Chapter 1547: Special Techniques, Multiple Applications

Thinking this, Xia Duo accelerated a little again, following almost right behind Iolum, and this time he saw the entire process of Iolum taking action.

It was fast—almost in an instant, a flash of spiritual light appeared, and those three twisted Phantoms that were still fighting each other turned into three Multi-faceted Crystal Beads and fell, which were caught by Iolum just as he arrived.

"Let's go, to the next area!"

After completing the kill, Iolum did not linger; he called out to Xia Duo, descended back to an altitude of about a thousand meters, and then continued flying along the direction they had been traveling.

Xia Duo was stunned for a moment, but he did not fall too far behind; after catching up, he began to ask Iolum for advice on how to determine the number of targets during telepathy.

As for how to efficiently kill twisted Phantoms, that did not need much attention; it was nothing more than Spells like Will Disintegration or Mind Negation, merely a matter of proficiency.

Xia Duo did not have much experience hunting such strange creatures before, and if nothing went wrong, he probably wouldn't have many opportunities to do it himself in the future, but the analysis technique based on telepathy was still very worth learning.

Telepathy could currently only target those powerful minds that did not know how to conceal themselves, but in the future, it might be iterated to the point of sensing and analyzing ordinary creatures, which was much more useful than Scrying Spells.

Telepathy was only Passive Perception and would not alert the target; whereas Scrying Spells often required projecting a concrete Perception Field first, which easily alerted the target.

Especially for a Spellcaster like Xia Duo who had already touched the end of the Magic Net, it was almost impossible for any Scrying Spell to detect him silently.

Telepathy might be able to become a trump card!

……

Regarding Xia Duo's inquiry, Iolum did not hold back; while searching for twisted Phantoms, he explained to Xia Duo:

"The entire foundation of telepathy lies in the mind. Netherese Mages have always researched very little in this field; I can only tell you about the parts I know."

"You just asked how to determine the number of targets, so can I understand that you already know how to determine whether a target exists?"

"Yes, just now during the movement, I compared the differences in perception results multiple times and imagined a virtual target; the closer I got to the target, the clearer this imagined target became."

Xia Duo simply and clearly introduced the Differential Locking Method he had just groped his way to, but this method could only simply lock onto a target and could not judge the nature of the target.

He believed that Iolum must have better locking or even analysis methods, but the reality might not be as he imagined.

"You actually use this method?"

Hearing Xia Duo's description, Iolum stopped abruptly, turned around to look at this nominal student of his, his face full of surprise.

Xia Duo felt a bit uncomfortable being stared at by Iolum's strange gaze and hurriedly asked back: "Teacher, is there a problem with this method?"

"The method itself is not a problem; the problem is the user!" Iolum said with a face full of certainty.

"Ah?"

Xia Duo felt even more uncomfortable now and tentatively asked: "What is the problem with the user?"

"Remember what I just said? The entire foundation of telepathy lies in the mind; the more powerful the mind, the richer the content perceived."

Speaking of this, Iolum suddenly sighed and asked Xia Duo: "Do you know how I or ordinary people determine targets?"

"How is it determined?"

"One must first perceive the target at close range, and only then can one barely obtain a vague sense."

"Then there is actually no special method to determine multiple targets, it's just the teacher's experience?" A trace of disappointment inevitably appeared in Xia Duo's eyes.

"It wouldn't be wrong to say that; it indeed relies more on experience, but there are also some special techniques."

Hearing Iolum say this, Xia Duo felt a glimmer of hope again and hurriedly asked: "What techniques?"

"The techniques are similar to the Differential Locking Method you just mentioned, as well as things like Disturbance Stripping, Feature Manifestation, Temporal Overlap, and so on. But because my perception is too vague, I have never actually used the vast majority of these techniques, so I can only tell you the methods but cannot provide guidance; you will need to grope your way through them yourself."

"No problem, what I am best at is learning!"

Seeing that Iolum did not steer the topic back to the mental abnormality, Xia Duo secretly breathed a sigh of relief; he guessed himself that it might be because his Soul was different from ordinary people after multiple Bloodline Awakenings.

Of course, it could also be that his Soul was inherently more powerful than those of Netheril.

Netheril's mental Spells were supported by the Soul, not based on the pure mind and idealism like Psionic Magic.

And the terms "mind" and "consciousness" in Netheril Magic terminology were generally related to the Soul, or simply another way of referring to the Soul.

……

On the road ahead, Xia Duo and Iolum searched for twisted Phantoms while exchanging techniques for telepathy.

The reason it was called an "exchange" was because Xia Duo discovered that the techniques provided by Iolum were exactly the same as the data analysis he often came into contact with when he was a Programmer before crossing over; it was just that the application scenarios were different.

The so-called "Disturbance Stripping" and "Feature Manifestation"—translated into hometown terminology, weren't those just "data dimensionality reduction"? The so-called "Temporal Overlap" was actually performing weighted calculations over time.

Xia Duo had already used this kind of data analysis philosophy when analyzing the Sub-plane data collected by the Tower of Time's Plane Exploration Array.

At that time, each set of raw detection data was a cluster composed of more than 1,200 simplified Arcane Geometry Diagram symbols, with clear boundaries between them.

Such a piece of data could be called a "1,200-dimensional dataset" on Earth; the Plane Exploration Array described the space-time state detected in the Ether Interlayer by the Perception Field through these 1,200+ dimensions.

Hidden within this was information related to the Plane; of course, this single piece of data certainly contained more than just information related to the Plane, as it contained more information that might reflect part of the essence of this world.

Later, when Xia Duo was researching Semi-planes, he had specifically analyzed the data of the Yellow Sand Semi-Plane and even used Plane modification to quantitatively analyze the changes in the data.

Thereby, he derived a clearer correlation between the Plane and the space-time state of the Ether Interlayer, and subsequently derived a more accurate and practical model of the Plane's external features, thereby increasing the efficiency of discovering new Planes!

And discovering new Planes, in the current context, was determining the quantity and even the nature of specific targets in telepathy.

It was just that at the beginning, Xia Duo felt that telepathy was very vague and relied entirely on feeling; he never thought of data analysis, and there was no exact data for him to analyze.

After Iolum's reminder, he realized that he had fallen into a blind spot in his thinking; in fact, this kind of telepathy result analysis was more similar to graphic analysis rather than concrete data analysis.

But the Principles and algorithms of data analysis could indeed be migrated over.