With magical powers, I can quietly meditate on sutras for hundreds of years and become an immortal.

Chapter 139 Talisman and Formation

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When it comes to spiritual practice, nothing is simple.

Li Zhen's initial idea was very good.

Starting directly from the source, the rice seeds were infected with true essence, trying to cause them to mutate.

But the result

It's obvious.

There was a bang.

into popcorn.

Facts have proved that no matter how he controls the amount of true energy output, it is no matter how much he outputs.

The true essence formed by condensing inspiration is not something that ordinary rice seeds can carry.

This road obviously doesn't work.

Li Zhen, who failed, was not too discouraged.

It was just an attempt.

It was also something he used to relieve boredom and lighten his mood after a long period of practice.

Otherwise, he would just sit around mumbling ideas and trying to improve his cultivation all day long.

As an individual, the passion for life will be worn away in the process of repetition day after day.

In the end, he turned into an emotionless Bing Tuozi.

Such a result is not what Li Zhen wants.

If one path doesn't work, just try the next one.

Now that he has put forward this idea, Li Zhen has enough considerations in his heart.

Although I don't say that I am confident, I still have three ingenious tips: upper, middle and lower.

For now, it's just a last resort.

Just try again.

"Meow~"

Sanhua, who had been waiting for the food to drop from the sky for a long time, urged impatiently.

Li Zhen looked at its rogue appearance, smiled and knocked on its head.

"Wait!"

"Today I want to show you Pindao's cooking skills."

Can't cook.

But popping popcorn is not something you can do easily.

Half an hour later.

Someone came out of the kitchen looking disgraced.

Quietly, I called nature in.

At the end of the sixteenth year of Jingming Dynasty.

Li Zhen's research on cultivating species containing spiritual intelligence, or spiritual plant cultivation for short, has made great progress.

Plant seeds cannot withstand the true energy of the cultivator's own strong will.

In other words, is it possible to find a solution outside?

If you can provide it with a rich growth environment, it will change subtly.

Isn’t the problem solved?

Facts have proved that Li Zhen's idea is correct.

He got inspiration from the "sealing" character on the jade pendant.

It can not only seal and eliminate a person's Qi.

Similarly, you can also seal up your inspirations that are wandering in the outside world.

This matter is the result of Li Zhen's countless experiments.

That being the case, it depends on its own characteristics.

If the characters "Feng" are placed around a space, wouldn't it create a spiritually rich area?

Then this set of arrangements is based on the "Feng" character.

Isn't it similar to the so-called spirit gathering formation he saw before?

If you think of it, do it.

In order to eliminate variables as much as possible.

Li Zhen shamelessly found some jade materials.

As for the process, it’s okay not to talk about it.

Manipulating the true energy, he carefully carved the appearance of the word "Feng" itself on the neatly cut jade.

Tried again and again, failed repeatedly.

Finally, a flash of inspiration occurred at one point.

Give up sketching with your fingers, instead use your mental thoughts to mobilize your inspiration and trace.

With an invisible flash of light, Li Zhen succeeded.

With the first experience, it will not be difficult in the future.

He successively made four jade tablets, which he also called "talismans", and placed them in the four corners of the house.

Use real energy to connect them one by one.

Accompanied by a thin spiritual light rising.

Li Zhen's mouth showed an overjoyed smile.

Spirit gathering array.

Become!

[You look at the words naturally imprinted on the heaven and earth in ancient times day and night, and occasionally feel something, and seem to understand something of your own from them]

[You force yourself to call it: Talisman, and you understand the "Spirit Gathering Formation" without any teacher.]

Spiritual light surges, and insights arise from nowhere.

It came from his own accidental attempts, but was sublimated by the aura accumulated through his magical powers.

He was walking alone, with only one main line of cultivation.

Finally, two branches opened today.

One is called talisman, and the other is called formation.

Although the talisman and formation are only made by Li Zhen at the moment, they are still very crude and simple.

But he believes that one day.

They will eventually develop into what they remember.

On the towering tree of practice, flowers blossom and bear fruit.

He came to his senses from a trance.

The jade pendant rotated unconsciously on the fingertips.

Li Zhen glanced at the newly completed spirit gathering array, satisfied and a little picky.

After the sublimation of spiritual light, he gained a new understanding.

