Unknowingly, it had been more than half a year since Chen Taizhong returned from Yinxia Road.
Wang Yanyan's level 1 cultivation has been completely stabilized.
At the same time, there were many more animals in his small courtyard.
On the gravel beside the small lake, there are more than thirty short-tailed tapirs drilling holes and making nests. In the woods not far from the small lake, there are six pairs of Yin-Yang snakes circled - this is just a guy who has completed his task, he killed one.
Regarding the Yin and Yang snakes, we also found twelve snake eggs.
Coupled with the three wind-winged beasts in the animal pen, Chen Taizhong felt that he could call the small courtyard "Ten Thousand Beasts Villa".
However, these little guys are all scared to death of him. This has nothing to do with rank suppression. The main reason is that in recent months, he has made explosions from time to time.
This is when he is testing the formation. So far, the large formation in the courtyard has not been set up, and the waste of materials has exceeded two top-grade spiritual stones - of course, this is because he has not focused all his attention on the formation.
From a certain point of view, Chen Taizhong is a very controlling person. He believes that formations are only for pleasure and practice is fundamental, so the time he spends on formations is quite restrained.
It is precisely because of this that in more than half a year, he has reached the peak of level four and is only half a step away from level five.
Therefore, he has spent a little more time on formations recently.
After more than half a year of practice, he has been able to make some quite high-level formations. For example, Jiang Chuan, who sold him the nameless sword technique, once built the spirit gathering formation outside the grotto. In his eyes, it is not good at all.
Worth to talk about.
Jiangchuan was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time. He was a level two Immortal, and he was not that clever at setting up the spirit gathering array.
And Chen Taizhong is now using spirit stones to set up a spirit gathering array in the wild. As long as he has enough time, he can even set up a spirit gathering array that is enough for a hundred high-level spirit immortals to practice.
Why is there such rapid progress? As a middle-level spiritual immortal, Chen has powerful spiritual energy, strong control ability, and a sufficient brain. Of course, the most important thing is that he is willing to smash spiritual stones to refine it.
The oil seller has "nothing but his hands and ears", while Chen Taizhong has "nothing but his ears for throwing money".
Therefore, although his current formation attainments are not high, he can still set up extremely powerful formations.
This statement seems a bit contradictory, but in fact it is not. The so-called formation attainment means obtaining excellent results at a very small cost. This is called profound attainment.
Just like what Jiang Ziqin said in the Black Forest, the Jiang family is not incapable of hunting higher-level spiritual beasts. The key is that hunting like that is not economical enough - it cannot be a loss-making business.
The formation created by Chen Taizhong has no problem with its effect, but the biggest problem is that it is high cost - the cost of setting up is high, and the cost of using it is also high.
The same defensive formation, the same defense strength and area. If someone else can set it up with fifty souls, he will have to spend seventy to eighty souls to set it up. But if this defensive formation is operating at full capacity, other people's formations will cost ten ten souls an hour.
Shang Ling, his formation would cost fifteen Shang Ling... or even more.
However, Chen Taizhong didn't think this was a problem. Anyway, he didn't lack spiritual stones. If he understood the basic principles of the formation, that would be enough.
As for the level of attainment, it is very directly related to the time and energy invested.
Chen Taizhong didn't want to put too much energy into the formation. He thought: I can come up with a corresponding formation when I need it, and that's enough. Economical or not is not something I have to consider.
Anyway, I don’t expect to make money as a formation mage.
However, he still planned to be more particular about the design of the array in his own yard. To design such an array well, the topography and even the feng shui must be taken into consideration.
So he has been dismantling and building them recently. Many of the inconsistent combinations can easily cause explosions. After he assembles them, he has to test the power. It is understandable that the yard is filled with thunder.
Fortunately, there are far fewer children coming to the small lake to play recently, because there are many wild beasts coming out of the lake.
Short-tailed tapirs are omnivores, but they have a strong sense of territory. They are level seven wild beasts, and their attack power is conceivable. Even if they don't bite, just bumping into them, children won't be able to bear it.
As for the mountain behind the railing of the small lake, the children were even more afraid to go there because there were snakes there.
The townspeople have a relatively relaxed attitude towards Chen Taizhong's master and servant raising so many wild beasts. The reason is very simple. They keep them in their own yards. As long as they guarantee not to leave the yard, who can care?
Moreover, there are several viewing spots beside the small lake, and there are no wild beasts. As long as people who go there don't run around, they will be fine.
Chen Taizhong once said with a smile that raising a bunch of wild beasts at home seems to be more effective than the Shen family's guards.
After he had been doing this for a while, one day, he suddenly found Scar and handed her a jade token proudly, "Starting from tomorrow, when you walk around in the mountains, you must take this jade token with you to avoid being harmed."
attack."
Wang Yanyan was stunned for a while before she took the jade sign and asked, "Has the formation been set up?"
