69novels Chapter 26 I am a Qi Refining Master!
Chapter 26 I am a Qi Refining Master!
Lorne sat there cross-legged, radiating brilliant light. The elements seemed to come alive, rushing into Lorne's body and then disappearing without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea.
"It really disappeared... and never reappeared. Could it be that he absorbed these elements? But how is that possible?"
Meow Leon felt that his concept of magic over the years had been greatly impacted at this moment. He stared blankly at Lorne, his mind racing with all sorts of thoughts.
It has been confirmed that those elements were not, like other mages, merely summoned and assembled into new magical structures, then released as magic; rather, they were truly absorbed into Lorne's body and never appeared again.
It could even sense that the concentration of magical elements in the surrounding air was slowly becoming thinner!
"How could this happen..." Meow Leon muttered to himself.
Elements are borrowed, not devoured. This is the most basic common sense in the magical world. Elements are essentially a part of the world. Magicians can only borrow them. No one has ever been able to possess elements.
You have to pay it back.
What Kron is doing now is clearly taking it for himself!
This kind of bizarre ability was something that Meow Leon had never heard of before.
As the morning light grew brighter, the entire eastern sky was dyed golden red.
Lorne was enveloped in a hazy halo, a state resulting from the excessive concentration of absorbed spiritual energy.
Downstairs, outside the clock tower, came the sound of low conversation.
Meow Leon suddenly came to his senses.
"Hey, Lorne, wake up! It's dawn! We need to go!"
Lorne did not react. His breathing was steady, and the aura around him gradually receded, like the tide receding into the beach. The spiritual energy surrounding him also gradually dissipated and returned to its normal free state.
After a few breaths, Lorne opened his eyes.
Meow Leon looked at Lorne with surprise and suspicion, feeling that his temperament seemed to have changed. He seemed much more agile and had an ethereal quality, quite different from the temperament of many magicians.
"You've successfully begun your enlightenment? You've become a magic apprentice?" it asked eagerly.
"Um... I guess so."
He blinked, looked down at his hands, and could sense the flow of spiritual energy within his body. When he clenched his fist, there seemed to be a faint sound of air being cut through.
There were no longer any obstacles to perceiving the spiritual energy in the air. With just a thought, one could absorb it into their body and refine it into their own spiritual power, making it as easy as using their own limbs.
A sea of qi has been opened up within the dantian, with wisps of spiritual energy floating around the central vortex, like mist or fog, gathering and dispersing uncertainly, creating an overall somewhat empty space.
According to the Spirit Guiding Technique, once the entire Qi Sea is filled with liquid spiritual energy, becoming a boiling ocean of spiritual energy, one can attempt to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
only……
He tried to calm his mind and focus on the meditation method that Professor Mérené had taught him, sensing the elements floating in the air, and reaching out his spiritual power to contact them and strengthen the connection between them.
The first three steps were completed in an instant, and even the scope was wider. Everything within dozens of meters around was clearly displayed in his mind: the fine cracks on the stone wall, the wisps of clouds drifting outside the window, the low conversations of the students changing shifts on the first floor of the clock tower, and the fluttering fur of Meow Leon.
"Is this... a spiritual consciousness?"
He suddenly realized that the Spirit Guiding Technique mentioned that after becoming a Qi Refining cultivator, one's original spiritual experience transforms into spiritual consciousness, greatly enhancing one's perception and making one see clearly. With a single thought, all phenomena are reflected.
However, when Lorne used his spiritual sense to touch the elements floating in the air, a magical scene occurred. The elements passed right through his spiritual sense as if they did not exist. Moreover, Lorne had a feeling that he could absorb them with just a summoning.
"It's spoiled."
A terrible thought popped into Lorne's mind.
It seems he can no longer be a magician.
The principle by which magicians manipulate the elements is to resonate with the elements through mental power and to weave circuits to control the elements to form various kinds of magic.
But now, his mental power has become spiritual awareness, and his elements have become spiritual energy. Once they come into contact, he will absorb that spiritual energy and turn it into his own spiritual power.
His spiritual consciousness can no longer serve as a medium between him and the elements, so what kind of magician can he be?
Never mind, from today onwards, I am a Qi Refining Master!
After all, he is the strongest cultivator in the world in terms of immortality. It's better not to be a mere magic apprentice.
"You, you, you... you ate all those elements!"
Meow Leon looked extremely excited, his paws flying up and down:
"This is completely illogical. I've never heard of elements only going in and not coming out. A normal human body absolutely cannot withstand so many magical elements, otherwise it would have exploded and died long ago. How did you do it? Is this still magic?"
It had seen strange students and strange magic at Silver Academy, but it had never seen anyone who directly consumed magical elements like this.
Lorne coughed twice, thinking to himself that this was just the meditation method taught by Professor Melanie, only with a tiny, slight variation in my case.
He solemnly fabricated his reasons:
"To be honest, senior, I met a magic master when I was a child. He taught me this method. I didn't understand what it was before. It wasn't until I entered Silver Academy that I learned it contained a meditation method, so I came to try it out."
"However, this magical master said that this method is of great importance, involving the deepest secrets of magic, and should not be revealed casually. I only trust you because you are reliable and dependable, so please don't talk about it when you go out."
A master... the deepest secrets... and that form of absorbing elements that goes against the very nature of magic...
Sir Meow Leon's pupils gradually became dull.
To achieve this, an advanced magic degree is definitely not enough; one must at least be a legendary mage. In other words, this kid possesses the legacy of a legendary mage!
That was a legendary mage, Selwyn, who was comparable to one of the most outstanding students in the history of Silver Academy!
"Don't worry, everyone in the entire Silver Academy knows that I, Sir, have the tightest tongue," Meow Leon said, patting his chest, then leaned closer.
"If there's a chance in the future, could you introduce me to this senior colleague? I'd like to improve myself as well."
Lorne thought to himself, "Where am I supposed to conjure up a senior for you?" He nodded.
"Okay, okay."
The man and the cat didn't say anything more. They lay at the clock tower entrance for a long time, looking for an opportunity, and then slipped out again in the same way.
The moment I stepped out of the bell tower's stone gate, a line of text came into view:
[Fantastic! Successfully refined the first wisp of spiritual energy, stepping into the path of cultivation!]
[Congratulations! Although this is only a small step on the path to the pinnacle of immortality, it is a giant leap in your life, and your destiny will undergo earth-shattering changes from this moment on!]
[Cultivation Points +10!]
Current cultivation level: Early stage of Qi Refining
[Supernatural powers and spells: None.]
[Magic artifacts and spiritual treasures: None.]
[Although you have now reached the early stage of Qi Refining, you know absolutely nothing about spells or magical artifacts, making you a complete blank Qi Refiner—extremely weak. The Demonic Sect is treacherous, with fratricide commonplace. Please diligently study the various arts of cultivation and strive to shed this blank label as soon as possible!]