Fire Monster

Chapter 4 On the Importance of Knowledge

At this moment, this imperially-sealed house was still in chaos. The first floor was the classroom, and the second-stage students needed to attend lectures here, so there were a lot of people. But three years later, at least two-thirds of them would successfully transfer to the military department.

The second floor is the study room, where students from the second and third stages gather.

The third floor is the practical room.

It was quite confusing overall because there was only one teacher teaching this course, who was in charge of students from the second to the third stage.

Zhao Guanshan passed by the classroom on the first floor and took a look inside. As expected, the teacher of this course was sitting upstairs, waiting for the students to arrive. Since many of the students came from various slums and arrived at school at different times, the teachers never scolded them for anything in this regard.

Of course, if it’s too late, you’ll have to bear the consequences at your own risk.

Zhao Guanshan bowed to the teacher outside the door, and went straight to the second floor without caring whether he saw him or not. There were only a dozen or so people here, all of whom were his classmates who were in the last year of the third stage. Some of them looked up at him, while others were writing furiously, forgetting themselves and the world.

As graduation was approaching and there was no hope of transferring to the military department, no one had the heart to care about anyone else.

Zhao Guanshan did the same and went straight to the practical room on the third floor.

In the liberal arts department of Daoyuan, after reaching the third stage, there will be three practical opportunities for each course in the first year.

In the second year, there will be six practical opportunities.

In the third year, it was nine times.

However, if you perform well in regular assessments, you can get an extra practical opportunity.

Zhao Guanshan works very hard. He has been preparing for the bounty mission early in the morning, so he has accumulated a total of twelve practical opportunities in six subjects.

The kind that can openly and honestly take advantage of the Taoist temple.

The entrance to the practice room is locked. The padlock is a fist-sized stone lion, which is also a second-level imperial seal magic weapon.

Zhao Guanshan took out his student badge, which recorded how many practical exercises he had left.

Because practical operations require the consumption of materials, in the context of practicing strict economy, every practical operation is extremely precious.

Swipe the card and enter.

Facing us is a huge sealed cabinet similar to a bookshelf, which contains a total of 300 grids, and each grid corresponds to a material that can be used for practical operations.

Each one is extremely precious to Zhao Guanshan, because their unit price starts at at least one Taoist coin.

He was grateful for this.

Only with the Dao Palace's great efforts in cultivating talents and spreading knowledge, will they be able to carve out a place to settle down after the coming of divine punishment.

But now is the time for him to take advantage of the Taoist temple, so there is no need to feel guilty.

Three hundred kinds of materials, or three hundred parts, cover the daily maintenance and repair of five common spirit-supplying arrays.

But it does not mean that all materials can be used in every practical operation.

In fact, one practical operation corresponds to a spirit supply array, and the materials required are limited. If you want to take more, it is impossible.

Zhao Guanshan had already reported to his teacher the two spirit-supplying arrays corresponding to the remaining two practical exercises, so as soon as he entered the door, forty-eight grids lit up with faint light, meaning that he could take one practical material from each of them.

He didn't dare to be negligent at this moment. His abundant physical strength, clearer and brighter thinking, and the contingency plans that he had practiced countless times in his mind, made him confident at this moment.

It feels so good to be fully prepared.

In no time, all 48 kinds of materials were obtained, and Zhao Guanshan immediately entered an independent practice room. After he closed the door, a gleam of excitement lit up in his eyes.

Because at this point, even if he fails in all practical operations, it will be considered normal.

The Taoist temple will not take care of this part.

So that's the room he has to maneuver.

Of course, only students like Zhao Guanshan can afford such luxury. For other students who do not have a solid grasp of the basics, who would dare to gamble their own fate?
If you fail the final examination, you will be sent directly to the Imperial Seal Great Wall to be cannon fodder.

There is no second possibility.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan took out the three energy storage spirit stones he had borrowed from Yang Mao this morning.

Then, he carefully took out a cubic jade stone with a side length of one centimeter from the materials. This was the core material of the spirit supply array. The price of buying it outside started from ten Taoist coins. It was also the most valuable of all the practical materials.

However, the practical application of this kind of material is quite difficult. Each student has only one application opportunity, and must receive eight consecutive excellent practical evaluations before they can apply. They also have to provide their own energy storage spirit stones, which are very demanding requirements.

Perhaps in a sense, this is what the Taoist Academy is doing to encourage students to create a true spirit-offering array, even if it is the simplest civilian version.

