After four hours of practice, Wu Ma Xi woke up from his trance and slowly opened his eyes. A rare touch of softness and sadness flashed across his eyes. He sat in the darkness for a moment.
, closed his eyes again, and thought about some changes in the artistic conception of cultivation.
During the practice just now, he discovered a strange phenomenon.
Originally, the situation in Xia Ye Ying Yu was a peaceful and relaxing summer night. However, during the previous practice, Xia Ye Ying Yu seemed to have mutated, and the whole artistic conception was no longer so relaxed, but became a little sad.
The movement of every spiritual light point carries an inescapable heaviness. The same goes for the chirping of insects and the water flow. It seems like a courtyard at the end of late autumn. The cold is coming, the vegetation is declining, and a cricket hidden in the corner is standing there.
Singing about his tragic life abandoned by prosperity.
This kind of sadness is just like Wu Ma Xi's current state of mind.
It has been nearly half a month since Ruyi left. Wu Maxi's brain has gradually recovered from the bloodlust and blankness, and he can start to think. However, every time he looks at the boundless darkness in front of him, longing and grief bite his heart.
, making him so painful that he could hardly breathe.
Wuma Xi is a stubborn person, and he is always used to resist pain with a sneer. But this time, the grief was so pure and thorough that his whole soul was immersed in it, and he could not resist it at all.
For him, cultivation was just like eating and sleeping, and he had not stopped for more than ten years. However, due to the grief in his heart, cultivation had been suspended for nearly ten days. It was not until today that he cheered up and resumed cultivation.
But there was a change in Xia Yeying's words, a change that he couldn't understand.
He is convinced that this change is due to his state of mind, but how does the change in state of mind lead to this change in artistic conception?
He carefully reflected on his weaving structure, and found that there was nothing unusual about it before. The change in artistic conception had absolutely nothing to do with the structure. So, what was the reason?
Could it be that the changes occur due to changes in spiritual power fluctuations?
He has not solidified the detection mood, cannot monitor his own spiritual power fluctuations, and does not know the waveform and frequency of his own spiritual power fluctuations. Naturally, he cannot prove his guess.
This kind of emotional injection must be what Du Zhongshan calls Jing Yin. But the introduction of this kind of Jing Yin seems to have a negative effect on Xia Ye Ying Yu.
In Wu Ma Xi's feeling, the efficiency of the sad Xia Ye Ying Yu is weaker than the usual Xia Ye Ying Yu. Although it is not obvious, Wu Ma Xi has been practicing Feng Pan for many years and is extremely sensitive to the efficiency of practice. It is very clear.
have noticed this change.
This kind of change cannot be solved based on Wu Ma Xi's existing knowledge of the principles of artistic conception. He can only hide it in his heart and ignore it for the time being. Fortunately, this change does not have a big impact on the artistic conception.
He opened his eyes and looked around, but there was still a bottomless darkness.
This is a cave under Leng Yuantan. The routes in the cave extend in all directions and are messy. Moreover, this cave seems to be bottomless. He has been advancing in this cave for nearly ten days, but he has not explored the cave at all.
depth.
Wu Maxi followed Meng Yingzi into the cave. Due to the darkness when he entered the cave, he quickly lost the trace of Meng Yingzi and could only fumble forward in the cave, passing through countless cross paths.
, originally he had no confidence in finding that Meng Yingzi, but just this morning, he stepped on an artistic trap.
It is a very powerful artistic conception trap, called a sentry trap. The purpose of this trap is not to hurt people, but to detect movement. Once stepped on, the trap can still be detected by the trap setter even from dozens of miles away.
This should be the detection method used by Meng Yingzi. Wu Maxi once stepped on one at the entrance of the cave, and stepped on it again here, which proves that Meng Yingzi has walked this road before.
Sentry traps not only detect enemies for their owners, but also expose their traces.
In order to find out what was going on inside the cave, Wu Maxi also set up some artistic traps, but he didn't know how to use sentinels. Instead, he used a trap commonly used by Zi Ji, called Blood News.
