Seguo Dalu left the "Giant Axe Mountain" and walked for two more days, and suddenly it was getting late, and I saw a village in the distance, which was rising with curling smoke.

Looking around, I saw that the village thatched huts were heavy, the bamboo fence was dense, there was a stream in the east of the village meandering through, there was a wooden bridge on the section of the river at the entrance of the village, and there were two towering wild trees standing on both sides of the bridge, like two mighty door gods, guarding the small village.

At this time, the sunset was sinking in the west, and in the twilight, all the roads turned out of the cattle and sheep, and in the evening smoke, the chickens and dogs of the east and west smelled each other.

At first glance, it is a gathering place for good people, a good family in a village, just to spend one night.

Guo Dalu thought so, walked towards the wooden bridge, and when he just walked to the bridge, he suddenly paused, stopped, looked up at the two giant trees in amazement, and then looked up from high to low, falling on the wooden bridge and the stream, thinking for a moment, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

The stream, the wooden bridge, and the giant tree are not as simple as they seem on the surface, they are naturally combined, revealing a subtle aura of the magic circle, and the magic circle reveals an ancient and vicissitudes of life.

What's even more strange is that whether it is a stream, a wooden bridge, or a giant tree, they themselves do not have the kind of "consciousness" that they are part of the magic circle, they flow and grow at will, and they do not deliberately maintain the operation and integrity of the magic circle, as if it is not the intentional arrangement and layout of a certain formation master, but they happen to "bump into" and temporarily form a formation, as for what will happen later, they don't care.

Guo Dalu deduced a little and came up with another corroboration, this stream named "Tiexu Creek" originated from a Tianluo mountain range nine miles away, has been flowing for more than 300 years, and these two wild trees are a hundred years ago I don't know which bird flew through the sky, unintentionally dropped two seeds to grow, as for the construction of the wooden bridge, it is completely the random and autonomous behavior of the villagers, the site selection changes with the change of the village, and there is no intention to fit the magic circle.

In other words, the three "arrays" at the tip of the iceberg of a certain magic circle are natural, not artificially manipulated, they only happen to become a small part of that magic circle, and they may automatically break away after a period of time.

So now the question is, where is the source, where is the core, where is the pestle, and what is it for?

There is nothing wrong with deducing streams, wooden bridges, and giant trees alone, but the ins and outs of deducing the circle are not only more complicated and difficult, but also extremely taboo, and if you are not careful, you will alarm the owner of the circle and cause unnecessary trouble.

In addition, if the owner of this circle is a senior master, he may be irreparably damaged.

"It's better to find an opportunity to find the source of the formation, and have a general understanding to satisfy your curiosity, and you don't need to go deeper. ”

Guo Dalu made a decision and raised his feet on the wooden bridge, just walked to the top of the bridge, turned his head and saw a lean old man sitting by the stream washing his feet, and he was very comfortable.

Guo Dalu thought for a while and asked loudly: "Excuse me, what is this place?"

The old man looked up at this side and replied, "This is Tianluo Village, but the little brother is passing by here in a hurry?"

"Yes, I see that it is getting late, and I want to go to the village for the night. Guo Dalu said.

The old man nodded, withdrew his feet from the stream, put on straw sandals and got up, and beckoned to Guo Dalu: "Meeting is fate, little brother come with me." ”

Guo Dalu thanked him and followed the old man.

"Tianluo Village is located in the middle of nowhere, and there have been no outsiders coming in for a long time, so the little brother has found here, isn't he lost?" The old man spoke in a relaxed tone, chatting casually, and glanced at Guo Dalu with a smile.

Guo Dalu smiled and said, "Don't hide it from my father-in-law, I am a student who is going to Lulingden Xingtan, because I am in a hurry, I will take the road to pass here." ”

The old man was surprised and said, "Are you going to climb the apricot altar?"

"That's right. ”

The old man shook his head and smiled: "My granddaughter heard the news of Xingtan from nowhere, and she was clamoring to go to Xingtan to open her eyes, but her little ability, I'm afraid she can't even reach the foot of the mountain......"

