Chapter Twenty-Five: Occupy the Cave
In addition to the skeletons, there were also simple stone beds, stone tables, stone chairs, pools, etc., but the tables and chairs were already covered with thick dust, and the pools had long since dried up and turned black.
Only near the newly opened tunnel is the rock wall wet, eroded by the water droplets dripping from the roof of the cave, smooth and dustless.
Xu Dao examined it with the naked eye again, and determined that most of the cave chambers were built by the skeletons in the cave, and judging from the clothes on the skeletons, the other party should be a Taoist disciple in the White Bone Temple.
Xu Dao estimated that the skeleton had been sitting for decades, even more than 100 years. As a result, all the large and small mechanisms in the cave were broken, and only one thing was still barely functioning—the Spirit Gathering Array.
He walked quickly to a rock wall and looked at the formation patterns carved on the stone wall.
These lines are deeply engraved in the rock wall, the lines are twisted and mysterious, with silver, gold, lead and mercury as ink, and Fu Qian as the array, all over the entire rock wall.
It's just that the formation has been in disrepair all year round, and copper, silver and other metals have long been corroded by rock water, rusted and blackened, and unusable.
This array is called "Gathering Spirit Array", which is a kind of formation often used by Taoists when cultivating and constructing caves, which can stably mobilize the aura in the talisman money and imprison it in the formation. At the same time, it can also gather the thin aura outside the formation to increase the concentration of aura in the formation.
The Spirit Gathering Array can allow the Taoists to squeeze out every trace of spiritual energy in the talisman money, save money and food, and at the same time, it can also artificially create a spiritual land, which is used for cultivating medicinal materials, etc., which is quite useful.
It's a pity that this formation is expensive, and in the same level of formation, its price is five or six times that of ordinary formations, and ordinary people can't afford it.
Xu Dao asked in the liao courtyard, and learned that the lowest-level spirit gathering array in the temple also cost more than 100 fu money, which was close to his year's salary.
After carefully examining the Spirit Gathering Array, he glanced at the skeletons in the cave and thought:
"It should be that this person happened to replace the talisman money in the spirit gathering array when he was seated, and he did not plant spirit grass or breed demon beasts, and the aura in the formation was not consumed, but he continued to gather the aura around him. ”
"Although the aura gathers slowly, but with the accumulation of time, coupled with coincidence, this place has become a spiritual energy node, a spiritual land!"
Xu Dao was surprised in his heart. When he bought the formation in the dormitory, the people of the liao once boasted to him that the gathering of spirit arrays also had the effect of improving the quality of spiritual land and creating spiritual land.
Xu Dao didn't believe it at first, but he didn't expect that what the other party was boasting about was actually true! In his heart, he suddenly had the idea of going bankrupt and arranging the Spirit Gathering Array.
But he immediately came to his senses:
"There are many caves in the White Bone Mountain, but I haven't heard of a few spiritual lands that were born from the Spirit Gathering Array. There should be a possibility of creating spiritual land, but it is small and small, and it takes a long time, just like finding a natural spiritual land, which can be encountered but not sought......"
Dispelling the thoughts in his heart, Xu Dao walked back and forth in the cave and checked all the formations in the cave.
When he walked back to the Spirit Gathering Array, he was pleasantly surprised: "Maybe you don't have to go bankrupt to set up a Spirit Gathering Array." ”
Although the Spirit Gathering Array in the cave is broken, it is still in operation and may be repaired. Xu Dao can set up a new Spirit Gathering Array on this basis, which is much simpler.
However, the other formation in the cave was not so lucky.
Xu Dao carefully checked it, and in addition to the Spirit Gathering Array, there was also a period in the cave.
The functions of this array include hiding caves, connecting earth qi, etc., and even killing trapped enemies, which is far more advanced than what Xu Dao bought in the squatter courtyard.
Because this formation method belongs to the consumable formation, its aura and talisman money have been consumed first, and the formation pattern has also been annihilated a lot, which cannot be repaired.
