Chapter 26: The Sky Radiance Array Formation Tower!

  In this era, the existence of runes represents mystery and secrecy, also known as the language of heaven, and is praised as a language of principles. With runes, one can set up mysterious arrays, carve out magical spirit symbols, refine magic treasures, and even set up terrifying seals. However, the realm of runes is indeed too profound and abstruse; it's easy to enter but difficult to master. Some people spend their entire lives studying runes yet are unable to complete even a single array, only able to create a few ordinary spirit symbols.

  The way of the talisman has been passed down for a long time, and today it is flourishing, even penetrating people's daily lives, especially spiritual symbols and arrays. The former includes bathing symbols for washing, cleaning symbols for sweeping, flame symbols for lighting fires, and many other types of daily-use symbols. Compared to spiritual symbols, arrays are also widely used, the most common ones being illusion arrays that can change visual effects, stability arrays that prevent dizziness, cooling arrays that dispel heat, etc.

  It is well-known that Spirit Symbols and Array Formations are the two most lucrative professions in today's world, so many young people have joined their ranks. However, due to the high requirements for setting up arrays, most people choose to learn how to refine Spirit Symbols to earn some spirit stones for themselves. These individuals are called Spirit Symbol Apprentices, and there are many such apprentices in Yong City, with Bi Yi being one of them.

  The Tianyao Array Tower, as the only array tower in Yongyang City, is naturally a gathering place for many apprentices. At ordinary times, there are often many apprentices exchanging experiences, displaying their own refined spiritual symbols, or exchanging them with the array tower for some spiritual stones.

  As a direct disciple of Qingyun Gate, Biyi receives a fixed amount of spiritual stones and spiritual pills every month. However, these are just enough for her own cultivation. Her family had almost gone bankrupt to make her a direct disciple, so Biyi also refines some spiritual symbols to earn spiritual stones to support her family while cultivating.

  The Tiān Yào Zhen Fǎ Tower is entirely white, built with radiant cloud-white stone. It has nine layers, each surface engraved with various mysterious symbols and magical patterns. These symbols faintly twinkle like a cluster of stars, looking majestic and solemn.

  Tang Qing followed Bi Yi to this place, he looked up at the formation tower and could feel that the spiritual energy around the formation tower was not only full, but even overflowing. At a glance, he couldn't help but feel dizzy, the formations inside were so numerous that they were somewhat terrifying.

  Because I haven't been in the secular world for many years, I don't have any concept of this thing. However, just now I learned from Bi Yi that almost every city has a Formation Tower, where all the masters of the city's symbols gather. Some are Array Masters who specialize in array cultivation, some are Symbol Masters who specialize in symbol cultivation, and some are Equipment Masters who specialize in equipment cultivation...

  Shaking his head, Tang Qing let out a sigh and muttered to himself, "These days, people are really getting more and more cunning. I don't know which idiot came up with this despicable idea of an array tower, it's clearly just a monopoly!"

  "Hey, what's with the muttering! Let's go!"

  Bì yī jiāng jùn mǎ ān zhì hǎo hòu xīng sōng sōng de zhāo hu táng qíng xiàng zhèn fǎ tǎ zǒu qù, zhèn fǎ tǎ bìng fēi zhǐ shì chún cuì de yī zuò tǎ, sì miàn jiē yǒu wéi qiáng, wéi qiáng zhī nèi miàn jī kuān guǎng, bù zhī yǒu duō shao gè zhuāng yuán, cóng zhèng mén zǒu jìn qù, lǐ miàn yǒu yī pái pái shí zhuō, zhěng qì yǒu xù, měi yī zhāng shí zhuō zhōu wéi dōu jí jù zhe sān rén, tāmen xiàng sì zài jiāo liú xǐng wén de xīn dé, ǒu ěr huì tǎo chū zì jǐ de liàn zhì gōng jù, xiàn chǎng liàn zhì líng fú.

  Biqi took off her bundle and opened it carefully, taking out a stack of unknown number of spiritual symbols.

  "Are these all refined by you?" Tang Qing glanced over casually and found that most of the talismans were cleansing talismans, with around fifty to sixty pieces.

  "Of course, this is the result of three months' hard work, here, have a copy."

  No matter whether it's refining spiritual symbols or refining weapons, it's not as simple as picking up a formation pen, dipping it in law ink on yellow paper and drawing randomly. This requires mental energy support, so refining this stuff is extremely mentally taxing. Bi Yi is currently refining an ordinary purification symbol, after which she needs to rest for two hours before continuing the refinement.

  With a flick of her wrist, her slender thumb and index finger pinched a talisman, and with a quick toss, the talisman instantly transformed into a gust of clear wind, sweeping away the dust within three meters around her. "How's that? My cleansing talismans are quite good, aren't they? Let me tell you, sales have always been great, many people buy cleansing talismans, and they only recognize mine."

  Tang Jing took over a cleansing token and gazed at the array diagram representing purification on the spirit token, sneering, "Alright then..."

  "What's with the 'it's fine'?" Bi Yi was visibly displeased, this guy's tone made her feel like he was patronizing her. Her delicate nose wrinkled slightly, "You don't even understand, what are you pretending to be a master for!"

  Tang Qing just smiled lightly and didn't speak, he had gone through nine calamities of heaven, a lonely life, his greatest hobby was to ponder the symbol text to relieve boredom, the clean symbol refined by Bi Yi, barely considered ordinary, if viewed with his professional eyes, this clean symbol could only be considered a waste symbol.

