Fire Monster

Chapter 21 Apply what you learn
"Time is running out, everyone, get started immediately. Han Erzi, you come and help me, and be on guard at the same time."

Zhao Guanshan pointed at a person, who was a somewhat silly fellow. It was obvious that he did everything in a clumsy way. However, he was the one in their group whose hot temper was second only to Shu Mian.

That's why Shu Mian asked Han Erzi to lead the way. In fact, he just wanted to be a vanguard who has no taboos and is stubborn.

"Hey, I'll listen to you."

Han Erzi grinned foolishly, and it was unclear whether he was really stupid or just pretending.

Shu Mian and the others had no objections, so they formed their own teams and, under Shu Mian's command, searched carefully along the central street of the town.

As for Zhao Guanshan, he looked around and locked onto a house.

It was a house along the street. Only the main structure was left, without even the roof, doors or windows. It looked worthless.

But this is the most suitable house in Zhao Guanshan's eyes.

"Why don't you go to the house opposite?"

Han Erzi asked curiously, the house across the street was the best preserved in the area. Not only was it two-story, but the main structure was made of stone, making it quite sturdy.

Some of the doors and windows are still intact, and most importantly, you can climb up and see far into the distance.

In theory, it is the most suitable place to be a seal hut.

"That room is not suitable. First, the area is too large. My spirit supply array is only Gui level and cannot cover it."

"Second, the main body of the house is made of three materials. The bottom is made of bluestone as the base, the middle is made of stone strips, the top layer is made of wood, and there is a lot of iron. There are too many elements, which is not conducive to the spread of spiritual energy."

"Third, there are many rooms in there, but there are even more hidden corners. If there is a psychic mark of an evil spirit hidden in there, we will all have to be destroyed there."

Zhao Guanshan explained quickly, not looking down on Han Erzi at all because of his silly and honest appearance.

Because effective communication can save you a lot of trouble.

"You know so much."

Han Erzi smiled innocently.

"It's just so-so. These are all things I learned in the Taoist temple. I just put them into practice. Come, help me clear out all the debris in this house, including stones, bricks, wood, and weeds, leaving only the adobe!"

“Because adobe has only one element?”

"Yes, this house is very ordinary. I guess only the base foundation is made of stone. The surface is all rammed earth. There are only four walls left. This is actually good. One of the three elements of psychic energy transmission, ensuring the uniformity of low-level matter helps the efficiency of psychic energy transmission."

"The specific formula is: earth one, fire two, water five, metal sixteen, wind nine, wood three, lightning seventeen, and flesh and blood twenty-one."

"In this context, soil, water, flames, wood, and even air are all considered low-level substances, and the rest are all high-level substances."

"The human body is in a high position instead? Interesting!"

Han Erzi was obviously hearing this for the first time.

"It's not just humans. Life is life. How can it be a simple thing?"

As Zhao Guanshan spoke, he and Han Erzi cleaned up the debris inside and outside the main body of the house. Then they went to other collapsed houses and moved back pieces of collapsed and broken loess walls to block the gaps in the doors and windows of the target houses.

However, this process was mostly done by Han Erzi. Although this guy is small and only sixteen years old, he is incredibly strong and can easily move loess wall blocks weighing two or three hundred kilograms.

Zhao Guanshan was so envious of what he saw. This guy must have such a strong body.

After working hard and sweating for about half an hour, he finally blocked all the gaps in the doors and windows of the house, and even filled the tiny cracks with clods of earth.

But the roof above the house was still empty.

"What should we do about this?"

"Don't worry about it. Leave it empty. The Imperial Seal Hut doesn't necessarily need a sealed house, and this is already pretty good."

"If we are in the wild, we can even set up a psychic circuit to replace the Imperial Seal Hut and gain a certain degree of protection."

"Psychic circuit? What is that!?"

Han Erzi became interested. "The principle is the same. You can think of it as drawing a circle on the ground with some substance—"

Zhao Guanshan smiled, but couldn't help but think of his hometown on Earth. There seemed to be similar customs, either sprinkling salt or glutinous rice or something, and even drawing a circle when visiting the grave.

