Chapter 19: Refining Formation Flags

Having made two sets of formation flags, Xia Jinxi was almost proficient in the process of making the Fiery Array Flag.

  After making another set of Fiery Array Flags, she turned her attention to other formations.

  Now, in addition to the Mystery Array, the formations she knew were the Fiery Array, and a set of defensive formations, the Thick Earth Array.

  So this time she set her sights on the Thick Earth Array.

  The defensive formation is more complicated than the offensive formation. Not only does it have more formation nodes, but the engraving of the formation pattern is also more complicated than the Fiery Array.

  Because the defensive formation is a large-scale defense, it has higher requirements in details than a single offensive formation. Otherwise, once there is a loophole, it is difficult to achieve the effect that the defensive formation should have.

  Xia Jinxi carefully looked at the formation pattern nodes of the Thick Earth Array again, and only started to make it after ensuring that it was completely correct.

  She held the carving knife in her hand, picked up a small black cloud iron flag, and began to engrave it. She doesn't know if it's due to the creation of the Fiery Flag.   

  She found that when she was engraving the thick earth array, it was not as difficult as she had imagined. Instead, she felt a sense of smoothness, as if everything was done in one go.

  After a while, she finished engraving a flag.

  There was no obstacle at all.

  This made her relax and her nervousness disappeared.

  So, she quickly picked up another small flag and started engraving.

  In this way, she stopped after engraving fifteen flags in a row.

The thick earth array has fifteen nodes, so there are naturally fifteen flags.

  After carefully checking the fifteen flags and finding no mistakes, she packed up the set of thick earth array flags.

After closing her eyes and thinking, she summed up, and then she started refining next batch of materials. Just like this, two days and two nights passed, and the tightly closed door of the formation room opened silently, and Xia Jinxi walked out with a happy face.

As soon as she left the hall, the white-browed Taoist appeared again.

  "How is it? What are the results?"

  Xia Jinxi handed over the storage bag containing the pills respectfully, "Senior, please take a look."

  "Wow, not bad!" The white-browed Taoist was a little surprised. A total of four sets of Fiery Array Flag and five sets of Thick Earth Array were successfully refined, with a very high success rate.

"If this is your first time to make formation, then your talent is excellent. Remember to come often in the future. Contribution points are not a problem. I can give you more."

At this point, the white-browed Taoist took out a purple jade and continued, "Come, give me the task jade card."

Upon hearing this, Xia Jinxi took off the jade card and handed it over.

  The white-browed Taoist waved his sleeve with his right hand, and the jade card floated in the air. Then he cast a spell at the purple jade, and a beam of purple light instantly enveloped the jade card.

  "Okay, it's OK. I'll give you 20 contribution points. I'll take half of the refined formation flag according to the rules, and you can keep the rest."

  Xia Jinxi took the jade card and storage bag again, and her face couldn't hide her joy, "Thank you, senior."

Contribution points are hard to come by, and this time they doubled directly. At this moment, she felt that choosing the alchemy apprentice task was an extremely correct decision!

  "No need to be polite." The old Taoist with white eyebrows waved his hand and said with a smile: "Next time you come, as long as the quality of the formation flags is good enough, the contribution points will continue to double."

  It is a good thing for both Formation Peak and herself.

With a good place to earn contribution points, Xia Jinxi naturally agreed.

  Outer Peak Deacon Hall.

All disciples who accept tasks must return here and hand in the jade card after completing the task. There is a deacon in the hall who is responsible for recording contribution points.

  In the center of the hall door, there is a smooth screen wall. The names of all outer disciples in Taisheng Sect are on it, but no words can be seen normally.

  The deacon took Xia Jinxi to the screen wall and signaled her to take down the wooden card of the outer disciple identity and stick it on the screen wall.

  The next moment, the originally dim screen wall lit up in an instant,Xia Jinxi's name slowly emerged, and the contribution points were displayed as -500.

  At this time, the steward stuck the task jade card to the screen wall, and the number after the name changed rapidly from -500 to -480.

  "The record is complete, congratulations to Junior Sister Xia for completing the first task!"

  Because Xia Jinxi's contribution points were doubled, the steward guessed that she had a high talent for formation, so his attitude was very good.   

  The deacon's surname is Zhang. He is in the middle stage of foundation building. He was originally an inner sect disciple. However, he has already passed half of his life span. He knows that there is no hope for him to break through. After passing the assessment, he came to the outer peak to be a deacon and had a leisurely life.

  However, he was born in a family of immortal cultivation, and there are still people of the same clan in the sect. After coming to the outer peak, he treats people kindly. If he finds someone with outstanding qualifications,

  he will deliberately make friends with him and provide some convenience within his authority and responsibility. No matter what the result is, it is just to leave a good cause for the family. Xia Jinxi did not know the origin of deacon Zhang, but she would not be cold-faced when she was treated with a smile. After a few polite words with him, she got some news about the sect's tasks.

  The tasks will be updated once at the beginning of each month. At that time, the number of disciples going to the deacon hall is the largest, and some relatively easy tasks with a lot of contribution points will be snatched up at the first time.

  In addition, inner sect or direct disciples sometimes come here to post limited-time tasks. These tasks are considered private and are not in the ranks of sect tasks. The content is varied and the contribution points are lower than those of sect tasks. However, even so, there are still many outer sect disciples rushing to accept them.

  Their purpose is obvious. They want to establish some friendship with the inner sect or the direct disciples through the mission, but very few can achieve their goal. After

  leaving the Deacon Hall, Xia Jinxi returned to the cave of Yunxian Peak and took out all the formation flag.

  There are a total of four sets of Fiery Array Flag and five sets of Thick Earth Array. She will put away one of each sets and sell the rest

  She remember reading the jade slips about common sense before, which mentioned the theory of elixir poison in detail. The elixir poison comes from the elixir taken.

  If there is less elixir poison in the body, it can be slowly discharged from the body through long-term meditation and continuous circulation of one's own spiritual power. If it accumulates more, then this method will have little effect. Over time, the elixir poison will gradually erode the internal organs and damage the foundation of cultivation.

  Pills are divided into low, medium, high, and top grades. The lower the quality, the more elixir poison it contains. The low-grade pills should be taken as little as possible. The

  elixir poison contained in the medium-grade is much less than that of the low-grade. As long as it is not taken in large quantities at one time, there will not be too much problem.

  The top-grade elixirs contain very little poison and are much more valuable than the middle-grade and lower-grade ones. As for the best-grade elixirs, they do not contain any poison, but few people in the current world of immortal cultivation can make them. They are hard to come by.

  Xia Jinxi decided to only take top-grade elixirs in the future. Of course, if she could make the best-grade ones, that would be even better. As for now, she doesn't have top-grade elixir, she will practice with spirit gathering array she make.

  She planned to keep the lower-grade elixir from sect, finds an opportunity, she will sell them all for spirit stones.

  Taisheng Sect does not require disciples to leave the sect for training, and it all depends on their own choice. So in theory, Xia Jinxi can go outside the sect at any time, and she only needs to report to the Deacon Hall.

  However, her current cultivation level is still at the fifth level of Qi Refining with no attack power, so it is impossible for her to go out. It is too dangerous.

For now, it's better for her to do the task to pay the debts as soon as possible.

After thinking about it, Xia Jinxi continued practice Tai Chi Swordsmanship from evening until tomorrow morning, with a rest to replenish spiritual energy in between.