Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

The performers opened a gift package of precious foundation-building materials for four people delivered by the Law Enforcement Bureau.

"Wow, so many good things." Jin Yao showed a little surprise: "Did you save the director's life?"

Hong Yi was also surprised: "If these things are used properly, they can be enough to increase the success rate of cultivators who build their foundation by 30% when they cross the immortal tribulation."

Jiang Lu, who had not yet been untied, smiled modestly: "It's a bit too much to say that I saved his life, but it's okay to say that I gave him a chance to live a new life."

The things in the box were dazzling. Various medicinal herbs that ordinary people could hardly find were now arranged in front of the people in different categories. It was enough to see how much Director Ye valued Jiang Lu.

As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing his parents. So it is not an exaggeration to say that Jiang Lu, who has given Director Ye a second chance at a bright future, is his adopted parent.

However, the sickle and the performers knew nothing about these materials. In their opinion, these were actually not much different from the bundles of herbs prescribed to patients by traditional Chinese medicine clinics.

The only people present who had studied this were Jin Yao and Hong Yi.

So, they, who were in the middle of a female competition, started to give a long talk about each herb in front of the other people, from its name to its efficacy, from its history to its present life, and even how to combine it with other ingredients to achieve the best effect. They could come up with all kinds of recipes in various combinations, which left Jiang Lu and the others stunned.

The more they competed, the more Jin Yao and Hong Yi realized that the other was not simple.

Hong Yi was fine. He had long known about the close connection between the other party and the Queen Mother of the West. He was mentally prepared and was not that surprised.

But Jin Yao was not feeling well.

She knew so much because her family background was good and her parents were both supreme creator gods, so she was born with knowledge. In addition, she grew up with Dong Wanggong and was very familiar with the daily necessities of life.

But what makes you think you can do that?
I'm employed by someone and do the work of a secretary, or in other words, a runner. How could I be as good as me in this aspect?
This was hard for the always proud Jin Yao to accept.

But this situation is not surprising. Hong Yi grew up in Fangzhu Mountain. It can be said that she was born with all kinds of precious elixirs and medicines. There is no medicinal material in the world that she has not seen.

And in a sense, the two people's understanding of medicinal herbs is actually the same.

The first generation was naturally Pangu the Great, and then it was passed on to his descendants, Dong Wanggong, and then they continued to pass it down.

So strictly speaking, Jin Yao and Hong Yi were both taught by the same master, and their moves cannot be broken at all.

However, Jin Yao didn't know that her employer would actually be her own brother, so when Hong Yi told her detailed information about a material that most people only knew its effects but didn't know why it had such effects, she felt that she had met an expert.

"Who exactly is your employer?"

She was keenly aware of this point that he had always overlooked.

Before, because she knew that the man ran a casino, and she could not connect the gods in the fairy world with the people who ran a casino in the mortal world, she had a preconceived notion that the other party's employer was just a character who had some power in the mortal world and who she did not need to pay too much attention to.

But Hong Yi's understanding of various herbs exposed her background, making Jin Yao clearly feel that something was wrong.

for example.

If a piece of newly unearthed jade is placed in front of people, most people can tell that it is jade, but only a few people are able to judge its value based on its quality and condition. This is considered connoisseurship.

However, only a very small number of people can understand its history or even the way and craftsmanship of its formation, and they are considered experts.

But now, both of them have a level of understanding of the same piece of jade that goes beyond that of experts.

They actually said exactly which tomb it was dug out from, which is quite terrifying.

Because of this, Jin Yao had to doubt Hong Yi's origins.

This kind of experience is definitely not something that ordinary people have!

"My employer?" Hong Yi glanced at Jiang Lu, and remembered that the latter had warned her not to tell Jin Yao that the man in the monitoring room was Dong Wanggong, so she kept it a secret: "You will meet him soon, why are you so anxious to ask?"

Don't you want to say it?
Jin Yao seemed to be thinking about something when she saw this.

Since the other party doesn't want to say it, it means that there may be some unspeakable secret behind it.

But the only thing she was sure of was that this so-called employer was definitely not a grassroots person like Jiang Lu and his group, but a genuine person from the immortal world.

She couldn't help but start making reasonable guesses.

It seems like there is an invisible hand pushing me forward. Perhaps there are many people who want to see the battle between me and the Queen Mother of the West. It would be really interesting.

Thinking of this, Jin Yao stopped asking questions.

She turned to the sickle and the performer and asked, "Do you remember everything we just said?"

The performer was stunned for a moment, then said uncertainly: "I'll remember it."

After saying this, he did not forget to secretly glance at the sickle.

Scythe looked serious and answered confidently, "I remember it."

Jin Yao nodded, not caring whether the two really remembered it or not. Anyway, she was teaching them just to give Jiang Lu face, and she did it casually. To put it bluntly, it was a cramming education. I just read out the book, and whether you can learn it or not depends on whether you have the understanding.

