In Sumeru, pretend to be a scholar

The power of the lightning and fire reaction was enough to wipe out the mutated scorpions inside, but... it could also destroy the main hall of the ruins.

If it's dangerous, then so be it; life is the most important thing.

But clearly, we can't use this desperate approach right now.

After giving the foolish apprentice a small slap in the face, Valusanne continued, "It's best to avoid explosions caused by lightning and fire overload within the ruins, as they can easily damage the ruins."

Reality is not a game.

When you kill a Holy Beast in the game, there are some traces of sand, but they will recover in a while.

In reality, taking down a Holy Beast could involve a battle that affects a large area, or even alter the terrain on a small scale.

Ruins turned into ruins, well... that's a tradition of adventurers.

“However, your approach of using elemental reactions is correct.” Erosham affirmed the foolish apprentice again. “Without lightning and fire, we can choose lightning-water electro-electricity or hyper-expansion reaction. These two reactions cause relatively less damage to the surrounding environment. These mutated scorpions should have some lightning resistance, so we’ll use the hyper-expansion reaction.”

Wang Yan nodded thoughtfully, but quickly asked with doubt, "But Master, the Super Bloom reaction requires water plants to produce seeds. I can use wind element to spread water element, but grass element... we don't have enough fragments, do we?"

Herbal elements do not spread through wind.

Chapter 83: The Knowledge Grievances of Different Schools of Thought (August 20th, requesting first subscription)

Faced with Wang Yan's question, Falushan rolled her eyes again: "Stupid brain, runes, runes, runes, what are you doing learning so many runes!"

"..." Wang Yan glanced at her and said in a wronged voice, "Teacher, I haven't learned grass element runes yet."

Erosanne hesitated for a moment before saying, somewhat annoyed, "That's why I was just about to teach you."

Seeing that the cute girl was a little embarrassed, Wang Yan quickly said respectfully, "Thank you, teacher. I will definitely study hard."

I, this foolish apprentice, seem to have a bit of a cunning side.

Eros took a deep breath, calmed her emotions, and regained her composure as a mentor.

“The grass element is different from elements such as wind, thunder, and fire. It is more inclined to the characteristics of ‘growth,’ ‘connection,’ and ‘nourishment.’ Simply put, grass has roots, so it will not be blown away by the wind.”

"Of course, this is just a metaphor; you can understand it as such."

Estée Lushan said.

Wang Yan nodded slightly; he could understand.

"Therefore, we need to use runes to create a 'field' that can attract and gather the free grass elements in the environment."

As she spoke, she quickly sketched out a complex and beautiful array of compound runes.

“Look at this rune array. Its core represents ‘vitality,’ ‘lushness,’ ‘roots’…these are all basic grass element runes.”

"When these runes are combined, they can form a 'field' that gathers grass elements."

"Although there is not much green in the desert, it is still a part of Mount Sumeru. The grass element is just inactive, not non-existent. So, as long as there is such a 'field' to gather the grass element, it is enough."

“Alright, let’s talk about water element runes then,” Erosanne continued.

In addition to the herb element, the water element is also essential for the blooming reaction.

"Water and wind elements actually have some similarities; they both have the characteristic of flow. Therefore, water element arrays often use the 'flow' rune. However, the 'flow' of water and the 'flow' of wind are different. Please pay attention to the difference."

"Compared to grass elements, water elements are indeed scarce in the desert environment. However, there is an underground water vein beneath this site, which is convenient for us."

"When 'flow' is combined with water elemental runes such as 'guidance' and 'convergence', and supplemented with some general runes representing 'channels' and 'filtration', it can absorb the water elemental power contained in underground water veins through the tiny cracks in the rock strata, just like the roots of a plant absorb water."

"Note that this is not about drawing energy from the earth's veins, but about guiding water element energy. The array will have a filter layer to ensure that only pure water element is guided, avoiding the extraction of other elements from the earth's veins."

After speaking, Falushan took out a golden metal plate and a small carving knife: "Did you memorize the runes from earlier?"

Wang Yan hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "I've got it."

Perhaps it's because of his diligent study, but Wang Yan's memory is getting better and better.

Although the cheat code was slow in analyzing the extraordinary runes, Wang Yan memorized them himself.

