Who told him to make the cards!

"Several hundred billion," Chen Zhi said.

"Knowing this, why are you still looking?" Old Man Meng said. "What's the difference between this and looking for a needle in a haystack?"

“Yes,” Chen Zhi said. “I’m not familiar with the ocean, but I remember some of the positions in this card spread.”

Old Man Meng felt that this kid was making fun of him.

But to his surprise, Chen Zhi was serious.

Before they had walked far, Chen Zhi suddenly quickened his pace, as if he had discovered some kind of mark.

He placed his palm on the wall and walked sixty-three steps in one breath, finally stopping in front of a relatively simple structural map.

This was his "mentor".

Many of the structures on the mining area standard cards can be found in this area with corresponding patterns.

About three minutes.

"There is."

Chen Zhi found the first one nearby.

He only knew the effect, not the name, so he just wrote one down on a piece of paper:

"Energy Shaping - Fire"

Then there's the second one:

"Energy Compression - Light"

The third:

"Rapid hypothermia - water"

Then came the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth.

"It's done."

In less than half an hour, Chen Zhi actually found the six corresponding ancient structures from the Moon Crown Card Array.

Old Man Meng's eyes widened: "???"

"You memorized this card spread??"

"It's not that bad."

Chen Zhi said, "It's like trying to find a lost sword by marking the boat."

These are just some tricks that miners often use.

Old Man Meng was completely distraught.

He racked his brains for a day before coming up with this way to "lure" Chen Zhi into becoming his disciple.

And this is not a scam.

In the entire Holy Order Empire, he was indeed the only one who truly understood ancient structures.

After wandering around the Crown Domain, Chen Zhi found the structure himself?

What a fuss!

Isn't this kid a bit too monstrous?

Chen Zhi then walked back to his workbench and sat down, satisfied.

"Is there anything else, Grand Preceptor Meng?"

"If not, I'll have to make a card."

"and many more!"

Old Man Meng said, "The structure here is different from the ones you found."

Don't you want to learn?

"I do want to," Chen Zhi said, "but I haven't fully mastered these structures yet."

"Next time."

"This can't happen again!"

Old Man Meng went all out and shamelessly said, "Even if I didn't teach you about structure, didn't I just help you pull back from the brink?"

Chen Zhi: "I don't have a horse."

Old Man Meng: "?"

"How about this?" Chen Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I'll copy down the structure of a lunar crown for you to study, and then we'll be even, okay?"

Old Man Meng gritted his teeth: "Boy, is it so hard to call me teacher?"

Chen Zhi shrugged: "A teacher for a day is a father for life. You can't just call me that."

The implication is that I am not a casual person.

But once you've made up your mind, you'll never change it.

"You know, I'm a sentimental person."

"I know nothing!"

Old Man Meng threatened, "You just wait, I'll drag you out in real life sooner or later!"

Chen Zhi said with dissatisfaction, "Why are you throwing a tantrum? Do you even want the lunar crown structure anymore?"

"want!"

……

Chapter 32 Tide

After obtaining the structure from another Moon Crown spread, Old Man Meng finally calmed down.

All that work wasn't for nothing.

This structure is still a "tidal" structure.

However, its construction method differs from the previous "tides".

The key part of a card's main structure is called the "core pattern," the lines that connect the patterns are called the "structure," and other engravings used for effects such as "accelerating the mana cycle," "reducing energy consumption," or "forced reset of malfunctions" are collectively referred to as "substructures."

The relationship between the main structure and the sub-structure will change depending on the specific effect of the card.

For example, the most basic "sealing" structure.

In traditional energy cards, energy is stored through a "sealing" structure, making "sealing" the core structure of the energy card.

However, in regular combat cards, energy only serves as an activation tool; the main body of the card is the weapon or spell, and the entire "battery" is a secondary structure.

If we observe on a smaller scale, the "nodes" within the structure itself also exhibit this hierarchy.

The structure that Chen Zhi copied for Old Man Meng this time had such a change in the hierarchy, which caused the shape of the entire structure to change as well.

This is exactly what Old Man Meng wanted.

After nearly a week of research and comparison with ancient books, Old Man Meng discovered that a complete tidal structure consists of at least seven parts.

These are “Source of Intake”, “Tide Boundary”, “Tide Ring”, “Full Phase”, “Deficit Phase”, “Law Phase”, and “Dispersion”.

As he pondered, Old Man Meng took out a piece of draft paper and began to sketch.

The "source" determines what the tides revolve around.

In the Moon Crown spread, the source of all tidal structures is the Moon.

The "tide boundary" determines the scope of influence when the structure takes effect.

The "tide ring" is used to guide direction.

"Ying Xiang" can cause energy to accumulate and increase rapidly, which is equivalent to the rise of a tide.

The "deficient phase" causes energy to decay and dissipate, resulting in the ebb tide.

This is a cycle.

The “laws” can define the cycle and rhythm of the tides.

The final "dissipation" is a special "reset button" designed for tidal structures. It can terminate the cycle at any time and forcibly remove excess magical power within the structure to prevent permanent energy accumulation that could damage the structure and cards.

The complexity of tidal structures lies precisely in this.

It can stand alone as a card because any one of its seven internal nodes can serve as the main structure of another card.

At first glance, it may seem like a seven-in-one card, but in reality, with each additional structure on the same card, the things to consider and the difficulty of production increase exponentially compared to the previous version.

Depicting a complete tidal structure is equivalent to creating 64 cards simultaneously within a single area using a single pen.

Fortunately, these points were not entirely unfamiliar to Old Man Meng.

The four parts, "Source", "Tide Boundary", "Prosperity", and "Dispersion", can all be found in the simplified and evolved structures of modern cards.

Old Man Meng was doing this all day today.

After Shen Qinglian left, he had someone purchase a thousand cards from the hospital and Dreamcore Company.