Chapter 1030: The Slaughter Ink Treasure Canon

"Why can't I see out..."

"Are there still other evil god's methods hidden in here? Does that Mr. Tu have even deeper schemes?"

Ink Painting pondered for a long time.

But with too few clues, he temporarily had no idea.

The evil god's revival, Mr. Tu's grand plan, it's unknown how many years it has extended.

Without actual cause and effect, him just sitting in the room blindly thinking, it would be impossible to truly find any clues.

However, there was another problem that made Ink Painting quite curious.

Ink Painting supported his chin, frowning, muttering in his heart:

"Suppose this Duanmu Qing really went to Rouge Boat..."

"Then what would she do on Rouge Boat?"

"Play?"

"Play what?"

Looking at it now, Rouge Boat is a top-class pleasure place.

Using beauty as a matchmaker, using nobility as a lure, using power as a ladder, enticing heavenly talents, colluding together, forming cliques.

Plainly speaking, those heavenly talents go to Rouge Boat to play with women.

Then Duanmu Qing?

She is originally a woman, so she probably wouldn't also go to 'play' with women, right...

Then she just... played with men?

Opened her own 'harem', raised male favorites, raised pretty boys, indulged in wine and women?

"Tsk tsk."

Ink Painting shook his head and sighed in his heart.

Knowing a person is knowing their face, not their heart...

On the surface, she is such a cold fairy, but behind the scenes, she plays so loosely...

The people of this world, truly the more outwardly bright and beautiful they are, the more rotten they are inside.

However, this was just him blindly guessing.

Whether it is exactly like this, it is also not easy for him to determine.

No way, this circle is really too chaotic, playing too loosely.

His pure self, really cannot imagine what these aristocratic families' powerful young masters are playing in the secret rooms of Rouge Boat...

Now it is too late to know.

Because Rouge Boat has already been blown up by him.

Thinking of this, Ink Painting suddenly shivered and realized a problem:

"Did I blow up the pretty boys raised by Duanmu Qing along with Rouge Boat?"

"She won't just want to kill me because of this, right?"

"Also not right..."

"From the beginning, she didn't want to kill me, it was I who said she 'had a cracked Dao heart', and then she broke her defense..."

"But why would she care so much about that sentence?"

Ink Painting frowned and thought for a long time, still not understanding.

Duanmu Qing, this woman, looks extremely beautiful, but also very fierce, and also mysterious, with a bit of a neurotic touch, making it hard to fathom her.

"Will pay a little more attention afterwards..."

"Duanmu Qing... and the other three Qian Xue heavenly talents, as well as..."

"Mr. Tu..."

Ink Painting nodded, his gaze deep, revealing a trace of fire-like bright light.

Afterwards, he discarded miscellaneous thoughts, calmed down, and continued to bury his head in studying array formations.

Matters are intricate and complicated, requiring to be unraveled step by step to solve.

Studying array formations emphasizes on persistence, similarly, it cannot be put aside.

Now that many situations are unclear, learning more array formations is just having more reliance...

Ink Painting concentrated his attention and began to research array formations.

Currently, the array formations he is learning still follow the previous plan.

One is the Gui Yan Four Symbols Dragon Diagram.

Obtained through the Ten Thousand Demons Valley adventure, the East Scale West Claw's Four Symbols demon patterns are used for array pattern piecing together, returning the demon patterns to their source, thereby restoring a complete and whole 'Dragon Pattern'.

This kind of return to source has a very high difficulty and is also quite time-consuming, not something that can be achieved in a day or two.

But it is greatly beneficial for deepening the comprehension and practice of Four Symbols array formations.

If he can truly rely on his own ability to return to source and form a 'Dragon'.

Then in some sense, he will also possess attainment far surpassing ordinary array masters, sufficient to be called a grandmaster of Four Symbols array formations.

Therefore, in Ink Painting's eyes, this kind of Gui Yan itself is both a kind of learning and a kind of comprehension and elevation of array formations.

Besides that, it is the Reverse Spirit Array.

The foundation of the Reverse Spirit Array, Ink Painting has already learned.

He has also already begun to comprehend the array principles of the Reverse Spirit Array.

Therefore, in learning and mastering the second-grade Reverse Spirit Array, Ink Painting does not face many true 'big thresholds'.

