Qin Ran found that Li Shiyin had been acting a little strange these past few days, a little... too diligent.
It’s not that Li Shiyin was lazy before, but that Li Shiyin has been too diligent in the past few days, and she seems to be working hard in her practice.
He would get up in the morning and practice swordplay for the entire morning; he would meditate at noon; in the afternoon he would fight with Zhuifeng, and the two of them would often fight for the entire afternoon; in the evening, he would go into the practice room to practice.
When Qin Ran was doing research in his study at night, he could look out the window and see the sky above Shiyin's star training room, with stars shining all night long.
Then he woke up in the morning and didn't know when Shiyin had started practicing sword again.
"What happened to Shiyin?" Qin Ran asked Long Qiqi who was planting medicine behind him, "Did someone offend her? Is she going to fulfill her three-year appointment? Or is she going to explore the secret realm?"
Long Qiqi looked up at the sky, where dragons roared and tigers howled, swords flew, human figures flashed back and forth, and the rumbling sound of battle could be heard continuously.
She shook her head: "That's your apprentice. You don't even know what she's doing, so how should I know?"
"You are all girls! You are closer." Qin Ran said.
"Hiss..." Long Qiqi clenched his teeth and imitated the sound of a snake exhaling, "I am a snake!"
"That's a female too." Kieran said, "I think the gap between men and women is bigger than the gap between humans and snakes."
"I don't know. Go ask her yourself, or ask that stupid tiger. He should know." Long Qiqi focused his attention on his herbal seeds, muttering to himself.
"They are all geniuses, and I am mediocre. They and I are not from the same world, so we cannot talk about the same topic. I am thinking about how to sense qi, and they are thinking about how to form a pill; I am thinking about how to live, and they are thinking about fighting against opponents of higher levels.
"By the time they can tear a true immortal apart with their bare hands, the grass on my grave will be three feet high."
Qin Ran looked at Long Qiqi and felt a little sorry for her. He asked, "You still haven't realized the Qi?"
"This kind of thing where you can do it and you can't do it is determined by talent. I am really hopeless." Long Qiqi took a small shovel and covered the seeds with soil. He felt like he had put the final nail in the coffin for himself.
“You have a deep understanding of the theory, so you should be able to comprehend it…” Qin Ran thought for a moment and said to Long Qiqi,
"In the final analysis, I think you think too much. Cultivation requires a clear mind, a pure and clear mind. You need to let your brain go. Ah, maybe you need this paragraph, 'There is no Bodhi tree, nor is there a mirror stand; there is nothing at all, so where can dust gather?'"
"What is Bodhi, and what is the mirror?"
"Bodhi is a tree..." Qin Ran explained, "This means that there are no strange thoughts in the human brain or in the sea of consciousness. They are all external things. Because we think too much, we have stirred up dust. As long as we stick to our original intention, we can have a clear mind. This is the theory of Buddhism..."
"What is Buddha?" Long Qiqi rolled her eyes at Qin Ran. This man was stupid and talking nonsense. She was too lazy to pay attention to him and continued to dig another hole and plant herbs.
"Alas!" Qin Ran shook his head and stopped talking, continuing to draw array patterns on the branches of the Devouring Demonic Willow.
As the saying goes, an accidental planting of willows can lead to a forest of willows. Willow branches are really easy to plant. Even though this is a level nine demon beast, the Devouring Demonic Willow, its branches were actually planted alive by Qin Ran using the cutting method.
Of course, there are reasons for this. Firstly, it is located at the center of the mountain protection formation, and all the spiritual energy leaking from the spiritual veins at the bottom of the lake gathers here; secondly, Qin Ran has fed it a lot of life wind.
After being nourished by spiritual energy for a long time, it came back to life and roots sprouted from its branches under the soil.
“I hope it’s not that Devouring Demon Willow, it’s too dangerous…” Qin Ran muttered to himself as he drew the array pattern, “But if it is, a level nine demon wouldn’t be bad either…”
After drawing the array pattern, he cast a spell and the array pattern disappeared.
He looked up at Li Shiyin and Zhuifeng who were fighting fiercely. After a quick analysis, he felt that Li Shiyin was probably still no match for Zhuifeng.
