Volume 2: Entering the Ghost Feast by Mistake Section 102: The First Test of the Exorcism Array
"Eighteen, I can open eighteen small holes in the Soul Gathering Array!" Zhang Wei exclaimed in surprise.
"Very good, the power of the Soul Exorcism Array condensed by the Eighteen Small Hole Soul Gathering Array is already comparable to the full force of your Intermediate Great Soul Master, and your progress is great." Song Yibing compared.
"Is it only comparable to the strength of an intermediate Great Soul Master?" Zhang Su asked with a slight sense of loss.
"After all, you have only just cultivated the Soul Gathering Array for a short time, and it is already very good to be able to reach this level, and don't underestimate my so-called 'full force strike', among your soul masters, even if the intermediate great soul master uses all the soul power to perform a certain soul skill, its power should not be underestimated, not to mention that the exorcist uses a very small amount of soul power with a large amount of soul dust to condense the soul array, so now you can release the power of the intermediate great soul master level with just a little soul power, are you not satisfied with this effect?" Song Yibing asked rhetorically.
"Of course it's good, it's just that this power is too small to support my current soul hunting level, which just makes me a little confused." Zhang Su explained.
"You don't have to, Maxima still has a limit, not to mention that you are an ordinary newcomer, everyone's physical and psychological limits are different, and it's the same for exorcists, every time the exorcist reaches a stage, the control of soul power and the control of soul dust will also touch a certain limit, your current limit is to open eighteen soul dust absorption channels on the soul gathering array at the same time, breaking through this limit may reach the next level range, your soul gathering array will be more powerful, this is normal, you are still a pony among exorcists, It can't be a big day, but it has a lot of potential for growth. Song Yibing comforted.
"I see, thank you Uncle Song for your advice, since there are more than twelve small holes in the Soul Gathering Array that I can control, can I practice the first Soul Exorcism Array that Uncle Song said now?" Zhang Su couldn't wait to ask.
"Of course, the name of the first exorcism array I taught you is called. 'Ground disgust array', in the five categories of the exorcism array belongs to the ghost array, is specialized in dealing with the ghost soul of the entry-level soul array, once this array is cast, all the bodyless souls within the range of this array will be suppressed by a certain degree of soul power, as if disgusted by the god of the earth, so it is called the earth disgust array, the ground disgust array as a whole is pentagonal diamond-shaped, the head of the formation is water chestnut, it is thorny, the pointed head is like a tower, five water chestnuts are separated, from the outside of the array will look like a pentagonal pavilion, so the formation seal used for the formation is also a painting pentagonal thorn ring, the center is a dolphin head, the formation seal is drawn, as long as the soul power condensed by the soul gathering array is poured into the formation seal, the formation will emerge and play a role. Song Yibing explained.
"Although Uncle Song described it very vividly, I really can't think of what this seal looks like, I don't know if Uncle Song can show it in a more figurative way?" Zhang Su listened to Song Yibing's description, and had a little rough idea in his mind, but the image of the formation was still very vague, and he had not been in contact with any formation before, so it was difficult to understand the terms that depicted the formation.
"Haha, if you don't say it, I also know, you don't have painting skills, it's difficult to draw the images I said just by imagination, look here, I've already painted it on this rice paper, this image is the same as the image of the real array seal, you yourself have a good experience." Song Yibing looked at Zhang's embarrassed appearance, laughed loudly, and then took out a long-drawn ink drawing from the desk where he practiced calligraphy and handed it to Zhang Sui.
Zhang Su browsed through the whole picture, and the array was drawn with a brush, which was outlined on rice paper with heavy ink.
The outermost layer is an unclosed circle, splashing ink like a dragon's head at the beginning of the pen, drawing the pen like a silk at the end, chasing each other from head to tail but not connecting from beginning to end, the whole looks like a black head with hair in a bun and a small mouth.
Looking at the middle, the middle picture is the appearance depicted by Song Yibing, painting a diamond-shaped matrix ring in the shape of a pentagonal thorn, the five corners are like needles, the spikes rush outward, and the place where the pen stops vaguely exudes a sharp and unyielding atmosphere, giving people a feeling that the outer ring is about to be pierced.
