My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Adanavardos paused in stroking his beard and asked:

What did you experience when you first entered meditation? Did you notice anything different from your previous deep meditation experiences?

In data-driven terms, Xia Zuo knew that his mentor wanted to know the criteria for entering a meditative state...

There are a total of 5 judgment conditions.

Xia Zuo felt that all he could say was about the judgment conditions related to elemental resistance.

He lowered his head, thought for a few seconds, and then said:

“Master, I didn’t really feel much. It felt no different from my usual deep meditation. After drinking the meditation potion, I felt my consciousness sinking down while silently repeating the word ‘meditation,’ and then I found myself standing on my body in spirit form.”

Xia Zuo took a breath and continued:

"However, I have a guess."

“Oh? What is it?” Adanavardos asked, putting his right hand down from his beard.

Xia Zuo spread his arms and remained still, letting the small points of light on his body radiate outwards. "Mentor, you can see my elemental affinity, so could you tell me what these small points of light are?"

Through his long-term investigation, Xia Zuo discovered something very interesting.

The data on the character template provided by the cheat code can be manually adjusted to have more decimal places.

Xia Zuo is generally set to be accurate to two decimal places.

In fact, any data in a character template can be accurate to twenty or thirty decimal places.

At this level of precision, it's impossible for an ordinary mage to achieve completely identical resistances across all four elements; there will always be inconsistencies around ten decimal places.

Xia Zuo was able to achieve perfect equality in all four elemental resistances because the proficient-level elemental poison crystals could only provide so much resistance bonus. Once his resistances reached their theoretical maximum, there would be no further improvement.

Thanks to this, he can easily achieve a balance of resistance without having to deliberately control the rate of increase in resistance.

Adanavardos, as a mage at least at the archmage level, fully understood the effects of elemental affinity, knowing far more than Shazo.

"Shazo, you will learn about this after you advance to the rank of high-level mage. Elemental affinity is far more complex than what is described in 'An Introduction to Meditation.' Let me give you a brief overview for now."

Adanavados said:

“Those tiny specks of light representing elemental affinity are something called ‘Elemental Aura.’ It emanates from your spirit. You should have noticed this after entering a meditative state.”

“Yes, mentor.” Xia Zuo nodded.

Adanavardos stretched out his finger and ran it across the student in the air.

"The wider the ocean of the spirit, the clearer the elemental auras that can be seen. For example, in my eyes, you have a total of 48 complete elemental auras the size of grains of rice, 12 of each type."

"Besides that, everyone has some fragmented, tiny, broken elemental auras that slowly grow into complete auras. As for you…"

Adanavados was stunned. "Why don't you have the shattered aura?!"

He stood up, raised his arm and pointed to the open space next to him, "Come on, let's take a good look."

Xia Zuo was somewhat uneasy at this moment...

Because he hadn't expected that something like shattered elemental aura would exist.

He had only ever seen a complete aura the size of a grain of rice; perhaps he would only be able to see a shattered elemental aura when his mental attribute value reached a hundred.

According to the mentor, does the Broken Elemental Aura mean less than 1% elemental resistance?

1% elemental resistance, corresponding to 1 complete aura.

Less than 1% of elemental resistance is what constitutes a shattered aura.

If you think about it that way, a normal mage should have 4 Shattered Auras - because their resistance values ​​are not always integers.

"You really don't have the shattered elemental aura... Why is that..." Adanavados said with a hint of shock in his voice.

"Wait, I might need to enhance my spiritual perception."

He rummaged in his alchemy pouch and retrieved a bottle of milky-white potion.

Before Xia Zuo could pour the potion into his mouth, he preemptively released his detection spell.

...

[Item Name] True Sight Potion

[Item Type] Functional Pharmacology

[Item Grade] Master

[Item Quality] Completion Rate 100%

[Item Description]

A certain level of mental attribute value is required to fully utilize the potion's effects.

[Item Effects]

It is predicted that after the spirit attribute value reaches 150 points, taking this potion will grant 5 layers of True Sight effect.

The actual effect can enhance [Elemental Vision], but due to insufficient [Knowledge Reserve], the specific enhancement level is unknown.

...

True Sight Agent... Isn't this a functional agent developed from Black Eye Agent?

I never expected to witness it today.

After drinking the potion, Adanavados closed his eyes for a few seconds before opening them to look at Shazo. In each of his eyes was a small vortex composed of four-colored light spinning around.

“I still can’t see the shattered elemental aura…” Adanavados circled Shazo a few times, his wrinkles deepening. “Could it be that your elemental aura just happened to achieve the [Balance Mystery] advocated by the Shamanic Society, which is why you were able to successfully enter meditation…”

Adanavardos walked silently around Shazo with his hands behind his back.

About two minutes later, he stopped, looked up at the curved glass above, and sighed at the sun in the sky:

"The shamanic society may be right; the ability to enter into meditation is determined at birth..."

