His left hand's finger technique changed unceasingly, his divine sense was like a third eye, emotionlessly watching the fluctuations of spiritual energy between his ten fingers and the changes in the elixir within the crucible.
Pu Yao once said that all changes are just changes in the formation of symbols.
He is now looking for this kind of "change".
From the initial Beiguang pill, he carefully pondered the changes of the talisman in the elixir. The changes of the elixir are very complex, and even the simplest elixir requires several materials, while higher-grade elixirs often require dozens of ingredients. However, it seems that he has not yet discovered the need for more than 100 kinds of spiritual elixirs.
It's not hard to understand, the more materials involved, the more uncontrollable factors there are.
But that's still quite far from Lemo.
He is still struggling with the most basic spiritual elixir. Mastering and understanding each of its "transformations" are completely different concepts, as well as completely different levels of difficulty. Having gone through the baptism of the Sword Intent Great Array, the Kunlun Symbol Array's entry-level Jade Sutra has been supplemented, and now Zuo Mo is considered a half-baked little expert in symbol arrays.
The "change" in Lingdan is complex, but Zuo Mosi's mind is clear, and after peeling off the cocoon, there are many gains. Huangmu Jiao is desolate and quiet, compared to Wu Kong Mountain, it is much quieter, making it the most suitable place for doing these extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks, without worrying about being disturbed by others.
He identified twelve common "transformations" of arrays.
Since then, his elixir production rate has risen sharply.
To say nothing of the rest, now he can't starve wherever he goes, just relying on this alchemy skill. The Golden Crow Pill that made him famous has also become his focus of research. The Golden Crow Fire contained in the Golden Crow Pill is its only value. However, due to the medicinal materials, he was unable to increase the content of Golden Crow Fire in the spiritual pill, making the Golden Crow Pill only a low-grade spiritual pill.
Zuo Mo racked his brains, thinking of ways to make jingshi.
What kind of effect the beast pool can have, when it will be produced, and how much it can earn are all unknown. It's impossible for Zuo Mo to put all his hopes on the uncertain beast pool, so he thinks of another way to make crystal stones through alchemy.
Kongmu Reef is really too remote, if it only produces ordinary spiritual objects like Linggu Valley, definitely no one will be willing to come. What kind of situation would make people willing to run all the way to Kongmu Reef? Unless there's something on Kongmu Reef that can't be bought elsewhere.
Jin Wu Wan is a good choice.
However, the current Golden Crow Pill is only a second-grade Spirit Dan, with limited efficacy. Although it has some effect, it's not enough to attract people from afar. Zuo Mo was racking his brains, thinking of ways to upgrade the Golden Crow Pill's grade.
He believed that if it were a third-grade Golden Crow Pill, merchants would be willing to come to Huangmu Jiao to buy it!
Jin Wu Wan's several talismans, he roughly figured out. Among them, the most critical one was a talisman that Zuo Mo had never seen before. It was formed by the fusion of medicinal powers and had two effects. One effect was to lock in the solar essence, while the other effect was to transform the locked-in solar essence into Golden Crow Fire.
Zuo Mo decided to name this never-before-seen formation the "Golden Crow Formation". The Golden Crow Formation's complexity and subtlety broadened Zuo Mo's horizons.
The talismanic arrays involved in alchemy are far more complex than those he usually practices. The talismanic arrays he normally uses are grand and expansive, with spiritual energy flowing clearly. In contrast, the talismanic arrays used in alchemy are condensed into a tiny space, intricate and complex like strands of hair tangled together, making it difficult to discern their true appearance. Zuo Mo refers to the usual talismanic arrays as "grand talismanic arrays" and those used in alchemy as "minute talismanic arrays".
During this time, some cultivators occasionally landed on Huangmu Reef, all of whom wanted to cross the boundary river to Xiaoshan Boundary. Zuo Mo demanded one hundred third-grade crystal stones from each person, and those without crystal stones could also use other things as substitutes. With Zuo Mo's signboard of a zombie face, the nameless sword sect, and the intimidation of Tian Yuan's Moon Ring Formation, these cultivators in their condensation period obediently handed over one hundred third-grade crystal stones as "resting fees".
On average, one or two cultivators fall every two to three days, which means that every two to three days, Zu Mo gets a hundred third-grade crystal stones, and his life is quite comfortable.
Apart from his own research, he also imparted some of the insights he gained from cultivating his spirit to three other junior fellow disciples who were also cultivating their spirits. He cultivated all five elements and now his vision was much higher than before.
Zuo Mo was a zealous jade slip collector, the number of jade slips in his hands far exceeded people's impression of foundation building cultivators. They were all over the place, although none of them were high-grade, but there were no lack of fine pieces among them. Spiritual plants, beast raising, dissection beasts and so on, almost all had them, only relatively few were sword mantra jade slips. But except for Zuo Mo who would spend time cultivating sword mantras, no one else was interested in sword mantras on the island. He opened these jade slips to his fellow disciples, and built a scripture library.
The jade slips collected by the Wu Kong Jian Men are mostly sword manuals, while those collected by Zuo Mo are just the opposite. In terms of the diversity and breadth of the jade slips, the sect's library is not as good as Zuo Mo's. Of course, in terms of the quality and subtlety of the jade slips, even if Zuo Mo were to try his best, he still can't compare to the sect.
