Chapter 21: The Mirror of Darkness

"Come, write me all these forty-five cloud seals ten times, and give you a long memory!" On the one-foot-square podium, Qing Xuan was losing his temper, with a gloomy face, pointing to the ten people below who were counting. Today is the twenty-eighth day since Qin Guan and his party arrived in Danghai City, and it is also the assessment day of the teenagers of Sanqingguan. Qin Guan had already arranged courses for the teenagers when he arrived in Danghai City, that is, the Fang City of Scattered Cultivation, and Song Laosan had no foundation, although he also studied with the teenagers, but naturally there would be a targeted make-up class for him.

When I arrived at Danghai City that day, because the boat that the group was sitting on was too conspicuous, it also attracted the attention of a bunch of people, fortunately, there was also a Jindan monk Luo Nan in the group, although Luo Nan couldn't do it easily, but Xiuwei was there, and there was no one to harass everyone. After all, this is just a small border city, and the highest cultivation is the few scattered cultivators who established the Fang City, and the rest are all monks in the foundation building period and the qi cultivation period, but it does not pose much of a threat to Qin Guan and the others. After shrinking the wooden boat into the Qiankun bag on the wharf, the group entered the fang market under the guidance of the small maid arranged at the wharf in the fang market.

Although Danghai City is called a city, it is actually a small town that is less than one-tenth of the Star Island, and there are twenty or thirty shops in it, and there are hotels and everything. However, Qin Guan and his group were really numerous, including of course more than 20 spirit cranes and two cats, as well as a mouse. Because the rat demon has reached the chassis of the human race, he does not dare to show his cultivation too much, for fear of causing trouble to Qin Guan and the others, after all, although the demon race and the human race are not on the same page now, they are also well water and do not violate river water. Originally, there was a place for everyone to stay, but the hotels in the city couldn't accommodate so many people from Qin Guan, and it was difficult for a while. A Jindan monk, who was also one of the managers of Danghai City, received a report from his subordinates, saying that a Jindan monk had entered Danghai City, and had come to take over the small servant and arrange a mansion for everyone. This Jindan monk's surname is Min, his name is Hui, and he is one of the three chief stewards of Fang City, who is responsible for external contact. Min Hui and Luo Nan were close, but halfway through, they saw that Qin Guan was the main person in charge of the group, so they changed their goal and talked to Qin Guan. He was still muttering in his heart, a Jindan monk is headed by a foundation building period monk, then this foundation building period monk must be a person with a big background. Qin Guanxu and the snake, he knew that he had been misunderstood, but this misunderstanding could bring them a lot of help, so he acquiesced. After agreeing with Min Hui to go to the mansion for a visit, Qin Guan and his party settled down temporarily in Danghai City.

On the first day of settling down, Qin Guan arranged a task for Qingjing, Qingxuan, Gu Weirui and He Lianjun, and the four of them were responsible for several subjects to teach the teenagers and Song Laosan. Qin Guan himself started compiling textbooks with a dull head, after all, he couldn't let these teachers teach out of thin air. Luo Nan and the others were much more relaxed, after Qin Guan taught them the meditation mantra, he emphasized the realm of forgetting both things and self, so he asked them to hurry up and practice, and when they could be free of distractions, when they could move on to the next step.

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Qin Guan's mind is now all focused on compiling textbooks, after all, this is the foundation of learning, otherwise it will really be tiring to death just by word of mouth. The things that have been empowered by Daigo can only be used when they are forced to do so, and when they are used up, they will cause great damage to the soul and lifespan of the person who casts the spell, and basically they will not be used when they are exhausted and have no time to impart knowledge properly. Moreover, although the spell of Daigo empowerment can instill knowledge into the other person's mind, theory is one thing, and actual operation is another.

Qin Guan was worried about the jade slips in front of him, these jade slips were bought from the Fang Market, the shopkeeper was a refiner, but he only had some superficial refining methods, and he only relied on refining jade slips and some gadgets to earn income on weekdays, and he was like a fish in water in such a small fang market as Danghai City. The jade slip is there, but what should be written in the jade slip, Qin Guan hasn't made up his mind yet. And this kind of thing is not to say that it can be loaded with knowledge endlessly, it is also limited, like these jade slips, the refining technique is too rough, it is good to be able to hold thirty or forty thousand words, ten jade slips are less than 400,000 words in total, which is really a bit far from Qin Guan's expectations. The things in Qin Guan's mind, if they were described in words, would have to be more than a million words, and they would still be refined to the point where they could not be refined. But the owner of the refining shop said that these ten jade slips are the last inventory of the year, after all, the demand is small, and it is not easy for him to refine, so ten jade slips a year is the largest amount, if it is not just on the goods, no one has bought them, maybe Qin Guan can't even get these ten jade slips. Qin Guan had no choice, he paid the price of a medium-grade spirit stone, and only got such a little jade slip, which was a bit far from Qin Guan's ideal, originally he still wanted to prepare a set of books for everyone, but now it seems that the amount of one person is not enough, what should I do?

"There's really no way, I'll do it myself, anyway, refining this thing, once you are born and twice familiar, you have to practice sooner or later, and now even if the situation forces you, you have to start practicing." Qin Guan thought to himself.

