Chapter 21 Repair the Ark
After staying in Taixu Realm for more than half a month, what should be played and what should be rested has also been rested. Bai Yong finally remembered to do a serious business... Just as he said to Shangguan Chan before, he would go to Zhuozhou next time he went out, so he had to prepare in advance.
Crossing the realm is not a visit from neighbors and villagers. If you want to leave, you will leave. If Bai Yong is in other worlds, tearing the space is naturally easy, but the space barriers in Shenzhou are extremely thick, and it is difficult for ordinary masters to break it, let alone traveling through time. Creation is always hundreds of times more difficult than destruction, and this matter is both destruction and creation.
When crossing the realm, you must first prepare the spatial coordinates of the destination, otherwise you will not know where to go. However, Bai Yong was prepared for this point and it was not difficult. The next step is to protect himself and safely overcome the turbulent flow of the void. In fact, with Bai Yong's current cultivation level, as long as he does not encounter the particularly powerful turbulent flow of the void, he will not be in danger of life. But now it is not only him who is leaving alone, but Shangguan Chan and Bai Ruxue are also there.
After Shangguan Chan was in seclusion, he might be able to survive with the slight help of Bai Yong, but Bai Ruxue did not even have the cultivation level of the Heavenly Realm. Bai Yong could not protect him alone, and there were always things in the world. If he encountered a particularly powerful turbulent void turbulence, wouldn’t he just sigh helpless?
Therefore, it is imperative to repair the Miracle Ark. Since the Miracle Ark can cross tens of thousands of troops across the interface, it is naturally no problem to cross the three people.
After the Battle of Chizhou, Miracle Ark was seriously damaged. After all, Bai Yong transferred all the damage he suffered to the top during the final battle. The strength of the Venerable of Troubled World as a powerful void is not at the moment. Even the body of the Tianque Wuhou with the crystal of the Divine Kingdom was simply above Dongfang Yi. In other words, the body of Miracle Ark was strong and extraordinary. If it were an ordinary artifact, it would have long been disintegrated.
Fortunately, the most important power core was not damaged, and the one that needs to be repaired is some hull control systems. As for the hull barriers, it is enough to add and repair them casually. Bai Yong did not intend to carry the entire Xuanzong over.
In fact, the simplest three-step method he was going to cross the realm this time, namely breaking the space, crossing the turbulence, and reaching the destination. It sounds a bit unreliable, but it becomes feasible to have a realm shuttle artifact like Miracle Ark, plus the original Prison King leading the way.
As for other methods, such as building space tunnels and building space doors based on the laws of space, it is too cumbersome, and Bai Yong did not plan to go there often to escape the summer heat in the future, just a tour. After this time, he did not plan to come to another place to visit again.
Repairing magic weapons is not Bai Yong's strength. He is not a person born with magical tools. He is proficient in refining alchemy, refining weapons, fighting, and layout. It is rare in the world to have such cultivation at his age. No matter how powerful he is, he will become a monster. So he came to Baibianju and met Luo Hongchen on the way. The other party expressed his interest and followed him all the way.
Baibianju is the residence of the third brother of the Suan family. There are few people coming here, and even his disciple Zang Senluo rarely comes. Because the Suan family has a strange personality, most people will ask them to help, and they will ask to solve a problem. If it can be solved, they will help freely. Don’t blame them for not being able to solve the problem.
Even the three brothers of the Suan family are extremely skilled - the eldest brother is good at casting weapons and armor, the second brother is good at making talisman formations, and the third brother is good at carving and painting - but because of this strange rule, few people will ask them for help. After all, it is not only the three of them in the Xuanzong who can refine weapons.
Luo Hongchen once thought about asking them to help cast a knife, and even collected all the materials, but he was thrown out a "Equal Loss" question in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic". He was scared away just after a glance.
From then on, he finally understood what it means to be poor in manpower sometimes, and what it means to be separated by a mountain.
