As the mana was withdrawn, the rune paper shook slightly, and then slowly fell. Stretching out a hand, catching the rune paper, and looking at the fruits of his labor, Zhou Nan's face was filled with a faint smile.

After several hours of painstaking refining, the Dry Blue Water Curtain talisman was finally successfully refined by him. "It's really not easy, this is really not the job that the fourth layer of Qiling should do. If the cultivation is higher, there is no need to be so tired and tired. Zhou Nan shook his head and sighed.

Rune paper, among the many treasures of immortal cultivators, is an exception. It is the only thing that a few low-level monks can use. Otherwise, if the magic weapon is changed, if the low-level monk forcibly goes to the high-level magic weapon, it will not only be time-consuming and laborious, but if you don't get it, you will be eaten by the magic weapon, and you will end up with a dismal end of going mad and dying.

Fortunately, it was a rune paper, otherwise Zhou Nan would not have dared to take a risky risk. Although he is bold, he has done a lot of things like losing his head. But after all, no matter what, there is only one life, and Zhou Nan still values it very much.

At the end of the night, Zhou Nan simply ate something, paid the money, and went out of the inn again. He has to hurry up now, hurry up and buy the formation, ore, and then end this trip. Otherwise, if we delay any longer, we will really make a mistake.

In the early morning, even if it was still early, the city was already lively, and many monks had not stopped since the market yesterday morning. The city holds a monthly market that lasts for three days at a time.

Three days without sleep is an extremely difficult thing for a mortal, but for a monk, it is very common. Even if he doesn't sleep for more than ten days, he is still alive and kicking.

But Zhou Nan is different, yesterday he first drove more than 500 miles, and then went around Fang City for a day, thinking for a day, and spent a lot of brainpower, so he stayed in the inn and rested. Later, he spent a lot of energy to refine the dry blue water curtain. Therefore, the sleepless operation for several days is not suitable for him.

This is Qinghuofang City, this medium-sized market. There are inns, and there are food sellers. In other small markets, there are none of these, and some are just elixirs, magic weapons, exercises, secret arts, etc., which are urgently needed by monks.

Along the street, Zhou Nan first inquired at the stalls outside, but the formations he found were all unsatisfactory. It's either flawed and unusable and needs to be patched, or the level is too low to have much defensive effect.

For these things, Zhou Nan would not be stupid to buy the flower spirit stone. So, after walking around and around, after walking through many streets, he came to a large formation shop, "Array Star Pavilion".

After a few glances, I looked at this obviously very imposing shop. Zhou Nan straightened his chest and walked in. As soon as Pu entered the shop, before he could take a few looks, Zhou Nan was a little dizzy.

I saw that in the hall on the first floor, a wide counter was full of rows of formations. There are books on the array, various array flags, and array plates. The colors are colorful and green, and the shapes are large and small, and so on.

After looking at it a few times, his eyes rolled, and a strange thought popped up in Zhou Nan's heart for some reason. "So many of them, these things can't be parallel imports, right?"

With doubts and a fixed mind, Zhou Nan walked over and picked up a book introducing the formation. I flipped the page and looked at it carefully. But as the pages shook, after a few glances, Zhou Nan's face became really strange.

The book in his hand introduces a lot of formations. But most of them are vague. just kept talking about how powerful this formation was, boasting about the glorious history of some formations, but not mentioning how to set up the formation. At most, it was only a few rough steps, and then it disappeared in a flash. This kind of book, at best, seems to be insightful and has no practical effect.

I flipped through several books in a row, and it was the same situation. Unwillingly, Zhou Nan picked up a formation flag with some apprehension and looked at it carefully. But alas, he was doomed to disappointment.

I watched it from a distance just now, and I didn't think anything was there. But this time, Zhou Nan smiled bitterly. Although he doesn't understand the formation, he is an expert in refining and casting. These array flags, array plates, are extremely coarsely refined. The formation refined in this way, not to mention how effective it is, but looking at the quality, you can know that the Dao will not be used a few times. What is such a thing, not parallel import?

Putting down the formation flag, Zhou Nan quickly looked at the others in the hall. I saw that except for those monks on the first and second floors of the Enlightenment, they were still surrounding the pile of formations, looking at them happily. Those who are a little hot in cultivation are all the same as themselves, smiling bitterly.

With doubts, Zhou Nan walked over, came to a thin and tall male cultivator, bowed, and said suspiciously: "This fellow Daoist, in Xia Aman, may I ask how the formation in this hall looks like this?" Zhou Nan unceremoniously borrowed the name of the little fat man, and did not blush at all. It can be seen that he has done this kind of thing a lot, and he is already a veteran.

Seeing Zhou Nan asking, the tall and thin monk was not puzzled, so he arched his hand at him and said slowly, "It's the first time for Daoyou to come to this Star Pavilion, right?"

