Chapters 65-66
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Chapter 65 Five Elements Palace
The windows and doors in the Five Elements Hall are all open, and the morning sun shines in from the outside, making this hall look very bright, but it is a little less deserted. Unlike the other palace buildings of Lingxiao Sect, there are many gossip patterns, as soon as you walk into this five-element hall, you can see that the wide and circular hall ground is neatly divided into five major pieces, which are gold, green, white, red, and yellow, which correspond to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
The ground of each color starts from the center of the Five Elements Hall, forming a large circle as a whole, and at the last edge of the plot there is a gate of the same color, and the door is closed, probably leading to the depths of the Five Elements Hall.
At this moment, there are not many people in the hall, I think most of them are because it is deserted here on weekdays, so there are not many people in the Shutang who stop here, at a glance, there are only two people in the clothes of the disciples of the Lingxiao Sect standing there, and there is another girl in front of them who is talking to them, and when he hears the movement of them at this moment, he turns his head and looks at it, but it is Zhong Qingzhu.
Shen Shi and Sun You were stunned, and after walking over, Shen Shi asked her first, "Senior Sister Zhong, why did you come here?"
Zhong Qingzhu is now a fifteen-year-old girl, much taller than three years ago, she looks only half a head shorter than Shen Shi, and her figure is gradually growing, the more delicate she looks, and her delicate and gentle face is now a little more youthful and charming, she is really a little beautiful woman who is admirable enough.
Seeing Shen Shi and Sun You arriving here, she was a little surprised at first, but then she showed a little smile, first nodded to Sun You and said hello, then her eyes stopped at Shen Shi's side, and said with a smile: "I'm here to learn a Five Elements Technique, Senior Brother Shen, are you also here for this?"
Sun You's mouth was quick, and he interjected from the side: "Yes, Shen Shi complained that the spirit crystals have not been enough recently, so he thought that by learning a low-level Five Elements Technique, he could do some other tasks to earn spirit crystals." After a pause at this, Sun You pointed at himself again and said, "I'm the same." β
Zhong Qingzhu glanced at him with a smile, and then his gaze drifted back to Shen Shi's side, showing a little care on his face, and said, "Senior Brother Shen, you ...... Have you been short of spirit crystals lately?"
Shen Shi waved his hand and said, "Don't listen to what Sun You said, it's not so exaggerated, but if we continue to cultivate in the future, the consumption of spirit crystals will only increase, so I just thought about coming to the Five Elements Hall to buy a spell to practice." β
Zhong Qingzhu thought for a moment and said, "The task that needs to be done by practicing the Five Elements Technique...... Do you want to go to the Demon Hunting Cave?"
"Huh?" Shen Shi and Sun You were both taken aback, they didn't expect Zhong Qingzhu to be so keen, they thought of this at once, looking at the puzzled eyes of the two of them, Zhong Qingzhu confirmed the conjecture in his heart, stared at Shen Shi after smiling slightly, and said softly: "There are not many tasks on the island that need to use the Five Elements Technique, there are almost just a few, and the easier things are almost all ...... Only the demon hunting cave is rarely visited because it has to fight with the demon beast yin. β
There is an unfinished meaning in her words, but Shen Shi and Sun You both understand that there are many tasks assigned on Qingyu Island, but there are naturally many good things that people grab, and those that are risk-free and easy to do and can earn spirit crystals are even more popular, similar to the fact that when they first started, Sun You, Zhong Qinglu, Zhong Qingzhu, and the children of the family first got those important tasks, so there was not much choice left for Shen Shi.
The expression on Sun You's face was a little sneering, but it seemed that Shen Shi was much calmer, and it seemed that he had already accepted the status quo, and said with a smile: "You guessed it right, this is a method I thought, but the demon hunting is actually nothing, but it is to go farther and harder, as long as you don't go into the depths of the demon hunting cave and meet those powerful old demons, it is really dangerous, after all, there are senior brothers from the sect stationed in the demon hunting cave all year round." Saying that, he glanced at Zhong Qingzhu and said, "Then what are you doing here?"
