Chapter 99: Formation
Caotou Town is the player's name for this small town on the eastern edge of the grassland, the town is located on the northeast edge of the grassland, there are no mineral resources around, and monster resources are not abundant. The only thing that can attract players here is the special beast - the steppe white fox.
The white fox is different from the silver fox, the silver fox is a demon clan, a spirit creature, and cannot be simply regarded as a monster. The white fox is a monster, and there are many types, such as the mountain white fox in the Fengxue Pavilion is a demon beast, and the grassland white fox here is just an ordinary beast, and it is the kind with the lowest combat effectiveness.
The specialty of the steppe white fox is its fur, which is snow-white and soft, making it an excellent material for fashion. The biggest customers of fashion are, of course, women, but there is a wide variety of fashion, and fur is just one of them. As a result, there are not only few players who come to Caotou Town, but also most of them are life players.
In the past few days, there has suddenly been an extra house in the town, which has attracted a small number of players. I don't know which god is so inhumane and collects fox skins so generously. With the opening of the curtain of the infrastructure of the war alliance, the price of the city wall drawings naturally soared, and along with the drawings of other buildings, the tide also rose. For example, such a small mansion used to only cost dozens of gold coins, but now it costs thousands of gold coins.
After the appearance of this mansion, the owner of the courtyard never appeared, which made some players who wanted to hug their thighs very disappointed. At this stage, the treatment of life players is much lower than that of combat players, and only alchemists and alchemists are more popular. Life players like them, who major in fashion and accessories, but have no use for bells and whistles, basically no war alliance is willing to accept it. It's hard to see a great god doing construction in this place where players of the fashion and life department gather, and many people are thinking: Is it such a big guy who wants to form a war alliance of the life department!
What is even more surprising to the players is that the owner of the yard has not appeared, but a tall horse with a red color enters and exits the yard every day. Through the prompts of the system, everyone knows that this is a mount tamed by the owner of the yard. Of course, the arrogant boss is qualified to be a little arrogant, but what is the situation of you swinging around the camp all day with your head and tail held high, and you still have a disdainful face towards us. It is said that dogs fight against people, and one of your fucking mounts has also begun to bully people.
Ordinary mounts either follow the owner or are tethered to a fixed place by the owner. The horse was fine, and had no sense of riding at all, not only wandering around the camp, but also running out into the grassland from time to time. Some players watched this thing run around in a group of zebras, jumping up and down around a few female zebras, like a bully who flirted with a good woman, and scared several female zebras "discolored". The zebra next to him looked frightened, shivering and hiding to the side.
Tang Yunfeng, like the retreat, nested in the room every day to carve the soul stone combination array. At the beginning, the Thousands of Miles of Smoke Cloud Beast was still dutifully guarding the courtyard, and when he was hungry, he asked Tang Yunfeng for a few pills. But for several days, Tang Yunfeng didn't even go out, and the Thousands of Miles of Smoke Cloud Beast couldn't hold back. Especially Tang Yunfeng, in order to save trouble, actually made a stone trough, and then poured a large jar of pills into the stone trough. This behavior seriously hurt its young mind, and the foolish owner fed it as a livestock. Feeling offended and insulted, the Smoke Cloud Beast completely let go of itself, and stopped guarding the yard, just went out for a stroll if it was okay.
In this grassland, there are really few characters that make him jealous, and when it comes to speed, he is even more unbeatable. The Smoke Cloud Beast, which completely let go of itself, returned to the grassland and became a little overlord.
The first time it went out, it made up its mind to wait for the idiot to come and beg him to go back. As a result, after playing for several days, the stupid owner didn't even have a message to find it, as if he had completely forgotten about it. Five or six days later, it could only return to the courtyard by itself, and found that Tang Yunfeng was not there, and hatefully licked out more than a dozen pills in the stone trough.
In the days that followed, he spent all day fooling around in the camp, watching the players hunt the grassland white fox, and seeing who would secretly make trouble if they didn't like it. I would also see a group of big men get together with nothing to do, sewing and mending with needles and threads, so that even a horse shuddered, and looked at them with a deep contempt in their eyes.
After a long time, players have also become accustomed to the existence of this tsundere fool. It's not that there are no players who want to trap this unruly guy, but they were kicked twice by the horse, and since then they have become the laughing stock of other players.
By getting along with these players, the Misty Cloud Beast was glad that its master was a little stupid, but it was still much better than these guys. If that guy also pinched a needle and pulled a thread and leaned on himself, I went, and I got goosebumps just thinking about that picture. As everyone knows, these guys who twist and pinch in his eyes are all the disciples and grandchildren of his master.
The preparation for the Chinese New Year is actually very tedious, and everything may not be much, but nothing is missing. For more than ten days, Tang Yunfeng followed his grandparents to go around, helping the two old people prepare New Year's goods as much as possible. Grandparents are also happy this year, so there is a lot of extra work to prepare for the purchases.
