Chapter 10
"This is the trick to get rid of water, this is the trick to avoid fire, this is the trick to summon wind, this is the trick to remove dust, this is the spell to calm the mind..." Bai Shuang was writing on paper with a pen, her brows furrowed, her face full of hatred and resentment. She didn't remember the formations that were changed into patterns, but she knew the prototypes of these formations. After successfully drawing five, she got stuck on the sixth one, "This is... is..."
Is this a thunder-summoning talisman or a dehumidifying spell?
Bai Shuang tried hard to recall the pattern he saw when his spiritual power was focused in his eyes just now... No, it didn't look like a thunder summoning talisman, nor like a dehumidification spell. It looked a bit like an earth escape technique... Hiss, why did it also look a bit like an invisibility spell?
What on earth is the sixth one?
Bai Shuang used her peripheral vision to secretly glance at the senior who was reading a book while sitting slightly in front of her.
"Why are you looking at me?" The senior who was reading the book did not even raise his head. "Does the answer appear on my face?"
Bai Shuang: “…”
This familiar sentence, this familiar tone—she dreamed back to the nightmare classroom!
Bai Shuang lowered his head and shuddered, continuing to ponder, scratching his ears and stroking his cheeks. He no longer had the fragile and graceful demeanor he had before, but instead revealed a kind of clear and stupidity like a college student.
Thunder summoning talisman, dehumidification spell, underground escape technique, invisibility technique.
What on earth is the sixth one!!!
Bai Shuang was so desperate that she wanted to bang her head against the wall. There were two more people behind her!
She stared in despair, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind—
The senior asked her to draw the eight formations she knew, but the senior didn't know which eight formations she knew. From the previous amazing glimpse, it was roughly estimated that there were at least sixty or seventy formations superimposed in the pattern, and there must be a lot of basic formations. She could just deduce and guess later, there was no need to stick to it!
The chairs are made of ordinary wood and will definitely get wet after the rain, so a dehumidification spell is essential. Bai Shuang took a pen and drew formations on the paper. The sixth one was the dehumidification spell!
The invisible chair can play tricks on people, well...the invisibility trick counts as one!
There is no need for the chair to be able to summon thunder and evade the ground. These two formations should not be engraved, so what should be drawn for the last one?
Bai Shuang recalled everything from the history of the chair to its shape and material. After careful consideration, she drew the eighth formation - the strengthening spell.
If a very heavy person sits on the chair or it is hit by some external force, it will fall apart, so strengthening functions are essential!
After carefully filling out the "test paper" with all the information, Bai Shuang breathed a sigh of relief. She stood up nervously and handed the eight pieces of paper with the formations drawn on them to the unfathomable senior.
She lowered her head and prayed silently in her heart. Her blind guess, no! Her precise analysis must be correct!
Yu Tu, who was regarded as an unfathomable boss, took the eight pieces of paper with drawn arrays with an indifferent look on the surface. He lowered his head and saw eight pictures that were dozens of times more complicated than the magic arrays in movies and TV dramas. What was even more terrifying was that each of the eight pictures looked different and was complex in its own way.
Yu Tu: “……?”
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What the hell is this difficult, scary, complicated thing?!
At this time, Bai Shuang, who was standing three steps away from him, spoke nervously: "I only recognize these eight basic formations... I hope you will forgive me."
Yu Tu: “???”
Do you call these patterns, each of which almost fills up an A3 sheet and has lines stacked on top of each other so that you can't tell where the beginning and the end are, basic arrays?
Is this the mysterious inner world?
Is this the kind of daunting stuff that we learn in the other world?!
How terrifying! How terrifying!
Bai Shuang no longer dared to sneak a peek at her senior's face. She was like a poor student who was dragged to the podium by the teacher to give a lecture. Her voice became smaller and smaller, and she became less and less confident. Although she did not see her senior's expression, she could feel that the pressure on him was getting lower and lower:
"The formations on the chairs have all been modified and transformed. I just watched them for a few seconds, and I can only restore these few..." Bai Shuang's face was almost showing a QAQ expression as he spoke, "The Fire Avoidance Technique was twisted to the northeast, and the twisted north-south axis was mirrored, and the spiritual power flow changed from point-to-point to direct current; the Meditation Spell reduced the inward effect, added an external medium rune, and expanded from the inside to the outside. It is a 'scatter' spell, belonging to the two-way flow type..."
Bai Shuang kept her head down and talked incessantly, trying to prove that she was really serious and not just doing it perfunctorily.
Yu Tu: “…”
On the surface, he appeared calm and composed, but in fact he was completely confused.
Touch type, direct current type, external transfer medium, two-way flow...what are these all...
Is this what it feels like to listen to a divine book?
Yu Tu had a vague understanding. The monster who could memorize several formations that had been changed beyond recognition and find out the reasons for the changes within a few seconds, and then describe them in detail and logically, might not be a top student, but he was definitely not a poor student.
The fact that she can maintain a human appearance in the surface world proves that she is not on the same level as Black Panther.
A little cold sweat appeared on Yu Tu's palms and his heart beat a little faster.
The energy converted from the Emperor's Plasma in his body last night had already consumed nine-tenths when communicating with the white mist under the short bridge and creating an extremely cold effect, and the remaining energy was also used up when connecting with the dehydration technique on the chair. Yu Tu guessed that the reason why Bai Shuang was so respectful to him, in addition to the shock caused by his initial arrangement, was that Bai Shuang could not feel the fluctuations of his spiritual power.
