Outside the city wall of Green Forest City, a patrol on horseback was patrolling a few hundred meters away from the city wall. The leader was Xu Lilei, the first platoon leader of the second company of the third battalion. Their second company was reassigned to block the entire western and northern directions of Green Forest City. Some were guarding on the city wall, and some were patrolling outside the city.
There were twelve people in this team, ten of whom were from the first platoon and the first squad under Xu Lilei. The other two were mages, one from the battalion's direct mage squad, and the other from the dark elf battalion. All of these warriors had a shield that emitted a faint light, and the role of the two mages was to continuously replenish the shield for the entire squad's warriors.
Seeing the shield on Xu Lilei gradually fade, the low-level peak mage Lin Lichuan waved his hand and a pale golden shield was put on Xu Lilei again. He had done this action countless times in the past few days and had already memorized it by heart. He hardly needed to think about it, and his mental power could also instinctively draw out this magic.
Lin Lichuan's current realm is not high, not because he lacks talent. On the contrary, he is also a very talented type among Chinese people, and his speed in learning magic is also eye-catching among his classmates.
The reason why he advanced so slowly was because the way he practiced magic was completely different from that of other people.
When he first crossed over, a wall of the dormitory building collapsed and broke both of his legs. He spent half a year recuperating. While others were fighting against the heavens and the earth, he had to spend time in the ward every day.
When one is injured, one's mental strength tends to be weakened, so it is not suitable to practice magic during the recovery period. He started to formally learn magic a month after he recovered from his injury.
However, learning late has its advantages. Now, the Tower of China has five relatively complete top-level inheritances from the seven towers alone: the Tower of Dreams inheritance collected by Xiao Chen, the Tower of Stars inheritance from Liu Yisheng and Milda, the Tower of Talismans inheritance from Lorenzo, the Tower of Spirits inheritance from Glade, the Tower of Origin inheritance from Tassia, as well as a small amount of the Tower of Forging inheritance and a large number of inheritances from various other mage schools.
Unlike Xiao Chen and others who had no choice and were full of risks when they started on the path of magic, mages who later began to learn magic often faced the confusion of which path to choose.
Lin Lichuan was not idle during the six months of recuperation. He had been reading any magical information he could get his hands on. After reading a lot of materials, his years of scientific literacy gave him a feeling that many cultivation methods actually contained a lot of useless content and were also mixed with a lot of superstitious elements.
On the other hand, different ways of concentrating, tempering, dividing and integrating the mind have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the types and characteristics of mental power produced are also very different. Naturally, there are some areas where they can learn from each other and complement each other.
Lying on his sickbed, he deduced the changes in many cultivation methods and came up with an idea: why couldn't these various methods from the ancients be reintegrated by modern people into a new path of cultivation
However, it is easy to say that if you have not personally experienced these cultivation methods, it is difficult to appreciate the mysteries, let alone modify them. Therefore, Lin Lichuan made a decision that many people thought was crazy, because he was going to learn the secret methods of condensing the mind one by one and figure out the differences between each method. He learned seven methods of condensing the mind alone. He practiced the dream recalling method of the Dream Tower until he reached the state of concentration, and then turned to practice the spirit-sending method and heart fire method of the Spirit Tower, and then the star-gazing method and star-counting method of the Star Tower... After he practiced the secret methods that he thought were valuable one by one, he combined them and concentrated his mind according to the method he summarized. In the end, after he concentrated his mind, he had no meditation space, no heart fire or spirit-sending method, and no life array or anything like that. Instead, he produced a simple mental power thread, but this simple thread faintly contained the power of several other methods of condensing the mind, and it felt like the great way was simple. He called it the original thread.
Generally speaking, subsequent secret forging techniques are closely related to the previous secret condensing techniques. It is difficult for a mage to suddenly practice a new secret forging technique, but Lin Lichuan found that he had no obstacles in practicing any secret forging technique, so he practiced all those secret forging techniques again.
With his current strength, he could advance to the intermediate level anytime and anywhere, but he required of himself that one day he could combine these secret forging techniques and advance in a completely new way.
What made him happy was that the committee was tolerant and supportive of his ideas and never urged him. Instead, it allowed strong people like Liu Yisheng to often deduce with him the possibilities of various evolutions of the secret forging method.
What Lin Lichuan didn't know was that a large part of this trust came from his performance in many past worlds. In Liu Yisheng's original world, he was another saint who was not inferior to Mao Kai. In many other parallel worlds, he also achieved the achievements of a saint. It's just that the Chinese heritage in other worlds has never been as rich as this world. The changes caused by Xiao Chen have made the Chinese almost collect the heritage of the seven towers. This has greatly changed Lin Lichuan's thinking. He never took the path of other worlds again, but devoted himself to exploring new paths.
Liu Yisheng knew very well that Lin Lichuan had failed with him in countless past worlds, so he was full of expectations for the changes in this world.
Today, while Lin Lichuan was constantly using the shield to isolate toxins, he seemed to have found some insights. He felt that some inspiration had come to his mind. Therefore, he took the initiative to release all the shields in the team. Only when he needed to rest and gain insights, the dark elf mage Nilia would replace him.
The past few days together made the dark elf mage Nilia admire Lin Lichuan. These black-haired Chinese mages were all extremely talented. Not only did the high-level mages outperform the mages of the same level in other mage towers in the kingdom in many aspects, but even their low-level mages had terrifyingly strong mental strength. She was even more ashamed of her comprehension and understanding.
She and Lin Lichuan learned this spell at the same time. It took her two full hours, while Lin Lichuan only took less than five minutes. Moreover, with each casting, his speed became faster and faster, and his accuracy became higher and higher, far exceeding the level of a low-level wizard.
"Xiao Lin's magic is getting more and more fluent." Xu Lilei said.
"This is the rhythm of training magic into a talent skill." Lin Lichuan said with a smile, "I now have some understanding of the feeling of those monsters that can fire fireballs and wind blades without thinking."