Zhong Qingzhu nodded slightly, and said: "I have been working in the formation hall for three years, and a few senior brothers and sisters said that my talent is okay, and I plan to let me enter the formation hall if I have the opportunity to go up the mountain in the future, so I have recently passed on a set of lowest-level 'earth walking arrays', let me practice on my own, and also try to arrange the formation." β
Shen Shi and Sun You both suddenly realized, nodded one after another, and looked at Zhong Qingzhu with different eyes, a little more admiration and envy. It has already been said before that when the Terran cultivators in the world are refining the Qi Realm, they almost do not have any Dao magic powers to cultivate, but only the "Formation" is a special case.
Arrangement of formations, especially low-level formations, the most important thing is a variety of suitable spiritual material formation flags, plus some spirit crystals of the fierce formation method, the requirements for the path of the array are not particularly high, so it is a rare Dao technique that Qi refining realm cultivators can practice. But despite this, all the spiritual materials required for the formation are generally expensive, and it is difficult for ordinary monks to have this kind of financial support, plus the formation Dao technique is also rare and rare, and it is difficult to see it on weekdays, because there are very few low-level monks in the world who will practice this Dao technique, that is, a cultivation giant like Ling Xiao Sect, the background is so profound that it is finger-inspiring, so that he can casually teach a Qi Refining Realm disciple to use the formation Dao technique.
"Earth Formation Formation?" Shen Shi thought for a moment and said, "It is said that high-level formations rarely use the Five Elements Technique, that is, the Low-level Formation occasionally uses the Five Elements Technique to add a bit of power, and that's what you're here for?"
Zhong Qingzhu nodded and said, "Yes, the senior brother of the formation hall only passed on my formation technique, and the rest of the spiritual materials, including the Five Elements Technique, have to be prepared by myself." β
Sun You interjected and said with a smile on the side: "I can't see it, the formation is a very expensive Dao technique, you can actually start cultivating so quickly, I knew that I could earn so many spirit crystals by picking up shells, and I should have gone to the formation hall three years ago." β
Zhong Qingzhu's face changed slightly, and then he showed a little embarrassment, shook his head and laughed in a low voice: "No." Saying that, for some reason, he secretly glanced at Shen Shi again, and a vague trace of inexplicable expression flashed in his eyes, and said, "I have recently collected a lot of shellfish, and I have also taken on a few other tasks to do together, so I have gathered enough spirit crystals to set up the array." By the way, Senior Brother Shen, if you are really tight on hand, I still have a few spirit crystals left here, so I might as well give you ...... first."
Shen Shi hurriedly shook his head and said with a smile: "Where has it come to that point, don't listen to Sun You's nonsense." β
Sun You glared at the side and said, "What is this for, I am also short of spirit crystals, why did you only lend the spirit crystal to this stone, and you didn't think about me at all?"
Zhong Qingzhu smiled and said nothing, his eyes were full of waves, as if he had added a little gentleness, Shen Shi was stunned, and then hurriedly diverted his words, first pushed Sun You angrily, and said, "You make money comfortably every day in the Spirit Beast Palace, what else do you say?"
After that, regardless of Sun You's unconvinced shouting on the side, "What is comfortable, is it good to ......be dirty and smelly every day", turned his head to Zhong Qingzhu and smiled: "I have heard of these low-level Five Elements Formations, and I do need some Five Elements Techniques as auxiliaries, since it is an Earth Formation Formation, I guess you are here to buy some Earth Formation Techniques?"
Zhong Qingzhu nodded and said, "Yes." β
Shen Shi's eyes rolled and said, "Let me guess, the earth-based technique, and in conjunction with the earth-based array, it must also be common and easy to cultivate...... Hmm, do you choose 'Rock Spike' or 'Quicksand'?"
"Huh?" Suddenly, a slightly surprised voice came from next to them, but it came from the two disciples of the Formation Hall who were standing lazily and chatting when the three of them started to speak just now, these two men and a woman, they looked like they were in their twenties, maybe it was because they were lazy and used to being the most deserted hall under the Lingxiao Sect like Shutang, so they didn't seem to have so many rules like other halls, Zhong Qingzhu chatted with Shen Shi and them, and they didn't care, just casually stood aside and whisperedγ
However, at this time, the woman among the two looked a little surprised, looked Shen Shi up and down, and said, "This junior brother, can't you see that you actually know a lot about the Five Elements Technique?"
