Chapter 25

Su Ci carried the child to the sofa and let him sit next to him.

"Grow... grow... grow long..."

The spirit seed in the clay can on the tea table in front of them was still releasing growth signals. But the sound did not sound as vigorous as before.

Su Ci took the water cup on the tea table and poured some water containing weak spiritual energy into the little spirit seed.

Without a special container to store it, the spiritual energy contained in the water would dissipate quickly, but with the water purification array, Su Ci no longer lacked this kind of spiritual water.

"Oh!" The originally listless voice suddenly became energetic again.

"Long-long-long-long-long--"

Number One felt his mood improve as he listened to the energetic voice of the little spirit.

"Tsk!"

Su Ci snapped his fingers to call the child's attention back.

Number One quickly retracted his gaze, sat upright and looked at Su Ci, with an appearance of listening carefully.

However, Su Ci did not start teaching immediately, but first asked about the child's basic situation.

"Can you read?" he asked.

There are many characters involved in the formation. It can be said that the formation of the human race is derived from the characters. If you can't even understand the characters, it will be very difficult to master the formation.

Number One nodded.

In fact, he is not as young as he looks. He has been in the base for a long time, at least... ten years, right?

And he could understand those characters from the beginning.

Su Ci looked at the child and saw that he was serious and didn't look fake at all. He rummaged through the space button and found a notebook and a signature pen.

When he was playing in the human world, Su Ci had written with a brush before, but this kind of hard-tipped signature pen was his first time. However, his hand had already formed muscle memory, and he wrote his name on the paper smoothly.

Su Ci.

He took a look and casually drew on the two words. The handwriting on the white paper disappeared without a trace, and the paper became clean and looked like it had never been used.

"Here."

Su Ci put the pen into the child's hand and pointed at the paper and said, "Write your real name here, just like I did just now."

The child blinked and held the pen that the keeper handed over. He couldn't help but look a little confused. He just knew how to read.

He couldn't touch the real objects before, so he had never written with a pen for so long... He just saw that the keeper's handwriting was so beautiful.

Su Ci.

This is the keeper's name. He knew what these two words looked like before, but when the keeper wrote them stroke by stroke, he felt that these two words were no longer simple words, as if they had some kind of magic.

When he saw those two words, he would think of the keeper.

Unfortunately, it was just wiped off by the keeper...

Seeing No. 1 in a daze, Su Ci did not disturb him, but watched him patiently.

Under his gaze, the child finally held the pen and carefully outlined his name on the white paper.

However, even he was surprised...

the black ink fell on the paper, and the tip of the pen moved under the movement of the little hand, and finally formed not the two words "No. 1", but -

"Zhou Yan?"

Su Ci read the name, thinking.

And No. 1 stared blankly at the two unfamiliar characters, without blinking.

He knew how to read these two words and roughly understood the meaning, but when combined together, he felt so strange.

However, he had a mysterious feeling - when these two characters appeared, he knew that this was his name.

Zhou Yan, that was his name!

Looking at the child's puzzled and shocked expression, Su Ci smiled and said, "You didn't know it before?"

Number One nodded his head. Was this really his name? He realized belatedly that he seemed to...

have a name!

"Number has never been your name."

Su Ci lowered his eyes and looked at the words written by the child on the paper. Of course, the so-called real name is not the name given by parents, elders or other people after birth.

It is a symbol that every life is born with and exists between heaven and earth. In this world, there are very few people who can know their real names.

Some practitioners may never know their real names until they die after their entire lives, and they will never be able to make further progress in their practice.

The child has already won at the starting line.

Number One listened to Su Ci's words with a confused expression.

But if he didn't know it before, why could he write it down? Suddenly, Number One thought of something and looked at Su Ci in disbelief.

He remembered that before he wrote his name, the keeper said to him: Write your real name here, just like I just did.

Language manipulation.

Isn't this the ability of Number Five?

However...

Number One quickly restrained the surprise in his expression, because he remembered that the keeper had just used a purification ability similar to that of Dr. Gu in Number Eight's room.

So the keeper's ability is not purification, but... replication?

Wow, that ability is so cool!

As expected, the breeder is the best! And... He looked at his name on the paper, and a bit of joy appeared in his dark red eyes.

He himself did not realize that from the moment he learned his real name, the spirit in his eyes became more lively, and even his thin and pale face became visibly red.

Su Ci's eyes stayed on the paper.

This is not the language used by modern humans. Except for Su Ci and the child himself, there is probably no one in this world who can understand these two words.

