Chapter 455: Senior Brother Is Here (Part II)
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The wound on Diao Xiaosi's buttocks finally scarred, and he didn't need to limp when he walked, so he had no excuse to be lazy, so he had to curse the old nun's evil behavior while honestly cleaning the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
He can't be honest, because the senior brother likes to keep an eye on him for a moment, and as long as he drags it slightly, his claws will immediately reach out.
So Diao Xiaosi's curse list was added to a fat cat that was big and strong and could not be killed.
But he actually didn't understand that the senior brother also had a lot of unknown troubles.
It must not allow the new junior brother to despicably and shamelessly take away those rights that originally belonged to him, and it cannot tolerate this guy wantonly trampling on the dignity of the senior brother.
Fortunately, what the fat cat was most worried about did not happen, and Diao Xiaosi never competed with it for delicious meals. Whenever it gobbled up and ate with relish, the little junior brother would hide far away, sneak out a small jar, and pour something that smelled strange into his mouth.
The fat cat tried to taste it, but its mouth was so spicy that it exploded all over its body and sneezed to the ceiling.
Since then, at least in terms of eating, Senior Brother Fat Cat and Senior Brother Xiaoding have reached a tacit understanding, and the rare harmony and happiness of the well water does not interfere with the river water.
But when it comes to the time of supervision, the fat cat is still unambiguous, and even if he naps anytime, anywhere, he will squint and pay attention to the movements of his junior brother.
In this way, Diao Xiaosi didn't say that he sneaked out of the Scripture Pavilion while the old nun in the clothes was away, and even when he went to the thatched house, there was always a big black cat behind him, and this guy didn't know how to avoid it at any time.
After finishing work every day, it is the most boring time for Diao Xiaosi. The Zangjing Pavilion is neither Chang'an City, nor is it the Void Realm of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, and even the most remote place in the Mobei Grassland is much stronger than it. As far as the eye can see, in addition to bundles of scriptures, there are still bundles of scriptures.
At first, Diao Xiaosi thought that in addition to these ghost-drawn scriptures, he might be able to find one or two Buddhist magic skills and make a manuscript or something to play with, and it would be even better if he could find one or two books that recorded the anecdotes of monks and nuns. So he rummaged through the cabinets and searched through all the scriptures that could be found in the scripture pavilion, and was most angry to find that not to mention the divine skills, there was not even a book on basic skills, and there was no absurd thing about the wild history that he longed for.
Not only that, the tens of thousands of scriptures in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion are as vast as a sea of smoke, and they can really be all kinds of Buddhist scriptures, and the only one that has nothing to do with the Buddhist scriptures is this "Saying Wen Jie Zi".
What is even more infuriating is that when the old nun in the silk clothes saw him tirelessly flipping through the books without sleep or food, she immediately brought a large stack of treasured classics from the Temple of Mercy and Grace with her intention to approving her, such as the Vima Sutra, the Yuanjue Sutra, the Ranga Sutra, the Buddha Speaking of the Amitabha Sutra, the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, and the Myoho-renge-kyo Sutra......
Just seeing this big string of awkward names gave Diao Xiaosi a headache, and I wanted to ask the old nun why she didn't have "Menstruation"?
He pretended to take the large stack of scriptures, and followed the old nun in the clothes to shake her head and read a few words without knowing what to say. As soon as the old nun left, she immediately stuffed it under her ass as a cushion, and then bored and took out the Tianluo astrolabe and began to count the stars.
Over time, Diao Xiaosi also found that staying in the Scripture Pavilion was not completely without benefits. At least the library on the third floor is rarely visited, and no one disturbs him, and he is almost isolated from the world.
In this kind of place, listening to the sound of bells, wooden fish, and chanting from outside every day, I am very diligent and efficient in my cultivation. It's a pity that the prohibition on his body has never been able to be lifted, otherwise the first thing he would do is to pluck the hair and cut his nails for the senior brother, and then betray the master.
He has cracked more than 320 of the 365 star arrays in the Tianluo astrolabe so far, and the rest are basically all old and difficult problems that cannot be solved. may be because the heat has not yet arrived, Diao Xiaosi is too lazy to spend too much time studying.
According to his idea, anyway, the future is long, and there must always be a goal in life. Reaching your goal too early will only take the rest of the days out of the fun!
