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() On the sharp-edged stone platform cut out with a knife, Tang Gongzheng has been sitting there quietly. It has been nearly ten days, no matter it is wind, sun, rain, he has been sculpting like that Generally, nothing seems to have changed.

On the huge wall of fire he was facing, the changes became more and more obvious day by day.At the beginning, it was just a small area in front of him where the flame fluctuated from time to time, as if being disturbed by an invisible hand and cut off, it spread out, but now, it is swaying eastward, westward, Each time, a huge trace more than ten feet long and several feet wide quietly appeared on the fire wall, as if the invisible giant that had been attacking the fire wall was getting bigger and stronger.

Just looking around, in front of the huge fireball that enveloped the entire sky volcano with a few miles in diameter, these scars are as ridiculous as an ant hacking an elephant with all its strength.What's more, those scars on the fire wall are only for a moment, and they will be filled and closed by the flames coming from other directions.

". From this point of view, Tang Si Shao can really push his saber intent to a higher level in these days. The big smashing hand is the first method of attacking the demon among the five strategies. Take ten thousand The original intention of destruction and collapse in the essence of everything is claimed to be enough to destroy everything and smash everything. Whether it is tangible things or intangible vitality, Taoism, and ideas, all can be broken and destroyed. As long as Tang Sishao can really understand the meaning If you comprehend it, maybe you can really break through this extreme sun purgatory cover."

Looking at Tang Gonggong sitting quietly on the high platform in the distance, and the knife marks emerging on the fire wall.Daoist Shi's expression was a bit dignified, a bit admirable.What's more, it's a pity.The pair of flying swords behind him were also buzzing, and there seemed to be a hint of sadness in the low humming: ".It's just that this magic technique is too overbearing. It is said that the demon sect practiced this technique back then In the end, the people who were born were devoured by that point of collapse, and died. I don't know how much the Tang family has improved it, but no matter what, they still have to use this method of boosting the growth of seedlings to forcibly improve the state of skill, which is harmful to themselves. The damage is great. After this, maybe it will be difficult to make any progress in life."

Last night's search and investigation, except for exhausting the low-level disciples of the Treasure Hunting League, did not find any suspicious traces within a hundred miles. The mysterious little sedan chair and the half-dead master They seem to have disappeared together.But the leaders of the Treasure Hunting League didn't dare to be careless, and instead led people to continue to investigate around.Even Daoren Shi, the leader of the alliance, specially brought the two flying swords that had regained some vitality to Tang Gonggong's retreat to check.

Not far away, Bai Jinfeng also heard Taoist Shi's words, and her pretty face, which was always full of melancholy, was even more sad, but suddenly she waved her fist again and snorted and said, "It's okay. We are in the mountains among the clouds There are many fairy grasses and god fruits, even if the elder brother of the Tang family is seriously injured, he can be cured."

Taoist Shi didn't even look at Bai Jinfeng, he just curled his lips as if hearing a ignorant joke from Xiaozi, and continued to say coldly: "At most, in another 15 years, he can become one of the world's three famous sword masters , one of the youngest top ten masters in the world. Going one step further. Maybe you can use the experience and experience accumulated by the generations of Tang family heads to study and improve this big smashing hand, and break through the devil's emperor in his lifetime. It's a pity that the road to proving the Tao through martial arts is here, because of the brotherhood that cannot be let go, all this great future has been ruined."

Xiao Xia interjected from the side: "What kind of person is there, what kind of knife is. And as long as it is a knife in the hands of people, there will naturally be things that can't be put down and can't be cut. It's because of the true love. Brother Tang's The knife can be so refined and pure, so it is destined to make such a choice."

"Boy talked with that monk for a while, and you can see a lot of witty words." Taoist Shi smiled coldly, and turned his head to look at Xiao Xia. "What secrets did that little divine monk reveal to you? Can you tell me, kid?"