He didn't care and turned back to Long Qiqi and said, "After you finish growing the abyss snow grass, go to the research building and prepare a medicinal bath for yourself."
“Oh…” Long Qiqi responded.
Qin Ran came to the locust tree and took out the soul-suppressing wood, which was also engraved with array patterns. He said sorry to the locust tree, then dug a hole in the trunk and put the soul-suppressing wood in.
After covering the hole in the tree trunk, he went to the waterfall on the back mountain and hid the Qingyuan Stone under the waterfall.
The array base, array pattern, and array core have all been arranged. Kieran has been planning this mountain protection array for half a year, and today is the day when the preparations are finally complete.
After hiding the array base, he returned to the center of the array. Long Qiqi had already finished planting the abyssal snow grass and returned to the research building. The battle between Tianshang Zhuifeng and Li Shiyin was also coming to an end. He waited for a while, and finally lost because Li Shiyin's mana was exhausted.
"Never learns from his mistakes!" He shook his head and commented, "Foolish and stupid..."
Zhuifeng carried Li Shiyin to the ground and threw the exhausted Li Shiyin onto the grass by the lake. He lay on the side, sticking out his tongue to cool down.
Qin Ran walked over, looked at the girl lying on the grass, and asked, "Do you know why you can't beat Zhuifeng?"
Hearing Qin Ran's voice, Li Shiyin turned over with difficulty, squinted her eyes and looked at Qin Ran, and said weakly: "Because Zhuifeng is better than me."
The girl was so tired that her face was red and she was sweating all over. Qin Ran looked down at her and asked, "Do you remember what the master said outside the mist?"
She remembered nothing... At that time, she could only think about how handsome her master was, how she could only smell his scent, how she could only hug him and be close to him. How could she remember what his master said... Moreover, in her subconscious memory, although she liked her master very much, she really couldn't like his unethical fighting style.
So she shook her head weakly.
The sweaty girl lay powerlessly on the grass. She was indeed very tempting. Qin Ran couldn't bear to scold her, so he said it again:
"Battle, two words, one horizontal and one vertical, the winner stands, the loser lies down. The so-called battle is to defeat the enemy. And in order to defeat the enemy, you have to find the enemy's weakness."
"No one is perfect..." When he said this, he suddenly thought of Su Changqing, this guy seemed to have no weaknesses, "People always have weaknesses. As long as you find the weakness, no matter how powerful the enemy is, you have a chance to win.
"The gap between you and Zhuifeng is not that big. It is entirely possible for you to beat Zhuifeng. But you have never won once!
"Why can't we win? How can the weak defeat the strong?"
When Qin Ran said this, Li Shiyin's scattered attention suddenly focused... When she beat Song Ze, wasn't it just the weak beating the strong? Was the master going to teach her how to defeat the strong with the weak
"Conquer the enemy in one blow. Use your strengths to overcome the enemy's weaknesses. What is the strength of sword cultivators? It is the extremely strong attack power, which is your offensiveness pulled to the extreme. Since you have already pulled the attack power to the maximum, why not go further? Find the enemy's weakness, concentrate all your strength on one sword, and defeat the enemy with one sword!"
Qin Ran taught, "The reason why sword cultivation is so popular is that it can always defeat the strong with the weak. No matter when, no matter how big the gap is, sword cultivation will always have the possibility of giving the enemy a fatal blow. Sword cultivation always has a chance to win."
"Use your strengths to overcome the enemy's weaknesses?" Li Shiyin opened her eyes and looked at the back of her master who was leaving after the class. She knew that she might really have a chance to beat Song Ze. "No matter how strong a mid-stage Jindan is, can he withstand my full-strength sword?"
There was a sword in her eyes.
Qin Ran returned to the center of the formation and flew from the Devouring Demon Willow to the air. He held the seal in his hand and performed a spell to connect the formation patterns he had carved on the Dan Peak. Then he shouted:
"open!"
Suddenly, clouds and mist rose from the surface of the lake, and then enveloped the entire peak of Danfeng Mountain in mist.