My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"It was indeed a failure." Master Lemon sighed, summoning a blue sofa woven with magic, and sat down opposite Xia Zuo. "Could you tell me what happened?"

"Of course, Master." Xia Zuo laid out his prepared explanation, concealing the existence of the cheat system, only mentioning that his consciousness could not sink, could not enter meditation, could not enter deep thought, and could not wake up.

“So…” Master Lemon looked at the empty elemental bottle, “when you entered deep meditation, you were disturbed by the shrine candles, and the connection between you and the elemental bottle broke. These obedient elements dissipated because they were no longer bound.”

Xia Zuo nodded sullenly.

“Hmm…” Master Lemon clasped his hands on his thighs and pondered for a few seconds. “The secret medicine for condensing an elemental body should not prevent the user from entering a meditative or contemplative state. But you were forced to remain in the darkness… This must be due to the lack of some key items.”

"A key item?" Xia Zuo's sorrow was replaced by curiosity.

"Yes. It's like when you're making a poison, you've refined the complex toxin, but you lack the right solvent, which is causing a problem in the process. If we can find the key ingredient, we can move on to the next step."

Master Lemon pondered for a moment, "Unfortunately, the Shamanic Society doesn't know much about shrine candles either, so we can only learn by trial and error."

Master Lemon pulled a pendant from his sleeve. "Take this, Shazo. As agreed, we will compensate you double for your losses. This pendant will help you craft elemental bottles faster. It will automatically expire after you have tamed 216 small, obedient elementals."

Xia Zuo took the pendant, released his detection spell, and the feedback was consistent with what the other party had said.

“And this too.” Master Lemon took out a wooden box. “This is a 100ml dose of the universal antidote concentrate. You have the right to dispose of it. If you sell it to the academy now, you can get 3 citizen points.”

"3..." Xia Zuo clicked his tongue in astonishment.

Master Lemon said with a smile, "If you master the mixing method, you can dilute it to produce a universal antidote worth 7 citizen points, but this will take a lot of time and effort."

"Thank you for reminding me." Xia Zuo held the wooden box and pendant, feeling much better.

The temple never mistreats its own people, especially those who dare to suffer losses and face the unknown.

“Then I’ll take my leave.” Master Lemon stood up, and the enchanted sofa behind him disappeared. “I’ve heard from Lady Krestor that you possess the balanced qualities of the Light Element, and your spiritual ocean will expand rapidly. I look forward to meeting you in the tower. The study of magic and energy also requires diligence and focus.”

"Thank you for your praise, Master. I will continue to do so." Xia Zuo escorted the other party to the door.

After Master Lemon left, he tidied up the empty bottle, wiped away the last trace of sadness in his heart, and then left.

Chapter 81 The Elemental Body Was Misplaced

That evening.

Xia Zuo returned home with the unruly elements he had exchanged from the academy.

With the compensation from Master Lemon, his mood wasn't so bad anymore. Besides, as an immortal being, he could afford this little bit of time cost.

Trading this for a pendant that accelerates the taming of elements is definitely a huge win.

After finishing dinner, Xia Zuo tried out the enhancements from the pendant in his study.

NB!

The combination of the pendant and intermediate meditation technique allows you to tame a small elemental in just 15 minutes, increasing efficiency by at least tenfold.

If only we could replicate this pendant…

The only difference between becoming a true mage is a few hundred free attribute points and a large amount of untamed elements.

Xia Zuo released a detection spell on the pendant, and then his lips twitched.

Sure enough, it was all question marks.

Apart from its known effects and the fact that it is an enchanted item, everything else is unknown.

Xia Zuo put the elemental bottle in his hand into the drawer, and paused for a moment when he picked up the next elemental imprisonment bottle.

He plans to try deep meditation and contemplation.

The character template hasn't changed, which means everything is normal.

But Xia Zuo still felt uneasy, worried that something had happened to his spiritual ocean and his spirit body.

He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

First, deep meditation.

In the ocean of the spirit, the scene of light elements swirling and flying with other elements remains unchanged.

Then comes the state of meditation.

Xia Zuo's spirit awoke from his body and slowly stood up.

What's with this outer shell on my body?

Xia Zuo stared in disbelief as he looked down at the body, noticing that a tight-fitting bodysuit had appeared on the surface of the spirit body, covering its entire body.

The garment was covered from top to bottom with square patches of four different colors, like a patchwork garment made of scraps of fabric sewn together...

this..

Could this be one of those 108 well-behaved elements?

