Chapter 208: Identifying the Elents
Faced with Xiao Lin’s aggressive questioning, Song Junlang rely sighed and confessed unabashedly. He then asked in a very concerned manner, “How are you feeling? What does your body feel right now? You said it was cold, then you said it was hot. So, is it cold or hot?”
Xiao Lin took the diarrhea dication and said in exasperation, “Don’t even think about trying to get experintal data from ! Didn’t you say that there wouldn’t be any side effects?”
“I lied to you, of course.” Departnt Head Song said matter-of-factly. He imdiately switched the topic to the results of the experint and said earnestly, “Don’t interrupt, tell how you’re feeling right now. It’s actually for your own good.”
Xiao Lin was furious when he looked at Song Junlang’s innocent expression. “Do you think I’d trust you again? What do you an for my own good? It’s obvious you’re just collecting data!”
Song Junlang put down the pen and said in a very solemn tone, “You’ve been working extra hard to practice basic ditation and spells these few days, haven’t you? This experint is very important for your training. If all goes well, you’ll achieve much more in the last few days.”
Xiao Lin was skeptical, but he had to admit that Song Junlang’s words were very attractive to him. He was sowhat sad to realize that he had gradually beco a lab rat, but after a mont’s hesitation, he said, “It’s cold sotis and hot sotis. I can’t tell exactly what it feels like, but it’s probably both.”
Song Junlang was surprised and muttered about how interesting it was. He then buried his head and continued to jot everything down.
Xiao Lin could not help but ask, “Don’t just record everything. Tell what conclusions you’ve made.”
“Well, I suggest you work harder on your affinity for water and fire in these couple of days. The effect is very good, but I don’t know to what extent. The floating fish’s internal elental energy is abundant and can temporarily allow you to sense the elents much better.”
Xiao Lin was pleasantly surprised. “So, my elental affinity will be greatly improved?”
“Uh, not exactly, because it’s only temporary. The special genetic structure of the elental floating fish allows them to store energy, but our human body can’t do that. Drinking fish soup only temporarily strengthens your body’s ability to be more attuned to the elents, but like food that’s digested, this energy will flow away quickly.”
Song Junlang then said helplessly, “That is why I told you to eat the diarrhea dication. Your normal tabolism will speed up energy consumption, and in turn, ans you have to speed up training. But it’s also very interesting when you think about it. You were able to feel cold and hot, which ans that you have a high affinity for fire and water. This is really rare.”
Xiao Lin did not pay attention to the second half of the sentence. The first half sufficed for him to realize that the elental floating fish soup had practically given him a temporarily heightened state, though that state would only decrease by the day. He hurriedly bid goodbye and went straight back to the dormitory. It was already night, and although he could continue to ditate in his room, the effect was not as good as being in the ditation room. He was already feeling much better after eating the diarrhea dication.
Xiao Lin’s Basic ditation was still LV4. Practically all his ti had been used to train swordsmanship earlier. With his initial mastery of elental sword aura, his swordsmanship training was nearing its end. In the next few days, he intended to focus his ti solely on spells and ditation.
He could see from the contents of Gu Xiaoyue’s notes in class a few days ago that Basic ditation LV4 was actually a bottleneck. ditation from LV0 to LV4 was only the most basic introductory stage, the contents of which were also very simple. All that needed to be done was to perceive the existence of the four basic elents from scratch.
From LV4 onward, the basic ditation process was not solely to perceive the existence of elents, but also to distinguish the types of elents. From that stage on, everyone’s elental affinity gradually started to manifest. That was the most crucial part of learning spells, which was why the prerequisite for learning any spell was at least LV4 Basic ditation.
Everyone’s ditation realm was different. Xiao Lin’s was a vast universe and, by then, he was already able to quickly enter his ditative state. The amalgamation of elents in the void seed to dot the sky like stars. That was what he could perceive, but if he wanted to raise himself to greater heights, he had to recognize every single star there was.
The process was actually very difficult. Judging from the discussions in the forum, many people who took spell classes had been stagnant there for a very long ti. A person’s experience would not mindlessly increase just because they ditated—doing so using the wrong thod would only be counterproductive.
From Gu Xiaoyue’s notes, it was evident that she had no difficulty in distinguishing the elents. The sa could be said of Chen Dao, Freshn Class Twelve’s acting monitor, who did not face a bottleneck. Xiao Lin could find out about all that simply by looking at everyone’s diation level.
In fact, Xiao Lin was no novice to ditation, as he started his basic ditation by copying a sophomore senior. In other words, he had previously succeeded in perceiving and distinguishing the elents. Even if the skills disappeared, such an experience would remain embedded in his mind.
Xiao Lin took only four hours—which was practically the entire night—to enter ditation and distinguish the elent types. Though it seed quite lengthy since he paled in comparison to Gu Xiaoyue’s half hour and Chen Dao’s one hour and 40 minutes; four hours was still an amazing feat if one took into account the fact that other people’s bottleneck lasted one or two weeks.
The upgrading of perception and cognition was also very concretely manifested in the microcosm of the elents. For example, in Xiao Lin’s ditation realm, the stars were no longer just fuzzy points of light, but burned with raging flas or glowed in blue-colored waves.
After opening his eyes, Xiao Lin imdiately checked the level of basic ditation and found that his proficiency had indeed improved significantly. That showed that his direction was correct. The burning planet in his ditation realm was likely the fire elent, while the blue planet had to be the water elent. Song Junlang’s hunch was right—Xiao Lin could easily perceive those two elents, and at the sa ti, found it difficult to sense wind or earth.
However, distinguishing the elents was only the first step, and simply perceiving them was aningless. Next up, he had to master control over those elents, because utilizing them was the basic premise for casting spells.
Seeing that it was already late, Xiao Lin did not continue to ditate. His terrible bout of diarrhea earlier that evening, coupled with his lengthy period of ditation, had tired him out significantly.
Before he slept that night, he rembered to take another dose of the diarrhea dication. Song Junlang advised him not to continue taking it until the monthly exam, because the cause of diarrhea was due to his body’s unfamiliarity with the sudden influx of elental energy. In the sa vein, the tabolism caused by his stomach’s intense reaction would also accelerate the loss of energy.
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