Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 244 I say autumn is better than spring

Tianzhen Mountain, Starry Palace.

A young blue-robed formation master walked through the crowd and approached the three people sitting in the corner. He bowed and said, "Three Taoist friends, the formation master wants to invite you. Please follow me."

Xu Yuanchang, Meng Caiqin and Xue Chunni stopped talking and stood up and exchanged glances.

Meng Caiqin responded on behalf of the three people: "I am sorry to bother you, fellow Taoist."

Long before submitting the task, Fellow Daoist Xu had stated that he did not want to be disturbed during his quiet practice, and Shanni half-jokingly said that she wanted to follow Xu Yuanchang and retire to the countryside. As for her little secret, all three of them knew it clearly.

The attention attracted by the mission, as well as the subsequent fame, social engagements, etc., all fell on Meng Caiqin's shoulders.

The two guys even high-fived each other, as if they had gotten a great deal by getting out of trouble.

The three of them followed the blue-robed formation master to the top floor of the Starry Palace. As the blue-robed formation master stepped aside and extended his hand to invite them, they stepped over the threshold and walked into the spacious room.

Wen Yijian, the tall and thin acting formation master with gray hair, wrinkles on his forehead and silver star patterns embroidered on his cuffs, waved to the three people who were paying their respects to sit down in front of the table by the window and placed two files with answers to the formation questions on the table.

Since it is a deacon-level task, I cannot simply fill in the answers on the array question and get away with it.

There needs to be a detailed calculation and reasoning process, each one clear and concise.

There is a saying that goes "paper talk is self-consistent".

The wrinkles on Wen Yijian's brows smoothed out, and a warm smile appeared on his face. He said, "Everyone, sit down and don't be shy. Actually, you two should call me 'Uncle Wen'. Your Master Zhong and I were classmates for three years and we were as close as brothers."

Just half an incense stick ago, Master Wen looked through the files he had asked his men to find and learned about the backgrounds of the two men.

He saw a completely new calculation technique from the two array problems he solved.

It is in line with current arithmetic, but has many differences.

He is old and wise, how could he not seize the opportunity?

As for Xu Yuanchang, the unremarkable steward of Monster Catching Mountain, Wen Yijian did not see any valuable information, after all, it was not his responsibility. But since the three of them completed the task together, he would not underestimate it.

Meng Caiqin and Xue Chunni immediately stood up and bowed to show respect to the younger generation: "Disciple greets Uncle Wen."

Xu Yuanchang could only stand up and join the guests with a smile. He liked "festive" scenes.

"Sit down, everyone. If you have any questions or are wronged in the future, feel free to come to me. I will never let you suffer any loss in Tianzhen Mountain."

Wen Yijian smiled more amiably.

Being able to acknowledge two nephews, it would be natural for us to exchange knowledge of formations in the future.

A catastrophe is about to come. It would be a great blessing if we could make a breakthrough.

Wen Yijian praised the three women's creative ideas in solving the array problem without hesitation and gave them high evaluation. However, due to the presence of outsiders, it was inconvenient to discuss in depth. After about a quarter of an hour, he gave the two women a few words of advice and ended their first meeting.

The three returned to the main hall and successfully completed the mission.

Xu Yuanchang received a generous reward of 18 crystal stones, and the remaining 180 points were divided equally among the three.

After walking out of the hall, Meng Caiqin saw that Shanni was still going to follow Xu Yuanchang to the Monster-Catching Mountain, so she grabbed Xue Chunni and whispered a few words in her ear, telling her that they must try to use what they have learned to improve their cultivation and greatly increase their strength within ten years.

Times now are different from the past. This is an extraordinary period and we cannot be too relaxed.

Xue Chunni thought for a long while and couldn't help complaining: "We have completed our mission, but we still can't feel at ease. We have to stay in Tianzhen Mountain." She also knew that her friend was right, and bowed to Xu Yuanchang: "I really want to go to Bailin Valley with you to continue to exchange arithmetic knowledge, but unfortunately there will be no pure land in the world. We will meet again in the mountains and rivers. I hope you take care of yourself!"

Meng Caiqin followed suit and saluted, saying, "We can visit Zeng Shanlang at Heizhou Peak often when we have time. He is a sensible child, so you don't have to worry about him."

Xu Yuanchang clasped his fists in return, "Take care, both of you!"

As I flew into the air, I heard Xue Chunni's voice coming from below.

"If I encounter any difficult questions in the future, I will send you a message for advice. Chief Xu Yuan, please remember to reply."

"No, it's an expensive Thousand Miles Communication Talisman. I'm very poor and can't afford it."

"Haha, I'll take that as your agreement. I'll settle the communication fee for you later."

Xue Chunni watched the guy who made a lot of money but still complained about being poor disappear into the horizon, and muttered, "He's a pretty good guy, with an open mind and no prejudice."

Meng Caiqin waved her hand in front of her friend's eyes and teased, "Then you can chase her to Bailin Valley, where you can live together and be free and easy..."

