[Feng Shui Master]
Next came an introduction to three creatures: the Boar King, the bamboo viper, and the porcupine.
There was the most information on the Boar King.
"Look, this is the Boar King I encountered on my last expedition. By my rough estimate, it weighed at least 800 jin, and its tusks were at least half a meter long."
At the sight of the Boar King rooting through the grass for food in the picture, all four of them drew a sharp breath.
Even though they had heard Coach Chen talk about a wild boar of this size before.
Seeing an actual photograph of it brought an entirely different sense of pressure.
After the shock came excitement.
These people had all been practicing archery for at least a dozen years, and each had thought, to some extent, about using the bow and arrows in their hands to hunt wild beasts, let alone a Boar King of such enormous size.
Wang Quan's booming voice rang in their ears.
"If you encounter a wild boar of this size in the future,
you must be extremely careful. Retreat and escape without making a sound, and don't even think about facing it head-on.
If you can't escape, you must climb a large tree with a sufficiently thick trunk and wait for rescue. Don't entertain any thoughts of defeating it alone."
The next photograph showed the same Boar King, with an arrow through its eye and three more lodged in its body.
"Unless you can hit the Boar King's brain or eye with a single arrow, with 100% certainty,
don't even think about any other way of hunting it."
The last photograph showed five or six wild boars howling around the Boar King's corpse.
"See? Wild boars generally live in groups. If you can't kill one in a single blow, run for it, or there's a good chance you'll be surrounded and attacked."
Next were photographs of bamboo viper and weasel poisoning, as well as porcupine quills.
After seeing the photographs of these dangerous creatures, Hu Jun and Li Guohua began to have second thoughts.
But when they saw that there was no fear of the dangerous creatures in Chen Zhenhua's and Mo Yuemei's eyes,
and that seeing the slain Boar King and the speculation about the venomous snake and porcupine quills had instead made them even more excited, stirring the hunting genes in their bodies,
the two gradually quieted down and abandoned their plans to withdraw.
Seeing that they had not given up because of the dangerous creatures, Wang Quan began to explain the expedition team's true objective.
"Our boss has already had Coach Chen tell you about the distribution of the meteorites.
But I'll stress it again: during this expedition, whether you collect them individually or together, they'll all count as the company's haul and will be collected by the relevant authorities."
All four were reasonable people. They knew that on this expedition, their presence would force Wang Quan, the team leader, to divide his attention to look after them.
As auxiliary members, helping the company collect meteorites was a fair, mutually beneficial exchange, so they all nodded in agreement without objection.
They also knew full well how much they were worth when it came to surviving in the wild.
After all, what people feared most was misjudging their own abilities, exposing themselves to danger, and doing something stupid.
After that, he continued explaining wilderness survival to them and the arrangements for the next few days.
He also told them that the expedition might begin in a few days and asked them to arrange their schedules.
Over the past few days, Wang An had posted a bounty on the [National Special Resources and Talent Exchange Platform] for a secret method of arranging a feng shui aura, or for information on a sect or lineage from which he could pay a price to borrow and study one.
The answers he received were mostly illustrated collections documenting special auras of heaven and earth.
No one had heard of such a secret method.
Some people kindly warned Wang An that secret methods were all scams and that he should believe in science.
Such concepts in feng shui theory as "sheltering the wind and gathering qi" and "the arrangement of mountains and water" were essentially a summary of the ancients' experience of the natural environment and psychological experience.
Somewhat disappointed by these answers, he could only read historical classics such as the Book of Burial, the Classic of Shaking Dragons, and Geography: Essential Knowledge for Sons of Men.
Combining those with modern scholars' research into feng shui, he found that what people called feng shui
merely involved altering a local area to influence the overall flow of energy and the magnetic field.
No one had ever been able to create a feng shui aura from nothing and arrange it according to their own needs and wishes.
I didn't expect it to be like this. Perhaps the [Feng Shui Master] class simply doesn't exist in real life.
But the class guidance clearly displayed the requirements for taking the class, which meant it was possible to take it.
And judging by previous class guidance, classes that did not exist or involved supernatural powers had no class-change information.
So Wang An believed it was possible to take the [Feng Shui Master] class.
But in reality, there were no feng shui masters capable of arranging a feng shui aura entirely on their own.
It could also be said that this class, this path, was still in the early stages of developing through experience. It had not yet taken shape, but might do so in the future.
The whole matter had come back to square one.
Wang An could only start with himself and, using previous records of feng shui auras, work out their patterns and effects.
Starting by changing a feng shui aura, he would build a complete theory step by step.
Only when he could independently arrange a feng shui aura with a clear purpose would he be able to successfully take the [Feng Shui Master] class.
Fortunately, Wang An now had an excellent aid for studying feng shui auras: a sufficient number of Class Change Stones.
At the Kunshan meteorite impact site, they had resonated and activated the area's feng shui aura, enhancing its magnetic field and its ability to block artificial signals from the outside.
The Class Change Stones had other functions that had yet to be discovered. Perhaps the state had conducted some research already, since it had collected many Class Change Stones, but it could not possibly tell him.
But he had a perspective most people lacked: his talent, Observe the Qi of All Things.
Perhaps he could use the perspective of the qi of heaven and earth to work backward and deduce how a feng shui aura formed.
On the ninth, Wang An moved into the villa in the suburbs. Perhaps he could use the mountain forest behind it to conduct feng shui experiments.
Observing the qi around the villa, he saw no other qi apart from the human qi present in every occupied house.
Looking toward the mountain behind the villa and its peak, he could see water qi flowing from the peak in all directions, while the clear qi of the mountain forest circulated around it.
He began the experiment.
Wang An first hid a Class Change Stone behind the villa and saw no change.
He then went to the mountain peak, hid another Class Change Stone, and continued observing.
An hour later, Wang An saw that the water qi on the peak was flowing outward a little faster.
The clear qi of the mountain forest, meanwhile, circulated more slowly as it passed between the two Class Change Stones.
Moreover, "resonance" could only occur when the two Class Change Stones were within 100 meters of each other.
It slowed down and sped up the water qi and clear qi passing through.
Wang An was thrilled to discover this pattern.
It showed that his line of thinking was right. Perhaps it was precisely because a large number of Class Change Stones affected the changes and speed of the qi of heaven and earth that the area's feng shui aura had grown stronger, causing the magnetic field to strengthen.
This also showed a strong correlation between the feng shui aura, the strength of the magnetic field, and the changes and speed of the qi of heaven and earth.
Next, he verified this conjecture by arranging different numbers of Class Change Stones in different shapes and positions.