But there are constant small thresholds.

No way, this is after all a second-grade absolute array, not so easy to learn.

It requires persistent practice and constant comprehension.

Must put in enough effort, then success can be achieved naturally.

Ink Painting anticipated in his heart.

Once he thoroughly masters the Reverse Spirit Array, he will also truly master the might of a second-grade 'absolute array'.

Able to use his own Reverse Spirit Array as 'fire', and others' array formations as 'medium', to release bigger 'fireworks'.

Of course, these fireworks may not necessarily be released.

But the ability to release these fireworks must certainly be possessed.

Ink Painting nodded, then suppressed miscellaneous thoughts, quieted down, and began to devote himself to studying array formations.

The Four Symbols Dragon Array and the Reverse Spirit Array are the two types of array formations that Ink Painting is currently fully conquering.

And both of these array formations belong to the absolute array category.

Learning them is difficult, and practicing them is also very difficult.

The entire process is long, obscure, and boring.

Accompanied by cycle after cycle of divine sense depletion and recovery, racking his brains, constantly failing, enduring setbacks, meditating and enlightening...

But Ink Painting still enjoyed it.

There are no shortcuts in array formations, this is the road that array masters must walk.

Moreover, it is the main road towards higher array formations domains.

Precisely because it is extremely difficult, it is therefore extremely precious...

The next day, the sword discussion continued.

Ink Painting temporarily kept the matter of Duanmu Qing in mind. He was also still continuing to learn the two absolute arrays.

But the situation of the sword discussion became increasingly tense.

Especially, after going on stage to discuss swords and losing to Wan Xiao Sect's Duanmu Qing, Tai Xu Gate's originally 'fragile' tiny bit of advantage instantly vanished completely.

The room for error was further reduced.

Da Luo Gate rose up in pursuit, pressing hard step by step.

Seeing that there were only a few matches' difference in victory, Tai Xu Gate's ranking was about to slide again, falling from the first position among the eight great gates.

Tai Xu Gate was naturally unwilling.

Not only Ink Painting, but several other teams of Tai Xu Gate disciples were also in fierce battles, almost every match was fought to exhaustion, extremely tragic.

During this time, Tai A's five brothers, Yang Qian Jun, and several other teams also desperately won several rounds.

The victories in these several rounds were not easy to come by. But compared to the overall situation, they seemed somewhat like a drop in the bucket.

The overall gap between Tai Xu Gate and Da Luo Gate did not widen.

In this way, Ink Painting could just even less afford to lose.

Afterwards, in the sword discussion in Tian Yi, the list continued to be deduced.

Ink Painting again faced two Di Zi sword discussions, one against Ling Xiao Gate's top disciple, and one against a first-class team slightly below that of Qian Dao Sect.

These two teams, although not the top strongest, were also absolutely not weak and could not be taken lightly.

Ink Painting's tactical thinking was still mainly based on 'array formations', assisting Ling Hu Xiao and the others in carrying out the killing.

He knew too many array formations.

Within the second grade, five elements and eight trigrams, nothing was not included.

Killing arrays, defense arrays, trapping arrays, he was proficient in all of them.

Before battle, he would again use a small blanket to cover, so no one would know exactly which array formations he would stealthily draw.

Any array formation was possible.

Again, coordinated with the terrain and competition system, adapting to local and timely conditions, changes were myriad and hard to guard against.

And Ling Hu Xiao and the others, after experiencing so many sword discussion temperings, both their strength and mentality had made great progress.

Plus Ink Painting's array formations assistance.

Tai Xu Gate's team had indeed already reached the level of a half-step 'top strong team'.

Therefore, the two sword discussions against Ling Xiao Gate and Qian Dao Sect, although they went through some twists and turns, were both won.

But even though the sword discussions were won, Ink Painting had a bad premonition.

Through these two sword discussions, he vaguely felt that his conventional array formations routines seemed to have been seen through...

Although in previous sword discussions, he had already been restrained enough and did not overuse array formations.

Most array formations were all used on the blade.

When drawing array formations, he still used a small blanket to cover.

But all of this seemed useless.

Ink Painting could vaguely feel that when other teams were dealing with his array formations, their every move formed a kind of norm, similar to 'regulations'.

This kind of norm, others might not be able to detect, but it could not hide from the thoughtful, divine sense-sensitive Ink Painting.

