——It seems that there is no relevant custom in China anymore.
——Speaking of which, remember that lightning is also classified into the wood element. According to the theory of the five elements, lightning rods can avoid lightning because metal overcomes wood.
——Now if this is really the gathering place of wood element spiritual energy, then there should be lightning and thunder in addition to wind!
Just as Masha was thinking this, a bolt of lightning struck the mountain in front of his left.
——Shit! Which Taoist friend is here to survive the calamity?
Qianxun sighed: "What a bolt from the blue, isn't this unlucky?"
"This means that the spiritual energy here may be the wood element." Masha said, "Keep going forward to the center where the spiritual energy converges."
"Will he not be struck by lightning?" Qianxun was a little worried. "I can handle the wind alone, but what if the lightning strikes someone? Xiao Shi can't revive someone who was killed by lightning, right?"
"It's okay. We haven't done anything wrong. Thunder God won't punish us." said Masha.
Chihiro: "We are still okay. Have you done anything wrong, Masha?"
"I, Masha, am upright and have a clear conscience."
As soon as he finished speaking, a thunderclap sounded in the sky and landed on the mountain in front of Masha.
Masha felt a little guilty.
"When we fly to the first point, the mountains on both sides will act as lightning rods - I guess," he said.
Qianxun lowered the group's flying altitude and continued to fly towards the direction where the spiritual energy was gathering.
It was a place where two valleys met. Two streams of abundant spiritual energy converged here along the valleys and then formed a vortex of spiritual energy.
Yes, other spiritual energies gathered together in a very ordinary way, forming a spiritual energy vortex here.
From time to time, tears fell from the cloudless sky, like a dragon descending to earth.
"This is great!" Masha was very excited. "This place is suitable for our academy. The floating island will float up, and it will be a ready-made fairyland! We can also get some more incense burners to artificially create smoke. When the smoke flies into the air, it will be carried by the wind and rotated. Wow, just imagine this scene, it will shock people in an instant."
"But the airflow here is turbulent and helicopters can't get in. How are you going to communicate with the outside world?" the League Secretary asked. "If we build a college, we need to consider logistics and other things. We must ensure the logistics route, right?"
"Just build a road nearby. We are here to cultivate, not to enjoy ourselves. Besides, as long as there is internet, it doesn't matter if we are a little isolated." Masha spread his hands. "Besides, we must be the only original residents here. We only need very little supplies to live a carefree life."
That’s right, there are so few people in Masha’s group, and only Masha eats more and consumes more supplies. The girls are actually quite energy-efficient.
Girls usually consume mainly cosmetics.
Chihiro: "So it's decided to be here?"
Masha: "I've decided to choose this place! There is also wood-attributed spiritual energy here. The spells that can be cultivated will probably be some wind-controlling spells or lightning spells. They are quite cool and suitable for my fairies."
Cai Shi: "Don't fairies usually use water magic? In those fairy games, the most beautiful and gentle girls must be proficient in various water-related spells."
"And she's a wet nurse, right?" the League Secretary added.
"I don't care, this is it! I want a floating island, I want lightning and thunder!" Masha was just about to learn Baiquan's special skills and lie on the ground and act like a spoiled child.
Baiquan also followed Masha's lead and shouted, "I don't care, I just want the floating island, I just want the lightning and thunder!"
Chihiro: "Okay, okay, this is it. Anyway, our group doesn't usually adopt a democratic voting system. You make all the decisions alone. If you like it here, then this is it."
Masha smiled and said, "You are right. I am the head of the family. Of course, where I say is where it is!"
After saying that, Masha looked at Xiao Di guiltily.
Xiao Shi didn't say anything.
Masha: "Then report this to the office."
**
A few hours later, in the virtual conference room of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
"So, this kid left the paradise we have guarded for so many years and chose a new paradise formed naturally?" Old Man A shook his head.
"The paradise we 'manage' at least has the most basic infrastructure, and water and electricity are guaranteed. He ran to the Zongduan Mountains to find a place, and we have to build water and electricity for it from scratch... It will really cause trouble for us." Old Man B scratched his head.
404 smiled and said, "I will be responsible for arranging the infrastructure for him, but the place he chose is too remote. It is dozens of miles away from the nearest town. It will take at least half a year to build a road there and provide water and electricity."
"Young people today will die without the Internet. Have you ever asked them if they can endure being without the Internet in a remote place?"