Xiao Xia smiled, knowing that she couldn't hide it from others.Although no one noticed or knew about him when he went, after all, he talked with Shi Fang for a long time on the top of the tree more than ten feet away. It can be seen that naturally, the disciples of the Treasure Hunting League reported it to several leaders.He didn't bother to fool Taoist Shi, so he said directly: "Master Shifang also said that the person in the sedan chair we saw had plots, and the matter of the Vermilion Bird spirit fire may cause great trouble, and the best policy is to retreat as soon as possible. "

Daoist Shi snorted coldly and said, "Then why don't you retreat quickly?"

"Naturally, it's because I can't let go of things that I can't stop cutting." Xiao Xia smiled. "And the Taoist leader knows that this matter is extremely risky, but he doesn't want to let go halfway. Isn't there something he can't let go of, so he can't stop cutting it?"

Daoist Shi glared at Xiao Xia, and snorted coldly: "The poor Taoist has two flying swords by his side. If you want to escape deliberately, the world is so big that there are not many people who can really keep the poor Taoist. But you, a boy, can't do more than two spells. At a third-rate level, if you meet the person in the sedan chair that night in the midst of any chaos, the devil's heart spell can restrain all Taoism and martial arts that are not innate, you and your confidante, Mingyue, may not even be able to escape Nothing to hope for."

Speaking of this, Taoist Shi took out another firework and handed it to Xiao Xia: "I know you are quick-witted and quick-witted, and you have a unique vision. Even if you are going to search around these days, it's best not to go out of the woods for twenty miles In addition, as soon as you find the trace of the mysterious person that night, use this firework as a warning, and I will be there in no time with the sword. My two flying swords can restrain the devil's heart curse that day, as long as the person is caught first If we find out his arrangements and plots, all potential hidden dangers will be eliminated.”

Xiao Xia nodded, took the fireworks and put them in her arms.But he knew that the fireworks would probably never come in handy. The mysterious person in the sedan chair had no chance of sneaking in here. The rhetoric he made was undoubtedly to make himself look for traces of the person in the sedan chair again, but it was in vain.

However, Daoist Shi came here just in time, because Xiao Xia happened to have something to look for him.

"Don't worry, Daoist. But I also happen to have something to ask for help from Daoist Shi. During this period of time, accidents have happened frequently. The boy even used up the talisman at the bottom of the box, and now I have time to make some for urgent use. But in a hurry I don’t have all kinds of spiritual stones used in making talismans. These days, I have seen that the Treasure Hunting League under Taoist Chief’s command is very careful, and the preparations of all parties are also in order. Food, water, etc. are not a problem. There are several beasts in stock, and the materials for making talismans must have been prepared long ago, so it’s just a drop in the bucket for me to share some?”

Starting from Qingzhou.The talismans on Xiaoxia's body were only used, and they were not replenished at all. Now there are only a dozen or so talismans left in the talisman pouch on her waist.Even for drawing the lowest level of talismans, talisman paper and cinnabar and other utensils are indispensable. Talismans of middle grade and above need to use various spiritual objects that contain five elements of energy, or spirit stone powder that has been ground and refined. Or a potion refined from the blood essence of monsters.The variety is too numerous to count.The higher the grade of the talisman, the higher and rarer the required spiritual objects. It would be extremely troublesome to collect and refine it by yourself. You can only buy it in the black market. Not to mention hundreds of taels of silver, it is a bit rare. Things have to be lucky to buy.Xiao Xia had already discovered that there were also some small sects of Taoist mages or loose Taoist priests in the Treasure Hunting League.Judging from the well-arranged formation of the Treasure Hunting League, they should also have prepared spiritual objects for drawing talismans.

Daoist Shi frowned when he heard the words, and was a little displeased: "I'll give you some of it? Don't we need to spend energy and money to buy and sacrifice these things?"

Xiao Xia quickly said: "Everyone is in the same boat, it is time to help each other. Why are you talking about such vulgar things as gold and silver? Okay, okay, then I will buy from you with silver? I just hope that Shi Daochang will send a message Let me know if they can give some discount on this price, as the head of the Taoist chief, half price, no, [-]% discount should be possible."

Daoist Shi's expression became a little weird: "Before you, kid, you had a profound appearance that you would never give up if you were righteous. Why did you suddenly become such a philistine when it comes to money?"