The four sides of this jade cube are blank and need to have runes engraved on them.

Wearing special gloves, Zhao Guanshan carefully placed it on a special shelf on the operating table, rotated it, adjusted it, and stabilized it. Then he embedded a piece of energy storage spirit stone into the spirit supply array that came with the operating table.

start up,

Instantly, a soft light shone out, shining on the jade cube, presenting a dreamlike scene. It is said that before the coming of the heavenly punishment, this scene was controlled by the cultivators with their own magic power. How could a mortal do this?
However, with the spirit-supplying array and relevant technical reserves, mortals can also get their hands on extraordinary powers.

"This is an industrial lathe for cultivating immortality!"

Zhao Guanshan sighed, but his movements were decisive. He quickly used both hands to draw runes that he had already memorized on the controllable light screen below the operating table.

Because he knew that one energy storage spirit stone could only sustain the operating table for one hour.

At this moment, with his precise and steady operation, the light on the operating table gradually became sharper and more focused, and finally adjusted to a light knife that was fifty times smaller than the tip of a needle.

The light at this time is extremely dangerous.

Zhao Guanshan remained stable, well, okay, actually this step didn't require him to perform exceptionally well, just like the cars in a driving school, there was always a co-pilot instructor checking on them.

He only needs to input the exact sequence of runes for the spirit offering array he wants to engrave.

The rest can be handed over to the operating table, which will be engraved by the lightsaber on it.

It may sound simple.

It's like giving an ordinary person an engine manufacturing manual and an automatic lathe. If you want a straight line, give a straight line command, if you want an arc, give an arc command...

But in fact, even the simplest elementary spirit-offering formation requires as many as three thousand five hundred runes to be engraved inside, and some runes need to be engraved repeatedly, so one must remember clearly when, where and what kind of runes to engrave.

It can't be any worse.

The total number of operations exceeds 20,000.

And this is even with the help of the operating table to correct the rune lines.

Zhao Guanshan has been preparing for this moment since two years ago.

At this moment, he was fully focused, his hands flying as he wrote runes and changes on the light screen of the operating table. There was not a single pause, not even a moment of thought, because there was not enough time.

Unless he wants to consume all three energy storage spirit stones at once.

This is also the reason why he wants to borrow three energy storage spirit stones, two for engraving the spirit supply array, and one as a spare.

But at this moment, he suddenly realized that it was not that difficult. After the two souls were perfectly integrated, he could do it.

On the operating table, the purple light knife emitting a mysterious look changed rapidly, quickly correcting the runes written by Zhao Guanshan, and then accurately and effectively engraved them on the jade cube without any error.

Finally, just before the alarm of interruption of spiritual supply began to light up on the spiritual supply array on the operating table, he successfully engraved the last rune.

Successful.

He sat on the ground exhausted, soaked all over.

A feeling of weakness spread, and the energy brought by the compressed pancake I had in the morning was almost consumed by 80%.

But he succeeded.

Zhao Guanshan laughed silently.

A sense of pride and accomplishment arises naturally.

Although what he engraved was the most common, simplest and most common spirit-offering array, it was his own spirit-offering array, which he engraved personally as an ordinary person.

It’s like an ordinary person on Earth who doesn’t have a related profession. He may not take an electric fan seriously, but can he figure out the motor in the fan by himself?

But in this world, with the spirit supply array and the energy storage spirit stones, there are so many things that can be done, even if one does not understand the reasons behind them.

After resting for a while, Zhao Guanshan took a few gulps of water, then quickly stood up and installed the various practical material components with more skillful operations.

In fact, this part is the focus of this course, which talks about how to repair and maintain the spiritual supply array.

Just like a mechanic, if the engine breaks down, we just fix it and buy whatever parts are missing.

How simple.

This is the place where immortal craftsmen are trained.

A moment later, an object as big as a baby's fist and shaped like a heart was assembled by Zhao Guanshan. This was the spirit supply array and its supporting facilities, just like the engine and transmission system.

The market price is at least fifty Dao Palace coins.

This is a wealth that Zhao Guanshan might need his entire life to earn, or even fail to earn at all.

But now it belongs to him.

The whole process is all about fleecing.

Although he had to return the energy storage spirit stones borrowed from Yang Mao, and although this was encouraged by the Taoist temple, at this moment, Zhao Guanshan still felt the power of knowledge.

(End of this chapter)