Time passed quickly in the busy cultivation, and a year passed before I knew it.

Ding Zhengyi carried out various cultivation step by step, practicing qi, dredging, arranging formations, making talismans, cultivating, and forging his body every day, and the arrangements were full. At the end of another day's cultivation, Ding Zhengyi was busy and did not continue to be busy, but sat quietly on the futon, combing through the thousands of threads in this year's cultivation, checking and filling in the gaps.

After a whole year of hard work, Ding Zhengyi also felt a little tired in the process, but he persevered with tenacity and perseverance. Although the progress of various cultivation is not by leaps and bounds, there is real progress.

Because there is a family spiritual rice subsidy every day, the cultivation time can ensure that the vitality of meditation and refining for four hours can be guaranteed, and at this time, the cyclone in Ding Zhengyi's dantian that represents the fourth layer of his cultivation qi has been condensed a lot. Originally, the amount of Yuan Qi refined was enough, and there was no bottleneck between the fourth and fifth layers of Qi training, which was enough to raise the cultivation to the fifth level of Qi training.

However, Ding Zhengyi knows the truth that if you want to be fast, you can't reach it, and cultivation is not to see who goes fast, but to see who goes farther, so he uses the small half of the refining vitality to dredge the blocked spiritual network, after all, the improvement of cultivation qualifications is the basis for stepping into a new realm in the future.

According to the current progress of cultivation, Ding Zhengyi has another half a year of meditation and qi refining, and it is appropriate to cultivate to reach the fifth level of qi cultivation, and the fifty-eighth spiritual network will also dredge a small half, and the hope of reaching the qualification of cultivating the six spiritual apertures has greatly increased, which makes him quite happy.

In addition to these basic cultivations, Ding Zhengyi also refined several magic weapons rewarded by his family during the cultivation interval, including a low-level talisman with three mana imprints, seven low-level array flags with single mana imprints, and a mid-level magic weapon jade pendant with five mana imprints.

The talisman pen is used to draw the talisman seal every day, and it is now used handy, and the array flag is used to practice the formation every day, which is much less expensive than practicing with spirit stones.

Only the jade magic weapon has not really been used, and it has been hanging on the chest after refining and being full of vitality, but with just one thought, this jade magic weapon can stimulate a vitality shield with quite good defensive power.

The practice of talisman making consumed the most, and the rune ink and rune paper given by the elders were exhausted as early as the first two months, and still no qualified low-level talisman was drawn, and only more than 50 fireball talismans with insufficient power were also handed over to the clan through his grandfather Ding Changshou.

It is said that the grandfather conveyed the instructions of the patriarch, and the family gave Ding Zhengyi another two hundred low-level rune ink and rune paper out of support.

The two hundred pieces of rune ink and rune paper were consumed by Ding Zhengyi in less than a month, and the result was less than thirty fireball talismans that lacked power, and it was gratifying that the quality of these fireball talismans was a little better than the ones drawn before, comparable to the casual blow of a monk in the early stage of qi training.

In the absence of a breakthrough, the family's subsidy is also limited, which is far from satisfying Ding Zhengyi's practice consumption.

Later, with the help of his father Ding Zhongyuan, Ding Zhengyi collected the blood of the Qingjia cow in the family, and according to the recipe recorded in the talisman making primer, he concocted some inferior rune ink, and found some low-grade rune vines through his grandfather's relationship to refine the barely usable rune paper, which will maintain Ding Zhengyi's normal practice.

Maybe it's because the difficulty of making runes is really too high, maybe it's because of the distraction of mixing rune ink and refining rune paper and wasting a lot of energy, maybe it's because of the quality limitations of the rune ink and rune paper that are refined, Ding Zhengyi feels that he is only one step away from drawing a standard low-level fireball rune, but in the next few months of practice, not only did he not draw a standard low-level spirit rune, but the success rate of talisman making has decreased.

Ding Zhengyi had no choice but to concentrate more on practicing.

In the months that followed, thousands of inferior rune ink rune paper were consumed, and by constantly adjusting the control accuracy of the vitality, figuring out the speed at which the aura was injected into the rune seal, and confirming the experience and perception of the ancestors in the family talisman classics, finally on a whim, he successfully drew a standard low-level fireball talisman with a power comparable to the full force of a monk in the early stage of qi training.

When this spirit rune was successfully drawn, Yi Ding's righteous and resolute temperament couldn't help but be excited, and finally held back his emotions, quickly recalled the whole process of making the talisman several times, and firmly remembered the mysterious and mysterious rhythm.

After that, Ding Zhengyi immediately took this freshly baked spirit rune and handed it to his parents, so that they could also share the joy together, although a standard low-level spirit rune was not of high value, but it represented the identity of a low-level talisman maker.

