Steam Old Days: The Extraordinary Begins with a Corpse Collector

Seeing Lyndon so excited and holding her hand, Cecilia blushed slightly. She turned her head away and muttered softly, "I know, I... I'll definitely teach you..."

Cecilia looked at Lyndon, who was so close to her, and shyly rolled up the booklet in her hand.

Lyndon then realized that he had become a little emotional.

He took a half step back, coughed lightly, and said restrainedly, "In short, I'm leaving it to you, Miss Cecilia."

"Um……"

Cecilia lowered her head, first casually flipping through the booklet in her hand, then closing it, and then rolling it up with both hands, rolling it tighter and tighter.

The two stood face to face in the library, and the atmosphere in the room gradually became strange.

It was at this moment that Cecilia asked about the secret arts that Lyndon was majoring in.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, what direction does your major secret technique take?"

A person's energy is limited, and the spiritual power contained within their body is also limited. They cannot support an extraordinary person to engage in too many different secret techniques.

Therefore, outstanding extraordinary individuals will choose a type of extraordinary secret technique as their main path of cultivation.

As for other types of secret arts, they only dabbled in them, and never really got started.

Lyndon was taken aback. After a moment's thought, he carefully said, "It's mental."

"Mental health?"

"Your major is mental magic!"

Cecilia exclaimed, raising her eyebrows, widening her eyes, and covering her gaping mouth with her hand.

The main reason is that, just like spiritual beings, extraordinary individuals who specialize in spiritual secret arts are also rare.

Even the history of the origin of mental magic is shrouded in mystery.

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Spiritual mystic arts are derived from the status of the gods of the heavens and stars.

Legend has it that Ura Aster, the goddess of the heavens and stars, controls the world's weather changes and the movement of the stars.

For ancient humans, the sudden appearance of lightning and torrential rain, as well as the movement of stars in the sky, were all miracles created by the gods.

They seemed to have no choice but to worship.

Until one person looked up at the starry sky in the dead of night.

That person sat on the hillside and watched all night long.

The first rays of dawn peeked through the gaps in the mountains, shining on his face.

For the first time, many unexpected questions arose in his mind.

"What exactly are wind, rain, thunder, and lightning?"

"And what are the stars in the sky?"

"And what is this space I exist in...?"

The man shared his question with the other members of his tribe, but even the wisest elder in the tribe could not answer it.

These questions began to circulate among the tribe, attracting more and more tribespeople to think about them.

The tribespeople even stopped sleeping and talked all night long.

But gradually, strange things started to happen.

Some tribesmen died in their sleep for no apparent reason; some lost their sight and became the first blind people; and some suddenly went mad and burned themselves to death.

Fear began to spread within the community.

People blamed the person who raised the question, believing that he had brought about the disaster and that his question had blasphemed the gods.

Therefore, the man was driven out of his tribe, and he wandered aimlessly, enduring hunger and pain.

He looked up at the starry sky once again; the Milky Way flowed and the starlight was dazzling.

In a daze, it seemed as if every star was resonating with each other.

Suddenly, the man seemed to realize something, and he started crying and laughing, jumping and leaping.

He shouted, "I know! I know!"

Then, the man ran wildly towards the stars in the night sky.

At this point, a madman appeared on this continent, spreading knowledge about the starry sky everywhere.

As history progressed, mental techniques gradually took shape.

Furthermore, cultivating this type of secret technique is an extreme test of an extraordinary individual's talent and strength.

Therefore, even among those who are spiritual superhumans, the differences between them are enormous, far greater than the differences between superhumans in the other five categories of secret arts.

Logically speaking, if a superhuman specializing in mental cultivation were to emerge, shouldn't the church be actively nurturing him? Why would they assign him to such a remote place as Hickory Corner?

Cecilia was filled with doubts.

She stared blankly at Lyndon's face.

Suddenly, she seemed to realize something.

"Could it be that Mr. Philip did something wrong during his internship and was punished by being sent here?"

Cecilia explained to herself.

She remembered the days when Mr. Craig was still alive. Back then, if she and her brother made a mistake, Mr. Craig would punish them by making them do chores for the villagers nearby—the kind of tiring and dirty work.

Mr. Craig said this punishment was called tempering one's will.

Perhaps Lyndon is here now because he made a mistake and was punished.

Well, thinking about it that way, it makes quite a lot of sense!

However, Cecilia then realized a problem.

That means neither she nor her brother majored in mental science, nor did Professor Craig.

So how should she guide Lyndon?

Furthermore, the practice of secret techniques inevitably requires the use of magical potions.

There are no mental potions in the Grayhorn Sanctuary!

"Sis! Where are you?"

Just as Cecilia was wondering what to do, Herbert's voice suddenly came from downstairs.

Cecilia clung to him like a lifeline, shoving the booklet into Lyndon's hands and saying with feigned composure, "Read the book first! To master the secret arts, you need to master the theoretical foundation first. I'll teach you later."

After saying that, she hurriedly ran downstairs.

Seeing that he was the only one left in the library, Lyndon stretched and then closed the door.

He walked around the room, browsing the books on the shelves.

Among them, books such as "A Brief Introduction to the Doctrine of the Divine Oath", "An Introduction to the Foundations of Spiritual Power", and "Twelve Lectures on Purification" attracted his attention.

Lyndon casually picked out these books, then sat down on the floor and placed them on his lap.

He opened the book and began to study it word by word.

The first thing to solve is how to control spiritual power.

Lyndon had neither received a church blessing nor had he undergone a transplant.

His power comes from nightmares and the skills granted by the Book of Fate.

But he never explored the potential within his body.

Therefore, the first book Lyndon opened was "Introduction to the Fundamentals of Spiritual Power".

The book says that the six gods created the world and created countless living beings.

In the process, the gods distributed one-thousandth of their power to all life.

Therefore, every life contains spiritual power, only varying in degree.

Those with profound spiritual power can freely mobilize their power and become so-called extraordinary individuals after being guided by the church.

"For a mortal to become extraordinary, they must first thoroughly study the Earth Embryo Laws, calm their mind, and find the existence of spiritual power within their body..."

As Linden silently read the book, he realized that there were strict rules governing the advancement of each level of a superhuman.

For example, a first-order Earth Embryo.

They first need to study a special set of inherited rules, and the rules are different for each level.

The first-order is called the Earth-based Law.

In addition, they need to take potions to temper their bodies. Generally, each dose of fifty milliliters of potion lasts for three days.

Next comes the most important step: guiding spiritual energy to gather in the chest to form a special, hard substance, which is the so-called "earth embryo".