Xue Chunni was so angry that he reached out to attack her chest, but failed, so he chased her down the mountain.

"Stinky celery, you're taking advantage of me and still acting cute. I've tolerated you for a long time."

"..."

In the ring space, the rabbit's snow-white fur was stained with a hint of metallic color, and even its voice seemed to carry a hint of the clanging sound of metal.

"Friend Xu, you are proficient in arithmetic deduction, so refining a set of phantom armor for yourself is not difficult, and it is imperative. There is still plenty of time. When the phantom armor is completed, your survivability will be greatly improved when you go to the dark world in the future, and your illusion will be more useful. Well, you also got two phantom fires, which can be refined into your eyes to provide different energy for the phantom armor."

"I don't have the talent for refining equipment. It's difficult for me to even make a simple array equipment, let alone something as complex as a phantom armor."

Xu Yuanchang flew to the market town east of Xiyuan Holy Land and replied casually.

The rabbit chuckled and said, "Illusion means emptiness. The illusion armor refined by illusionists is divided into two types: 'real armor' and 'virtual armor'. You have the magical artifact of the Illusion Fairy Ring in your hand, and the Creation Altar has the magical effect of 'seizing the destiny of heaven and earth' for your own use. It is not difficult to refine the real and transform it into the virtual.

"You can use your powerful arithmetic deduction as a basis to refine various natural treasures on the Creation Altar, extract the essence from them, and use the illusion mind and powerful divine consciousness to construct your own illusion armor formation. Within five years, you can complete the refining of the illusion armor."

Xu Yuanchang pondered for a while and asked, "The materials needed are relatively rare, right?"

He added: "We won't go to Wuya Lake for now. We'll use the materials we have at hand first."

The rabbit said contemptuously, "You are judging others by your own standards. If you want to refine the best phantom armor, the rarer the materials, the better. However, there is nothing good in the lower world right now, and you are too timid to go to the Endless Lake. You can only find a way from the Chaos God Tomb. If you can get a few pieces of the remains of the gods, you can deal with one or two. For the other materials, I will make a list and you can get as many as you can."

Xu Yuan laughed and said, "Fellow Daoist Li, do you need the remains of a god?"

Without clarifying the situation, he didn't dare to accept the rabbit's kindness.

I also have to refine materials in the ring space. What if the rabbit plays tricks and attaches its soul to it and escapes?

These situations have to be considered.

Although there seemed to be an invisible rope tying him and the rabbit, the rabbit was definitely not a vegetarian. If he broke free from the rope, he would be in great danger.

The rabbit didn't want to engage in intrigue with the Taoist priest, so he said directly: "Except for the God-Condensing Stone and the God-Leaving Fruit, I don't need any remains of the gods. You can rest assured. You use the God of Creation Altar to refine the treasures of heaven and earth, and don't waste the remaining waste and residue. Just give them to me as a reward, and I can use them to shape the body." The things left after the God of Creation Altar refined the materials were good things for him.

He swung his front limbs in the air, and a list created by magic appeared in the air, with ancient and clumsy handwriting flickering and glowing.

Xu Yuanchang looked at dozens of materials of various kinds. The list detailed the characteristics of each material. With his limited knowledge, he had never heard of most of them. He needed to spend time looking them up and comparing them to their current names. He said, "You can just use the remaining materials."

"The Creation Altar is very overbearing and can transform all spiritual things in the world. I can't get the items on the Creation Altar. You must use your spiritual sense to send the slag out of the Creation Altar."

After explaining, Rabbit added: "Don't worry about me making a fuss about the materials I refine. That's the God of Creation, and I really don't have the ability to do it, so we need to have more trust and be open and honest with each other."

Xu Yuanchang didn't care about Rabbit's teasing. As his cultivation level improved, a vague connection emerged between the Creation Altar and the God Summoning Altar in his spiritual space.

Perhaps it was because he had absorbed the spiritual consciousness and magic power that he had voluntarily sent out several times, and the nourishment had taken effect?

He inquired carefully about how to use the Creation Altar to refine materials, how to use his spiritual consciousness to construct magic arrays and phantom armor on his own, etc. At present, he had plenty of money to spare, so he tried them one by one and acted cautiously to prepare for the future conquest of the dark world.

Improving strength is not just about cultivation.

You also need complementary protection and treasures that can enhance your spells.

Xu Yuan flew to the famous Xiyuan Market, where there were many shops and monks came and went at the crossroads.

He used his spiritual sense to find a shop to the west called "De Yue Restaurant", which was a property of the Monster Mountain. He walked in, showed his badge as the steward of the Monster Mountain, sat down with the fat shopkeeper Hou, exchanged greetings for a moment, and explained his purpose. He needed to buy a batch of high-quality and low-priced spirit beans, and also wanted to learn about many refining materials. He asked the shopkeeper Hou to recommend a good place.

It's just a small matter, so there's no need to bother Senior Brother Wu to step in.

