My health recovery is incredibly fast.

As soon as the female professor announced the end of get out of class, she would immediately grab her backpack, run to the main entrance of the teaching building, and reunite with her family whom she hadn't seen for more than two months.

It's strange, really... even though we're not related by blood, I feel as close to Anruer and Xiazuo as I am to my own mother.

Janice touched her hair in confusion, picked up her pen and hurriedly wrote down what the professor had written on the blackboard, secretly praying that he would call on her name when asking students to answer questions... that way, she could finish her course credits ahead of schedule.

"Janice." The female professor with two deep nasolabial folds tapped the blackboard with her wind-like hand. "You answer this question: If you pick a golden mustard grass in the morning and leave it in an open basket by evening, how do you restore it to its bright green color from the morning?"

“Use penicillin drops, Professor,” Janice replied, raising her right arm. “You can’t use penicillin oil because bearded grass is quite fragile, and too much oil would damage the dried bearded grass. So you can only use drops.”

"Very good." The female professor nodded in satisfaction. Good students are different; even if they seem to be daydreaming, they haven't relaxed their listening and thinking...

"This lesson is now over." The female professor said, casting several gusts of wind as she tidied up the teaching aids floating around the podium.

"I need to see your homework when class starts next Monday. Everyone needs to complete the homework with high quality and quantity."

Janice listened to the professor's words and flipped through the textbook. She had already completed all the so-called after-class exercises before class.

She packed her schoolbag and jogged slowly away from the classroom.

...

In front of the teaching building, Anruer waited alone at the entrance for Janice. She spotted Janice in the group of students at a glance.

“Janice~” Anru hugged her and gently patted her back.

"Sister Anru'er~ Where is Uncle Xiazuo?"

“He went to reserve a seat,” Anru said with a mysterious smile.

"Hmm?" Janice looked up and blinked her puzzled eyes.

"Come with me, and you'll see." Anru'er took the other's hand and walked out of the academy.

...

In a dessert-themed restaurant, Xia Zuo sat at a small round table near the corner.

This restaurant seems to be quite famous in the area. Every weekend, parents bring their children who have just finished school to dine here.

To cater to its target audience, the restaurant is decorated in a childlike style and has a separate indoor playground for children who are full of energy after eating sweets to unleash their creativity.

Anru said that over the past two months, she had woken up from deep meditation several times to check her cryptic ring, while secretly listening to Janice's thoughts through her kinship, and Janice had muttered in bed several times that she wanted to eat the desserts from this restaurant.

Thus, the scene of Xia Zuo coming to reserve a seat came about.

Xia Zuo watched as Janice stuffed fruit cake into her mouth, then ran to the amusement park, first standing aside to oversee everything, then sitting on an empty rocking horse, chatting with a few other little girls, and finally playing together excitedly…

Xia Zuo had the illusion of becoming a father for the first time.

The noisy lunch lasted until 2 p.m.

Xia Zuo dropped Anru and Janice off at the entrance of the bustling commercial street, and then went to Yingrui Academy alone.

The magical texts in the academy are significantly different in number and quality from those in the temple's archives.

Fortunately, Xia Zuo didn't want a high-level spell like [Soul Clarity]. He only asked for an introduction to totems and totem poles, as well as a few spellbooks that could be used as references.

Before long, he carried several books and walked into the meditation room in the academy.

Totem patterns and the language of weavers share the same origin, both being based on the characteristics of elemental patterns.

The weaver's language advocates combining and arranging the patterns of elemental characteristics, and adding self-created symbols to expand the uses of elemental characteristics.

For example, the 26 letters can be combined into phrases and sentences, and letters in different orders can be given specific meanings to achieve their intended purpose.

Totem patterns, on the other hand, advocate strengthening the meaning of the elemental characteristics patterns themselves, pursuing the primitive, and opposing the expansion of elemental characteristics patterns.

In the view of this school of thought, the characteristics and patterns of each element cannot be modified, combined, or sorted; they can only be strengthened and consolidated to help them grow stronger.

The totem pattern then appeared, and it was divided into three parts.

At the very center of the totem pattern is the essential pattern, which can only be written using elemental characteristic patterns.

The outer edge of the original pattern is the main pattern, written in shamanic language, used to reinforce the characteristics of the elements.

The outermost layer consists of secondary patterns, used to protect and encrypt the main and essential patterns, preventing them from being damaged or cracked.

When the Shamanic Society shared knowledge of totem schools with the Temple of the Shamans, it shared complete sets of main patterns, but not the Shamanic language.

The book Xia Zuo received only contained totem patterns that looked like scribbles, without any annotations or references.

However, after adding the book "An Overview of Totem Patterns" to his [Knowledge Reserve], Xia Zuo received a message from his cheat system:

"Successful entry of 'Overview of Totem Patterns' detected. Compiling the unknown language in the entered knowledge..."

"It is estimated to consume 1300 experience points. Should we proceed with the compilation?"

