Chapter 175: Inheritance

Green Bud Month, 7th.

Gao De successfully manifested the 11th petal of the Meditation Technique in his mind.

At this moment, he was only 5 petals away from the complete 16-petal lotus of the Meditation Technique.

The further the Meditation Technique progressed, the longer it took to improve.

From manifesting 9 petals to 10 petals, Gao De took 83 days.

And from 10 petals to 11 petals, even with Gao De's talent in the Meditation Technique, it took a full 149 days.

This was far from the speed he had predicted.

Mainly, the time for the Meditation Technique's progress to improve had never spanned such a long time before.

Compared to the previous improvement, this one had almost doubled.

Calculated this way, the time required to manifest the last five petals might exceed two years.

Gao De vaguely felt it was unreasonable.

The next day, after the 【Mage Basics】 class, he asked the lecturing mentor about this problem and appropriately revealed his cultivation progress.

Compared to the so-called "not making a sound until one startles everyone with a single call," the improvement of "taking one step at a time" actually has more benefits, aside from not being able to show off.

One was being more accepted and trusted, and the other was not causing unnecessary suspicion and peeking.

"The Meditation Technique you are practicing is the Apprentice Meditation Technique, right?" The lecturing mentor, Boweiyi, was worthy of being an old mentor; Gao De only raised his question, and he guessed the problem immediately.

Gao De nodded.

"Every Meditation Technique in the apprentice stage has a bottleneck, but they are all different."

"10 petals to 11 petals is the big bottleneck of Apprentice Meditation Technique cultivation. At this stage, everyone who practices this method will be stuck for a while."

Boweiyi explained patiently: "Once you cross this bottleneck, the cultivation efficiency of the Apprentice Meditation Technique will return to the right track."

"However, under normal circumstances, when you started practicing, the person who taught you this meditation method should have told you." He asked strangely.

"Maybe they forgot." Gao De thought for a moment and answered.

Of course, they didn't forget. In the eyes of Master Master Seda, these apprentices could never live to the point where their Meditation Technique cultivation encountered a bottleneck, so there was no need to explain these things to them. "They could forget this, how could they not forget to eat!" Boweiyi gave a dissatisfied sharp comment about Master Master Seda.

Rune workshop.

"Very good," He Xi put down the rune diagram Gao De had just submitted and praised: "You have already completed all the learning at this stage."

He looked at the proud disciple in front of him; after this period of "setting questions" and "solving questions," Gao De had mastered all the various requirements that composite runes could achieve.

Logically speaking, the next step should be to enter the formal learning content of a rune master.

That is, to form a complete magic array through composite runes.

But Gao De's mage level was only a second-rank mage apprentice.

"Logically speaking, the next step should be to start teaching you how to draw magic arrays."

"But... to draw a complete first-rank magic array, the minimum mage level requirement is a first-circle mage." He Xi spoke slowly.

Gao De was stunned.

This was something he hadn't thought of at all before.

Because whether it was a potion master, an alchemist, or other professions, there would be no such restriction.

"Do you know why?" He Xi asked.

Gao De shook his head.

"Because rune masters drawing arrays are not simply drawing arrays according to blueprints."

"Drawing arrays and runes is a job with high technical content. If you simply draw arrays according to blueprints, that's not a rune master, it should be called a copyist, and, it's not that the array will succeed just by doing an exact replica, as for the reason..."

Gao De thought for a moment, thought of the "Six Basic Rules of Runes" he saw on the first day, and immediately had the answer:

"Because the theoretical robustness values possessed by conductive materials of different properties and areas are different, so for the same array, even if there is no error accurate to a fraction, in two different conductive materials, one will succeed and one will fail."

"Correct." He Xi looked at Gao De with an appreciative gaze.

"All magic array master diagrams are just a template, there is no so-called standard size; they even, even if drawn on the same conductive material, will have two completely opposite endings because of the different area of this conductive material."

"So every time a rune master draws an array, it is a brand-new creation, not a copy of an old array."

"And to do this, a rune master must master an ability called 'Rune Modulation'."

"Through Rune Modulation, a rune master adjusts the rune composition, arrangement rules, positions, and connection methods that make up the array according to the different properties of the conductive material, the differences in size, and the different requirements for the array, confirming whether these runes can form an array."

"Through Rune Modulation, a rune master can perceive whether the threshold of the runes drawn on the conductive material exceeds the threshold that the conductive material can bear... that is, the robustness value mentioned in the Six Basic Rules of Runes, and make corresponding adjustments in time."

"And to do both through Rune Modulation requires extremely powerful perception and control; these are all part of spiritual power."

"All tests, all precedents, show that one must at least become a first-circle mage, and only with the spiritual power of a first-circle mage can one do both."

"In fact, not only that, the Rune Modulation of second-rank magic arrays also requires at least becoming a second-circle mage, and the spiritual power is enough to support it, and further up, it is the same."

"This is the strict hierarchy of rune studies."

"But..." Gao De thought of the Six Basic Rules of Runes again and asked in confusion: "According to the Six Basic Rules of Runes, it is completely possible to design the magic array before drawing the array, and then calculate whether the array can be successfully constructed on the conductive material to be drawn."

"If it cannot be successfully constructed, make corresponding adjustments, and then recalculate the robustness value."

"Why is Rune Modulation needed?"

"Because these six basic rules are not currently general rules, they..." He Xi looked at Gao De deeply, "are just rules I summarized myself, just a conjecture."

"After contacting rune studies for a period of time, I found that the rune design in the array has logic to follow, and whether it can be successfully constructed is also possible to be calculated..."

"Later, I spent the rest of my life summarizing the six basic rules..."

Is this genius? Gao De felt infinite emotion in his heart.

Although he is currently a beginner in rune studies, he can also fully understand what the Six Basic Rules of Runes will mean for the entire rune study system.

This is a theorem that, once established, can break the status quo of the "strict hierarchy" of rune studies.

And the Six Basic Rules of Runes with such significance are actually just the work of He Xi alone? "But they are not perfect. Just as you saw at the beginning, the magic arrays calculated to be successfully constructed through the six basic rules have failed examples in the actual process."

"I have been looking for the reason, until you told me the answer."

"Interference constant..." Gao De said softly. "Yes, a constant of interference is missing."

"During this time, I have been calculating and deducing this interference constant, but this is a very large project, not a work of a day or two."

Gao De nodded slightly; he understood the workload incomparably well.

To become a rigorous theorem, this interference constant cannot be an approximate value; it must be a precise value.

Because the larger the rune magnitude in the array, the little error of the interference constant will bring a huge difference after complex calculations.

"I haven't deduced the interference constant yet, so I can't bypass 'Rune Modulation' to teach you array construction through the six basic rules for the time being."

"And you are still far from a first-circle mage, so I can't teach you the traditional method of 'Rune Modulation'."

"So, is there nothing left for me to learn in rune studies now?" Gao De opened his mouth.

"Of course not..." He Xi smiled.

"Next, you will learn a brush technique from me."

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