Chapter 18: A Little Accident
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If it was before the crossing, Zhao Ran would definitely not have the courage to provoke such a big python, even if he accidentally bumped into it in the wild, I am afraid that as soon as the python got up, he would have to run away in a panic. But now it's different, Zhao Ran is not only deaf and clear-sighted, open-eyed, barely a "special person", but also once walked with the Daomen of Huayun Pavilion Dazhuo and Uncle Xiaozhuo to catch demons, and even experienced the battle between the practitioners of the fourth senior brother's sword Buddhism Gate "Demon Monk", and his knowledge is far beyond comparison.
The so-called "high" people are bold, and in the face of a seemingly fierce but no "demon" python, Zhao Ran has been able to deal with it calmly. As soon as the python's body moved, he became alert, held the branch tightly, and aimed it at the snake's head.
The big python was extremely fast, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the front, and when it bit on the branch, the python's body immediately coiled up.
Zhao Ran could see clearly in his eyes, but he couldn't react in his hands, and the python rolled up the branch, and with a slight twist, the branch immediately snapped. Zhao Ran hurriedly let go, which saved him from the bad luck of being swept up by the snake's tail.
The python shook off the branches and crawled towards Zhao Ran again, Zhao Ran strode back, and the python distanced himself, not picking up clods, branches and other things and smashing them over, and gradually introduced the python into the "Five Elements Xuanshui Hidden Golden Array" that he had laid down.
Seeing that the time had come, Zhao Ran drummed out a mantra in a chest and abdominal voice: "Yongdu Sanqing'an, often resign five turbid mud, urgent as a law-"
Suddenly, a huge amount of water vapor suddenly gathered in the place where the circle was set up, and the water vapor formed a water mist in the air, which became thicker and thicker, and more water vapor rose from the ponds and lakes in all directions, gathering towards this side, and the naked eye could see the whirlpools formed by countless water vapor spinning around in the air.
The big python felt bad, so he left Zhao Ran and turned around and fled. But since he entered the magic circle, how could he escape from it? Zhao Ran held a compass in his hand and mobilized the jade seal to cooperate, and layers of earthen walls were immediately erected at the place of the python's escape route.
The python was blocked from returning, and chose other directions to escape, but it was too late, a high wave of water formed over the circle, and it smashed down directly, and the thickest wave in the water wave was smashing on the python's head, smashing the python to roll over a few times, and the entire snake bone was smashed apart.
Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, a golden sword hid in the waves, instantly drilled out, cut in from the seven inches of the python, cut off the entire python head, and the blood flowed sideways, dyeing the surroundings scarlet.
Zhao Ran himself didn't expect the magic circle to be so powerful, and he was pleasantly surprised for a while when he saw the destructive effect he had caused.
Zhu Qigu didn't know where to hide just now, but at this moment, she appeared behind Zhao Ran and sighed: "It's just a set of low-grade first-level magic weapons, and it actually has such power, junior brother, you have a lot of prospects in the formation." β
Zhao Ran successfully killed a big python for the first time alone, and of course he was happy in his heart, so Mei Zizi went to "pick up equipment", but was poured cold water on Zhu Qigu: "This snake is ordinary, and there are no good objects on it, that is, dinner has been settled, don't have any hope, at most take the snake gall, and you can soak in wine and drink it when you go back." β
With the first capture, Zhao Ran was inexplicably excited, eager to continue "hunting", of course Zhu Qigu had no opinion, and pointed out several places around where there were evil beasts, snakes and insects, and let Zhao Ran do it.
Zhao Ran continuously transferred the battlefield and set up different formations according to the characteristics of different qi flows, so Zhu Qigu was very full that night, not only ate stewed snake soup, roasted wild boar, roasted wolf meat and other game, but even honey as dessert after the meal, which was quite refreshing.
In the next few days, Zhu Qigu took Zhao Ran to continue to go deeper into the swamp, and encountered several monsters on the way, but with Zhu Qigu, these monsters who had just entered the cultivation due to various opportunities were unlucky, and became the best object for Zhao Ran to practice the formation. Zhao Rancai doesn't care if they "mutilate living beings" or not, there is no need to be reasonable in this swamp, right?
Under the guidance and support of Zhu Qigu, Zhao Ran's ability to face the enemy with formations has greatly increased, and he has become more experienced. The formations he laid out became more and more ingenious, and they integrated more naturally with the surrounding time and place, and sometimes even Zhu Qigu couldn't help but admire.
Zhu Qigu saw that Zhao Ran's way of arranging the formation was proficient, so she asked Zhao Ran to speed up the degree of the formation, let him practice repeatedly, and strive to complete the formation in the shortest possible time. According to Zhu Qigu's words, the stupid preset formation has no future, and the real formation can inadvertently lay a net of heaven and earth and set off a lot of killing opportunities in a silent place.
If you want to do it quickly, you need to do two things.
First, the operation of the heaven and earth qi machine must be "clear at a glance", Zhao Ran can concentrate to open the eyes of the sky, the most fundamental conditions have been met, and the rest is the problem of practice makes perfect.
The second is to require the fast laying of magic weapons in place, in addition to fast, more important is accuracy, the so-called difference of a millimeter, a thousand miles, the layout of the magic instrument is slightly on the top, will directly affect the operation of the circle. For the monk, this is not a big problem, a little practice is enough, but for Zhao Ran, it is a big problem, his body reaction obviously lags behind the thought, that is, the hand should not be in the heart. If you want to solve this problem, it is actually not difficult to say that it is difficult, as long as he opens his bones and can practice the Dao, he will naturally be able to gradually reach the point where his hands can respond to his heart.