"Okay, then I will show you how to build your foundation. I will only teach you once, and you can do it yourself when you build your foundation. Do you understand?"

"clear."

"Obviously."

As for Jiang Lu, no one gave him any advice, or no one cared about him at all.

He doesn't even understand how to practice Qi now, and it's still too early for him to build a foundation.

To put it in a more vivid way, when others are trying to master advanced mathematics, he still can't figure out how to add one plus one, so he doesn't need to pay attention to them.

After that, Jin Yao asked Hong Yi again: "Then do you know about the arrangement of the foundation formation?"

"The upper limit of the magic circle I set up depends on the upper limit of the user." Hong Yi's face was almost full of madness.

Her meaning was very clear. The bolder a person was, the more productive he would be. As long as the foundation builder was willing to bear the consequences, she could create any kind of magic array.

Jin Yao had no doubts about this. After all, the recipes for the material combinations they had just discussed were actually closely related to the arrangement of the foundation-building formation.

Since she can explain it clearly, she must have done some research.

But even though she believed it in her heart, Jin Yao still refused to admit defeat: "I hope you won't let me down."

After that, the two began to work together to take out the materials from the box and arrange them together.

As the beginning of cultivation, foundation building is the most important and the only stage that can determine the upper limit of a cultivator. A good foundation building can even allow a person with average talent to break through his original upper limit and make the road of cultivation smooth.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to arrange the foundation-building array by simply throwing all the materials aside and then mixing them together. It is a systematic and quite sophisticated science.

First of all, according to the compatibility of the materials used, a magic array that can connect them and make them complement each other must be drawn with special ink. This is equivalent to the underlying code, which is the most basic and important part.

Just for this step, we need to consider the mutual generation and mutual restraint of the five elements, as well as the properties of the materials to be carried in the corresponding positions. If a material with fire properties is placed in a frame with water properties, it will definitely not work. Not only will it suppress the medicinal properties, it may even cause harm to the foundation builder. So is it enough to just stimulate the medicinal properties? No.

The more precious the medicinal material is, the more complex its ingredients tend to be, and the medicinal properties required by the foundation builder may only account for a part of it.

Medicinal materials may have multiple attributes, among which the fire attribute needs to be suppressed, while the earth attribute needs to be stimulated. How to deal with this? Draw a water attribute framework to suppress the fire? However, the earth attribute in the medicinal materials conflicts with the water attribute. Then we can only draw another line and use the wood attribute to guide the earth attribute in the medicinal materials to another carrier framework, thus separating the components of the medicinal materials.

There may be dozens of medicinal materials that require complex processing.

This is like arranging a horoscope. Medicinal herbs are like the eight characters. When drawing the array, one must ensure that the various attributes in the horoscope operate reasonably and complement each other, and also ensure that the elements entering the horoscope do not contain attributes that are not conducive to the entire horoscope. Only then will it be possible to obtain the best horoscope.

And every time a new medicinal ingredient is added, the number of arrangements and combinations as well as the factors that need to be considered will increase exponentially. You can imagine how difficult this task is.

Ordinary people, let alone mastering the methods, have to work hard to even recognize various types of materials. If they don't have enough IQ, understanding, and the ability to think independently, it will not work. The entry threshold is extremely high.

Therefore, when most people in the martial arts world are building their foundation, they prefer to use the magic arrays passed down by the older generation.

It's like using a widely recognized formula as the underlying code, and then putting what herbs in what positions and taking what amounts, and just following the same pattern.

This results in an extremely high threshold for cultivating immortals. Ordinary people who want to build a foundation must rely on the mountains, so that they can have the standard foundation-building formula to use and have channels to collect materials for building the foundation.

As for those independent practitioners, although they have not joined large enterprises, they usually have help from noble people or some opportunities. They are equivalent to private entrepreneurs who start their own businesses halfway through their careers. They are also rare outstanding people.

A generally recognized powerful formula is good, but it may not be suitable for everyone. It is like a person who is not destined to be a princess but has princess syndrome. Not only will she not enjoy the treatment of a princess, but she will also be called an idiot.

Therefore, people who are truly capable and have opportunities will usually choose to create new formulas based on their own circumstances.

However, such people are extremely rare. They can only enjoy such treatment if they are appreciated by important figures in the sect before they have established their foundation, or if there are experts in this field among their acquaintances.

What Jin Yao and Hong Yi are doing now is actually the latter, which is to formulate a new foundation-building blueprint based on Jin Yao's current actual situation.

Jin Yao told Hong Yi which ingredients of the medicinal materials she needed, and then Hong Yi quickly analyzed and gave a method of processing. Finally, the two of them summarized, and after a while, a foundation-building formation that contained more than thirty kinds of medicinal materials was successfully drawn and perfected.

After hearing Jiang Lu's explanation, Scythe and the performer suddenly understood.