In response to Elder C's question, 404 said, "He should have his own way. He asked us for a lot of money, directly asking for the equipment and personnel of a communication ground station, and he hopes to have it in place as soon as possible. I don't know where he plans to build the ground station."
"There are mountains all around. If we don't level the tops of the mountains first, we can't build a ground station, right?" Old Man A said, "I'm afraid this little calf you're eyeing has some hidden tricks we don't know about."
"If that's the case, then we old guys will just have to wait and see."
**
Masha returned home and talked to his non-existent grandfather, asking for a wave of benefits - equipment and manpower for the ground communication station - and now he began to seriously think about where to get the materials to create the God's Land.
The divine land created using Chihiro's ability as a medium definitely requires top-quality pure spiritual energy. It is impossible to simply satisfy that need like the previous creation of the divine land of an orchard where it is spring all year round.
——After thinking about it, I decided to just catch an SSS-level bad guy and put him in the Ark of the Covenant.
——The purity of this spiritual energy is definitely enough.
——Then where can I find an SSS-level villain? I can't just put Cleopatra in there, can I?
——No, no, beautiful girls are all my potential allies.
After much thought, Masha decided that he had to look for an opportunity from his old friend, Salamandra, who had not appeared for a long time.
It just so happens that Masha’s fast travel point has now been opened in Africa, so it is also convenient to find the Salamandra.
If you can't find Salamandra for a while, that's easy. Just move to the Valley of the Wind first - yes, Masha named the place where he planned to build the academy the Valley of the Wind - of course, this is just a tentative name. After the academy is established, it will naturally have to have a pretentious name.
After moving there, we first used a small pickaxe to flatten a hill and build a communications ground station.
When people ask how this flat ground came about, he would say, "I created it using the magic I just learned."
With a communication ground station and a network, the rest will be minor problems.
At worst, I can just eat instant noodles every day!
As Masha was thinking about it, she suddenly heard the doorbell ring in the maid shop.
The maid shop is closed today, and Masha has already spread the news.
Moreover, ordinary people can’t even get within a hundred meters of a maid shop now.
In other words, when the doorbell rings, the person coming in is definitely not an ordinary person.
Masha poked his head out through the food pick-up window and looked out. Before he saw anyone, the door to the kitchen opened.
Claudia von Steiermark entered the kitchen, glanced at Masha, and said, "I want to enroll in your college."
Masha: "Well... it's possible, but your admission requires some complicated operations, right? The KGB and the Stasi, and our office... this, this..."
"Don't worry about that. I've already obtained permission. Your office also said that as long as you have no objection, I can enroll."
Masha was shocked.
——Well, the school hasn’t even had its foundation laid, and the spies have already arrived.
——However, Claudia was the girl I had booked to eat, so she came.
——Moreover, various countries are finding all kinds of reasons to put spies into my academy. Isn’t this something I have expected?
——That’s why the system of inner and outer gates was established.
——The girls from the inner sect are cultivating immortality happily on the floating island, and the disciples from the outer sect are living on the hillside near the floating island, watching the revelry on the floating island every night. This is the future picture I have planned for the academy!
So, Masha nodded readily and said, "Sure, welcome to join our academy which doesn't even have a name."
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3570 words... I looked at the time and decided not to try to write words.
Including the previous chapter, there are 8630 words today.
I'll admit defeat, tomorrow it's 15,000.
You guys can vote.
Anyway, there is still an hour for Shuke maintenance, and I guess I won’t get many votes.
PS: Shelley and Yingqiu both appeared in the previous chapter because I was so focused on making every girl show their faces that I forgot that they shouldn't have appeared. I have corrected it.
Chapter 602: A young man is in vain if he fails to win.
Comrade Josephine—now Comrade Claudia—looked at Masha and asked, “So, how do I practice?”
——Okay, you are a spy as expected. You come up and ask how to practice. You are here to gather information.
——Should I answer “Fall in love with me first”? Forget it, it feels too corny.
——And it would be bad if it got out, it might lead to some strange situations.
"Well, for now, cultivation still requires the support of qualifications. My research has a significant effect on people with high qualifications, but for people with low qualifications..." Masha shrugged with regret, "Of course, I hope that in the future, as I have a deeper understanding of the nature of spiritual energy, people with low qualifications can also get a glimpse of the fairyland."
