Chapter 248: Chapter 141 Businessman
Zheng Fa truly felt that Tang Lingwu’s description was vivid.
Beside him, Old Man Bai kept nodding, adding, “This Tianhe Venerable has so grand vision, what a pity you said the new Tianhe thod has already been lost.”
“If it weren’t lost, I’m afraid this new thod would also have so issues,” pondered Zheng Fa. “To my knowledge, the thod itself was not perfected.”
Tang Lingwu said, “What a sha, to be honest, facing a mountain of shitty code, the best course would be to delete and rewrite…”
Zheng Fa shook his head and sighed, “The problem is, I don’t think he managed to rewrite it…”
According to what Elder Han said, the new Tianhe thod seed to have reached a bottleneck in the end—Zheng Fa guessed inwardly, perhaps like Tang Lingwu, the Tianhe Venerable wished to break and establish anew.
But…
Perhaps it was broken.
Yet not established anew.
“As a matter of fact, this new Tianhe thod is quite useful to us…” It was Old Man Bai who spoke from the side, “In the theory of Three Child Talismans, we have always been unable to find a commonality for the third type of sub-talismans.”
“This is probably because the creators are different, and perhaps they even drew inspiration from each other.”
“If we could erase the God Na Sub-characters, I’d be curious to see if that third type of sub-talisman still exists or not.”
Upon hearing this, Zheng Fa thought back to the Spiritual Energy traces he had seen in the soil.
“There doesn’t seem to be any obvious pattern, I will draw it for you later to take a look.”
His mory was phenonal, and he could easily reproduce those traces—though he didn’t hold much hope.
Because those Spiritual Energy traces were far more disorderly than the talismanic diagrams, in Zheng Fa’s view, they likely contained the influence of the Execution of Immortals technique.
While they were discussing, Old Man Bai’s phone suddenly rang.
“Hello?”
“Mu Dao?”
“You want to visit ? Hmm, okay, I’ll ask.”
After hanging up the phone, everyone turned their gaze towards Old Man Bai.
“Do you rember that Qigong fanatic I ntioned before?”
“Mu Dao?” Tang Lingwu curiously asked, “Is that his na?”
“He changed it.” Old Man Bai said with a laugh, seemingly finding the matter amusing. “His surna is Tang, he went abroad early on and took an English na, Tom. Later, he simply changed his na to Mu Dao.”
“That’s quite a coincidence.”
“Indeed, he just said he wants to visit us.” Old Man Bai looked at Zheng Fa, as if seeking his opinion.
After thinking for a while, Zheng Fa nodded and said, “Now that we have the ans to protect ourselves, there’s no need to hide. Let him co if he wants to.”
He was, after all, preparing to get the retirent ho up and running.
Now that his abilities were complete, should a crisis arise, not to ntion anything else, he was confident of at least safeguarding the people before him.
“Alright, then I’ll let him co over and see what he wants.” Old Man Bai nodded, “I inquired about this person in the circles a few days ago. Although he is a bit eccentric, he has a good reputation, and there’s no problem with his academic ability—it seems he’s quite established abroad.”
After a mont of thought, Old Man Bai added, “It seems he is also the chairman of so sort of international Daoist association…”
…
Zheng Fa didn’t pay much attention to this Tang Mudao.
What he was pondering more about was the issue of Spirit Tree Thunder.
“Now I have practiced a technique called Wind and Thunder Body, which has improved my ability to control magnetic fields—a bit of foundation to study Spirit Tree Thunder is now in place.”
In contrast, Old Man Bai sighed softly, “Tian and I have discussed this Spirit Tree Thunder; we really have no clue.”
“We all know it involves magnetic fields.”
“How strong of a magnetic field?”
“In which direction?”
“For how long?”
“A constant magnetic field or a changing one?”
“You have to know, this ti there are no papers to refer to.”
What Old Man Bai ntioned was also the biggest issue with Spirit Tree Thunder.
Setting aside Zheng Fa’s control over Thunder Skill.
Their understanding of Spirit Tree Thunder was like blind n feeling an elephant, not even touching it yet.
“I do have an idea.” Tang Lingwu spoke up at this ti, “Can we start with those new Spirit Talismans that appeared before?”
“Hmm?”
Zheng Fa was taken aback, then he understood Tang Lingwu’s intention and realized, “You an, since those Spirit Talismans have already turned the pea sprouts into Spirit Plants, we study which of these talismans caused magnetic field changes?”
Tang Lingwu timidly nodded, sowhat unconfidently, “It was just a wild thought while I was recording those Spirit Talismans, maybe they have nothing to do with electromagnetic fields?”
Zheng Fa nodded vigorously, “I think there’s a very strong possibility!”
As Tang Lingwu ntioned, he had a different idea.
In ancient legends, Fusang Wood had a close relationship with the sun—and sunlight is fundantally an electromagnetic wave.
Although those Spirit Talismans could only transform pea sprouts into Spirit Plants.
But at least there was a direction now!
…
In the laboratory.
Hundreds of talismanic diagram patterns were laid out before Zheng Fa, who was closing his eyes, driving the Spiritual Power within his body according to the Spiritual Energy paths on the diagrams.
There were also several sensitive magnetic field sensors in the distance.
Tang Lingwu was sitting in front of the computer next door, focusing on the sensor signals on the screen.
Of the hundreds of talismanic diagrams, so were utterly useless, not even consuming much of his Spiritual Power.
