"Now, my plan has ten parts. In the quiet room, Shi Lan closed her eyes and shook her head and said, "The first part is to learn the basic magic of the five elements and understand the five basic arrays. ”

"Ten parts?" Liu Ye, who was sitting opposite, fell into despair when he heard this.

"Don't be embarrassed, come, I'll show you the basic array of fire first, or in the words of our school, the basic rune of fire. Shi Lan used her white wand to draw a pattern in the air that resembled a flame, which looked like a small dot of the word "mountain," "You look at the drawing." ”

Liu Ye compared to Shi Lan's drawing, and used chalk to draw a gourd on the ground and wrote a similar one on the ground.

"Well—very good, very good. Shi Lan squinted her eyes, posed as an old gentleman praising her juniors, and patted Liu Ye's head, "I have a very high understanding and a high level of understanding." ”

"Teacher, why isn't the first part of your teaching plan refining your vitality?How can you learn magic without magic?" Liu Ye glanced at Shi Lan, who was triumphantly obsessed with being a teacher, and said.

"Eh, that's to prevent your magic from getting out of control and going berserk before you learn the basic runes. Because once these magic arrays are drawn with magic power, they will take effect immediately, and once the array is wrong, it will become an out-of-control magic storm, which is very dangerous. Shilan explained unhurriedly.

At this moment, Liu Ye found that the flame rune that he had just drawn on the ground lit up, and coincidentally, Shi Lan was walking next to the rune.

"Be careful!" Liu Ye pulled Shi Lan to his side, she stumbled and fell directly into Liu Ye's arms.

"Ahh

Liu Ye didn't speak, and pointed to the ground in front of him.

The flame rune grew brighter and brighter, and then burst open with a "snap", splattering a bunch of sparks.

Shi Lan grew her mouth, and her big eyes widened: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible, you don't have magic power, how can you trigger magic ......" She raised her head to look at Liu Ye and found that he was staring at the place of the explosion, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Strange, I'll have to ask Grandpa, eh! What's wrong with you. Shilan stood up, but was pulled by Liu Ye's hand.

"Shilan, I ask you. At this time, Liu Ye's voice suddenly became very calm and serious, "If a person has no magic power, is it completely impossible to use magic." ”

"That's right......"

"I want a precise answer!" Liu Ye's tone suddenly became a little stern.

"Well, in some cases, natural arrays in nature also produce magic, but people without magic use magic, as if there really is no ......" Shi Lan was frightened by his serious appearance, and stopped in place and did not dare to move.

"Natural Array......" Liu Ye closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

After a while, he opened his eyes, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face again: "Shilan, are you willing to do me a favor?"

"Well, you say. ”

"Please keep this matter secret for me, including your grandfather, and don't tell anyone. Liu Ye looked at Shi Lan with pleading eyes, hoping that she would promise herself. Through the contact in the past two days, he can already determine that Mu Shilan is a pure girl who is not yet twenty years old, but it is still unknown what the intentions of Yan Heling and the magic association behind him are, they have not done anything to themselves for the time being, maybe they have not yet figured out the details of themselves. At this time, Liu Ye didn't want them to find out that there was something mysterious about him.

"Hmm......" Shilan hesitated a little, she didn't want to hide it from her grandfather, but it didn't seem to be a big deal, and it shouldn't be a problem if she didn't tell him.

"Well, I don't tell anyone. Under Liu Ye's nervous gaze, Shi Lan finally nodded.

"Whew" Liu Ye breathed a sigh of relief, and then grimaced at Shi Lan, "Let's continue." ”

Ten minutes later.

"Fortunately, there were no accidents with the last four elemental runes, what is the next stage, huh?Shilan?" Liu Ye said while wiping the sweat on his head, but he didn't get a response from Mu Shilan, he looked over strangely and found that Shilan was sitting by the wall, dragging her chin, poking the right half of her cheek with her white wand, staring at the lamppost on the side.

"Hey, Master Mentor, don't get distracted!" Liu Ye waved his hand at her.

"Ahh Shi Lan woke up like a dream and hurriedly walked over.

"What, are you still thinking about what happened just now?" asked Liu Ye.

"Well—I still think it's weird, why is this happening? There's no reason. Shilan said with a frown.

"Don't think about it, maybe it's just an accident, come on, your students are eager to learn right now. Liu Ye grinned and continued to draw a few basic runes on the ground, "Hurry up and move on to the next stage." ”

"Okay, the second stage," Shilan nodded, "it's still the basics." ”

"Or is it the foundation?" Liu Ye, the second monk, was puzzled.

"That's right, didn't I tell you before, there are dozens of basic runes, and now I've only learned five. ”

"Since they are all fundamentals, why do you want to divide them into the first stage and the second stage?"

"Ahem...... Shi Lan cleared her throat, "That's because the first five are the easiest, you don't have so many questions!" After speaking, she also knocked Liu Ye's head with her wand.