"Okay," Chen Taizhong nodded, "Gathering spirit, early warning, defense, phantom array and killing array, five in one, it's not even powerful. Even if I go out to do things, you can keep an eye on the formation alone, and there are three or two high-level ones."
Lingxian can't attack at all."
In fact, the effect of his formation is at the same level as that of a general family formation to protect the village, but it is smaller in area, more complex in formation, and uses more spirit stones.
As for the formation being fully activated, the speed at which spirit stones are consumed can scare the faint of heart to death. But Mr. Chen only wants safety, not inheritance - when he really establishes a family, the formation cannot protect the village.
Such a waste of spiritual stones.
Anyway, as this was the first large formation he personally designed, he was very proud of it.
"I'll go see it later later," Wang Yanyan couldn't bring herself to cheer up.
What's your attitude? It's so disappointing. Chen Taizhong was a little annoyed, "You have something very important now?"
"I am practicing Qi Condensation," Wang Yanyan answered seriously. "Now I have almost found the feeling. Going out as a spirit fairy... I feel a bit high-profile."
"You are holding back your anger, as if others don't know you are a spirit fairy," Chen Taizhong was really angry and funny, "Who in Tingfeng Town doesn't know you are a spirit fairy?"
"What about going to other places?" Wang Yanyan's eyes widened.
"You... okay," Chen Taizhong nodded, turned around and left. Usually Scar wasn't 100% enthusiastic about cultivation, but now that she was rarely interested, he couldn't say anything.
After notifying her, he went to notify the Shen family's guards - the courtyard was now his, but such a large yard always had to be guarded, and he was more comfortable using the Shen family's guards, so he continued.
Hired.
Of course, the Shen family guards are happy to rest. Although the patrol work is not very heavy, they can be lazy, why not?
Chen Taizhong did not notify anyone else.
Then something happened, just as he thought, if there was no one patrolling, someone would have thoughts that they shouldn't have.
One night about half a month later, Chen Taizhong was meditating near the formation when he suddenly heard a warning bell ringing.
But here we are! He immediately jumped up and came to the front of the array. After careful inspection, he found a small red dot very close to the yard.
The courtyard is in a corner of Tingfeng Town, it can even be said to be the outermost edge of Tingfeng Town. There is no way to approach the courtyard at this time.
Chen Taizhong swayed and wanted to ask Scar to watch - the desire to show off is human nature and it is difficult to restrain it.
However, the next moment, he held back forcefully. After all, it was his first actual practice of the formation. If he failed in the performance, wouldn't he be ridiculed by his own servants?
It should be noted that he is a very face-conscious master.
In order to enter actual combat as soon as possible, he did not activate the defensive formation, but watched helplessly as the opponent entered his yard from the direction of Xiaohu.
Chen Taizhong originally planned to activate the phantom formation, and wait for the opponent to wander around for a while without knowing where he was. When he came to the vicinity of the killing formation, he would directly use the formation to kill him. However, he didn't expect that guy to step into a small phantom formation without dying.
within.
There were only three such small magic formations in the whole yard. They were the products of his experimental formations, and they didn't have much meaning. However, since the other party stepped into it, he did not hesitate to activate this small magic formation.
As soon as the phantom array was activated, the red dot became obviously panicked, scurrying around like a headless fly - obviously, the guy also knew that he had been discovered.
But... the formation set up by Chen Taizhong is really powerful. Such a small magic formation is enough to trap the first-level fairy. If the magic formation is large, the middle-level fairy will not be spared without any means.
The red dot didn't know what kind of cultivation it was, but it was just spinning around in the illusory array. Chen Taizhong stared at it for an hour. After believing that it was impossible for the opponent to leave the illusory array, he sat down to meditate again.
However, there was a time when he couldn't cultivate to his heart's content. From time to time he would get up and take a look at the array. It was not until late at night that he calmed down and practiced with complete peace of mind.
The next day, he still did not remove the phantom formation, and the place where the phantom formation was was completely white, which attracted some people's attention.
Forget it, the residents of the town knew that the owner of the yard was tinkering with formations recently. Wang Yanyan was very surprised after hearing about it, so she asked her owner, "Master, is that white mist next to the small lake a phantom formation?"
Already?"
"It's just a small magic array," Chen Taizhong replied lightly, with a look of disapproval, "an inconspicuous little thief came in last night and trapped him inside."
"Is your formation really that powerful?" Scar was immediately shocked.
"What kind of expression do you have?" Chen Taizhong gave her a very dissatisfied look, "Other people's formations can trap people, but mine can't... Do you talk to the master like this?"
"Arrays are notoriously easy to understand but difficult to master," Scar knew he was lying, so he could only explain pitifully, "Master, you are truly a genius... This man needs to be released now.
?"
"Let him wait for a few days before we talk," Chen Taizhong replied casually, "Where in my territory is it so easy to enter casually?"