As for now, the solution given by Zhu Qigu is to teach Zhao Ran a set of secret weapons in martial arts that can almost be said to be vulgar on the street - twelve money darts. Moreover, Zhu Qigu made a big deletion of it, and only taught Zhao Ran how to cooperate with his hands and eyes, how to shake his wrists, and how to shake darts, all of which were technical things, and all the internal force methods that matched them were skipped. One qiΔ only seeks accuracy, not power - the cultivation world has really never seen the use of array magic weapons to smash people.
After Zhao Ran practiced day and night for a few days, the accuracy was really greatly improved, within the range of six or seven zhang, the array disc magic weapon thrown out by shaking his hand could basically be in place, although it was still not completely accurate, but judging from the effect of the magic circle after it was activated, it could also swing out three to fifty percent of the power under almost normal circumstances.
In this way, Zhu Qigu took Zhao Ran to continue to wander in the swamp and began to "eradicate demons". Of course, before "eradicating demons", it is better to find some fierce beasts and poisonous insects to warm up. So wild boars, jackals, snake pythons, poisonous bees, poisonous spiders, the most common prey in the swamp were washed in blood again, a small part of the viscera of Zhao Ran and Zhu Qigu were sacrificed, and most of the roasted stumps were thrown everywhere, which attracted more prey.
After six or seven days of continuous hard training, Zhu Qigu saw that Zhao Ran was able to cope with it easily, so she raised the difficulty to a higher level, began to let him hunt and kill monsters, and strictly limited the scope of his formation-no matter how far he went, it would be easy to rush and cause accidents.
Practicing the formation so hard is too hard for Zhao Ran, who has no mana to support him, and he has to take pills almost every night to restore his spirit, otherwise he will definitely not be able to get up the next day. The two heart-nourishing pills he treasured had been consumed as early as the first two days, Suo Xing, this kind of elixir that was also more precious to Uncle Da Zhuo and Xiao Zhuo, was as worthless as jelly beans here in Zhu Qigu, Zhao Ran finished eating a bottle, and Zhu Qigu threw him the next bottle, as if she had endless medicine bottles hidden in her sleeve.
In these days, Zhao Ran's gains have been quite large, not only because the time for setting up the formation is getting shorter and shorter, and the skills of casting spells are becoming more and more skillful, but also because he has saved a lot of good things in the bamboo box on his back. Including the shell of a ghost scorpion, the corpse of a seven-step golden flower snake, the fangs of two wild boar spirits, and so on.
Zhao Ran followed Zhu Qigu around the edge of the swamp, and gradually circled to the northwest corner of Ruoergai Snow Mountain, where there are snow-capped peaks on one side and lush forest valleys on the other.
In the early morning of this day, Zhao Ran was fighting with a toad that had become a spirit, and the level of his fighting skills was increasing day by day, trapping the toad in the formation without spinning his heels, and borrowing the pebbles in the stream to kill the toad. After collecting a small amount of venom from the toad's poison sac with the empty pill bottle, Zhao Ran turned back to see Zhu Qigu.
Zhu Qigu casually pointed out the deficiencies exposed by Zhao Ran's fighting method, and suddenly said, "Just come here today, and I'll take you out of the swamp." β
Zhao Ran felt that his formation was getting better, so why was he willing to leave, because he asked, "Sister, do you have something to deal with?"
Zhu Qigu said: "Yes, I received a message from the Daomen about the sword book, and I have found the trace of the main master, just north of the snow mountain, I have to rush over to deal with it, which is why I came to the swamp." So I have to send you out, and you wait outside the swamp first, and when I am done, I will join you. β
"I can't help?"
"It's so far away, you have to die if you take a picture, how dare I take you there?"
"Then, why don't I stay here? Sister, you come back to me after you are done, I still want to practice more. β
"It's not deep enough into the Swamp, but it's still dangerous...... I'm not worried about the ferocious beasts and poisonous insects, and I'm not afraid that the mountain spirits and wild monsters will hurt you, and the monsters in this area are not very powerful...... I'm worried that if you encounter a Buddhist demon monk, or a loose cultivator with evil thoughts, I'm afraid that you won't be able to deal with it when the time comes. β
"It won't be so unlucky, it's been more than half a month, and I haven't seen one, and I can meet you as soon as you leave?"
"Hmph, if I hadn't taken you off the beaten track, how could you not have met you?"
"Since this place is inaccessible, then I promise you, I will never leave, I will practice the formation here, kill more fierce beasts and spirits - I feel that there is going to be a breakthrough in the degree of layout, and it will be difficult to get back that feeling when I leave. Besides, I'm sure I'm safe when I'm outside? Zhao Ran was really reluctant to leave, he was telling the truth.
Zhu Qigu didn't have much time to delay, hesitated for a moment, felt that what Zhao Ran said was reasonable, and said: "Then you promise me, don't leave here without permission, I will be able to come back soon." β
Zhu Qigu hurriedly walked in the direction of this big snow mountain, and after Zhao Ran saw her leave, he began to look for prey with all his attention. After looking for half an hour, he found a feces left by an unknown animal, he squatted down and examined it carefully, there were obvious flesh and blood residues in this pile of dung, indicating that this was a fierce beast, or even some kind of monster, which was in Zhao Ran's hunting target.
So Zhao Ran hurriedly got up, ready to chase after the general with some traces. When he looked up, he frozeβa handsome monk was standing up from behind a rock in front of him, holding a large struggling centipede in his fingers. The monk tilted his head slightly, and saw Zhao Ran almost at the same time, his two small eyes narrowed into a slit, staring at Zhao Ran motionless.
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