And this 'regulations'-like thing was absolutely impossible for these disciples to have made.

Because their array formations attainment was still far from reaching this level.

Ink Painting pondered for a long time and vaguely guessed in his heart that this was very likely a certain 'one' array formations elder...

Or even a certain 'group' of array formations elders...

Gathered together, dividing work and cooperating, combining the sword discussion terrain and competition system, to deduce his array formations routines and school.

This kind of deduction was similar to a kind of actual combat simulation.

Using divine sense simulation, they deduced in the sword discussion competition, what terrain, what competition system, targeted what opponents, what array formations he himself would use...

Ink Painting inhaled a slight cool breath.

"Not to that extent, right..."

"Just a small sword discussion disciple like myself, is it necessary to target me so grandly?"

But his experience and intuition should not be wrong.

There were definitely 'regulations' in the behavior of the sword discussion opponents.

As for where these 'regulations' came from, who set them, what specific form they took, and what their contents were...

Ink Painting could not guess for a while, and it was also not good to guess.

But soon, he did not need to guess.

Two days later, someone personally delivered these 'regulations' to his hand.

In the dining hall, Ink Painting looked at the jade slip made of white jade in his hand and fell into deep thought.

The name of the jade slip was:

《Rules Against Ink Painting》.

Full name: 《Behavior Rules to Adopt Against Ink Painting's Various Insidious Means in the Sword Discussion Assembly》.

These rules were given to him by Song Jian.

According to Song Jian, "All sects hostile to Tai Xu Gate, or those who lost to your hand in the sword discussion assembly, all have these rules."

"Ordinary disciples don't have them."

"But among the four great sects and eight great gates, as long as they can participate in the sword discussion assembly and advance to the Di Tier heavenly talent disciples, almost everyone has one now."

Duan Jin Gate, because of Ink Painting's connection, had a very deep enmity with Tai Xu Gate and belonged to the 'hostile' sects.

In this session of the sword discussion assembly, also because of Ink Painting's connection, Duan Jin Gate lost many rounds at the hands of Tai Xu Gate, losing very miserably.

Similarly, because of Ink Painting's 'backdoor operation', Song Jian was now the 'foremost' heavenly talent in Duan Jin Gate's ranking.

Therefore, this 《Rules Against Ink Painting》 was sent to Song Jian's hands.

Finally, it was forwarded to Ink Painting's own hands.

The cycle of cause and effect was very ingenious.

Of course, Ink Painting looking at these 'rules aimed at himself', his mood was also very subtle.

In the dining hall, it wasn't just Ink Painting who was looking.

Cheng Mo, Si Tu Jian, Hao Xuan, and a group of junior brothers were also crowding around, looking at the 《Rules Against Ink Painting》 in Ink Painting's hand.

Even Ling Hu Xiao, who had accidentally come to Tai Xu Mountain to get a free meal, couldn't help but secretly glance over.

The core purpose of the 《Rules Against Ink Painting》 was simply to target Ink Painting.

Its content was divided into many chapters: including the 《Spell Chapter》, 《Body Method Chapter》, 《Array Formations Chapter》, and a page of the 《Scheming Chapter》.

The Scheming Chapter was the least, mainly consisting of some 'deceived' experiences orally shared by some anonymous sect disciples to warn.

Including: "Do not talk to Ink Painting before battle;"

"Do not believe Ink Painting's slanders;"

"Ink Painting is an extremely insidious person, all his words are for achieving his tactical purposes, there is not a single true word among them;"

"Guard against all his schemes and tricks..." etc.

Ink Painting was very unhappy.

People's prejudices in their hearts are truly a big mountain.

Such a sincere person as himself, actually being said to be 'insidious', is truly unreasonable...

Fortunately, the 《Scheming Chapter》 was not long, explaining that these were just minority opinions, biases, and could not be taken as true.

Ink Painting continued to look back.

The 《Spell Chapter》 was very detailed, listing in copious detail all the low-level five-elements spells Ink Painting had used in the sword discussion assembly up to that point.

Even some extremely obscure, extremely obscure small spells that Ink Painting had only casually cast once, and he himself had forgotten, were all recorded in these 'rules'.

Behind each spell, coping methods were also noted.

Because they were small spells and did not require too much attention, most were just a single sentence.

