"Why doesn't he leave? Master Banderas said that his mental power is extremely vast, far beyond that of ordinary people. But now he is only at the twelfth level." Serinda saw Xiao Chen standing on the steps, with his eyes closed, motionless, just standing there quietly.
"A wizard should seize every opportunity to understand how the world works. At least he did not waste this path of spiritual cultivation. It's best not to disturb him now." Master Kona said.
He summoned a golem and had it come to Xiao Chen's side to protect him.
"Let's go. Maybe we should come after lunch. I have a feeling this is going to be a long wait."
However, Xiao Chen stood there for much longer than Master Kona expected. After lunch, Serinda came to see him twice more, but Xiao Chen still stood there motionless, with no change in his expression.
However, for Xiao Chen himself, he was so focused at this moment that he was completely unaware of the passage of time. He was just concentrating on thinking and trying how to release the meditation space.
Xiao Chen slowly realized that if he wanted to project the meditation space like he projected ordinary mental power, his consciousness must be able to observe both real time and the meditation world, which required splitting his consciousness into two. And this is the way to move from the intermediate level to the advanced level of cultivation, splitting the mind.
Xiao Chen had not learned the secret method of the distraction stage, so he could only find a way to do it by himself. Xiao Chen was like a child who got a Rubik's Cube for the first time, constantly trying various possibilities. After failing countless times, he suddenly found a sense of feeling at the moment of entering and exiting the meditation world, relying on the barrier of the meditation world...
Another hour passed, and strange changes occurred around Xiao Chen.
The first thing that came was the sound, the rustling sound, like the waves in the distance. Then, with Xiao Chen as the center, a circle of blue shadows appeared around him. The shadow was like a sphere that wrapped Xiao Chen in it, with a radius of more than one meter. The blue was fluctuating, as if he had summoned a water ball.
"It's actually an external meditation space..." Master Kona sensed the changes around Xiao Chen through the golem at the first time and appeared above the stairs.
Xiao Chen opened his eyes at this time, and he looked around curiously. His state of consciousness was very strange at this time, as if he was half in the meditation world and half outside the meditation world. He could perceive things in the meditation world and the real world at the same time, and the two images were intertwined in front of his eyes.
The blue shadow around him was just a corner of the ocean in the meditation world, but it was enough to block all mental attacks.
He nodded to the golem beside him in thanks, then started running.
He ran up quickly amid the surprised eyes of the people around him. Twelve floors, thirteen floors… He ran all the way up, the attacks around him became stronger and stronger, and the meditation space around him became smaller and smaller. When he ran to the seventeenth floor, the meditation space had become a layer of blue light that could only slightly penetrate his body. Xiao Chen felt that he had reached his limit, and the meditation space was not enough to resist the invasion of mental attacks. He felt a pain in his abdomen, and an ice spear formed by an illusion had pierced his abdomen.
"The trial is over now, come to my place." Master Kona's voice appeared in Xiao Chen's ears. He suddenly felt dizzy, and he disappeared from the Soul Refining Road and appeared in a reception room.
The room was simply furnished, with only a coffee table and chairs in the middle of the room, and a few low cabinets around it.
A middle-aged man with a stern expression stood in the middle of the reception room, looking at Xiao Chen quietly.
"Who are you?"
"Kona, the master of the Spirit Refining Tower." The middle-aged man said, "Mr. Xiao Chen, you have used the Spirit Refining Path as an opportunity to gain some insights. That's good."
"The golem that guards me was arranged by you, right? I am very grateful for that." Xiao Chen bowed slightly.
"Your meditation space is an ocean? I never thought I would have the chance to see a meditation space come into this world."
Xiao Chen was startled and asked, "Do you know the meditation space?"
Master Kona pointed to the seat and said, "Sit down."
The two sat down face to face, and a smile appeared on Master Kona's stern face. He said, "Not only do I know that it is a meditation space, I also know that you have the inheritance of the Dream Tower and the Soul Forging Tower, and some of your spells were learned from the Holy Mage Antonio Gregorio."
"I just got some scattered inheritances by chance." Xiao Chen said calmly. The other party saw through him so clearly that there was no point in lying.
"Coincidence?" Master Kona shook his head and said, "It was fate that made me see you."
"Do you think my presence here is destined?"
"When you reach my level and know a lot of things, you will have a feeling that there is a force behind the world. Many things happen for a reason. When I saw the mental barrier magic, I suddenly understood a lot of things. It's very interesting that you came to the capital and brought the Royal Magic Tower."
"I don't quite understand."
Master Kona nodded and said, "Speaking of which, do you know the origin of our relationship?"
Xiao Chen said: "I know that the inheritance of the Soul Forging Tower comes from the Dream Tower, and the Spirit Refining Tower..."
"That's right. Rafael Gomez, the creator of the God Refining Tower, is also a magician of the Dream Tower. He is Antonio Gregorio's junior. When the God Killing War failed, the most powerful magicians of the Dream Tower disappeared in the God Realm. They are the only two holy-level magicians left in the Dream Tower. When they found that the situation was hopeless, they dismissed the middle and low-level magicians in the Dream Tower and hid the Dream Tower. Then they took several great magicians to escape the pursuit of the Temple of Nature."
"The Dream Tower still exists?" Xiao Chen asked.
"No one knows. But there is no record that any of the Seven Holy Towers fell into the hands of the Temple of Nature." Master Kona sighed, as if lamenting the fate of the ancients. "Gregorio chose to go north to the sea with the Scroll of Sea of Consciousness, escaped the pursuit of the Temple of Nature, and ran to the outside of the Temple of Nature's influence. He found an island in the sea and founded the Soul Forging Tower.
Gomez chose to go south with the "True Form of the Fantasy World", but he was not so lucky. In the end, he was blocked by three Golden Branch Priests and more than ten Silver Leaf Priests from the Temple of Nature at the outskirts of the Elf Forest. "
"These Golden Branch priests are also saints, right?"
"That's right."
"But in the end Gomez won?"
"No, they are three very powerful Saint-level magicians. Gomez alone cannot defeat them, but the mages of the Dream Tower always have some strange and unpredictable abilities, which make the three of them very afraid. So in the end, both sides chose to compromise. Gomez handed over "The True Form of the Fantasy World" and got the opportunity to establish his own school in this place." Master Kona looked at Xiao Chen with a mysterious look in his eyes.