"You're too kind." Xiao Chen said somewhat flattered.
"Although you are incredibly talented, if you didn't have the Scroll of Sea of Consciousness, you wouldn't have achieved what you have now even after spending several years of hard work."
"But I have only learned one magic these days." Xiao Chen felt that he didn't know enough.
Master Ikasa snorted in anger and amusement: "You are so ungrateful. How long have you been a wizard? You should know that the most difficult part of magic is to increase mental power through meditation, because mental power is invisible and intangible. Many ordinary people have an empty mind and can't find a trace of mental power at all. It is also a very difficult process for magic apprentices and magicians to grow their mental power."
Xiao Chen pondered Master Ikasa's words. According to his understanding, most people cannot feel their subconscious, let alone control it. This is normal, because the subconscious originally refers to the part of consciousness that people cannot feel.
"But the Scroll of Shadows of the Sea of Consciousness can transform the elusive spiritual power into a visible meditation world. People who have read this book can practice in a tangible meditation world. For example, if your world is an ocean, it would be much easier to try to fight the sea water than to experience emptiness in meditation, right?" Ikasa explained.
Xiao Chen nodded. His goal in meditation was very clear, to prevent the rain from getting on his clothes and the waves from washing him off the boat. In the process, his mental strength was unconsciously improved. However, he asked again, "So, doesn't the Dream Tower help all magicians grow quickly?"
"It's not that simple. The Dream Tower depends on talent. Many magic apprentices' spirits don't meet the requirements. Even if they read the Scroll of Consciousness, they can't form a meditation space. Once they fail to concentrate in the Scroll of Consciousness, it's easy for their spirit to collapse or even lose their soul. As for magicians who have already successfully concentrated, the Scroll of Consciousness will try to rebuild the structure of their spirit. If low- and mid-level magicians do this, it's simply courting death. The spirit structure of high-level magicians and great magicians is already very solid and difficult to be shaken by the Scroll of Consciousness, so it will basically have no effect."
It seems that the inheritance of the Dream Tower is not so easy to peek into, Xiao Chen thought to himself, for an ordinary person to get the book and read it is like an old man eating arsenic.
"However, this danger is accompanied by great benefits." Ikasa showed a trace of envy in his eyes. "In addition to fast training speed, magicians who have their own meditation world can project the meditation world into reality as long as they practice another holy book of the Dream Tower, "The True Form of the Fantasy World". Think about the crazy and weird worlds in people's minds, cages, mazes, seas of fire, mountains of knives, rivers of blood, and even all kinds of fantastic creatures. It is a nightmare for enemies trapped in it. This is how the most powerful illusionists in the Dream Tower use real dreams to eliminate enemies."
Xiao Chen could hardly imagine what the scene was like. Although Ikasa's description was strange and confusing, he was very excited. This was simply a wonder that only appeared in myths. He quickly asked, "Do you know the whereabouts of "The True Form of the Fantasy World"? "
Ikasa sighed and said, "I don't know. The Dream Tower has long disappeared in history. Whether it is the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness" and "True Form of the Fantasy World", or the third holy book "Secret Book of Strange Dreams", they have all been lost for thousands of years."
"What is the Secret Book of Strange Dreams?" Xiao Chen asked.
"That holy book contains many dream worlds created by holy mages. It is the trial ground for the mages of the Dream Tower. It is said that the magic of those trial worlds is no less magical than that of small worlds." Ikasa said with regret, "The whereabouts of this holy book is also unknown."
Xiao Chen was just a little disappointed. This answer was not unexpected to him. He said to Master Ikasa with some pride: "If I am destined to get it, I will get it naturally. If not, I will try it myself. Before these holy books existed, there must have been people who did these things with their own abilities. If they can do it, why can't I try it? And according to what you said, at least I have a good starting point in terms of mental strength, right?"
Ikasa laughed and said, "It's a good thing for young people to have high aspirations. Yes, you are different from them. According to records, the meditation world of illusionists is relatively limited. It is definitely not an endless sea like yours. Imagine that thousands of enemies are suddenly drawn into the sea controlled by you. If you can do that, you can win a war by yourself."
