Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 22: Learn from nature
"Is this for me?" Yanzhi asked in surprise, holding the gouache in her hand.
Tang Jie said with a smile: "Yes, when I passed Jubaozhai today, I saw this is a new product from Yahai, and I remembered that today is the birthday of Sister Rouge. Since my sister is called Rouge, this gouache is perfect for her. Yes. Just a few days ago, my wife rewarded me with some silver coins. After buying medicine for my second elder, I still had some leftover, so I used it as a birthday gift. I hope my sister won’t dislike it."
Actually, she is not older than Tang Jie, but because of her status, the servants of the Wei Mansion usually call their wife's maid sister.
Yanzhi rolled her eyes at him and said with a smile: "You really have the intention. I'm afraid it's not just a coincidence, but on purpose."
Tang Jie smiled but did not answer.
Qianqing Sect and Tianyahai Pavilion have the most women among the six major sects in Qixia Realm. Therefore, Yahai Kingdom’s powder has always been famous. This small box of gouache, even if it is just an ordinary one, is not the best. He couldn't get a hundred coins. Yan Zhi would never believe that Tang Jie was acting on a whim, but because of this, he became more and more fond of Tang Jie.
After collecting the gouache, Yanzhi looked at Tang Jie and said, "You are also a sensible person. Not bad. Do your best."
As he said that, he turned and left.
She didn't make any promise to Tang Jie, but Tang Jie knew that with this gift, at least Yanzhi would not cause any trouble for him in the future.
Of course, Rouge’s gift must be given, and the relationship with other servants must also be good.
Fortunately, he has now been ordered by the young master to decorate the flower garden and make various flower statues. Although the previous flower statues have been made, children are greedy for freshness, so they usually have to change them every once in a while.
To keep changing tricks, you need resources, wire racks and other things. Tang Jie actually already has some power in his hands, but after Wei Tianchong's freshness wore off, he no longer focused on the process, but only on the results, so he sent The boy who came took him back.
Without supervision, Tang Jie can take advantage of some of the items and even have certain purchasing rights. In order to be able to do business in the Wei Mansion, some merchants will flatter him and give him some extra benefits. Therefore, This gray income is already available. Although it is not much, it is enough to bribe those servants and build relationships.
As for being greedy for ink... what kind of servant would you be if you were not greedy for ink?
Of the cadres all over the world who want to be promoted, as well as the long queues forming in front of the civil service examination hall, are they all there to make decisions for the people?
After bidding farewell to Rouge, Tang Jie returned to his flower garden and continued working.
Although gardening attracted the young master's attention, it also greatly increased his workload, leaving him with less time to study formations.
For Tang Jie, if he cannot improve his combat skills as much as possible before entering the academy, he may not have much time to study in the future.
This also made him a little distressed.
Today, when he looked at the flowers and plants in the garden, his heart suddenly moved.
Why don't you just use this garden to study the formation?
For this period of time, in order to avoid being discovered, he has been doing purely theoretical research. He has memorized the content of the True Solution to the Taoist Path by heart, and it can be said that he lacks the opportunity to practice it.
Xu Muyang's formation method emphasizes the natural way of learning, which is suitable for the current situation.
Of course, this is the Wei family, so murderous formations and the like cannot be placed, but some transformation maze formations are acceptable. If necessary, I might be able to make a maze for the young master to play with, but he needs to be careful with his hands and feet so that no one can see it.
This Wei Mansion also has a spiritual master. Tang Jie asked himself that if he wanted to hide it, he would have to work hard at hiding it.
Different needs have different applications.
The formation is mostly used for defense. It is like the ancient city wall on earth, and it is the barrier for some sects to rely on. However, there are also some formations that require the main force to lure the enemy into the water, which requires the formation to be perfectly hidden.
Xu Muyang's concept of practicing nature caters to the need for concealment, so he is also very good at setting up hidden formations. Back then, he was able to quietly set up the Eight-door Sky Locking Formation when He Chong was chasing him. This is why it is not discovered by the other party before it is activated.
In this case, you should study the technique of this hidden formation carefully.
