Chapter 308 Differences in the Array of Instruments
The peak foundation-building monk was not sure he could beat Wang Daoyuan. He was afraid that he would really come to kill him, so he didn't raise the price.
As for face, if a casual cultivator can cultivate to this point, who has never lived an ignoble existence?
Face is nothing compared to life.
Wang Daoyuan used three long swords, a second-level high-grade magic weapon, and switched to the refining method of the Spirit Gathering Pearl.
Ji Yue walked down from the stage, handed the animal skin pages to Wang Daoyuan, and put away three second-order high-grade long swords.
Wang Daoyuan put the animal skin pages into the spirit bead space and gave them to his clone Lu Zong for inspection.
He was connected with his mind and body, and after Lu Zong finished checking it, he knew the content.
The refining method of this spirit-gathering bead seems to be imperfect. It should be just a draft, and the creator just barely made it. He found many shortcomings after just looking at it.
This is good news, but also bad news.
The good thing is that this magic weapon has a lot of room for growth. As long as it is perfected, its functions will be greatly improved.
The bad side is that after refining this spirit-gathering bead, various problems may arise.
If it were used on a flying boat, and something suddenly went wrong, the flying boat might fall, resulting in tens of thousands of spiritual stones being lost, and the signboard also being smashed.
Used in defensive formations, if the enemy is attacking the formation and something suddenly goes wrong, the loss cannot be measured by spiritual stones.
However, this spirit-gathering bead also had many surprises for him.
The entire spirit-gathering bead is only three inches in diameter.
Such a small spirit-gathering bead can actually store twice the spiritual power of a mid-grade spiritual stone. This shows that the method of storing spiritual power is very clever.
The patterns on vessels that store spiritual power are very common. There can be quite a few on any jade box, but there are really not many clever ones.
The thing that surprised him the most was the spirit-gathering weapon pattern on the spirit-gathering bead. This was a weapon pattern that Wang Daoyuan had not mastered.
Master a new weapon pattern, which can be used on other magical weapons in the future.
The value of the spirit-gathering weapon pattern alone is far more than three second-order high-grade flying swords.
The function of the spirit-gathering weapon pattern and the spirit-gathering array are the same, but their value is not the same.
The spirit gathering array is a basic formation. It is very simple to use the spirit gathering array to collect spiritual energy.
When refining the formation disk, the spirit gathering formation pattern is often used.
But the spirit-gathering weapon pattern was very unusual. He had never heard of it before. It should have been researched by the creator of the animal skin book spirit-gathering bead.
Although the jade pendant that Patriarch Yang gave him back then had the effect of absorbing spiritual energy, it relied on the characteristics of the material itself, not the spirit gathering weapon pattern.
There are four alchemy talisman formations, and the alchemy pattern king Daoyuan has never seen them before, so he doesn’t know what they look like.
There are similarities between the vessel patterns, talisman patterns, and formation patterns, but the differences are also very large.
All three have basic patterns. If the same hundred basic patterns are combined into weapon patterns, formation patterns, and talisman patterns, the difference in power that can be exerted is huge.
The combination of one hundred basic runes can be used to refine second-level high-grade spiritual runes.
The power exerted is comparable to the spells cast by monks in the later stages of foundation building.
However, the combination of one hundred basic weapon patterns can only create a first-level magic weapon.
The power of a second-level high-quality attack talisman is enough to shatter four or five such magical weapons.
One hundred basic formation patterns are not even qualified to form a formation.
With the same number of basic patterns, rune patterns can exert the strongest lethality.
However, drawing runes requires the infusion of spiritual power and divine consciousness.
This makes the rune pattern very unstable, and even if it is not triggered, it is difficult to save it for a long time.
If special measures are not taken to seal it, it will be scrapped within a few decades.
If you want to use weapon patterns to unleash the power of a second-level high-grade spiritual talisman, you will need about 10,000 basic weapon patterns.
However, the pattern of the weapon can be preserved for a long time. It is not a problem for a second-level high-grade magic weapon to be preserved for thousands of years as long as it is not damaged and there is no special environment.
Using array patterns to unleash the power of second-level high-grade spiritual talismans requires at least one hundred thousand or even hundreds of thousands of basic array patterns.
