My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Since the negative effects are caused by toxins, they can definitely be weakened by earth resistance and willpower attributes.

Therefore, there will be many ways to deal with this negative effect in the future.

Xia Zuo stretched and kicked his legs before heading to the wardrobe to find a clean Starry Night Robe.

There was a note covered in handwriting on the desk.

After changing his clothes, he picked it up and glanced at it.

This note was left by Beatrice.

Beatrice has already told Anru that her boyfriend will finish his first meditation practice today.

Beatrice told Xia Zuo to go directly to Anruer and come to the study tonight or tomorrow morning.

In the bottom right corner of the note, Beatrice had specifically marked today's date.

Nearly 40 days have passed since Xia Zuo first stepped into the dormitory to practice meditation.

For him, more than 95% of those 40 days were spent in a deep meditative state, feeling as relaxed as if he had taken two naps.

But for the mage's servants who couldn't enter a deep meditative state, it was a solid month of work.

It seems that there is a world of difference in the experience of time between a monk's apprentice and a monk's servant.

A strange sense of division flowed through Xia Zuo's heart.

Just imagine.

If, in an academic setting, there are no other factors besides the instructor that might interrupt meditation, can one remain immersed in deep meditation indefinitely?

What follows is the increasing strength of individuals.

And increasingly diluted humanity.

Beatrice, as a seasoned mage, was well aware of the harm this mentality could cause.

She gave Xia Zuo a warning in advance on a note.

Mages, especially formal mages and above, can now eat only once every few months with the help of potions or spells.

During the era when meditation was flourishing, countless exceptionally talented individuals chose to avoid ordinary people and hide in secluded spots in the wild to practice meditation.

To prevent monsters and other creatures from interrupting their meditation, these people built towering towers that reached into the clouds.

The name "High Tower Mage" comes from this.

The chaotic and bloody experiments of the "Year of Bloodshed and Turmoil" were initiated by the group of Tower Mages who were the least humane.

They felt they were on a higher level of existence, regarding commoners and mage servants as livestock, ruthlessly cutting up humans with magic and scalpels, all to satisfy their own selfish desires.

Ultimately, after a century of war, this group of executioners was suppressed by the beings now residing in the Temple of Mages.

The alchemy school rose to prominence during that era.

Beatrice wrote on the note:

[The alchemy school's ability to maintain a voice within the mage temple stems from its close ties with ordinary people and its appreciation of life.]

Similar admonitions were also found within other schools of thought within the Temple of the Mage.

The Warriors' Guild teaches civilians how to protect themselves.

Witchers from the Witcher School personally hunt monsters to protect civilians.

The tower mage studied magic and developed magnificent weather spells, incredibly strong city defense spells, and terrain spells to quell volcanic eruptions, allowing civilians to escape from natural disasters and protecting them.

Each school of thought has benefited greatly from protecting the common people.

As things stand now, the alchemists believe they have everything they need: power, money, strength, and lifespan.

It goes deeper into the individual level.

When all four of these things are readily available, a cold and indifferent personality will inevitably develop, and one will eventually go astray due to an obsessive pursuit of so-called truth.

Maintaining one's normal humanity is a compulsory course for every Dharma apprentice.

Within the alchemical school, there are two ways to maintain humanity.

One option is to delve into orthodox alchemy, develop new alchemical products or improve existing ones, or engage in alchemical-related work, gaining positive feedback from the alchemical school's praise and integrating oneself into the alchemical school as a whole.

This is the method used by the vast majority of alchemists.

The second method is to bind one's humanity with emotions. Among the many emotions, romantic love is the most stable, followed by familial love and friendship.

Xia Zuo can find love during the mage servant stage.

This is something that many higher-ranking monks find extremely enviable.

You must cherish it.

Xia Zuo folded the note and put it in the desk drawer.

The mentor's intention can be simply summarized by a piece of inspirational wisdom from a past life:

One person can walk fast, but two people can walk far.

Alchemists have no shortage of lifespan; their future is unpredictable.

