Chapter 156: Heavenly Plate (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Naerbu)

After some twists and turns, Liu Xiaolou finally proved that he was not bent, which was a narrow escape. Of course, in Qingzhu's view, it should be that she purely relied on her own ability to straighten a bent one, which made her quite proud.

Next, naturally, Liu Xiaolou needed to fulfill his promise and take her into the array for careful observation.

After resting and conditioning for another three days, Liu Xiaolou's injury was completely healed, so he activated the Deep Abyss Mystical Stone Array again and circled Qingzhu into the array.

This time, he persisted twice as long as the last time. Although Qingzhu was still not very satisfied, she didn't blame him anymore—the cultivation gap was too large, and the essence of demonstrating the magic array was actually fighting. It was not bad for Liu Xiaolou to persist for two incense sticks.

Qingzhu entered the array for two incense sticks every day, and after coming out, she sat on the side to recall and ponder. Sometimes she would verify it with Liu Xiaolou at night, and after a few days, she saw more things in the illusion array. For example, a large bed finally appeared behind the curtain.

This day, after she came out of the array, she pondered: "I observe this array, there is no change in time sequence, and no migration of seasons, it is much duller, why is it so?"

Liu Xiaolou's array book came from the dead ghost Xishan Jushi, and Xing Dejun was good at refining tools, so he didn't understand what Qingzhu said: "Change of time sequence? Migration of seasons? Is it necessary?"

Qingzhu despised: "I don't know how your array plate was refined? Are there no such changes in the array book?"

Liu Xiaolou asked for advice with an open mind and took out the Deep Abyss Mystical Stone Array book for Qingzhu. Qingzhu flipped through it simply and threw it back to Liu Xiaolou: "Throw it away quickly! This book is really too inferior. How were the illusions in the small building added?"

Liu Xiaolou didn't take out the Illusory Fragrance Tendon to talk about it, but pushed it to the Yin-Yang Art. Qingzhu accepted this explanation. But as an array master, she really couldn't stand such a shoddily made inferior magic array, so she said: "Change it!"

"Change what?" Liu Xiaolou hurriedly asked for advice.

"The array plate needs to be refined again, add the three wonders and six rituals! Forget it, you can't do the six rituals, but at least add the three wonders." Qingzhu answered decisively.

"Three wonders?"

"Add Yi, Bing, and Ding!"

"Ah? What Yi Bing Ding?"

"Yi is the sun wonder, Bing is the moon wonder, and Ding is the star wonder. After adding the three wonders, there will be seasons and day and night in your array."

"There are seasons and day and night? Sounds good, what's the use?"

"Of course it's useful! Wear spring clothes in spring, summer skirts in summer, autumn clothes in autumn, and winter clothes in winter. Only when the clothes are different in the four seasons can it be more flavorful, right?"

"Ah, that's the logic."

"Furthermore, your illusion array focuses on yin-yang illusions. How should it be during the day and how should it be at night? The dress, demeanor, and behavior of the characters in the illusion should also be different. No matter how good the illusion is, if it is always the same, you will lose interest after entering it many times."

"That's not bad, anyway, I won't refund the money, so it's easier."

"You" Qingzhu hated that iron couldn't become steel: "Don't you want to do it for a long time?"

"If you do it for a long time, your reputation won't be very good, right?" Liu Xiaolou shook his head.

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"You are a wild cultivator from Wulong Mountain!" Qingzhu poked his chest with her finger: "Who do you think you are? How bad can your reputation be?"

Liu Xiaolou scratched his head: "Ah, it seems to be the case. One shouldn't forget one's roots."

Qingzhu rolled her eyes at him: "You can't forget your roots! Besides, if you don't do this line of work, it is indeed a great loss for us practitioners."

"Alright, alright, how to get the three wonders in?"

"This array plate can no longer be engraved with true qi, it can be used as a ground plate, so you need to add a heavenly plate and refine the sun, moon, and star three wonders on the heavenly plate."

So Qingzhu started teaching, passing the method of refining the sun, moon, and star three wonders to Liu Xiaolou. Simply put, it was to refine another array plate, engrave the sun, moon, and star three wonders with true qi on this array plate, and after the refining was successful, fuse the heavenly plate and the ground plate to form a combined form of the heavenly plate rotating around the ground plate. In this way, when the magic array was activated, there would be seasonal migration and day and night alternation.