Xia Zuo reached out and stroked his spirit body, silently counting the number of square colored blocks.

“1, 2, 3, 4, 5… I can’t see behind your butt.” Xia Zuo lifted his foot. “There are two on the sole of this foot, and two on the other foot too.”

"Huh? The distribution pattern of these color blocks is very similar to the complete version of the Elemental Shell described in 'The Complete Explanation of Elemental Shells'..."

Xia Zuo recalled the contents of the book and then compared the positions of the color blocks on the spirit's body.

"It really is like that?! So those 108 obedient elements didn't dissipate? They ended up in my spirit body?"

Xia Zuo was stunned for a long time. "What's going on?"

He scooped up the spirit thread that carried the golden finger.

The spirit thread remained the same, a long, thin, golden-white thread.

"Hey, cheat code, why does my spirit have an extra elemental body?" Xia Zuo tensed his spiritual threads and flicked them with his finger.

The cheat code only replied with one sentence when he first transmigrated here and asked how to obtain more free attribute points.

Cold, indifferent, and ruthless.

What's even more infuriating is that the sentence it replied with was wrong!

The cheat code's response is that the higher the level, the greater the chance of randomly obtaining more free attribute points.

However, it turns out that the number of free attribute points is related to the quality of the bloodline.

As a tool to assist the transmigrator, why would it sabotage its own host by making the first 10 levels, which have the lowest experience requirements for leveling up, go to waste?

If they had given the right hints from the beginning, they would all be octagonal warriors by now.

and many more!

wrong!

Xia Zuo suddenly shuddered.

Quarovich.

This Blood Demon, sent by the Church of the Otherworld to infiltrate the Western Continent, was already active in the Starry Night Kingdom when I first transmigrated here.

If the cheat system doesn't mislead me and guide me to focus on leveling up quickly, but instead provides the right hints to help me make up for my weak attributes and gain more free attribute points.

Doesn't that mean I might attract the attention of the Blood Demon, Qualouwuchi, because of my high-quality blood patterns?

So... the cheat system actually saved me?

Although spirits don't have sweat glands, Xia Zuo felt himself breaking out in a cold sweat.

Is the misleading "golden finger" a coincidence... or premeditated?

Can it keep track of the Blood Demon's movements?

Or perhaps the unknown entity that placed the cheat ability within the spirit thread deliberately set up a false message to prevent the host from being discovered by the Church of the Otherworldly Demons?

This error message is the only response the cheat code has given to the host's question from the very beginning.

If the assumption of "avoiding the host being discovered by the Church of the Otherworldly Demons" holds true...

We can draw the following inference:

[Was the cheat system set up by the Mage Temple?]

What is the purpose?

What kind of transformation can a half-grown child undergo by observing the power of magic?

To train an outstanding alchemist, or a scholar of the Tower?

Then, promote the cheat system on a large scale, so that everyone has the opportunity to become an octagonal warrior and improve the strength of the temple in all aspects.

That's outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!

Xia Zuo frowned, feeling that his argument was hardly convincing.

If the Temple of Mages truly had the capability to develop a cheat system, they would probably have already eradicated the Church of the Otherworldly Demons, which was hiding deep within the continent.

I don't understand.

Xia Zuo temporarily put aside his thoughts and focused his attention on the problem at hand.

Why does the spirit have an extra elemental shell, but the character template doesn't react, and the cheat codes don't provide any information?

Xia Zuo brought the spirit thread close to his spirit body and released a detection spell on the elemental shell covered with four-colored square patches.

An invisible fluctuation emanated from the spiritual thread, and after it made slight contact with the elemental body, several lines of golden-white characters were projected from the spiritual thread.

"The host's spirit has been detected to have acquired an elemental body. The character template is being updated..."

Update complete!

"New entries have been added, including [Spirit Body] and [Elemental Body]."

Xia Zuo opened the character template and glanced at it; there were very few new entries.

The entry for "[Spiritual Body]" contains only two lines: "In a meditative state, one can control one's own spiritual body." Due to insufficient knowledge, no further information was available.

The entry for 【Elemental Shell】 is divided into two parts: the elemental shell of the spirit and the elemental shell of the body.

The former is already a complete universal elemental shell, while the latter is [empty]. Xia Zuo can take the secret medicine again to condense an elemental shell for his body.

Um..

The spirit body has a universal form... but the physical body doesn't yet... So if we could interchange the elemental shells of the spirit body and the physical body, wouldn't it be better to condense an elemental shell for alchemy-specific oils into the physical body?