Xiao Chen opened his eyes.
He felt a little weak and his vision was blurry. So he had to close his eyes and rest for a while. When he opened his eyes again, Nina, who was lying beside him, coughed a few times quickly, took two deep breaths like a drowning person, let out a low scream, and then woke up. When she turned sideways and raised her body, water droplets dripped from her nose, chin and hair ends. It was sweat with a faint fishy smell. Her whole body was soaked in sweat, and even a pool of water accumulated on the floor beside her. Xiao Chen's process of transforming her meditation world was like a major operation, which started with the mind, but eventually affected the body. The huge and sudden metabolism made her look thinner, and even her cheekbones were much more distinct.
She glanced around the room and saw Xiao Chen looking at her. She shuddered involuntarily and then lowered her eyes.
Xiao Chen stood up, loosened his arms and legs, walked over, held her arm, and helped her up. Nina flinched and tried to move away from Xiao Chen, but she couldn't stand Xiao Chen's strength and was helped to sit on the edge of the bed.
"Don't worry." Xiao Chen grabbed a towel from the bedside and threw it to Nina. Nina failed to catch it, and picked it up from the bed in a panic, slowly wiping the sweat off her face.
"Everything will be fine." Xiao Chen smiled. "You can be considered a blessing in disguise. Now you have some abilities of a magic apprentice and are familiar with the models I left in your meditation space. You can cast some simple magic. Even if you are limited by your talent and have little room for development, this is a good thing, right?"
Nina looked at her hands, and after a moment, a small ball of light emerged from between her hands. It flickered a few times and burst like a soap bubble. However, seeing this scene, she also showed some joy on her face. Magic is so noble in this world, who can resist the temptation to release magic
"Look, I'm a man of my words. You just need to quietly fulfill our agreement." Xiao Chen said.
Nina looked at her hands again and nodded to Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen did not open the door to let the people waiting outside in, but stood in a corner of the room, observing the movements of Li Jia and Serinda. The two were as calm as sculptures, not at all like Nina's embarrassed look.
"How are they?" Nina asked.
Xiao Chen also looked at them. He held his chin and walked around the two people and said, "It looks like he is still receiving treatment. Judging from his physical condition, everything should be normal."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Li Jia's face suddenly twitched, and then his eyebrows twisted. Xiao Chen hurriedly sat next to Li Jia, activated the detection spirit magic, and scanned Li Jia's body with his spirit power.
"There's nothing wrong with his body, but... his mental strength is declining!"
"Where's the lady?" Nina asked.
"It seems to be getting stronger?"
In the meditation world, Serinda's body is much better than before, at least she can now support her body with her arms, but Li Jia beside her has a worried look on her face.
Serinda's body was like a bottomless pit. Li Jia needed to expend a great deal of mental energy to repair her disintegration of consciousness. However, the mental power carried by Li Jia's own consciousness was limited. He felt increasingly exhausted and powerless. If this continued, it would not be long before he would lose control of his consciousness and fall asleep in Serinda's meditation space.
"Li Jia! You don't look... well. Can you hold on?" Serinda also noticed Li Jia's expression. "If you can't hold on, stop."
"No, what I'm doing now is like untying a bunch of tangled ropes. If I stop... all my efforts will be wasted." Li Jia said these words with great effort, "Besides, if I go back to my world and start over, I don't know if I can be so lucky to find you again!"
"But I can feel that we are not even halfway there yet. I am really worried..."
Li Jia shook her head to stop her from talking, and said, "I have another way."
He pulled the small black stone that the book spirit had given him from his pocket and squeezed it hard.
"What is this?" Serinda saw the pebble shatter into powder in an instant, but the powder did not scatter on the ground, but instead spun around the original location of the stone. As it spun, the powder turned into a deep black hole, suspended in the air.
Then the entire meditation world began to shake, as if something that shook the heaven and earth was about to rush in from outside.
"I felt it. That was the mental power in my subconscious mind, and they were coming!" said Li Jia.
As he spoke, the hole suddenly expanded to the size of a bowl, and then countless black light spots with spiritual power poured out from it and rushed into Serinda's body.
In the other body, Li Jia's meditation space began to become illusory from the outside. The rocks and tunnels turned into small black dots, following an unknown path, rushing out of Li Jia's world and into Serinda's world. Only a faint shadow was left at the original position.