After the Wu family informed the family of the news, the patriarch immediately arranged for Ding Zhengyi's grandfather to send five hundred low-level rune ink rune paper for him to continue drawing spirit runes, after all, it was a hundred years ago that a low-level talisman maker appeared in the family, so the family could not pay attention to it.

It may be that the inferior rune ink rune paper used before has limited Ding Zhengyi's talisman making, or it may be that the kind of rhythm that he remembered after the breakthrough has played a role, and when he draws the rune seal with the materials sent by the family, the success rate of the standard low-level fireball talisman has suddenly increased to thirty percent.

When the yellow bud rice was about to be harvested again, Ding Zhengyi finished drawing and consumed the five hundred pieces of materials, and obtained more than one hundred and fifty standard low-level fireball talismans.

The price of every 100 low-grade runes and rune paper in the Fang market is about twelve low-grade spirit stones, and the price of the low-grade fireball talisman is two low-grade spirit stones, which indicates that Ding Zhengyi can not only make talismans without losing money, but also have a slight surplus.

Because the raw materials of low-level rune ink and rune paper are easy to obtain, and various sects and Xiuzhen families will refine them in large quantities, so the sales in the fang market are not good.

And the rune seal is just the opposite, there are often low-level demon beasts on the edge of the wilderness in the west of Xuanshan Kingdom, and low-level sea beasts in the southeast offshore are also visible at will, low-level qi cultivation or family monks often have to go to these places to find opportunities in order to obtain cultivation resources, and there will inevitably be battles between people and demon beasts or between people, for qi practitioners who can't quickly use spells, rune seals are a very suitable means, so all kinds of runes in the market are in short supply on weekdays, even if the spirit runes with insufficient power are easy to sell after discounting。

For these reasons, when Ding Zhengyi's standard low-level fireball talismans were handed over to the family together with nearly two hundred low-level fireball talismans with slightly less powerful ones obtained from the previous practice, the family not only gave a thousand low-level rune ink and rune paper, but also registered thirty family contribution points.

Thinking of this, Ding Zhengyi looked up at the talisman pen on the bamboo couch that had been used continuously for a year, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

But when the corner of his eye saw the few array flags not far from the futon, the smile at the corner of Ding Zhengyi's mouth slowly faded again.

Although this year's talisman practice was full of twists and turns, the final result was quite satisfactory, and the gains from the formation practice were very few.

Ding Zhengyi read the book "Introduction to Ding's Formation" several times in the first three months, but the inheritance of the family formation is too little, and the main content of the book is a simple description of the formation, introducing the various effects of the formation, such as the spirit gathering array, the monitoring array, the attack array, the defense array, the concealment array, the psychedelic array, the siege array, the contract array, etc.

Regarding the origin of the way of the formation, there are many speculations or vague words in the book, Ding Zhengyi in his own understanding, the formation is to transform the environment to fit the force of nature, the environment is transformed through various spiritual objects or formation flags, and all kinds of natural forces are observed and understood by the predecessors, and evolved into various formations.

Because changes in the terrain or aura flow direction will change the environment, causing the weakening or disappearance of the force of nature, each complex formation needs to adjust the position of the spirit object or formation flag according to the change of the environment, and maintain a state that is in line with the force of nature.

There is a large section in the book that focuses on the composite formation formed by the superposition of the basic formations, which is powerful and is mostly used in the mountain protection arrays of the sect. The general mountain protection array needs to have at least four effects: defense, attack, spirit gathering, and monitoring, and the formations used by those top-level sects are even more complex and powerful, of course, the more powerful the formation, the greater the demand for aura.

The mountain protection arrays of each sect often need to be maintained by special formation mages all year round, because it is not uncommon in the cultivation world for the power of the formation to weaken or fail due to terrain changes or the consumption of some spiritual objects.

And the so-called Protector Formation of the general Xiuzhen family is only the most simplified version of the composite formation, and the low-grade spiritual veins cannot support any attack and defense formations, and the background of the small and medium-sized Xiuzhen family cannot afford the various spiritual objects required to arrange the powerful formation.

Therefore, in addition to the weak effect of gathering spirits, these so-called Guardian Arrays often only monitor the effect of spiritual power fluctuations in the land of spiritual veins, which can play an early warning role, and the Ding family's Guardian Array is no exception.

In addition, the book specifically mentions the requirement of not relying on spiritual veins to arrange formations, which is rarely used in the cultivation realm, but sometimes it is a decisive means.

Ding Zhengyi summed up that if he wanted to set up a formation outside the spiritual vein, he could only use the spirit stone to provide the spiritual energy required by the formation, and the formation that was arranged consumed a lot and lasted for a short time, and because of the limitation of the amount of spiritual energy in the spirit stone, it was impossible to arrange a powerful formation.