"I see. No wonder the same medicinal material is processed differently in different corners. Is it because the required medicinal properties are different from those of the adjacent materials?" The sickle had a higher level of comprehension and suddenly he was enlightened.

The performers' understanding is not so good; not only is it poor, but their quality is also low.

When he thought about how Jin Yao had just asked them to watch and learn carefully, and only demonstrated once, he couldn't help but blurt out: "Is this me learning from Jimao?"

"This is a career that many people are willing to devote their entire lives to. Just learn it, haha." Jiang Lu didn't feel any pain in his waist while sitting and talking.

"Feeling." Scythe asked tentatively, "You seem to understand it very well."

"I don't really understand it either." Jiang Lu shrugged. "I just understand the principle better. As for how to operate it specifically, I really don't know anything about it."

"What you said makes so much sense, it really doesn't make sense, does it?" Sickle expressed doubt.

But Jiang Lu disagreed: "This is the limitation of your thinking. You have to think with the leadership mindset. Although the leader knows what the subordinates are doing, does it mean that he must also be able to do it himself? If you can't do it yourself, can't you just find someone who can do it to work for you? All we want is results, understand?"

"It seems to be true."

Sickle seemed to understand, but when he looked at Jin Yao and Hong Yi who were working in full swing, he felt that the mysterious and complicated work they were doing did not seem so grand and impressive at all.

At this time, they had completely completed the arrangement of the magic circle. Although Scythe and the performers could not understand the mystery, just looking at the dense runes and dozens of neatly arranged materials made them feel dazzled and full of admiration.

But Jin Yao and Hong Yi were not at peace either.

The magic circle they just developed together is absolutely unprecedented and will never be surpassed.

If the formula of this magic circle were to be spread out, it would definitely be comparable to the mass-energy equation, and would inevitably lead to a bloody storm. I wonder how many geniuses with good compatibility might be able to soar to the sky with the help of this magic circle, and their attainment of immortality would be just around the corner.

"As long as you succeed, it will be the foundation of the immortal path, and the best one at that!" Hong Yi asserted.

Although Hong Yi personally participated in the research and development of this magic array, and she also established the foundation of the immortal way back then, it is no exaggeration to say that if it was not incompatible with her own nature, she would even want to abandon her own cultivation and establish a new foundation.

This is not surprising. Her foundation-building formation was just set up for her by her master, and her master himself was just a human immortal, a middle-level immortal, and had not specialized in this field. At best, he was a parent with a college degree who was thinking about how to fill in his application form after his children had just finished the college entrance examination. With limited abilities, he was naturally not as good as Hong Yi and Jin Yao who later conducted in-depth research.

When Jin Yao heard Hong Yi's heartfelt sigh, she took a deep breath with some excitement: "I won't fail."

"I also hope that you won't waste all my efforts." Hong Yi responded.

But these words were not simply tit-for-tat. If she didn't want to perform well in front of Jiang Lu, why would she be so serious and use all her life's knowledge?

"Do you understand?" Jin Yao suddenly asked.

The sickle and the performer thought about Jiang Lu's explanation and felt that it was a bit too pretentious to say that they understood it, so they could only shake their heads honestly: "No."

Jin Yao couldn't help but show disdain: "Mediocrity."

The two wanted to retort that this was not something a novice could understand, but they felt it was unnecessary and could only smile bitterly.

"Okay, now I have to practice the mental method to build my foundation. You can't be distracted. You can leave now."

After giving them failing grades, the strict instructor Jin Yao began to drive them away:

"If everything goes well, it will probably take two hours."

Before anyone else could express their opinion, Jiang Lu couldn't wait to say, "Okay, someone help me untie them."

"Wait a moment." Jin Yao turned around, looked at the anxious Jiang Lu, and then looked at Hong Yi beside her: "Either you stay here together to watch me build my foundation, or one of you stay. Anyway, you can't go out together."

Scythe and the performer looked at each other, somewhat speechless.

Oh, you’re not afraid of being distracted now, right?

When Hong Yi heard this, he seemed to have just realized: "So there is still such an opportunity?"

She looked at Jin Yao and said seriously, "You can't be distracted while building your foundation. Let's all go out."

"No!" Jin Yao refused directly without any room for negotiation.

Jiang Lu said helplessly, "But I really have to go out. The director and I have an appointment to go to the Law Enforcement Bureau to get a pass to Kunlun Mountain. Now it's almost time."

"Then Hong Yi will stay."

Hong Yi thought for a moment and said, "When you are building your foundation, I might be unable to resist plotting against you."

"I'm not afraid!" Jin Yao refused again, then sneered: "If this can make him see what kind of person you are, then I will accept it. I believe he will stay away from you and take care of me for the rest of my life. By then, you will be the one who suffers the most, right?"

Hong Yi could only sigh: "Damn it. Doesn't this scare you?" (End of this chapter)