Li Jia looked at Serinda's body slowly transforming from illusion to reality, and his expression became much more relaxed. Subconscious mental power is the raw material for practicing spellcasting mental power. Even if some of it is lost, it will at most affect the speed of practice, and it will slowly recover after consumption. What's more, Shu Ling said that his subconscious power is far greater than that of the ancient Dream Tower magic apprentice.
As long as Serinda can be saved, it's all worth it.
Xiao Chen stayed beside Li Jia, his face solemn. He had discovered the reason for the change in the strength of Li Jia and Serinda. The essence of this was to use Li Jia's own mental power to fill Serinda's gap. This was completely different from his treatment of Nina.
It was like, he used bandages to bandage a wound and arranged a ward for a patient, which consumed only normal physical strength. But what Li Jia was doing was cutting open his own blood vessels and giving the patient a blood transfusion. No, maybe it was not appropriate to say blood transfusion, it was simply cutting open the patient's wrist and letting him drink blood!
Xiao Chen suddenly realized a problem. The methods he and Li Jia used to treat patients were taught by the book spirits in their respective meditation worlds. He had not discussed with Li Jia about the treatment plan for Serinda, and he took it for granted that the other party's method was the same as his, but it was just that the treatment was done by someone close to him, so the effect would be better. But now it seems that this is completely different!
Xiao Chen touched the still glowing Sea of Consciousness Scroll with his hand and called the book spirit with his mental power, wanting to call him out and ask him a question. However, as time passed, he did not get any response. Could it be that the book spirit was also trapped in Serinda's world? Or was there something wrong with the Sea of Consciousness Scroll? Thinking of this, Xiao Chen felt a little chilly.
Looking at Li Jia again, in his reconnaissance vision, the light ball representing Li Jia's spiritual power has become dimmer and dimmer, while the light ball representing Serinda is more than twice as large as when she was safe.
If this process goes on to the end, Li Jia will only have one ending, becoming an idiot! His personality and memory will completely disappear. In other words, the Li Jia that Xiao Chen knew is dead. And as for Serinda, God knows what will happen to her!
Xiao Chen couldn't accept such a result. He looked grim and stared at Serinda lying on the ground.
The book spirit once said that if the plan failed, it would break up Serinda's meditation world and let Li Jia's consciousness return to her body. But now the book spirit is nowhere to be found, and it can't help Li Jia do this, nor can it bring Xiao Chen into their world to help. Xiao Chen thought that the only way to effectively stop this was to kill Serinda and completely end her meditation world.
Kill Serinda? Once this thought came up, it lingered in Xiao Chen's mind like a demon, constantly popping up.
However, when he was faced with this choice, he found himself so excited.
A voice in his mind said: This woman, peeping at our treasure, has put Li Jia in a desperate situation. Now is the time for her to make a sacrifice. We cannot let Li Jia be buried with her. Draw your sword and kill her with one strike!
Another voice said: No, you can't kill another person to save one person. If we do this, it will violate the most basic principles of our life. Where will our hearts go? Li Jia did everything he could to save this woman. It was his own choice. He would never agree with you doing this. You will make all his efforts worthless!
The previous voice argued: Why let your best friend in this world die in such a thing? That woman means nothing to you! We even hate her! Kill her and save Li Jia! We don't have to be afraid of her father at all, just use magic and rifles to eliminate these damn nobles.
The latter voice refuted: If Serinda is killed by our own hands, all the previous arrangements related to the Earl will be in vain, and it may even lead to a war! The school cannot afford a war with the Earl now! This is a crazy idea!
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"Master Xiao Chen, what are you doing?" Nina's voice interrupted Xiao Chen's thoughts. When Xiao Chen came to his senses, he found that his hand was already on the hilt of the sword.
I actually wanted to kill Serinda? Xiao Chen was a little confused. He could now recall all the arguments of the two consciousnesses and understand the logic of those thoughts, but at this moment he did not have any urge to draw his sword and kill. What was going on
"Nina, did I look weird just now?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Ah? I, I don't know. I just saw you standing there motionless, staring at the lady, as if you were possessed." Nina said with some fear.
"Am I possessed? Is someone secretly influencing me?" Xiao Chen thought thoughtfully.