When the crowd of younger brothers walked into the library, they saw a large number of jade slips and were all amazed and delighted. Their desire for the jade slips was exactly the same as Zuo Mo's.
Yu Jian is a paid service, and no one has any objections to this. Which free lunch is there in the world? The library of Wu Kongjianmen was originally completely open, but since the expansion and merger began, it has been restored to its original system.
Considering they didn't have many crystal stones in hand, Zuo Mo cunningly used accounting methods to become the creditor of everyone without them realizing it. The cost of the scripture library was much lower than that of the sect, and one could learn new magic spells immediately even if they owed money, how could this not make people overjoyed?
The library immediately became Araki Sho's most popular spot.
Zuo Mo's disciples were all production cultivators, they didn't like to fight, they were down-to-earth and hardworking. Now that they had the scripture library, everyone's motivation was even stronger, for a time, the atmosphere at Desolate Wood Reef was extremely good, and everyone lived very comfortably.
Wiping away the sweat on his forehead, Left Mou looked at the completed array in front of him with a hint of hesitation.
The array in front of him was actually the Golden Crow Array!
Zuo Mo used jade slips and crystal stones as materials to set up a Golden Crow Array. This was his first time using the method of setting up a large formation array to achieve the precise formation array in Dan making. He spent a lot of time on the Golden Crow Array, but he still wasn't confident. Although theoretically speaking, there was no essential difference between the precise formation array and the large formation array in Dan making.
The Golden Crow Great Symbol Array cost Zuo Mo twenty whole days. Ever since he had the idea of using the Great Symbol Array to achieve micro symbol arrays, this idea was like a nightmare that couldn't be shaken off. He now had ample resources at his disposal, if not now, then when?
But after starting to set up the formation, he discovered that the difficulty was much greater than he had imagined.
The spiritual energy flow route of the large talisman array is clear, but compared to the micro-talisman array, it is much coarser and simpler. To achieve such a fine change with the large talisman array, the difficulty can be imagined, and Zuo Mo has eaten his fill of bitter fruit. He originally planned to set up a golden crow array about five zhang in diameter, but the finished product now occupies an area of fifty zhang in diameter.
It was like a huge bird's nest, empty and hollow in the middle, while around it countless materials floated densely in mid-air, forming a complete circle.
What hurt him even more was that the budget for the Golden Crow Great Symbol Array far exceeded his expectations, a thousand crystals!
Once the formation is activated, Qian Jing will be gone, and such an attempt would be absolutely costly. This was also why Zuo Mo hesitated - a thousand third-grade crystal stones!
Pú yāo appeared beside Zuǒ Mò, gazing at the materials floating in the sky, and curled her lips: "How ugly!"
Zuo Mo didn't plan on reasoning with this guy, he gritted his teeth and decided to launch this formation.
He stepped into the already set up formation, his expression solemn, his spiritual power flowing through his ten fingers, the tips of which shone with a faint light, and his ten fingers suddenly flew out.
Brilliant light flows and leaves its mark, this life is born and that one dies.
A golden light column descended from the sky and fell into his hands.
As his ten fingers changed, the golden light pillar suddenly transformed into ten strands, bending and shooting flatly into the formation.
Golden light passes through the jade pieces in the large array, refracting and illuminating them. The jade pieces touched by the golden light instantly take on a faint golden glow.
On the vast array, one could see that the golden light spread out like ripples in water, slowly expanding within the array. Wherever it passed, the floating crystals emitted dazzling rays of light, like stars twinkling in a sea of golden waves. The entire process lasted for half an hour, and the array dispersed with a hazy golden glow.
The mighty formation shocked many junior brothers, but when they found out it was Left Mo senior brother, after their astonishment, they had a look of "it's only natural" on their faces and returned one by one. If senior brother didn't stir up some formations, would he still be the famous formation master senior brother?
Zuo Mo's hands didn't dare to stop for even a moment, the Vermillion Fire Palm was being executed to its limits.
At this moment, the great array changed and was reborn.
Innumerable golden lights, like swimming fish, flew out from among the dense jade pieces and converged on the empty space in the center of the formation.
In the midst of the array, two zhang above the ground, a golden light took shape.
As soon as the light group was formed, those golden lights that were swimming like fish suddenly accelerated their gathering speed, pouring into the golden light group one after another, like raindrops.
The golden light mass continued to expand, from the size of a bamboo basket at first, to the size of a table now, and Luo Mo's expression became increasingly tense.
How come there's still no change?
Zuo Mo stared at the golden light, his hands occasionally pausing for a moment. He didn't notice that the pillar of light in his hand had thickened to the size of an arm from its original thinness as it descended from the sky.
Logically speaking, there should be changes at this time!
However, the light group continued to expand, and the change he expected did not occur.
It's on fire!
The most crucial step in the Golden Crow Formation; without this step, the Solar Flare would simply be a Solar Flare and could never form into the Golden Crow Fire!
Time was slowly passing, four hours had passed, and Zuo Mo felt a strong sense of dizziness, his hands becoming more and more numb. The light ball in the center of the formation had now expanded to the size of a house, even Zuo Mo, who had initiated the formation, couldn't help but feel shocked when he saw such a huge light ball.
Inside here, it's all incredibly fierce sunlight!
If it wasn't for an accident...
He couldn't even imagine! The current situation was completely beyond his expectation and control.
Just as he was trembling with fear, walking on thin ice, he suddenly realized that an abnormal change was happening inside the light group!