"The craftsmanship of burning talismans is still a bit rusty, so the effect cannot be maximized."

"The best and most stable number of talismans that make up the spirit gathering array is three."

"Secondly, from now on, we only need to form groups of three and keep stacking them."

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"Although there are quite a few flaws, the flaws cannot hide the virtues."

"The discovery of the talisman and formation is of great significance to me right now!"

He let out a long breath.

Li Zhen felt some indescribable joy in his heart.

Until today, he finally let go of the last worry in his heart.

From now on, he can practice and try with confidence.

You can also walk on the street and confidently shout that martial arts are garbage that should be swept into the dust of history.

A good man should come to cultivate immortality with him.

Of course, doing so will most likely end up being regarded as a lunatic.

But Li Zhen wouldn't really do that, he just thought so happily.

At the same time, he was still a little anxious in his heart.

I was wondering whether I should get the jade that Zhao Ping was wearing.

When she saw him that day, Li Zhen just saw that there was a handwriting similar to the word "Feng" on the jade.

But I didn’t look at it more, and I didn’t have time to study it in depth.

Now he derived the most basic talisman from the seal.

If I could get that jade, I would definitely get more inspiration.

However, after careful consideration, Li Zhen gave up the idea.

He thought of the national destiny hanging over Zhao Ping.

I also thought more about the entanglement of cause and effect, and the fate of one peck and one drink.

He didn't really believe it at first, but now

All I can say is that some things still require due respect for him.

Let's wait and see.

There will always be an opportunity for him to borrow the jade to take a look at it openly.

Thinking like this, the beating emotions in Li Zhen's heart began to slowly calm down.

He was thinking about arranging the spirit gathering array in the fields on the hillside outside the building next year.

See if we can catalyze the first batch of crops that are highly rich in inspiration.

He is also thinking about where he will obtain or deduce more talismans and arrange more formations in the future.

Unconsciously, time passes.

A golden glow appeared in the sky outside the window.

Accompanied by a rooster chant.

Its daybreak.

Looking at the rising sun, Li Zhen woke up from a night of meditation.

Gaze at the vitality among the thousands of miles of rising sun. Suddenly he smiled with some relief:

"take it easy."

"One day, it will be possible."

He hummed softly.

This year is the seventeenth year of Jingming.

It is already the second year since Li Zhen returned to Beijing.

The mountain field outside Chuixiang Tower has already set up a spirit gathering array.

But the effect.

It seems that it is not as ideal as Li Zhen imagined.

On the contrary, the sudden concentration of spiritual energy caused the sudden death of some crops.

The worried old farmer Ma San kept scratching his head, but he didn't know where the problem occurred.

Everything has an objective law of development.

And even if it is human interference, one should understand that going too far is not enough.

Fortunately, Li Zhen understood not too late.

So he canceled the redundant arrangements in time, leaving only a spirit gathering array there.

Now the crops are gone and suddenly die.

But it is obviously destined to take a long time to achieve what Li Zhen wants.

Li Zhen was not in a hurry.

Just like what he said to himself at the beginning.

Let's take our time.

It's just a pain in the ass.

He observed the fields day by day without any belief in evil, trying to find out the cause of the "disease".

Fortunately, after a while, it stopped.

Otherwise, the old man will collapse from exhaustion, and Li Zhen really doesn't know how to explain to Ma Qianli.

And his own practice has also made some progress.

But it stopped at the last critical step.

He had some ideas on how to get out there.

But it has not been implemented yet and needs to be verified bit by bit.

It is also something that takes a long time to achieve results.

As for the talisman and formation, let alone that.

Although there are many things on hand, there is no progress.

Li Zhen simply relaxed and stopped worrying about practice for the time being.

Maybe it’s because I’m older and I’m getting older.

Although he knew it in his heart.

According to his rough calculation of the maximum life span of 318 years, he is far from halfway through his life.

But I no longer have much interest in the things I was passionate about back then.

In addition, in the past few years, everyone in the capital has been changing the soup without changing the medicine, and I am tired of seeing it.

Therefore, Li Zhen has a new hobby.

Wander the streets and alleys of the capital, looking for all kinds of delicious food to satisfy your appetite.

Although it is not beneficial to practice, it is inevitable to have diarrhea afterwards.

But he always enjoyed it.

