Chapter 53: Getting to the bottom of it

Four days later.

Meng Zhou ended the diagnosis and treatment of three patients, including Liu Kuan, the Fu Array Master, and received 600 spirit stones from them.

According to the previous rules, Meng Zhou insisted on only accepting three hundred, but they all thought that it was too little, far from matching the ability he had shown.

If it weren't for Meng Zhou's insistence, they would have even wanted to give more.

With the completion of this day's diagnosis and treatment, the interrogation and examination techniques have finally accumulated enough experience to complete the promotion from master to grandmaster.

The healing technique has also broken through from the grandmaster level to perfection, becoming the first medicine master type spell to advance to the perfection level, and the pharmacist profession has also gone further.

[Pharmacist 1st Order: 92/100]

After completing today's diagnosis and treatment, Meng Zhou returned to his stone room as soon as possible.

In the study, a thin rope fluttered flexibly between the ten fingers of his hands.

At a certain moment, as Meng Zhou gently pulled, every line of the string in his hand began to change and contract, and finally became exactly the same as the shape on the fiftieth rubbing stone carving.

Since then, his personal information has undergone a series of changes.

[Knot 100 Beginner: 50/100], experience +1

[Knotter 1st Tier: 5/100], progress +1

[Rope Spirit Order: 5/100], progress +1

As the rope spirit went further, the familiar hunger and thirst came directly into his mind again, and it became clearer.

Meng Zhou took out the green spirit wood that had been used twice by the rope spirit and had already become unrecognizable, and the rope spirit immediately wrapped around it.

Soon, the spirituality on the green spirit wood was quickly devoured by the rope spirit, turning it into further food.

After it conveyed the emotion of satisfaction, and returned to his wrist to wrap it automatically, Meng Zhou watched the remaining green spirit wood it eat, carefully compared, and finally confirmed that the amount of food of the rope spirit was indeed gradually increasing.

The first time the Rope Spirit devoured the spirituality of the Green Spirit Wood occurred when it increased from 2/100 to 3/100, and its final consumption was less than 10% of the entire Green Spirit Wood.

The second time, when it was raised from 3/100 to 4/100, it consumed more than 10% of the same quality of green spirit wood.

And this time, about half of the first-order low-grade green spirit wood was eaten by it.

This reality made Meng Zhou have mixed joys.

Worryingly, after just three observations, Meng Zhou could not confirm the specific growth law of his food intake.

He was worried that his financial resources were not enough to support its growth, and he was afraid that the supply would be insufficient, and that the "nutrition" would not keep up with it and delay its growth.

The good news is that the greater its appetite, the greater its potential, and the more worthy of looking forward to the future.

After completing the fiftieth rubbing stone carving, Meng Zhou took out the fifty-first rubbing stone carving and studied it.

Half an hour later, he had easily cracked the diagram.

But he didn't go on, but slowly frowned, and even took out the rubbing stone carvings that had been successfully cracked one by one.

The eyes moved on the rubbing stone carvings, carefully contrasting and scrutinizing.

In the past, looking at these stone carvings that looked like a mess of threads, apart from making his mind dizzy, such a comparative examination would not bring him any additional gain.

But now these rubbings have been successfully cracked by him, and every time his eyes look at a stone carving, his mind will automatically appear with the picture of the ten fingers of both hands guiding the string back and forth interspersed with knots, which is vivid and clear.

But the more he looked at it, Meng Zhou's brows wrinkled deeper and deeper.

Although the progress has been slower and slower since the talisman profession has been promoted to 90/100 in the first order, his talisman attainments are still improving.

The improvement of Fu Dao's attainments did have a very significant effect on him to crack the secret of rubbing stone carvings.

However, this effect is only evident at the beginning, and the further you go, the worse the effect becomes, or even almost none.

When he cracked the first rubbing stone carving, his rune attainments were far from being compared to what he was now, and he couldn't crack all of them.

In the end, there is nearly a half of the fog, which relies on the method of eliminating trial and error, plus the panel plug-in can accurately identify the "correct answer" These methods complete the final cracking.