It's better to stay on the right path than to walk fast.

The best way to stay on the right track is to have someone with you. Chat, confide your troubles, discuss important matters, and so on.

Having a companion is always better than being a lone wolf.

Even without his mentor's warning, Xia Zuo had no intention of giving up his feelings for An Ru'er.

He knows what kind of person he is.

A person who is both rational and emotional, values ​​feelings, and deeply desires companionship.

Moreover, Anru'er has grown up quite a bit in the past two years. With the peaches ripening, why wouldn't she pick them herself and let others have them? This is no joke.

Xia Zuo straightened his robes in front of the mirror in the room, then opened the door and strode towards the castle hall.

Chapter 8, 1713nd position

Inside the castle hall.

As soon as Xia Zuo stepped out of the boys' dormitory, he was embraced by a soft figure, and a series of anxious words reached his ears:

"Why did you finish so quickly?! Did something go wrong with your meditation?! I told you not to rush things just for my sake!"

As Anru spoke, she reached out her small hand and began to explore her boyfriend's body.

"No, no, nothing's wrong." Xia Zuo pulled at his cheeks and made a face as he said:

"I'm doing very well. My first attempt at meditation went very smoothly. I tried the meditation method from poison alchemy and succeeded immediately."

"Really?" Anru'er placed her hand on the other person's face and gently rubbed it; it was still as elastic as before.

"That's good," she said, hugging her boyfriend tightly around the waist, tilting her head back, and sighing with emotion.

"You became a mage apprentice so quickly, that's really fast. I haven't even prepared a small gift yet."

“Our situations are different. Just follow your advisor’s instructions. There’s no need to prepare any small gifts; just seeing you is the best gift.”

Xia Zuo patted her back gently to comfort her, then lowered his head and kissed her forehead lightly.

Students of oil and potion alchemy possess high resistance to wind and water elements, and their envisioned elemental properties are primarily based on these two categories.

The meditation methods corresponding to these two disciplines are both basic meditation methods.

This is because wind and water elements are very suitable for expanding one's spiritual ocean.

Ten thousand years ago, this was considered a secret of the Tower scholars.

But now, this information has been taught as common sense to all mage servants who are practicing meditation for the first time.

The parchment scroll I read earlier also mentioned a sentence:

The wind and water elements with specific characteristics are several times more efficient at expanding the spiritual ocean than other elements.

These traits are obscure and not easily conceived.

If Anru can conceive of these qualities and has enough time to meditate, her future progress in expanding her spiritual ocean will catch up in a very short time.

To conceive of elemental properties, one needs ample alchemical experience.

The more obscure the elemental properties, the more interdisciplinary alchemical experience is required.

This is precisely why the academy requires students majoring in potions and oils to fully master advanced alchemy before they begin practicing meditation.

However, these words can only be kept in mind for the time being and cannot be told to Anruer.

"Don't worry, I'll wait for you."

Xia Zuo offered a few words of gentle comfort, his gaze sweeping across the hall. Only a few scattered students were moving toward the doorway in the wall.

"Isn't today Saturday?"

Xia Zuo glanced at the calendar on his desk in the dormitory, then took out his pocket watch and asked, "Have you had lunch yet?"

"I haven't had lunch yet," Anru said, rubbing her stomach.

"Let's go to the restaurant first, and then wander around."

Xia Zuo patted his stomach, where there were still three active potions inside, but that didn't stop him from drinking some soup and eating some desserts.

"Mmm!" Anruer wrapped her arms around the other person's arms.

The two sat in the restaurant until one or two in the afternoon, and then went out of the university to stroll around the city.

Xia Zuo stayed with An Ru'er throughout the afternoon and evening, only parting ways before bedtime.

The next morning.

After finishing breakfast, Xia Zuo took his girlfriend to the oil alchemy area and then went to his mentor's study.

"Professor, I'm here."

Xia Zuo gently closed the door behind him and stepped onto the soft carpet to stand in front of the other person.

Beatrice is manipulating several pens to write on several pages of paper.