Those who can become a personal disciple, even if it is in a deserted hall like the Shutang, they are at least Dao Xing cultivated to the Ning Yuan Realm, Shen Shi did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "Senior Sister Hui, I have been interested in the Five Elements Technique since I was a child, so I know some." β
The senior sister nodded, pondered for a moment, but didn't say anything more.
Being interrupted by her like this, Shen Shi, Sun You and Zhong Qingzhu were not good at chatting anymore, Zhong Qingzhu said in a low voice: "I plan to choose the 'quicksand technique'." β
Shen Shi nodded, not surprised. Among the first-order Five Elements Techniques, the three most common and well-known spells are the fireball technique of the fire system, the water arrow technique of the water system, and the rock thorn technique of the earth system. In addition, there are still some common spells, the soil system of quicksand is in this column, unlike the previous three, quicksand techniques do not have a particularly obvious attack technique, basically on the ground with the power of magic to create a quicksand, so that the enemy opponent into it after struggling and stagnating, the body is slow auxiliary spells.
Although the quicksand technique is not very powerful at first glance, and there are many restrictions on casting spells, the opponent only needs to avoid that piece of quicksand to be unharmed during the battle, so although this spell is also common, not many people practice it. However, in terms of formation, the quicksand technique is an excellent auxiliary technique, because of the limitations of the formation itself, it is difficult for the enemy to dodge and move at the beginning, if the quicksand technique is touched again in the formation, it will be a wolf if he is caught off guard, so Zhong Qingzhu's choice of quicksand technique is indeed a very suitable choice.
"What about you, what Five Elements Technique are you going to choose to cultivate here?" Zhong Qingzhu asked as he looked at the two of them.
As soon as these words came out, the two senior sisters and brothers next to them also turned their heads to see that these were all customers who came to send Lingjing, and a little smile suddenly appeared on their faces, it seems that the Shutang is really poor and ruthless.
Sun You thought for a while and said, "In the future, we are going to go to the demon hunting cave to catch demon beasts, of course, we have to choose a spell that is not very powerful, hmm...... I'm going to do a fireball!"
The fireball technique is the most common five-element technique in the world, and among the ten people who have learned the five-element technique, I am afraid that at least six or seven people can use this spell, which shows its practicality and popularity.
Shen Shi smiled, pondered for a moment, and said, "Then I'll learn a 'water archery technique'." β
Chapter 66 Poseidon
"My name is Xu Yanzhi, this senior brother's name is Zhang Yihui, and I am a disciple of the Five Elements Hall of the Qingyu Island in the Shutang, so I can be regarded as your senior sister and brother. If you still need it in the future, you can come often. β
After receiving the nine spirit crystals paid by the three junior brothers and sisters, this senior sister with a good posture and a sweet smile suddenly became much happier, and it didn't seem to have any shelf, so she gently introduced the rules of the Five Elements Hall to a few of them, and at the same time, Senior Brother Zhang went to the red, yellow, and white doors of the Five Elements Hall alone, and went in and out to work for a while, and I didn't know what I was doing.
On the other end, Xu Yanzhi was explaining to the three of them: "Later, the three of you will enter the three gates of fire, water, and earth, and Senior Brother Zhang has already arranged them inside, and you can get the magic recipe you bought when you go in, but you can't take that magic recipe away, you need to memorize it inside, and then go back and practice on your own." Well......," she thought for a moment, and said, "Well, if you don't have a good memory, you can come to me at any time when you come back, and then go in and read and memorize, anyway, you just can't take the recipe with you." β
Shen Shi and the other three all agreed.
Xu Yanzhi paused for a moment, and his gentle expression appeared a hint of strictness last time, and said, "In addition, there is a strict door rule within our Lingxiao Sect, and you must also know it." The magic of Taoism practiced by everyone, no matter who gets it from or who teaches it, it is no longer allowed to teach it to the same door or outsiders without permission, and those who violate it will be severely punished by the rules of the door, which can be understood. β
Shen Shi and the others nodded and said, "Yes." "From the day this door rule started, Senior Brother Su He, including Ling Xiao, had already written it clearly, and they also knew it by heart.
After a while, Zhang Yihui had already walked back and nodded to Xu Yanzhi, compared to this senior sister who can speak well, this Senior Brother Zhang doesn't seem to talk too much, from the beginning to the present, he seems to have only spoken a few words to Xu Yanzhi, and he has not spoken a word to Shen Shi and the other three.