Is it possible to expend experience to compile a completely unknown language?

Xia Zuo recalled that this was the first time he had encountered a language without any comments, and also the first time he had seen an option to compile it.

He glanced at his experience points: 8800/13000, and silently thought to himself:

"Confirm that experience is consumed during compilation."

A progress bar with a percentage value appeared in my mind. The cursor moved very quickly, and after about ten seconds, the cheat code sent a congratulatory message:

"Successfully compiled the shamanic language in this book, with a prediction accuracy of 86%. New talent added: [Shamanic Language Proficiency - Incomplete]. Current talent completion rate is 3%."

Xia Zuo was reading "An Overview of Totem Patterns" when he looked down. The curved characters on it were no longer obscure graphics, but characters with specific meanings.

He opened another book—"A Brief Analysis of the Totem Pole Principle".

This is a spellbook with annotations by some high-ranking sorcerers. It is a must-read for every sorcerer who studies totem magic. By following the steps in the book, you can use spiritually rich vines, branches, gems and other props to create your own unique totem pole.

Among the many operations, there is a step that requires the mage to inscribe totem texts, which involves a large amount of shamanic language.

Xia Zuo spent some more time memorizing the shamanic language in the book, and also spent 1300 experience points to have the cheat code compile them.

"Successfully compiled the shamanic language in 'A Brief Analysis of the Totem Pole Principle' with a prediction accuracy of 88%."

"The accuracy of the shamanic language compilation in the 'Overview of Totem Patterns' has changed, with the prediction accuracy rising to 92%."

"The completion rate of the special ability [Shamanic Language Proficiency - Incomplete] has increased by 3%, currently at 6%."

Xia Zuo then realized something.

Shamanic language is not a very difficult language to understand; it is only because its writing format and sentence combination are different from common language and alchemical language that it can seem obscure.

There must have been many people in the High Tower School who also compiled some of the shamanic language themselves, but due to the agreement between the temple and the shamanic society, they could only use it themselves and could not share it or circulate it in the public sphere.

Xia Zuo took out his pocket watch and glanced at it; it was already 5 p.m.

He plans to try making a totem pole and then go to Rexor to train.

When redeeming books on totemism, some inexpensive spiritual items will be included free of charge.

Xia Zuo reached out and pressed a few buttons on the control panel in front of him. The floor next to him flipped over, revealing two branches sealed in transparent glass bottles.

If one does not understand shamanic language, the learner will only know that this branch is rich in spirituality, but will not know the specific reason why.

With only 6% completion of the [Shaman Language Proficiency] skill, Xia Zuo cast a detection spell on the branch.

...

[Item Name] Gesangda's Tentacles

[Item Type] Spiritual Plant

[Item Grade] Unknown

[Item Quality] Completion rate 90%, Excellent

【Associated Resistance 1】Soil Resistance

It can be engraved with totem patterns that have earth element characteristics.

【Associated Resistance 2】Water Resistance

It can be engraved with totem patterns that have water element characteristics.

[Item Description]

This is a spiritual prop that can hold 60 totem patterns and characters.

[Item Effects]

After holding this item and entering a meditative state, you can inscribe it in the [Soul Perspective] function.

...

Hmm~ Not bad. Except for the grade, which is hard to determine, it has all the necessary information.

Xia Zuo cast the [Concentration and Tranquility] spell on himself, skillfully entering a meditative state as his consciousness sank.

The spirit appeared on the body, while the surroundings remained completely dark.

Xia Zuo looked at the spiritual branch in the body's hand, stretched out his glowing right hand, and picked up the "branch".

At this moment, the "twig" in Xia Zuo's hand emitted a faint light; this was its spirit form. Its physical form remained in Xia Zuo's hand.

Xia Zuo held the spirit branch in front of him and used his free left hand to outline the totem pattern, engraving a pattern called the "Rejuvenation Totem" onto the spirit paper.

This process is flawless and must be completed within a specified time. Furthermore, the number of characters in the totem patterns used must not exceed the upper limit that the spirit paper can hold; otherwise, all previous efforts will be wasted, and a spiritual material will be lost.

As Xia Zuoming inscribed the last character, a thin thread extended from his spiritual thread, the other end of which automatically bound the spiritual branch. Simultaneously, a message from the "golden finger" appeared in his mind:

"The host has successfully created an apprentice-level protective totem pole and bound it to his soul. Character template updated, new entry [Totem Pole Space] added, new spell [Totem Mastery] added."

...

[Item Name] Protective Totem Pole

[Item Type] Totem School Product

[Item Grade] Apprentice Level

[Item Quality] Completion rate 90%, Excellent

【Associated Resistance 1】Soil Resistance

【Associated Resistance 2】Water Resistance

[Item Effects]

Consume earth and water energy to summon this totem at a designated location within 5 meters of you. This totem will persist until it is destroyed or recalled.

This totem, once summoned, will increase the physical defense of a designated target within a 5-meter radius.