"The habit formed by wandering around the rivers and lakes for many years, the Taoist priest should not be offended, ha ha." Xiao Xia smiled a little embarrassedly. "Wild Taoist priests like us who have no background and no sect can't compare with Taoist friends who have the backing of the sect and the salary of the xing imperial court. The danger of the cesspit to cheat some old country money."

"" Daoist Shi continued to be dazed for a while, and suddenly waved his hand and said, "Then go find Fatty Hu yourself. Although those Taoist priests and mages basically belong to my Five Sacred Sacred League, the supplies of this alliance are all Fatty Hu’s Yuelai Firm is in the process of purchasing and dispatching, I will greet you when I go back, and treat you as a mage hired by my Five Sacred Sacred Union, and those talisman-making spirits will only be given to you at the cost price.”

"Thank you so much Daoist Shi!" Xiao Xia was overjoyed.In fact, most of the price of those spirit material raw materials falls on the tedious work of collecting, arranging, offering and refining, etc. If this item is omitted, more than half of the price will be cut off.

"...But you have to promise me something."

".What?" Xiao Xia was taken aback.

Daoist Shi hesitated for a moment, but still waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it's not a big deal, we'll talk about it when the time comes."

Half a day later, Xiao Xia obtained materials worth 3000 taels of silver from the fourth alliance leader, Fatty Hu.

Xiao Xia didn't ask Taoist Shi to give him credit, one is because he doesn't want to owe this person too much, and the other is that Taoist Shi is also a hard-working man who knows that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and he can't spend a lot of money just because of his pleasure. The hero of the rivers and lakes.So Xiaoxia borrowed the 3000 taels of silver from someone.

There are two kinds of people who are most open to money in this world. One is people who don’t know how money comes from, but only knows how to use it. The other is people who are obsessed with something and have no money in their eyes. people.Nearby, there happened to be a person who combined the two—the Kunlun disciple He Tian from the Third Academy.

Every time Xiao Xia saw the cloud and smoke lily outside Bai Jinfeng's window, she wanted to scold her, that flower was originally used to extract the water element force in the water citrine rock, but it had to wait for the flower to absorb the water element force and combine with it. The aura of plants and trees is transformed into fruits together, and they are broken alive like that and picked off. The flowers and the water topaz rocks used for cultivation are all thrown into the water. I heard from Bai Jinfeng that He Tian began to send a flower every day in Baishi City .It was still the same in the woods, Xiao Xia secretly estimated.The water topaz and cloud smoke lily that were consumed already had a total of thousands of taels of silver.

So Xiao Xia unceremoniously found this wealthy Kunlun student, and directly asked him to borrow money.

Of course He Tian would not do it.Although the children of this kind of aristocratic family often do some stupid things, they are not fools themselves, and it is impossible to rashly lend a few thousand taels of silver to someone they don't know and don't like.But Xiao Xia convinced him thoroughly with a few words. First of all, Xiao Xia told him that the money was borrowed because he wanted to help Tang Gonggong. Human favor, and in the future, fourth master Tang will naturally lose his aura when he looks at you.I am a head short of you, and if you borrow it, I will tell you why you are so infatuated and so painstaking, but you can't win the little girl's favor.

As soon as He Tian heard this, he took out all the gold leaves and silver notes on his body without even thinking about it, and put on a pure heart jade pendant with the function of exorcising evil spirits and suppressing demons made by secret method, as if he was afraid that Xiao Xia would change his mind It seems that they are all stuffed in his hands, and then you ask, tell me why it is like that.I, Riri, painstakingly cultivated such beautiful and beautiful flowers and sent them to her window, but she didn't take a look, but just looked at Tang Siku sitting there.

In fact, it is extremely simple, because the Bai Jinfeng you like is not the real Bai Jinfeng, or you don't like her at all.Xiao Xia said with a faint smile.

