After the internet was disconnected, I connected to the magic world.

Lin Ze first organized the spells, marked the most useful key points, and then opened the warrior section.

Now that his internal energy has taken shape, he's practically a Battle Master in this other world. He needs to look at the higher-level paths to get a better understanding.

After browsing through the featured posts for a while, a popular science post about the Battle Saint Realm caught his eye.

The post says that when a warrior reaches the Saint Realm, his physical body is tempered to the extreme of the mortal realm, and his soul is also strong enough.

It can then connect to the magic network, absorbing magic power or directly absorbing magic power from the outside world.

You don't need much magic power to absorb; once it's incorporated into your battle aura, it becomes demonic battle aura.

At this point, warriors can cast simple spells and enchant their weapons and armor, resulting in a significant increase in combat power; they are no longer just barbarians who can only engage in melee combat.

Someone else added that the reason why the War Saint could fight ordinary mages across ranks was because of his demonic battle aura.

It possesses both the explosive power of battle aura and the penetrating power of magic, making it impossible for ordinary mages' shields to withstand.

Lin Ze curled his lip after reading it.

That's it?

Also known as dual cultivation of magic and martial arts?

Those barbarians spend their entire lives honing their physical bodies, only managing to glimpse a bit of magic power when they're old, and even then, they can't use the magical battle aura they fuse together.

It's just about enchanting the weapon, adding a couple of buffs, and casting a couple of basic counter spells to fill the gap.

If you actually let them study spell models or modify rune structures, forget about it.

The mental manipulation techniques are all very crude; even downloaded ones might not be usable, let alone improved upon.

"A bunch of mediocre people."

Lin Ze scoffed.

If we're going to do it, let's do it properly, combining tactics and strategy, being versatile in both offense and defense, both at long and short range, becoming a hexagonal warrior.

Unlike them, they either only know how to fight at close range or only know how to cast spells from a distance; they're completely unbalanced.

He scrolled down and came across another popular post: "It's all for naught even if you reach the Battle Master level: A brief discussion on the lifespan ceiling of Battle Classes."

Clicking in, the original poster put it very bluntly:

Ninety-nine percent of the combat professionals in many planes focus on building up their physical bodies and fighting spirit in the first four stages. They may appear capable of splitting mountains and breaking rocks, or flying and escaping into the earth, but in reality, their lifespan is not much different from that of ordinary people.

Warriors and masters... live as long as they're supposed to, but staying up too late can still lead to sudden death.

The only difference between a warrior from the War Sect and the War Domain is that they are physically robust and can live to be a hundred or eighty years old without illness or disaster, not much different from elderly people in the mortal world who take good care of their health.

To truly extend one's lifespan, one must reach the Battle Saint realm, where the physical body is perfected and the soul is nourished by battle qi, in order to live for several hundred more years.

The same goes for mages; low-level mages expend their mental energy every day, and may even have short lifespans.

Only those who attain the rank of Grand Mage or higher can subtly control their spiritual power to nourish their physical body with magic, thus gradually increasing their lifespan.

A bunch of people sighed in the comments, saying that low-level transcendents only look glamorous, but in reality they are just ordinary people with great strength, and they will still die if they are meant to.

As Lin Ze watched, his heart skipped a beat.

life?

He hadn't really noticed this before. In this other world's system, the first four tiers don't increase lifespan?

He subconsciously closed his eyes and looked inward to check his own condition.

The twelve regular meridians, plus the Ren and Du meridians, circulate continuously, with Qi and blood as vigorous as a burning fire.

His soul was as solid as a rock, and his aura was long and continuous, unlike that of an ordinary person in his early twenties.

Based on rough calculations, it's normal for an average person to live to seventy or eighty years old without illness or disaster.

When he opens up the twelve meridians and enters the acquired state, his Qi and blood double, and his lifespan will be at least 120 or 130 years.

Now that the Ren and Du meridians are open and one of the eight extraordinary meridians is open, the spirit and soul have also become stronger.

Lifespan starts at least at 150 years, and could potentially reach 200 years.

He's only just reached the Innate Realm, yet he's already outlived the Battle Master from another world.

No wonder.

Lin Ze opened his eyes, his mind clear.

Warriors from another world who only train their skin, muscles, and bones, no matter how strong their physical bodies become, if their internal organs and spirit don't keep up, their foundation is still that of mortals, and naturally they won't prolong their lives.

A sorcerer who only cultivates spiritual magic has a physical body as fragile as paper. A strong soul is useless if the body cannot withstand it, and one will not live long.

One only cultivates life force and not nature, while the other only cultivates nature and not life force; both are unbalanced in their studies.

The Taoists have long said that cultivating only the physical body without cultivating the spirit is the first mistake in spiritual practice; cultivating only the spirit without cultivating the physical body will make it difficult for one's spirit to attain sainthood even after countless eons.

Cultivating both body and mind is the right path.

My own meridian system has been cultivated from the very beginning by training essence, energy, and spirit together.

Refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness—step by step, one ascends to higher levels, where both the physical body and the soul grow together, and lifespan naturally increases accordingly.

"The wisdom of our ancestors is still the most reliable."

Lin Ze muttered to himself, becoming even more determined to follow his own path.

Those two sets of methods from other worlds can be used as references and materials, but ultimately it still comes down to cultivating one's own body and soul.

Getting back to the main point, we still need to try fusing battle aura and magic.

Two choices lie before me: one is to buy magic crystals later and absorb the magic power inside to fuse with them.

Secondly, he used the pure spiritual transformation magic he had refined through his own absorption of divine magic.

Lin Ze chose the second option almost without hesitation.

The magic that comes from one's own spirit is fundamentally one's own.

It shares the same origin as battle qi, so there is less risk in fusing it, and it is more in line with one's own nature, making it easier to control in the future.

Try transforming a part of your spirit into magic.

When the rune array is activated, it can truly transform one's own spirit into magical power.

Then, in the dantian, the milky white qi slowly rotated, like a steady millstone.

On the edge of the sea of ​​consciousness, pale purple magic lay quietly, like a drifting wisp of silk.

He didn't dare to move directly together.

If the two energies clash, you'll be the one who suffers.

First, he extracted the finest wisp of magic power, wrapped it tightly with his mental energy, like a protective film, and slowly sent it into his dantian.

As soon as the magic threads touched the vortex of qi, a slight sense of repulsion was felt, like two magnets with the same polarity pushing each other outwards.

"It wasn't that easy after all."

Lin Ze remained calm, having already prepared himself.

He controlled his mental energy, wrapping it in fine threads of magic, and ground it into his inner energy bit by bit, like dissolving sugar in water, patiently and slowly letting it seep in.

Each rotation of the protective energy wears away a bit of the outer shell of the magic.

One lap, two laps, three laps...

After spinning for a full thirty-six times, the wisp of magic finally wore away the outer layer of repulsion, dissolving a little bit and merging with the surface qi.

Lin Ze felt relieved.

It worked; the approach was correct.

It's just a bit slow.

It's okay, slow is fine, as long as it's steady.