Luo Hongchen was very curious. When Mr. Bai, who is recognized as a master of magic, encounters such a weird and tricky arithmetic problem, what kind of solution will he use? This is not a problem that can be solved by quick thinking. Even if he has read thousands of books and has beautiful articles, he will still have a headache when he encounters it, because the two are not in the same system and are still subject to the principle of being separated by a different line like a mountain.
Bai Yong knocked on the door, then said a few words to Suan Baiji in the house, which was to ask for help repairing the Miracle Ark. Then the door opened a crack and a square paper about the same length as a human flew out from it.
This is not surprising. He rarely goes out every day and stays in the hut all day long. He doesn't really meet him.
The paper was divided into dense square grids by countless vertical and horizontal lines, with a few small grids filled with numbers, and most of the remaining ones were vacant.
Luo Hongchen couldn't understand what he was going to do at all. After all, he didn't hear the conversation between the two clearly. However, before he could ask, Bai Yong replied: "The nine-nine sudoku question must be 1 to 9 numbers in each row and column, and it happened to be used up. In addition, each three-three grid must also use up exactly nine numbers, which is a simple question."
Luo Hongchen had not yet fully understood the meaning of the question, so he saw Bai Yong lifting his pen and filling in the numbers with all the spaces and sending the paper into the room, but soon another picture floated out.
The front and back of the picture this time are reflected in the gossip, with various array nodes on it, and the nodes are filled with Chinese characters such as "Kan San" and "Dui Two".
Luo Hongchen also saw at a glance that it was clearly a formation question. Although he was not good at formation, this thing was related to combat. As a disciple of Xuanzong, he knew more or less, and Bagua was the basic formation. However, even though he knew, he couldn't do it. Can the questions used to test people be easily solved?
What's more, as the basic formation, there are many deformation arrays on it. There are two Bagua patterns on this paper, namely, nine and six, which is a prompt, but Luo Hongchen can't imagine anything.
This question is really difficult. Bai Yong spread the big paper on the stone table, then leaned on his chin, frowned and thought. This thought took a quarter of an hour, and he seemed to have turned into a stone statue without moving.
For Luo Hongchen, who had nothing to do and could only wait aside, time passed more slowly. If he thought about the solution to the problem, he could pass the time. But he didn't even understand the meaning of the question and had no idea. So he asked casually and got a constant analysis.
"This Yin-Yang double-pole Eight Trigrams array, Ninth is Laoyang, Six is Laoyin, Three Heavenly Clouds, one of the heavens, three, and five, and it becomes nine. Yang is the master of advancing nine, among the five numbers behind heaven and earth, and Yang is the master of advancing the extreme. Therefore, the sage paints strange images to the sky, and calls its line to the nine, and orders its hexagram to be the stem. Two clouds of the earth, and combines the two and four, and makes it become six. Yin is the master of subtracting six, among the five numbers behind heaven and earth, and the yin retreats and reaches the extreme. Therefore, the sage paints occasionally to be the image to the earth, and calls its line to be the six, and orders its hexagram to be the Kun, and the odd numbers to form the beginning of the nine and six..."
Luo Hongchen was dizzy when he heard this. When he was thinking about whether he should give up, he saw Bai Yong start writing. He picked up a brush and filled in the small square of the paper with numbers, from top to bottom, from right to left, filling in order, filling it with clean appearance and black.
"Generally speaking, nine is the extreme number of yang. The so-called pure yang refers to the nine numbers. Yang is usually positive. The righteous and upright people are all "yang numbers", and evil spirits are all "yin numbers". One to nine, the yang numbers are one, three, five, and seven numbers are two, four, six, and eight. According to the original number of Zhouyi left on this picture, the direction is determined. Heaven is three and earth is two, which achieves the so-called three heavens and two earths. Three heavens are one, three, five, and two earths are two and four. One, three, five are added to 9, and the extreme Yang numbers are born, called Gan. Two and four are added to six, and the extreme Yin numbers are born, called Kun. The two hexagrams and the two hexagrams are determined, and the rest is very simple. It is also possible to use ordinary eight trigram formations to form."
Bai Yong put the filled-in picture into the crack. After a while, he heard a response sounding in the room. The door slowly opened, and it seemed that it had been successful.
