In the cave, Dongfang Jintang walked to Jiang Ping'an's bedroom, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.
After a while, the door opened.
Dongfang Jintang said, "I allow you to bring your friends to the cave as a guest once without my consent."
Jiang Ping'an has no interest in the compensation proposed by Dongfang Jintang. He moved out after living here for one month and has no need to bring his friends to the cave as a guest.
"If you sincerely compensate me, pay me a spiritual stone." Jiang Ping'an said.
Dongfang Jintang felt uncomfortable when he heard the spirit stone, and turned away without saying a word.
Jiang Ping'an didn't chase after him and asked for it. He closed the door, returned to the bed and sat cross-legged with his knees crossed, shutting out distracting thoughts, and then began to absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to practice.
Time flies, and another five days have passed.
That night, the night sky was clear and full of stars. Jiang Ping'an stood at the stone table in front of the cave, sipping tea and watching the night view.
Dongfang Jintang walked out of the cave and sat in front of the stone table.
"Jiang Ping'an, eleven days have passed. Where is the spiritual stone you promised me?" Dongfang Jintang said.
Jiang Ping'an put down the tea cup, turned his eyes to Dongfang Jintang's face, and said quietly, "Didn't I tell you that the transaction has been cancelled?"
"I don't agree." Dongfang Jintang said coldly.
Jiang Ping'an sneered "haha" and said, "You have already taken a hundred spiritual stones in vain, so don't be greedy. If you are really short of spiritual stones, you can find someone else..."
Before Jiang Ping'an could finish speaking, Dongfang Jintang suddenly exuded coercion. The surrounding flowers and plants fell to the ground, the ground was covered with ice, the air plummeted below zero, and the night fog turned to white frost.
Jiang Ping'an stopped what he was saying and said instead, "You can continue if you want, but you must first swear to Heaven not to have any murderous intentions towards me, otherwise Dao Heart will be broken and die of madness."
Hearing this, Dongfang Jintang was shocked to realize that Jiang Ping'an had figured out her plan.
That's right, she plans to kill Jiang Ping'an after completing the transaction. Anyone who dares to touch her body will die.
She snorted again, got up and walked back to the cave.
Jiang Ping'an was sure that Dongfang Jintang really wanted to kill him, so he couldn't help but secretly complained that he was unlucky enough to meet the best in a shared flat. Sharing a flat with a female cultivator was not good at all.
The next day, Jiang Ping'an early in the morning, Jiang Ping'an left Mirror Lake Mountain on horseback and went to Array Stone Engraving Workshop.
The task of carving formation stones still needs to be done. Although the pay is low, Azure Origin Sect does not provide for idlers. Everyone must have a task, and Azure Origin Sect requires good deeds in many places, such as exercises, spells, Magic Tool, Pill Recipes... etc., etc., all of which need to be exchanged for good deeds, which cannot be purchased with spiritual stones.
Enter the factory, Jiang Ping'an finds Wang Jinzhen mentioned by Cao Yongle, and hand over the task token.
Wang Jinzhen is a middle-aged and elderly monk, Spirit Aperture Realm is in the perfection stage, with gray hair and a vicissitudes of life, he looks like an old craftsman.
Wang Jinzhen looked at Jiang Ping'an and said businesslikely, "Since you are a newcomer, you only need to carve out a basic Spirit Gathering Array stone this month. The venue will provide you with three Green Jade Stone and one Spirit Chisel for free."
"Thank you Senior Brother Wang." Jiang Ping'an said.
Wang Jinzhen continued, "If you accidentally break three Green Jade Stone pieces in a row and want another Green Jade Stone, you will have to pay two hundred taels of gold or two good deeds for each piece."
"Understood." Jiang Ping'an said.
Wang Jinzhen turned around and walked towards the warehouse. "Follow me."
Jiang Ping'an Follow up.
Not long after, Jiang Ping'an received three Green Jade Stone and one Spirit Chisel.
Green Jade Stone is a cut cube, one foot long and one foot wide, three inches high. The array master needs to engrave basic Spirit Gathering Array patterns on the six sides of Green Jade Stone.
