My health recovery is incredibly fast.

The character's name is unknown, all eight attributes are question marks, and their identity, race, and type are all unknown.

The luminous human flew at an extremely high speed, arriving in front of Xia Zuo almost instantly.

He wore a simple white mage's robe, and all his exposed skin was covered with a shell that flowed with elemental light, making him look like a human made of some kind of luminous crystal.

"Congratulations! Another member of the Temple has arrived here." The glowing human stopped in front of Xia Zuo, her voice sounding like a lively young girl.

She lifted her hood, letting her four-colored, glowing hair cascade over her shoulders, and looked at Xia Zuo with her four-colored eyes, greeting him with a smile:

"You must be Shazo? Christo told me about you."

"Hello." Xia Zuo looked at the other person's facial features.

Although her face was also covered in elemental light, and her eyes were as bright as flashlights, it did not prevent Xia Zuo from judging that she had the physical characteristics of a human from the Silver Moon Federation—a straight nose, deep-set eyes, thin lips, and slightly prominent cheekbones.

Xia Zuo couldn't immediately determine whether the other party was human, a magical creation, or an alchemical artifact.

“I am Senepolis, you can just call me Selena.”

The glowing human waved, signaling Xia Zuo to follow. "I know you have questions, I'll explain them to you later. Let's go to the crater first."

Chapter 103 Ocean of the Spirit (2-in-1)

On the top floor of the castle tower of Starry Night Academy, behind Beatrice's study, there is a long corridor. At the end of the corridor is the training room for learning magic.

About six years ago, after becoming Beatrice's student, Xia Zuo entered the spell training room for the first time. The abundant lighting, spacious area, and soft wooden floor left a deep impression on him.

The lectures at that time were related to the meditation methods of Xingye Academy.

Beatrice introduced the basic meditation method, the [Furnace], the [Eye of Kolas], and the [Poisonous Crystal] meditation method.

Today, Xia Zuo's understanding of meditation is vastly different from what it used to be.

By consistently practicing meditation and diligently cultivating basic meditation techniques daily, one can gradually expand their spiritual ocean and progress step by step towards becoming a high-level mage.

He will eventually become a great mage.

However, one problem has remained unresolved.

What are the stone walls of the spiritual ocean?

What lies behind the stone wall?

Xia Zuo had asked Beatrice, who only said that he would know the answer once Xia Zuo arrived in the Eastern Continent and entered the temple.

After arriving in the Eastern Continent, Xia Zuo's days were busy and fulfilling, and he gradually forgot about this issue.

So much so that when the answer was presented to him, he was caught off guard.

Selena flew him to the crater of the great volcano, used a magical barrier to help him isolate himself from the lava, then broke through the black smoke, ignored the splashing lava, faced the bubbling surface of the lava, and plunged headfirst into the crimson lava.

Xia Zuo followed Selena down to the depths of the great volcano.

Countless black octahedral crystals floated quietly in the magma.

"You mean, this is our spiritual ocean? The spiritual ocean of humans? Do those monsters that can use magic also have spiritual oceans? Are their spiritual oceans here too?" Xia Zuo looked around at the black crystals in astonishment, his mind filled with doubt.

Selena seemed to have anticipated his reaction, and smiled slightly, "It's a bit hard to understand, isn't it? Every temple mage who arrives here needs some time to adapt to their new understanding of the spiritual ocean."

"This place contains only the spiritual ocean of humans; to be precise, only humans possess a spiritual ocean. The principles by which monsters use magic have nothing to do with the spiritual ocean. The black crystal you see now is the true form of the spiritual ocean."

Xia Zuo rubbed the back of his head, pressed his slightly throbbing temples, and then rubbed his twitching eyebrows a few times. He took a breath and said:

"Phew~ Selena, what you said really hit me hard. I need to catch my breath."

We really need to slow down, to really slow down.

What truly astonished Xia Zuo was not the relationship between the surrounding black crystals and the spiritual ocean.

Rather, it was the dividing line on the wall of his spiritual ocean.

During his first deep meditation, Xia Zuo discovered the difference in his spiritual ocean.

The top part of the stone wall is quite different from the rest of the wall.

The small area above the head has a smooth wall surface, without scratches or dents, and looks brand new.

However, the rest of the walls are mottled and dilapidated, giving them a sense of having weathered many vicissitudes.

Two walls, one old and one new, appear simultaneously on the same wall of the spiritual ocean; this is one of Xia Zuo's greatest secrets.

Now, Selena tells him that the black crystals around him are the spiritual ocean of the temple mages, and that Shazo himself is within it.

It's like Xia Zuo hiding a pair of unwashed underwear, thinking he'd hidden it well, only to have it found and put on the table by someone else.

Panic, fear, palpitations, and negative emotions are growing.

Xia Zuo rubbed his stiff cheeks, composed himself, and calmly asked, "Then, Selena, where is my spiritual ocean?"