Truly special were only the Fireball Technique and the Water Prison Technique.

Especially the Fireball Technique.

A full page of "Careful of the Fireball Technique!", "Be vigilant of the Fireball Technique's finishing move!", "Better to die first, not suffer humiliation, remember!"

Behind the Water Prison Technique, there was also a large list of attention points for the Water Prison Technique, as well as talismans, spirit tools, and methods that could cope with the Water Prison Technique.

There were also judgments such as "The Water Prison Technique is disgusting" and "Better to be hit by the Earth Prison Technique ten times than by the Water Prison Technique once".

Although he did not know who exactly compiled these words.

But Ink Painting could vaguely feel the hate and pain of 'gnashing teeth' between the lines.

Thereafter, there was also the Concealment Technique, and many attention points were also listed.

Including the root of his Concealment Technique, the type of concealment, how to break the concealment, how to track, when to use spirit tools...

At the same time, someone also noted:

"Be vigilant of Ink Painting casting visible concealment to confuse sight and hearing, otherwise you will be regarded as a 'big fool' to be mocked, remember."

Ink Painting looked confused.

Big fool? Who?

After the 《Spell Chapter》 was the 《Body Method Chapter》.

This was truly very 'professional'.

Someone had disassembled his body method, one move at a time, rubbed it into pieces, and drawn it in the jade slip.

Disassembling each move one by one.

Also attaching some flaws of the body method moves.

These were probably all pulled out from mimic diagrams, drawn down one by one, and patiently pondered over.

Every lift and move in his body method was researched down to the pores.

Their eyes were probably almost blind from looking.

Ink Painting sighed, but was not too worried.

Because body method belonged to a kind of strength.

Even if they were familiar with his moves and knew his flaws, if their body method was not as good as his, not as fast as his, and not as exquisite as his, they would still be unable to catch him.

What's more, the powerful foundation of Ink Painting's Flowing Water Step lay in his powerful and meticulous divine sense control.

Just breaking down some 'moves' didn't mean much.

Therefore, this 《Body Method Chapter》, although it seemed detailed, was just 'armchair strategy' and was not to be feared.

But the last, and most content-rich, 《Array Formations Chapter》 was troublesome.

Ink Painting only glanced at it, looked at two lines, and then frowned.

As he expected, this was indeed aimed at his array formations, combining specific sword discussion actual combat and deducing coping regulations.

Up to now, the number of rounds he had used high-level array formations to battle was limited.

Some methods, he was also always hiding.

According to reason, there should not be many reference materials available.

But the problem was, this was the Qian Xue state boundary, with numerous sects, not only many heavenly talents, but also countless elders with rich cultivation experience.

Among them, there were definitely a large number of elders skilled in array formations.

Ink Painting did not have many materials for array formations battles.

Then these elders would rely on their own knowledge and experience to conduct simulations and deductions.

They would list the competition system, delineate the terrain, match opponents, and then based on their rich array formations experience and the rules of second-grade array formations, as well as Ink Painting's habits of casting array formations, they would 'deduce' the actual combat situations in the sword discussion.

This kind of deduction was full of a large number of possibilities.

First, Ink Painting knew too many types of array formations.

Second, with different competition systems, different terrains, and different opponents, the battle situation would have different developments, and array formations would also have different applications.

In a specific sword discussion, what array formations Ink Painting would use at what time, where he would arrange them, and what easily discernible signs they would have.

How to be vigilant, how to detect, how to probe the array, how to target... etc.

The situations inside were truly too complex.

And the sword discussion assembly was also very tight on time.

Therefore, this kind of massive simulation and deduction was fundamentally impossible for a minority of array formations elders to complete in a short time.

It was definitely a large group of elders, day and night, consuming a large amount of divine sense, pouring in a large amount of effort, listing various battle situations, formulating various countermeasures, condensing all the essences, and thus having before their eyes this densely packed whole volume:

《Rules Against Ink Painting · Array Formations Chapter》.

Ink Painting truly sighed endlessly.

These array formations elders were truly formidable.

At the same time, he was also very speechless.

These array formations elders were truly idle and in pain...

As array formations elders of various great sects in the Qian Xue state boundary, did they need to target himself, this small Foundation Establishment disciple, like this?

Was their divine sense not valuable?

