Sorcerer

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At the end of the four hours of practice, Wu Maxi woke up from her concentration and slowly opened her eyes.A rare softness and sadness flashed in his eyes.He sat in the dark for a while, closed his eyes again, and thought about some changes in the artistic conception of cultivation.

During the practice just now, he discovered a strange phenomenon.

Originally, the situation in Xiaye Yingying's language was a quiet and relaxing summer night.And during the practice just now, Xia Yeyingyu seemed to have mutated, and the whole artistic conception was no longer so relaxed, but became a little sad.

The operation of each light point of spiritual power carried a kind of heaviness that could not be shaken off.The same is true of the sound of insects and water flow, as if it is a courtyard near the end of autumn, the cold is coming, and the vegetation is decaying. A cricket hiding in a corner is singing about its tragic life abandoned by the prosperity.

This kind of sadness is just like Wu Maxi's current state of mind.

It has been nearly half a month since Ruyi left, and Wumaxi's mind has gradually recovered from the bloodthirsty and blankness, and she can start thinking, but every time she looks at the boundless darkness in front of her, longing and grief bite her heart , so painful that he could barely breathe.

Wu Maxi was a stubborn person. He was used to resisting pain with a sneer, but this time, the grief was so pure and thorough that his whole heart was immersed in it, and he couldn't resist it at all.

For him, cultivation is like eating and sleeping, and it has not stopped for more than ten years.However, due to the grief in his heart, his practice has been suspended for nearly ten days, and he did not cheer up until today and resumed his practice.

But there was a change in Xia Yeying's language, a change that he couldn't understand.

He was sure that this change was due to his state of mind, but how did a change in state of mind lead to this change in mood?

He thought carefully about his weaving structure, and there was nothing unusual about it before, and the change in artistic conception had absolutely nothing to do with the structure.So, why?

Could it be that the changes were due to changes in spiritual power fluctuations?

He didn't solidify the detection concept, couldn't monitor his own spiritual power fluctuations, and didn't know the waveform and frequency of his own spiritual power fluctuations.Naturally, he couldn't prove his guess.

This kind of emotional infusion must be what Du Zhongshan called Jingyin.However, the introduction of this environment seems to have a negative effect on Xia Yeyingyu.

In Wumaxi's feeling, the sad Xia Yeyingyu's efficiency is weaker than the usual Xiaye Yingyu's. Although it is not obvious, but Wumaxi has practiced wind disks for many years, and she is very sensitive to the cultivation efficiency, which is very clear. perceived this change.

Based on Wu Maxi's existing knowledge of the principles of artistic conception, this kind of change cannot be resolved at all, and can only be hidden in his heart, and temporarily ignored. Fortunately, this change has little impact on the artistic conception.

He opened his eyes and looked around, but there was still a bottomless darkness.

This is a cave under Lengyuantan. The routes in the cave extend in all directions and are messy.Moreover, this cave seems to be bottomless. He has advanced in this cave for nearly ten days, but he has not explored the depth of this cave at all.

Wu Maxi followed Meng Yingzi into this cave. When entering the cave, due to the darkness, he quickly lost track of Meng Yingzi. He could only grope forward in the cave, passing through countless forks in the middle. Originally, he had no confidence in finding that Meng Yingzi, but just this morning, he stepped into an artistic trap.

It is a very small artistic conception trap, called the sentinel trap.The purpose of this trap is not to hurt people, but to listen to the movement.After stepping on it, even if it is separated by dozens of miles, it can still be detected by the trapper.

This should be Meng Yingzi's usual detection method. At the entrance of the cave, Wu Maxi stepped on one, and stepped on it again here, which proves that Meng Yingzi once walked this road.

While the sentry trap detects the enemy for the master, it also exposes the trace of the master.

In order to find out what's going on inside the cave, Wu Maxi also set up some mood traps, but he doesn't know how to sentry, but uses a trap commonly used by Zi Ji, called Xuexun.

