Chapter 445: The Earth Energy I Hadn’t Paid Attention To
“Xiao Han, is there something making you so happy?”
“Mm? Am I that obvious?” Upon returning to the dormitory, I bumped into Yu Yatian, and at her question, I instinctively toned down my overly exuberant emotions.
“Yes, very obvious. Anyone with eyes can see it,” Yu Yatian commented nonchalantly.
“Is that so? Alright, I’ll pay more attention next time.”
“Mm, I have something to do, so I’ll head out first. See you later.” Yu Yatian also didn’t say much; since I hadn’t mentioned what had happened, she didn’t pry further.
“See you.”
After a brief farewell with Yu Yatian, I returned to my private space. Since I had decided to find something to occupy myself with, I naturally couldn’t waste time idly.
So, I directed my attention back to the Knowledge Tree Spellbook.
The earlier research I had begun on Earth Vein Energy was put aside for various reasons, but now that the monthly exams were over, I had ample time to tackle the problems at hand.
However, Sister Bai’s situation still lingered in my mind, causing me considerable trouble. I could only use the knowledge and action integration spell to temporarily get into the right mindset.
After regaining some of my earlier focus, my thoughts shifted back to my research on Earth Vein Energy.
With the help of the Knowledge Tree, I wouldn’t forget important things due to the passage of time, unless I actively decided to delete them, turning my so-called knowledge and memories into pure nourishment for the Knowledge Tree.
I was also preparing for the transformation of the Knowledge Tree. Although I had no concrete ideas, I was actively trying, just like considering how to use unnecessary knowledge and memories as nourishment for the flourishing of the Knowledge Tree.
I recalled the content of the book I had previously read in the library, studying a method of transforming the ‘locality’ of Earth Vein Energy, using alchemy to refine the Earth Vein Energy into other forms of energy.
Since this was my first attempt, the refining array required a considerable amount of extraordinary materials as assistance; however, most of these could be substituted with red copper and secret silver. Even Aoqin could be used in alchemical processes. These materials would be consumed by the principles of equivalent exchange in alchemy, so learning alchemy is somewhat financially draining.
As for other alchemical materials that couldn’t be replaced with secret silver or the like, I would need to purchase them myself. Fortunately, these weren’t rare items.
After finishing these preparations, a considerable amount of time had passed.
This was still due to my efficiency with teleportation spells; otherwise, I would have taken even longer in the past.
It seems very necessary for me to establish my own collection of extraordinary materials, but thinking about the prices of those materials…
Hmm, I feel that building a dedicated teleportation point for a materials shop within the Witch Academy would be more economical. I could go buy them whenever I needed—how convenient!
As long as I constructed a substantial teleportation network, the shops would essentially act as my warehouse.
After dismissing these ideas that couldn’t be completed at the moment, I took the materials I had purchased for a handsome sum and went to a not overly crowded green park in the academy.
Yes, I didn’t return to the dormitory. I went outside because the Earth Vein Energy needed for the refining array couldn’t simply be conjured out of thin air. Although theoretically, Earth Vein Energy permeates every corner of a world, I certainly wouldn’t make things harder for myself for no reason.
Finding a place rich in Earth Vein Energy would reduce a lot of trouble, wouldn’t it?
In fact, the places with abundant Earth Vein Energy within the Witch Academy are mostly open public areas—like the area where we registered at the start of the semester. That place had used large Earth Vein Energy projections back then, just to give the new students a sense of extraordinary impact and help them through the necessary processes.
However, those areas were too crowded. If I made too much noise, I would likely embarrass myself on the spot.
So, I chose this green park instead. The small Earth Vein devices I saw here indicated that the Earth Vein Energy was not weak; otherwise, they wouldn’t have used it to power these devices.
“Mm… this place is nice. I’ll settle here for now.”
Having chosen a relatively open grassy area, I arranged my materials and began my initial attempt.
Before I started, I had already simulated this refining array ritual in my mind using the Knowledge Tree several times, ensuring that nothing would go wrong. After all, a failure would use precious extraordinary knowledge and secret silver!
Those are worth money!
