Chapter 4 04. Spirit Gathering Array

Suddenly, a mountain breeze blew gently, rustling the leaves and dispersing the mist.

The sun quietly climbed up the treetops, and the golden sunlight shone through the newly grown leaves, casting spots of light.

A bird's cry was heard in the woods, causing a burst of chirping. Then the bird's cry suddenly died down, and then there was a rustling sound, perhaps left by a squirrel or an insect flying through the branches.

Luo Yihang liked this place so much. There were mountains and trees here, and the earth and wood spiritual roots in his body seemed to be nourished and trembled slightly.

The state of cultivation is temporarily stabilized and no longer falls.

Luo Yihang held a branch cut from a young pine tree, found a poplar tree that could get sunlight, and sat cross-legged against the trunk.

Take out a small knife and quickly remove the unused branches and leaves, then peel off the bark, leaving only a bare wooden stick.

I took a quick look and estimated the size.

Luo Yihang took out the hatchet again, and with a flick of the knife, he cut the stick into small pieces of ten centimeters long.

Then put down the hatchet, picked up a knife, and cut these short pieces of wood into thin slices one centimeter thick.

Although the knife was just a thin iron fruit knife sold for two yuan in the convenience store, in the hands of Luo Yihang, a third-level Qi training practitioner, the knife could cut pine wood like tofu.

Before long, it turned into more than sixty palm-sized pieces of wood.

Next comes the delicate work.

Luo Yihang held the knife like a pen, concentrating and carving a series of symbols on the wood chip. The symbols were divided into gold, wood, water, fire, earth, yin and yang. He carved one symbol on each piece of wood, and it became an array symbol.

Seven array symbols form a group. When a group of array symbols are arranged in the specified positions and activated, they can form an array called the "Seven Star Spirit Gathering Array".

Can gather spiritual energy.

However, now these are just pieces of wood with patterns carved on them. In order to turn them into a real spirit gathering array, they need to be activated with spiritual energy.

There is actually spiritual energy on Earth, otherwise spiritual roots would not be born. Luo Yihang himself is proof of this.

It’s just that there is not much spiritual energy on the earth, and it is unevenly distributed.

For example, if we digitize the spiritual energy, the spiritual energy value of a big city like Shanghai is 0, a mountain village like Luo Yihang's is about 1, and the value in the mountain where we are now is probably 1 to 2. If we go up to the snow line, it may reach 3, but that's the most.

But if you want to practice, you need at least 50.

Therefore, it is necessary to use a spirit gathering array to gather spiritual energy from afar.

This is the most basic formation in the world of immortal cultivation, along with the cleansing spell for cleaning the body, the cleaning spell for cleaning the house, the traction technique for predicting good and bad luck and deducing the future, the etiquette and Taoism Scripture for ideology and morality, etc., all belong to the gift package for novice practitioners. They are must-learn, basic, and of no great use.

It is of little use in the world of immortals, but it is a treasure on Earth.

Luo Yihang worked hard and carved out eight sets of array talismans, with four wooden pieces left.

After packing up all his things, Luo Yihang rubbed his wrists, leaned against the tree trunk, and took a few deep breaths of the air filled with the scent of grass and trees.

The sun is already high in the sky, and it feels warm on my body. I don’t want to move.

His mind had been highly concentrated, so he had to slow down.

After a while, I regained some energy and the phone rang.

Luo Yihang took out his cell phone, saw it was his dad, and picked up the phone.

"Hangwazi, it's time to go back."

"Oh, let's go."

The infrastructure is really good. There is still signal even on such a high mountain.

Luo Yihang stood up, patted his butt, picked up the bag, and marked a few trees nearby so that he wouldn't lose it later.

Then he called Ding Xiaoman, who was having fun climbing the tree, to go down the mountain and go home.

……

Go down the mountain to pick up dad.

Luo Yihang looked into the bucket and saw only two small white strips more than a foot long.

It's OK, not Air Force.

He picked up one and threw it to Ding Xiaoman.

Ding Xiaoman jumped up like a dog and caught it in mid-air, holding it in his mouth with his head raised high.

"It's still raw. Cook it." Luo Cheng complained, squatted down and called Ding Xiaoman, "Cat, good cat, spit it out and go back to cook it."