Speaking of this, the old man's face changed slightly, and he said with concern: "Isn't the apricot altar opened on the first day of September, it is thousands of miles away from Luling, can you catch up?"

Guo Dalu nodded "um".

The old man suddenly said, "Little brother is also a cultivator who has entered the real human realm?"

"Yes. Guo Dalu smiled modestly.

The old man praised it, and said: "Tianluo Village is isolated from the world, the villagers live and work in peace and contentment, from generation to generation, there are very few people who leave the village to travel and practice, of course, there are also those who can't endure hardship, or figure it out, and return to the village halfway, and since then honestly raise children, farming, weaving, and farming......

The old man laughed to himself and added, "Like old decay." ”

Guo Dalu still said "um", thinking: "Maybe this is the norm, since ancient times, there have been many cultivators, but there are always very few who have reached the top. ”

The old man then told the truth: "If you can't reach the road of immortality in the end, what is the difference between a hundred years and three hundred years? ”

"Makes sense. Guo Dalu agreed.

The old man waved his hand, "These words are just self-consolation for us mediocre talents, little brother, you have cultivated to become a real person at a young age, and we are different, if you are old, you don't have to go to your heart." ”

Guo Dalu shook his head with a smile.

After a while, he came to the old man's residence, a well-repaired and cleaned thatched hut, and entered the fence gate, the old man remembered something, and said: "Half a year ago, two real cultivators with great magical powers came to Tianluo Mountain nine miles away, and the old man was fortunate to meet them, a man and a woman, who were about the same age as the little brother, but the old man could also see that they were not ordinary human monks. ”

"Demon cultivation?" asked Guo Dalu.

"It's not ...... In between, it's a pity that the old and decayed Tao is lowly and can't see anything more. ”

Guo Dalu said: "From tomorrow when I leave, I will stop by to visit." ”

After the old man left, Guo Dalu naturally sat down cross-legged to cultivate, sat until midnight, and suddenly blessed his soul, opened his eyes suddenly, quickly pinched his fingers, and couldn't help but shake his head helplessly, and laughed dumbly.

The great masters of the Heavenly Sect, the Earth Sect, and several sects in the Liang Kingdom were waiting for their arrival at this time on the several roads that Ping'an City had to pass to Luling.

In addition, the commander of Qin's internal guard and the lord of Lishan Ershan, Chao Feiyi, also participated in this interception.

It seems that the influence of the battle between Ping'an Chengfeng and Cui Rujia and his subsequent breakthrough is much greater than he imagined, and those great grandmasters must have doubts about themselves now, but they don't know if they want to recruit themselves or regard themselves as the fruit of growth.

No matter which it is, Guo Dalu doesn't want to meet them for the time being, but it is not easy to easily break through this terrifying interception line with high specifications. Under the saints, whose sword flight can unconsciously avoid the attention of these great masters?

I have to think of another way.

Guo Dalu took out his mobile phone, logged in to WeChat, and entered the word "somersault cloud" in the chat box of Sun Wukong, who had "no news for a long time".

A scene that surprised him appeared, and the automatic reply from Sun Wukong's side showed that the "somersault cloud" red envelope required half of his current merit points.

Guo Dalu was puzzled, it is said that the Taoist technique of "somersault clouds" is not more advanced than "seventy-two changes", why do you need so many merit points?

Then he thought of a possibility, now in terms of Dao art alone, in addition to the "somersault cloud", there is also a "fiery eye", if the expectation is good, the latter also needs half of the merit points.

In other words, Wukong has already set up the set, and after exchanging all the Taoist techniques that he can convey with red envelopes, what he needs is "immeasurable merit".

Sun Wukong had already told him that the higher the cultivation realm, the more merits he needs to be blessed, otherwise he will not be able to continue, does it mean that the merits he has accumulated are of other wonderful use to him?

Guo Dalu lost the words "fiery eyes" again, and as expected, half of the merit points were needed.

"Immeasurable merit" is not inexhaustible, just like the immeasurable sea, but after all, it also has boundaries.

Guo Dalu didn't think about it for too long, and decisively took the merits in the merit box into a stud, redeemed the "somersault cloud" and "fiery eyes" together, and then began to study the former seriously.