Xu Muyang has a special discussion on the hidden formation in his True Explanation of Formation Dao, mainly talking about how to hide it.
To hide the existence of the formation, the formation must be naturally integrated into the environment at that time, so that every plant and tree naturally constructs the needs of the formation. All things have spirits, and spiritual energy secretly circulates in them, and changes due to different combinations. play a corresponding role.
There are some natural Jedi in the world, often because they unintentionally conform to the principles of spiritual energy movement and become natural formations.
What Tang Jie needs to do is to understand the nature of the aura of each of these flowers and plants, how it operates, and then make it naturally combine through special placement.
However, it is not so easy to make the formation into the desired pattern and still have the effect. Even Xu Muyang’s true interpretation of the formation is not recorded. After all, he has never had the need for gardening tricks, so Tang Jie could only study it by himself.
This research has taken more than half a year.
During this period, he concentrated on the combination of gardening and formation, but nothing happened again. The servants accepted his benefits and would not trouble him again. When Shi Mo Shi Meng was sent by him last time, even though he was not retaliated, he still felt unhappy. He wanted to teach him a lesson, but for the moment he didn't know how to do it. . In addition, the young master has recently become fond of Tang Jie and has become more scrupulous about his actions, so this period has been calm.
Today Tang Jie is still busy in the flower garden, making a garden maze.
The plant maze is the most difficult formation to discover. Even if viewers get lost in it, they will often think that it is a magical function of nature and will not think of it as the effect of the formation.
But it is not easy to combine the two. The natural labyrinth is based on intricate roads as the basis of confusion, but the formation works through the effects produced by the movement of spiritual energy. The effects of the two are the same, but the principles of existence are completely opposite. Therefore, if you stand outside and look at the formation, The way the law itself is constructed actually has nothing to do with the labyrinth.
Tang Jie also spent a lot of time thinking about this, but he still couldn't find a solution.
Today he was continuing his research and exploration when he suddenly heard a girl's voice: "Huh? What is this?"
Tang Jie looked back and saw a graceful little girl walking from a distance. She was wearing a moon-white flower jacket, gold-embroidered shoes, and a jade hairpin on her head. She shook her head with each step. , graceful and beautiful, followed by two maids.
Tang Jie looked at the girl and quickly saluted: "Miss Fourth."
This fourth lady is Wei Die, Wei Qingsong’s daughter. She is cousin to Wei Tianchong. She is a few days older than Wei Tianchong. She is the fourth among Wei Danbai and Wei Qingsong’s seven children, so she is known as Wei Die. Tang Jie had met the Fourth Miss twice before, but only from a distance and had little chance to talk to her.
Seeing her Shi Shiran approaching at this moment, Tang Jie naturally wanted to pay her respects.
Wei Die looked at the grass and trees in the garden and said, "You are Tang Jie, right? I have heard your name many times these days. I also came to see your craftsmanship a few days ago. It's not bad. But why can't you tell what you did this time?"
Tang Jie hurriedly replied: "It's a maze."
"Maze..." Upon hearing this, Wei Die's eyes actually showed a trace of helplessness: "Isn't the Wei family itself a maze? Why bother to spend so much effort to build it."
There was infinite resentment in his tone.
The two maids next to him coughed lightly, but Wei Die seemed unaware.
This little girl, who is about the same age as Tang Jie, seems to be full of worries.
Tang Jie just pretended not to hear it and said with a smile: "The Wei family has a great cause, so it is not an exaggeration to call it a maze. My maze is a small one but a big one, and it is different. If the Fourth Miss is interested, You might as well give it a try."
"Forget it." Wei Die shook her head: "There are roads in all directions here. I feel dizzy when I look outside. I really want to go in. I don't know what to do. It's hard for you to put all the effort into it. I hope my brother will like it. Right."
She looked at Tang Jie: "You put so much thought into it, you must have ambitions for Xiyue College, right?"
Tang Jie bowed and said: "If you can go, it would be the best."
He did not hide his desire, but Wei Die's eyes showed a trace of unwillingness, and said bitterly: "Why...why can you servants fight for immortality, but we women don't even have a chance to fight for it? What? Fourth Miss, I might as well be a maid!"