“This is it.” Selena pointed to a half-meter-wide black crystal in front of her. “This is your spiritual ocean.”

"Oh? It's right in front of me?" Xia Zuo's gaze sharpened as he carefully examined the black crystal that was so close to him.

Its surface is jet black and matte.

The bright lava emitted a light that did not reflect off the black crystal surface.

It appears hard and stable.

The high temperature and pressure of the magma have no effect on it.

Xia Zuo changed his angle, examining the black crystal from top to bottom and from left to right, but found no cracks or other marks.

“You can reach out and touch the crystal. This will help you understand the nature and origin of the spiritual ocean,” Selena said with a smile, unsurprised by the temple mage’s curiosity.

Xia Zuo raised his right hand and placed it on the black crystal.

A profound message surged from his palm, entered his mind, and transformed into elemental language, explaining everything to Xia Zuo.

"So that's how it is..." Xia Zuo murmured to himself, his eyes no longer showing any fear when he looked at the black crystal.

He now understands what the ocean of the spirit is.

The spiritual ocean, which is the black crystal before your eyes, is part of the elemental laws of nature; it is the beginning of the laws and also their end.

When faced with the initial problem of star pollution, nature offered humanity two different solutions.

The first way to get started is by climbing the technology tree.

Steam engine, internal combustion engine, vacuum tube, electrical circuit, atomic energy, cold fusion, androids, exoskeleton armor, artificial meridians and artificial dantian...

Guided by nature, the humans of this world have explored many technological paths, developing a magnificent and futuristic high-tech world.

But don't forget, the quality of a science fiction gadget depends on its user.

The stars don't need to produce higher-level science fiction products, nor do they need to send out large-scale alien invasions. They can easily destroy the entire human civilization simply by corrupting the humans who control deadly weapons.

This attempt to defy the stars ultimately ended in failure.

The city blueprints for the Silvermoon Federation established by the alchemists came from historical documents from before the First Era.

The second path emerged after the first path failed; this is the bloodline power that Xia Zuo is very familiar with.

No matter how powerful a person's bloodline power is, it is impossible to destroy all of humanity. However, he can protect himself and his loved ones, like a nail rooted in the tide of monsters, firmly holding his ground and fighting to the death.

The power of bloodline is the way that grants humans supreme personal power, enabling them to survive wave after wave of monster invasions.

This approach also failed.

Starry Sky personally entered the scene and dispatched a demon of a higher level than the monsters.

The Otherworldly beings possess intelligence comparable to that of humans, but lack humanity and morality.

They are cunning, treacherous, unscrupulous, and relentlessly corrupt the strongest bloodlines among humanity.

If the temptation fails, then the most forceful and cruel methods will be used: forcibly abduct the bloodline powerhouse, seal his will and senses, dismantle his limbs, extract his bloodline, and use his bloodline to create deformed flesh and blood products.

With the power of bloodline defeated, humanity was utterly routed.

The third approach has emerged: the laws of elements have come into being.

Elements are the concrete manifestation of the energy laws of nature.

Elements embody the energy laws of nature.

Humans are inherently incapable of containing elements; their flesh and blood will instantly disintegrate upon contact with them. It is precisely because of this that the alien demons, whose core art is flesh and blood alchemy, have been unable to tamper with the laws of the elements.

In order for humankind to control the power of the elements, nature must provide them with a container that can hold the elements.

This container is the ocean of the spirit.

It is an independent creation of nature, capable of existing independently of the human body.

Nature has created an underground area in the safest place in the entire world to centrally store the ocean of the spirit, which is where Xia Zuo is now located.

In simple terms, the Ocean of Spirits is the interface through which human mages interact with the laws of the elements.

When a human mage enters deep meditation, their consciousness, under the influence of the elemental laws, will travel into the interior of the black crystal.

The "stone wall" they saw was actually the interior of the black crystal. However, the "stone wall" was not actually made of stone; it was merely a design created by nature to facilitate human understanding of how to expand one's spiritual horizons.

Essentially, the "stone wall" is actually the crystalline structure inside the black crystal, which is completely black.

谷议

The so-called cultivation meditation method and the absorption of elements are about using time, energy and money to exchange for the right to use the laws of elements from nature.

Nature can directly grant a person the supreme right to use the laws of the elements.

But it won't do that.

Nature is well aware of human nature.

Human nature is full of contradictions and deviations.

Things that are easily obtained are never cherished or protected, and no one will devote their heart and energy to them or explore their uses in depth.

The harder something is to obtain, the more obsessive and desireful humans become, wanting to pursue and study it wholeheartedly.

Only by making good use of this inherent nature can the effects of the elemental laws be maximized.

The spiritual ocean arises in response to this need, but unlike the power of bloodline, it is not handed over to each individual to control. Instead, nature gathers together humanity's spiritual ocean to protect and supervise it.

This is why countless black crystals have gathered here.