Shopkeeper Hou agreed readily, waved over a smart waiter, and told him to take Deacon Xu with him to make sure the job was done.

The waiter took Xu Yuanchang to a shop selling spirit seeds in the south of the market.

In less than two quarters of an hour, Xu Yuanchang chose to buy one hundred second-level double-patterned spirit beans and sharp rock spirit beans, at the price of ten spirit coins each. He would buy third-level spirit beans when he could skillfully perform the "scattering beans to turn into soldiers" skill with the second-level spirit beans.

The rabbit nagged him a few words, telling him not to waste his limited energy on useless spells.

If you have that much free time, you might as well think more about how to use the state of mind in illusion.

Xu Yuanchang had his own considerations. In the next ten years, his main focus would be on improving his cultivation strength. If he could advance to the fourth floor with the help of the magic weapon, everyone would be happy.

However, when the bean soldiers are combined with the "Puppet Soldiers Combined Technique", especially when the number of bean soldiers under control increases, they can be used to capture souls, explode soldiers, and form puppet formations, which have many wonderful uses.

He would find time to practice this useful spell.

In order to survive the catastrophe, he will not miss any opportunity to significantly improve his strength.

The clerk then took Xu Yuanchang to the weapon refining shop and found Master Wu, who was familiar to Manager Hou.

Chief Xu Yuan asked his waiter to go back first. He sat opposite Master Wu in the room to discuss business. He took out a pen and paper, copied a list made by Rabbit, and asked Master Wu to review it for him.

Master Wu was quite surprised when he saw the list, as most of the names written on it were ancient names.

There were several materials that he had never heard of, so he picked up a pen and wrote down the corresponding names on the side of the list.

Tell Xu Yuanchang that half of the materials above cannot be found and have long been extinct in the lower world. Use a brush to mark the names of the extinct materials.

"Does your store sell other materials? What's the price?"

"Friend Xu, I have a small amount of third-level blue silver and yellow glaze for sale in my shop. Usually, one crystal stone is exchanged for a standard third-level material. In addition, the fourth-level jade tide secret silver stone and dark gold brilliant stone need to be exchanged with equivalent treasures. The other eight materials are hard to find. Maybe they are in stock in the treasury of the ancestral temple holy land."

After Master Wu gave the price, he gave some advice.

The rabbit in the ring space shouted, "Buy them all. Buy them all."

Xu Yuanchang spent three crystal stones to buy two pieces of blue silver and one piece of yellow ryujin, and put them in the egg-sized fifth-level Yingcai crystal in the storage bag without taking it out.

He went to several other weapon refining shops in the market town and bought nine more blue silvers and yellow ryujin.

Money was spent like water. Fortunately, he went through a lot of hard work and earned a total of thirty-nine crystal stones by calculating the array diagram and completing the task, otherwise he really couldn't afford it.

After returning to Monster Catching Mountain, Xu Yuanchang found his senior brother, took out the fifth-level Yingcai crystal, and asked his senior brother to help him exchange it for some fourth-level materials. He handed over a list. Unfortunately, a giant Yingcai crystal was occupied by a rabbit, and it was wasted just leaving it there.

Wu Zhe readily agreed and immediately asked someone to handle it.

In less than half an hour, Xu Yuanchang received five pieces of materials, including the Bichao Mithril Stone and the Dark Gold Brilliant Stone.

The rabbit grinned: "Friend Xu, I will give you a piece of Yingcai crystal stone, the size of a fist, you can use it to exchange for materials, we must cooperate sincerely."

Xu Yuanchang refused: "Forget it, I can't let you spend money."

……

Qingping County, Bailin Valley.

In August, the sweet osmanthus is fragrant and the weather is getting cooler.

The cold insect Snow Grain lay on its back on the bumpy back of the golden toad, using its demon consciousness to brag about its bravery in the past. It was a ruthless character who even dared to scold the young master. Of course, it didn't know the young master at that time.

It tells the legendary story of how it and the big sister went out to kill evil spirits and monsters. The plot was so tortuous and thrilling that the golden toad was stunned and unable to move.

The old yellow dog lying facing west suddenly jumped up, barked excitedly, and leaped high.

Xueli reacted immediately and realized that the big sister had returned.

It hurriedly flew into the air and looked around, only to see a black dot slowly flying in the distance. Suddenly, it heard a familiar voice greeting with a smile.

"Xue Li, you've gained weight again. Do you clean the yard every day? If you dare to be lazy, I'll cut you."

Liu Xianfeng showed up and reached out to pat Xueli on the head.

In a flash, she landed on the back of the yellow dog that had jumped into the air, and then followed the yellow dog back down to the valley floor, shouting, "Yuanbao, have your forelimbs fully recovered? I'll send a message to Old Shi later, asking him to bring Douya and Huabei over to play..."

With the return of Liu Xianfeng and the young master.

The entire Bailin Valley seemed to suddenly become lively and bustling, with branches swaying in the wind and full of vitality.

I say that autumn wins the spring.

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(End of this chapter)