In addition to the alarm function similar to the sentinel, this trap also has extremely powerful lethality. Of course, the craftsmanship and materials are much more complicated than the sentinel.Fortunately, Wumaxi has enough materials now, and along the way, five of them were buried.

One of the five blood messages has been triggered, and its position is at the entrance of the cave.Judging from the trigger location and time, it should not be Meng Yingzi's doing. That is to say, besides himself and Meng Yingzi, there should be outsiders or animals in this cave.

The purple gleam of the pure green flame illuminated this narrow world.

This is a turning point in the cave, where the cave is divided into two branches, each extending into the unknown darkness.

Whether to go left or right, this is a multiple-choice question often encountered in caves.

In the nearly ten days after entering the cave, Wu Maxi encountered dozens of such choices. After going round and round, no matter how good the corpse driver's sense of direction is, in the dark cave without the sun and stars to guide him Among them, the north has long been lost.

With the light of pure green flames, Wu Maxi carefully dismantled the arranged traps from the three forked roads, recycled the materials into the elephant ring, walked quickly into the right forked road, and used a sharp awl to make an inconspicuous hole on the cave wall. A mark was engraved on the spot, the pure green flame was extinguished, and he groped forward.

Ziji has always claimed to be the king of the dark, and after rigorous training, Ziji can walk freely in the darkest environment.

Although Wu Maxi has acquired many inheritances from Ziji, she has not learned this skill. She groped her way forward and walked extremely hard. It is extremely inconvenient to weave pure green flames for lighting.

The purple light shines on the cave wall with jagged rock scales, like the fire in hell.

There is another fork ahead, a total of five fork roads.It is extremely rare to have five forks at a time like this.It looks like the five paths in front of the palace of the Night Demon.

According to legend, in front of the palace of the night devil in the underworld, there are five divergent paths, namely death, injury, illness, disability, and paralysis. You must go through nine reincarnations in one of them before you can enter the night devil's palace.

The five forked roads in front are lined up, the rocks at the entrance of the cave are twisted and eerie, and the depth of the cave is boundless darkness, as if the back leads to the underworld that is famous for its eerie and eerie.

Wu Maxi didn't stop at all because of the weirdness at the entrance of the cave, she chose the fork in the middle, made a mark and walked straight in.

The fork looked like a cleft in the rock, extremely narrow in width, but extremely high.After walking for a short time, the width of this branch road became wider and wider, while the height became lower and lower.Sharp rocks hung from the ceiling like jagged teeth of giant beasts.

After walking for a while, there was the sound of water flowing from the front, and the patter seemed to be a small waterfall.

Wu Maxi quickened her pace, and after walking for about half an hour, she suddenly came to an open space.

This is a natural hall with a radius of tens of meters. The ceiling of the cave is about six meters above the ground. There are some strange ores embedded in the ceiling of the cave, and a blue light is found, making the whole space hazy.

A spring gushed out of a small hole in the cave wall, fell nearly four meters high, hit the rocks, and flowed into the pool below.This spring water should be one of the sources of Lengyuantan. It is freezing cold, and a layer of mist is formed on the surface of the pool. Under the blue light, it curls up like a dream.

During the ten days of underground travel, Wumaxi encountered similar springs from time to time, but this was the first time he encountered such a strange and magnificent one.

With water and a wide area, this is a good place to rest.The only downside is that it's extremely cold here, just like winter.

After finishing setting up this temporary camp, Wu Maxi took out a few kettles and began to store drinking water.This cave seems to have no end at all, and he doesn't know what kind of situation he will encounter in the future. He has no mood to condense water, so he has to prepare as trivially as possible.

There were a few small fish swimming in the cold pool, and Wumaxi tried her best to catch them, but the total amount was less than one or two, and Wumaxi ate them all alive.Although he had some food stored, he didn't know how long the journey would take, and he didn't dare to consume it indiscriminately, so he didn't let go of any food he saw on the road.