Buying vegetables, buying melon seeds and peanuts, buying sugar, cutting beef and mutton, cutting red paper, pulling cloth, buying firecrackers, fireworks, new bamboo (homonym, a kind of ancestral tablet), New Year's paintings, New Year's offerings, including pig's head, whole chicken, carp, candles, yellow paper, incense, etc.
A series of work such as steamed steamed buns, New Year's flowers, steamed buns, fried fish, fried meat, fried lotus root, croquettes, fried sweet potatoes, writing ancestral tablets, writing Spring Festival couplets, changing door curtains, etc., made Tang Yunfeng busy from the twentieth of the twentieth month to the twenty-eighth of the twentieth month.
On this day, Tang Yunfeng finally completed the carving of more than 30,000 soul stone combination arrays, and the final number of finished products was much more than estimated, with more than 28,500 pieces. As skill proficiency increases, so does the success rate and speed, and practice makes perfect for this purpose.
Tang Yunfeng placed the bronze array containing the soul stone array one by one, and the three bronze array disks formed a formation base, and in order to arrange the formation, he spent another two days specially building the array disk. The reason why he used bronze was because he discovered that bronze could be used as a spell container, but steel could not.
After the eight array bases were placed, Tang Yunfeng placed the only round bronze array plate at the position of the array eye, and there was no soul stone combination magic circle placed on the bronze array plate, because he was not sure how the array eye should be arranged, so he could only try them one by one.
Tang Yunfeng looked at the formation that covered most of the courtyard, and after the eight formation bases were put together, they had already glowed with a misty white light, making the courtyard much brighter. Taking a deep breath, according to the lines and curves on the eye device of the memory array, the 2,940 soul stone combination arrays were placed one by one, and the 49 basic array talismans formed the shape of a yin and yang Taiji fish as a whole.
After finishing the arrangement, Tang Yunfeng waited for a while, and the circular array disk also emitted a misty white light, but it was obviously much messy, more like the light emitted by the 49 basic array runes. Tang Yunfeng was thinking when he was swinging, how could these 49 basic array talismans achieve the balance of yin and yang?
Carefully observing the fragmented 49 basic formations, Tang Yunfeng suddenly realized a problem, he didn't seem to have carefully distinguished the difference between the sixty-four hexagrams and the eight trigrams. The combination of the magic circle on the soul stone is the form of the Qiankun hexagram in the Bagua diagram, and the basic array symbols are all the upper and lower Bagua diagram combinations that are the same as the subject and object hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams. The current array is completely outlined with 49 basic formations, which is obviously a bit out of place with the Bagua Array diagram.
When arranging, Tang Yunfeng was thinking about how to distribute these 49 basic array talismans in order to match the pattern of yin and yang balance. I didn't notice this just now, and I put it on the head. Facts have proved that this kind of brainless behavior generally does not bring good results, and the success of hitting the big luck must be a rare case.
Tang Yunfeng, who came back to taste, quickly dismantled the 7 basic formations in the middle, not using the seven formations to form the middle curve, but splitting the 7 formations into 14, 7 Qiangua and 7 Kun hexagrams, leaving a yin and yang separation curve in the middle of them.
Tang Yunfeng had just adjusted the yin and yang fish curve of the array array, and a ball of white light that was brighter than the other array bases lit up, and then a little bit of light flashed on his body, blending into that white light, and the white light suddenly spread. The white light of the eight formations also skyrocketed instantly, like a child who had found its mother, and happily merged into that white light, forming an inverted hemisphere in the courtyard, and constantly spreading out.
Tang Yunfeng, who was standing in the middle of the formation, looked at the formation talisman that lit up from time to time on the light curtain that was constantly spreading outward, and his heart was excited. Nearly a month's hard work was not in vain, and she finally figured out a formation that lived up to the painstaking performance of the black-haired woman.
After a while, the light curtain became more and more dim, and finally disappeared, and Tang Yunfeng didn't know how much of a scope he had expanded. When he came back to his senses and looked at the surrounding environment, it was no longer his own house, and there was no formation base and formation eye on the ground that had spread half of the courtyard.
At this time, the environment he was in was the camp of the group where the black-haired woman was located. Beside him, there were several dilapidated tents, according to Tang Yunfeng's observation, these tents happened to cover the foundation of the formation and the courtyard wall, and the road between the tents was the road leading to the gate of the house.
Obviously, there is still a big gap between the formation he arranged and the formation arranged by the black-haired woman. It can only be achieved with the help of actual items, the formation arranged by the black-haired woman at that time really created another space, and those tents and items that appeared on top of the pit out of thin air have a real texture, otherwise they will not let the other party's god-level masters be fooled.
Tang Yunfeng walked out along the road between the tents, and there were some tents scattered outside, but there was no one in his vision. He was pondering how to get out of this environment when a neighing horse barked and the Smoke Cloud Beast suddenly rushed in from not far away, with an unlucky egg in its mouth.