Yet so had effects that were too obvious!
“There’s a fire!”
Old Man Bai shouted and scurried out, not even glancing back at Zheng Fa.
Zheng Fa quickly released a Frost Blade Talisman, extinguishing the flas in front of him, fortunately, the equipnt in the laboratory wasn’t too damaged.
“This isn’t great… This is the third accident to happen.”
Tang Lingwu ca over from next door, her face full of disappointnt.
Zheng Fa nodded along.
This was his first ti testing these talismanic diagrams with unknown effects—and he found such actions to be extrely dangerous.
These three tis were okay, nobody was hurt.
If it were so wide-ranging powerful talisman—the retirent ho might have taken off into the sky.
“Besides the safety concerns, there’s another fatal problem,” Tang Lingwu began, “the changes in electromagnetic force—they’re too frequent.”
“You an?”
“Almost every talismanic diagram generates a certain magnetic field,”
Tang Lingwu explained.
Zheng Fa was stunned and imdiately understood—practically all energy changes produce a magnetic field…
If it were like the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder and Cloud Rain Thunder, they could certainly ignore so minor magnetic field fluctuations.
But Spirit Tree Thunder is different…
The electromagnetic changes associated with it might be very subtle.
Then the experints involving these few hundred Spirit Talismans may not be able to rule out any at all…
No wonder Tang Lingwu was so disheartened.
…
As the group slowly exited the laboratory, they all seed to have no clue what to do next.
“How about we record every single one?”
Old Man Bai suggested.
“That’s not impossible…” Zheng Fa said, frowning slightly, “but… it’s not very safe.”
He wasn’t worried about himself.
It was Tang Lingwu and Old Man Bai, the couple in front of him, that he was concerned about.
Of course, there’s also the retirent ho that had gradually improved.
“Yes, if the disturbance is too great, it might be noticed down the mountain,” Old Man Bai added, also frowning, “No one knows what might happen.”
Just as they were at a loss for what to do.
Several trucks suddenly arrived at the entrance of the retirent ho.
“Did you buy sothing again?”
Zheng Fa turned to ask Tang Lingwu.
“No?”
Beside him, Old Man Bai stroked his chin, then suddenly asked Zheng Fa, “Do you know any other wealthy ladies?”
Tang Lingwu’s eyes narrowed instantly.
Zheng Fa felt a bit guilty—for he did know so…
But that’s not right, they’re not in this world!
“Professor Bai!” the driver of the leading truck called from outside, seemingly noticing the large and empty space of the retirent ho, he took out his phone to make a call.
“…Seems like the wealthy lady you know.”
Zheng Fa fell silent for a mont, then turned to Old Man Bai.
Mrs. Tian, by their side, gripped the shovel in her hand, as if itching to use it.
“It must be a mistake!” Old Man Bai rejected the call on his phone.
“I heard quite clearly, he seems to be calling for you, oh, your phone is ringing again.”
Old Man Bai scratched his head, not daring to look at Mrs. Tian, and hurried off to the entrance of the retirent ho to talk to the driver. After a brief exchange, he ca back.
When he returned, his face was full of confusion.
“What’s going on? Who sent it?”
“That person I told you about before, Tang Mudao.”
“Him?” Zheng Fa was a bit surprised, “What did he send?”
“He… sent over so dical equipnt.”
“Huh?”
Zheng Fa was stunned.
Old Man Bai seed equally perplexed, taking out his phone to start making a call: “Hello? Mu Dao?”
“Yes, yes, yes, we received it!”
“How can this be, it’s too kind of you to spend so much!”
“It didn’t cost money?”
“Oh, oh, let ask.”
Old Man Bai hung up the phone, a curious expression on his face.
“What’s going on?”
“He says the dical equipnt doesn’t cost anything and is just given to our retirent ho for our use.”
Zheng Fa was taken aback, then asked, “How did he know we didn’t buy that?”
Truthfully, the retirent ho didn’t rely on dical equipnt, and Zheng Fa really hadn’t acquired much of it.
“He didn’t know,” Old Man Bai shook his head, “he just sent it.”
“…”
Zheng Fa looked towards the trucks.
The equipnt on these trucks seed to be managed by specialists, apparently here to assist with the installation.
“What should we do?”
Zheng Fa pondered for a mont before shaking his head.
For one thing, this equipnt wasn’t really useful; they were just for show.
On the other hand, he wasn’t familiar with Tang Mudao. Regardless of whether the equipnt was paid for, it was definitely valuable.
There was no need for it.
Old Man Bai understood Zheng Fa’s intention and nodded, ready to call back.
An SUV rushed to the entrance of the retirent ho as if on fire, and a sowhat chubby man got out. After talking to the drivers for a few monts, he waved towards the inside of the retirent ho.
“No need to talk over the phone, the man has arrived.”
Only then did Zheng Fa realize that this chubby man was Tang Mudao.
He had previously imagined what this Qigong enthusiast might look like, assuming an eccentric individual or perhaps even soone dressed as a Taoist priest.
Unexpectedly, this man had a round face and a smile, looking rather—slick.
Upon entering, he first nodded to Old Man Bai, greeted Mrs. Tian warmly, and carefully shook hands with Zheng Fa, naturally not overlooking Tang Lingwu.
His smile was cordial and enthusiastic, yet without the slightest hint of offense.
Zheng Fa beca even more certain—this man was neither a scholar nor a Taoist priest, but rather a businessperson who was slick and savvy.
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