Chapter 5: Supernatural Object

Gao De sat cross-legged on the bed according to his memory.

He kept his chin parallel to the floor, closed his eyes, straightened his back, and placed his hands on his knees, palms up, fingers relaxed.

In this meditative posture, the whole person would feel very comfortable and relaxed, and then better enter the meditative state.

Of course, for a veteran mage, one can easily enter the meditative state and start cultivation in almost any posture and any environment, without these "aids."

But Gao De was still just an apprentice among apprentices, so he naturally followed the procedure strictly.

After breathing deeply for several minutes, Gao De finally entered the state; in his consciousness, he now seemed to be in a dark universe.

Countless stardust floated in this universe, wandering aimlessly, beautiful and charming, emitting points of starlight.

This is the magic power that exists in the world, the cornerstone of the world's power.

It is abundant and powerful, infinite.

The so-called guiding method is to use one's own mental power to guide this magic power, let it enter one's body, and refine it into mana.

Gao De began to try to use his mental power to guide these magic stardust.

These magic powers followed the control of his mind and intention, entered his body with the breath he inhaled, and then descended all the way, descending all the way to the position of his navel, before starting to settle.

This was not the end; after feeling that the magic stardust had settled, Gao De still needed to manipulate his mind and intention, following the rhythm of breathing, constantly polishing these magic powers until they turned into his own mana.

The whole process, to be honest, was not very efficient.

Because the guiding method and meditation method Gao De practiced had a unified name—Apprentice Guiding Method and Apprentice Meditation Method.

As the name suggests, it was a practice method specifically for mage apprentices, the most basic thing; the disadvantage was that it was basic, and the advantage was that it was basic enough; for laying the foundation, it had reached the point of perfection, but the efficiency was definitely not high.

Gao De immersed himself in his first practice until he began to feel tired, and the efficiency of guiding the magic stardust was about 30% lower than when he started, before he stopped.

He knew that his mental power consumption had reached the 40% threshold, and it was time to start practicing the meditation method.

Gao De rearranged his posture, adjusted his breathing for a while, closed his eyes according to the requirements of the Apprentice Meditation Method, and began the practice of the meditation method.

The practice of the meditation method is similar to the visualization method often mentioned in Buddhism in the past life, outlining some strange and mysterious objects in the mind to enhance mental power.

The Apprentice Meditation Method embodies a sixteen-petaled lotus flower, and the number of lotus petals embodied is directly proportional to the progress of cultivation.

Once the sixteen-petaled lotus flower can be fully embodied, this Apprentice Meditation Method can be considered to have reached perfection.

However, Gao De's current cultivation progress was far from perfection.

If he remembered correctly, the predecessor had practiced until now and could only embody five petals, which was because the predecessor's mental power talent was extremely good.

This progress was not bad; one must know that the apprentices in the same batch as Gao De, and even those who started practicing earlier than him, were only at the level of one or two petals so far.

As his mind immersed, Gao De clearly perceived the existence of mental power.

In the endless darkness of consciousness, a lotus flower slowly rotated, existing in his mind.

It was just that this flower did not have a physical body, but was just an outline drawn by some dotted lines.

The purpose of the meditation method practice is to use mental power to fill these dotted lines and embody the real lotus flower completely.

Gao De was about to embody the lotus flower as in his memory, but just then, he suddenly noticed that deep in his consciousness, there seemed to be something extra, shining with light.

Subconsciously, his heart moved, and his mental power and attention concentrated on the point emitting light.

Deep in the consciousness space, it was still dark.

But besides that, there were countless irregularly wandering stars and two sets of magic models that looked like galaxies but were actually fixed.

Those were the two cantrips Gao De had mastered.

Looking at it as a whole, the depths of the consciousness space were like a sea of stars.

Hence this place was called the Magic Star Sea.

However, today, besides stars and magic models, there was something extra in the Magic Star Sea.

Something that shouldn't exist.

It was a "crescent moon."

Quietly and steadily floating in the very center of the Magic Star Sea, motionless, emitting a clean and bright light.

