My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Fatten them up before killing them?

Or is there some other conspiracy?

Xia Zuo lay helplessly on the bed, feeling that the thoughts in his mind were as messy as an overturned palette of paint.

All sorts of conspiracy theories are emerging.

Chapter 5 Talent Spells

Never mind... overthinking is useless.

Xia Zuo sat up in bed and went to the shower again.

After adjusting his mindset, he drank the second dose of the calming potion.

This time, Xia Zuo was much calmer when faced with two walls with completely different surfaces.

His soul drifted slowly in the confined space, looking around in all directions, becoming familiar with this pitifully small spiritual ocean...

As Xia Zuo floated along, a thought struck him, and he tried to bring up his character template. The template interface immediately appeared in his mind, but there was no change in his mental ocean.

It seems that the magic touch isn't in the ocean of the mind; it resides in a more hidden and elusive place.

Xia Zuo calmed his mind, cleared his mind of distractions, and examined his mental landscape according to the guidance of basic meditation.

The surrounding walls are covered with patterns.

Upon closer inspection, the patterns on the front, back, left, and right sides are all different.

Each part corresponds to one element: water, wind, earth, and fire.

Within the pattern representing a certain element, it is further subdivided into four smaller parts, each corresponding to a characteristic of that element.

A mage apprentice can conceive of a total of 16 elemental traits.

The walls around the room feature 16 different elemental patterns, arranged vertically and evenly.

Xia Zuo woke up from his meditation and glanced at the wall clock.

7 pm.

There is no concept of time in the ocean of the mind.

He felt as if he had just taken a nap, and several hours had passed.

And I didn't feel tired at all, and I still had plenty of energy. It's just that the space was so small that it felt a bit oppressive.

To expand this small space into something as vast and beautiful as Beatrice's spiritual ocean would take at least a century...

Xia Zuo walked to the blinds and looked at the night outside. At this time, Anru should be having dinner in the restaurant.

He stood by the window for a moment, enjoying the evening breeze, and flipping through the messages sent by his cheat system after he drank the calming potion. Gradually, he regained his peace of mind.

In the normal procedure.

After confirming that I could use the Concentration Potion to enter deep meditation, the second step was to try to communicate with the Untamed Elements.

The academy will provide students practicing meditation for the first time with an elemental imprisonment bottle that seals away unruly elements, allowing students to communicate with these elements themselves, tame them, and incorporate them into their spiritual ocean.

With the Master-level Element Bottle, Xia Zuo can directly try to contain the obedient elements inside. Once he succeeds, he can then tame the unruly elements in the Element Imprisonment Bottle.

It was written on the parchment scroll.

The stronger the energy contained in an element, the longer it takes to tame and incorporate it.

Inside the elemental confinement bottle on the desk, there is only one weakest, most untamed element.

In meditation theory, it is classified as a minor element, or simply a minor element.

If the taming method is adopted using basic meditation techniques.

When a mage's servant tames a small unruly elemental, there is a 15-day trial period, and at least 4 attempts are required.

If there are elements of obedience in one's mental state, the frequency can be reduced to 1 to 3 times.

The specific situation depends on whether the unrestrained element is compatible.

After taming the unruly element and turning it into a docile element, it will take another 15 to 20 days to incorporate the docile element into the ocean of consciousness.

In an era without satiating potions, the process of taming and absorbing elements would be interrupted by physiological needs such as hunger, thirst, and defecation, causing the entire training to be ruined.

The conditions for cultivation are much better now.

With the help of satiety potions, meditators can avoid the problem of hunger.

The functional medicine for thirst is called a hydration medicine.

A perfectly high-quality, expert-grade hydration solution can continuously provide the body with the necessary water for 20 days.

As for bowel movement problems, another type of functional medication is needed to solve them.

After drinking the medicine, Xia Zuo picked up the yellowish-brown medicine bottle from the table and stared speechlessly at the black particles in the liquid.

If it weren't for the information from the detection technique clearly indicating that it was a laxative, Xia Zuo would have almost misunderstood what was in the glass bottle.

He gently shook the glass bottle to make the black particles that had sunk to the bottom float to the surface, so he could pour them all into his mouth and drink them all at once.

"Gurgle, gurgle."

