"Crazy man, tell me, how come the flying lantern can fly? It obviously has no wings, so why can it fly so high?"
"That's the Kongming Lantern! Old Chen, please go aside and I'll ask..."
Zhang Yan found that he had underestimated people's desire to learn about unknown things. Even after the gag order was issued, many people in his tent still came over and seemed to be "covering it up" but in fact they were "blatantly" wanting to know more.
Regarding the "insider story" of the Kongming Lantern, what they are curious about is why the Kongming Lantern can fly into the sky even though it has no wings. This is subversive to their understanding.
If Lin Zedong hadn't made one himself before, some people would have suspected that Zhang Yan had used some kind of trick while making it while everyone was not paying attention.
Faced with these various temptations, what could Zhang Yan say? He had nothing to say. Because if he said that the reason why the Kongming Lantern can fly is due to the "buoyancy of hot air", would he then have to explain what "air" is?
"What is "buoyancy" and the origin of these theories? Is it over yet?
Besides, Zhang Yan only has a diploma from Pheasant University. If you ask him to explain the origin of those scientific theories, it would be too difficult for him. He doesn't have that ability.
So "I don't know" became Zhang Yan's only magic weapon to deal with the people around him.
Anyway, I am a "madman", so don't expect a madman to talk to you nicely. Zhang Yan thought in his heart, and at the same time, for the first time, it seemed good to have a "madman" on his head.
When asked around, he just said "I don't know", and the people around him were bored. Even though a few people were obviously angry and felt that Zhang Yan was not giving him face, they did not directly get angry with Zhang Yan.
You're a madman, why did you provoke him? Do you really treat him as a normal person? You can't do that!
Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and sat cross-legged on the bunk, minding his own business, and started today's homework. When the people around him saw it, forget it, this madman started again and dispersed.
Although the scenes of flying lanterns flying into the sky were still shocking in my heart, no one was around Zhang Yan anymore.
No one is interested in the way Zhang Yan meditates, with his weird posture. Who else would torment himself like this if he is not a mentally ill person? Not to mention that no one will notice that Zhang Yan’s breathing rhythm is even more strange, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and the length of his breaths
Always changing.
"Plundering the Sky" is not difficult for Zhang Yan. After all, he had already learned it when he was on earth. His master forced him to learn it. Later, the master passed away and the earth had no spiritual energy to absorb it. "Plundering the Sky"
"Heaven" was like a decoration, so Zhang Yan stopped.
Now, the difficulty in picking up "Luotian" again is not the breathing technique itself, but Zhang Yan's hope that the breathing technique can replace his previous normal breathing method. In other words, Zhang Yan's intention is to get used to "Luotian"
With the breathing rhythm, you can breathe in the spiritual energy around you all the time.
After more than half a month of deliberate effort, Zhang Yan was now able to manage to replace his normal breathing method with breathing. However, he could not maintain it when fighting or sleeping.
In the final analysis, I am still not familiar enough. When I don’t need to deliberately maintain the breathing rhythm but can still maintain the breathing technique unchanged, when I have completely mastered "Liu Tian", I will be able to reach the biggest level of "Liu Tian".
A practical effect.
Zhang Yan now has four spirit-gathering talismans on his body, and the time for the breathing technique has also increased a lot. The effect of his breathing spiritual energy has naturally increased several times compared to the beginning.
What remains unchanged is that none of the spiritual energy that was absorbed into the body remains in Zhang Yan's Dantian, as it was cut off by the Wanxiang Pearl on his chest just like before.
There are also changes, that is, the colorful streamers on the Wanxiang Pearl are now more lively, and at the same time exude a wonderful aura that makes Zhang Yan feel "blood connected".
This reminded Zhang Yan of a classic he once read. There were many words in it that he had originally read as legends, and one of them was about "immortal weapons."
It is said that immortal weapons have their own spirituality, and they need to be constantly warmed and maintained by the user before they can exert their power like arms and fingers. There is also a saying of "awakening".
This is also something Zhang Yan has been pondering recently. He speculated that the Wanxiang Pearl was caused by the exhaustion of the spiritual energy on the earth and no longer had the power to drive it. In order to protect itself from being involved in the environment of exhausted spiritual energy, it became corrupted.
Lost, so he closed himself up, and was finally regarded as Longhu Mountain, sealed in the tears of the legendary era and among the scrolls of sect rules and ancestral training.
Later, Zhang Yan got the Wanxiang Pearl by chance, and the light flowing on it showed that it had not decayed like other so-called magical objects in Longhu Mountain.
Zhang Yan remembered that when he was trapped in the dangerous danger of death in the underground palace of Tianzhu Kingdom, Wan Xiangzhu moved first. He first took a breath of some kind of poisonous mist that turned into human bones and spewed out the murderous intent of the underground palace, and then took him through time to the wilderness.
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Is there a possibility that the poisonous mist actually contains a lot of spiritual energy, and Wanxiang Pearl relied on the spiritual energy in the poisonous mist to fight, and Zhang Yan became what he is today after traveling through time? Now Wanxiang Pearl intercepts Hu Zhang Yan
The spiritual energy incorporated into the body is actually a kind of active "nurturing". The breath that makes Zhang Yan feel "blood connected" is the effect of "nurturing". Then all he needs to do is wait for the Wanxiang Pearl to be slowly awakened by the spiritual energy?
However, although the speed of absorbing spiritual energy into the body is several times faster than at the beginning, Zhang Yan understands that this is actually not enough. At least there is still a lot of room for improvement in the gains he can achieve.
The next day, Zhang Yan and his group did not leave the fortress, but practiced in the camp. From that day on, Lao Yu began to teach them how to set up various traps.
In his free time, Zhang Yan ran to the quartermaster in Qili and asked for a lot of yellow paper, a thick stack, and some cinnabar.
Previously, he used thin wood chips to draw four spirit-gathering talismans and an exorcism talisman, which were all effective, and Zhang Yan has been wearing them. However, the effect of the talismans drawn with ordinary wood chips was greatly reduced, and now they are achieved with the help of the Kongming Lantern.
For convenience, it is natural to further optimize the talisman matter.
Just when others thought that Madman Zhang was going crazy again, Zhang Yan crushed all the previous wooden talismans and threw them away, replacing them with regular yellow paper talismans that were much more effective. He also posted twenty of them on himself in one go
Gathering Talisman!
Although the previous wood chips were thin but hard, they were not easy to place too close to the body. But the yellow paper is different. It can be attached to the hands, feet, chest and back without affecting the movement at all, and it is not easy to fall off.
In this way, the efficiency of incorporating Zhang Yan into the spiritual energy was once again increased by nearly ten times!
However, this also made it appear that Zhang Yan's behavior was different from ordinary people. Who would stick pieces of yellow paper with inexplicable paintings on their clothes? What's more, Zhang Yan also explained that it was "safety paper."