Then He Tian was stunned when he heard it, and even said how it was possible, he grabbed Xiao Xia and told him in detail how he ran into Bai Jinfeng in the inn of Baishi City that day, how she saw an undisguised burst of vitality in her smiling face .So I just felt an unprecedented excitement and admiration pouring out from the deepest part of my heart, and I was afraid of an abrupt beauty so I didn't dare to act rashly, so I had to rack my brains and try my best to buy those Yunyan lily seeds, which are a specialty of Yunzhou, and buy them again. The water citrine riri is cultivated and sent every day, I only hope that one day the beautiful woman can understand her painstaking efforts and infatuation and change her mind back and forth.

After hearing this, Xiaoxia calmly said, why doesn't she like the things you do with such care? Because you do those things because you think she will like them, or you do them for yourself.You don't even know what kind of person she is.How can you say you like her when you don't know what is on your mind? You just think you like her very much.In fact, I just like the feeling and impulse when I saw her.

After talking about this, Xiao Xia picked up the gold leaves and silver notes and left, leaving only He Tian standing there with a half-sorrowful and half-bewildered face, thinking hard about the esoteric Zen theory that the white girl is not a white girl but just a white girl .

As for the movements of Liang Hongtao and the group of people from the Lower Third Courtyard, Xiao Xia didn't ask. He already knew what the formations arranged outside the woods were used for, and he could probably guess what those people were planning. Anyway, It has little to do with me. If there is a huge change at that time, maybe it will still have some effect, so I don't bother to bother to pay attention to it now.

The gold leaf and the bank note together cost more than 1000 taels of silver, and the jade pendant was mortgaged together. Xiao Xia finally got enough talisman-making materials, chose a secluded place, got a flat stone platform, and was ready to start work system character.

In terms of the abundance of this material, it is definitely the first time in this life. The 3000 taels of silver is the cost price. If it is calculated according to the usual black market price, it is more than 7000 taels. I didn't even dare to think about it, but now Xiaoxia's heart is very peaceful.From the moment he decided to stay after listening to Shifang's words last night, his heart was completely at peace.

On the rock in front of him was spread a piece of yellow talisman paper nearly one foot long and three inches wide, which was carefully crafted with purple black wood pulp and yellow leaf sheepskin, and it was a standard top-quality talisman for drawing medium-grade high-quality talismans Paper, if drawn properly, can at least guarantee that the spells in the talisman will not disintegrate and fail within five years, but this piece of talisman paper is worth five taels of silver.

Xiaoxia picked up a yellow blood marrow pill with her left hand, which was refined from the blood essence of the earth monster. She put the index finger of her right hand in her mouth and bit it open, then stretched out her finger quickly, and the thumb-sized yellow pill The projectile instantly shattered, some tiny residues scattered, and the rest turned into a ball of throbbing yellow vitality that remained at Xiao Xia's fingertips.Immediately, Xiao Xia's finger landed on the talisman paper, using her qi and blood as a guide, and her spiritual thoughts as a bridge, she drew this mass of khaki-colored vitality on the talisman paper to outline a complicated cloud pattern.

If there is an authentic Taoist disciple who cultivates magic talismans and sees it nearby, he will immediately think that this person must be crazy.They don't even have rubbings, nor do they need templates.Directly use your own blood and divine sense to outline the middle-grade talisman.This is like building a high-rise building without drawings, but just building materials together at random. It's not incredible, it's just nonsense.Moreover, the outlined moiré pattern is obviously out of shape, and some places are far from the standard and authentic moiré pattern.But on the whole, it seems that there is a sense of balance and harmony. The most important thing is that until the drawing is completed, Xiaoxia's fingers leave, and the cloud pattern does not show any sign of disintegration and disappearing. Just like other talismans, all the vitality is settled It was firmly stabilized.

Xiao Xia let out a long breath.Wipe the sweat off his forehead.What he drew is probably a first-rank earth element talisman, and it is also the first time he has drawn a first-rank talisman in his life.

The upper-rank talismans take the meaning of the nine heavens, starting from the first rank, and the ninth rank is the highest, while the middle and lower ranks are arranged according to the official positions in the world, starting from the ninth rank, and the first rank is the highest.The highest one that Xiaoxia drew before was just barely above the third rank.And that's just the passing threshold for a decent talisman Taoist priest.Only the talisman that can draw the first rank can be regarded as entering the room in the way of talisman.