The use of these methods allowed him to successfully reach the last step without having to thoroughly understand every part of the stone carving.

The downside is that he doesn't know why, he doesn't even know what it is.

Now, his rune attainments have improved significantly compared to that day, and looking at this rubbing stone carving, there are still some fogs that he can't break through with rune knowledge.

And as the knotting method in the stone carving diagram became more and more complex, the unknown fog became more and more numerous, and by the fiftieth stone carving, which he had just successfully cracked, the fog that could not be solved with rune knowledge was close to twenty percent.

Previously, he had never been so strict with pure runic knowledge to review and examine.

In addition, the speed of cracking stone carvings these days is getting faster and faster, from cracking two pictures a day to three maps a day, and occasionally even four pictures a day.

He simply summed up such changes as "the chain changes brought about by the improvement of the Fu Dao attainments".

Now, with the purest runic vision, he examined the fifty rubbing stone carvings that had been successfully cracked, only to find that things were not as simple as he thought.

The role played by the improvement of the attainment of the Fu Dao was far less than he thought.

The reason why his speed of cracking is getting faster and faster, in addition to the factor of Fu Dao attainment, there are two reasons that cannot be ignored.

One is that he is becoming more and more proficient in the use of the trial-and-error method.

In the beginning, he didn't have any concept of the knotting method, and the elimination of trial and error was simply the elimination of trial and error, which was a mathematical problem.

But as he successfully mastered more and more knotting methods, he naturally gradually understood a lot of relevant common sense and taboos.

Many directions don't need to be tried at all to know that it won't work, which can naturally greatly improve the efficiency of cracking.

The other is that the plug-in is unreasonable.

Meng Zhou believes that for others, there is still a long process of familiarization and repeated practice before they can truly master a knot.

Even, a flash of inspiration successfully cracked it, but when this inspiration faded, it probably won't be again.

This is the state of a normal person when they learn something new.

But he is different, every time he successfully cracks a rubbing stone carving, he masters a method of knotting, and the corresponding information changes.

His hands and his brain were already branded with the correct way to knot.

Never forget it again, it's easy to reappear.

The advantage of this is not only that he can firmly grasp all the knots that have been cracked, but also that as he masters more and more knots, he is like an expert who has been immersed in a certain field for a long time, and when faced with a new problem, he can make some intuitive judgments or conjectures without any rigorous process as support.

And the more solid the foundation, the closer this conjecture will be to correct.

In the process of mastering more and more knots, and constantly breaking new knots, he has already put them into practice, but he himself has never been aware of it.

At this moment, he realized this in hindsight.

This brought a new confusion to Meng Zhou.

"How can we break the fog that can't be broken with rune knowledge?"

Meng Zhou speculated in his heart.

He wasn't satisfied with the completion of the crack itself, he wanted to break through all the fog.

He must not only know what it is, but also why it is.

He believes that only in this way can he truly comprehend the mystery of the knotter.

Meng Zhou's eyes moved on a pair of time charts, his thoughts were scattered, and his thoughts were flying.

Suddenly, his gaze shifted to a place where several lines were tangled together that he couldn't comprehend with his rune knowledge.

However, he saw some familiar tracks in it, and after thinking about it carefully, he took out the first-order high-grade spirit gathering array disk from the storage bag.

He flipped the array over and looked at the base of the array, which was uneven and undulating, like an earthworm crawling over.

This is some of the rune patterns of the array plate, which comes from the handwriting of the rune master, which has both the shadow of the rune and the charm of the formation.

As a talisman maker, of course he had studied it, especially after meeting Liu Kuan, a talisman master, he also studied it carefully for two days.

But because he only knew the runes, he didn't know anything about the Dao, and in the end he only studied a vague understanding of what he didn't understand, but he remembered these lines and tracks in his heart.

At this moment, after careful study, combined with the three-dimensional structure presented by the thin rope in his mind, he suddenly found that one of the unsolved mist and the runic array pattern at the base of the Spirit Gathering Array Disk were so godlike.

Meng Zhou's heart instantly lit up.

(End of chapter)