Chapter 336: Taoist Master Zhenyin!
While listening to Bai Su'an's self-introduction, Yang Shan opened the official website of the "Taoist Association".

There are more than fifty Taoist temples in Wudang Mountain, and there are Taoist priests in each temple.

Bai Suan’s name was indeed on it.

And he is a senior Taoist priest with a "Taoist name".

"It turned out to be Taoist Master Bai An!"

"Oh, I don't deserve it. In the game, Boss Yang can just call me Bai An."

Yang Shan: "Okay, Taoist Bai An, can you show me your array master's panel?"

Bai Suan: "Um, Mr. Yang, just call me Bai An."

Tieyang looked like he was disappointed with his friend:
"You are an unfilial son! Mr. Yang gave you face, but you still want to offend him. I think you don't want to sign the contract!"

"Forehead"

Bai Su'an was indeed a little nervous.

After all, he knew very well that the handsome young man in his twenties standing in front of him was truly the best in the current fight!
Just by playing games, I made a fortune close to a small goal!

Bai Suan immediately shared his panel.

[Player: Bai An]

Level: Eight-star Grandmaster
Secondary occupation: Seal Master

Level: fourth grade

Formations learned:
"A Hundred Solutions to Strange Arrays"

"Spiritual Hand Array"

A word popped up in Yang Shan's mind:

"what?"

It is true that the world is so big that nothing is too strange, and there are so many talented players.

Any old man who shows up randomly can make the top player of Doupo ask such questions!

In his previous life, Yang Shan had not studied the formation seal master in detail.

After all, human energy and time are limited. If you try to cover everything, most of the time you will end up with a mess of things without any refinement.

Yang Shan: "Master Bai An, did you use these two array seals to cultivate to the fourth level?"

Bai Suan smiled and said:
"At first, I entered Doupo just to see the time-delaying technology of Tianyao Company. I wanted to travel around this world and accidentally came across the secondary profession of array seal master. I didn't expect that Tianyao Company was so particular about this secondary profession. The "One Hundred Solutions to Strange Arrays" actually included all the arrays in the existing ancient books, and even some incomplete arrays were completed using AI. I was directly attracted to it and was fascinated by it!"

Tie Yang: "Boss Yang, don't listen to this old guy's nonsense. He just can't bear it anymore and doesn't want to sit still every day, so he runs into the game. You don't know that this old guy locks himself in the yard in the game every day, holding "A Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations". He seems to be reading a book, but in fact, the table is full of delicacies from land and sea! A mouthful of wine and a mouthful of meat!"

Bai Suan was dissatisfied:
"To cultivate the Dao, one must have an open mind! I am already quite old, and I just want to enjoy myself! If you don't let me enjoy myself, I will breed demons in my heart, which will do more harm than good to my cultivation!"

Yang Shan smiled and said, "Since Taoist Bai An wants to enjoy himself, why did you think of signing a contract with me? Although our company is relatively free, the workload is still very heavy."

Bai Suan was a little embarrassed:
"Mainly, there are many Taoist temples on Mount Wudang that have been in disrepair for a long time and are in a dilapidated state. I want to make some money to repair those temples."

Wudang Mountain is one of the holy places of Taoism, with numerous Taoist temples. The large ones are like palaces, while the small ones are like courtyards.

Of course, large Taoist temples are crowded with tourists, but small Taoist temples are almost deserted.

Due to the lack of income sources, they can only rely on large Taoist temples to "share" some money every month, but if this goes on for too long, the houses will inevitably become old.

Yang Shan nodded:

"In that case, could you please ask Taoist Bai An to show us what exactly is the difference between you and other formation seal players?"

The role of the seal master in the game is difficult to estimate specifically.

First of all, he is the only secondary profession that can directly affect actual combat!

Because there are "formations" in the game.

Some formations are based on terrain, while others are based on people.

For example, the fourth level of Xuanlian Sect’s “Five Elements Killing Formation” could be considered a “formation based on humans”.

Forming a team with friends and using formations to increase combat power is one of the ways to play in the middle and late stages.

But the formation is rigorous, with great attention to layout and positioning.

Tianyao Company cannot expect players to practice a formation for a year or two to ensure that the formation can be effective at all times in battle.

The formation seal master can make corresponding formation seal magic weapons according to the formation.

Take "Five Elements Killing Array" as an example.

If the five players make mistakes due to position shifting, the formation will become invalid. Then the formation seal magic weapon will come into play. While maintaining the formation, it will forcibly pull the players who made the mistakes back to their current positions.

This will reduce the burden on the main combat players.

If you use the terrain as a formation, you will need a lot of natural treasures. And if you use a large attack formation, once the formation is activated, it can even have the effect of killing enemies above your level!

In the previous life, the rise of formation seal masters was very slow. It was not until after version 3.0 that Yi Qingyang, who was still a Dou Huang, led twenty-three Dou Wangs of Shuxian Tower to form the "Twenty-Four Great Sword Formations" and killed a five-star Dou Zong with a purple seal. Only then did formation seal masters truly enter the players' field of vision.

The most crucial part of the "Twenty-Four Great Sword Formations" is the formation itself and the formation seals and magic weapons worn by the twenty-four people, which enable the power of the formation to be exerted at all times.

In the current version, the players who will delve into the study of formation seals, apart from the top guilds that have enough resources to deliberately cultivate them, are only a very small number of players who are really interested in formations and will choose to study them.