After swallowing the medicine, information from the "golden finger" (a powerful cheat system) appeared in his mind:

"After successfully taking one bottle of this laxative (Perfect Quality, Expert Grade), you will not need to defecate for the next 20 days. During the duration of the effect, you can voluntarily go to the toilet to stop the effect. Payment is based on the amount of stool discharged."

Oh, is it serious that you're settling accounts based on emissions data...?

Xia Zuo's lips twitched, a secret anticipation creeping into his heart for what would happen in ten days...

Hunger, thirst, and defecation—these three problems were solved.

Xia Zuo chose to lie on his back in a spread-eagle position on the bed.

He also made sure to leave a sustenance potion, a pile of towels, and a set of clean clothes on the bedside table in case of an emergency and there was no time to help.

everything's ready.

Xia Zuo carefully picked up the master-level elemental bottle and sat down by the bed.

The Master-level Element Bottle looks similar to a teacup.

It relies on an internal magic circle to seal the obedient element; the bottle stopper at the mouth is merely a symbolic object.

Xia Zuo uncorked the elemental bottle and pressed his left hand against the bottle opening.

At the testing station in Rosac, he had experienced having his palm pierced by the obedient element.

Now that my mental attribute value is high, it's a completely different experience.

After placing your palm over the bottle opening for 3 minutes, the tactile sensation from your palm turns into a tingling, comfortable feeling.

It's as if something is being affectionate, gently stroking the palm of the bottle opening with its tentacles. Once it gets the owner's permission, it will willingly crawl into the palm.

Xia Zuo knew his chance had come.

According to the scroll, once you enter a deep meditative state, find the glowing spot on the gray wall, and use your soul to help the obedient element enter the ocean of spirit, you will have succeeded.

Xia Zuo used his left hand to uncork the Concentration Potion, poured the pale blue liquid into his mouth, and then gripped the mouth of the Master-level Elemental Bottle with his right hand before slowly lying down on the bed.

With his eyes closed, he found himself in the small space of the ocean of consciousness, where mottled gray walls appeared before him.

There was a spot of light flickering on and off on the right wall.

Half of this light spot is embedded in the wall.

Its location is right in the center of a complex pattern.

The elemental characteristics represented by this pattern are consistent with the characteristics of the well-behaved element it contains.

During deep meditation, consciousness is entirely within the soul, attention is unprecedentedly focused, and the mobilization of one's own thoughts is smoother than in a non-meditational state.

Xia Zuo's soul stared at the wall, focusing his attention on the spot of light, and following the instructions on the parchment, he imagined pulling the spot of light.

The flashing frequency of the light spot increased, and it burst out with a short burst of intense light, leaping off the wall.

Then, the point of light drifted slowly in the confined space.

It became.

It's that simple.

When not consciously controlling the obedient elements, the little light spot will drift freely in the ocean of consciousness.

Only after entering a deep meditative state and practicing basic meditation techniques will the obedient element cut through the surrounding walls, helping its owner expand their spiritual ocean.

This is the basic approach to meditation.

I wonder if I'll gain talent spells.

Just as Xia Zuo was about to focus his mind on the drifting little speck of light, he suddenly felt fatigue and drowsiness wash over him, and everything went black. When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer in a meditative state.

Information about the cheat system came to my mind.

But he didn't have time to check it out right now.

The room was dimly lit. Only a little moonlight shone through the gaps in the blinds.

Xia Zuo felt incredibly sore all over. His vision was blurry, filled with a hazy, grayish grime. His body felt the same way, a faint body odor permeating the room.

The Master-level Element Bottle had long since rolled off the edge of the bed and onto the floor; it was probably lying in some corner now.

Xia Zuo started moving his fingers, gradually regaining control of his body. Waves of tingling and numbness accompanied the joint movements, spreading from his limbs to his brain.

It took him more than ten minutes to sit up in bed. He slowly groped along the edge of the bed with his right hand, picked up a towel from the bedside table, and wiped his eyes, but his vision did not improve.

Another five or six minutes passed.

Xia Zuo stood up shakily, hunched over, and walked slowly towards the washroom, keeping close to the wall.

"Boom!"

As the little toe glided across the bedside table, it successfully avoided the table's legs, but bumped into the master-level element bottle that had been lying in wait.

"Sigh~"

A sharp, aching pain shot through Xia Zuo's brain from his little toe, causing him to gasp.