More accurately, it should be a crescent-shaped gemstone.

Its shape was very similar to a magatama, with a wide and round head and a sharp and thin tail; the whole was white, but not milky white, but the clean white of the moon.

The gemstone was crystal clear, without a trace of impurities, and its surface was also grown with complex and beautiful patterns and designs, like some strange symbols.

Yes, it was grown, not engraved.

Because there was no trace of processing at all; these patterns and designs were integrated with the gemstone, natural and perfect. Gao De looked blankly at this crescent gemstone existing in his mind, unable to believe it.

"Isn't this the pendant I've always worn around my neck before?"

This was the heirloom of his Gao family, which his old man had strung into a pendant and passed on to him.

Gao De had worn this pendant for more than ten years and had never found anything unusual about it.

But now, this item that didn't belong to this world had actually transmigrated to this world with him.

And it had changed from a physical existence to an illusory one, taking root in his Magic Star Sea.

Even transmigration had happened; having one more gemstone in his head didn't seem like a hard thing to accept.

But why this gemstone?

This meant it must have something special.

Gao De tried to keep calm and recalled the relevant information about this gemstone.

Then he found that when his old man passed this gemstone to him, he didn't introduce its origin too much.

Gao De only knew that this gemstone must be worth a lot; he could be sure that it was definitely not a handicraft made of agate, talc, or the like, but a natural gemstone.

Because it was too exquisite, so exquisite that it didn't look man-made.

It should only be the uncanny workmanship of nature that could forge such a work of art.

Gao De observed carefully for a long while and really didn't find anything unusual.

"An extremely rare supernatural object," he made a judgment on the origin of this gemstone based on his understanding of this world, "and it could transmigrate to this world with me; this point alone is enough to prove that its rank is definitely not low."

Gao De cautiously reached his mental power toward this crescent gemstone.

This was the most common way to activate a "supernatural object" in his memory.

Gao De tried to activate this "supernatural object" to find out its function.

However, as soon as his mental power touched the gemstone, it was like hitting a wall; after hitting the wall, it was immediately bounced back.

Gao De thought for a while, no longer cautious, and mobilized all his mental power to try to activate "it" again.

Once, twice, three times... until Gao De felt a little tired, this "crescent moon" was still floating there steadily, without any change, and didn't move a bit, "impervious to oil and salt."

His heart was shocked.

At first, he thought it was just because he was too cautious that he couldn't activate this magic object, but later, he had already gone all out, and he didn't expect to fail.

Gao De observed the gemstone carefully again, trying to find some mechanism.

The ending was still nothing.

Now Gao De was worried; there was such an "alien object" in his head, but he didn't know what it was for; who could be reconciled?

But the problem was, this thing was like a nail house, settling down in his head; his mental power couldn't shake it at all, and he couldn't drive it away.

No matter how unreconciled he was, he couldn't change anything.

"It's highly probable that it's because my current mental power is too weak, so I can't activate it or shake it," Gao De guessed.

"Forget it." Gao De, who really couldn't do anything about it, finally had to choose to give up.

At least it could be determined that this gemstone that inexplicably transmigrated with him had no harm to his body.

That was enough.

So, Gao De withdrew his attention from the gemstone, took a while to calm down, and re-entered the meditative state.

The lotus flower composed of dotted lines in his consciousness gradually solidified under Gao De's meditation.

The lotus platform turned into a solid body, and the five petals on the lotus platform were also gradually embodied by Gao De. Nearly two hours later.

Gao De opened his eyes.

A thick sense of fatigue floated into his heart.

The mental power previously consumed by practicing the guiding method had been restored with the meditation method, but mental power restoration did not mean fatigue could be eliminated.

And on the contrary, according to the memory left by the predecessor, taking a good sleep after practicing the meditation method was the best effect.

Amy finished his practice earlier than him and was already asleep, making a slight snoring sound.

Gao De also took off his coat lightly, lay down on the bed, recalled what he had seen and heard since coming to this world, and pondered how to escape and more... (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 6 =====