The Emperor is Above

Chapter 276: Great Wilderness Strange Scripture

"What are Yang Hu and Zhu Zhiwu doing?"

"They are so familiar with the newcomer Guqiu Yi."

"Guqiu Yi has close contacts with Zuo Shi, so it's normal for Zhu Zhiwu to be close to him, but Yang Hu is surprising."

"Yang Hu must be crazy. I heard that he invited the chief priest to serve and offended the Crown Prince, Zhonghang Shuo, Qi Huangyang and a group of people. Is it necessary for him to do this in order to get close to Guqiu Yi?"

The Imperial College is neither small nor big, and it cannot hide many secrets. Moreover, Qing Yi's series of big moves quickly attracted a lot of attention.

Some of these students were scared away by the High Priest Chen Lun, while others had just come to watch the fun after hearing the news.

Frightened by the conflict between Qing Yi and Xing Boyun, Zhonghang Shuo, Qi Huangyang and others, they did not dare to get too close and just pointed and whispered from a distance.

Qing Yi didn't bother to pay attention to these people. He held a carving knife and continued to carve a beast-tusk puppet soldier in his hand. More than 250 imperial students were crowded around him.

As the knife in his hand flashed, a layer of white bone powder spread on the ground. Qing Yi chuckled and said, "The beast tusk puppet soldiers got their name because the beast tusk is the hardest part of the bones of exotic beasts.

Now we are just practicing, let's use ordinary eighth-grade exotic animal bones to make do, and when everyone has practiced it, we can use top-grade animal tooth bones to make it officially."

"This is already pretty good. Although the exotic animal bones of the Imperial College are not too expensive, Guqiu Yi, you bought thousands of them in one go for everyone to practice with. This is really a big deal!"

Zhu Zhiwu held a newly completed beast-tusk puppet soldier tightly in his arms, fearing that it would be snatched away again. He looked at Qing Yi with surprise in his eyes.

Even though his grandfather, Zuo Shigong Zhulong, was granted the title of Shang Daifu, he seldom gave him any pocket money. As the son of Yaqing Yang Lezi, Yang Hu was also not generous in his daily life.

Qing Yi was only a high-ranking official among the ministers in the pavilion, but he had the generosity to spend money lavishly. The comparison between the two inevitably made Zhu Zhiwu and other students of the imperial college feel amazed.

"Awu, keep your voice down and don't disturb Guqiu Yi."

Yang Hu, who had been sitting quietly beside Qing Yi and watching, could not stand Zhu Zhiwu's nagging any more, and finally protested helplessly, causing laughter from all around.

Qing Yi chuckled and said nothing about the shock of Zhu Zhiwu and other students of the Imperial Academy. Instead, he quickened his hands and soon carved out twelve animal-tusk puppet soldiers that were one foot and five inches tall. He placed them on a stone slab as objects for everyone to copy.

Zhu Zhiwu and Yang Hu also volunteered to each operate a beast-tusk puppet soldier to start the battle. Although their operating skills were not very good and even a little clumsy, they still had flushed faces with excitement.

After more than 250 Imperial College students personally operated and experienced it one by one, they became interested in learning the rune formation and began to make animal-tusk puppet soldiers by themselves.

Before taking action, these students were confident in their abilities, but after practicing it themselves, they found that this was an extremely difficult task.

Not to mention whether they could creatively combine new rune formations on their own, just imitating Qing Yi's finished products and copying the existing rune formations made them dizzy.

Zhu Zhiwu held his head and screamed in pain, "What's going on? These are all rune patterns that I learned before, why are they always a little different after being combined?"

The other two hundred or so Imperial College students all had solemn expressions on their faces. No matter how proud and conceited they were, they now found that they had failed even the copying stage. While feeling dejected, they admired Qing Yi's rune strength even more.

Qing Yi kept walking among the crowd, occasionally communicating and guiding a certain student. He found that the strength of these students was not low, and they had their own unique insights into rune formations, but they were unable to integrate and apply the knowledge they had learned before flexibly.

In just one afternoon, Qing Yi achieved more than what he had achieved in half a year of self-study through communicating and observing these students.

After making unprecedented progress inadvertently, he became qualified to provide patient guidance to everyone, which made everyone feel that Qing Yi's strength was unfathomable.

