Vol. 2 Entrance Examinations Chapter 6 The Old Man Who Looks Like Spirits (3)
"Teacher!" Hank called out helplessly, "Why did you make the room like this again, and the experiment of "growth seeds" will be done again! This is the room I borrowed from Old Man Dort, and I will be smoked to death!"
The old man ignored him, and casually broke off a piece of vine from his side, and threw it in Hank's face with a snap.
Hank seemed to have become accustomed to it, smiled wryly and pulled down the vines on his face, and closed the door behind him: "Teacher, someone brought it." β
The old man, who was indulging in some kind of mysterious experiment, raised his head suddenly, and his eyes fell directly on Yang Haohui's body. After being stunned for a while, the old man blurted out a sentence: "Hey, this girl is really handsome!"
Yang Haohui felt that the image of the old pedant he longed for was shattered piece by piece, and was replaced by an old neurotic with not very good eyes.
"Come on, sit down, sit down. The old man didn't realize that he was off the line at all, and hurriedly beckoned Yang Haohui to sit down.
On the floor in front of the desk, several bunches of vines suddenly filled with a layer of green sheen, protruding from the ground and tangling, forming a vine-framed chair after a few seconds.
Yang Haohui is not strange now, sitting down on the "chair" stiffly, he can't help but feel a little dazed, this old man gives him a feeling between Frankenstein and the mentally handicapped, but no matter what it is, he doesn't look like a normal person.
In fact, it doesn't matter, Yang Haohui doesn't feel like he's seen a few normal people now.
"Hello..... That ......"
"Bacardi, my name is Bacardi!" the old man looked excited.
"Ah...... Well, hello, Grandpa Bacardi. I'm Yang Haohui, and that ...... I know I'm a bit good-looking, but I'm a boy. β
"It's the same for men and women. Bacardi waved his hand, "As long as it can be used." β
Yang Haohui dismantled and dismantled "can use" in his heart several times, but he didn't understand what it meant.
Bacardi took off the test tube on the alcohol lamp and handed it to Yang Haohui, the tan liquid still steaming.
"Drink, vanilla leaf coffee, a specialty of the Eastern Metaverse. Bacardi greeted Yang Haohui very warmly.
"No....... I'm allergic to coffee. β
Yang Haohui believed that the brown liquid was really coffee, but he thought that it was burned in a test tube....... Such a hardcore coffee, Yang Haohui still didn't have the courage to swallow it.
"It's a pity. Bacardi was not polite, and raised his head and drank the coffee cleanly.
"Listen to Hank, you have awakened the seven kinds of elemental energy?" Bacardi suddenly cut to the chase.
Yang Haohui nodded.
"Show me, show me!" Bacardi's eyes widened, and the three strands of "braids" shook and trembled, excited like a child asking for candy.
"This ...... It's going to take a bit of effort. Yang Haohui was a little embarrassed, "I don't control it very well." β
Yang Haohui's body slowly tensed, although he had practiced many times in the past few days after awakening, he was still not very proficient in the sudden extra power in his body.
A faint azure light gradually brightened from Yang Haohui's pupils, and at the same time, his originally soft black hair actually began to turn the same blue from the root to the tip, obviously there was no wind in the room, but the blue hair naturally fluttered slowly. The blue light surged, and a small cloud of water droplets slowly condensed on Yang Haohui's palm, quietly suspended in the air.
Immediately after that, Yang Haohui's hair color returned to normal, and with some effort, his pupils and hair color turned turquoise. He straightened his palm, and a small stream of green light in his hand condensed into a slightly illusory grass.
Next, orange, purple, yellow, cyan, each time the hair color changes, Yang Haohui will manipulate the corresponding elements to show Bacardi to see, until finally, a small whirlwind dissipates in his hand, and everything is calm again.
"Oh, roar, roar. Bacardi's laughter is in the same vein as Hank's, "Funny, unstable hair." β
"I can't control the color of my hair. Yang Haohui said embarrassedly.
"And the fire, why didn't you show it to me?" asked Bacardi.
"It's not that I won't show you, the state of using the fire element energy is very special, and it will cause me to collapse. β
"It's not your meta-energy. Bacardi's eyes narrowed suddenly, "In the records, no elementalist will lose his strength under the normal use of Yuan Energy, and there have only been five cases of abnormal use of Yuan Energy due to special diseases or constitutions in a hundred years, and the probability is less than 0.35 percent, so there is only one explanation, which is obviously ....... Meta-technology. β
Good and accurate.
