In Sumeru, pretend to be a scholar!

Chapter 85 Application of Knowledge from Different Schools of Thought (August 20, Seeking First Subscription)

Faced with Wang Yan's question, Farusan rolled her eyes again: "You idiot! Runes, runes, runes! What are you doing learning so many runes?!"

"—" Wang Yan glanced at her and said in a wronged voice, "Teacher, I haven't learned grass element runes yet."

Farusian paused for a moment, then said, somewhat angrily, "That's why I was just about to teach you."

Seeing that the cute girl was a little embarrassed, Wang Yan quickly said respectfully, "Thank you, mentor. I will definitely study hard."

This foolish apprentice of mine seems to have a bit of a cunning side.

Farusan took a deep breath, calmed her emotions, and regained her composure as a mentor.

"The element of grass differs from elements like wind, thunder, and fire; it leans more towards the characteristics of growth, connection, and nourishment. Simply put, grass has roots, so it won't be blown away by the wind."

"Of course, this is a metaphor; you just need to understand it."

"Falusian said."

Wang Yan nodded slightly; he could understand.

"Therefore, we need to use runes to create a field that can attract and gather free grass elements in the environment."

As she spoke, she quickly sketched out a complex and beautiful array of compound runes.

"Look at this rune array; its core represents vitality, lushness, and roots—these are all basic grass element runes."

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"These runes, when combined, can form a field that gathers grass elemental energy."

"Although the desert may not show much greenery, it is still a part of Sumeru. The grass element is just inactive, not non-existent. Therefore, as long as there is such a field to gather the grass element, that is enough."

"Alright, let's talk about water element runes then," Farusan continued.

In addition to the Grass element, the Water element is also essential for the Bloom reaction.

"Water and wind elements actually share some similarities; they both possess the characteristic of flow. Therefore, water element arrays often use the 'flow' rune. However, the 'flow of water' and the 'flow of wind' are different; please pay attention to the distinction."

"Compared to grass elements, water elements are indeed scarce in the desert environment. However, there is an underground water vein beneath this site, which makes things convenient for us."

With the addition of water elemental runes such as "Flow," "Guide," and "Gather," along with general runes representing "channels" and "filters," it can draw water elemental power from underground water veins through the tiny fissures in rock strata, much like the roots of a plant absorb water.

"Note that it is not about extracting energy from the earth's veins, but about guiding water element energy. The array will have a filter layer to ensure that only pure water element is guided, avoiding the extraction of some things from the earth's veins as well."

After saying that, Farusan took out a golden metal plate and a small carving knife: "Did you memorize the runes from earlier?"

Wang Yan hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "I've got it."

Perhaps it's because of his diligent studies, but Wang Yan's memory is getting better and better.

Although the Golden Finger's analysis of extraordinary runes was slow, Wang Yan memorized them himself.

"Alright, you can draw the grass element array from earlier." Farusan handed the item to Wang Yan. "This is an array plate made by Mora. It has excellent supernatural properties. It's very useful for quickly drawing an array plate when needed."

"This piece will probably require about 500 Mora to melt."

Wang Yan reached out and took it; the metal plate was heavy, the weight of the money inside.

"I'll handle the water element array." Farusan then took out another Mora array disk.

Then she ignored Wang Yan and focused on inscribing her array, seemingly quite confident in Wang Yan's abilities.

Seeing this, Wang Yan felt no guilt and also lowered his head to start carving.

Since becoming an apprentice of Farusan, he has received excellent training in mechanical arts, including carving and engraving, which are essential parts of mechanical arts.

Therefore, Wang Yan's hand was very steady, and his carving speed was not slow.

While recalling the rune array in his mind, Wang Yan struck the array plate with his sword.

However, even so, Wang Yan's speed was not even half that of Farusan. By the time he finished, Farusan was already setting up other things.

"Mentor, I'm done," Wang Yan called out.

Farusan glanced over and said, "Hmm, bring it here and put it on that."

"This is?"

"A simple elemental restraint device can restrain the elemental power gathered by the array plate."

"Is this also part of our school of thought on epistemology?"

"Hmm? Of course not. This is a technique from the Su Lun school, which the Miao Lun school sometimes uses as well," Farusan said casually. "Remember, knowledge itself is not divided into schools. Learn what is useful, and don't be prejudiced against any particular school."

Schools of thought exist because they categorize knowledge.

But if you use portals to engage in knowledge discrimination, that's truly foolish.

Wang Yan nodded and placed the inscribed array plate at the position indicated by Falushan. At the same time, with a "click" sound, Falushan took a fragment of grass element and placed it into the core of the array plate.

As a wisp of green elemental energy began to travel along the rune array, specks of green light appeared in the surrounding air.

Elemental power visible to the naked eye!

This level of harm is already harmful to the human body.

However, the moment these elemental forces appeared, the restraint device below the array plate began to exert its force, and the free elemental forces were quickly restrained and gathered above the device.

On the other side, the water element array plate that Farusan was in charge of was also activated, and the light blue element sphere was also restrained.

"Mentor, I have a question."

"explain."

"Once we've bound the elemental power, how will we use it later?"

Wang Yan asked with a puzzled look.

You can't just hold the elemental ball in your hand and throw it like a shot put, can you?

In response to Wang Yan's question, Farusan took out two palm-sized bottles from her small bag: "Use these."

"What is this?" Wang Yan asked hesitantly.

He now suspects his mentor is Doraemon, since his bag contains all sorts of things.

"Have you ever heard of the wind seed?" Farusan asked in return.

Wang Yan nodded: "I know. One of the unique features of Mondstadt is that it is essentially an elemental spirit that contains wind elemental power."

"Well, the Mondstadt people developed something called the Windcatcher Bottle to capture wind seeds in order to use it," Farusan explained. "And the Mysticism School also gained some inspiration after studying the Windcatcher Bottle. Although wind seeds are rare in Mount Meru, the Windcatcher Bottle's ability to restrain elemental forces is very useful."

"Based on the material of the Wind-Catching Bottle, they collaborated with the Elementalists to develop this Elemental Bottle, which can store high concentrations of elemental power," said Falushan, pointing to the bottle and then to the elemental sphere on the elemental restraint device. "In a moment, we'll put the elemental sphere into the Elemental Bottle, then throw it into the lightning elemental field inside, and you can watch the fireworks."

"The only thing to be careful about is to retreat as soon as you throw them. Without the control of the Eye of God, the activated grass seeds will attack indiscriminately."

Wang Yan nodded, knowing that this was also the difference between reality and the game.