Finally, looking towards the center, there is a ferocious dolphin head, like a wild boar's head with fangs, although it is not as real as the real boar's head, but the ink has always focused on freehand, Song Yibing's few strokes of the wild boar's head full of fierce expressions, making people shudder to look at it.
"Uncle Song, you have a good foundation, you can paint this kind of artistic conception with just a few strokes, and it has the charm of Qi Baishi." Zhang Su exclaimed.
"Praise, this is just to show you the Ground Disgust Array Seal that you want to condense." Song Yibing waved his hand and said modestly.
"But Uncle Song, I haven't studied Chinese painting either, and I don't have a foundation for painting, so I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it for a while to draw this kind of array seal full of artistic conception." Zhang Su looked at the ink array seal drawn by Song Yibing, and said with a weak heart.
"Meaning is what people think, and the state is what the mind appears, Lao Tzu pays attention to the Tao, saying that one is born, two is two, two is three, and three is everything, in fact, this can also be said upside down, such as Liezi is particular' In fact, it is all things into three, three into two, two into one, one into the Tao, that is to say, all things are born from the same root, can be branched out, you can also trace back to the source, find the essence of complex things, Western painting is about the reproduction of the scene, pay attention to the real appearance to fill the picture scroll, similar to the leafy tree, ink painting is to put aside the appearance, trace the simplest origin, similar to the root under the flowers, this is the difference between the two concepts of painting, the array seal is similar to ink painting, even if you do not have the skills of painting, but only by feeling the origin of the artistic conception depicted in the array print, you can also quickly understand the essence of the painting, draw the array seal, form a formation and it will be a matter of course. Song Yibing introduced.
"Artistic conception? It feels a bit abstract and not very well understood. Zhang Su scratched his head and pondered.
"It's true that it's really difficult for a person to perceive a certain artistic conception, but this is the root of the exorcist's formation seal, even if you have learned to draw, if you don't achieve artistic conception, you can't condense a flawless variety of exorcism arrays, so after the soul gathering array, the array seal is another big difficulty on the path of the exorcist's growth." Song Yibing continued to explain.
After listening to Song Yibing's explanation, Zhang Su somewhat understood the importance of the formation seal, and he slowly realized that the seal is not just a painting seal, but a knot, and the intention is formed, and the seal will naturally become a matter of course, and the formation will be full of vitality, obviously this is what Song Yibing wants to express, but if it is just a painting, it is okay, painting can be imitated according to the cat and the tiger, and the artistic conception can only be understood, and there is no opportunity to imitate.
Zhang Su didn't speak again, his eyes stared at the ground disgusting array seal painted by Song Yibing for a moment, wanting to understand Song Yibing's so-called array seal artistic conception from it.
Time passed bit by bit, Zhang Su stared at the picture of the ground and tired of the formation for more than an hour, what he saw in his eyes was still just a vivid picture, he didn't know how to understand the artistic conception, or didn't know if the perception he got was the artistic conception that the painting wanted to express, he was full of ambition but hesitated.
"Don't worry, calm down first, the most taboo in the understanding of the array seal is to get it done quickly, in the past, the exorcist will be required to learn to draw and paint before accepting the inheritance, and be asked to play against the weeping willow, that is, to cultivate the state of mind first, quiet and ethereal, and wait until the spirit and the intention are reached, before you can start to learn the various means of the exorcist, and now you temporarily take over my inheritance, without going through the step of cultivating the state of mind, you will definitely encounter difficulties and obstacles on the road after that, these need you to debug your mentality." Song Yibing saw Zhang Su frowning, and knew that Zhang Su had encountered shackles when he comprehended the Yinyi, so he gave a slight hint on the side.
Although Zhang Su didn't look at Song Yibing, but Song Yibing's words he accepted them all, Song Yibing's meaning he also understood, its content was nothing more than to calm down his eager heart, let his restless soul calm down, Zhang Su knew that his current excitement and frustration were making his mood fluctuate, with this emotion, it was impossible to detect the truth of the formation seal, but it was not easy to make his mind calm like water, not to mention that the cultivation of the soul master pursued competition and victory, And the cultivation requirements of the exorcist are indifferent and ethereal, how can a heart that seeks victory say that it is indifferent, the biggest difficulty is in this place.