If you want to go further, you need to refine the six rituals and nine stars, and even higher-level eight gates, nine gods, etc. Even Qingzhu herself hadn't reached that point, she could only engrave the six rituals at present.

When the array plate was refined, Liu Xiaolou used the earth fire on Xing Deshan. Refining the heavenly plate also required fire, but it was not earth fire, but heavenly fire. And the so-called heavenly fire was the essence of the time.

When engraving the sun wonder, it needed to be done at noon, using true qi to guide the sun essence to etch the array plate; when engraving the moon wonder, it needed to be done at the ugly hour, also using true qi to guide the moon essence to etch the array plate; when engraving the star wonder, it needed to identify a bright star and guide the star essence to fall. Liu Xiaolou identified the Fire Star.

As for the jade pendant used for the array plate, it was even simpler. Liu Xiaolou didn't have one, but Qingzhu had several in her bracelet. She threw one to Liu Xiaolou without any heartache, making Liu Xiaolou feel very ashamed. He secretly thought about whether he should take out the Illusory Fragrance Tendon and let Qingzhu smell it to show the friendship of fair mutual assistance.

After a month of hand-in-hand, face-to-face, and heart-warming teaching, Liu Xiaolou finally successfully refined the three-wonder heavenly plate. The problem now was, how to fuse it with the existing ground plate? Fusing two array plates was a method of nesting large arrays and sub-arrays, which was relatively common in many large guardian arrays. Qingzhu had already taught Liu Xiaolou, and now it was time to see him do it.

Liu Xiaolou was a layman in array techniques, but he had worked hard in refining array plates. Qingzhu had seen it in the past month. After accompanying him for a while and correcting two errors in his technique, she felt relieved and went out to stroll.

Like when Liu Xiaolou went up the mountain, Qingzhu was also moved by the scenery of Xing Deshan. There were indeed few mountain peaks that went straight up like lonely bamboo and had cliffs for ten thousand feet on all sides, and even fewer built Taoist temples on such mountain peaks. For a time, she couldn't help but have the idea of repairing this Xing De Temple.

There was a fire hole with good quality here, and it would be good as a branch of her own Qingzhu Garden, but it would take a lot of effort. For example, she had to report to the Qingyu Sect and the Tianmu Mountain to obtain the recognition of the two sects, and it would be best to find out the whereabouts of the original owner, Xing Dejun. No matter where he fled, it would be best to pay him a sum of money to avoid inexplicable disputes in the future.

Thinking of these problems, she couldn't help but feel a headache. It was so troublesome that she hesitated and simply went down Xing Deshan, observing the mountain terrain and landforms, and considering it seriously.

The method of array plate nesting was another technique compared to engraving true qi and array symbols. The difficulty was not below it, but the process was much less. Liu Xiaolou spent seven days and finally fused the two array plates together, stacking them into a two-layer array plate.

The lower layer was the ground plate, which was the original array, and the upper layer was the heavenly plate, engraved with the sun, moon, and star three wonders. Up to this point, the performance of the Deep Abyss Mystical Stone Array had been significantly improved, with seasonal migration and day and night alternation.

If Yun Ao entered the illusion array again, he would immediately find that the time in the courtyard was different from before, and the illusion in the bed curtains would also be different from what he had seen before. As for how it changed, it depended on his own thoughts.

Importantly, every time he came, it would be different.

Liu Xiaolou rubbed the brand-new array plate, feeling very happy in his heart, and got up to find Qingzhu to ask her to enter the array for inspection. He looked for her everywhere, but couldn't find her.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the mountains were looming. Liu Xiaolou turned around the cliff, but couldn't see the situation below. Just as he was about to go back and sit and wait, he suddenly saw a purple light faintly lit at the foot of the mountain. This was usually the brilliance caused by cultivators fighting, so his heart tightened, and he hurriedly jumped down the mountain in that direction.

Just down to the mountainside, he saw someone coming up, his body was elegant and fast, it was Qingzhu. She was not alone, but was carrying someone in her hand.

"What's wrong?" Liu Xiaolou greeted her.

Qingzhu said: "Go up and talk."