There are too many representative figures in the Taoist sect, but most of them are from the legendary era of the earth. After the decline of spiritual energy, there are also many Taoist sects who break away from the foundation of spiritual energy and explore the natural sciences between heaven and earth. This is mentioned in the Miscellaneous Notes of Longhu Mountain
There are many records in it.
Among them, there are also many who have made various exploratory attempts based on Taoism's famous "Bagua Pan" and achieved breakthrough results.
For example, Zhuge Kongming, the founder of the Kongming Lantern, whom Zhang Yan used in exchange for credit, is a typical representative of the post-Taoism era who prefers natural sciences.
Now that we have already taken the Kongming Lantern, it is reasonable to take another Bagua Formation, right?
The "Bagua Formation" is actually two different things from the "formation" that the monks call it. It is more of a battle formation, but it has many differences from the battle formation.
Moreover, Zhang Yan has long been familiar with the Bagua Array. I remember that when he was learning Taoism from his master, he always played the Bagua Array as a puzzle game. He would often sit opposite his master and compete in the deduction of the Bagua Array to win or lose.
Secondly, the main reason why Zhang Yan likes the Bagua array is to make the master forget to check the recitation of Taoist scriptures.
Of course, the reason why Zhang Yan chose the Bagua Array this time was not just because he liked the Bagua Array, but because it was just the right place for the Bagua Array to be placed in Yubei Mountain.
Make use of the existing and artificially changed environment to form a visual "mask" effect. For example, if it is a curved road, you will seem to be walking in a straight line. Or you will mistakenly think that you are walking in a place that you have not walked.
It means going around in circles and going back to the previous place and choosing to go backwards, resulting in such misconceptions.
If nuisances such as traps are added, it is even possible to form some ambush and siege points in the Bagua array where fewer attacks can lead to more attacks. Not to mention that this blinding effect can be used to warn sentries in advance.
Zhang Yan even felt that if the effect was good, the demon tribe would hesitate to move forward because of the unknown fear of this method.
But this matter cannot be rushed, it needs to be planned slowly, making good use of his status as a temporary instructor for trap placement, and setting up a sentry post as an example bit by bit. When the actual effect is achieved, Zhang Yan will not be needed at all.
If he goes to promote the Bagua array by himself, the leaders of Yubei Mountain Fortress will naturally praise him. At worst, he will just throw his head away from the suspended "miscellaneous studies".
In addition, another reason why Zhang Yan dared to take out the Bagua Array is that this is the wilderness, not the earth, and there are many strange things that are not found on the earth. For example, he mentioned the "thorn vine" when he and Lao Yu set up the trap before.
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The thorn vine in the Wild Sky Realm is a vine with poisonous thorns and is extremely tough. It grows very quickly and is easy to transplant. If it clings to trees, it can easily form thick thorn vine walls in some inaccessible places.
This thing can climb several feet high.
With the help of thorn vine, a natural "wall-building" material, Zhang Yan had the confidence to move the Bagua Array to Yubei Mountain.
The situation went very smoothly. Zhang Yan came up with an idea. Wasn't this newbie in machine learning stunned? Even Qin Hao knew about Zhang Yan's actions and nodded, because Zhang Yan's transformation was indeed successful.
There are indeed obvious benefits. On that day, Qin Hao asked two warriors to find a lot of thorn vines from the ravine, move them up, and insert them according to the position mentioned by Zhang Yan. After that, they waited and adjusted.
When Zhang Yan was stationed at the sentry post, he often went over to see the growth of the thorn vines, which almost looked the same every day. After just five days, the positions of the plastic walls he had figured out around the sentry post had all been closed, and the long thorns looked like they were growing.
People don't want to get close to it. The only drawback is that it's not tall enough or thick enough. It will probably take half a month to grow into what Zhang Yan envisioned.
In fact, despite the fact that this thorn vine grows like crazy, it actually cannot appear naturally on a large scale because it attracts insects. It is a small flying insect that specifically harms thorn vines. Unless someone specifically drives it away.
Insects, otherwise the thorn vines will be eaten away by the insects after one or two years of growth.
Apart from insects, the only way to clean the thorn vine is to saw it bit by bit, which is time-consuming, laborious and troublesome. If you are not careful, you can easily be stung by the poisonous thorns on it. Even scratching a little oily skin can make you miserable.
Extreme itching for several hours.
Burning with fire? Zhang Yan actually tried it. But the thorn vine is not afraid of you burning it at all. Even if you use kerosene, you can only burn the oil-stained section, and it will not burn down. To use the words of the earth to describe it, it is
This thing is flame retardant.
What's more, there are Yushan fruit trees on Yubei Mountain. Neither the demon clan nor the human clan will set fire to the mountain. Otherwise, if the fire gets out of control and the Yushan fruit trees are burned, wouldn't it be like throwing a stone at one's own feet?
The half-moon passed quickly, and no one noticed any wonderful changes brought about by the thorny vine walls that gradually grew taller and thicker. They just made it easier to arrange traps on various paths.
Until the last thorn vine wall was perfectly closed in Zhang Yan's expectation.
"Huh? Why can't you get through this place?"
"Go forward. The thorn vine wall here is closed. We have to take a detour ahead."
Zhang Yan followed the team and felt a sense of accomplishment as he looked at the closed thorn vine wall. He didn't say anything when he heard the conversation between the team leader Qin Hao and his companions. Since he was here, he naturally wanted to give it a try. It took more than a month to get here.
What is the specific effect of the Eight Diagrams Array created by the effort.
"No, why does this road go around again?!"
"Hiss... yes, the trap area ahead is the one we set up. I still remember the rock on the side, but how could we come back when we have been walking forward?"
"Something's wrong! Everyone, be alert! Don't get separated, go back!" Qin Hao looked alert, his strength increased, and he was ready to fight at any time.
But when the group of people returned along the "original path", they entered a real dead end. In front of them, they could either climb the high thorn vine wall, go to the trap-filled trail beside the river, or go back further.
Except for Zhang Yan, everyone's expressions turned ugly. An inexplicable sense of tension made them clearly feel that something was wrong but they didn't know where the problem lay.
I kept going in circles for a full hour, and finally turned into the dead end again.
Qin Hao's face was already livid because he found that he didn't seem to know how to lead his men out of this weird circle. What was even weirder was that this was near their sentry, and he couldn't think of a good terrain and he was already familiar with it.
Yu Xin, why did it suddenly become like this? And he didn't even smell the enemy's breath.
At this time, Zhang Yan, who had been giggling in the team and was thought to be crazy, stood up and said to Qin Hao: "Commander, why don't you take a break? I know the way, how about I take the lead?"