Xia Zuo asked quietly:

"Mentor, what is the profound meaning of balance you mentioned? Does it refer to the absence of shattered elemental aura within one's body?"

“No, no. Hmm, that’s not right either. Yes, the absence of shattered elemental aura is also a kind of balance.” Adanavados gathered his thoughts and patiently explained:

"Balance means equality. When the number of your four elemental auras is equal, the elemental auras are in a state of balance."

Adanavardos crossed his arms and let them hang down in front of him. "Shazo, I want to do some tests on you to see your current physical fitness level and the strength of your willpower. If you'd like, I'd also like to record the state of your mental ocean."

He looked at the student who was deep in thought and said:

"That depends on your own wishes. Such learning feedback is standard practice among the Tower Scholars. One of the Tower Scholars asked me to record your feedback. However, we are, after all, the Alchemy School, and we don't have this rule, so I won't force you to do so."

“Master, I understand the significance of recording feedback, just like when Headmaster Beatrice recorded my cultivation process after I successfully practiced the [Poison Crystal] meditation method.”

Xia Zuo's feelings were a bit complicated... He had originally wanted to make some contributions to the Mage Temple, but he didn't expect it to lead to this matter... Perhaps it would have been best to just pretend to be stupid and respond directly.

Right now... he's not actually worried about his secret being exposed... because, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Crimson Council within the inner sanctum will intervene...

As for how the intervention would be carried out... Xia Zuo couldn't think of anything, and he didn't intend to worry about it. If someone else was there to clean up the mess, why would he need to do it himself?

Xia Zuo nodded to Adanavados, "Mentor, I am willing to contribute to the research of the spiritual school."

"Okay, follow me."

Adanavardos smiled with satisfaction, and as he walked with the student, he said:

"The test will be quick. I will take you to the teaching area of ​​the Tower Scholars, where an archmage specializing in the detection school will take the lead. You just need to stand still."

“Okay, mentor, I will follow your instructions.” Xia Zuo followed the other person out of the spherical dome.

The two flew through the spell corridor and arrived at the scholar's office area in the tower.

With a mentor leading the way, there were no beams of light or ripples of water to "welcome" Xia Zuo this time.

They stopped in front of a metal door with a sign hanging on it:

[Professor Christo, Head of the Detection School]

“Go in, Shazo. I’ll wait here.” Adanavados knocked on the door.

The metal door slid open a crack.

After Xia Zuo bowed to his mentor, he pushed open the door and entered the room.

A graceful female mage was leaning against the desk with her arms crossed, watching the alchemy students at the door with great interest.

She had wine-red hair, long strands that reached her waist, creating a striking contrast with her fair skin. Her lips curved upwards in a smile, and her eyes sparkled with an inexplicable starlight, as if she were looking at something new and fascinating.

Xia Zuo was somewhat at a loss because of the other person's beauty and expression, so he could only obediently put his hands in his sleeves, looking meek and docile.

The female mage chuckled and snapped her fingers.

A faint crimson hue instantly filled the office.

"Huh??" Xia Zuo subconsciously realized that he had fallen into a trap and immediately gripped the scarlet emblem he carried close to his body.

He looked up and glanced around. A blood-red mist hung in the air. The door he'd come through was shrouded in a bloody light. The clock on the wall, whether malfunctioning or something else, had its second hand moving much slower...

"Relax, little one." The female mage reached out and brushed a strand of hair behind her head, her wine-red hair cascading down her hand like a waterfall.

She swept her right hand across her body, and a scarlet emblem appeared on her chest.

Xia Zuo's gaze sharpened, and after a brief examination, he breathed a sigh of relief; the other party's emblem was indeed the Crimson Emblem.

The identity of the female mage before him was self-evident.

"Let me formally introduce myself. I am Christo, a pure-blooded mage who survived the Fourth Age. My identity when I operate in the Outer Temple is that of the head professor of the Detection school."

A beautiful, blood-red light flowed through the office as Xia Zuo bowed respectfully to the pure-blooded female mage opposite him.

"Good day, Your Excellency. It's a pleasure to meet you. I am Xia Zuo from the Eastern Continent."

"I heard from Rek'Sorrow that you've awakened a talent spell that conceals your bloodline features..."

A crimson light flashed in Christor's eyes as she examined Shazo from head to toe several times. "It seems that's indeed the case, and the talent spells you've awakened are even more outstanding than I expected. Your current bloodline features are similar to those of an ordinary formal mage. If I hadn't known your identity beforehand, it would have been difficult for me to connect you with a pureblood mage."

Krestor mentioned Rexor…

Does that mean that every time I come up with an idea or want to do something, Baldy is in contact with Christo? ... Xia Zuo thought for a moment, but didn't ask the question directly.

He looked towards the door, which was covered by a blood-red seal. Master Adanavados outside seemed completely oblivious to the situation inside. He asked:

"Sir, how should my physical fitness test be arranged?"