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  Chapter 17 Compass

   Li Ang opened his eyes, "Demon?"

   "Heterogeneous in appearance similar to life."

  Cheng Juxiu said: "For example, giant barnacles are a huge group of barnacles that are half a meter long and connected end to end. They float and lurk under the sea surface twenty feet all the year round, like underwater islands.

  Once there is a ship above it, or a creature like a giant whale swims by, it will rise rapidly and devour all objects.

  Wood, ceramics, rice, steel, cloth, and even people.

Seventy years ago, our academy officially captured the samples of giant barnacles, and based on the direction in which the giant barnacles may drift from the endless sea, we drew a new chart and distributed it to all merchant ships sailing in the East China Sea , which reduces the probability of East China Sea ships disappearing for no reason.

  The giant barnacles are just insignificant monsters in the endless sea.

  The purpose of Xuegong is "to know things by investigating things, and then to know things after investigating things".

  Although we also explore the endless sea like the former Sui emperor, it is not to satisfy our own selfish desires, but to explore the unknown.

   This point, you will understand when you enter the academy.

  The Academy organizes senior students every year to go to various parts of Yu State and even overseas to engage in exploration and practice. "

   "In fact, this is why the academy insists on recruiting only disciples with spiritual talent."

  Pu Liuxuan on the side added: "There are really demons in this world.

   It is the Academy, the Zhenfu Division, the Ministry of War, and the Haotian Daomen, which isolate the existence of demons from ordinary people.

  In addition to demons, there are three kinds of aliens: demons, strange, and strange.

  Yao, just like in the storybook novels, refers to aliens that look similar to creatures. For example, the one-person-tall wild boar with tusks that Fusi captured on the mountain ten years ago is a monster.

   It's just that it is useless except for its huge size.

   It's so far from anything I've seen before.

  Demons refer to aliens that look like humans.

  Different, refers to the alien species without life in appearance. For example, whisks, swords, crossbows, armor, etc. that can move on their own and have various weird appearances.

  As for the cunning, it is the most unpredictable and dangerous of the four kinds of aliens.

  It can be a sentence, a dance, or even a phenomenon.

  The original purpose of the birth of the Academy was to explore the unknown, collect information about monsters, demons, strange, and weird, and find a way to exterminate them, or suppress and contain them.

   Under the huge shadow cast by the strangeness, shelter ordinary people. "

   After Pu Liuxuan finished speaking, he looked at Li Ang quietly, thinking that he could see a shocked expression on Li Ang's face, but he didn't want Li Ang to groan, and immediately asked, "Demon, demon, strange, strange.

  So that’s the case, no wonder there are only a few words in all the story books, dramas, and ghost novels, without detailed descriptions.

  Is the school deliberately concealing, or downplaying the existence of aliens, also to protect ordinary people? "

   "Exactly."

  Pu Liuxuan nodded and said: "For ordinary people, the less they know, the safer they are.

  Like a demon, it’s okay to say,

   There are some strange and weird types, even if you just know about them, you will bring yourself a disaster of death.

   Even, there are some weird creatures, the more people know about it, the stronger it will be. "

  Pu Liuxuan paused for a moment, and said slowly: "The bells ringing at Chenzheng and Xuzheng every day in the countries of the world who believe in Haotian Daomen actually also play a role in driving away evil spirits.

  The bell that brings together the mind power of hundreds of millions of living people can directly extinguish the lingering flames of ordinary evil spirits and deprive them of the soil for survival.

  So the more peaceful the world is, the less evil spirits there will be.

  The more rampant the military disaster in the world, the more people die, the weaker the orthodoxy is, and the more evil spirits there will be. "

   "The Chaotic Times at the End of the Sui Dynasty"

   "When the bones are exposed to the wild and people change and eat each other, the human world will be no different from the demon realm.

   Demons are raging, and there is no sky.

  The purpose of the existence of our school is to prevent that kind of thing from happening again in Yu Country. "

  Pu Liuxuan said slowly: "Risheng, have you thought it through yet.

   If you can really enter the academy, it doesn't mean that you will have a bright future, a smooth official career, and you can be a domineering official.

  The Academy was built and maintained by the State of Yu with all its efforts. The disciples of the Academy have responsibilities and obligations, and there are also huge potential risks.

  People cannot fully understand demons, demons, strangeness, and strangeness, even the most powerful monks cannot.

  Sometimes, it is not a bad thing to be a rich man and spend your whole life ignorantly. "

   ".Teacher, I've made up my mind."

  Li Ang took a deep breath, "If I retreat at the last moment, then my reading of "Shangqing Inspiration Chapter" in the past few days will be in vain."

   "Hehe, speaking of "Shangqing Inspiration Chapter","

  Pu Liuxuan asked with a smile: "Risheng, have you read anything during this time?"

"this."

   Li Ang looked embarrassed. It would be fine if Pu Liuxuan asked about his impressions. He wrote a lot of impressions in the memory of the other world.

   But feel.

  Does the pain in the egg count?

   "Then there is no one?"

  Pu Liuxuan shook his head, "Forget it, after all, there are only a handful of geniuses in the sky, as long as they can pass the passing mark.

  Juxiu, take out the compass. "

"good."

   Cheng Juxiu picked up a heavy iron box from the ground and put it on the table.

  The iron box is square, without any rivets or lines on the four sides and the bottom. There is only a raised ball on the top, and the ball is engraved with patterns like planetary rings.

  Cheng Juxiu flicked the ball lightly, like a combination dial of a safe, and opened the iron box with ease.

   Li Ang glanced at it, and saw that the box was full of various sundries.

   There are five or six small porcelain vases, four black iron balls, three silver ingots, three gold ingots and three copper ingots, two bound books, a square compass, and a gray candle.

  Cheng Juxiu took out the compass and candles from the iron box and placed them on the table.

  The overall compass is a simple and profound black-yellow color, with a black-and-white two-color Taiji gossip pattern in the center. From the inside to the outside, it is divided into dozens of concentric rings, and the grid of each ring is engraved with words.

  For example, A, B, C, D, Wu, Geng, Xin and Guan compare to peeling and drying.

   There are also some strange patterns engraved in the grid.

  From the sun and the moon, to dragons, phoenixes and unicorns, and even some unnamed ferocious beasts.

  (end of this chapter)