Chapter 8

After thinking wildly for a long time, Jie Ming finally sorted out his thoughts and sat at the table, counting the things in the box.

"Although I have passed the first hurdle, I still can't let my guard down. I can't ensure that there is no wizard monitoring in the dormitory, so I still have to be careful. At least in the short term, I can't do things related to cultivation blatantly..."

Since he couldn't cultivate, he naturally could only learn something else.

Considering that Clark only gave ten days, the top priority was to master the most basic cultivation technique of the wizarding system, the "Basic Meditation Method."

Only by igniting the fire of spirit could one officially step onto the wizard's path.

Jie Ming found a comfortable position and lay on the bed, taking out the heavy book that recorded the meditation method.

The pages looked like they were made of some kind of metal, the text was concise, but every word contained some kind of strange energy.

After flipping through it roughly, Jie Ming understood that the core of the "Basic Meditation Method" lay in "visualization" and "depiction."

It instructed the practitioner to empty their consciousness, restrain their mental power, and then "depict" and "construct" some specific geometric patterns in their own mental sea with mental power.

The book said that these patterns were not combined randomly; they were the results of countless years of research by wizard sages and were simplified forms of "truth runes" that were highly compatible with the wizarding world's energy system.

By successfully depicting these patterns in the mental sea, one could guide the free energy particles in the outside world into the mental sea, nourish mental power, and build one's own "mental circuit," which was the entry into the wizarding system.

The first meditation pattern for the "Basic Meditation Method" entry consisted of five main bodies, which roughly formed an abstract triangular pyramid shape after being combined.

The book suggested that beginners should first depict these five main body patterns one by one, and then try to combine them after becoming proficient.

Jie Ming closed his eyes, placed the book under his head as a pillow, and emptied his perception of the outside world.

If it were an ordinary newcomer who wanted to enter a meditative state, they would need to use this book as a pillow for the first few times to assist—the reason why this basic meditation method book was made so thick was not only because it was rich in content, but also because it recorded a large number of arrays to assist cultivation, which could help newcomers quickly immerse themselves in the mental sea.

Jie Ming certainly didn't need assistance, and doing so was just to be on the safe side, so he just did it for show.

His consciousness skillfully sank into his own mental sea, where he could feel his mental power, which appeared exceptionally condensed after cultivation and polishing.

Following the guidance of the meditation method, he tried to "depict" the prototype of the first main body pattern with mental power.

This was a strange feeling; mental power was like a tentacle, carefully outlining lines in the mental sea.

Unexpectedly, this process was exceptionally smooth.

Perhaps because of years of cultivation experience, Jie Ming's control over his own mental power had reached an unimaginable level, and depicting patterns with mental power was as easy and natural for him as an ordinary person writing on paper with a pen.

The lines depicted by mental power were smooth, stable, and precise, and the pattern quickly took shape in his mental sea, only one last stroke away from being perfectly completed.

However, just as the last stroke was about to fall and the first main body pattern was about to be successfully constructed, Jie Ming's heart suddenly moved.

"Wait!"

He slammed on the brakes of that stroke, and then deliberately drew it crookedly where it was about to fall.

Boom!

The perfect pattern was destroyed when it was about to be completed, and the mental power gathered during the construction process lost its guidance and instantly went out of control!

An invisible mental shock erupted from within his mental sea, shaking his entire consciousness.

Jie Ming muffled a groan, feeling dizzy, as if his mental sea had been fiercely stirred by a big hand.

Although painful, he immediately stabilized his mind and quickly assessed the impact of this "failure."

This feeling of being shocked by his own mental power... although uncomfortable, it was just a slight vibration to him and did not cause substantial damage.

"So dangerous, I almost forgot the gap in control." Jie Ming felt a lingering fear in his heart.

Having practiced for so many years, although Jie Ming's cultivation base was not high, his control over mental power was definitely not something that those rookies who hadn't entered the door could compare to.

His real depicting ability and mental power control were definitely not at the level that a level six talent apprentice who had just come into contact with the meditation method should have.

Conversely, unless one was gifted, it shouldn't be so easy for a normal apprentice to depict truth runes.

So, he had to disguise.

Disguise as a beginner who would encounter difficulties, would fail, and would need time to explore.

"It's not just the gap in control; when the truth rune depiction fails, the mental power stored inside will actually be completely released, causing a mental shock to the mental sea... In this way, I also need to pay attention to the problems of tolerance and recovery."

Jie Ming's current mental power and various related attributes were equivalent to an apprentice with level eight talent who hadn't cultivated, which meant his feelings were the same as those level eight talent apprentices.

But... what if it were replaced by an apprentice with worse talent?

The talent level he was disguising now was level six, so besides control, he also had to pay attention to other performances after suffering mental shock.

Fortunately, he had deliberately paid attention to the mental strength corresponding to each level of talent during the previous test.

Jie Ming quickly performed calculations.

The intensity of mental backlash brought by failure was fixed, so the mental shock that was irrelevant to him was undoubtedly painful and even dangerous for low-talent apprentices with fragile mental seas.

According to Jie Ming's calculations, apprentices with talent levels below five would suffer quite a bit of vibration in their mental seas after suffering such mental shock, and it would take a considerable amount of time to recover and try meditation again.

Conservatively estimated, even if they didn't sleep or eat, they could try six to eight times a day at most, and every failure was a torture.

And for himself, whose external performance was level six talent, although that backlash just now was uncomfortable, his mental sea could recover to the state of trying again after resting for about an hour.

As for those level eight, level nine geniuses... their mental power and soul foundation must be more powerful, and their ability to resist backlash must also be stronger.

As long as they didn't fail continuously, one or two backlashes might just be an itch to them.

Talent was not only reflected in cultivation speed and potential, but also in trial-and-error costs and fault tolerance!

High-talent apprentices could withstand more failures and make more attempts, naturally allowing them to enter and improve faster.

"The advantage of talent is still very obvious in the early stage... Looking at it this way, entering within ten days is not an easy thing for those apprentices with low talent."