Xu Yanzhi turned around and smiled: "Okay, Senior Brother Zhang is ready, you guys should go separately." β
Shen Shi and the others saluted together, and then they went to the three different doors, Shen Shi chose the water archery technique, which is a very common attack spell in the water system, and naturally went to the white gate representing the water system.
When he pushed the door in, Shen Shi felt a sense of coolness from the white stone door, and it seemed that he really felt a little bit of the sea. After stepping into the door, the white stone door slowly closed behind him, and there was a stone room with a radius of about half an acre in the eye, except for the direction he entered, more than a dozen identical square holes were carved out of the other three walls, and a jade box was placed inside, and a pale yellow halo hung down on the periphery of the hole, sealing the hole, which looked like a forbidden means of protection.
In the middle of the stone room, there was a small black wooden table, and two futons on each side were placed on the ground, Shen Shi hesitated for a moment, walked over and sat down cross-legged on one of the futons, his hands were placed on the small table casually, and his eyes looked around curiously, thinking that in this small jade box, what was stored was the Five Elements Technique?
After a while, a strange and thin sound suddenly echoed in this stone room, as if someone was chanting in the distance, and like a spring breeze blowing through the water without sound, those pale yellow halos lit up a few points at the same time, and after a while, I saw that the pale yellow aura outside the first hole in the bottom row of the opposite wall suddenly dissipated, and the jade box in the hole seemed to be held by an invisible hand, flying up in the air, and landed in front of Shen Shi safely.
The sound in the stone room quickly disappeared, and all the qi qi returned to calm, Shen Shi's gaze fell on the jade box on the small table, and then carefully opened it, a palm-sized jade slip was quietly parked in the jade box, and three words were written on the top cover:
"Water Archery".
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Half an hour later, after thanking and bidding farewell to Xu Yanzhi and Zhang Yihui, the three of them reunited outside the Five Elements Hall.
"It's all right?" asked Sun You first.
Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu both nodded, and Sun You smiled: "That's good, Shen Shi, let's practice this technique first, and then go to the demon hunting cave together." β
Shen Shi nodded and said, "Okay, where are you going now?"
Sun You said: "I still have to go to the beast field, don't say much, let's go." After saying hello, he walked quickly, Shen Shi glanced back at Zhong Qingzhu and said with a smile: "Where are you going?"
Zhong Qingzhu said: "I also want to go back to the Formation Hall, what about you?"
Shen Shi thought for a while and said, "I'd better go to Hongbang Village again, although the old man is black-hearted, but he can earn a little bit, and when I learn water archery in the future, I can go to the demon hunting cave to do the demon hunting task, and then see if there is anything else better to earn spirit crystals." β
Zhong Qingzhu was silent for a moment and said, "Master Shen...... Stone, if you really lack spirit crystals in cultivation, I still have some ...... here."
Shen Shi waved his hand, smiled, and said, "That's all Sun You's casual nonsense, and it hasn't reached the point where there is no spirit crystal cultivation." β
Zhong Qingzhu's eyes were soft, staring at him quietly, and after a while, he nodded, and said, "Then you can see for yourself, if you are really short of money, you must remember to tell me, I ...... after all" She paused for a moment and said softly, "After all, I am over there in the array hall, and the task reward spirit crystal is not bad, and I will also take on some other tasks on weekdays, so the spirit crystal is quite rich." β
Shen Shi said with a smile: "Those are the spirit crystals that you earned by working hard to do the task, what do I count with you?" Okay, it's okay, it's okay, didn't I come up with a way on my own, wait for me to go to the demon hunting cave in the future to fight the magic power, and earn it ten or twenty spirit crystals at a time to show you, maybe you will have to borrow money from me at that time, don't forget the spiritual materials consumed by the formation, it is very big to convert into spirit crystals." β
Zhong Qingzhu stared at him for a moment, then smiled, as bright and charming as a summer flower, and said, "Okay." β
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After saying goodbye to Zhong Qingzhu outside the Five Elements Palace, Shen Shi walked towards Hongbang Village. It's not that he hasn't gone to Baihetang to take over other tasks in the past three years, but although there are a large number of tasks on the whiteboard there, there are actually a few fixed ones that are stable and easy to do and have high returns, without exception, they are all occupied early, and most of them are naturally children from families.