Ding Xiaoman turned his head away and ignored it. The fish did not eat either. It continued to hold the fish in its mouth with its head raised and walked away with a cat-like gait, looking proud.

"Hey, that cat you raised." Luo Cheng pointed at his son and complained.

Luo Yihang just grinned and didn't say anything, packing up his fishing gear. The cat walked ahead with the fish in its mouth, and the father and son followed behind, strolling down the mountain and returning home.

When he returned to the village, Luo Yihang's mother Zhang Guiqin was already busy in the vegetable garden.

Ding Xiaoman ran along the ridge of the field to Zhang Guiqin, threw the fish to her, and meowed a few times.

Zhang Guiqin stroked the cat's head happily and said, "Good boy, you've come back from catching fish. Grandma will stew it for you tonight."

Then he looked up and saw the father and son coming down from behind. His face changed immediately and he pointed at them and yelled, "You two have disappeared since early morning. You are so rotten outside. You don't even want to eat!"

The father and son ran away in fear, they couldn't afford to offend them.

Put your things down, wash your hands, and go into the house.

Zhang Guiqin had already prepared the meal and had eaten.

A plate of stir-fried pork with green peppers and a plate of twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts were left for the father and son, placed on the table with plates, and rice was steaming in the rice cooker.

Luo Yihang and Luo Cheng finished their meal in a hurry, then put on rubber shoes and went down to the fields in shame.

Luo Cheng is about work + performance.

Luo Yihang was working while looking for a place to set up his formation.

Luo Yihang's family built some terraced fields next to their house.

In total, there are about six acres of vegetable fields, divided into several plots, two of which have greenhouses with an area of ​​more than two acres, which are used to grow seedlings and some cold-not-hardy leafy vegetables.

The rest are planted in the open air with cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, spinach, celery and the like, with fruits and leafy vegetables separated.

There is also a half-acre area of ​​pepper and more than two acres of corn.

They also created a mud puddle near the canal and planted water chestnuts in it.

In the past, Luo Yihang's parents would definitely not be able to cultivate so many fields alone. But now that technology is advanced, they use machines to plow the land, and they have installed sprinklers in the fields. When it gets really busy, they can just hire some people to take care of it.

It is now the end of March, and the new vegetables from the plains below the mountain should be on the market, but it is cooler on the mountain, so it will be more than half a month later and it is not yet time to pick them.

But it doesn’t mean there is no work in the fields. If you farm, you can always find work all year round.

You need to weed, fertilize, pinch off the tips, separate the seedlings, prune the branches, and cultivate the soil.

In the fields where some vegetables are about to mature, pesticides and herbicides should not be used. Time should be allowed for the pesticides to decompose and no residue should be left.

So you have to catch some bugs at the same time.

Eggplants, tomatoes and the like need to be supplemented with potassium fertilizer.

Luo Yihang took a hoe and weeded the vegetable garden, cultivated the soil, and chose a location to bury the formation talisman.

The wooden array talisman could only cover an area of ​​ten feet in radius, which is about 800 square meters. Luo Yihang calculated his remaining spiritual energy and decided to activate three spirit gathering arrays, which could cover the peppercorns, water chestnuts, and several nearby vegetable fields.

The most important thing is to cover Luo Yihang’s house.

It's just the beginning, so be safe.

After all, the spiritual energy now is like a fixed deposit. If you use it a little, you will have a little less. There is only outflow and no inflow. Use half and keep the other half just in case.

It would be great if we had some white jade. The wooden spirit gathering array has a small range and will rot after a month at most, so we have to make a new one.

The white jade cloth can be used for a long time at a time and covers a large area.

Unfortunately, I have no money.

Luo Yihang set up the formation very quickly. He calculated the position and pushed down with the hoe handle with force. With great force, miracles happened. The hoe handle went in half way and made a hole half a meter deep in the ground.

Stuff the array talisman in, cover it with soil and tamp it down and you're done.

There are only 21 holes in the three sets of spirit gathering arrays.

Instead, it took some time to determine the position.

The three spirit gathering arrays have been set up, and all that remains is to activate them.

Activation is also a hassle.

　It's a new day.

　　There are still three chapters today.

　　Dear relatives, dear friends, dear godfathers.

　　Please move your lucky hands, collect them, and recommend them to others!

(End of this chapter)