Chapter 41: Phantom Arrays and Shortcuts
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Kanto didn't expect to meet Cai Yun and the other four girls again.
He already knew the relationship between Qin Xiyao and the four daughters clearly, since he was Qin Xiyao's friend and his old friend, he had a word of idle talk with them.
Lu Yifeng, as the figure of the entire One Sword Lingxiao Sect, naturally became familiar with several girls and joined the group chat.
Soon, Kanto found out that he couldn't interject.
Not only him, but even Cai Yun, Chu Zhirou, and Bai Yushu couldn't interject, and the original group chat became a conversation between Lu Yifeng and Xie Yutong.
Xie Yutong is interested in any topic and always looks interested, while Lu Yifeng can talk endlessly for three days and three nights as long as he grasps a topic. Now that the two of them are together, it is more like the Yellow River bursting its embankment, and it is out of control. The two of them went from their cultivation experience to the identification of spiritual weapons, and then to all kinds of gossip in the sect...... Can't stop.
Kanto could only touch his nose and smile bitterly, these two living treasures ......
Two long rainbows, one blue and one green, suddenly burst up from the top of the Immortal Peak, making a sharp sound of breaking the air, and galloped towards this side. In the blink of an eye, it was already approaching the ink bamboo forest.
The light suddenly converged, and a man and a woman appeared in the air.
Among them, the man was about fifty years old, with gray sideburns, a seventh-level cultivation of the first spirit, and a cold gaze, giving people a sense of inaccessibility. Next to it was a young woman in her thirties, with a sixth-level cultivation of the first spirit, revealing a bit of charm with a smile and a smile, and holding a white fox beast in her arms.
As soon as the two appeared, the noise below immediately stopped.
Thousands of disciples bowed together, clasped their fists and said, "All the disciples meet Gao Yanli and Liu Yongqiu. β
Gao gradually left the condescending position, looked down at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "This assessment of the Heart Refining Road will be supervised by me and Senior Sister Liu, but all disciples above the fifth level of fetal breath are eligible to participate. The path of refining the mind is not as good as cultivating, but only about the state of mind. However, those who can complete one-fifth of the distance on the road of heart refining will be considered qualified and will be rewarded with a first-grade elixir; those who have walked two-fifths will be considered excellent, and two second-grade elixirs will be awarded; and those who have completed two-thirds of the way will be considered a genius, and they will be able to obtain two second-grade elixirs, and they can enter the Immortal Scroll Pavilion to enjoy the secret scroll of cultivating immortals. Alright, let's get started!"
With Gao gradually leaving an order, everyone rushed to embark on the road of heart refining.
Once you enter the path of heart refining, it doesn't matter if you are a personal disciple or an ordinary disciple, only those who insist on going far can be regarded as a real powerhouse.
This is also a rare opportunity for ordinary disciples to compete directly with their own disciples.
Everyone is gearing up and ready to show off.
This time, there were more than 1,000 people who stepped into the heart refining road, and the rest of the cultivators were not enough, so they could only stand on the periphery and watch the excitement from afar.
"Hurry up, don't be squeezed under the bridge. When Xie Yutong passed by Kanto's side, he saw that he was slowly and leisurely, and he was already a big step behind Lu Yifeng, so he couldn't help urging.
Kanto smiled and said unhurriedly: "It's okay." Wait for me first. β
"Okay, I'll see if you can catch up. Xie Yutong was full of momentum, waved his hand at Kanto, immediately increased his speed, surpassed more than a dozen people in one breath, and walked to the front.
Kanto was still not in a hurry, but looked left and right, constantly looking at the chain bridge.
The chain bridge seems to be forged purely from fine iron, but it is not. On each chain, there are inscriptions, light or dark. Although he couldn't see through the meaning of these inscriptions for a while, he gradually saw some doorways from the distribution of the inscriptions.
The rumors are true. This path of refining the mind is transformed by the formation. Each chain is a derivative of a formation, and the further you go, the more complex the structure of the chain becomes, representing the higher the level of the formation. And these formations are connected to each other, forming a treacherous and changeable phantom array. β
"When people enter the phantom array, they will touch the fear in their hearts, thus forming terrifying illusions in front of their eyes. In this illusion, only those who can persevere are qualified to move on to the next step. Otherwise, only to be eliminated. Therefore, it is not so much that people are fighting with the formation, but that they are fighting with themselves. Only by overcoming oneself can we set foot on the other side. β
Kanto pondered as he walked, and before he knew it, he had broken away from the crowd in front of him and walked in the same queue with dozens of disciples who were in an unstable mood.
At this moment, the two stewards were stepping on flying swords, suspended above the heart refining path. They scanned the entire path of heart refining while talking to each other, looking very casual. Because he didn't deliberately lower his voice, the content of the conversation got into Kanto's ears word for word.
In fact, they would never have imagined that there would be such a disciple who, when fighting against the Phantom Array, could still disperse a part of his spiritual power and eavesdrop on their conversation.
"Senior Brother Gao, you see, the number of disciples participating in the assessment this time is much smaller than last time. Liu Yongqiu pointed to the disciples below, and there was a bit of sigh in his tone.