In the past half a year, Diao Xiaosi has been running around for his own life events, competing with all kinds of demons, during which he has had many adventures, his interest in Tianluo Astrolabe has gradually lost, and the cultivation time is far less than before, but he never expected that now in this Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, it has become the only game he can use for recreation.
Slowly, Diao Xiaosi was surprised to find that among the more than forty star arrays that he had not yet cracked, two of them were particularly strange. They are almost identical on the surface, but after careful inspection, you will find that all the formation layouts and formation changes happen to be the two extremes of the opposite direction, and if these two star arrays are combined into one, it is like the essence of the Tianluo Three Hundred and Sixty-five Star Array.
However, there seems to be something missing, but what is missing, Diao Xiaosi can't say.
Perhaps, if you want to comprehend these two ultimate star arrays, you must first crack all the other forty or so star arrays, otherwise even if you forcibly break in, it is likely that Yuanmu is trying to fish in vain.
Anyway, if there was nothing to do, he began to fiddle with the "Duluo Heavenly Domain Array", which he thought was the most likely to make a breakthrough among the remaining star arrays.
It took Diao Xiaosi six days to count the number of stars, and this star array was composed of nearly 7,000 small stars, and the changes derived from it were even more astonishingly complicated.
Of course, he will not be stupid enough to calculate and deduce all kinds of changes one by one, he only needs to trace the source of the outline and grasp the center of the formation, and the rest of the problems can be easily solved. But how to trace the source is often the most difficult step, Diao Xiaosi doesn't want to risk becoming an idiot and attack hard and enterprising.
So Diao Xiaosi decided to slow down and patiently look for clues about the changes in the star array every day, although his head was a mess, he believed that sooner or later he would catch the fox's tail.
Finally one day, Diao Xiaosi performed the eye of the Duluo Tianyu Array. There were thirty-two small stars looming there, and if they could be successfully cracked, they would be able to completely analyze and grasp the entire Duluo Heavenly Array.
It's a pity that Diao Xiaosi looked left and right and observed for a long time, and the haunting of the thirty-two little stars was irregular, and he tried more than 20 methods one after another, but he never found the hidden veins in them, and he couldn't help but be very distressed.
But the distress is the distress, fortunately, it is not completely without gain, but he accidentally excavated how to refine a doorway containing the power of the Dao Heaven, and gradually had a little clue in his heart, which can be regarded as an additional compensation for the hard work.
It's just that if you want to successfully refine such a Dao Talisman, you must meet at least three major prerequisites.
First of all, he must be able to become a super master, such as being like Daddy Longcheng and Wang Shichong, who can touch the laws of Dao Heaven.
For the vast majority of Mahayana realm masters, this is nothing less than an insurmountable chasm for a lifetime. But Diao Xiaosi was very lucky, after losing the bitter battle with Princess Yicheng, Li Daimo, who was immortal, left a full set of memories of the Yellow River Daotian in his mind, which could be pirated and copied at any time, and he was preparing to do so.
Secondly, it is to prepare all the materials for refining talismans, which are all good things worth more than 10,000 gold. The refining cost of the entire Dao talisman is estimated, and there is no need to think about it if there are no five or six million taels of silver. The difficulty is that some refining materials are rare in the world, and they may not be able to be found after decades, depending on good luck.
At the end of the day, the success rate of refining a Nine-Rank Dao Talisman is very low, usually not more than thirty percent. For example, the "Flower Sky Companion Snow Talisman" given to Diao Xiaosi by the Qingcheng Sword Sect took ninety-nine layers of rune paper to condense, and even if there was a slight mistake in any layer during the refining process, all the previous efforts would be wasted. Even if it is done in the end, the time and effort will be unimaginable.
All in all, no matter from which point of view, trying to refine such a Dao talisman is a loss-making deal.
But Diao Xiaosi doesn't think so, what time, energy, and refining materials can all be converted into silver in his eyes, and then sit on the ground on the black market, and it can be used to save his life at a critical moment, such a good thing of killing two birds with one stone and the best of both worlds, must not be missed.
In this way, every day when Diao Xiaosi was extremely bored, he would go to the library and pick up a large bundle of paper scrolls used by the nuns of the empty hermitage to transcribe scriptures, and sketch his Dao Heaven and World Realm without sleep or food.
At first, the elder brother strongly disapproved of his waste of paper. But since Diao Xiaosi asked him to dip his four cat's paws in ink and run around the paper roll twice, the senior brother was pleasantly surprised to find that his talent in painting had been buried.