"It hurts so much - okay, okay, no problem, no problem, Teacher Mu, you can talk about it, and the students will listen to it." Liu Ye covered his head and begged for mercy, but he still couldn't help but make a mistake of being cheap, "You said that you are so good-looking, why are you so heavy when you start beating people?"

"What did you say?" Shi Lan listened, and immediately knocked Liu Ye again.

"Don't fight, don't fight, you'll be stupid if you fight again. ”

"That's pretty much it. Shi Lan grasped the hand of the wand and put it on her waist, and said to Liu Ye: "The basic runes are very important, and the advanced magic is a combination of these transformations, and then there are the runes of 'wind', 'thunder' and 'space', you have to read carefully." ”

For the next few hours, Liu Ye wrote these basic runes over and over again under Shi Lan's guidance. As he copied repeatedly, he watched his chalk write down and erase the handwriting over and over again, and his mind was swirling. Really, all this is like a dream, I have studied mathematics, physics and chemistry for almost twenty years, and now I am studying magic here, and the day before yesterday I was a staunch atheist, and my fate is really unpredictable.

What would happen if we understood magic from a scientific point of view? Liu Ye suddenly thought of such a question.

He shook his head, there is no point in thinking so, the worldview of magic is completely different from that of science, the cognition of the world in natural science has been extended to the micro level early, and magic is the element cognition of the macro level, many contents have been swept into the garbage heap of history by science as the remnants of feudal superstition as early as centuries ago, if it were not for witnessing the existence of elemental power, Liu Ye would not believe that such a way of categorizing substances is really reasonable.

"Shilan. Liu Ye put down the pen in his hand, "You magicians, what do you think of science?"

"Hey, didn't I tell you not to ask so many questions!" Shilan picked up her wand and pretended to knock it.

Liu Ye hurriedly covered his head.

"Well—a lot of magicians don't like it, no, they hate science. Shilan smiled lightly, put down her wand and said.

"Eh, why?" Liu Ye was a little surprised.

"Because they all think that magic is the right way to understand the world. Mu Shilan pursed her lips, she didn't really agree with this idea, "They think that science is going the wrong way and is heretical." But I think science is also very good, it has brought so much convenience to people's lives, and those scientists and great magicians who have left their names in history are very respectable people, and they are all using their own ways to understand the world, obviously both ways make sense, why do you have to fight for right and wrong?"

Liu Ye smiled helplessly, he didn't expect magicians to have such a deep prejudice against science, think about it carefully, the contradiction between the two parties has been since the Middle Ages, many scientists such as Bruno have been persecuted by the church, but Liu Ye doesn't know if magicians can be equated with religion, maybe not.

"Hey, have you memorized all these basic runes?"

"Remembered. Liu Ye replied casually, his mind still stuck on the relationship between magic and science.

"Then, we can move on to the third phase. Shilan pointed to the small table in the middle of the ashram, "You move it away." ”

Then sit down. Shi Lan pointed to the incomparably complex circle on the ground again.

Liu Ye honestly moved the small stone table aside and sat on the ground obediently.

"The third stage is to refine the life force to form magic. With that, Shi Lan took off the pendant on her chest and handed it to Liu Ye, "Put it on, this can increase your chances of survival." ”

"Oh good. Liu Ye obediently put the pendant on.

"What do you mean by the chances of surviving?"

Literally. ”

"Huh, does that mean it's possible for me to die in the next session?" Liu Ye's eyes jumped, and he had a very ominous premonition.

"Well, there's a possibility. Shi Lan said while placing some props around the circle, "Refining life force is a continuous and automatic process, like an hourglass, once the channel is formed, it will be continuously generated, what needs to be done now is to open up this channel, well, it takes a little external force." ”

"External forces?"

"Yes, how can you get through the places that are not passable? Naturally, you have to make a hole~"

"Punching holes?"

"Well, it's a small hole in your spine, but don't worry, the chances are slim, and my pendant is all for you, there is the highest level of guardian magic on it, and you should be fine. Sit down, and the ceremony will begin immediately. Shilan grimaced at him and put down the last prop.

"Hey, hey, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. Liu Ye wanted to stop her, but it was too late.

Liu Ye only felt a hot breath go all the way up from the tail vertebrae, rushing straight to Parkway, and there was a tearing pain inside his spine, and in the blink of an eye, a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed from his face, sideburns, and forehead.

"Alright, it's over, you see, it's still alive. Shi Lan ran to the exhausted Liu Ye and squatted down, wiped his sweat with his cuffs, and said casually, with a smile that could not be concealed at the corner of his mouth.

"You...... Whew-I'm ......" Liu Ye closed his eyes tightly, feeling weak.

"Eh, are you alright?"

The sharp pain subsided, and Liu Ye's tense nerves suddenly relaxed and he fainted.