The formation method is broad and profound, and it is not easy for a practitioner to become a great formation master.
In order to build a mountain-protecting formation for Qingling College, Jiang Ning decided to pick up the formation that he was only half-experienced at, so he happily asked the Taoist boy to move all the formation scrolls from the Shentong Pavilion to the main hall and teach himself.
After looking at it for several days, I didn't have the slightest clue. It could even be said that I didn't even know where to start. So I had no choice but to send someone to invite the only formation instructor in the courtyard to the Lecture Hall to explain it to me.
"Wen Jiaoxi, you can probably just tell me about it." Looking at the mountains of formation scrolls, Jiang Ning had a headache.
Wen Jiaoxi is an old man with white beard and hair. He is short in stature and slightly hunchbacked. He speaks with a Cangzhou accent and has an old-fashioned and stubborn personality. He traveled around Kyushu when he was young and later stayed at Qingling Academy. After a few decades, he can be regarded as a veteran of Qingling.
Already.
"What did you say!"
Even if the person he was facing was Jiang Ning, the old man was not polite at all, and said with a tone of scolding the students: "The formation method is all-encompassing. Even the great formation master dare not say that you can understand it just by listening. You can't understand it."
How dare you speak so boldly!"
Jiang Ning blinked after being scolded, and did not dare to refute. He could only say in a low voice: "Yes, Jiang Ning has been taught. I would like to ask my teacher to take the trouble to explain it carefully."
Seeing that he quickly admitted his mistakes, had a good attitude, and had a stubborn and rigid personality, the old man's expression softened slightly, and he continued: "If you want to practice the formation, you must first be calm. If you are not calm, you will not learn well. The second is to memorize the formation."
There are about 100,000 formation diagrams in Jiuzhou Continent. If you want to get started, you need to memorize at least a thousand formation diagrams."
"A Thousand Formations!" Jiang Ning screamed.
He suddenly felt that it was not a wise choice for him to follow the formation method.
You must know that every formation diagram is complex and obscure. It not only contains the required materials and quantities, but also the positions of the formation legs and formation eyes. In addition, it also requires a huge amount of calculations to deduce the variables and parameters of the formation operation.
constant.
Therefore, many practitioners who want to follow the formation lineage will not be able to see the path throughout their lives.
After hearing the teaching, Xi said calmly: "Yes, a thousand formation diagrams."
Jiang Ning was completely confused, he didn't really want to learn anymore.
Originally, he relied on the "Heze Theory on Yin and Yang Formation Explanation" given by Su Zhao, and thought that his level was quite advanced. Unexpectedly... he was not even a beginner!
"Hearing the teaching, you continue to talk. I wonder if I can continue to learn." Jiang Ning said.
When Wen Jiaoxi heard what he said, his old face, which had just calmed down, suddenly became frosty again.
"How can you give up on learning halfway? As a strong Nascent Soul Realm and the dean of Qingling, how can you go back on your word when you decide on something? If this continues, where is your prestige and how will you convince the public in the future!"
The old man scolded him with a straight face, making Jiang Ning extremely embarrassed.
"It's not so serious after listening to the teaching, it's just practice." Jiang Ning argued, but when he saw the old man's expression getting worse and worse, he was worried that he would make the only formation master in the courtyard angry, so he had to bite the bullet and change his words.
: "What the teacher said is right, I'll learn it. Isn't it enough to just learn it?"
Wen Jiaoxi snorted coldly and said: "It is easy for children to learn but hard to achieve with old age. No time is spent lightly. Today we will first learn the basic methods of formations and do arithmetic." As he said that, he took out an animal skin scroll and handed it to him.
Jiang Ning said: "Let's first learn the calculation of the ten books of the Sutra."