Yang Haohui was slightly surprised, Bacardi had a little pedantic posture at this moment, and he could see the clues from a few "transformations" alone, obviously the old man in front of him was indeed very knowledgeable.
"Yes. Yang Haohui had to admit, "I can use seven different kinds of Yuan Energy, but this seems to be just the 'ability' given to me by my own Yuan Energy, and these are not my real Yuan Energy." β
As he spoke, Yang Haohui's hair and pupils turned blue again, and he raised a hand, which slowly turned into a transparent liquid under Bacardi's gaze.
Yang Haohui organized the wording and said slowly: "This is similar to a 'mode' switch, and that's how I named this meta-technique." When I switch to a certain mode, I can use the meta-energy of that mode, and the hair color and eyes will also change to the color of the meta-energy. Each mode gives me the ability to have a corresponding elemental attribute, for example, you see, I'm in 'water mode' right now, and I can liquefy a certain part of my body. Whole body liquefaction I've tried, and it's okay, but it's going to be tiring. If the water evaporates or the liquefied part separates from the body during liquefaction, the liquefied part will be injured. β
The liquid condensed back into his normal palm, and he continued, "I won't show you them all, because switching modes also consumes stamina. Wood mode allows me to heal wounds at high speed, I tried to stab myself with a knife, about two centimeters in length and three millimeters in depth, the wound can heal in a few seconds, but the consumption of meta energy is very high, and it can even be said to be the most expensive of all modes. β
"The dirt mode can harden my whole body, and I tried it with a knife a few times after experimenting with the wood mode, and the hardness is about that close to that of rock, and a normal knife or farm tool can't hurt me. β
"The effect of Wind Mode is simpler, I can make a normal punch produce the effect of slashing with a knife. I experimented with some trees in front of Uncle Hank's house, and after punching the trunk with all my might, I could cut off a small tree about 50 centimeters in diameter. The effect of Thunder Mode is similar to that of Wind Mode, except that it is more similar to 'Piercing' instead of 'Cutting'. The sound pattern is similar, but the effect is 'shattering'. β
Bacardi nodded in understanding.
"As for the ability of fire mode, it is the easiest, and my physical fitness will be qualitatively improved. But this mode only lasts about a minute....... It's such a long time, I didn't dare to try it for the limit time, I will collapse immediately after using it, and it seems that my body can't handle the increased strength. I just tried to snap my fingers in fire mode two days ago and my thumb and middle finger were directly broken. β
After finally saying such a long paragraph, Yang Haohui let out a sigh and turned his gaze to Bacardi....... The old man actually fell asleep.
It was not easy to have a little change in the impression of Bajiade, and Yang Haohui could only shake him helplessly.
"Oh, sorry, sorry. Bacardi snorted sleepily and wiped the drool, "That's really good, incisive." Well....... Where did it come from?"
I didn't listen to the co-author at all...... Bai said a big push, Yang Haohui looked at Hank behind him helplessly, and Hank shrugged helplessly, probably meaning that the teacher is like this, just get used to it.
"My meta-technique. He had to remind.
"Oh, yes, yes, what kind of energy are you. Bacardi replied that the donkey's lips were not the horse's mouth.
"I ...... I don't know, I can't describe it. Yang Haohui thought for a moment, and regretfully repeated Hank's answer, "There doesn't seem to be my color in the seven kinds of Yuan Energy. β
This time, Yang Haohui's hair color did not change again, he took a deep breath, put his hands together slightly, and made a gesture of holding something, and the room seemed to dim in the next moment. The soft and strange light in the palm of the sun is indescribable, not even in a brilliant poet. Because it's not just "some" color. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, seven different colors can be combined so harmoniously. The seven colors flow in small clusters of light, muffled, but transparent. It's like a rainbow in the sky at the beginning of the day after the rain, but it's thicker and deeper than that.
Bacardi's sleeping face, which was originally lacking in interest, stiffened, and he looked at the perfect light in Yang Haohui's hand in a lost mind, and whispered two words: "Holy Pillar ......"
Then he suddenly burst into laughter, his voice was like thunder, Yang Haohui subconsciously covered his ears, and the whole room was shaken to dust by laughter.