Although it may not be useful, if you look into it more deeply, the idea is consistent.

"I do not understand……"

Han Erzi scratched his scalp.
"In fact, it's all based on the natural rhythm of the amplitude of spiritual energy. It seems complicated, but it's actually very simple once you understand it. First, find the pattern. The movement of spiritual energy is like the ebb and flow of the tide, just like human breathing. You can't exhale forever, and you can't inhale forever."

"Uh……"

Han Erzi finally stopped asking questions and felt more and more that it was right for him to go to the military department. What a horrible liberal arts department!

Zhao Guanshan smiled and changed the subject.

"In fact, it would be best if there were two spirit-supplying arrays. They could complement each other and coexist in a cross-coexistence, with one responsible for the peaks and the other for the troughs. But that would be the realm of a second-level imperial seal hut, and we don't have that luxury."

"why?"

"There's no reason. This is just the characteristic of the amplitude of psychic energy."

Zhao Guanshan continued to explain patiently, and then picked out some of the various psychic weapon parts picked up by Shu Mian and others, and hammered them into the main body of the house like hammering nails. He calculated the distance between them based on the size of the materials, and finally formed a circle on the main body of the house, like a coil.

"Didn't you say that the elements should be single? Wouldn't it be contradictory to add these?"

Han Erzi couldn't help but ask out of curiosity again.

"It's not contradictory. The loess wall is a low-level material with a single element, while the ones I smashed in are high-level materials of higher quality. The second of the three elements for the transmission of spiritual energy is a large amount of single low-level substances, which will inevitably form insulation protection for a small amount of high-level substances."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, after I smash in these high-level materials, once the spiritual energy is connected, the spiritual energy will only flow through this circle of high-level materials. The surrounding rammed earth walls will form something like a canal, which can make more effective use of spiritual energy. At the same time, this principle can also be used in the layout of mountain and river geographical defense formations."

Zhao Guanshan explained casually that if we use the thinking of earthlings to understand, the rammed earth wall with a single element is the insulating part of the electric wire, and the nails he hammered in are the copper wires with excellent conductive properties.

"I think I understand. It feels very simple!"

Han Erzi shouted in surprise, he understood again!
This time it’s real, I don’t know what’s going on. In the past, when I was studying liberal arts courses in the second stage, I was always drowsy and confused.

But now, after Zhao Guanshan explained it with practical examples, he immediately understood it thoroughly.

"Of course the principle is simple. The difficult part is calculating the vibration pattern of the psychic energy amplitude. See these materials I smashed on the wall? The distances between them are different. Why are they not connected? Why are they separated into different distances? It is because the propagation of psychic energy is based on vibration patterns."

"Where there are nails, it's explicit, and where there are empty spaces, it's implicit, just like the neutral line and the live line, oh, just like breathing. So you have to calculate the vibration value of psychic energy transmission, and you also have to calculate the mass of the high-level matter, the high-level frequency, and the vibration resistance that can be formed. The specific formula is this..."

Hearing this, Han Erzi was confused again, but this did not affect the admiration in his eyes when he looked at Zhao Guanshan. He was truly convinced.

This is also the effect Zhao Guanshan wants.

How can you get the benefits if you don't convince others?

Time passed slowly and several hours went by.

Zhao Guanshan used the materials collected by Shu Mian and others to pound the rammed earth wall of the house three times, just like winding three circles of thread.

This seems like a simple thing, but in fact, every time he smashes down a material, he has to calculate it frantically in his mind.

This is something that cannot be fooled about, it's just like laying electrical wires, right is right, light it up once.

Wrong is wrong. Even if it is wrong in one point, it cannot be lit up.

So every time Shu Mian and his companions came back to deliver the collected resources, they would see Zhao Guanshan squatting there with a frown on his face, not moving at all. Those who didn't know would think he was being lazy.

In fact, that's what they really think.

If Zhao Guanshan had not explained the pros and cons to everyone clearly at the beginning and intimidated Han Erzi, then a lot of words would have to be wasted at this moment.

But now, even if everyone has doubts, they can only keep them to themselves.

(End of this chapter)