Compared with the current development of the two major secondary professions of alchemy and equipment refining, the fourth-grade array seal master seems to have fallen behind too far.

But Yang Shan could remember that the formation seal master that the Xia Wang Mansion was currently focusing on training had only just reached the fourth rank!

The most crucial point!
The old Taoist priest Bai Su'an in front of him had only learned "A Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations" and "Spiritual Hand Formation"!
The former is a book that any player will get when he gets started with formation printing. It contains as many as 128 basic formations!
This basic formation is actually somewhat similar to the mini-games that alchemists first encounter. There are more than eighty types of alchemy mini-games.

Tianyao Company uses "success rate" to allow players to practice a lot at a low cost, so that when players play "advanced alchemy gameplay" in the future, no matter what mini-game they randomly encounter, they will have rich experience.

The advanced formations of the formation seal master are basically the various overlaps and combinations of the 128 basic formations in "One Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations".

Of course, the experience points that can be obtained from the 128 formations in "One Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations" are very small.

This Bai Su'an actually relied on "A Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations" to advance to the fourth-grade formation seal master.

That can only explain one point!
This old Taoist priest, who looks to be in his sixties or seventies, has such steady hands!
Just like the best sculptor, he carved the formation exactly like the example, thus gaining double experience points.

Although Yang Shan had some guesses, seeing is believing, so it would be better to let Bai Su'an show it.

"Then I will show you my ugliness!"

A peach wood sword appeared in Bai Su'an's right hand, and he flexed his left hand and flicked it four times.

Four spirit stones were printed on the ground with their four corners.

The peach wood sword was swung repeatedly, drawing six lines on the ground.

Four of them form a square, and the other two connect the diagonals.

This is the "Four-Direction Spirit Gathering Formation" in "A Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations".

It can increase the player's efficiency by 3% when practicing while idle.

The system will compare the actual formation with the original version. If the completeness reaches 99%, it will be considered a "perfect formation."

If it is not a "perfect formation", then the actual effect will be reduced based on the proportion of completeness.

Yang Shan investigated.

Bai Su'an's formation this time was 100% complete!

It only takes about two seconds in total!
This is not just about having steady hands, it has reached the point where “practice makes perfect”.

No wonder he could become a fourth-grade formation seal master by relying on the most basic "One Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations"!

If Bai Su'an really practices all 128 kinds of formation seals to this level, the "completeness" of his ability to arrange those complicated large formations in the future will be well guaranteed!

Yang Shan nodded:

"Master Bai An, you really have real skills!"

Bai Suan said:
“To be honest, apart from the “One Hundred Solutions to Strange Formations”, I only got the “Spiritual Hand Formation Engraving” when I was collecting folk songs in the wild. It allowed me to reduce the difficulty of making formation seals and magic weapons, and at the same time increase some experience points. Of course, the formation engraving inside the puppet was also improved.”

"I heard from my old friend that Mr. Yang wanted to sign a seal master, so I dared to give it a try."

Yang Shan nodded:

"In that case, I will temporarily give you a standard contract similar to that of Mr. Tieyang, but your current level is relatively low, so the investment I will give you in the first year will be less, only 500,000 yuan."

"Five million?"

The Taoists in Wudang Mountain are not actually very rich.

The old Taoist priests in the major Taoist temples in Wudang Mountain use most of the money they receive from tourists for charity, except for maintaining basic expenses.

They even send young Taoist priests down the mountain every year to gain experience and do good deeds along the way.

Therefore, even for an old Taoist priest like Bai Su'an, his savings over thirty years would only be around five or six hundred thousand.

Suddenly, he had an extra 500,000 yuan in "investment", which was indeed a huge fortune for Bai Su'an!

Bai Suan hesitated:
"Boss Yang, aren't you afraid of losing money?"

Tie Yang cursed:
"Goddess, are you questioning our CEO Yang's investment vision? If you lose all of the 500,000, I'll write you an IOU!"

Grandpa Tieyang has now officially become a sixth-grade equipment refiner. Even for top-grade equipment, his success rate has basically reached 100%!

If you perform well, you can get purple prints, and if you are in excellent condition, you can get gold prints!
It is because the production quantity is far less than that of elixirs, otherwise the market price of top-grade equipment would have been lowered by Grandpa Tieyang!
Even so, Mr. Tieyang has finally made it through and is now making money like crazy.

In this month alone, he had $600,000 in his hands!
Of course, the contract was for a 70-30 split, so Yang Shan got 1.4 million from old man Tieyang this month!

Old Man Tieyang does have the confidence to say this now.

Yang Shan smiled faintly:

"I know whether it's a profit or a loss, I just hope that Taoist Bai An will work harder in the future."

Bai Suan does have some abilities, but how far he can go remains to be seen.

In any case, Yang Shan will decide the investment intensity based on Bai Suan's situation.

Anyway, the contract only states that it's $500,000 a year.

For Boss Yang, these five hundred thousand are really just "small money".

Use it to try to find a formation master who may really shine in the future.

This is the true meaning of making a small investment for a big return!

Besides, Bai Suan is indeed a senior Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain.

In the Taoist culture that has been passed down in China from ancient times to the present, "formations" have a very strong influence.

Maybe, Bai Suan will really give Yang Shan some surprises in the future.

Imagine if he formed a four-person formation with Su Yitong, Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng in the future.
Then isn't fighting against opponents of higher levels as easy as eating and drinking?
This is a game section that Yang Shan had never been exposed to in his previous life, and Yang Shan himself is also looking forward to it!
(End of this chapter)