Chapter 9: A Special Lesson
It was three days after Zhang Xun came out of Xiaoyao Pavilion in the morning, and he came to Danfeng to visit Sister Xian, preparing to tell her the story of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu, the condor heroes, to satisfy her bad taste. Before I started talking, I heard Sister Xian say that Xinlan, Xiaoxue, Bihe, and Yuchan wanted to watch the song and dance drama "Looking for Immortal Love" between him and Sister Xian, so they had to temporarily press the night and talk about it in Sister Xian's bed. Zhang Xun said: "Sister Xian, since you want to perform, you can simply face everyone in the sect." Just as I, the sect master, and you, the enshrined forty students who were only seven or eight years old at the time, and who are now all over twenty years old, have a special public class! The time is set for dusk in three days, and the location is in Siguo Cliff, in these three days, I will set up the scene, and you will ask Xinlan and them to inform the disciples of the arrival. Just watch it. After the performance, it's time for a two-way choice, each spirit peak can't always have only the peak master deacon and no disciples!"
In the evening, Zhang Xun hugged the delicate body of Sister Xian and told the story of the Condor Heroes affectionately. After hearing this, Hu Xian'er glanced at Ailang Zhang Xun, and said angrily: "I said that on that day, someone was having a sweet dream in bed, and the fairy sister and the fierce fox were talking in their dreams there, drooling and looking obscene. It turned out that he wanted to learn from Yang Guo to conquer the little dragon girl! With motivation, it is different, and someone will work harder after that night. Hehe! Call me a fierce fox! Devil coach is! Damn fox! Believe it or not, this fox fairy kicked you out of bed, and still whipped you, you smiling at the wind and clouds, the body of the swordsman is incomplete!" Zhang Xunyu smiled and said: "My good fairy sister, how can I be your opponent with this little bit of effort! Don't talk about laughing at the wind and clouds, even if I turn over the mountains and seas, I can't leave the palm of your hand! You just let me go! It's just a bad taste, don't take it seriously!" Seeing Ai Lang make a cheap appearance, Hu Xian'er's deliberately fierce face suddenly disappeared without a trace, and she was amused. Gently beat Zhang Xun's chest with his little hand and said: "If this fox fairy hears you call it like this again, you know the methods of this fox fairy." It was a threatening word, but no matter how Zhang Xun heard it at this moment, it was just that his wife and sister Xian were spoiling herself. Originally, as I practiced to laugh and watch the situation, the titles of fierce fox, devil coach, and damn fox were gone, only Sister Fairy. How could these fairy sisters not understand that just now it was just a teasing between husband and wife to increase the interest.
With Zhang Xun's array attainments, a simple arrangement in the Siguo Cliff is enough to form an illusion, so that those outer disciples who have cultivated to the highest level, that is, the middle stage of foundation building, can be immersed in the scene when watching the performance. As for Xinlan, Xiaoxue, Bihe, and Yuchan, the four ladies understand Kong Sheng's sentence "Knowing is knowing, and not knowing is not knowing." It's Zhiya!" 's true meaning, when poured, he will pretend not to see through the phantom array and watch "Looking for Immortal Love". The members of the original Ming Dao Wind and the Wudang elite are just watching the performance, and it doesn't matter if they see the Illusion Array or not, it won't affect their perception.
After dusk, the performance began, and everyone who watched Zhang Xun and Hu Xian'er's love of foxes was fascinated. Zhang Xun's magnetic singing voice and Hu Xian'er's moving soul dance deeply attracted the audience. When Hu Xian'er sang the song "White Fox" full of sadness, it made all the female audience cry, and the final scene of Zhang Xun and Hu Xian'er getting back together made the audience burst into thunderous applause.
After the performance, everyone else went back one after another, and there were only forty outer disciples left on the cliff who were still immersed in "Seeking Immortal Love". Zhang Xun and Hu Xian'er, who had changed their clothes, did not alarm them, and it was up to them what these forty disciples could learn from "Looking for Immortal Love". An hour later, the forty disciples woke up from the enlightenment one after another, lined up in a neat line, and bowed deeply to their sect advocate Hu Xian'er, who was the wife of the sect master and the sect worshipper. Zhang Xun waited for the forty disciples to finish their salutes and said loudly: "Just now is the last lesson that Sister Xian and I gave you, I announce that you are now promoted to inner disciples, and you will start to choose Lingfeng and your respective masters tomorrow morning! That's why Sister Immortal and I want you foundation building disciples to watch "Seeking Immortal Love". Now go back and rest, and think carefully about who to choose to be your master. Of course, the choice is twofold, and we, cultivators above the Jindan stage, will also choose who to accept as our disciples. So choose according to your own heart and preferences, as for strength, you are all the same weak in front of us, so you don't need to consider this factor. After finishing speaking, Zhang Xun and Hu Xian'er left Siguo Cliff and flew towards Danfeng.
On the morning of the second day, next to the Xun Immortal Stone at the foot of the Dao Mountain, similar to the job fair in Zhang Xun's previous life, Zhang Xun and all the other cultivators above the Jindan stage in the sect were sitting on chairs, with a table in front of them, waiting for forty newly promoted inner disciples to come up for interviews. Except for Hu Xian'er, a monk in the late stage of the tribulation who has successfully crossed the tribulation (Hu Xian'er crossed the tribulation of the nine-tailed heavenly fox, not the ascension tribulation, so it is not the so-called scattered immortal who failed to ascend in the Mahayana period, and the cultivation is equivalent to the late stage of the tribulation of human monks, that is, before the ascension tribulation. There are five distraction monks in the whole sect, Zhang Xun, He Xinlan, Murong Xue, Bihe, and Yuchan, Zhang Xing, Zhang Qianwen, Zhang Xiuya, Zhang Ming, Huo Wenying, Wen Xu, Jiang Yurong, Wang Fang, Yu Dongsheng, and fourteen Jindan monks, members of the original Mingdao Wind Squad. There are a total of twenty-nine disciples who can recruit disciples, maybe forty disciples listened to their sect master's words yesterday, or maybe they were more pragmatic in the first place. They didn't swarm to choose six sect masters and sect masters' wives above the distraction stage to be their masters, even the nine Yuan Infant cultivators only had one choice, but most of the fourteen Jindan monks accepted two disciples, and there was no embarrassing scene where the Jindan monks Zhang Xun was worried about had no choice at first.
