Feng Qi finally stopped at the ninth floor, which also meant that he was closer to advancing to a mid-level magician.
Xiao Chen continued to move forward. Although the power of ice and fire became stronger and stronger, he still reached the tenth floor without much trouble.
At this time, he had attracted the attention of the magicians and magic apprentices around him. Usually, most of the people who set foot on the Spirit Refining Tower were disciples of the Spirit Refining Tower. Few outside magicians challenged this path. Even if there were, most of them walked with trepidation and caution.
Because even mid-level mages are often disturbed by those realistic illusions, and no one wants to make a fool of themselves in public and become the laughing stock of others. However, Xiao Chen seemed very relaxed when he reached the halfway point of the Spirit Refining Road, which made many people start to pay attention to his every move.
However, the ones who observed the most carefully among all the people were a man and a woman standing on the 19th floor.
The woman was Serinda, and next to her was a stern middle-aged man. The man was wearing a robe and holding a magic wand as tall as a person. His eyes moved slowly with Xiao Chen.
"Is this the heir of the Seven Saints?" The man looked at her with scrutiny. "Except that his hair color is very similar to some people in the Western Continent, there is nothing special about him."
"Master Kona, don't you think he passed away easily?" asked Serinda.
"Banderas told me that he is the heir of the Seven Sacred Towers. Isn't it natural that he can easily handle the challenges of the Spirit Refining Road? Otherwise, how can he be qualified to inherit the Dream Tower?" Master Kona glanced at Serinda, "You seem... a little afraid of him?"
“No, it’s just that I’ve dealt with him a lot, and he’s a very different person. They’re… very different,” Serinda said softly.
"Then let's see how far he can go. Which floor do you think he can reach?" asked Master Kona.
"As far as I know, he is still a mid-level mage, but he gives me the feeling that he can always do something unexpected. I don't know..."
"He has to go to at least the sixteenth floor, otherwise I will be disappointed," said Master Kona.
Xiao Chen saw Serinda and the middle-aged man, but he didn't care. He just walked up at his own pace. When he stepped onto the eleventh step, the illusion became stronger. The originally faint shadow now became half real and half virtual, which meant that it was more difficult for him to resist these illusions.
Moreover, all kinds of monsters and demons began to appear in the illusion. Goblins and kobolds would suddenly rush out from the roadside with weapons in hand. Goblin archers would shoot arrows in the distance. Ghosts and harpies would attack from midair. Even though Xiao Chen had a strong mental strength, he was still frightened by this scene.
An arrow hit his shoulder, and Xiao Chen felt like he was stabbed hard by a stick. The goblin's dagger chopped his leg, and it felt like it hit the edge of a table. These injuries were all imaginary, but the pain was very real. He knew that if he continued like this, he would stop at two more floors because of the unbearable pain.
However, this did not pose any problem for Xiao Chen, who was good at mental magic.
Xiao Chen released a Gregorio's mental barrier magic, which could block all forms of mental attacks. As the caster's mental power increased and his understanding of magic strengthened, he could gradually be exempted from all kinds of abnormal states and even deflect energy attacks. If used by a holy magician like Gregorio, it could eventually defend against a certain degree of physical attacks. It was indeed a very promising defensive magic.
However, according to Xiao Chen's current strength, the barrier is only effective against mental attacks, but on the road of spiritual cultivation, this function is sufficient. Once the spell takes effect, a transparent glass curtain wall appears around Xiao Chen. All those ice, snow, fire, swords, guns and arrows will disappear after reaching the barrier, allowing him to continue to move forward without any obstacles.
When Xiao Chen released the mental barrier magic, Master Kona frowned slightly and said softly: "Antonio Gregorio?"
Serinda beside him could not understand the barrier around Xiao Chen, but as a great magician, this trick could not escape his eyes. He saw that Xiao Chen felt almost no pressure under the protection of the light curtain, making the path of soul refining useless, and he could not help but sneer.
He raised his wand, moved his lips slightly, and pointed it downwards. A ray of light that was almost invisible to the naked eye shone on Xiao Chen.
At the same time, Xiao Chen suddenly felt a dazzling light shining from above, and then his mental barrier began to shake like the surface of water. After a moment, it shattered like glass, and illusions from all directions rushed towards him again.
A voice sounded in his ear: "Young man, don't take shortcuts in the test."
Xiao Chen looked upstairs and met the eyes of the middle-aged man. The man had a calm expression on his face, but Xiao Chen smiled slightly and slowly continued walking forward.
Although the mental barrier was broken, the light curtain just now gave Xiao Chen some inspiration. He knew that the so-called pain was a signal transmitted from the nerves to the brain. The essence of all mental magic was to input external abnormal signals into the brain. The mental barrier blocked the transmission of the signal of the road of spiritual cultivation. According to the posture just now, it was not surprising that he would go to the 20th floor.
Is there any way to prevent myself from feeling the signals transmitted from the outside world? A flash of light flashed through Xiao Chen's mind, meditation space! He was in the meditation space, and unless he wanted to, he could completely isolate himself from the information transmitted from the outside world.
He stood on the steps and instantly fell into meditation.
Compared to more than a month ago, his world had changed even more. The island had not only expanded a lot, but also had mountains, water, flowers, trees, and a villa at the foot of the mountain by the sea. When Xiao Chen opened his eyes, he was standing on the terrace of the villa.
He looked up at the sky. Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed in the dark sky. The weather was much worse than usual. I guess this was the attack from the Spirit Refining Road. But these attacks had become the background now. Their impact was only outside the sky and they could not cause any direct damage to Xiao Chen.
Ever since he entered Nina and Serinda's meditation space last time, Xiao Chen had a certain understanding of the nature of the meditation space.
The meditation space is a collection of controllable and uncontrollable mental powers. When casting spells or releasing them, the controllable mental powers will turn into transparent substances with various shapes. Sometimes they are transparent threads that make up magic patterns, and sometimes they turn into various forms of telekinesis. When they turn into meditation space, they turn into particulate structures that can form matter.
In other words, "The Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness" helps people to particle their mental power in their minds, forming a very real world, and then allows the mental power to switch between the meditative state and the normal state.
Xiao Chen had just used ordinary mental power to resist the intrusion of the Soul Refining Road, but it was already beginning to fail. But in the meditation world, such a stable and closed space, would it be more effective to resist the intrusion
It is like folding a piece of paper into a triangular prism, which is much stronger than a quadrangular prism. The same material has different geometric structures and different pressure bearing capacity.
What if we can release our mental energy directly in a meditation space