"You exist, you really exist! I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong!"
Everyone could see that Bacardi was ecstatic, and he danced so loudly that he even got up from his chair and kept saying something that Yang Haohui couldn't understand.
After a while, Bacardi finally quieted down, he sat down again, grabbed Yang Haohui's hands suddenly, his eyes sparkled, and he shouted excitedly, "Light!"
"What, what?" Yang Haohui was so frightened by the nervousness of the old man in front of him that he wanted to pull his hand.
"Your Yuan Neng! It's the 'Light Yuan Neng'! The Yuan Energy that only exists in legends!" Bacardi stared at Yang Haohui with a look of discovery of the treasure.
Bacardi slapped the table and asked Yang Haohui in a magnificent voice: "Child, do you have a dream?"
Yang Haohui didn't ease the turn of the topic for a while, and thought that he had participated in some talent show.
I can't say that I want to find the true idea of my parents to return to the original world, he is "amnesiac" in front of Hank, and the same is true in front of Bacardi. He thought about it, and replied honestly, "Make money." β
"Anything else!"
"Make more money. β
Hank showed an expression as if he had been struck by lightning, poked a finger into Yang Haohui's head, and said in a tone of hatred that iron is not steel: "Little age, little age! How can you be so materialistic, you are a born hero! You are the one who can save the world!"
Wow....... Yang Haohui covered his head and sighed silently in his heart, Bakaede is not only a neuropathy, but also a secondary and second-class neurotic.
Save the world?such a bullshit great clichΓ© plot, Yang Haohui feels that he is immoral and incompetent. Besides, he has lived quietly and peacefully in the past few days of Noldra, and he has never even seen a thief, so use him to worry about it?
Bacardi sighed, stared at Yang Haohui with a very obvious meaning of "rotten wood cannot be carved", and asked: "Maybe the word dream is still too general, let's ask." You're now an elementalist, you're twelve, and you want to do whatever you want. β
Yang Haohui has been planning this matter for a long time, and his answer is very decisive.
"Guards. β
Bacardi's eyes lit up: "Oh roar, that's right, there are always heroic dreams when you're young, you think the same kid." β
Yang Haohui scratched his head embarrassedly: "No...... Uncle Hank told me that the guards make more money......."
Bacardi slammed his head on the table in an exaggerated manner.
"We must always solve the problem of food and clothing. Yang Haohui felt that his worldly heart was a little uncomfortable with the great dream in Bacardi's mouth.
"Okay, I'm also a guard, although the motives are not pure. Bacardi raised his unkempt head, "Anyway, I was originally here to pull you into the guard's business, so I didn't bother to speak, do you know the steps to become a guard?"
"I don't know, I just know what university palace I want to take into. Yang Haohui still remembers the word introduced in the book.
Bacardi regained his spirits, nodded and said, "Little Hank told me about your situation, amnesia...... If that's the case, then you shouldn't have any concept of this, so I'll tell you about it. β
He straightened up and coughed very seriously: "Then, the admission counseling starts now." β
"The duration of all university palaces is six years, and after graduation, they will help assign jobs according to the career choice they chose when they entered the university. Of course, you can also choose to find your own way. β
"Each university palace is divided into different disciplines, and if you want to be a guard, you naturally have to take the guard major. β
"Need an entrance exam?" Yang Haohui heard the word "exam".
"Of course, the guard is the profession with the strictest selection and the highest entry threshold, otherwise why would you make the most money? Bacardi crossed his hands and circled his thumbs around each other.
"Test ...... What?" Yang Haohui is the first time that he is so bottomless about the exam as a top student.
According to Hank's statement that night, the guards should be like police officers, hired to fight crimes, and when it comes to "fighting", the content of the test should be ........
"Nonsense, of course it's fighting!" Bacardi replied with a fatal answer.
Yang Haohui covered his face silently in his heart, don't look at it now, he can dig a hole in the wooden board with a wave of his hand, but in this Tianyuan Realm where cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods are rampant, he is also a delicate and soft little kitten.
"Is there a clerical ......?"