The storage time of the array pattern is related to the frequency of use. If it is not used all the time, there will be no problem if it is stored for thousands of years.
The formation inscription is simple and does not require high materials.
Among the three lines of the weapon talisman array, the talisman pattern is the most difficult to draw and must be completed in one go. It is the most powerful, but the least easy to preserve.
The difficulty of engraving vessel patterns is much lower than that of rune patterns. It does not need to be done in one go, and mistakes can be made up for.
The power is lower than the rune pattern, but higher than the formation pattern.
However, the pattern of the instrument needs to be engraved on the instrument, and the material requirements are too high.
The difficulty of engraving formation patterns is the lowest. It doesn't matter if you make a mistake. You can modify it at any time and you don't need to do it in one go.
Array layout does not have high requirements for materials. If it fails too many times, the materials can no longer be used. Just replace them with another one, and the cost is very low.
The power of the array pattern is the least, and the storage time is not the longest. It takes too long to arrange the array and cannot respond effectively.
It seems like it has no advantages other than cheap materials.
However, formation patterns have three major advantages that cannot be compared with rune patterns and weapon patterns.
First, the array patterns can be arranged over a large area.
The formation that Wang Daoyuan deployed on Yusong Mountain covers the entire mountain and stretches for more than a hundred miles.
If the power of a magical weapon is used to cover Yusong Mountain, even a fourth-level magical weapon would be difficult to do so.
The Five Elements Locking Dragon Formation, a second-level high-grade formation, was easily accomplished.
The vessel pattern needs to be engraved on the precious vessel embryo, and it cannot be made too large.
Secondly, the vessel patterns must be particularly concentrated.
For a device pattern to perform a function, the basic device patterns that make up this device pattern must be very close to each other. If they are far apart, the spiritual power will not function smoothly.
The formation can connect two formation eyes that are hundreds of miles apart into one. It is very difficult to connect the weapon patterns that are several feet apart, let alone hundreds of miles apart.
Not to mention the rune pattern, it can't be done more than one foot.
The second is inclusiveness.
Use formation patterns to build a formation frame, which can be used with various things to exert its power.
For example, the magic weapon flow formation method is to place the magic weapon on the shelf of the formation, and use the formation to exert the effect of the magic weapon, and the power is even stronger.
High-level talismans can also be used multiple times, and can also be used to hold down formations like magic weapons.
Monks can also use formations to cast spells, which are far more powerful than what they can cast by themselves.
Thirdly, the formation can be connected with spiritual veins and can completely ignore the consumption of spiritual power.
The three paths of weapon, talisman, and array each have their own advantages and disadvantages, so they can coexist to this day, and no one path can completely suppress the other two paths.
When this spirit-gathering bead is placed in a place where the spiritual energy is strong enough, the function of the spirit-gathering weapon pattern can be brought into full play. It only takes about three days to be filled with spiritual power.
For formation patterns to function, too many basic formation patterns are needed.
With such a powerful spirit-gathering function, if a spirit-gathering array were used to realize the spirit-gathering function, the beads would probably be several feet in diameter and would have no use value at all.
The runes are unstable and are very difficult to use on magic weapons.
Using the weapon pattern to realize the function of gathering spirits, the diameter of the gathering beads is only three inches long, which can completely replace the middle-grade spirit stones.
Moreover, without affecting the use, the beads can be enlarged to increase the spiritual power reserve and increase the speed of spiritual gathering.
You should study the Spirit Gathering Pearl carefully when you go back. This thing has little personal significance, but for a force, it is simply a treasure.
Most places that require spirit stones can be replaced by spirit gathering beads.
It is very important to control costs in doing business. With Julingzhu, the costs in the transportation industry can be reduced by more than 90%.
As a result, the Wang family can now save tens of thousands of spiritual stones every year.
In the future, as the family's transportation industry expands, more spiritual stones will be saved.
If a large amount of spirit-gathering beads could be refined so that everyone in the clan could use the spirit-gathering beads for practice, then the family would not need to consume spirit stones at all.
Of course, this is just a dream. The refining of Spirit Gathering Pearls is very difficult. Even if the material requirements are low, it is difficult to refine them in large quantities.