And it's hard to say why Li Zhen tried to catalyze crops that contained a lot of inspiration.

There is no thought of eating or drinking in order to be able to eat and drink safely in the future.

After all, in a sense, desire is also a driving force behind his persistence in practice.

In addition, Li Zhen has another hobby recently.

Just go to the big lake in the back mountain and call out the unwilling Changsheng.

Then sit on its shell and fish!

Not to mention, one person is fishing alone in the middle of the lake.

The feeling of one person mastering an entire world is very interesting.

It just means that the basket will be full every time after fishing for a short period of time.

He couldn't help but wonder if his luck was really that good?

But he didn't notice that there was an immortal under the water who was trying hard to drive away the fish for him.

It took great pains to make Li Zhen leave quickly.

But fortunately, the effect is not bad.

At least, Li Zhen didn't find anything wrong for the time being.

In this year, two things happened in the seemingly peaceful Zhou Dynasty.

June of the seventeenth year of Jingming.

With the emperor's tacit approval, the Confucian Academy was established in the capital.

Quietly, the professor's courses were changed.

Shan Chang Hong Xuanji once again brought up the six arts that Confucian gentlemen must master when hundreds of schools of thought competed.

Etiquette, music, archery, imperial control, calligraphy, and mathematics!

There is no problem with etiquette, music, calligraphy, and mathematics. These are at least within the scope of past learning.

But when Archer and Yu appear on the course.

The entire academy suddenly burst into mourning.

Countless people scolded Hong Xuanji, saying that he played the piano randomly.

I, a Confucian scholar, am famous throughout the world for my poems, books and articles.

How can you learn from those vulgar martial artists?

Some Confucian scholars tried to connect with each other and clarify the facts to their most respected emperor.

Demand that Hong Xuanji be severely punished.

But how could they know that this was what the emperor ordered?

Hong Xuanji is just a scapegoat.

Ever since, this matter has been met with a wave of opposition.

It was carried out unswervingly.

invalid objection!

Li Zhen heard about it and was noncommittal.

The tradition that today's Confucian scholars do not learn martial arts has lasted for hundreds of years.

It is not easy to correct this unhealthy trend in a short time.

But what is good above is effective below.

If the emperor persists, it may not be possible.

Although Zhao Ping has great ambitions to change the world.

But he is afraid that he will not live until the time when it comes to fruition.

And once his successors gave up.

That is decades of work, all gone in one day.

The old incident of the Third Martial Arts Division back then may happen again.

Li Zhen decided to use his long life to verify whether history is inevitably repetitive.

This happens to be a good observation object.

And the second thing is nothing else.

There is still the Tusi Rebellion in the southwest and the problem of the Tibetans in the Snowy Mountains.

From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the war has continued to this day.

Hit, hit, stop, stop, hit.

It has been nearly fifteen years now.

For the two countries, this can no longer be viewed simply as an invasion of religion or territory.

This is the face that represents two countries.

The defeat of the Great Zhou Dynasty would reduce its majesty as the suzerain state in the minds of countless small surrounding countries.

If Tubo is defeated, then it becomes a question whether this country, which was holding its breath and holding on forcibly, can survive.

Therefore, for both countries, this is a war that requires victory but no defeat.

But as the supreme master of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the emperor of hundreds of millions of people.

Zhao Ping had had enough of this long war and wanted to end it all.

But what is embarrassing is that the veterans of the previous dynasty and Emperor Shengwu who conquered the world passed away one by one.

At present, Dazhou has no generals who can be used.

The people currently presiding over the war in the southwest are only too defensive but not aggressive enough.

In this case, someone wrote a letter and responded a thousand miles away.

However, it soon encountered common opposition from countless ministers.

At that time, he just didn't want Ma Qianli to occupy a high position, so he tried every means to send him down.

Are you still going to use him now?

Then it was not in vain!

No matter what, the vested interests back then would not agree.

The emperor said nothing, indicating his acquiescence.

Then the matter was quarreled and settled for the time being.

But everyone knows that if the southwest war does not end as soon as possible.

Ma Qianli will surely fall into the emperor's eyes again.

No one shared these calculations in the court with Li Zhen, so he had no way of knowing.

But he discovered something interesting today.

The sword on the sword-removing stone at the foot of the mountain.

It seemed that someone had pulled it out.

(End of this chapter)