Hearing the slender monk say this, Zhou Nan knew that he couldn't hide anything in front of these veterans, so he said truthfully: "Daoist friend is right, this is the first time to come to this Star Pavilion, I don't know what is important about this?"

"Hehe, since Daoist friends are asking, then the poor Dao will talk to you. It's no secret either. Presumably, Daoyou also took a turn outside, but there was no gain. The tall and thin monk laughed.

"Yes, I wanted to buy the method for a while, but I went around outside and didn't get anything at all. Zhou Nan nodded and admitted with some doubts. "I don't know if Daoist Lu has noticed that in this Qinghuofang City, there are very few formations. The tall and thin monk asked rhetorically.

By this time, Zhou Nan had already sensed something, blinked his eyes, and said, "Yes, it's very little." Is there anything hidden in this?"

Squinting slightly, the tall and lanky monk sank into a large section of his statement. "Looking at the appearance of the Taoist friend, he has already noticed something, and that's right. In fact, not only is there a lack of formation in this Qinghuofang City, the same is true of the entire Yan Kingdom Immortal Cultivation Realm. First of all, as soon as a monk has time, he will spend it on improving his cultivation, and few people are willing to learn the formation. Even if you want to learn, learn some, alchemy, refining, talisman making and other things that are of great help to the improvement of cultivation. The formation, in the current immortal cultivation world, can be said to be the end of the way. ”

"Three or four hundred years ago, there was a great chaos in the Yan Kingdom's immortal cultivation realm, and many array mages disappeared for no reason, causing the decline of the glorious array path. Many formations with names and surnames have also been broken off because of this. In addition, the refining formation requires natural stones as raw materials. Otherwise, the formation would not be able to borrow the heaven and earth vitality from the outside world, and the natural terrain could only be supported by the monks themselves. If this is a small formation, it is easy to say, but a large formation, even if it is a Yuan Infant Patriarch, may be sucked dry by an adult if it runs once. ”

"Coincidentally, the time when the Stone of Nature dried up in the Yan Kingdom's Immortal Cultivation Realm also started three or four hundred years ago. Therefore, some people suspect that the depletion of this natural stone is related to the disappearance of the array mage. But for hundreds of years, many people have made covert and covert visits, but to no avail. ”

"Therefore, now that the Yan Kingdom cultivates the Immortal Realm, this formation is very scarce, and most of them are shipped back from other countries, and they are expensive and the quantity is very small. As for what you see on this cabinet, it is the formation mage of our Yan Kingdom, who has not been refined using the Stone of Nature. The tall and thin monk seemed to be caught in a memory, and said slowly. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Nan was moved, and his feelings were to buy a formation, and there were so many stories mixed with it? "May I ask Daoyou, what should I do if I want to buy a formation now?" Zhou Nanqi said.

The tall monk smiled and said, "Hehe. It's not that it's nothing, it's just that the requirements are a little weird. ”

"Oh, I want to hear about it. Arching his hand, Zhou Nan asked.

"There are not many formations in the Array Star Pavilion, and if you want to buy a suitable formation, you must not only pay enough spirit stones, but also agree to a strange request from them. Lingshi is okay to say, but this requirement is difficult to handle. The tall and thin monk said slowly. In the words, there was a strong resentment.

"Do you know what this requirement?", pretending not to hear, Zhou Nan continued to ask.

"One person changes, it varies from person to person, and there is no fixed number. If you want to buy the formation, you have to go to the second floor, and someone will answer it. The tall and thin monk pointed to the second floor, looking lonely. Apparently just came down from above and didn't meet the requirements.

After thanking him, Zhou Nan ignored the tall and thin monk and walked up to the second floor.

The second floor is much smaller, with a tea set and a few chairs in the middle. It's not like a place to trade, but a place to chat and drink tea. The layout is casual and not dignified at all.

In this way, compared with the gorgeous decoration outside, it really has a nondescript feeling, which is very weird. Zhou Nan just glanced at it casually, and then suppressed the thoughts in his heart.

On the chair sat an old man with a white beard, but his cultivation was only one layer of Qiling, which was really strange.

Seeing Zhou Nan coming over, the old man raised his hand as if it was about to be broken, greeted weakly, and said lightly, "Fellow Daoist, please take a seat." ”

Zhou Nan was also not polite, and sat down opposite the old man. At this time, a maid dressed in green carried a small plate, served a cup of tea to the two, and quickly retreated.

"Fellow Daoists, please," the old man stretched out his hand, picked up the teacup, and began to drink.

Zhou Nan didn't move, stared at the old man, and said in a deep voice, "Fellow Daoist, let's get straight to the point." I want to buy a high-quality defensive formation, I don't know if you can introduce it. ”

Looking at Zhou Nan's movements, the old man didn't care. I just continued to drink tea and didn't answer.