Qin Guan first purchased a refining furnace from Fang City, although the alchemy furnace in his hand can also refine weapons, but after all, it is not as easy as a special refining furnace. This kind of thing is not a necessary thing for Qin Guan, a novice refiner, just use a fire array instead, only when the refining master refines the spirit treasure, the earth fire is needed, and the ordinary refiner only needs the fire array. The fire array doesn't have to worry about Qin Guan, Helian Jun can, and it doesn't cost any precious materials to arrange it, just buy it from the market. The amount of materials left by the ancestor of Lianshan is huge, but they are all precious spiritual materials, and the most inferior ones have to be medium-grade, not to mention the high-grade spiritual materials such as Liangyi Xuanshi, Guishui Elite, Golden Thunder Bamboo, Pure Gold, etc., Qin Guan himself was reluctant to use them to practice, so he had to buy them from the Fang Market. Qin Guan swept away more than half of the low-grade spiritual materials in Fang City, and the dark iron, fire copper, and chalcedony were even more convergent, and he filled up his own huge Qiankun bag. However, the price is not expensive, after all, it is a border small market, and there is only one high-grade spirit stone in total, which is extremely cheap. These spiritual material stores, seeing that Qin Guan has bought so many things, regard him as the God of Wealth, and can't wait to pack some more things for him, after all, the income this time is as high as the usual income of seven or eight years, not to mention that Qin Guan pays the money cleanly and neatly, and there is no arrears, so that the owners of the spiritual material stores are smiling, and they can't wait to set up a shrine for Qin Guan, and write the five big characters "The God of Wealth in the World".

With the basic materials, Qin Guan began to think about what to refine. Originally, I wanted to use jade slips to pack knowledge, but because the content of jade slips was limited, if you use jade slips to make books, looking at a set of books with one million words, you need thirty jade slips, and one jade slip costs fifty low-grade spirit stones, so if you calculate it in this way, a set of books will cost nearly ten medium-grade spirit stones, which is really not cost-effective. "Well, you have to change your thinking, this kind of thing is really not a good thing to carry knowledge, I will refine it myself, and now it is not as good as the craftsmanship of the refiners in Fang City, even if the craftsmanship is proficient in the back, at most it can be reduced to 50,000 words in a jade slip, and a set of books also needs 20 jade slips, and the cost is still too high to be promoted. What should I do?" Qin Guan pondered for a long time, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration and came up with a solution. He wanted to make a simple text display: all the words were integrated into a character pool first, and then each thing that needed to be recorded was presented on a page, which was a table of contents, and then clicked on the book to read on the table of contents, and then selected the characters from the character pool in order and presented them on the page. There is a reason for him to think so, not only can he record all the books with just one jade slip, but also because the space required for the jade slip to record words is much larger than that of numbers, and the space occupied by one text is about the same as that of ten five-digit numbers, and the space can be expanded more than ten times to load numbers. In this way, only three jade slips are needed to make a small storage device that stores words and numbers, which is much less than twenty or thirty jade slips. However, the jade slip can only be used as a storage device, not as a display device, otherwise it has to be quietly pasted on the top of the head to see, it is too troublesome, Qin Guan wants to make a display screen, the kind with page turning, just like a certain e-paper book in the previous life.

The idea is there, but it's a bit difficult to put it into practice. First of all, what should the display screen do, how big should it be, if it is small, it can only display a few lines of words, and it is not easy to hold it when it is big, after consulting everyone, Qin Guan decided on the size, it is the same size as a book in the world, each page shows twenty lines, a line of two crosses, punctuation or something is also added, a page can just have more than three hundred and five crosses, which is a better range. The production of the display screen Gu Weirui provided an idea here, using fire copper as the plate surface below, and then melting chalcedony to cover it as a screen, and fixing it with a dark iron body, which is fine. Gu Weirui's train of thought is like this, as a low-grade spiritual material, fire copper is often used as a rune for carving magic weapons, which is suitable as a bridge connecting the storage device and the display screen; and chalcedony is the main material for refining jade slips, but chalcedony itself has the characteristics of fluorescence, which is suitable for displaying text; Xuantie, as the hardest material among the lower-grade spiritual materials, is just used to fix the entire display screen, and it can also protect the display screen from falling apart or even destroyed when it is bumped. Qin Guan was impressed by Gu Weirui, just by understanding a little about the physical properties of materials and some basic ideas, he could put forward such constructive suggestions, which made Qin Guan feel that the craft of refining weapons should also be used by Gu Weirui. However, she has just successfully condensed her body, and it is not suitable to get too close to the fire array, and this kind of thing still needs to be done after she builds a foundation and truly stabilizes her body. However, now she can be allowed to watch Qin Guan's refining career from scratch, which can be regarded as accumulating some experience for her, after all, Qin Guan is still a novice, and any kind of mistakes will occur, which can also allow her to take fewer detours when refining weapons in the future.

The actual equipment problem was solved, and the most important content was not compiled by Qin Guan yet, but it was a little unrealistic for him to compile it alone, so he summoned Qingjing Qingxuan, Gu Weirui and He Lianjun to discuss it together. Helian Jun was also included in the Sanqingguan by Qin Guan, and like Gu Weirui, he was pulled by Qin Guan to worship Ling Xiaozi as a teacher, it just so happened that Gu Weirui was old, and she was the second senior sister, although Qin Guan's age was young, but her cultivation was high, she was the senior brother, Helian Jun could only be wronged to be a third junior brother, but she didn't have to carry the burden. Since they are senior brothers, then the family heirloom formation can't be hidden, anyway, his son has to learn here in Qin Guan, and he is also a member of Sanqingguan, so it's not a big deal to take it out. Moreover, in terms of formation, Changwuzi, Ling Xiaozi, and Lianshan Ancestor all have some things that have been inherited, and it just so happens that Qin Guan doesn't have the energy to study them, so he can pack them and hand them over to Helian Jun.