Chapter 98: The Ninth Formation Talisman (II)
For a few days in a row, he didn't find the slightest clue about the ninth formation talisman, and Tang Yunfeng's spirit was a little sluggish. The most feared is this situation, no matter how hard you try, you will consume countless brain cells, and as a result, you can't even touch a direction.
While writing his homework, Xiao Shi looked at Tang Yunfeng, who was rarely distracted while reading, and endured it for a while, but he couldn't hold it back. Tang Yunfeng is very strict with him, and he is never allowed to be distracted when writing his homework.
"Brother Feng, what do you think, I haven't turned a page for half a day."
Tang Yunfeng came back to his senses from the chaotic yin and yang gossip and Qimen Dunjia, only to find that he had been distracted for a while. Since I couldn't stand it, I simply closed the book, looked at Xiaoshi's homework, and was quite satisfied with the progress, so I decided to talk to him and empty my mind.
"Little Stone, do you know the Bagua Array?"
Little Stone nodded.
"Is it the array that Zhuge Liang put in the Three Kingdoms?"
"Almost, do you think that in the gossip array, apart from the gossip of Qiankangen, Zhengxun, Likundui, what else is the most important?"
After hearing this, Xiao Shi was very blindfolded, bit his finger and muttered:
"Isn't the gossip array this gossip? What else is there besides gossip? Doesn't seem to have anything left! Brother Feng, you let me think about it. ”
Tang Yunfeng didn't urge him, he was just relaxing and chatting, so he tilted his head to look at the small stone and meditate there. This little guy has a problem and likes to babble while thinking about it.
"Bagua Array, Bamen Bagua Sixty-four Variations, No, there are too many; Seven stars, gossip, and nine palaces, it's not right, the nine palaces and gossip don't seem to be next to each other; Taiji gives birth to two yi, two yi gives birth to four elephants, four elephants give birth to gossip, and the four elephants are southeast and northwest, which is also wrong. ”
Xiao Shi muttered and scratched his head, counting all the words related to gossip, but he couldn't come up with anything related to gossip. He was worried, and when Tang Yunfeng, who was next to him, heard "Taiji gives birth to two yi, two yi gives birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip", a bright light suddenly flashed in his mind. The pattern of the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish instantly came to mind, and if I remember correctly, there was a segmentation curve of the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish on the array eye instrument that he had stuffed into the backpack and didn't bring out. Could it be that there is a rune on that array eye weapon, and the function of the ninth basic array rune is to connect the array base and the array eye weapon?
Thinking of this, Tang Yunfeng instructed Xiao Shi, and immediately climbed onto the bed and entered the lander. After appearing in the mansion where he was specially designed to experiment with the illusion formation, Tang Yunfeng carefully observed the combination of the eight Bagua Basic Formations, and then began to build the ninth Basic Formation.
The arrangement of the eight basic formations is not square, but has a certain angle and distance. The purpose of Tang Yunfeng's careful observation was to understand the outline order and method of the formation symbols. Because of these eight basic array symbols, he deduced from the Kun hexagram drawn by the black-haired woman, and a person who sketches the formation symbols has his own writing habits like writing. In many police and gangster films, the storyline of locking the suspect through handwriting comes from this.
Although in this era, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to write with a pen. But coincidentally, Tang Yunfeng happened to know a little bit about screening handwriting, so he carefully observed the eight basic formations that had been formed.
The other eight formations are all composed of 12 groups with a total of 360 five-element basic formations, so the ninth basic formation should be the same in terms of size and shape. It is nothing more than divided into two groups of yin and yang, 6 groups of 180 each, so what can represent yin and yang is, of course, the two hexagrams of Qiankun. So Tang Yunfeng relied on his impression of that array eye weapon and the black-haired woman's habit of writing array talismans, and after arranging the 60 small cube magic arrays in a certain order, the ninth basic array talisman appeared in the air. I don't know if it's because of the psychological effect, but now that he looks closely, this formation talisman seems to be really a bit of a shadow of a yin and yang fish pattern.
Having finally completed the nine basic array runes, the next step is to continue to purchase a large number of soul stones to get the eight formation bases. As for the final array eye, if it really doesn't work, try to imitate an enlarged version of the ninth array rune.
Tang Yunfeng, who was in a good mood, withdrew from the lander, put on his clothes and patted Xiaoshi's head.
"Do your homework well, I'll go buy a roast chicken, don't leave at noon."
Tang Yunfeng rode an electric tricycle to the town, bought two roast chickens, bought a box of Gu Beichun for his grandfather, bought a hat for his grandmother, and brought back the "Tianyuan Universe" lander that had just been sent to the post office and bought for Xiaoshi.
At lunch, the grandfather drank very happily, and the wine that the grandson bought was different from the one he bought. Xiao Shi was also full of oil, and what made him even more excited was the game lander brought back by Tang Yunfeng. After reading the strategy on the forum for so long, I consulted with his brother Feng for several days, and I can finally try it myself.
Grandpa drank twice as much as he could, and was complained by his grandmother for a noon, and after lunch, he cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and grandma took the hat that her grandson bought for her and went to show off to the old sisters. Seeing the appearance of his grandparents, Tang Yunfeng realized that this seemed to be the first time he had bought something for the second elder. Filial piety is not only to be taken to heart, but also to be manifested in action, and I still cared too little about the feelings of my grandparents before.