Now that he understood where his cultivation difficulties were, Zhang Su tried to find a solution, he no longer stared at the formation seal of the earth-weary formation, but closed his eyes, first quieted his restless heart, let his nerve beat gradually slow down, let his blood no longer flow faster, abandon all distracting thoughts, and even did not consider whether the cultivation of the earth-tired formation was completed or not, so he indifferently waited for his mind to completely calm down.
After a while, Zhang Su felt the change in his mood, and slowly his body was like a feather, and his heart was like water, so he took out the array seal of the ground disgust array in his spiritual sense, and tasted the strokes on the array seal little by little with his mental sense, and understood the meaning of every drop of ink on the picture of the array print.
Ink is like condensing the soul, the shallow place of ink means that the soul power is clear, the depth of the ink means the soul power is condensed, the rough place of ink means that the soul volume is surging, and the fine place of ink means that the soul volume is streamlined.
In addition to the meaning of ink drops, the meaning of the stroke is slowly understandable, the formation of the pen for the framework, the framework must not be wide or narrow, impartial, in order to stand for the formation, with the formation of the basic appearance of the formation, in addition to the pen, the pen blade from wide to narrow to form the pen blade, indicating that the formation here should be sharp with sharpness, the pen tip from narrow to wide to form a blunt pen, indicating that the formation here should be thick and indestructible, the dolphin is the symbol of the formation of the beast at the top of the formation, indicating that the five corners are responsible for the soul power supply of the formation, It is necessary to continuously supply a strong and abundant soul power to the ground aversion array, and a soul array is formed.
Zhang Su didn't know whether his understanding was right or wrong, he could only prove his perception of the artistic conception with practice, he still closed his eyes, first condensed the soul gathering array ball, and condensed the soul dust on the basis of the opening and closing of the eighteen holes, and after the condensation, Zhang Su put the soul gathering array on one side, and used his hand to depict the formation seal of the ground disgust array again, although Zhang Su did not learn to paint, but through the perception of the formation seal just now, Zhang Su used his soul power to draw the ground disgust array seal has been eight or nine and ten, and wait until the ground disgust array seal is drawn, Zhang Su poured the soul power in the Soul Gathering Array onto the formation seal, waiting for the change of the formation seal.
When the soul power in the soul gathering array was completely injected into the formation seal of the earth disgusting array, the array seal first glowed with a bright blue light pattern, and on the pattern, the soul power flowed back and forth between the coherent murals like the cyan stream of the netherworld green river, and after a while, the blue light pattern disappeared directly into the air, and the soul power broke out, but it did not turn into soul dust and dissipate everywhere, but conjured a three-dimensional soul power pavilion appeared in front of Zhang Su, and the blue and purple soul power on the small pavilion flickered slightly, like a violet illuminated by the night light. It's always reminiscent of the legendary Netherworld.
"Did it work?" Zhang Su didn't say anything, but asked himself, the soul array is not condensed like a soul technique, it can be felt and known, it is with a certain image, Zhang Su used his soul power to perceive the three-dimensional soul array in front of him, and he could hardly perceive the power contained in the soul array, which made Zhang Su very puzzled.
"Yes, this ground disgust array has been formed, although the speed was not controlled when pouring the soul power of the soul gathering array, in general, it is still good, at least a formed ground disgusting formation, the soul array cannot use soul power to perceive its power, you are the constructor of the formation, connect the spiritual sense to the heart of the formation, you can perceive and control the formation you release." Just when Zhang Su was wondering, Song Yibing reminded Zhang Su on the side.
Zhang Su heard Song Yibing's prompt that he had succeeded, and opened his eyes excitedly, looking at the ground disgust formation he had constructed, and then looked at Song Yibing again, and asked, "Where is the heart of the formation?" ”
"The heart of the formation is the center of the formation seal, the heart of the formation of the earth aversion array is the head of the dolphin, and the change to the three-dimensional formation is the small dolphin above the five corners, as long as you establish enough spiritual sense contact with the five little dolphins, this earth aversion formation can be completely controlled by you." Song Yibing replied.
Zhang Su nodded, and tried to establish a spiritual sense connection with the ground aversion array he cast, because the ground disgust array was built by himself, and the establishment of the spiritual sense contact was completed smoothly, Zhang Su only then realized the various characteristics of the ground disgust array he cast, and there was a lot of relevant information about the earth disgust array in the spiritual sense.