Xu Dao pondered: "After all, it's only a Qi refining level formation, and it's already good to be able to operate on its own for more than ten years." At the same time, he was also faintly glad that if this formation wasn't completely broken, he wouldn't have had a chance to find here.
After wandering around, Xu Dao explored all corners of the cave, leaving only the skeleton corpse in the corner that had not been examined, but he was not in a hurry.
Xu Daoxian took out three small flags from his sleeve, and the flags were embroidered with the words "heaven", "earth" and "people".
This is the Sancai Shadow Shifting Array, a relatively low-level protective formation.
Arrange this array, three small flags can respectively hook the sun essence and moon in the air, and the yin and cold qi underground, filling and guarding the surroundings of the cave, which can confuse the living beings, suppress the qi, and prevent the cave from being discovered.
And when the Taoist sits in it, the blood and qi on the human body will also be hooked by the formation flag, which has the effect of guarding and covering the Taoist body. However, other than that, this array has no more effect, and it can't trap the enemy and kill the enemy.
Xu Dao immediately sat cross-legged in the cave, holding three small flags in his hand, and reciting words in his mouth.
The three small formation flags immediately trembled, releasing black, white, and red glows. As soon as the ghost light came out, Xu Dao jumped up from the ground, stepped on the bucket, and closed his eyes and wandered around the four sides of the cave.
When he reached the position where the formation could be set, he vigorously played the small flag in his hand, and with a sigh, the flag flew to the rock wall, and turned into a ball of cold fire and drilled into the rock wall.
A twisted pattern immediately appeared on the rock wall, and a hole was burned out of the hole.
After a while, the three small flags were properly arranged in the shape of "Pin", and Xu Dao threw a talisman coin into one of the holes.
Selucidately, the hole released a white mist, and the negligence permeated the floor of the cave, staining the cave as if it were a cloud.
At the same time, a light also appeared on the top of the cave, a round lump, which was slowly releasing a ghostly light. This is the formation that projects the moonscape outside the cave into it as a light source.
There was no need for the yin god to go out of the body, Xu Dao also knew that there was also a mist steaming up outside the cave, covering the surroundings of the cave. And the aura in the cave was also intercepted and no longer leaked outward.
He looked at the heavy fog on the ground, and suddenly understood why the White Bone Temple was shrouded in fog all year round. However, this matter has little to do with him, and the cave in front of him has a lot to do with him.
Xu Dao looked at the land of Zhang Xu in the radius, and couldn't help but feel joy in his heart.
After several years of cultivating, he finally has a place to live, and he is still a spiritual place!
It's gratifying, it's really gratifying.
In the future, he can stay in his own cave and practice, and he no longer has to worry about being disturbed. When he has spare energy, he can also reclaim the spiritual field and buy Dan furnaces and other things to help him practice!
"Hahaha!" Xu Dao couldn't help but laugh.
With a wave of his sleeves, he ordered the Kaishan Lux who came in with him to continue to expand the cave chamber, and cast two new spells.
One of them is the water charm, which can create a pool of water in the cave, connect the upper and lower water veins, and lay out a four-sided waterway, so that the indoor living water source is continuous.
The second is the earth talisman, which can create a digging force, and the fossil is mud, which can build a cave with the pioneer team.
Using all three talismans and successfully occupying the cave, Xu Dao let the Dao soldiers move, while he himself cleaned up his mood and walked briskly towards the original owner of the cave, the skeleton.
The Taoist robe on the skeleton's body had long been decayed, and it could barely be seen that it was a Taoist style, it was sitting down, its head was hanging down, and the bones on its body were distinct.
Xu Dao had already used the Yin God to probe in advance, and he was not worried about the skull's deception, he bowed to the other party and said, "Today, I will use the treasure of Daoyou to collect the bones for Daoyou, and I hope you don't mind." ”
After saying that, Xu Dao confessed, and directly ripped off the sleeves of the other party's clothes, and then sat down next to the skeleton and checked it generously.
A piece of leather paper came out of the skeleton's sleeve and caught his attention......