This basic Spirit Gathering Array stone's single-piece spirit-gathering effect is relatively poor, but it can be paved with multiple formation stones to achieve the effect of one plus one equal to two or even greater than two, thus improving the spirit-gathering effect. Of course, the spirit-gathering effect of multiple Spirit Gathering Array stones also has an upper limit.
The workshop provides engraving rooms one by one, allowing the formation master to carefully carve the formation without interference.
Jiang Ping'an moved the three pieces of Green Jade Stone into the engraving room, closed the door, and then picked up one of the pieces of Green Jade Stone for observation.
Carving formation patterns is not a matter of following the book and copying the formation patterns 100%, but it is necessary to fully consider the trend of the stone grain, the texture changes of the stone and other factors, and then carve it according to the principles of the formation pattern according to local conditions.
If it is just a 100% copy, most monks can do it.
While observing Green Jade Stone, I was thinking about how to carve it.
After a cup of tea, Jiang Ping'an decided on the engraving plan and picked up Spirit Chisel to engrave on Green Jade Stone.
Spirit Chisel After injecting spiritual power, the blade of the knife bloomed with white light, and the blade became very sharp, cutting stone like tofu.
After continuing to burn the incense for one stick, Jiang Ping'an had to stop, but only about 3% was engraved.
His spiritual power was completely exhausted, with only 20% left.
Putting down Spirit Chisel, Jiang Ping'an stared at Green Jade Stone and frowned, secretly saying, "In the middle stage of the Spirit Aperture Realm, my spiritual power is too little and it is not enough. Moreover, it consumes a lot of energy. Carving formation stones is more troublesome than drawing talismans."
"This consumption of my spiritual energy will seriously affect my improvement of cultivation."
"I want to try using Spiritual Sense!"
"However, flying knives are not suitable for carving formation patterns. If you use Spirit Chisel directly, it will not be sharp without the blessing of spiritual power. I have to specially build a chisel that can carve stone like clay and is suitable for Spiritual Sense."
Having made up his mind, Jiang Ping'an stood up, opened the door and walked out, then locked the door to prevent anyone from taking his Green Jade Stone.
After riding a horse and leaving the carving formation stone field, Jiang Ping'an went to Fulong Daping Valley Market, where there were many small refinery workshops. The chisel he wanted to order was not Magic Tool, and he only had requirements for materials.
After arriving at Fulong Daping Valley Market, Jiang Ping'an successfully found a small refinery called Zhang's Truefire Artifact Refining Workshop.
After Jiang Ping'an stated his request once, the refiner thought for a moment and said, "The chisel you want cannot be refined. The key is what material you want to use to make it. I suggest you use Hundred Refined Ink Jade. Hundred Refined Ink Jade is strong and tough, and has good spiritual inertia, so it will not easily affect the texture of the carving material. Chisels made from it are very suitable for carving high-precision patterns, especially if you are not afraid of encountering stones containing spiritual power."
"How many spirit stones?" Jiang Ping'an asked.
The weapon refiner said, "It's not expensive, just fifteen spiritual stones."
A bottle of Golden Marrow Pill's spiritual stone, Jiang Ping'an agreed without hesitation, "Then you can make one with Hundred Refined Ink Jade."
The weapon refiner couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay! Chenghui will give you fifteen spiritual stones. You must first hand over the spiritual stones to establish a contract. After three days, you can get the chisel with the contract."
Jiang Ping'an readily took out fifteen spiritual stones and handed them to the weapon refiner, who made a contract to Jiang Ping'an.
After leaving Zhang's Truefire Artifact Refining Workshop, Jiang Ping'an looked up at the sky and saw that it was already noon.
"I haven't eaten food for a long time, why not go to a restaurant and have a big meal." Jiang Ping'an thought to himself.
So, he walked towards Everbright Street, a street with more restaurants.
On the way, Jiang Ping'an suddenly noticed someone trying to tap his shoulder from behind. He immediately turned sideways to avoid it and quickly turned his head to look.
He saw that the person who wanted to pat his shoulder was a beautiful female nun - Shui Muhua.