Mortal Mage

Zhang Mingxuan didn't intend to do anything risky, but...

Zhang Mingxuan lowered his eyelids slightly and counted.

"A full twenty-three spirit stones."

After he finished counting, he slowly closed his eyes.

“It seems to be worth a try.”

He worried about spirit stones every day. Without them, his research on formations would not be able to make much progress.

"Now that I have offended the crown prince, there may not be a good opportunity in the short term. If the young lady trusts me, there may be a chance in three to five years, and I will definitely choose the opportunity to help the old man overturn his injustice."

He can't guarantee it.

"As long as Master Zhang is willing to help me, I am willing to wait!"

Qi Yuan also knew that there were many obstacles in the court regarding this matter, and as long as Lord Zhang was willing to help him, things would turn around.

"Ah."

Zhang Mingxuan raised his hand and took the wooden box containing the spirit stones handed to him by Qi Yuan, closed the lid and put it in his arms.

"If there is nothing else, I will take my leave first. If there is any progress, I will come to see you." After he said that, he bowed and raised his head again and left the room.

After going downstairs, he did not see Wang Han and Guo Zhuoran. He asked the waiter and found out that Wang Han and Guo Zhuoran could not wait for him and had left first, and naturally they had paid for the drinks.

When I got home, Yubin was washing clothes and Xun'er was cooking.

After telling the two girls not to disturb him, he went to the west ear room alone. He planned to use spirit stones to carve a small fire array like in a palace lantern, and was ready to try whether he could activate it.

I thought about it for a long time in the house, but couldn't find any suitable carrier. Finally, after thinking for a long time, I went to the kitchen and got a kitchen knife to experiment.

I saw him spread out the straw paper he had practiced on before, and then took the spirit stone and slowly carved the formation runes on the kitchen knife.

"This rune has been tested many times. It should be used for energy supply, equivalent to a battery."

Zhang Mingxuan murmured as he carved slowly. These runes had been tested many times on paper before, so there should be no mistakes.

"This rune should be used as a switch, but the representation of this switch in the rune is too complicated. This lengthy rune structure is like the Shit Mountain Code. Let me think about it."

He studied the runes carved on the kitchen knife, thinking about optimization.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but he heard the sound of roosters crowing. He looked up again, and it was already bright outside. He felt a chill all over his body.

After stretching for a while, he felt an irresistible sleepiness coming over him and his stomach was growling.

"Dangdang" there was a knock on the door of the ear room.

"Sir, are you going to court today?"

Yubin's voice sounded outside the door.

"Oh, I forgot about going to court."

Zhang Mingxuan patted his head helplessly, then got up and went out.

"Sir, do you still need the kitchen knife? I still need it to cook..."

Yubin said timidly that she had originally wanted to make breakfast for Zhang Mingxuan, but Zhang Mingxuan went to the kitchen yesterday and took the kitchen knife away and never returned it, so she had no choice but to cook some porridge in the morning.

Zhang Mingxuan searched his bosom and found that he still had seven taels of silver. He then took out an ingot of one tael of silver and handed it to Yubin. "Buy another kitchen knife today, and also a copper basin. It must be a copper basin."

"Okay, my lord."

Yubin bent down and put the porridge on the tea table in the house, then took the one or two taels of silver handed over by Zhang Mingxuan and walked out.

Zhang Mingxuan took another look at the half-carved small fire array on the kitchen knife with the spirit stone, and shook his head helplessly; "It's a mountain of shit code, and it's going to be difficult to reconstruct it."

Then he went out and trotted to court.