“Okay, you can inscribe the grass element array you just created.” Erosham handed the item to Wang Yan. “This is an array plate made by Mora. It has excellent superhuman performance. It’s very useful for quickly inscribing an array plate or something.”

"This piece will probably require about 500 Mora to melt."

Wang Yan reached out and took it. The metal plate was heavy; it turned out to be the weight of the coins.

“I’ll handle the water element array.” Erosanne took out another Mora array disc.

Then she ignored Wang Yan and focused on creating her own array, seemingly quite confident in Wang Yan's abilities.

Seeing this, Wang Yan felt no guilt and also lowered his head to start carving.

Since becoming an apprentice of Erosson, he has received excellent training in mechanical arts, including carving and engraving, which are essential parts of mechanical arts.

Therefore, Wang Yan's hand was very steady, and his carving speed was not slow.

As Wang Yan recalled the rune array he had memorized, he struck the array plate with his sword.

However, even so, Wang Yan's speed was not even half that of Erosan. By the time he finished, Erosan was already setting up other things.

"Mentor, I'm done," Wang Yan called out.

Eros glanced over and said, "Hmm, bring it over and put it on top of that."

"What is this?"

"A simple elemental restraint device that can bind together the elemental power gathered by the array."

"Is this also part of our intellectual school?"

“Hmm? Of course not. This is a technique from the Su Lun school, which the Miao Lun school sometimes uses as well.” Falushan said casually. “Remember, knowledge itself is not divided into schools. Learn what is useful, and don’t be prejudiced against any particular school.”

Schools of thought exist because they categorize knowledge.

But to use social class distinctions to discriminate against others based on knowledge is truly foolish.

Wang Yan nodded and placed the engraved array plate at the position pointed to by Falushan. At the same time, with a 'click' sound, Falushan took a fragment of grass element and put it into the core of the array plate.

As a wisp of green elemental energy began to travel along the rune array, specks of green light appeared in the surrounding air.

Elemental forces visible to the naked eye!

This level of harm is already harmful to the human body.

However, the moment these elemental forces appeared, the restraint device below the array plate began to exert its power, and the free elemental forces were quickly restrained and gathered above the device.

On the other side, the water element array that Valusan was in charge of was also activated, and the light blue element sphere was also restrained.

"Mentor, I have a question."

"say."

"Now that we've bound the elemental power, how will we use it?"

Wang Yan asked with a puzzled look.

You can't just hold an elemental orb in your hand and throw it like a lead ball, can you?

In response to Wang Yan's question, Falushan took out two palm-sized bottles from her small bag: "Use these."

"What is this?" Wang Yan asked hesitantly.

He now suspects that his mentor is Doraemon, since his bag contains all sorts of things.

"Have you heard of the Wind Seed?" Eros asked in return.

Wang Yan nodded: "I know. One of the unique features of Mondstadt is that it is essentially a kind of elemental spirit that contains wind elemental power."

“Well, the Mondstadt people developed something called the Wind Catcher to capture wind seeds in order to use it,” Erosan explained. “And the Mysticism School also gained some inspiration after studying the Wind Catcher. Although wind seeds are rare in Mount Sumeru, the Wind Catcher's ability to restrain elemental forces is very useful.”

"Based on the material of the wind catcher, they collaborated with the Elementalists to develop this elemental bottle, which can store high concentrations of elemental power."

As she spoke, Falushan pointed to the bottle and then to the elemental sphere on the elemental restraint device: "In a moment, we'll put the elemental sphere into the elemental bottle, and then throw it into the lightning elemental field inside, and you can watch the fireworks."

"The only thing to be careful about is to retreat as soon as you finish throwing them. Without the control of the Eye of God, the activated grass seeds will attack indiscriminately."

Wang Yan nodded, knowing that this was also the difference between reality and games.

Chapter 84 Stars Like Rain (September 20th, please subscribe)

Soon, Wang Yan returned to the main hall area occupied by the Sacred Remains Scorpion, carrying two heavy elemental bottles in his hands.

For some reason, Wang Yan always felt like he was cosplaying the pharmacist from the Treasure Thieves.

However, the elemental bottle he threw was hundreds of times more powerful than the potion bottle used by the Treasure Thieves.

Wang Yan cautiously peeked out, his gaze quickly sweeping across the hall.