In addition to having a warning function similar to that of a sentinel, this trap also has extremely powerful lethality. Of course, the craftsmanship and materials are much more complicated than that of a sentinel. Fortunately, Wu Ma Xi now has enough materials, and he has buried enough materials along the way.
That's five.
One of these five blood messages has been triggered, and the location is at the entrance of the cave. Judging from the triggering location and time, it should not be Meng Yingzi’s fault. In other words, in this cave, apart from himself and that Meng Yingzi, there should be no one.
There are also outsiders, or animals.
The purple glimmer of pure green flames illuminated this small world.
This is a turning point in the cave, where the cave splits into two branches, each extending into the unknown darkness.
Whether to go left or right, this is a multiple-choice question often encountered in caves.
In the nearly ten days after entering the cave, Wu Ma Xi encountered dozens of such choices. After going round and round, no matter how good the corpse exorcist's sense of direction was, he was in a dark cave without the sun and stars to guide the way.
Among them, it has long been impossible to find the north.
By the dim light of pure green flames, Wu Ma Xi carefully dismantled the traps arranged among the three forked roads, recovered the materials into the elephant ring, quickly entered the forked road on the right, and used a sharp awl inconspicuously on the cave wall.
He carved a mark on the spot, extinguished the pure green flame, and groped forward.
Ziji has always regarded himself as the king of darkness. After rigorous training, Zijijing practitioners can walk freely in the darkest environment.
Although Wu Ma Xi received a lot of inheritance from Zi Ji, he did not learn this skill. He groped forward along the way and it was extremely difficult. Fortunately, he was almost used to it, and he didn't bump into it very much. He just kept the distance.
It is extremely inconvenient to weave pure green flames for lighting.
Purple light shines on the cave wall with jagged rock scales, like the underworld fire in hell.
There is another fork ahead, with five forked roads in total. Five forked roads like this are extremely rare. It looks like the five paths in front of the night devil's palace.
Legend has it that in front of the palace of the Night Demon in the underworld, there are five different paths, namely death, injury, illness, disability, and paralysis. You have to go through nine reincarnations in them before you can enter the Palace of the Night Demon.
The five forked roads in front are lined up. The rocks at the entrance of the cave are twisted and strange. The depth of the cave is boundless darkness, as if the back leads to the underworld, which is famous for its dark and strange world.
Wu Maxi was not deterred by the strangeness at the entrance of the cave. She chose the fork in the middle, marked it and walked straight in.
This fork looks like a crack in the rock. It is extremely narrow in width but extremely high in height. After walking for a short time, the width of this fork is getting wider and wider, but the height is getting lower and lower. There are some sharp
Rocks hang down from the ceiling of the cave, like the jagged teeth of a giant beast.
After walking for a short time, the sound of water came from the front, and the patter seemed to be a small waterfall.
Wuma Xi quickened her pace, and after walking for about half an hour, she suddenly came to an open space.
This is a natural hall with a radius of dozens of meters. The roof of the cave is about six meters above the ground. There are some strange ores embedded in the entire cave roof. A green light is found, illuminating the entire space hazy.
A spring water gushes out from a small hole in the cave wall, falls nearly four meters, hits the rock, and flows into the pool below. This spring water should be one of the sources of Leng Yuan Pool. It is bone-chilling, with a layer of
Mist forms on the surface of the pool, curling up like a dream under the green light.
During these ten days of underground travel, Wuma Xi would encounter similar springs from time to time, but this was the first time she encountered such an interesting and magnificent one.
With water and wide space, this is a good place to rest. The only drawback is that it is very cold here, just like the cold winter.
After arranging the temporary camp, Wu Maxi took out a few kettles and began to store drinking water. This cave seemed to have no end at all, and he didn't know what kind of situations he would encounter in the future.
The artistic conception of condensed water has to be prepared as trivially as possible.
There were several small fish swimming in the cold pool. Wuma Xi tried his best to catch them. The total amount was less than one or two, and they were all eaten alive by Wuma Xi. Although he had some food stored, he didn't know this.
I didn't dare to waste it randomly depending on how long the journey would take, so I didn't let go of any food I saw on the road.
