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Zhong Kui's Diary
Looking at this pile of books, I was completely stunned. After a long while, I finally cleared my throat and said, "Mengmeng, you must be joking with me, right?"
Song Xi chuckled, "Ghost Brother, I'm not joking at all. Back in the day, my grandfather took three years to read all these books and thirty years to master them."
Hearing this from Song Xi made me feel quite frustrated. I then asked suspiciously, "Have you really learned all of this?"
"Of course! Otherwise, how could I teach you?"
"That doesn't make sense. You're at most twenty years old. Even if you started learning from the womb, there's no way you could have mastered everything, right? Are you... exceptionally gifted?" I frowned.
"Haha, Ghost Brother, you're sharp! You can't be fooled that easily; I was just joking with you!" Song Xi laughed. "But I can indeed help you learn. Each book here corresponds to a specific Manipulation Technique. Just look and see which one you want to learn."
I squatted down and started flipping through the covers of the books: Wind Elemental Magic, Fire Elemental Magic, Thunder Element, Ice Element, Rain Element, Dark Element, Chaotic Element, Devouring System, Yin-Yang System... there were various energy Manipulation Techniques. For a moment, I felt dizzy. After a while of searching, I picked up a book on Lightning Magic: "Let's learn this one."
After all, Lightning Magic is the most abundant element within me.
"Just this one?" Song Xi asked with a smile.
I forced a smile as I flipped through the book: "This book is about as thick as a dictionary. It will take me at least ten months to read it thoroughly, let alone master it. I'll tackle the other books later."
"Alright then!"
Song Xi took out a Porcelain Bottle. The opening was surrounded by a layer of golden mist. I recognized it; it was called a Tightening Spell. The Hundred Flowers Dissolution Pill that Tang the Elder gave me was stored in a Porcelain Bottle sealed with a Tightening Spell.
Softly chanting an incantation, the golden mist suddenly vanished. Song Xi smiled as he turned the Porcelain Bottle upside down in his palm. Instantly, more than ten colorful pills rolled out—each about the size of a fingertip—round and plump, faintly emitting a soft white glow.
Song Xi picked out a purple pill from among them and handed it to me: "Eat this!"
"What is this thing?"
"It's a tutorial!" Song Xi laughed and said, "In our generation, rote memorization is no longer in vogue. We condense the information from books into pills using Spell, swallow it, and instantly gain the memory of an entire book."
"Is it really that amazing?" I took the pill and examined it. "Do I just eat it like this?"
"Do you mean to swallow it with warm water? Or should I get you a hen to make soup?" Song Xi chuckled.
I popped the pill into my mouth. Wow, this pill is indeed impressive; it dissolved instantly. A warm current surged through my meridians straight to my head. It felt like being bitten by a mosquito; a slight pain shot through my head, and then a multitude of unfamiliar things emerged. Upon closer inspection, all these were memories of how to manipulate Thunder Elemental Magic.
I was overjoyed and couldn't help but experiment. With a wave of my hand, I summoned a bolt of Nine Divine Thunder. When the five-meter-wide lightning struck down from the sky for hundreds of meters, I activated Spell, and with a crackle, the lightning transformed into a lion in mid-air.
Unfortunately, I have no talent for drawing, and because of that, the lion I imagined in my mind didn't turn out right at all. The virtual lion looked more like a pig with a mop on its head.
Song Xi sighed in frustration, "Ghost Brother, I have to say, your artistic sense is too weak!"
I snorted coldly. How could my artistic sense be weak?
Spell went haywire as the lightning in the air kept changing into various forms: a cat with the character 'king' written on its head, a dog covered in money, a pig with big ears and long tusks, and even a snake with two branches sticking out of its head...
Alright, my artistic sense is indeed not strong.
"Ghost Brother, why don't you transform it into something you're most familiar with?" Song Xi was almost laughing so hard she couldn't breathe.
Something I'm most familiar with? Got it! I activated Spell again, and the lightning in the air instantly transformed into a Bald Qiang holding a hunting rifle, looking around and occasionally pulling the trigger to fire. The bullets that came out of the gun were spherical bolts of lightning.
Not bad; I was quite satisfied with this Bald Qiang.
I happily controlled Bald Qiang for a while before withdrawing my mana. An unprecedented feeling enveloped me, as if I were a frog sitting at the bottom of a well who suddenly climbed out and discovered how wonderful the world outside was.
When Song Xi saw me conjuring Bald Qiang, she was stunned for a moment before asking me with a deadpan expression, "Ghost Brother, your world is really... cartoonish. Ahem, are you sure you only learned Lightning Magic?"
"Of course not! I want to learn everything on the ground!" I cheerfully pointed at the pile of books.
"That's not possible. You can only learn two more types at most because this kind of elixir can only be consumed three times!"
"Why can you only eat three?" I asked curiously.
"Because after consuming three, eating more won't help; your brain can't absorb that much," Song Xi replied with a faint smile.