"Well, there is no way around it. It's not that you don't know that since the failure of the previous generation of Great Elders of this sect to attack the Nirvana Period, his status in the Zhaohua Kingdom has been declining. Now, in the real Zhaohua Kingdom, how many people still remember the original glory of my One Sword Lingxiao Sect? If this continues, those geniuses with excellent qualifications will probably all defect to the Golden Sword Sect and the Biyue Nylon Sect. Gao Yanli shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"That's right. You see, in the past hundred years, this sect has cultivated only six primordial spirit stage powerhouses, far less than the other two major sects. And among the current personal disciples, there are less than ten people who are really capable of breaking through the early spirit stage independently. Let's just talk about the current path of refining the heart, Senior Brother Gao, how many people do you think can go to two-thirds of the entire road?" Liu Yongqiu's eyes flashed, and he asked fixedly.
"These disciples...... I'm afraid that if one or two people can do this, it will be a fluke!" Gao Yanli's expression was gloomy, and his tone was a little more solemn.
At this point, both of them were a little interested, and they didn't talk much anymore, and their eyes began to scan down.
"It's really useless waste, and after walking less than ten steps, he fell into a coma. Elimination!"
Gao gradually narrowed his eyes, stared at the last fifth-layer disciple in the crowd, snorted angrily, and suddenly his big sleeves flicked, rolling up a gust of wind, and he directly threw that disciple out of the heart refining path.
The disciple who was thrown out fell and broke his head and bled out, and got up in a panic, his face blank.
When he saw the sneering eyes of the crowd around him, he suddenly realized something, his face suddenly turned red, and he ran out of the ink bamboo forest with a face full of shame.
He was also very "glorious" to become the first disciple to be eliminated on the road of heart refining this time.
Kanto witnessed this scene and was a little inexplicable.
Because although he was more than a dozen steps ahead of that disciple, he didn't see any illusions. Why did the man suddenly fall unconscious?
He frowned and pondered for a moment, as if he had some understanding that if a person's mind was tenacious to a certain extent, the illusion array of small power would not be able to create illusions at all
"I see. It seems that the power of the phantom array here is not enough to affect me in any way. β
Kanto thought of this and turned his head to look to the side.
Sure enough, he saw several monks who had just walked side by side with him, who were already sitting cross-legged on the iron rope at this moment, clenching their hands and trying to expel the invasion of the demons in their hearts. Obviously, this level of phantom array had already had a substantial impact on them.
Kanto just glanced at it a few times, and then suddenly sped up.
Soon, he had more than twenty or thirty people in a row, and he was some distance from the group at the bottom.
Suddenly, Liu Yongqiu let out a light "huh" and discovered an abnormality on the Kanto side.
"What's the matter, Senior Sister Liu?" Gao asked strangely.
"Look at the man. Just now, it was still at the bottom, and suddenly accelerated, and it actually walked out of dozens of zhang in one breath, without the slightest sign of pause, and it seemed that it was completely unaffected by this phantom array. Liu Yongqiu said abruptly.
Gao gradually left the light in his eyes, stared at Kanto for a few moments, and smiled dumbly: "Senior Sister Liu, you think too much, right? Although this person has not been at the bottom until now, he has been left behind by the group of disciples at the forefront for a long distance. From this point of view alone, its potential is very limited. Look, didn't he stop now? I'm afraid that those few steps just now had already overdrawn his cultivation, and that was his limit!"
"Really? Maybe I'm thinking too much. Liu Yongqiu was skeptical, but when he saw that Kanto had really stopped again, he didn't say anything more.
How did she know that the reason why Kanto stopped was not because of the influence of the phantom array, but because he discovered some secrets.
"This chain has the simplest structure, and the inscription on it seems to be related to some kind of rudimentary formation recorded in the Blood Guard Secret Technique. Kanto touched a red chain and thought about it for a long time.
Suddenly, he stretched out his finger and flicked it, only to hear a slight "bang", and the whole red chain trembled, and suddenly several inscriptions rose up, burrowing into his eyebrows like lightning.
Because his movements were extremely secretive, no one discovered this strange scene.
But he was shocked, and his face showed a deep look of surprise.
His eyes immediately closed slightly, and the imprints of the inscriptions appeared in his mind. Although these inscriptions are strange, the records in the TongguΓ² and the secret art of the Blood Guard corroborate each other, and Kanto actually understands the meaning. Soon, a fragmented formation information formed in his mind.
"Hey, could it be that this path of refining the mind, in addition to honing the mind, can also improve the comprehension of the formation?" Kanto felt as if he had discovered a secret containing infinite treasures.
You must know that the formation is mysterious, even among the tens of thousands of people in the entire One Sword Lingxiao Sect, there are no more than five people who are truly proficient in the formation. If you want to make certain achievements in the formation together, you don't have to think about it without years of painstaking study.
However, for immortal cultivators, the most precious thing is time.
After all, every realm has a limit to longevity. For example, the highest life expectancy in the fetal rest period is 120 years, the highest life expectancy in the initial spirit period is 260 years, the Tianyuan period is 400 years, and the nirvana period is said to be only more than 800 years...... Once Zai Shou Yuan approached, he still couldn't break through, and in the end, he could only turn into a piece of loess like a mortal.
As a result, few monks were willing to spend a lot of time studying formations.
However, if there is a shortcut to comprehend the formation, I believe it will definitely cause a sensation in the immortal cultivation world.
Right now, Kanto discovered this secret