I saw that the plum blossoms under its claws were vivid and vivid, and the frost and snow were extraordinary, and even the little junior brother who had always only looked at it with the whites of his eyes had to praise against his will: "The plum blossoms are natural, and the cat's paws are even obtained."
Since then, the senior brother has been incorrigibly in love with painting, and he only paints plum blossoms, and he ignores Diao Xiaosi's despicable behavior of squandering and wasting paper rolls in the warehouse at will.
Now, its only goal is to complete a "Ten Thousand Plum Pictures", according to the junior brother, he can get it to Duo Yunxuan's treasure appraisal conference for auction, even if a plum blossom is only sold for one or two silver, this painting will be at least tens of thousands. At that moment, the senior brother secretly made up his mind that 10,000 plum blossoms was too little, and at least 1 million should be painted.
In the afternoon of this day, Diao Xiaosi finally completed all the first drafts of the "Yellow River Dao Heavenly Fu", but instead of feeling the slightest joy in his heart, his head grew bigger.
He realized he had done something stupid. According to his rough estimate, if the Dao talisman is refined in full accordance with the design plan, the refining materials required are about 1,240 kinds, excluding the ready-made parts, there are at least 300 kinds to be bought on the black market, and it is very likely that there is no market, maybe if you break your leg, you may not be able to make up 35%.
As the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, looking at the works that he worked so hard to come up with, Diao Xiaosi was worried.
On the other side, the elder brother ran back and forth on the paper wholeheartedly, working hard towards the goal of the 20,000th plum blossom.
Suddenly, the door to the library opened, and the old nun in the clothes walked in.
The fat cat screamed excitedly and rushed forward, stretched out its black cat paws, hugged the old nun's monk's robe, and rolled away, lying on the ground and refusing to get up.
The old nun in the silk cloth bent down to pick up the fat cat, looked at Wanmeitu on the ground, and smiled: "Good, good, you are also your own treasure." ”
Diao Xiaosi's hands shook when he heard this, and a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind!
He had always been thinking about how to move Li Daimo's Yellow River Dao Heaven to the Dao Fu intact, but he ignored that he actually had untapped treasures in his hands.
——Why don't you convert the three hundred and sixty-five star arrays in the Tianluo Astrolabe into three hundred and sixty-five Dao Heavens through the rune array? In this way, the material problem that plagued me was immediately solved. There are still many treasures left in his dragon belt that have been scavenged from the Void Realm of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, and even if there is still a shortage, he can go to the Void Realm to collect local materials, which is better than looking around the world like a headless fly.
The dead old man once said that the supreme realm of Qimen Dunjia does not care about the formation but lies in the Dao, and he remembers that he was locked up in a small black room for this problem, and now he finally came to his senses.
At this time, the elder brother meowed slightly, stretched out his little pink tongue and licked it on the hand of the old nun, and suddenly saw the little junior brother pounce like a hungry dog, as if he wanted to grab candy from it.
The fat cat's eyes widened angrily, and he was about to give the Nine Yin Cat Bone Claws to this little junior brother who didn't know how to be humble, but he heard Diao Xiaosi staring at the old nun in the clothes with two eyes, and couldn't wait to ask: "These days, I have seen rats in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion from time to time, and I wanted to set up a few traps to catch them. Who knows that these rats are very cunning, and there is no pattern to follow in the time of appearance and the trajectory of running, what do you say Lao Tzu should do...... Hold them?"
The old nun in the clothes smiled slightly, just thinking that Diao Xiaosi had made great progress in studying the Buddhist scriptures these days, and had learned to play meditation with himself, so he said: "Xiaoding, do you know that everything is promising, like a dream bubble, like dew and electricity, should be viewed as such?"
Diao Xiaosi listened to it and asked blankly, "What do you mean?"
The old nun explained, "This means that all the phenomenal worlds of impermanence are false and ephemeral, and that only by contemplating the phenomenal worlds as dreamy can we attain supreme enlightenment. ”
Diao Xiaosi said with a smile: "Master...... I didn't expect you to be quite funny dreaming. ”
The old nun shook her head and said, "How can the poor nun ever say in his dreams, these are all things that the poor nun has read in the scriptures. ”
Leng Buding Diao Xiaosi grabbed the hand of the old nun in the silk clothes and said, "Master, the apprentice wants to study with you!"