As he spoke, he stamped his feet and turned around to leave.
Tang Jie looked at her leaving back and shook his head in his heart.
It turned out to be this.
The lady didn’t even have the same chance as the servant, so it’s no wonder she was angry and dissatisfied.
However, Tang Jie felt that this was good for her. After spending so much time in the Wei Mansion, Tang Jie understood a lot.
This Wei Mansion looks grand on the outside, but there are so many dirty things hidden behind it. If this fourth lady doesn’t want to wade in this troubled water, it’s better to stay away.
Maybe the old man of the Wei family also has this kind of thinking?
Just as he was thinking about it, Tang Jie was suddenly shocked and murmured: "It's majestic on the outside, but dirty behind the scenes..."
What Wei Die said before came to mind: "There are roads extending in all directions here, and I feel dizzy just looking at it outside..."
"Damn it, why didn't I think of this? I'm so stupid!" Tang Jie slapped his head and cursed himself secretly.
He suddenly realized that there was no need to find a way to integrate the natural labyrinth with the formation.
The fusion of nature and formation is like the fusion of domestic ink painting and oil painting. No matter how hard you try, it is actually the same.
But think about it on the other hand, what if we set up another formation in the natural maze?
Since they can't be blended, let's simply add them together.
The outside is a natural maze, and the inside is a maze formation. The ones outside are used to fool onlookers and to block the real formation. The two are interdependent and naturally seamless, so why do they have to be integrated together?
This is like hiding a bit of oil painting content in a corner of a large ink painting, and you can't see it at all if you don't pay attention. If the ink painting itself has a rich and colorful description, it will be easier to hide.
Hide!
Hiding is the true meaning, not true integration.
Sometimes, what I consider is not that it is not complex enough, but that it is not simple enough!
At this moment, Tang Jie suddenly came to his senses, secretly cursing himself for wasting time, and revised it again. This time, he no longer forced fusion, but used this natural maze to hide the true formation.
Due to the small area of this formation, its effect is only limited to a limited area~IndoMTL.com~ Even spiritual masters may not be able to detect it if they are not observed using spirit detection methods.
Two days later, Tang Jie was finished and took the young master away personally.
Wei Tianchong was so dizzy in the maze that he could not get out. He was very interested and kept shouting that it was fun, without realizing that there was a spiritual formation secretly working in it.
This is also the first time that Tang Jie has used the formation to trap a person in a real sense. He is also happy in his heart. He feels that the formation is quite interesting and he actually likes it.
I couldn't help but think of Xu Muyang's words, and secretly wondered, could it be that I really have love for Zangdao without knowing it?
In the days that followed, Tang Jie kept changing his methods and formations, and Wei Tianchong enjoyed playing in all kinds of weird mazes.
Of course, in order to satisfy the young master's mood, Tang Jie would occasionally let Wei Tianchong out of the maze secretly. Wei Tianchong didn't know that it was Tang Jie who let him go, he just thought he was powerful, so he shouted excitedly , completely unaware that his mood has been controlled by Tang Jie. If he wants to be happy, he will be happy, and if he wants to be depressed, he will be depressed.
When a person's mood is controlled by another person, it often means that this person has been controlled by him. The young master also looks at Tang Jie more and more differently, and he is getting closer and closer to Tang Jie. As a result, Shi Mo Shi Meng became increasingly dissatisfied with Tang Jie, and the hostility that had disappeared for a long time gradually reappeared.
Wei Tianchong had nothing to do this day, and on a whim, he decided to go to Yinglong Mountain for a barbecue.
Tang Jie taught him the word barbecue. Sometimes when Wei Tianchong talked to Tang Jie, Tang Jie would tell Wei Tianchong some stories and interesting things.
Modern young people often barbecue on their own, so Tang Jie casually mentioned it.
Wei Tianchong didn't care at first about setting up a stove and eating kebabs in the mountains and wild fields, but this time he didn't know what to think and actually wanted to try it.
He decided to call Tang Jie as well.