Although Zhang Xun and the five ladies all had two disciples to choose from, each of the six of them only accepted one disciple. It's not that these disciples have bad qualifications, it's that Zhang Xun and the five ladies are about to go out to practice, and they won't stay in the sect for long. In other words, the recruited disciples are to be brought with them, and the outside is not as good as the sect, and there may be all kinds of dangers. Zhang Xun and the five ladies can each take care of one person, but if there are two people, it is a bit stretched, and there are many people and the goal is big. Let's let those elders and deacons in the Yuan Infant Stage and the Jindan Period bring it!
Zhang Xunshui's disciple is called Wei Yingqiang, and he has some impressions of this disciple. Wei Yingqiang was very interested in the way of formation, Zhang Xun still remembered the first time he gave a formation class to forty students, and Wei Yingqiang was the most serious student. After class, I personally demonstrated how to set up a formation and break the formation, although the students were only children under ten years old at the time, and they definitely couldn't understand it. But among the forty children, only this Wei Yingqiang was thinking and asked Zhang Xun questions, while the rest of the children were simply curious about the first thing they saw and felt that the formation was a little magical. Zhang Xun also gave Wei Yingqiang a copy of "Introduction to Formation" as encouragement at that time, but later he was busy with Wujian and slowly forgot about it, so he couldn't give Wei Yingqiang a separate guide to the formation. It wasn't until Wei Yingqiang came to him just now that he wanted to become his disciple, and Zhang Xun didn't think back after asking the reason. It turned out that the day Wei Yingqiang accepted the "Introduction to Formation" that the sect master had given him, he was determined to become a formation cultivator, and in the past ten years, he had spent the rest of his time studying and verifying the formation except for the necessary cultivation. After watching "Seeking Immortal Love" last night, I learned that the sect master would also recruit disciples this time, and he took the "Introduction to Formation" early this morning and waited for the sect master to appear.
Zhang Xun took Wei Yingqiang to Siguo Cliff, and then said: "Yingqiang, since you have been studying the book "Introduction to Formation" all these years, you must have learned all the basic formations, and it is not difficult for you to be a teacher, so you can put out a formation that you are most proficient in, and you will understand a little bit of this "Introduction to Formation" for the teacher." After finishing speaking, Zhang Xun entered the Xiaoyao Pavilion and came out an hour later. Seeing the formation arranged by Wei Yingqiang, Zhang Xun picked up a small gravel from the ground and threw it about three meters next to the flag, and the formation broke. Zhang Xun said to Wei Yingqiang, who was already stupid and didn't understand why his formation was broken so easily: "Ying Qiang, the formation flag is the core of the formation, and the power is indeed the greatest. If you are arranging a fire array, then this array flag should be inserted on the point where the fire aura in the array is the strongest, which is called the heart of the array. And the seat where your formation flag is inserted is inserted at the junction where the fire aura changes from rich to thin, if it is a layman who comes to break the formation, it is not a big problem, but when you meet a person who is proficient in the formation, even if he is not a monk and does not have any cultivation, it is a fatal flaw. To break the formation you just had, you only need to throw small things such as gravel or copper coins closer to the center of the formation than the formation flag, and you don't need to throw them at the center of the formation as accurately as the master just now. Look at how far your formation flag is from the center of the formation, almost three meters away, I'm afraid that a child of three or four years old can throw gravel enough to break the formation. The difference is a millimeter, and the loss is a thousand miles. You are not even a formation apprentice now, if someone else is your master, you may be able to tolerate it, but since you recognize me as a teacher, you must meet my requirements. I'll give you three days, you have to control the gap to within half a meter, if you can't do it, I advise you to practice something else. Ying Qiang, it's not for the teacher to embarrass you, what you just laid out is still the fire array you are most familiar with, then you can't use the formation flag for the rest of the four elements of the formation, let alone the combined formation. It's better not to put the array flag in the center of the formation, and to use the array flag like you just did to say that it is ugly is completely looking for death. This is the first lesson that the teacher will teach you, go back and think about it! I hope you will not let the teacher down in three days. ”
Wei Yingqiang originally thought that he was self-taught and very talented in formations, but what the master said just now was undoubtedly a slap in the face, which was ridiculous! He was simply a frog at the bottom of a well. The sect master only accepted one disciple of his own, this is a great honor, I must not let the master down, I want to do better. Not only the fire array, but also the golden array, the wood array, the water array, and the earth array, I must also control the gap between the array flag and the center of the formation within half a meter.
Shame is almost brave, three days later, when Zhang Xun came to Siguo Cliff again, there were five formations in front of him, the formation flag of the fire array was already very close to the center of the formation, and the gap between the other four formations was also within half a meter. Zhang Xun nodded with satisfaction and said, "Ying Qiang, you are my disciple, so you have to be so strict with yourself." Either you don't do it, or you have to do it to do your best. I haven't closed my eyes for the past three days! Go back and get some rest!"