In this eternally dark cave, even the time basket was working sometimes. After more than ten days, Wu Maxi had no idea about night and day, and had no concept of eating on time. He could go wherever it was convenient.
Eat whenever you feel hungry.
After the meal, Wu Maxi began to draw a map of the cave based on the green light of the ore.
The entire map is drawn on a huge piece of kraft paper, but most of the area is just blank. The lines are all concentrated at the bottom, spreading in twists and turns, similar to the trajectory of the branches on the six views.
These lines were drawn by Wu Ma Xi based on his impressions of the journey he had traveled in recent days. With experience in interpreting the language of fireflies on summer nights, a traveler's sense of direction, and a solid foundation in three-dimensional structure, Wu Ma Xi was confident that this
The map should be fairly accurate.
This route is winding and winding. One end is where Wu Ma Xi is now, and the other end is a question mark. That is not the exit of the cave, but the place where Wu Ma Xi started recording, which was on the seventh day after entering the cave.
Oh my god. Due to carelessness, the journey of the first few days was not recorded on this map, which directly resulted in Wuma Xi having no way to return.
Wu Maxi checked the map he drew briefly, put it away carefully, and took out a book on the principles of artistic conception to start studying the theory of artistic conception.
This book is from the collection of ancient daggers and is called "Explanation of Artistic Conception". The author is Ming Caiwei, the astronomical master of Baixiang Jingyuan, and the content of the book is a review of the classic work "Explanation of Artistic Conception" written more than a thousand years ago.
Annotations and in-depth analysis. The author of "The Theory of Artistic Conception" is the famous theoretical guru Guan Chong.
As far as the theory of artistic conception is concerned, Guan Chong can be said to have reached the pinnacle. Many of the basic theories of artistic conception today were founded by him. But this theoretical master is more famous for his verbal fighting skills.
At the Lanchi Meeting more than 1,600 years ago, there were more than sixty schools participating, and the cultivation methods of these sixty schools were all severely criticized by Guan Chong. The entire Lanchi Meeting
In the venue of the meeting, he was the only one left with his mouth roaring.
Master Yan Xiya said angrily: "Don't talk about those useless things. We will know if we can fight."
Guan Chong waved his hand and said: "I'm definitely not as good as you in a fight. But I'm telling you, toughness is easy to break, and there must be something wrong with your Qiu Qiang style's cultivation method. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. In less than five hundred years, you Qiu
Gun style will definitely be eliminated."
Yan Xiya couldn't live for five hundred years, so she couldn't wait and see with him. Naturally, she couldn't produce strong evidence to refute him. She was depressed by this sentence for a lifetime.
Unfortunately, Guan Chong's prediction came true. The Qiu Qiang style did become extinct five hundred years later. However, it was not due to improper cultivation that they were eliminated. Instead, they encountered the extremely powerful Jian Shuang City. The Qiu Qiang style was extremely powerful at that time.
He was crippled and soon lost his inheritance on the mainland.
This story was recorded in the preface of "Explanation of Artistic Conception". Ming Caiwei laughed and said that Guan Chong was a crow's mouth. However, as the reading progressed, Wu Maxi had no idea about this master who had a crow's mouth more than 1,600 years ago.
It's a lot of worship.
The theory of artistic conception 1,600 years ago is indeed not as precise and detailed as the theory today, but the theory of artistic conception stated by Guan Chong in the book is far-sighted, insightful, and the theoretical context is clear and accurate.
His profound understanding truly deserves the title of theoretical master.
"Explanation of Artistic Conception" adds a lot of Ming Caiwei's own understanding, which can be regarded as an extremely outstanding theoretical work on artistic conception. Tai Yin once mentioned this book emphatically, but because this book is rarely circulated, Wu
Ma Xi was not able to see it in the hidden room.
After seeing this book in the Elephant Ring of the Ancient Dagger, Wu Ma Xi has been busy with various important matters. After entering the crypt, she has time to study it. In the past few days, although she has only read the first few chapters,
But I have also benefited a lot. My understanding of the principles of artistic conception has become clearer and clearer, and my skills have become more and more solid.dd