Shen Shi has no background and no way, so it is naturally difficult to receive this kind of good thing that is safe and easy to do, Sun You privately told him to help him find one, but this kind of good task is in short supply, and it is necessary to grab a place from the hands of those children of the family, and I really don't know how much to use, so after thinking about it carefully, Shen Shi still politely declined Sun You.
So in the past three years, Shen Shi has done the longest task, and it is actually this red clam village that is not on the white board of Baihetang to peel shrimp.
All the way to the red clam village, I saw the beautiful and slender figure standing at the gate of the village from a distance, needless to say, it was naturally the starfish of the red clam clan.
In the past three years, the starfish looks like she has grown up a lot, and her appearance has become more beautiful, but the most conspicuous thing is the red mussel shell on her body, which has become more vivid and bright as she grows older.
Shen Shi has been working in this red clam village for three years, and his understanding of the red clam clan is now better than that of other people on the island, knowing that in the eyes of the red clam people, the redder and brighter the clam shell, the more beautiful it is, in other words, the starfish can now be regarded as a little beauty in the red clam village.
Approaching the entrance of the village, Shen Shi smiled and waved to the starfish, and the starfish also showed a smile, and at the same time, several men, women and children walked by in Hongbang Village, and they all laughed when they saw this, and some people said loudly:
"Oh, the starfish kid is here again!"
Shen Shi was stunned, but the starfish turned around and spat, ignoring the smiles of those aunts and aunts, ran over and pulled Shen Shi and ran to the shore of the beach outside the village.
The sea breeze blows the placket of the two, the sky is clear and the sun is gently sprinkled, and the blue water is ** lapping the white sand, making a noise.
In the distance, several canoes with two pointed ends are sailing on the sea, heading towards the open sea, Shen Shi has been peeling shrimp here for three years, and he knows almost clearly about the qiΔ in the red clam village, and he recognized at a glance that it is the fishing boat of the red clam clan, and he was stunned for a moment, and said: "Hey, I remember that today doesn't seem to be the day to go fishing, why do you go out to sea to fish in your village?"
The starfish also glanced into the distance and said: "Because the harvest has not been good recently, I heard my grandfather say, I don't know why, now there are not only ghost shrimp, but also other fish species in the sea are a lot less, and every time I go to sea to fish, the harvest is almost half or even less, so I have to go to sea to fish a few more times." As he spoke, the starfish suddenly clenched his hands into fists in front of the blue sea and put them in his heart, showing a little sincere respect on his face, and said in a low voice, "I hope that the sea god will bless your uncles and uncles to return safely." β
Shen Shi stood beside her, staring at the vast sea in front of her, only to see that the wind and waves were calm, the sea was soft, just looking at the scene in front of her, who would have thought that three years ago, it was also the sea in front of her, which had burst out with strange and terrifying energy, and the raging storm made people tremble.
As for the sea god in the mouth of the starfish...... Shen Shi pouted quietly, in the past three years, he can be regarded as the most Terran disciple who has entered and exited Hongbang Village, and he has to come here almost every day, and he is naturally familiar with the statue of the sea god enshrined on the altar in the village.
When I first saw it, I thought this statue was weird, and it looked like a strange sea beast, but later I happened to hear the well-informed brother Wang Gen mention it once, and the sea god worshiped by the red clam clan was actually some kind of huge sea beast 'pig-headed dragon' in the depths of the sea.
According to Senior Brother Wang Gan, although the pig-headed dragon is a huge sea beast with a dragon character, it actually has nothing to do with the dragon clan that has been famous since ancient times but has now disappeared.
The pig-headed dragon is brutal and bloodthirsty, and it is the overlord of the deep sea, and no one can figure out why the red clam clan would take this as a god, but if he really wants to say that praying to this pig-headed dragon will bless or something, Shen Shi naturally does not believe it.
"Even if the pig-headed dragon senses the prayer, let alone bless any peace, as long as it doesn't come to eat your people, it can be regarded as burning high incense!"
Shen Shi secretly thought so in his heart, turned his head to look at the starfish, and saw that the girl had a pious look on her face, as if she was still sincerely telling the "sea god" what her wishes were.