txolops Chapter 38 Heavenly Star Wood
Chapter 38 Heavenly Star Wood
Zhang Tie flipped through a few more pages. The table of contents contained the basic principles of the Five Elements Formation, the method of setting up the formation, the crafting of the formation flags, and detailed explanations of several basic formations.
"Mirage Formation, Enemy Trapping Formation, Spirit Gathering Formation..."
"The sect of Tianxing is indeed extraordinary!" Zhang Tie muttered to himself. He knew that this sect was the number one sect in Yuanwu Kingdom, known for its powerful formations.
Although this book is not of high quality and only records two formations comparable to the Foundation Establishment level, it is comprehensive, progressing step by step from beginner to expert.
In the original story, Han Li found Xin Ruyin after repairing the ancient teleportation array. Her ancestors were related to the Tianxing Sect.
"Senior Brother Sun is so thoughtful!" Zhang Tie closed the booklet and took a deep breath.
The Book of Cause and Effect flickered in my mind.
[The book "Introduction to the Five Elements Formation" has been detected. Do you wish to consume 100 points of Karma Points to begin learning?]
Current causality value: 190
One hundred and ninety karma points, and that's what I gained from killing level one monsters over the past few months.
"confirm!"
[Causality value -100, current causality value 90!]
The golden light of the Book of Cause and Effect flowed through Zhang Tie's sea of consciousness, and the array book in Zhang Tie's hand was quickly disassembled and analyzed, finally flowing back into Zhang Tie's sea of consciousness.
Zhang Tie closed his eyes and began to comprehend the newly appeared array formation in his sea of consciousness.
The five elements interact in a cycle of mutual restraint and generation: metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal...
"The way of array formations originates from the Five Elements and returns to Yin and Yang. I truly look forward to the fact that the crafting process requires materials from the Five Elements, the placement of the array's core requires spiritual energy nodes, and the operation of the array requires a balance of the Five Elements..."
These complex array formations were directly imprinted deep within Zhang Tie's consciousness, as if he had studied them for five or ten years.
Half an hour later, Zhang Tie opened his eyes.
The array formations were far more complex than he had imagined. This was only an array formation at the Foundation Establishment level, yet it took Zhang Tie a long time to digest. In terms of complexity, it was even more complex than the Spirit Seeking Technique!
Now, Zhang Tie has mastered all the contents of the initial explanation of the Five Elements Formation. He can set up several basic formations with his eyes closed, as long as he has the materials.
It was already dark outside the wooden house, and the Gale Falcon had returned to the gate of Spirit Beast Mountain on its own.
Zhang Tie looked around the wooden house, his gaze lingering on the artificial spring inside.
"This is a rudimentary spirit-gathering array. The person who set it up has only average array skills, and the two array nodes are positioned incorrectly, resulting in a 30% reduction in the spirit-gathering effect..."
A golden light flashed in Zhang Tie's eyes. At this moment, his mastery of spirit-seeking techniques and array formations seemed to have achieved an unexpected synergy, complementing each other perfectly!
This was somewhat unexpected for Zhang Tie. Could it be that the Spirit Seeking Technique was a derivative secret technique of the Dao of Array Formation?
However, this was just Zhang Tie's guess; he would have to find out more details when he returned to the sect.
Taking out several spirit stones from his storage bag, Zhang Tie arranged them at several nodes of the spirit-gathering array below the spirit spring, following the arrangement method of the spirit-gathering array in the Five Elements Formation. He then formed hand seals and infused spiritual power into the array.
Several spirit stones glowed faintly, and Zhang Tie corrected the two flawed array nodes. Within a few breaths, the concentration of spiritual energy overflowing from the spirit spring increased significantly.
"That's it!" Zhang Tie nodded in satisfaction.
Although it was just the simplest spirit-gathering array, its effect was far inferior to the spiritual spring in the mountain gate cave, but it can be considered the first array he set up or improved.
But Zhang Tie was not satisfied with this. He could easily set up several basic formations, but they could only be used to deal with cultivators and demonic beasts at the Qi Refining stage.
The book "An Introduction to the Five Elements Formation" records two foundation-level formations: the Six Harmonies Sealing Formation and the Earthy Rock Formation.