  At this time, a voice suddenly came.

  "Sister Biyī."

  Huh?

  The girl in green dress was startled and turned around to find a young man smiling at her, he had a straight figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, quite a handsome guy.

  "Great genius! How did you end up here?"

  Bi Yi knew him, who was a highly acclaimed high talent among the outer door disciples and also one of the hot candidates for this Jinwu Grand Competition.

  "Hehe, Biyi Shijie, how could you forget? I'm also a disciple of the Tianyao Zhenfa Tower, just like you. As a disciple, it's only natural that I'd be here too. I just didn't expect to run into you, Shijie."

  Perhaps it was because she saw Gao Yingcai being a bit nervous, so Biyi asked a silly question. She naturally knew that Gao Yingcai was an apprentice here, and she also knew that this Gao Yingcai had a high talent in the field of alchemy, plus his father was also a master of Tianyao Array Tower who guided him for many years. As a result, Gao Yingcai had the potential to become a master at a young age and had a certain status among many apprentices.

  Xu Bu walked over and found that there was another person standing next to Bi Yi, who seemed unfamiliar. He knew that Bi Yi was a disciple of the Tian Yao Zhen Fa Tower and came here once a month. Could it be that this guy was also a disciple? He wondered in his heart and asked, "Bi Yi Shijie, is this your friend? I don't know what to call him?"

  The entire Qingyu Gate, almost everyone knew that Gao Yingcai had a crush on Biyi. Normally, Gao Yingcai would use the excuse of exchanging experiences in cultivating symbols to find Biyi every now and then, or give her some resources for refining spiritual symbols as a token of his affection. However, he was rejected by Biyi each time. Now that he saw another man standing next to his crush, Gao Yingcai naturally had to "care" about it.

  Biqi was about to introduce him, but suddenly remembered that Tang Qing had just beaten Zhang Yuanbai yesterday, and Zhang Yuanbai was Li Shaofeng's man. Li Shaofeng and Gao Yingcai also had a good relationship. After a moment of hesitation, Biqi said, "His name is Ah Lan, and he is also an apprentice here like me." To avoid unnecessary trouble, Biqi gave Tang Qing a fake name. From this fake name, it can be seen how much Biqi despised Tang Qing's laziness. She thought that calling Tang Qing by the name of Ah Lan was the most fitting.

  "Ah Luan?" Gao Yingcai seemed to be searching his memory for any recollection of the name, but unfortunately, it was a complete blank slate. He didn't know anything about this guy. Taking a step forward, he introduced himself, "I'm Gao Yingcai, do you recognize me, Ah Luan?"

  Tang Qing stood casually, took a glance at Gao Yingcai opposite him and then lost interest. He never looked twice at things he wasn't interested in. Hearing what Gao Yingcai said, he didn't even look up, shook his head and continued to gaze at an apprentice nearby who was refining a spiritual symbol on the spot.

  It's true as Bi Yi said, this Gao Yingcai is not only talented but also has a master who is a symbol of refinement, so his reputation among the many apprentices is still quite high, with many admirers. In his opinion, since he is an apprentice here, he must know himself. What he didn't expect was that this guy not only shook his head to indicate that he didn't recognize him but also didn't even look at him while shaking his head.

  Gao Yingcai's heart suddenly ignited a flame of anger, but he didn't show it. His gaze at Tang Qing already revealed deep hostility.

  Standing aside, Bi Yi only felt a headache. Tang Qing, this guy, even if you don't recognize Gao Yingcai, at least you should be polite, right? Even if you're not polite, you shouldn't directly ignore him, ah. Seeing that Gao Yingcai's expression was somewhat displeased, Bi Yi immediately changed the subject and said, "Gao Shidi, you must have refined a lot of spiritual symbols recently, right?"

  "Hehe, actually nothing much was refined, just a few Cloud Rain Talismans were successfully refined." Gao Yingcai's expression was very humble, and he took out several deep yellow talismans from his waist bag and handed one to Bi Yi.

  "Senior Brother Gao is really impressive, he can already refine Cloud and Rain Talismans."

  Bì yī is truly admired, her mind is very clear. Refining the Cloud and Rain Talisman is much more difficult than the Purification Talisman. If one's spiritual power is insufficient and their attainment in talismans is too shallow, they can't even get started.

  "Hehe! Bi Yi Shifu, let me demonstrate for you." Gao Yingcai took out a Cloud and Rain Token, pinched it between his fingers, raised his arm, and the token instantly rose to three meters high in the air, transforming into a dark cloud that began to drizzle with small rain.

  This scene attracted the attention of many people around.

  "That's... That's Yunyu Fu! Who is so powerful, actually refining Yunyu Fu."

  "So it was Gao Yingcai! No wonder!"

  The people around gathered in a hurry, the dark clouds in the sky only appeared for two or three seconds before quickly dispersing. However, this already made everyone very envious. Gao Ying continued to be humble, "Gao merely just started refining the Cloud and Rain Symbol, still in the experimental stage, let everyone see the joke."

  Everyone was praising him, Gao Yingcai appeared humble on the surface, but in his heart he was very pleased. However, what made him unhappy was that everyone was admiring him, except for the guy standing next to Bi Yi, who seemed distracted and looked around absent-mindedly!

  Hmph!

  Gao Yingcai sneered and walked over, saying, "Ah Lan brother, as a disciple of the Tianyao Array Tower, your attainments must be quite profound. I wonder what you think of this Cloud Rain Talisman that I've refined?"