Being able to write his real name, and to present it in such words, proves that the child is very talented and is definitely not an ordinary spirit.

Su Ci suppressed his curiosity, took the pen from the child, and drew a stroke on the "Zhou". As the pen and ink moved, the "Zhou" that the child had just written disappeared on the paper.

"From now on, I will call you A Yan." Su Ci said.

The child looked at him, and then at the remaining "Yan" on the paper. When the keeper said this, he felt that a corner of his heart seemed to be touched.

Finally, he raised his head and looked at Su Ci seriously.

Su Ci understood what he meant without him saying it.

"A Yan." He called softly.

The child stared at Su Ci deeply, and the soul fire that was lit in the depths of his black and red eyes seemed to burn even more vigorously.

"Yeah!"

The child responded excitedly.

From this moment on, he was called A Yan. This was the name given to him by the keeper, and he liked it so much!

Su Ci thought the child's expression at the moment was somewhat cute, and couldn't help but reach out and touch the top of his head, and then he remembered the real purpose of his teaching.

So, he picked up the pen again, eliminated the remaining word "Yan", and continued to talk to the child about the formation.

"It is said that when the universe was first born, dozens of strange characters were created between heaven and earth. They are the Way of Heaven and are also called divine characters by later generations."

"And the formation method is derived from the seven divine characters that have been passed down by the human race."

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the human race to call itself the spirit of all things. There are indeed great wisdom in this race.

As the spirit of this land, Su Ci also learned a lot from the human race when he was first born, and the formation method is one of them.

Ah Yan listened to Su Ci's explanation and nodded as if he understood it.

The divine characters are a very powerful type of writing that can be used to deduce formation methods. Therefore, a breeder who masters the formation method and can easily generate formation methods is super powerful!

Looking at the child's increasingly bright eyes, Su Ci coughed lightly, and after a simple introduction, he began to teach him to write the first divine text.

As the oldest life on this land, Su Ci has received orthodox influence and education, and his requirements for his students are naturally higher.

Of course, he can only teach A Yan the Pure Water Formation, but knowing the form but not the reason is tantamount to forcing the growth of seedlings. If you want to create and modify the formation at will like him, you must start from the most basic.

Su Ci hopes that A Yan can truly master the formation, so that he can become his most powerful helper in the future.

He moved the tip of the pen and wrote the first divine text on the notebook, but he did not explain the meaning of this divine text.

Because the divine text cannot be explained and defined.

Every practitioner who can comprehend it may gain his own unique insights and feelings from it. To force the teacher's ideas to be instilled is to kill the students' spirituality.

Perhaps that would allow A Yan to become his helper sooner, but as time goes by, A Yan will eventually be lost in the crowd.

That would be a pity, and Su Ci did not intend to do so.

After the child memorizes these seven divine texts, he will be considered to have entered the door, and then Su Ci will formally teach him the formation.

A Yan did not know Su Ci's plan. He stared at the tip of the keeper's pen and studied very seriously.

But he soon discovered that the keeper had only taught him one word, but he could not even remember such a simple word. He

had clearly opened the notebook and felt that he had memorized it, but when he closed the notebook and tried to recall it, he found that his mind was empty.

He had no idea what the characters that the keeper had just taught him looked like, and could only barely recall the trajectory of the keeper's pen.

A Yan raised his eyes and secretly glanced at the keeper. Seeing that his face was calm and gentle, the uneasiness in his heart dissipated a little.

He opened the notebook again and paid 120,000 points of attention, which was a hundred times and a thousand times more serious than before.

A Yan didn't want to disappoint the keeper. Even if he was stupid and couldn't remember it in a short time, he would try very hard to practice!

Su Ci looked at the child's serious look, and there was a little more satisfaction in his eyes.

After all, this is a divine text. Ordinary people may not be able to bear it when they watch it for the first time, let alone remember it. No matter how talented the child is, it is impossible for him to learn it in one go.

He remembered that in the past, in the inheritance of formation masters, those who could master the first divine text within a month could be considered geniuses.

But that is the human race. As a spirit, Su Ci will have higher requirements for the child...

half a month, he thought.

If the child can comprehend this first divine text after half a month, he can start the second lesson. This teaching progress is still quite easy for him.

Su Ci handed the notebook and pen to A Yan and asked him to stay in the living room to study. Just as he was about to go out for a walk, a childish and sweet voice rang in the room.

"You have a video call request from your address book friend - Song Zehe. Do you want to answer it?"