In addition to jade and jade, over the past two hundred years of colonization of the New World, agate and chalcedony have also been found to be produced. Although these two crystal semi-precious stones are not as valuable as rubies and other gemstones, they are still very valuable in the eyes of Europeans. Stuff, especially chalcedony, has a distinctive feature that is as transparent as ice. The transparency of good chalcedony can reach that of jade glass, which makes them very popular among the middle class who cannot afford expensive gems. , this is also the biggest difference between chalcedony and agate.
These two kinds of semi-precious stones were slightly more expensive, so John didn't buy too many, but just bought a few of each for experimentation.
After analyzing the value of various jade and gemstones, John finally chose to purchase large quantities of jasper produced in the northern part of the New World and jade shipped from Hyjal in the south.
The quality and spirituality of these jaspers are not inferior to ordinary jade from the Middle Earth in the previous life. Compared with gemstones, they are very cheap. One pound of polished jade only costs three cents. If you buy the rough jade by the truckload, it only costs one ton locally. It is estimated that it will cost three gold pounds to send to Rem Town. This is after accounting for the freight. It is almost like giving it away for free. It can be said that the three gold pounds are almost all the freight.
You must know that one ton here is a unit of volume. It is equivalent to forty cubic feet according to the system of the Brook Empire. The density of jade is greater than that of ordinary stone. This ton is more than two or three thousand kilograms in the previous life.
In the previous life in Middle Earth, two thousand kilograms of jade material, even if it was of average quality, would have cost at least hundreds of millions, right?
The quantity of jadeite is greater, and several carts have been transported, but the quality is poorer. They are basically brick materials, because they are not valuable in themselves. They are also only three to five pounds per ton. They are basically dug out by locals to make extra money. Some local wealthy people like to use this marble-like but more transparent material as building stones, so it is not as cheap as the large-scale mines in the Brook Colony in the north.
Even so, to John, these were as cheap as picking them up for free, so John, who felt like he had gotten a huge bargain, ordered hundreds of carts of jasper ore and jadeite ore in succession to use them as his own cultivation resources.
Because of the long distance, only a few trucks have arrived so far, which has almost emptied the small inventory in nearby cities. It only takes a month or two to transport the other parts to Rem Town.
These jade stones are just used to build the key parts of the Taiyin Golden Lock Formation. There are also several pieces of polished high-grade jasper, which are called Arctic stones by the locals. In Middle Earth, they are high-grade jaspers, and they are all fine. Among the materials used to refine high-grade magic weapons, John saved all the rest except for refining eight jade talismans and preparing to refine some portable magic weapons in the future.
This kind of high-quality jade is used more and more in the later stages. For example, in the stage of refining qi and transforming into a god after the innate life, whether it is to strengthen the yin god or to refine yin and turn yang after the yin god is completed, you need to take the elixir bait refined from jade powder. Food, that’s the one who eats money!
After introducing the jade charms and consecrating them to give them spiritual power, John arranged for everyone to place the jade charms around the apartment.
The door opens in the Qian Palace in the northwest, and the five elements belong to gold. The person responsible for opening the door is Qiao, and this metal needs to receive the yang energy from the sky, so the Qian talisman is placed high on the northwest attic balcony and placed in a copper basin.
Xiumen is located in Kan Palace in the north and belongs to water. The person in charge of Xiumen is Arthur. He can easily climb up the water tower several people high with a few leaps and fix the Kan Talisman inside the water tower in the north.
The Shengmen belongs to the earth and is located in the Gen Palace in the northeast. The person in charge of the Shengmen is Dashil. According to John's instructions, he used the leftover materials and bricks left after John dug out the jade and jade to directly pile up a stone tower in the northeast open space.
The rockery and Gen symbols are placed in it.
Shangmen is located in Dongfangzhen Palace, and the five elements belong to wood, so John asked Brandon to transplant a few big trees in the forest not far away, and connect them with the flowers and plants originally located in the southeast garden courtyard, which also belongs to the wood element.
The Dumen Zhenfu belonging to the Xun Palace hangs above the trunk of the thickest tree.
The Jingmen is located in the southern palace and belongs to the fire genus. It happens to be the door of the apartment. Mark has lived alone for many years and is quite good at craftsmanship. So he asked him to remove the lampshade of a hexagonal iron glass wind lamp placed on the door and put in the Li symbol.
, which is used to illuminate and guide the direction in the dark night and foggy days, so fire-type town objects also appeared.
The Gate of Death is located in the Kun Palace in the southwest and belongs to the earth. The Gate of Death is opposite to the Life Gate of Gen Palace. All things live in spring and die in autumn, sowing in spring and harvesting in autumn, so it is named Death Gate. It was originally a barn, but John and the others only used it to store some horses.
The fodder was now being used as a utility room. Sam buried the Kunfu in the soil in front of the barn door under John's order.
Jingmen is located in the west and is in the element of metal. It takes the meaning of the chilling autumn wind and is also used as lake, as metal generates water. There is a fountain pool that is often seen in the courtyards of Western upper-class residences, but it has been abandoned for a while. John personally
Bring water to clean it and fill it with clean water.
There is a bronze statue of a girl by the pool. The girl is holding a copper bottle in her hand, and in the bottle is placed the talisman he prepared.
In this way, the arrangement of the eight-door golden lock array is completed.
As for the only idle maid, Wei Ni, she volunteered to serve everyone tea and water. After following everyone around for a while, she became very tired. It was already 8 o'clock at night, and the children were naturally sleepy due to the need to grow up.
I was so sleepy that I nodded and dozed off, so I was carried back to the room by John and fell asleep.
After the eight spiritual jade talismans were placed in their corresponding positions, everyone including John could feel subtle changes in the entire space within the apartment.
John was only reluctantly satisfied with this.
Due to limited conditions, he could only arrange the eight-door Golden Lock Formation, which was not perfect and concealed enough. Even a Feng Shui master from the previous life would be able to see the clues, but if he was given enough magic weapons, he could do it little by little.
The eight-door golden lock formation is set up upside down. Even ordinary spiritual masters will have difficulty in breaking through the changes. No matter how high your cultivation level is, you will still be trapped in the formation.
However, John does not think that anyone in this Western civilized world will know the direction of Bagua. Even the vampire who has lived for hundreds of years should not be able to see through this formation. Therefore, in a short period of time, this kind of eight-door golden lock
The array is enough.
The basic layout of the Eight-Door Golden Lock Formation was completed, and with the help of everyone, John began to lay out the Taiyin part of the formation.
"The key to this formation is to need a spiritual mirror that can reflect and absorb moonlight, and then build an altar-like stone well in the center of the Bagua formation. The best materials are gold, jade and crystal. I bought these carts of jade stone.
It’s come in handy.”
Most of these carts of jadeite ore are semi-finished products that have been cut by others. After all, they were originally used as building materials to replace marble, so they are all in the shape of strips of stone and square bricks. This is also convenient for John and the others, as they do not have to do it themselves.
You can use it directly.
With that said, everyone started working together to select suitable stones cut into strips and build an octagonal water well-like altar in the center of the yard.
The wellhead in the center of the well is a pool about one foot wide and half a foot deep. Inside is a piece of jadeite with the best quality as the bottom, and then a large glass bowl is placed. This is the container that John plans to receive the true water of Taiyin in the future.
After completing these, the Taiyin Golden Lock Array is basically completed. The eight-door Golden Lock Array has begun to take effect. Now there is only one spiritual mirror weapon left, which can gather the magic power of the moonlight for the large array.