Getting the nine basic formations is just the first step in the long march of 10,000 miles, and it is still very early to arrange the illusion formation. The biggest problem Tang Yunfeng is facing now is that there is a serious shortage of soul stones, one basic array is 60 pieces, one formation base is 2,940 pieces, and eight formation bases plus the array eye is 26,460 pieces. This is still calculated according to the same standard as the formation eye and the formation base, according to the understanding of the general formation, the formation eye is often more demanding than the formation base, from the original black-haired woman used an artifact to make the formation eye, and used the ordinary array disk as the formation base.
Polishing the soul stone into cube dice is not difficult, as long as it is not deliberately mischievous, the success rate can reach 100%. But the combination of depicting 6 Five Elements Basic Arrays on these small cubes, the success rate is not so high, Tang Yunfeng is careful and careful, and the success rate can reach ninety.
In order to complete the layout of the entire illusion formation, 30,000 medium-grade soul stones is the minimum number, and the price of medium-grade soul stones in the market is less than 5 gold coins. This meant that Tang Yunfeng had to prepare at least 1.5 million gold coins before he could get the raw materials for the Illusion Formation.
Tang Yunfeng looked at his account balance, fortunately, the sales of the appraisal scroll during this period were very hot, and his account balance had increased to more than 3 million gold coins. After some time of madness, with the completion of the construction of the stations of various war alliances, the price of gold coins has fallen back to the range of 1-2 yuan per piece, and continues to fluctuate in this range.
In the early stage, nearly a thousand soul stones were hoarded, and after this period of tossing, there were only two or three hundred left, plus more than six hundred newly collected in the past few days, and the gap was still 95%. In desperation, Tang Yunfeng continued to sweep the goods in the trading market, and while hanging out 5 gold coins/unlimited soul stones, he swept away the soul stones below the price in the market. In order to increase the audience, Tang Yunfeng deliberately paid 100 gold coins for information topping.
Soul stones are mainly derived from necromantic monsters, which are mainly found at night, which is why this item is relatively rare. Only a few players are willing to go online at night in the Vast Continent, and the Vast Continent at night is more dangerous, and the advantage is that there are fewer people who rob monsters. A few bosses that only appear at night are much milder than the boss battles during the day, and if you are lucky enough to come across no battle alliance, two or three squads can occasionally pick up a boss, which is absolutely impossible in the daytime.
After completing the acquisition of the soul stones, Tang Yunfeng said hello to Qianyu Buxun and Qin Xihe respectively, and asked them to pay attention to the soul stones in the guild warehouse and the territory warehouse, and he collected them all at the price of 5 gold coins each.
After receiving Tang Yunfeng's news, Qianyu Buxun directly released a series of tasks, and the reward was gold coins, encouraging players in the territory to team up to farm soul stones at night in the vast continent. Qin Xihe also released the Battle Alliance mission, and the reward was an alliance point equivalent to 5 gold coins. Qin Xihe asked the feather fan scholar to help and asked the brothers of the "Jin Ge Iron Horse" to help collect it.
Tang Yunfeng continued his life and rest, reading books, the library of "Tianyuan Universe", and carving the magic circle in the vast continent.
There are only two ways to combine the 6 Five Elements Basic Circles on the soul stone, one yin and one yang. His basic technique was promoted to the Grandmaster level when he completed the first basic array rune, and a new skill was born: Skillful Craftsmanship (Subtle), and as his skill proficiency improved and he had an in-depth understanding of the combination of the six Five Elements Basic Array, his carving speed became faster and his success rate increased.
He roughly calculated that he could carve 4-5 pieces in a minute, and it would take 10 minutes to recover every 20 minutes on average, because carving was particularly depleting to the spirit. So his routine in the vast continent also became a little boring and boring, carving, practicing and resuming, carving, and re-practicing. In addition to harvesting more than 2,000 soul stones every day to complete the combined magic circle, what made him feel gratified was the rapid improvement of the proficiency of the Chaos Five Elements Exercises and Basic Techniques.
According to Tang Yunfeng's estimate, if you want to complete the layout of the entire formation, it will take almost half a month, just in time for the eve of the Spring Festival, and it will be regarded as a New Year's gift for yourself. The reason why Tang Yunfeng insisted on finishing this was because of the black-haired woman, and secondly, he wanted to find out what the Soul of the Phantom Moon was.
After the fifteenth day of the lunar month, it is the new year, and on the sixteenth day of the lunar month, Tang Yunfeng and his grandparents thoroughly cleaned the house together. In the next few days, Tang Yunfeng took the initiative to take over the work of cleaning furniture, doors and windows, cleaning the yard, etc., and grandpa could go out to play mahjong in the morning. Since the twentieth day of the lunar month, he and his grandfather have been rushing to the market every day to buy the items needed for the New Year. The family only has an electric tricycle, and they choose the market that is relatively close to their home, and the farthest is no more than ten miles.
After Xiao Shi entered the vast continent, after asking Tang Yunfeng for 100 gold coins, he went straight to the Silver Fox City of Fengxue Pavilion and became the outer apprentice of Lin Feiyang's sect, which was something that Tang Yunfeng had already told Lin Feiyang.