He learned a lot about the inner world from Sanqing yesterday. Generally, spiritual power fluctuations cannot be detected under two circumstances: one is that the person being detected is an ordinary person, and the other is that the ability of the person being detected is higher than the level of the detector.
He is the former, but he must achieve the latter.
The senior was silent for a long time, and Bai Shuang became more and more uneasy. She had recalled the whole process from drawing the first formation to finishing and submitting the drawing three times. She felt so guilty that she wanted to admit on the spot that she had messed up the last three formations.
When she was determined to tell the truth, she heard her senior say, "It's not bad."
The huge rock in Bai Shuang's heart suddenly fell to the ground, but then, another thought came to her mind - there was an important stroke in the eighth formation she handed in that she had deliberately made a mistake, why didn't the senior... point it out?
The demonic nature was stirring up her reason. If the enemy was strong, she would surrender; if the enemy advanced, she would retreat; if the enemy was weak, she would chase him... When the scars she had left on purpose were not discovered, she became a little restless again.
Bai Shuang wanted to test it, but she didn't dare to do it too obviously. She recited a mantra softly, and a small vortex appeared in the air. Something flew out of the vortex and landed in Bai Shuang's palm.
"I had no intention of trespassing into your residence." She placed her things on Yu Tu's desk with both hands, lowered her brows and said, "I was fortunate enough to get a piece of Emperor's Serum a few days ago. I would like to use this to apologize to you and thank you for not taking my recklessness seriously."
The Emperor's Serum is the essence of moonlight that appears in the world once every sixty years. It is a rare treasure in the underworld, but there is an unwritten rule in the underworld. After the Emperor's Serum appears in the world, only young people who have just reached adulthood or are underage in each race are allowed to compete for it, and no one else is allowed to interfere.
After obtaining the power, the little ones can choose to absorb it themselves, or they can choose to use the Emperor's Plasma to exchange for some treasures that are more suitable for them.
When Bai Shuang placed the Emperor's Serum on the table, he took the initiative to remove its recognition of its master. The olive-shaped Emperor's Serum lay quietly on the table, with a huge amount of energy flowing through it.
“That’s thoughtful.”
Bai Shuang heard the senior sigh and picked it up with her slender fingers.
Then... a scene that shocked Bai Shuang to the point of being speechless appeared—
The olive-shaped, bright Emperor's Liquid dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just three breaths, the Emperor's Liquid turned into flying smoke at the fingertips of the senior.
Bai Shuang: “……?”
Bai Shuang: “???”
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The energy contained in the Emperor's Plasma is indeed extremely mild, but even the mildest energy, when gathered to a certain degree, will cause irreversible damage to the absorber. Even if the clan leader wants to absorb energy comparable to that of the Emperor's Plasma, she will need to find a safe place and shut herself up for three days and three nights!
But the senior had absorbed all of this huge amount of energy in just three breaths with just his hand raised! If someone with less strength had absorbed it this way, he would have exploded and died!
Bai Shuang recalled the complacency she felt when she made the tentative decision, and felt that she was extremely stupid at that moment. The senior's words "it was thoughtful" might not be a compliment to her, but a warning to her for her ignorant temptation!
The senior said at the beginning that the younger generation of the snake clan is getting worse and worse. Could it be that the senior saw the problem but just didn't have the heart to point it out in the end?
Bai Shuang: “…”
So she not only lost the Emperor's Serum that she had worked so hard to obtain, but also might have lowered the impression of her seniors?
Is this some kind of new-age version of losing both the wife and the army?
Bai Shuang's regret was so intense that it almost solidified into a solid substance, but she dared not show it on her face. She could only praise with tears in her eyes:
"You are so amazing, senior..."
Wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu————
What else can she do now that the things have been given to her? She can only brainwash herself that this is the apology gift she paid after breaking into the mansion! Don't feel bad!
Yu Tu was completely unaware of Bai Shuang's inner emotional changes. He guessed that Bai Shuang would test him, but when Bai Shuang took out the Emperor's Blood, Yu Tu still breathed a sigh of relief.
If Bai Shuang took out something else, Yu Tu would be in great risk of being exposed, but Emperor Liujiang... he had just used a piece of it, and it was one of the things he knew best at the moment.
As soon as the Emperor's Plasma came into his hand, a suction force like a whale swallowing came from his palm. Yu Tu remembered what Black Panther said before -
[Plants replenish life, monsters replenish luck, and humans replenish spirit. 】
He only absorbed a little of the previous Emperor's Plasma, and the rest all returned to this mansion. This time, Yu Tu could clearly feel that all the energy in the Emperor's Plasma flowed to the "background wall" behind him. The huge amount of energy was like a cup of water entering the sea, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
It was not that he absorbed the Emperor's Plasma, he just acted as a transit medium for the huge energy. Yu Tu didn't know why this happened, but he had a vague feeling that this was beneficial.
When Yu Tu looked at Bai Shuang, his eyes couldn't help but soften.
She was given such a huge gift just for crossing a short bridge. She was really taking advantage of the good person!
Bai Shuang, who was being stared at by Yu Tu, became more and more frightened after receiving no response to her plastic praise. Bai Shuang, who was only a month old and could barely be considered a cub, had red eyes and burst into tears:
"Senior——I was wrong, wuwuwu——Please don't kill me——"
Yu Tu: “???”
No, wait, why are you crying?
When did our brains diverge? Why should I kill you?