the disciples of the sect, except for those who serve in the Fang City, the rest of the people, regardless of the inner and outer doors, are not allowed to spend the night in the Fang City. It's nearly noon, and we'll have to hurry up. (To be continued......)