"The ground aversion array, one of the ghost arrays, subduing demons and eliminating ghosts, suppressing soul power, the earth disgust array can control the space range of thousands of square meters when it is completed, and with my current strength, it can only cover the range of less than 100 square meters, and the complete earth disgust array can suppress the soul and ghost soul power of nearly fifty percent, with my current strength, I can only suppress the soul power of about one percent of the soul and ghost, it can be seen that my earth disgust array still has a lot of room for improvement." Zhang Su sensed the information in the ground disgust formation, and made a judgment on the ground disgust formation that he had cast.
"It's already very good, I cultivated this place back then, but it took five days to just get out of shape, and it only took you less than two hours to cultivate, and it already has nearly one-fifth of its power, and the result is already very good." Song Yibing compared himself.
"Really? That's right, Uncle Song, there are a few points in the information of this land-weary array that I care about, according to the description of the earth-weary array, the earth-weary array cannot confine the space, once it is cast, it can be maintained for a certain time according to the size of the soul power, but it cannot be changed and moved, once the soul leaves the ground-tired array, the earth-tired array will not be able to have an effect on the outer souls, that is to say, it is difficult for the earth-tired array to trap the souls, and it is impossible to change the position, which is very disadvantageous in dealing with the ghosts. Zhang Su consulted.
"That's right, the Earth Aversion Array is only a low-level basic soul array in the ghost array, it can't really restrain the soul ghosts trapped in the array, that is to say, the soul ghosts can escape from the array at any time, and once the soul ghosts escape from the soul power suppression of the Earth Aversion Formation, the Earth Aversion Array cannot be pursued, which is equivalent to invalidation, so the exorcist rarely uses the Earth Aversion Array in battle, only in the big melee, the powerful exorcist will set up a large range of Earth Aversion Array to deal with a large number of ghosts, in order to achieve the purpose of weakening the soul and ghost power in a range." Song Yibing explained.
"It turns out that this is used in group wars, no wonder, then it doesn't make much use for me to learn this." Zhang Su was puzzled.
"It can't be said that it is useless, the soul power of this formation fluctuates little, the layout is relatively secret, and it can be set up unconsciously before the battle, secondly, this formation can be released almost instantly after being proficient, even if it is laid out in front of the other party, it can also weaken the opponent's soul power in a short time, if it is a revenant soul that is not much different from your soul power, this short period of time is enough to kill it, so this place still has some effect." Song Yibing continued to explain.
"That's the case, I didn't expect this effect, it seems that I still have a long way to go in the study of the soul array." Zhang Wei scratched his head, feeling that what Song Yibing said was very reasonable.
"Haha, still so modest, today's teaching task is completed, the time after that, no, in the next week, you can practice the Soul Gathering Array and the Earth Aversion Array well, and wait until next week I will continue to teach you the new Soul Array, I have learned eleven soul exorcism arrays in my life, and there are eleven soul exorcism arrays that can be taught to you, in addition to the Earth Aversion Array that has been taught to you, there are still ten left, with your current practice speed, five weeks is enough time to learn everything I have learned in my life, as for how to use it skillfully is your own business." Song Yibing smiled and expressed his plan.
"I will definitely live up to Uncle Song's expectations, but Uncle Song, I want to ask, is this exorcist only practicing the Exorcism Array? Like us, soul masters will practice many forms of soul skills, are the methods of exorcists just so monotonous? Zhang asked puzzled, because he listened to what Song Yibing said, as if there was nothing else in the plan except for the Soul Exorcism Array.
"Well...... there's another way to do it, but I don't want to teach it to you." Song Yibing pondered for a moment and replied.
"Why?" Zhang Su asked puzzled, Zhang Su subconsciously thought that Song Yibing didn't want to teach himself that the so-called other method was that he was afraid that the apprentices of the church would starve to death of the master, but he felt that Song Yibing was not that kind of person, otherwise he would not admit it directly.
"After you learn, you will have an accident, at least your soul hunting company will not be able to tolerate you." Song Yibing said.
"Is it that serious?" Zhang Su was still a little unwilling.
"Well, I can just tell you the name and information of this means, how serious it is you can judge with confidence." Song Yibing continued to answer.
"What's the name?" Zhang Su asked.
"Soldier Seal Battle Array!" Song Yibing replied in a calm voice.