Chapter 57: Strange Array
“However, Senior Qiong failed to break through. Is there really any hope?” Han Li thought of himself. Old man Qiong’s qualifications must be higher than his. He also had the support of the resources of the Yanyue Sect and the Bu Tian Dan given by Zhang Tie. But he still failed to advance. Han Li couldn’t help but think of himself. He felt a sense of grief for the rabbit’s death. “Will I end up like this?”

"What are you afraid of!" Zhang Tie patted Han Li's shoulder fiercely, "I'm here! Do you remember what I said?"

"Brother Zhang," Han Li suddenly laughed. Yes, Brother Zhang was still here. Han Li's eyes showed determination again. "Remember! Brother Zhang wants to help me become an immortal!"

Then the two looked at each other and burst into laughter.

In the next few days, Zhang Tie kept studying the Nine Heavens Smoke Array, while Han Li was concentrating on reaching the late stage of foundation building.

"Senior, I have successfully established my foundation!"

"Hmm?" Zhang Tie came back to his senses and put down the remaining copy of the formation in his hand, and the small formations around him gradually stopped working.

Xiang Tianxing didn't expect that he would break through to the foundation-building stage in an instant. As soon as he broke through, he came to Zhang Tie to report the news.

"Thank you for the foundation-building pill, senior!" Xiang Tianxing bowed deeply to Zhang Tie. If it weren't for the foundation-building pill Zhang Tie gave him, he might have been stuck in the Qi training stage for the rest of his life.

"You have good aptitude, and this is what you deserve." Zhang Tie said with a smile, but he accepted Xiang Tianxing's gift calmly.

"Senior, what is this?" Xiang Tianxing had just seen the ingenious array next to this piece of iron, and the arrangement of the array gave him a vague sense of familiarity.

“Haha,” Zhang Tie laughed, “You asked the right question. This is a miniature version of your Nine Heavens Smoke Array!”

Seeing Xiang Tianxing still looking confused, Zhang Tie continued, "Your formation is extremely mysterious. It is impossible for me to fully understand the entire content of this formation in a short time."

"But a few days ago I found a magic array disk from Han Li," Zhang Tie waved his hand, and the array disk slowly rotated in Zhang Tie's palm.

"What a wonderful magical instrument!"

"That's great," Zhang Tie looked at Han Li who came in, "Take a look at my formation!"

As the magic power in Zhang Tie's hands surged, the array disk suddenly accelerated and soon turned into the size of a millstone. Han Li and the others could see the changes in the array disk more clearly.

The light and shadow in the array changed, revealing a small wooden house and a few blurry-looking figures.

"Could this be here?" Xiang Tianxing exclaimed, "It's so lifelike!"

"That's not the point," Zhang Tie said with a smile. "This array disk has a magical use, which is to simulate the environment of a place. I guess it is used to simulate battle arrays or something like that."

"I found that this array plate can actually roughly simulate the array, but it can't do it in many subtle details."

"So this array is like a recording container, copying this area into it?"

Han Li asked curiously. He took out this formation plate from the Qingxu Sect's treasury. It was not a magic weapon. He had been planning to find an opportunity to use it, but he didn't expect that Zhang Tie would find out and use it.

"Indeed!" Zhang Tie gave Han Li an approving look. "But the storage capacity of this array is limited. It can only replicate an area of ​​about ten miles, and the fine details need to be adjusted."

"After discovering this feature, I fine-tuned the formation according to my own understanding. I didn't expect it to be useful!"

"Willn't it mean that we can easily break any formation we encounter in the future?"

Xiang Tianxing asked, this is too terrifying!

"Of course it's impossible!" Zhang Tie shook his head. "It's just a rough copy. The specific details still need to be adjusted by the formation master. Just like when I just finished copying it, the formation inside was just an empty shell." Zhang Tie said as he casually adjusted the formation plate.

The mysterious formation inside suddenly became sluggish, as if its soul had been sucked out.

"But this does save a lot of time in setting up the formation. As long as you have a deep understanding of the formation, you can use this framework to set up the formation. My formation will be completely set up in two days."

“When the time comes to actually set up the formation, all we need to do is enlarge this formation plate and copy it.”

Han Li's eyes lit up. In this way, he could use this array plate without setting up an array, and even refine similar magic weapons or even more advanced magic weapons in the future. Wouldn't it be able to directly become a secret realm!
Seeing Han Li staring at the array with a fiery look on his face, as if a lustful devil saw a beautiful woman, Zhang Tie said with disdain, "Alright, alright, I'll give you one when I have time!"

"Hehe, thank you Brother Zhang!" Han Li bowed happily towards Zhang Tie.

"Brother Zhang, I came to you this time for something else," Han Li handed Zhang Tie a small bottle, "It contains some demon beast inner cores. Brother Zhang, you should improve your cultivation first."

Han Li was worried that Zhang Tie would be so absorbed in the formation that he wouldn't be able to break through to the Jindan stage and increase his lifespan.

"Thank you very much," Zhang Tie felt warm in his heart. He was indeed a little obsessed with formations. The path of cultivation was too difficult, but Zhang Tie had smooth sailing in the field of formations, which made Zhang Tie involuntarily obsessed with it.

"Okay, let's go back!"

Then Zhang Tie turned to look at Xiang Tianxing: "Can you do me a favor?"

three days later.

Inside the Yanyue Sect market, two men and one woman walked into an inn.

"Senior brother, you are so dressed in a rustic way!" Zhang Xiangling pouted and said with a look of disgust.

Zhang Tie was dressed in cloth at the moment, holding a huge iron hammer in his hand. His whole body had swelled up, and his face was full of beard, looking like a rough man.

“Hahahaha,” Zhang Tie said in a rough voice, “Others can’t see the big changes. Don’t forget that we are here to cause trouble!”

The plain-looking young man next to them handed them two cups of fragrant tea and said, "Brother Zhang, there have been rumors of the invasion of demons everywhere recently. The prices of magic tools in the market have increased a lot."

That day, Zhang Tie asked Xiang Tianxing to spread the news of the invasion of the demon sect everywhere. Coupled with the fact that the demon sect had really taken action, the entire Yue Kingdom's cultivation world suddenly became turbulent.

"It should be about time," Zhang Tie scratched his beard, "but we have to add fuel to the fire!"

Then Zhang Tie casually set up a soundproof formation, "In the next two days, go to the market to sell some magic tools and elixirs, and wait until the robbers come to kill us. Then we kill them and pretend to be magicians."

As he spoke, Zhang Tie flipped his palm and took out the black beetle, and said with a smile, "After all, I have plenty of magic tricks!"

"And even if I fail, it doesn't matter. The demons will always invade. I just want to speed it up."

"Then you should practice as soon as possible, Brother Zhang. Although the magic skills can make rapid progress, they can easily affect your spiritual consciousness. You should be careful, Brother Zhang."

Zhang Xiangling frowned and said, "Brother, why don't you practice the righteous way? Why are you in such a hurry?"

Zhang Tie shook his head. He didn't want Zhang Xiangling to know that he only had ten years to live. "Okay, I have my own plans. Don't worry!"

(End of this chapter)