"Absolutely. Yang Haohui didn't expect Bacardi to answer like this, "The guard profession is not just a reckless man who fights. The maintenance section, the combat section, the management section, and the Yuanwu transformation section have been subdivided into more. However, I still recommend you to go to the combat department, after all, your Yuan energy is too suitable for fighting, and it is a waste to choose something else. β
"Can Guang Yuan...... Yang Haohui made a bitter face, "Grandpa Bacardi, I want to tell you that I don't even know what Yuan Neng is, do you believe it?"
"Don't worry, I'm about to speak. Bacardi somewhere found a book and pushed it to Yang Haohui, "The Theory of the Fundamentals of the Elements, which I wrote, is an introductory textbook for guards. I'll tell you about it first, and then you can go back and see this review for yourself. β
"The Guardian is a profession that uses Yuan Energy in combat, and of course you need to know more about how to use Yuan Energy. Because of the Yuan Energy, the Elementalist will have stronger physical functions and a longer lifespan than ordinary people, which you should have understood in the past two days. β
Yang Haohui remembered the damage he had accidentally caused in the past few days and nodded.
"The most important thing you need to understand first is the nature of Yuan Energy, so that you can flexibly use it in battle. Do you understand the mutual restraint between the elements and energy?" asked Bacardi.
"For example...... Can the water element restrain the fire element?" Yang Haohui seemed to understand Bacardi's meaning a little.
"That's it. Bacardi nodded, "The elemental energy of any attribute is essentially born in nature, and it is the form of energy condensed by the elements in nature, so the elemental energy will naturally have the properties of its own elements. Restraint is also consistent with the elements in nature, as you said, fire will be extinguished by water. Of course, this is only one of them, thunder and lightning cannot be conducted in the land, flames can burn trees, and wood can absorb water as nutrients. These are the relationships between the elements, and they are also the relationships between the energies. β
Bacardi said as he flipped to page twenty-three of the book and pointed to a picture drawn on it: "I have written on this page the relationship of restraint, wood and water, earth, thunder, water and earth, fire and wood, earth and fire, thunder, wind and wood, fire and thunder, wind and wood, fire and thunder, and water and wind. These must be memorized, it is the test point. Don't memorize by rote, just deduce the relative restraint of the element according to the nature of the element itself. β
"Okay. Yang Haohui doesn't find it difficult to remember, but he has played various versions of "Pokemon".
He suddenly remembered his situation and asked, "Grandpa Bacardi, what about my kind of yuan....... What is the restraint attribute of the light element energy?"
Bacardi smiled awkwardly and said calmly, "I don't know." β
β......β
"Don't look at me like that, old man, although I am knowledgeable and talented, I don't know what I don't know. Bacardi burned another "tube" of coffee as if to avoid embarrassment, "In your case, I can only think that it is a mutation, and I don't know the nature of the elemental energy." But so far, I have studied forty-eight ancient books, and the only one who is the same as your Yuan Neng, there is only one person at present, and you can ask him if you have the opportunity. β
"Who?"
"It's never been announced, but I'm pretty sure this person is also a light elemental. Today's demigod, Mr. Jeoze. β
Yang Haohui was silent.
What is the difference between seeing a demigod and a peasant breaking into the Forbidden City and chatting directly with the emperor in ancient times?
"Your Majesty, what should I do if my pigs don't give birth?"
"Who are you? Someone, drag it out and cut it off!"
Yang Haohui couldn't help but have this kind of picture in his mind.
"Don't show that look. Bacardi added sugar to the test tube with a spoonful of sugar, "Do you know that there is actually no difference, you are different from others, you can switch the 'mode', in other words, there is actually no attribute that restrains you, only you restrain others." β
"But you should also be careful, although I don't know the principle of your meta-technique, but don't switch to a mode that matches the properties of the previous mode after using one mode. After saying this rather tongue-twisting paragraph, Bacardi added, "It will hurt Langluo." β
"Langluo?"
"The channel through which the meta energy runs in the body. Bacardi was secretly proud of his clever return to the topic, "like blood vessels all over the body." The storage and processing of Yuan Energy and the release of it into the body all need to go through the corridor. β
Bacardi flipped to page twenty-four, revealing two intricate drawings of the human body, one male and one female. Countless black lines are densely covered with human patterns.
