Chapter 009: A Brief History of Magic (Part I)
A few days of leisure finally ended, Zhang Jiabao was going to take Shangguan Naiya to school, and before leaving, she found a nest with grass and water, sand and stones for her little snake.
In the bright morning light, Shangguan Naiya was jolting in the carriage, as if in a different world, looking at the scenery flying outside the window in a daze. It was Zhang Jiabao, who hummed a tune out of tune without heart or lungs.
The School of Magic is located on the outskirts of Genting Town, covering an area of about sixty or seventy acres. The largest rectangular building in the middle is the main teaching and office building. There are two smaller buildings on each side of the building, two on the west for boys and girls, and two on the east for the cafeteria and library (the upper floor is for the faculty quarters).
The five buildings are all Chemeni-style buildings, all made of white carved stone, which is simple and flexible. In the center is a large open space, planted with flowers and trees, cobblestone paths and pavilions for teachers and students to rest and play. On the wall of the courtyard gate are engraved a few big characters: Guang'an Junior Magic School.
Since the Dakang Empire has only been in contact with magical civilization for only twenty years, and the cost of attending a magic school is not affordable for ordinary people, there are usually only three or five magic schools in a mansion. In some remote places, there is even only one in a state, and the children of non-dignitaries cannot be enrolled.
The school that Zhang Jiabao enrolled in is a government school in Guang'an Mansion and has been established for 18 years. At present, there are more than 1,300 students in six grades, and more than 80 teachers, chief officials and handymen.
Near noon, all the teachers and students were basically in place, and they were all concentrated in the central playground. Although it was the rising sun, Hu Zhi, the master of the school, still delivered a speech full of energy. Just now the official letter came to the house, because he raised donations effectively, and the school was also done well, so he specially gave him a rise, and when his qualifications arrived next year, he was expected to rise from the seventh grade to the sixth grade.
It's also very old-fashioned, it's nothing more than a national disaster, and the Dakang Empire is waiting to be rebuilt. Our generation is fortunate to have no worries about their lives and food and clothing, and we should work together to save our compatriots from the dire situation; we should work hard to make the country strong, study hard, cultivate ourselves in ten years, sharpen our swords all our lives, and become solid pillars of the country. He was spitting and his mouth was dry until sweat flowed from his eyebrows to his eyes.
Then the superintendent of foreign schools, Eric, came to the stage, gestured his hands and feet, and told everyone in the mutated Chinese that the relationship between Chinese and Western civilizations has a long history and friendship lasts forever. The people of all countries felt very sad, sympathetic and cared for the earthquake that occurred in the Great Kang Empire, and almost every country contributed money and efforts to help......
Whenever Eric talked about which country had donated and how much money it had donated, the head and deputy head of the school, as well as the master of discipline, would have the instructor order the students to applaud. Yu Jin didn't order her students, but the gratitude from the bottom of their hearts when they saw her applauding had to clap their hands in cooperation. Zhang Jiabao did not applaud, touching his hungry stomach with one hand and making a buckle with the other hand. Shangguan Naiya was afraid that he would be scolded, and even kicked him a few times, so he reluctantly applauded a few silent applause.
Finally, it was the Lord Discipliner who came to the stage and announced a major event. The era name of the Dakang Empire was changed from Hongzheng to Chong'an, and from today onwards, all lesson plans and homework will be recorded with the new era name. The enthronement ceremony of the new emperor took place a few days later on the first day of the ninth month, and it is not known whether it was solemn or simply held. According to rumors, he was still a twelve-and-a-half-year-old child. Finally, after the conference was tossed, the students dispersed and rushed to the cafeteria.
Because she had already said hello and paid the relevant fees, Shangguan Naiya successfully became the 37th student and the 8th girl in the sixth class of the next grade of Yu Jin's main class. Yu Jin arranged for her to share a table with Zhang Jiabao, and seeing that Zhang Jiabao's attention seemed to shift from herself to the little girl next to her, she couldn't help but feel angry and funny, but it was also worry-free. Yu Jin's lecture was very interesting, just like telling a story, opening a door to a new world for Shangguan Naiya.
A long time ago, the ancient ancestors of the West discovered that some strange beasts could emit fire and poisonous gases from their bodies. They feared and worshipped these powerful beasts, calling their ability to breathe fire and poison demonic spells, hence the name magic.
After a long time, a brave and powerful human finally killed a fire-breathing alien beast, and when dissected, it was revealed that its brain had a strange crystal compared to that of a normal beast. People tried to study it in different ways but couldn't figure out what the crystal was, and one brave man ate it, and immediately withered and died. The crystals were missing from his body, and all of his internal organs were severely dehydrated.
I also tried to get some crystals of alien beasts (monsters) for ordinary animals to eat, and all of them were killed on the spot. As a result, the world's exploration of magic ran aground, and only called this crystal a magic crystal or crystal nucleus, believing that it belonged to demons and could not be touched by mortals.
Many years later, a gifted occultist Bao Qirui came up with a theory after encountering many anatomical cases: the magic crystal, or crystal nucleus, is the product of a certain area of the brain that has developed to a certain extent, and this area of the brain is called the third eye.
He excitedly and enthusiastically proclaimed to the world that God is fair, that every living being in the world has been given a third eye, and that every independent life has the right and opportunity to penetrate the mysteries of the universe and the source of matter, and that human beings are the most fortunate, because their third eye is the easiest to develop, so they are the highest species.
Even if you're a dragon, there's still a chance you won't be able to inherit the magic abilities from your father, and you'll need a long time and a certain amount of luck to develop a third eye. If you're a chicken, you probably have a 1 in 100 million chance of escaping being slaughtered, preyed, and short-lived, with 1 in 100 million having your third eye awakened. If you are a worm, then it is better to die early and be reincarnated.
The world scoffed at Bao Qirui's theory, believing it to be purely his delusion. Until one day he conjured a fireball in public, and then ate one of the magic crystals in the museum and was unharmed. People just know that something big is going to happen.
Bao Qirui's meditation skills had already reached the level of being able to see inwards with his mind, and he devoted himself to creating a set of meditation methods, persistently exploring the inner world, and finally locked on to the area that seemed to be the third eye. As his mind continued to activate the third eye, his meditative abilities also improved, and he gradually became able to observe things that were invisible to the naked eye with his mind. For example, inside the crystal nucleus of that salamander, there are actually countless indescribably tiny red particles.
Through meditation, Bao Qirui found that he also had these red particles in his body, but he did not concentrate in one place, and he could not use meditation to guide them to move. However, the free red particles from the outside world could be channeled, and he brought them in and concentrated them in the third eye.
One day, when he was anxious about his next move, he had a quarrel with his wife, and he unconsciously wanted to scold her, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he spewed out a beam of fire and burned his wife's head. His wife was stunned when she touched the top of her burnt head, but he ran excitedly to his secret room.