The scorpion swarm continued to writhe around the Sacred Relic Scorpion, and the purplish-black lightning elemental mist was even denser than before, almost condensing into a visible purple veil that slowly flowed between the broken floral reliefs.

The enormous body of the Sacred Corpse Scorpion lay prone in the center, with fine electric snakes occasionally darting out from the gaps in its carapace. It seemed to be in a state of deep slumber, only instinctively continuing to release lightning elements.

No wonder it didn't react at all when Wang Yan and Falushan were making a big fuss about elemental power outside.

Wang Yan held his breath, gently raised the two elemental bottles in his hands, and glanced at the He Yao multifaceted entity floating beside him. The azure creation was quietly shimmering with light, as if waiting for instructions.

Right now!

Wang Yan took a deep breath, tensed his arm muscles, and threw the two elemental bottles toward the center of the hall with all his might!

Almost simultaneously, He Yao's multifaceted form flashed with azure light, and a solid, fierce wind surged forth, precisely cleaving through the dense fog of lightning element in front, creating a brief passage for the flying elemental bottle.

The bottle that Wang Yan threw flew rapidly along this 'wind path' towards the air above the Sacred Relic Scorpion.

Immediately afterwards, a second gust of wind arrived and violently crashed into the two bottles!

"Bang, bang!"

The faint cracking sound was almost inaudible against the noisy background of lightning, but the next moment—the grass-green halo and the aquamarine ripples exploded at the same time!

The wind element, carrying moisture, spread rapidly. The humid mist and the pervasive grass element came into contact instantly, and it seemed as if a silent drizzle suddenly began to fall in the air above the hall. But upon closer inspection, the raindrops were actually fluorescent grassland nuclei.

The scorpion swarm inside the hall seemed to sense something was amiss. A commotion came from the outside, and several mutated scorpions raised their heads, their pincers opening and closing nervously.

But it was too late.

The lightning elemental force, briefly pushed aside by the fierce storm, began to frantically replenish itself, like the tide rushing back to the beach, with purple lightning hissing and once again permeating every inch of space.

The first grassland core came into contact with free lightning element.

huh~

A subtle tremor emanated from the ground, followed by a sudden burst of dazzling emerald light from the grassland core, which transformed into a slender green arrow of light that shot out rapidly!

Then came the second one, the third one...

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!!!"

It's bursting with color, it's starting.

Countless grassland cores were activated at the same moment, soaring into the air and transforming into streaks of emerald meteors flying in reverse. They hovered briefly beneath the dome of the main hall before changing direction and locking onto all life forms below!

The first to suffer are the common scorpions.

Green beams of light poured down like a torrential rain, easily piercing their still-unmutated carapaces, and the powerful elemental force instantly destroyed their vitality.

Before they even had a chance to scream, these ordinary scorpions perished.

The mutated scorpion tried to resist, a faint purple light appearing on its carapace, but to no avail. Under the continuous nuclear bombardment of the grassland, the mutated carapace shattered, and it soon followed in the footsteps of the ordinary scorpion.

In the center of the hall, the sacred scorpion was finally awakened!

Its massive body shuddered violently, letting out a low roar, and lightning burst forth from the gaps in its carapace, attempting to dispel the approaching green light.

But the overblown grassland core seemed to possess a life of its own. The moment it tried to resist, the vast majority of light arrows drew arcs in the air and focused their fire on it without hesitation.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss~!"

The dense sounds of impacts almost blended together. The Holy Corpse Scorpion's lightning elemental armor quickly dimmed under the overwhelming impacts, and the light arrows pierced its shell, exploding into dense clouds of elemental light mist.

With a painful roar, it swung its giant pincers, sweeping away a swarm of scorpions, but this did nothing to improve the situation.

More grassland nuclei are still being generated, rising into the air, and locking onto targets…

Wang Yan had already withdrawn from the grassland core's detection range, leaning against the rock wall, gazing into the distance at the area submerged in a tapestry of emerald and purple.

The air was filled with the sounds of explosions, cracking shells, and dying screams of monsters. The air was thick with the smells of burnt food, fresh grass, and rust.

The multifaceted He Yao floated silently beside him, its blue light flowing, blocking the occasional aftershocks that splashed over.

"That's spectacular."