Opening the scroll, Jiang Ning saw the first few big characters that came into view, and read softly: "Nine Chapters of the Ten Books of Sutra""
Sitting on the futon, Wen Jiaoxi coughed twice, shook his head and said: "Listen carefully, I'm a fortune teller, the longitude and latitude of the heaven and earth, the head of all living beings, the origin and end of the five permanent elements, the parents of yin and yang, the building number of the stars, the appearance and interior of the three lights, the five elements
Quanping..."
In the days that followed, Jiang Ning experienced what pain was and what life was worse than death.
"Ask six thousand five hundred and sixty-one, if divided into nine people, how much will each person get?"
"Inspect the gathering and dispersing of people's ethics, examine the rise and fall of the two qi, push back the downturn of cold and heat, observe the differences between steps near and far, observe the subtle omens of the way of heaven, examine the length and breadth of geography, focus on the location of the spirit, and integrate the talismans of failure."
"Today there are 15 million soldiers, and 400,000 are available. How many soldiers are there in the army?"
Half a month later, in the lecture hall.
Jiang Ning's hair was disheveled, and his eyes were looking at the manuscript paper covered with dense handwriting on the ground, his expression numb.
Next to him, Wen Jiaoxi said with a satisfied look on his face: "The dean is indeed very talented. It only took half a month to learn all the ten sutra calculation skills. It is really amazing. Next we will
Start learning how to use algorithms to deduce the corner positions of large formations."
In the main hall, Jiang Ning's heart-rending wails could be heard.
During this period, Zhou Hao, Su Zhao and others all came to visit, but they all turned around and left when they reached the door. It was not because of anything else, but mainly because they heard the helpless wailing inside, which was really noisy.
People have headaches.
Another half month later, one day, the door of the main hall opened, and a young man with disheveled hair and ragged clothes, who looked like a beggar, walked out.
This person's expression was numb, his eyes were dull, and he kept mumbling to himself, as if he was chanting something. If you look closely, you will find that the index fingers of his hands have been moving back and forth in the void, and he is drawing something.
.
Some students recognized the young man's identity and greeted him, but the young man seemed not to hear and was still immersed in his own world.
"It's over. Isn't the dean mad? In the past month, I have often heard wailing sounds coming from the hall."
"I heard that the dean is practicing the formation. It seems that he is not crazy."
"I think it's probably true."
Although Jiang Ning didn't go crazy, he was almost there.
During this period of time, Jiang Ning would do sutra calculation every day with his eyes open and closed, and sometimes he would even dream about equations in his dreams, so much so that he would forget about food and sleep, almost going crazy.
Of course, efforts must be rewarded.
If before, his formation still had materials and formation patterns, and the formation would not be successful because he did not know how to form formations and did not have suitable materials, then Jiang Ning no longer needs to consider these factors.
Through calculation, not only can substitutes for the raw materials be found, but also the formation method can be changed without the formation collapsing, doubling the power of the formation.
Didn't even expect it.
"The dean is a person with talent for formations. In the future, he may be able to become a sect formation master that surpasses the grand formation master."
This was the evaluation Wen Jiaoxi gave to Jiang Ning when he taught the formation.
In the Jiuzhou Continent, in addition to the realm of cultivation, there are many other cultivation systems.
One of them is the realm system exclusive to the formation master.
According to the number of array diagrams and constant variables that can be mastered, they can be divided into eight types: array master, grand array master, sect array master, life-breaking array master, mysterious array master, earth array master, holy array master, and heavenly array master
In this realm, the Heavenly Formation Master can already rival the land gods.
However, it is difficult to practice the formation along the way. There has been no heavenly formation master in the past hundred years, not even a holy formation master. Now the strongest formation masters on the Jiuzhou continent are the only few earth formation masters in the five courtyards and four sects.
division.
So Wen Jiaoxi's evaluation of Jiang Ning is actually very high.
Su Zhao sat alone by Wenchun Lake and said with expectation: "I believe that Ning'er's future will never stop here. He will definitely inherit your grandfather's legacy and become the new Heavenly Formation Master on the Kyushu Continent!