Before this, Xiao Xia would not even think about the first-grade talisman.The drawing of Zhongyi Talisman is the most complicated and difficult to control under the innate magic, but the price of the wasted materials after one failure made Xiao Xia absolutely unwilling to try.But now, this time.Xiao Xia is very confident.

Xiaoxia has not received any formal school's talisman training, has never memorized cloud pattern formulas, has not practiced brushwork, and has not practiced sitting in meditation to temper her spiritual thoughts, but when it comes to talismans.He is more familiar than anyone.The first calligraphy and painting he saw from the beginning of his memory was the talisman, and the first time he took a pen to write on paper for the first time in his life was the talisman.The old Taoist Xiyi only explained the basic principles of talismans to him vaguely, and the rest was for him to keep exploring and practicing.In the past ten years, he has drawn and used all kinds of talismans, but he is definitely no less than any other Taoist disciples, and because of various situations, he has modified talismans, repaired scrapped talismans, and even made fake talismans, etc. He has also done a lot of things that the disciples of the famous and decent sects could not even think of.He is like a warrior who has no master and no cheats. He has only been groping and fighting since he was a child. Compared with those swordsmen and boxers who have masters to teach and routines to practice, he does not have any fixed postures and fixed moves. , Sometimes it seems that he is even making a fool of himself, but every movement and every posture of him is learned from countless failures and countless practices, and it is already a part of his whole soul.

It can be said that for the 'feeling' of the talisman, Xiaoxia is confident that he is no less than anyone else.

He has already used two of the three earth-moving innate talismans that Shi Zhongni gave him, and he has benefited a lot from experiencing the operation of top-grade earth-moving spells, as well as the heavenly lock demon talisman of Zhang Tianshi in the Qingzhou forest. The use and release of the seal gave him a deeper understanding of the way of talismans.And now there are spiritual materials worth 8000 taels of silver beside him, of course he is more confident than ever.

The earth energy of the Blood Marrow Pill has been completely stabilized, and the skeleton of this talisman has been finalized, and the next step is the cloud pattern of the more complicated spell itself.Xiaoxia picked up a small bottle of blood-red syrup and a yellow soil ball from the side, poured the red water into her left hand, crushed the soil ball with her right hand, and stretched out both hands, using the red water and the powder of the soil ball Draw together on the talisman paper.

The cloud pattern on the talisman paper is delicate and complicated, the most important thing is the balance of the divine sense in it, and the application of the vitality can't make any mistakes.But Xiaoxia's state of mind is very calm, without the slightest anxiety, and meticulously guides the vitality of the five elements to turn into pieces of cloud patterns on the talisman paper.This kind of calm is also the biggest source of his self-confidence.

This is not the kind of calmness that can't stand the slightest disturbance, but the kind of calmness of a glass of turbid wine and a plate of soybeans in a canopy with stormy waves and rough waves.He knows that the wind and waves are terrifying, and the waves are huge, and if he gets involved in the storm, he will be crushed, but since he can't stop the wind and the waves, he should do what he can.Starting from the woods in Qingzhou, the uneasiness, anxiety, calculation, and worrying about gains and losses that had been in my heart all subsided at this moment.It is a calm that is full of power.Xiao Xia even had a faint premonition in this calm, although this storm may be extremely tragic, it can also blow away a lot of smog that permeates the surface.

Unknowingly, all the materials in his hands have been drawn on the talisman paper without a single trace left, turning into pieces of fine and complicated cloud patterns, a burst of pulsating five-element vitality gave off a burst of sound, and then calmed down again, without any trace. A trace of the exposed ground interacts, and the introverted ground gathers together.This piece of talisman of the first rank was completely drawn in this way.

Xiao Xia smiled.Although he was already sweating profusely and his head was dizzy from time to time, his smile was the happiest in the past two years.

The next thing is to consume all the spirit materials in the remaining ten days, and make them into talismans, so as to prepare for the turmoil after that ten days.

The remaining ten days will be very short, Xiao Xia is sure. (To be continued. Welcome to the starting point to vote for recommendation,