Taking a deep breath, I initiated the refining ritual, adding the secret silver and other materials into the ritual. With my mental threads weaving together, a preliminary outline of the Earth Vein Energy transformation ritual began to take shape.
Next, I focused on the visual records generated by my Knowledge Tree, comparing them against the refining array to ensure I made no errors whatsoever.
Although it’s said that failure is the mother of success, if I were to fail despite being thoroughly prepared, that would be somewhat unforgivable.
However, it was clear that, with just this one attempt, I succeeded. This success didn’t even give me a sense of accomplishment as it was within my expectations.
The miniature refining transformation array began to operate, slowly absorbing the sparse Earth Vein Energy at a painfully slow rate.
But I wasn’t daring enough to use a larger refining array. One, I feared causing too much commotion; two, the materials needed for a larger array would rise exponentially. Even though I wasn’t short on money lately, I felt a twinge of pain at the thought.
But I wouldn’t dwell on it too much now and focused entirely on what lay before me.
Every piece of experimental data was worth recording.
My Spirit Vision was the best observation tool, and the Knowledge Tree was the best recording tool.
“Mm… currently, the output of the Earth Vein Energy transformation is stable, but there has been excessive loss of informational data…” I muttered these details, contemplating whether this brief attempt had met my expectations.
From the current situation, the loss of transformed Earth Vein Energy data was quite significant. If I were to use this ready-made refining ritual, I already knew it was unqualified without even needing to try.
The serious loss of informational data meant that interpreting the information within the Earth Vein would be difficult, let alone the fact that Earth Vein information itself had a certain degree of chaotic properties. Even with an abundant knowledge reserve in the Knowledge Tree, it wouldn’t suffice for such a wastage.
As I attempted to use my mental power to reach out and touch the transformed Earth Vein Energy, sensing its properties and testing its affinity with my mental power.
I suddenly froze.
A thought struck me like lightning.
This energy produced by the completed refining ritual felt so familiar…
Earth Energy!
It was widely used in that small world to the point I had overlooked!
As I realized this, my heart raced. This was a significant discovery!
The more I thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. The Earth Energy transformation technology was inspired by the effects of an extraordinary item in that small world, and once the Earth Energy transformation technology became widespread, the Plant Network quickly expanded. Therefore, Earth Energy was definitely an energy that aligned perfectly with the Plant Network. Even if the energy level of Earth Energy wasn’t very high, its properties were unique.
I was mistaken; previously, I had been wrong!
Earth Energy was the most powerful! It appeared before us in the most ordinary form, so simply and widely spread, benefiting the entire world.
It was the cornerstone upon which the Plant Network could be built!
Now, I just needed to confirm whether this Earth Energy transformation technology could break the locality of Earth Vein Energy and check if the loss rate of information during the transformation process was acceptable.
If everything aligned with my expectations, many problems would be resolved at once!
In fact, I felt that there should be no major issues with the subsequent worries. After all, that world could use Earth Energy to complete global informationization, meaning the loss rate of information it bore couldn’t be that high.
At this moment, due to my excessive excitement, the refining array in front of me began to experience an overload due to my misstep.
“Tsk…”
Watching the refining array gradually enter an overload state due to my mistake, I immediately used a protection spell to wrap it to prevent any explosions from harming people.
Then, I cut off its energy supply, and it eventually fell silent due to the lack of energy.
Although there were still many data points to collect from this refining array, I now had a new perspective, so there was naturally no need to spend too much energy on the old one.
I patted the folds of my clothes, which hadn’t gathered much dust, and instinctively glanced around to ensure no one was paying attention before I left.
As for the destroyed refining ritual?
Throwing it in the trash bin was my final act of mercy. Even though that ritual had cost me a significant amount of secret silver and other precious materials, its value ended here.
I touched the four-leaf clover accessory on the side of my head, searching within it until I took out something.
This was most of the skills and achievements I had gathered from that world before leaving, which I kept for inspiration when I was bored.
Among them must be the Earth Energy transformation technology. Although this was, to some extent, a technological creation, and I had seen the massive Earth Energy transformation devices, which were simply extraordinarily large constructions, I was confident that I could achieve a certain degree of ‘miniaturization’ by leveraging magical power and rune literature.