Even if divine sense was not valuable, they still needed to cherish their hair ah...

Divine sense loss could be recovered.

Hair that fell might not necessarily grow back.

Flesh and bones, body hair and skin, received from parents, in accordance with the ways of heaven.

Even as cultivators, hair didn't just grow when you wanted it to, otherwise, in this world, there would be no bald heads...

Ink Painting had a headache and couldn't help but sigh.

Beside him, the same sect disciples who were looking at this densely packed, clearly regulated 'rules' that had evidently required a lot of effort, were also shocked endlessly in their hearts.

Cheng Mo exclaimed: "Junior brother, you really have status."

"I haven't heard of anyone in so many sessions of the sword discussion assembly who needed to have 'rules' made to target them."

Others nodded in agreement: "Junior brother, you can truly be called the 'first person in sword discussion'."

"Before, there were no ancients..."

"Probably after, there will be no comers..."

Ink Painting's face darkened.

People fear fame as pigs fear fat.

People who are famous will invite disaster, pigs that are fat will be slaughtered.

This was not a good thing.

Ink Painting was somewhat unconvinced, "No one has been targeted like this before?"

"According to my knowledge," Hao Xuan shook his head, "No..."

Ink Painting didn't understand, "Then why target me like this?"

"Probably because you are too infuriating..."

A crowd of Tai Xu Gate junior brothers silently said in their hearts.

Ink Painting, this junior brother, aside from his other strengths, his 'infuriating' strength was absolutely top-tier.

Even compared to his array formations strength, it was even better without being inferior.

If he was deliberately infuriating, then it would be okay.

The key was that sometimes, he could infuriate people unintentionally.

Unintentionally infuriating people was the most infuriating thing.

Especially, when he infuriated people, he still had a face of pure innocence, which made people even more infuriated to death.

This point was fully embodied in this session of the sword discussion assembly.

Of course, they couldn't say these words out loud.

After all, in Tai Xu Gate, the junior brother was still respectable and lovable.

"Probably because junior brother, you are different from other heavenly talents..."

"What do you mean?"

"Other heavenly talents are strong in cultivation, this is hard strength."

"But junior brother, you are strong in Dao methods and array formations, this is means strength."

"Hard strength is not easy to target, strong is strong, weak is weak, but means can be restrained in various ways..."

Another disciple guessed: "Probably because of women..."

"Junior brother, you offended Lu Zhen Long, indirectly offending many of her admirers..."

Ordinary people, offending is just offending, but women are not, especially beautiful women.

Cheng Mo hurriedly added: "And Duanmu Qing..."

During the sword discussion assembly, Duanmu Qing chased and tried to kill the junior brother with a posture of 'not stopping until death'.

Someone sighed: "Simultaneously hated and chased to kill by two great fairies in the Qian Xue assembly, junior brother, this can also be called a 'peach blossom fate'..."

Ink Painting's face was even darker.

After finishing the meal, Ink Painting returned to the disciple residence.

He needed to be busy drawing array formations and thinking of ways to cope with the next sword discussion.

With this 《Rules Against Ink Painting》, his entire skill set, especially his conventional array formations routines, had been thoroughly researched, so the next sword discussion would probably not be so easy to fight.

But in his heart, there were again some doubts.

In these 《Rules》, the array formations part should have come from the array formations elders of various sects.

Because it required experienced array masters to perform the actual combat simulation and deduction of array formations.

Then what about the other parts?

Who made those?

Ink Painting frowned.

And at the same time, in the Tu Mo Order, that mysterious person blurred into magnetic ink general transmitted a message with thickened ink marks:

"Various means targeting Ink Painting have been summarized and entered into the 《Rules》."

"One copy of these 《Rules》 per person."

"The sword discussion will continue to be supplemented and constantly improved afterwards."

"Our purpose: Ink Painting must die!"

"Our goal: Kill Ink Painting!"

Below, a group of people also followed suit and wrote "Ink Painting must die!"

And this 《Rules Against Ink Painting》 was also constantly circulating and constantly being perfected in the hands of everyone in the Tu Mo Alliance...

Several hundred years later, with the 《Rules》 born from this sword discussion assembly as a predecessor, a cultivation classic was gradually perfected, with another renowned name:

《Tu Mo Bao Dian》.

(End of this chapter)