Qing Yi showed his huge financial resources, gentle personality, erudition and talent, and took good care of everyone. After just one afternoon together, more than 250 students felt that they had met Qing Yi too late. They were still as close as ever even though they were old friends.

Many times, the relationships between people are very wonderful. Even if they have only known each other for a short time, they feel that they have become good friends with Qing Yi.

It has to be said that Yang Hu's rune ability is the strongest among these people. He spent two or three hours concentrating on studying it, and closely observed and learned Qing Yi's production process. He was the first to successfully make his own beast-tooth puppet soldier, and excitedly showed it to Qing Yi.

"Not bad, not bad, Yang Hu, your ability is still good!" Qing Yi praised generously, "Although there are still many flaws in the details, the overall idea is correct."

"Well done, Yang Hu. I knew you were stronger than Zhonghang Shuo." Zhu Zhiwu patted Yang Hu's shoulder excitedly. "He was able to win this morning because he relied on the material of the fifth-grade saber-tooth ivory to bully others."

Amid the admiration of his classmates and friends, Yang Hu frowned and put his animal tusk puppet soldier on the ground to operate it for a while, then he couldn't help but shook his head and said:
"As expected, what Guqiu Yi said is right. My beast-fang puppet soldier has too many shortcomings. Now it can only walk unsteadily and has no combat power at all. Many details of the rune formation are missing."

Even though the animal-tusk puppet soldiers made by Yang Hu had countless shortcomings, it still gave great encouragement to other imperial students, who all worked hard to study them.

"Boom-thump-thump-"

In the evening, when the evening drum on the drum tower in the upper city sounded, it was time for the Imperial College to finish school.

Qing Yi made an appointment with everyone to meet again the next morning, but did not leave the Imperial College. Instead, he went to the library.

It was very convenient to have the token from the king. The men in green robes guarding the library did not say much. After bowing and greeting, they quickly dispersed.

The Imperial College Library covers a large area and is a five-story castle built entirely of qinggang stone, which houses hundreds of thousands of books.

I stepped into the room and found it was not as dark as I had imagined. The walls were inlaid with finger-sized octagonal crystals that emitted bright light.

"How luxurious! They use octagonal crystals for lighting!"

Qing Yi looked around the first floor of the huge library. The octagonal crystals used for lighting on the walls and bookshelves alone were a huge expense.

Thinking back to the previous time when he met Lord Xing in the palace, those palaces looked very imposing from the outside, but seemed rather simple inside.

As the king of a country, Lord Xing was dressed in a black robe without many valuable accessories. Qing Yi now felt a sense of admiration for this king, whom he had never had a good impression of.

Looking around the first floor of the library, it was extremely quiet. There was no one else here. All one could see were rows of huge bookshelves made of purple-red hardwood, stretching from the ground to the roof more than five meters high. The bookshelves were filled with all kinds of bamboo and wooden slips.

Looking at the countless books accumulated over two hundred years, Qing Yi's eyes lit up with excitement and his hands trembled. Didn't he go to great lengths to enter the Imperial College just for these riches?
However, after Pan Qing read through all of these scrolls with his super-strong spiritual sense, he shook his head slightly and said, "There are quite a few scrolls on the first floor, as many as more than 300,000.

Unfortunately, most of them are common sense, miscellaneous notes, and practice notes, and they are not of much value. However, I found a few books that may be of some significance to you. "

"Pan Qing, record all the common sense and miscellaneous books. As for the practice notes, you should carefully deduce them and select those that are of reference value. You can show them to the children in the school in the future. They will also have certain reference significance."

After giving Pan Qing a few instructions, Qing Yi picked up several books bound in animal skins in front of him. These books, "Records of Strange Beasts", "Records of Ferocious Birds" and "Records of Strange Insects", mainly recorded various kinds of strange beasts, ferocious birds and strange insects.

Qing Yi put them aside for the time being and continued to look through several other books. Taiping Guangji wrote about some evil gods, monsters, and magical things in various vassal states.

When Qing Yi saw the last book, he flipped through two pages and couldn't help but wonder, "This "Great Wilderness Strange Scripture" has a complicated origin?"

Chapter 2 It’s getting evening.

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