"Everyone's corridor structure is a little different, but the general structure is the same. You can learn more about it, which will be helpful for learning meta-techniques in the future. β
Yang Haohui roughly understands, in fact, it is the same as the meridians in martial arts novels, except that what flows in it is not internal force, but Yuan energy. At the same time, he also understood what Bacardi said earlier, just like a glass tube that is easy to blow up with boiling water and then cold water immediately, and the use of two forms of restraint in a short period of time should also cause the same damage to the corridor.
"On the other hand, I would like to say that when the total amount of Yuan Energy in the corridor reaches a certain peak, the Elementalist will have a process called 'Tribulation'. If the tribulation is successful, the elementalist will enter the next level, the corridor will be more tenacious and coarse, the total amount of stored yuan energy will also increase qualitatively, and the strength of the elementalist will be stronger. Of course, physical fitness will also be enhanced under the influence of stronger meta energy. The number of steps that elementals often talk about actually refers to the number of tribulations. Bacardi pointed at the honest Hank standing behind him, his face full of disgust, "That fool, he is in his thirties, and he is only a third-order, don't learn from him." β
Hank bowed his head in shame.
"Tell me about meta-techniques, I'm more curious about this. "Yang Haohui is very understanding and helps Hank divert firepower.
"Oh, speaking of meta-techniques, I've done a lot of research. Bacardi seemed pleased that Yang Haohui had taken the initiative to mention the outstanding part of his field of study, "and it is also the focus of your future desire to become a guard." β
"I'm going to ask you first, what do you think the meta-technique is?" Baika had to ask first.
"Uh......" Yang Haohui was a little asked, and he had a feeling that he probably understood but didn't know how to say it. It's as if everyone knows that one plus one equals two, but can't tell why.
"Why? I can't tell?" Bacardi smiled, "It's actually very simple, it is subdivided into two types, 'Material Refining' and 'Characteristic Refining', and ordinary elementalists can only master one of these two kinds of refining. After the elementalist learns a refinement, this refinement will evolve into a skill that varies from person to person, and this skill is a meta-skill. Different elementalists, even the same kind of refinement, can produce different meta-techniques. For example, in the refining of an 'amplification', Elementalist A may turn this refinement into an enhanced meta-skill that increases one's own strength, and Elementalist B may become a support meta-skill that increases the strength of teammates. β
"Matter and ....... Characteristics?" Yang Haohui repeated in a whisper, recalling what Hank had said earlier about "characteristic type".
"All elements are actually made up of these two foundations, and for the elementalist, both foundations can be directly controlled. The green light condensed in Bacardi's right hand, and he beckoned to Yang Haohui, "Borrow your hand." β
Without waiting for Yang Haohui to agree, Bacardi pulled his left hand, took out Yang Haohui's left index finger and pinched it. At the same time, the green light in Bacardi's right hand solidified and turned into a flower, Yang Haohui knew it, a chrysanthemum.
"This is material refining, and the elementalist who masters the refining of matter is called a 'material elementalist', and I am the material one. This type of elementalist can directly transform the elemental energy into a substance of the same nature that exists in reality. Bacardi shook the chrysanthemum in his hand, "For example, I am a wood elementalist, and the material refinement of the wood elementalist is a plant, so I can use wood element energy to make this chrysanthemum in my hand." β
As soon as the words fell, the chrysanthemum shattered and turned into a cloud of green light again, and the green light converged again, turning into a moon flower. The moon season shattered into light again, and re-condensed into a vine. This vine is also familiar, it should be the "proliferation seed" in Hank's mouth, and now this room is full of ground.
"These substances made by material elementalists are called 'refiners', and material refining is the process of making extracts. Matter-type elementalists can directly manipulate their own refinements to fight, and I can also create a giant tree several meters tall or other large plants, but the larger the size, the more difficult it is to craft, and the more energy is consumed. Of course, the refiner is not a real substance, and the elementalist can let it dissipate at any time. β
Bacardi paused: "In addition, material refining requires the elementalist to master the knowledge of relevant substances. Here's an example
Son, it's still me, a wood elementalist, trying to make a rose, but I've never seen a rose, and the rose can't succeed as a refine, because people can't make things they don't know. This is the basis for learning material refining, each new refiner requires a huge amount of time to study the construct, so most material elementalists only have one or a few commonly used refiners. β
"It's not hard to understand. Yang Haohui nodded, he thought for a moment, and said, "But if you say it, some Yuan Energy is suitable for material refining, and some are not. β
To be continued......