As its name suggests, the Six Harmonies Sealing Formation is a sealing formation. It is arranged according to the six directions and can trap cultivators in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, preventing them from escaping.
The Earth Rock Formation is a defensive formation based on earth-attribute spiritual power. When successfully set up, it can actively absorb earth spiritual energy to form a solid defensive barrier that can withstand attacks from mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators!
Both of these formations require the crafting of special array flags before they can be set up.
The making of battle flags usually requires several materials, such as spirit ore, spirit wood, and the essence blood of demon beasts that match the attributes.
Regarding spirit ore, although the Crimson Jade Mine is not large, there are many associated spirit ore deposits around it. Zhang Tie greeted Zhao Dashan and asked for some from the mine's inventory, including Crimson Iron Essence, Mysterious Iron, and Copper Mother. These are all materials needed to set up the Six Harmonies Sealing Formation.
Zhao Dashan didn't ask any more questions, only knowing that Zhang Tie seemed to be studying formations, which wasn't surprising.
Although we have the spirit ore, we still need to obtain the spirit wood and the essence blood of demonic beasts ourselves.
Spirit wood requires a hard texture that can withstand the infusion of spiritual energy; ordinary wood simply won't do.
The essence blood of a demon beast is not something like that of an Iron-Toothed Rat; it must be at least of Grade 1 High-Quality, equivalent to a demon beast in the late stage of Qi Refining, for the spiritual energy in the essence blood of such a demon beast to be sufficiently concentrated.
"Senior Brother Zhao, are there any spirit woods with hard textures near the mine?" Zhang Tie had no choice but to ask the old man Zhao Dashan.
Zhao Dashan thought for a moment: "Head north, about seventy or eighty miles from the mine, there might be spirit trees growing there, but there are level two demonic beasts roaming that area, so be careful!"
Zhang Tie nodded and kept the matter in mind.
When it was Zhao Dashan's turn to be on duty, Zhang Tie informed him and then entered the mountain range alone.
This wasn't Zhang Tie's first time venturing out, but previously he had only stayed within about twenty miles of the mine. This time, he would venture seventy or eighty miles deeper.
The terrain in the mountains was far more complex than that near the mines, and Zhang Tie did not use his flying magic weapon in a flash. He did not know about the high-level demonic beasts in the mountains, but there were quite a few level two and three.
Zhang Tie swiftly traversed the dense mountain forest, where the vegetation blocked out the sun, and the roars of beasts could be heard from time to time in the distance.
Zhang Tie spread his divine sense throughout the journey, and every flower and tree within a radius of a hundred feet was within his perception. He walked and observed whether any spiritual trees would appear.
After traveling for nearly an hour, Zhang Tie's divine sense detected a faint, dense fluctuation of spiritual energy in the distance, but it quickly disappeared.
Zhang Tie raised an eyebrow and used his spirit-finding technique to quickly locate the source of the spiritual energy.
"The wood-attribute spiritual energy is abundant; it's not from an underground spiritual vein, but from spiritual plants or some kind of spiritual herb!"
Zhang Tie quickly determined the special nature of that spiritual power from its spiritual attributes.
Following the area of spiritual energy fluctuations, we passed through a dense forest, and suddenly the view opened up before us.
A small valley appeared before us. The valley was not large, but it had the terrain of gathering spiritual energy, locking the spiritual energy in the valley.
"This is a natural spiritual land, although it's only at the first-tier level, it has existed for quite some time. The rich wood spiritual energy suggests that it must be nurturing spiritual creatures within!"
Zhang Tie quickly deduced the situation and carefully fled into the valley.
These places where spirits gather not only give birth to spiritual creatures, but also attract some demonic beasts, so one must be extremely careful.
The valley was not large. Zhang Tie stopped after walking for a while, and in the center of the valley, there was a tree that was about two zhang tall.
The trunk is straight, the bark is silvery-gray, the leaves have silver markings, and the edges shimmer with silver light. This is a star tree!
Upon recognizing the tree, Zhang Tie was immediately overjoyed.
The Heavenly Star Wood is hard and has a high affinity for spiritual energy, making it an excellent material for crafting array flags. This spirit tree looks to be at least a hundred years old, enough for him to craft more than a dozen sets of array flags!