"Then let's verify my qualifications," Claudia looked directly at Masha. "Since you can group people with high and low qualifications for comparative research, that means you have a way to confirm qualifications, right?"
Masha nodded - he had been planning to announce this to the world. After all, if even the qualifications could not be identified, the college's entrance test would have no persuasiveness.
After announcing that he had a way to identify people with different qualifications, Masha could use this "imperial sword" to decide who could be admitted and who could not be admitted based on his own preferences.
Of course, there will definitely be boys who were rejected by the academy but eventually awakened powerful abilities, but that can be attributed to the fact that current research is still incomplete.
Then the girls in the academy can talk about it: Look at the girls, there are no mistakes or omissions. It must be because there are some differences between men and women. How exactly they are different needs further research.
So Masha readily agreed to Claudia's request, and he even prepared a set of "exams" that looked like the real thing.
"Come with me." Masha stood up, made a "follow me" gesture to Claudia, and turned and went straight to the garage.
Xiao Shi immediately followed Masha, apparently intending to guard against Claudia's sudden attack. Cai Shi would probably be disappointed for a while if she knew that her duty as a personal bodyguard was taken away by Xiao Shi.
But who told her not to be here now?
Claudia followed Xiao Di and behaved very well, not doing anything that would make Xiao Di think that she had any ill intentions.
Masha led Claudia into the world in the car, then pointed to a chair placed under the artificial sun in front of a seaweed pond and said, "Go sit on that chair, close your eyes, and take a deep breath. I will say some words later, and you can imagine these words in your mind. I can judge your qualifications by observing the changes in the flow of spiritual energy around you."
In fact, Masha had already learned about Claudia's qualifications through the magic weapon, but this kind of thing certainly couldn't be said directly.
Not only can he not say it directly, but when he really says it later, he can't tell Claudia straight out what her qualifications are. Instead, he says A and above are considered high qualifications, and anything else is low qualifications. Only by using such general terms can he fool people.
The purpose is to fool people, no matter how.
Masha watched Claudia sit down obediently on the chair, picked up the notebook on the table next to her, and opened it to see that it was the notebook where Xiao Shi recorded the purchase and usage of ingredients - but it didn't matter, so let Claudia's test start by imagining a potato...
Just as Masha was about to speak, Xiao Shi pulled Masha's sleeve. Masha turned his head and saw Xiao Shi pointing at the radio wave detector he had placed in the car.
The detector's red light is on, indicating that radio waves are being emitted.
It seems that Miss Claudia is wearing a bug.
When she was in the kitchen just now, she probably didn't turn on the eavesdropping device, so no radio waves were emitted and the radio wave detector in the kitchen did not respond.
Now that she was in the world inside the car, she turned on the bug.
——It seems that now is not the time to let Miss Claudia join the team.
Masha had previously confirmed through a magic weapon that Claudia's favorability towards him was about 50%, and he thought that with a little more effort he could get her into the team.
It’s better to wait and see now.
Fortunately, after you have a favorable impression of her, you can see Claudia's scroll bar and monitor her actions dynamically.
Even if she didn't want to, she would become Masha's "eye" in the KGB.
Masha began to read the words in Xiaoshi's account book: "Potatoes."
It was not known whether Claudia was imagining or not. Masha did not care and directly scolded her, “Not enough! Your imagination is not enough, you need to be more detailed! Yes, be more detailed! Imagine every bump and dent on the potato, imagine the scars caused by the bumps during transportation, yes, yes, be more detailed!”
Masha's expression was as if he had really seen the potato that Claudia had imagined and was finding fault with it.
This realistic acting made Xiao Shi next to him stunned.
"Be more meticulous, even more meticulous! Only when you mobilize all your imagination, the disturbance to the spiritual energy will be obvious. Do you want me to judge you as unqualified? What if you actually have high qualifications? Wouldn't that be a waste? Imagination! Imagination is the key! Use your imagination to fully utilize your qualifications!"
Masha stopped, pretending to be sensing something, and then said "hmm", and this "hmm" had a deeper meaning.
"Change your imagination to a word, cabbage. Come, imagine this cabbage, be more detailed! Use every brain cell in your brain to the fullest and let them contribute to your imagination!"
Next, Masha performed like this for a full 20 minutes, changing seven or eight key words.
At first, he saw various vegetables in Xiao Shi’s account book, but then he began to let himself go, and the last word was actually “the truth of the universe”.