Not to mention that I didn’t intend to replicate such a large Earth Energy transformation factory. After all, the Witch Academy didn’t have space for such an experiment.
I just needed to extract the principles and guiding rules from this technology, and I could accomplish something similar in my own way.
With that thought, I opened this information storage device using the Knowledge Tree. It was originally a device that could only be accessed through the Plant Network, but my Knowledge Tree, being based on a framework similar to the Plant Network, was technically even more advanced than the Wanlian Main Network and those computer layers. Thus, using the Knowledge Tree to read this information was indeed possible.
After all, my ambition was to use the Knowledge Tree to read the information carried within the Earth Veins!
How could I possibly fail to read a message etched within a technological creation?
Moreover, the origins were the same.
As I attempted to understand the recorded information while walking back, understanding an entirely new and unknown thing naturally required more time and energy. Moreover, since this involved a technological creation, it only recorded technological items, along with many proprietary terms from that world, so I found it somewhat challenging to comprehend.
But that’s fine; what I needed was a task to pass the time.
In the following days, studying the Earth Energy transformation technology was just right.
Time flowed by unconsciously, and in the blink of an eye, several days had passed.
During these days, I thoroughly absorbed this so-called Earth Energy transformation technology and, by using the framework of the alchemical Earth Vein Energy refining array skill, constructed a new Earth Energy transformation refining array, completing my initial attempts.
The preliminary version of the Earth Energy transformation refining array directly overwhelmed the Earth Vein Energy refining array during my initial experiment.
Though the information loss rate of Earth Energy was still somewhat high, it was much better than the initial refining ritual. Furthermore, this was just the first version of the trial, and I had already planned to iterate on it multiple times, transitioning this alchemical form of refining array into rune literature of the spell field.
After all, I needed this technique to be ‘carried’ on the Knowledge Tree Spellbook, so this process was essential.
However, right now, I no longer had the mood to update the Earth Energy transformation refining array; I could do that whenever. It had no difficulty and would constantly improve as long as I followed my plan step by step. However, missing the chance to welcome Sister Bai today would be lost forever!
Today was the day when the academy head mentioned teacher rotations at the Witch Academy, right at the official entrance of the academy.
After all, they would arrive at the main world first, confirm their location, and then head to the Witch Academy. Although I really wanted to leave the academy to welcome Sister Bai, I still couldn’t exit the academy. It wasn’t about not being able to; the protective barrier covering the entire academy wouldn’t stop me, but if I broke the barrier, I would have to compensate. Plus, I wasn’t sure how strict the academy would be in punishing behaviors like leaving the school without permission.
Today, I deliberately wore a more formal outfit, something Sister Bai and I bought together when we went shopping. It was cool to wear, and on my pure white, flawless thighs was a leg ring that Sister Bai liked most, adjusted to the perfect tightness.
Looking at myself in the mirror, the exquisite outfit complemented my perfect figure, highlighting every curve of my body, showcasing feminine charm.
“Eh? Xiao Han, what’s with the extravagant attire today? What are you up to?”
At that moment, Hong Chanyi, who had just walked out of her room, was shocked to see me, as it was the first time she had seen me care about my appearance. Usually, I was bare-faced and only wore the most comfortable outfits. Although this outfit wasn’t exactly what she called formal attire, compared to what I usually wore, it seemed very grand.
“Hong Chanyi? Do you have class today? Why are you up so early? I’m going out to meet someone, oh no, an extraordinary witch. Wish me luck; I’m heading out.”
“Eh? G… good luck…” Hong Chanyi stared blankly at me as I left the dormitory, then suddenly snapped back to reality and quickly ran back.
“Wake up! Everyone wake up! Xiao Han is acting unusually today; something big must be happening! Stop sleeping! Dongli Yiren! Guan Qiuling!”
“Mm… Hong Chanyi? Aren’t you supposed to have class today? Don’t bother me, I don’t have class…”
“Stop sleeping! There’s a high chance Xiao Han went to meet her partner! Xiao Han’s girlfriend… do you understand what that means?!”