In addition to various detailed or brief, clear or vague introductions, the whole book only records two sets of the simplest array diagrams, namely the Spirit Gathering Array and the Hidden Array.

In addition to the perception of the formation left by many ancestors of the Gathering Spirit Array, the annotations of the Concealment Array are pitiful, indicating that there should be very few monks in the family who have been able to arrange the Concealment Array for so many years.

Ding Zhengyi was not discouraged by the lack of content in the formation scriptures, and insisted on practicing the Spirit Gathering Array that he had already mastered every day.

Soon after drawing a qualified low-level spirit rune, the Spirit Gathering Array was finally able to be arranged handily, and it was no longer necessary to figure out for a long time as before, and the arrangement might fail.

The practice of the Hidden Array was also gradual during this time, and combined with a small number of annotations in the classics, I vaguely felt the direction of progress, although I had not been able to arrange it for the time being, but at least I saw hope.

These are all phenomena that only exist after reaching the junior talisman master, and Ding Zhengyi is a little skeptical that it is because the progress of talisman making the sense more sensitive, and the better and faster observation environment can promote the rapid increase of the formation ability.

This suspicion is not unfounded, the long-term practice of talisman and formation makes him feel that the formation is very similar to using the environment to make talismans, the spirit object and the array flag are rune ink, and the mana imprint is similar to the power of nature, but the power of nature is more complex and changeable.

These ideas Ding Zhengyi is ready to slowly verify in the future talisman making and array practice, sometimes the stone of his mountain can attack jade, and when one of the talismans or array is in a bottleneck, practicing another may have unexpected surprises.

Although the progress of practicing the formation is not fast, it has brought a lot of auxiliary effect to Ding Zhengyi. Not only did he use the array flag to arrange the Spirit Gathering Array for cultivation in the cultivation retreat room every day, but he also arranged it for his parents and Xiaoqiu many times in addition to cultivation.

Although the effect of the Spirit Gathering Array arranged with the Array Flag is not very obvious, and the parents' cultivation qualifications are too poor, and they are also old, so they no longer have extravagant expectations in cultivation, but in the case of the Spirit Gathering Array, their vitality still has a lot of effect in recovering their vitality, and they can save some time for meditation a little.

Ding Zhengyi was sitting on the futon at this time, and under the observation of the Spirit Eye, several array flags in the Spirit Gathering Array were constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the air, supporting the operation of the formation, because the formation was not large, the radius was less than a zhang, and it could be clearly sensed that the concentration of spiritual energy in the formation was more than one percent higher than that outside the formation.

The high concentration of aura can not only reduce the time of meditation and practice, but also reduce the difficulty of pouring aura into the rune paper when making talismans, and imperceptibly have a very positive impact on the progress of all aspects.

In addition to talisman making and array practice, according to the initial cultivation plan, Lingtian cultivation and body forging techniques have not been put down, although Lingtian's land preparation, sowing, weeding, etc. all rely on the help of his father Ding Zhongyuan, but Lingtian cultivation consumes the most seedlings and watering, Ding Zhengyi insists on completing them with quality and quantity.

The more herb essence required for the seedling, the better, but there is a strict limit to using the Rongmu spell to absorb the herb essence from the arbor into the body, and the absorption is too large or stored for too long will cause irreversible damage to the monk's spirit, and only the spirit body is strong enough to avoid this situation as much as possible.

Lingtian is several miles away from the arbor growth place in the spirit vein, and he has to maintain the performance of the Rongmu technique dozens of times a day, whether it is physical energy or vitality consumption, Ding Zhengyi even reduced the cultivation time during that time, gritted his teeth and persevered, and also got some additional benefits in the process, at least the training of the spirit body is much better than the effect of simple moves.

Although the watering after that is easier in terms of physical fitness, the consumption of vitality is greater, Ding Zhengyi's current spiritual rain technique coverage is only three zhang square, one acre of land needs to release nearly ten spiritual rain techniques, and the fourth layer of Qi cultivation can accommodate all the vitality that the dantian can hold, and it can only be used more than twenty times.

Ding Zhengyi simply exhausted the vitality in the dantian every time, and replenished the spiritual water for more than two acres of spiritual field, which reduced some of the burden for his father and increased the yield of spiritual rice.

The frequent use of the Spiritual Rain Technique also made Ding Zhengyi's understanding of spells more profound, and his control of the fusion of Yuan Qi and Spiritual Qi was more refined, and the experience and insights gained were quite beneficial to the practice of talisman making and array.

It's a pity that the progress of the body forging technique is not much, although Ding Zhengyi insists on cultivating every day, and he still endures great pain in the process, but I don't know if it is because he has no spiritual assistance or his own talent is not good, he still hasn't stepped into the threshold of forging after a whole year of cultivation.