Bai Ji kept his promise, and did not deliberately make things difficult for Bai Yong to be a junior, so he took on the task of repairing Miracle Ark. Although Miracle Ark is powerful and can be called a transcendent artifact, its power lies in the rare materials used and the grand form. If we talk about the craftsmanship skills alone, it is not something that Bai Ji can see. He even scolded the caster for being rough in his craftsmanship, flaws everywhere, and not learning skills, and wasting so many good materials in vain.
Bai Yong took advantage of the situation and quickly asked Sheng Baiji for help. He simply adjusted and re-refined it. Anyway, he was not in a hurry to use it, so he was kicked out of the door.
But Bai Yong was still satisfied. He thought that with his professionalism of calculating the world, he would definitely not be able to help adjusting it during the restoration process. Just like a chef saw that good materials were wasted, and he could obviously make delicious food, but he used the wrong method and would definitely not be able to see it.
When they think of the chef, the two felt a little hungry, so they went to eat together. In fact, when they reached their level of cultivation, they would not be hungry, but only felt hungry in spirit. Xuanzong advocated the unity of immortals and mortals, and food was the most important thing for people. Moreover, appetite is one of the three major desires of human beings. Satisfying appetite can sometimes make thoughts smooth and improve the Tao.
Don’t think it’s strange. The so-called practice is a kind of practice that aims to make oneself feel happy. The evil bullies the weak and kills innocent people in order to gain spiritual pleasure in this process. The Taoist practices, whether it’s delicious food, tea or enjoys joy. They are all for making oneself feel happy. If the original heart is satisfied, the Taoist practice will naturally improve.
The kind of thinking that practicing is like an ascetic, who is tempered every day and endured loneliness and pain is the real way of being a slut.
Practice means that the happier you will be, and the happier you will be. This is the real practice. When you feel that practice is very painful, it means that you have practiced the wrong method and entered the evil path. Even if you are an ascetic monk, others may feel very painful, but in fact, if you are the one who is himself, you will feel very happy and temper your heart to achieve satisfaction.
"When I came to the meal home, I remembered the things I was deceived by you a year ago."
Luo Hongchen laughed while recalling the memories. A year ago, he was too concerned about Bai Yong's plan and followed him. He was used in turn. He thought Bai Yong asked the chef Zu Jian, the dietary hospital, to harm him, and staged a farce on the ring.
Although Luo Hongchen made a fool of this incident, when he recalled it, he only felt that he was very interesting at that time and had no intention of being angry at all. Only a year has passed, his mentality has become much more mature, and he can look at many things that have happened in the past rationally, as the saying goes, a smile to eliminate grudges, a funny childhood story, and a passing cloud.
Speaking of Zu Jian, this person is not a disciple of Xuanzong. He was originally just a take-out staff member, but because of his superb cooking skills, he was hired as a guest elder of Xuanzong.
Xuanzong had a unique set of rules when asking non-scholars to be elders. The most important thing was to have a unique skill. If you have high martial arts cultivation, even if you practiced to the Void Realm, Xuanzong would not invite you, but if you have the ability of a master in painting, calligraphy, musical instruments, etc., you will regard you as a guest of honor.
In fact, Xuanzong often invites contemporary calligraphy masters, or masters and masters to the Taixu Realm to give lectures, communicate with their disciples, and give them a reward. This is a very high treatment. You must know that even if the heads of a major sect like Xuantian Sect come, they will only send people to meet him in the outer hall of Daluo Mountain, and will not allow him to enter the Taixu Realm.
Xuanzong is not short of peerless powerful men in martial arts, and since there is no place that they admire, they will naturally not be respected. The everyone Xuanzong wants to invite is all those self-created sects, and even if they die, there will be countless great masters who will remember them. If the people of Xuantianzong want to be treated the same way, unless the founder comes in person, he can barely be considered a self-created sect.
The people of Xuanzong are very modest and proud. They will be respectful and polite to the mortals who are despised by immortal cultivators, and will also ignore the glory halo of the long-standing martial arts powerhouses.