"I see. Then I want to learn Fire Element and Devouring System." I chose two types.
Song Xi found two pills for me, one golden and one green, and I swallowed them. Soon, I had memories of these two types of Mana Control in my mind.
"How about you let me try the Yin-Yang System pill? Who knows, maybe my digestive system is good!" I grinned and extended my hand towards Song Xi.
"It won't help!" Although Song Xi said this, she still handed me a red-blue pill.
Suddenly, Wind Rooster, who had been silent all along, spoke up: "Master, this pill is so precious; why waste it?"
I couldn't help but retort angrily, "How is it a waste?"
Song Xi laughed heartily: "It's fine, it's actually not that precious. I can buy several pounds of flour and make hundreds of these."
Ignoring them, I tilted my head back and swallowed the pill. Although a rush of energy surged to my head, no new memories emerged, and I could only give up in disappointment.
Next, I tried to control Fire Elemental Magic and Devouring Energy, conjuring a Pleasant Goat and a talking Tom Cat. I felt that my display lacked power, so I decided to watch some fantasy movies when I had time; there were many fierce monsters in those.
After Song Xi explained a few things to Wind Rooster, we returned to the mountaintop.
Seeing Song Xi smiling as she tucked the Mysterious Realm Golden Sphere into her Spatial Bag, Shen Sipan looked a bit surprised and said, "Boss Zhong, isn't that sphere yours?"
"Mengmeng likes the sphere more, so I've decided to give it to her!" I replied with a smile, completely ignoring the ambiguity of my statement.
Without waiting for Song Xi to respond, I raised my hand and Summoned a fully electrified Bald Qiang, who brandished a shotgun and started firing at the Metal Plate.
One by one, watermelon-sized spheres of lightning struck the Metal Plate, and with each hit, the color of the plate deepened, transitioning from a shimmering metallic hue to light blue, then blue, royal blue, and finally dark blue... Until the Metal Plate turned an inky blue-black color, a crack began to appear on its surface.
This crack did not spread like a spider web but instead traced a perfect circle around the central hole. Once this circular crack appeared, the Metal Plate reverted to a cold, brilliant white.
Seeing this, I retracted my magic power, settled my stance, and hooked my finger into the circular hole. With a firm pull, I lifted the Metal Cover off.
Underneath the Metal Plate was a sapphire-blue Metal Hemisphere, shimmering with an otherworldly silver light.
At that moment, Shen Sipan urgently exclaimed from beside me, "Hurry up, Boss Zhong! The Buddha light is about to disappear."
I quickly placed my palm over the groove of the Metal Hemisphere. Soon, the mechanism within me integrated into the magic array. As the Metal Hemisphere turned black and the silver light suddenly vanished, I knew the magic array had been activated. I swiftly covered it with the Metal Plate and jumped out of the circular pit.
About ten seconds after jumping aside, I felt a slight Tremble beneath my feet. Song Xi couldn't help but turn pale and said, "Ghost Brother, quickly pull out the portal! I feel like this mountaintop is about to collapse."
"We haven't finished cooling down yet!" I replied with a wry smile. However, I wasn't particularly scared because I sensed that this Tremble didn't feel like a collapse.
Suddenly, the Buddha light outside vanished, and the circular pit beneath us emitted a burst of colorful light so intense that I instinctively closed my eyes. When I opened them again, the colorful glow had disappeared; the pit was gone, and the entire mountaintop was covered in rock as if that dirt pit had never existed.
The Tremble beneath my feet had also stopped. If it weren't for the circle of soil I had just dug up on top of the mountain, I would have thought I was dreaming.
After being stunned for a while, I glanced at my watch: "It's now twelve fifteen. We still have fifteen minutes until the portal cools down. Come on, Shen Ge, let's have a smoke!"
I handed a cigarette to Shen Sipan, hesitated for a moment, then turned to Song Xi and said, "How about you have one too?"
"Sure!" Song Xi immediately replied with a smile.
"Daydreaming!" I snorted, lighting my own cigarette. I took a long drag and contentedly exhaled a thick cloud of smoke, which was quickly dispersed by the strong mountain wind.
"If you don't give it, you don't give it. What's so special about it?" Song Xi pulled out a bag of sunflower seeds from his Spatial Bag and started munching.
"Boss Zhong, we have one last place to go. Where is it?" Shen Sipan took a deep puff of smoke and then blew out two streams of white vapor from his nose like an old water buffalo in winter.
"Shennongjia!" I replied calmly.
In the past ten or so days, I had experienced life-and-death battles with Sand Raiders in the desert, engaged in a battle of wits and courage with Water Monsters at the bottom of Changbai Mountain Pool, and contended with nature in Kunlun Mountain Death Valley. This series of adventures had toughened my nerves significantly; even when mentioning the wild men rumored to roam Shennongjia, I remained unfazed.
What are wild men? Can they summon lightning?
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