Chapter 22: Setbacks (Part 2)
Xie Ling suddenly discovered that there were seven towering trees behind the green wall, and the yellow-green leaves were in a strange crescent shape, but this was nothing, the most surprising thing was that there was no wind at this time, but the crescent-shaped leaves of the trees were swaying!
Suddenly, a white ribbon came into his eyes, Xie Ling raised his head, looked up along the white ribbon, and met the gaze of a girl in a white shirt half-leaning on the trunk of a tree. The girl in the white shirt was holding a book in her hand, her expression was cold, and she just glanced at Xie Ling and then moved her gaze back to the book in her hand.
Xie Ling's face was slightly red, looking a little obscene from below, and he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, but he didn't dare to stay here for a long time, he didn't care about listening to the words of the girl inside, and reflexively walked towards the way he came.
Now with Zhang Meng's news, Xie Ling's heart is much more settled, and after returning to the stone house where he lives, thinking about what Senior Sister Jingyi said, he can't help but be interested in the leaves of the camphor tree inside the green wall. At night, following the path that I had secretly written down during the day, I came back to the green wall.
The green wall is not too high, and with Xie Ling's current cultivation, he can naturally jump over it. But he didn't do this, but carefully swept it with his divine sense first, and sure enough, a layer of prohibition was placed on the green wall that didn't look abnormal. Xie Ling had just touched the Rune Formation, and he was just getting a glimpse of this profound knowledge, and it was impossible for him to break it.
Xie Ling walked around the green wall, but couldn't find a way in. And this layer of prohibition is even shrouded in the sky, and if you want to stimulate the cloud forbidden charm in your body, you can't get into it through the air.
Returning to the original position, looking at the leaves of the camphor tree in the opposite wall, but unable to get it, I couldn't help but feel a little depressed. Just as he was about to give up and leave, there was a sound of horns on both sides, and a gust of wind blew from the opposite side, blowing the leaves on the trees on both sides, and the trunk of a camphor tree inside the wall was blown out of the green wall by the wind. Xie Ling's heart moved, it seemed that this prohibition was only effective against external intrusions, but it did not affect the branches coming out of the inside.
He hurriedly stared at the branches, and when the branches were about to return to the wall, he used the power of his divine thoughts to break them off and fall to the ground outside.
The branches were not big, but there were dozens of crescent-shaped camphor leaves on them, Xie Ling was very excited to take them off and put them in his arms, even the trunk as thin as a thumb thick.
After doing it three times in a row, Xie Ling returned to the stone house satisfied, took out all the leaves in his arms and counted them, a total of one hundred and sixty-six pieces. At this time, he realized that the veins on these leaves were like a simple rune array, no wonder they were born to withstand a prohibition.
He took out the trunk of the tree again, and the trunk was the same, with many rune-like dark lines naturally growing on the smooth exterior, and he couldn't help but think that the leaves could withstand a prohibition, and how many prohibitions could these trunks withstand? But this thought only flashed in his mind, and now the urgent thing to do was to see if he could successfully sacrifice a prohibition on the leaves.
Picking up a crescent-shaped camphor tree leaf from the table at random, Xie Ling went through the first cloud forbidden sacrificial refining method in his mind, and only began the formal sacrificial refining method when he was familiar with it.
Bang, the leaves on his hands turned into a ball of fireworks, Xie Ling sighed, this is already the twentieth piece, this wind camphor tree leaves are very fragile, it can be sacrificed and a ban can be refined, no more strength is possible, it is very particular about the cooperation of hands and hearts, it seems that Senior Sister Jingyi is right, the sacrificial magic weapon and the sacrificial talisman in the body are completely different things!
Looking at the remaining leaves on the table, he shook his head helplessly, the sacrificial refining prohibition consumes spiritual power very much, even if it is not completely refined, it is unbearable now.
Since entering the Cangyue Sect, whether it is the 'Nian Shen Jue', the 'Water Spirit Technique' or the 'Water Cloud Technique', Xie Ling has cultivated quite smoothly, even if it is the current Cloud Forbidden Technique, it is natural to refine the Cloud Forbidden Talisman in the body. Only this time really made him feel frustrated.
The next day, Xie Ling was thinking about yesterday's sacrificial technique, and while heading towards the gravel field, a voice came from behind on the way, "Xie Ling-", and he turned around and saw Long Xiang with a spirit on his face.
"Long Xiang, your spirit is good! it looks like your 'Hercules Technique' has improved again, right?" Xie Ling stopped and said.
Long Xiang said with a radiant expression: "Well, I plan to take the junior apprenticeship exam next month." ”
"That's good! Remember to call me and Qin Pei then, we all want to see you pass the assessment with our own eyes." Xie Lingdao.
"That's for sure, I'm not going to lose to either of you. Long Xiang laughed.
The two of them walked together, and when they arrived at the smelting room, they happened to meet Qin Pei who came from a distance, and Xie Ling had become more and more strict with himself since he saw him cultivating alone in the gravel field that night.
"Hey, how can you be together?" Qin Pei said a little strangely as he walked over.
"We met on the road, Qin Pei, Xie Ling said to accompany me to the junior apprenticeship exam next month, are you going?" Long Xiang said with a big grin.
"Go, of course, but are you sure that you can cultivate the fourth layer of the 'Hercules Technique'?" Qin Pei said with some doubts.
Under normal circumstances, before cultivating the basic exercises, it would be difficult to cultivate the intensive exercises to the fourth layer, and Xie Ling also looked at Long Xiang curiously.
"I tell you a secret. During the last assessment, the examiner said that I had a good fit with the 'Hercules Technique', and that after breaking through the third layer, I could try to continue cultivating the fourth layer. Long Xiang whispered.
Xie Ling and Qin Pei realized that they were both happy for Long Xiang.
The three of them entered the courtyard and came to the gravel field, and at this time, there were already many trial students one after another. Xie Ling still has 530,000 catties of black iron ore to complete, although this task is nothing to him at present, but in order to prevent it, it is better to complete it early.
He suddenly remembered the Qin Pei he saw that night, dozens of ores of about fifty catties were flying and circling around him, and none of them fell, and he was extremely skillful. Logically speaking, the 'Water Cloud Technique' is a supernatural power created according to the characteristics and changes of water, and I pay too much attention to its way of change, but I forget that the 'flowing clouds and flowing water' mentioned in the force control zhì is one of the main characteristics of water!
In this section, Xie Lingtong faintly felt that the 'Water Spirit Technique' was about to break through, and he couldn't help but think of Zhang Meng's thin figure in his mind.
At this moment, the originally noisy gravel field suddenly became quiet, Xie Ling raised his head curiously, and saw that Long Xiang's location was surrounded by many trial students, and Long Xiang inside was standing upright like a stone statue with an iron hammer in his hand, and there were faint spiritual light fluctuations around his body.