Zu Jian invented the poisonous diet to go further on the basis of the culinary art of poison transformation, treating toxins in the human body as the object of poison transformation, and using toxic food to resolve them. The human body is accumulating toxins all the time, including eating, practicing and healing, etc. Zu Jian does not remove the toxicity of food, but uses the combination method to transform the toxicity, which is just able to attack the toxicity of toxins in the human body, which is in line with the principle of yin and yang synthesis into chaos.
It is impossible to completely eliminate toxins with any antidote. It is a medicine with three parts of poison. The medicine itself is poison. Only by using the neutralization method of fighting poison can the effect of thorough removal be achieved.
Zu Jian has such a magical craft, and has had a relationship with studying in Xuanzong, so he naturally has no reason to let it go. In addition, he cooks good dishes and is convinced by everyone as a chef. In a sense, his ability can make people improve their Taoism, with better results than elixirs and no side effects. It is not surprising that he was hired as a guest elder.
"By the way, are you repairing the Miracle Ark to go to Prison City?"
Bai Yong nodded and admitted, but Luo Hongchen said with regret: "It's so good. I want to go together too. Unfortunately, I just agreed to the strategy and all three of me want to help him."
"What do you want your help?" Bai Yong remembered that after the Battle of Chizhou, everyone else returned to Xuanzong, but he only said he wanted to go around.
"It is said that an accident occurred in the Famen. Now the entire Famen is in chaos. Some people in the Famen accept bribes and secretly release those imprisoned prisoners. Some people say that some people use prisoners to conduct human demonization experiments, accidentally causing monsters to escape, and are killing innocent people everywhere. In short, there are many doubts."
Bai Yong remembered that Ji Weiweiwei had indeed said that he wanted to go to the Dharma. At that time, he thought he was deliberately angry, but he didn't expect that this guy really went there.
"Why have you never seen such a serious situation in the official newspaper?"
"The news was blocked, and there were many different opinions. I don't know which one was the truth, and the official newspaper didn't care about it. I learned a little bit of news because the plan was involved in the incident. I still have to go there in person to understand the specific situation."
"Or... I'll let go of my trip to Prison and go with you first?"
"This is not necessary. I really thought that if you have time, I would like to ask you to go with me. Since you have something to do, I will not be bothered. After all, it is a matter of the Dharma. It is not easy for outsiders to wave. The Dharma is also a time-honored brand, and it also has its own foundation. Besides, although Ji Weifang sometimes doesn't like him, his skills are real. When describing him, he has to add a scheming as deep as the sea and a scheming as heavy as the mountain."
"Ha, I wish you a smooth journey and a success."
"I wish you a smooth journey. I also want to print more pictures of the beautiful women in Prison Island to come back, so I can see how the local customs and culture are like?"
The two chatted for a while and said goodbye to each other. Bai Yong couldn't help but sigh in his heart that once a person enters the world, it will be very difficult to get out of it. Even if you don't cause trouble, things will be repeatedly entangled, and you can't hide it even if you want to.
Not to mention the stance in the vortex of the incident, just talking about Luo Hongchen and others who returned to Xuanzong were also dragged into the water. Even if they didn’t want to encounter trouble, they couldn’t ignore the help from their fellow disciples, right?
Ji Weiwei didn't ask for help from other brothers, but he just asked for help from these three people. One reason was that the three people had experience in the world and had rich knowledge and could help more, and the other reason was that they didn't want to pull those who were interested in evading the world into the water. In contrast, Luo Hongchen and others had been in the world for a long time, making it much easier for them to help.
People are in the world and cannot help themselves, probably like this.
Just like Bai Yong, the Battle of the Frontier and the Battle of Chizhou may be entrusted or involved, and they have to do it, but no one forces him to go to the Prison City or not. Even if he goes, he will kill the enemy's plan to invade Shenzhou in the cradle. So what can it do? The people in Shenzhou will not know at all, and no one will praise him.
But there is no fame or profit, so why don’t you do it?
The country is in danger, and if you do not do it, I do it, and if he does not do it, wouldn’t he have to wait for the country to perpetuate?
Chapter completed!