In this dark cave all day long, even the talisman of time does not work from time to time. After more than ten days, Wu Maxi has no idea of ​​night and day, and has no concept of eating on time. Wherever it is convenient, where is it? Eat, eat whenever you are hungry.

After the meal, Wu Maxi began to draw a map of the cave by the blue light of the ore.

The entire map is drawn on a huge piece of brown paper, but most of the area is just blank, and the lines are all concentrated at the bottom, spreading in zigzags, similar to the trajectory of the branches on the top of the six views.

These lines were drawn by Wu Maxi based on his impressions of the distance he traveled in the past few days.With the experience of analyzing Xia Yeying's language, the sense of direction of a traveler, and a solid foundation of three-dimensional structure, Wu Maxi is confident that this map should be quite accurate.

This route twists and turns, one end is where Wumaxi is now, and the other end is a question mark. That is not the exit of this crypt, but the place where Wumaxi started to record, which is the seventh place where Wumaxi entered the cave. sky.Due to carelessness, the journey of the first few days was not recorded on this map, which directly caused Wu Maxi to have nowhere to return.

Wu Maxi briefly checked the drawn map, put it away carefully, took out a book on the principles of artistic conception and began to study the theory of artistic conception.

This book is a collection of ancient daggers, called "Explanation of Artistic Conception", the author is Ming Caiwei, a master of astronomical phenomenon of Baixiangjingyuan, and the content of the book is an annotation and interpretation of the classic work of artistic conception more than 1000 years ago. In-depth analysis. The author of "Artistic Conception" is Guan Chong, a famous theoretical master.

As far as the theory of artistic conception is concerned, Guan Chong has reached the pinnacle. Many of the basic theories of artistic conception today were laid by him.But this theoretical master is more famous for his verbal skills.

At the Lanchi Conference more than 600 years ago, there were more than 60 schools participating, and the cultivation methods of these 60 schools were all severely criticized by Guan Chong one by one.In the venue of the Lanchi Conference, he was the only one left to roar.

Life-fighting guru Yan Xiya said angrily: "Don't talk about those useless, you will know if you can fight."

Guan Chong waved his hand and said, "I'm definitely not as good as you in fighting. But let me tell you, rigidity is easy to break. There must be something wrong with your gun-style cultivation method. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. In less than 500 years, your gun gun Flow will definitely be eliminated."

Yan Xiya couldn't live for 500 years, so she couldn't wait and see with him, and naturally she couldn't produce strong evidence to refute him, so she was depressed by this sentence for a lifetime.

Unfortunately, Guan Chong's prophecy came true. Qiu Gunliu was really extinct after 500 years, but it was not because of wrong cultivation, but because he met the extremely powerful Jian Shuangcheng. Being disabled, he soon lost his inheritance on the mainland.

This story is recorded in the preface of "Explanation of the Artistic Conception". Ming Caiwei laughed and said that Guan Chong was a crow's mouth, but as the reading deepened, Wu Maxi worshiped the crow's mouth master more than 600 years ago. Plus.

The theory of artistic conception 600 years ago is indeed not as precise and detailed as the current theory, but the theory of artistic conception stated by Guan Chong in the book is far-sighted, profound and subtle, with a clear and accurate theoretical context, and a clear and accurate understanding of artistic conception. It is so profound that it really deserves the title of theoretical master.

A lot of Ming Caiwei's own understanding has been added to "Explanation of Artistic Conception", which can be regarded as an excellent theoretical work on artistic conception.Tai Yin once mentioned this book in particular, but because the book was rarely circulated, Wu Maxi was not able to see it in the Tai Yin Realm Room.

After seeing this book in the elephant ring of the ancient dagger, Wu Maxi has been busy with various important affairs. After entering the crypt, she has time to study it. In the past few days, although she only read the first few chapters, But it also benefited a lot, and the understanding of the principle of artistic conception became more and more clear, and the foundation became more and more solid.