"Master Ikasa, what determines the size of the meditation world?"
"Knowledge. The wider the knowledge, the more impressions there are in the mind, the larger the environment formed, the stronger the potential of mental power, and relatively speaking, because there are too many distracting thoughts, it is more difficult to successfully concentrate. This has always been a difficult problem in the magic world. The earlier you concentrate, the smaller the potential, and the later you concentrate, the more difficult it is. It is said that before using the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness", the apprentices of the Dream Tower will be taken by their teachers to expand their knowledge, or to the world of the "Secret Book of Strange Dreams" to increase their experience. Then, they will use a unique secret method of refining their minds to train their minds so that they will not be confused by illusions, and finally complete concentration between the ages of twelve and eighteen according to their abilities. But you obviously don't have such conditions. I really want to know how you have such knowledge."
"Maybe it's because I come from another world." Xiao Chen now understands a little bit. He comes from the information age. He has read countless newspapers, magazines and books since he was a child. He has been exposed to various radio, television and movies. Later, he often reads news online and reads posts on Weibo and WeChat. How can anyone in modern society compare to people in this era of illiteracy, no media and inconvenient transportation? What's more, Xiao Chen has read a lot of books and worked as a reporter. His knowledge is stronger than that of ordinary people.
Then the white ball of light gave him some initial mental strength, so he was able to use the flaming sword and the star-moon emblem.
As for the secret method of refining the mind, modern people have watched so many movies and TV series, seen all kinds of strange and terrifying scenes, and experienced all kinds of study and examinations, so their spirits are not ordinary strong.
It was because of these factors combined that he passed the test of "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness" by chance.
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen's heart warmed up. There were so many modern people in the school. I wonder if they could also become gifted magicians through the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of Consciousness"? If so, wouldn't the survival ability of the entire school be greatly enhanced? All he lacked was a set of concentration techniques to let them practice to the concentration bottleneck. If he learned the appropriate concentration techniques from other schools, maybe he could safely create magicians
Master Ikasa didn't know that Xiao Chen was already thinking about forming a magic army, but he said something that surprised Xiao Chen: "No matter what, it is a blessing for the Dream Tower to have a successor like you. But the fact that you are the successor of the Dream Tower... may be unfortunate."
"Unfortunate? The Dream Tower has disappeared, right? Could it be that it still has some enemy left today?"
The old wizard said, "Yes. This name is a taboo. It can bring you death at any time."
Xiao Chen looked at Master Ikasa worriedly. If the mages of the Dream Tower were so powerful, how terrifying would the enemies be who destroyed them
"Come with me." The old wizard stood up and asked Xiao Chen to follow him. They walked through the garden and came to a door in the corner. The old wizard pushed the door open and walked into a study.
The study was very simple and quaint, with bookshelves covering all four walls. Master Ikasa walked to a bookshelf, squinted his eyes and looked at the top shelf, then waved his hand. A heavy book floated down from the top shelf and flew to the large desk in the middle of the room.
This big book is half a meter square. There is not a single word on the cover. There is also a lock on the side of the page, which tightly locks the front and back covers.
The old wizard took out a small key from his sleeve and gently opened the lock. He waved his sleeves, and the pages of the book turned automatically without wind, all the way to the middle page.
Xiao Chen leaned over to take a look. There was nothing on the page except a line of words "Divine Calendar 3903". He looked at Ikasa in confusion.
The old wizard asked him to stand in front of the desk and said, "This book is the sacred book of the Spirit Eye Tower, the Wordless Book. If you focus your mental power and look at the year, you will understand."
Xiao Chen did as Master Ikasa said, and suddenly found that the pages of the book lit up. Countless information poured into his mind like a torrent, and the book on the desk began to flip very quickly. The strange thing was that no matter how many pages he turned, the book would never be finished. When the light disappeared, Xiao Chen woke up and found that the page had stopped at the page of 6,200 years in the divine calendar.
Xiao Chen stood there motionless for a long time, and finally he exhaled and said: "So that's how it is. The Dream Tower is so magnificent and great, but in the end it was destroyed by God. God... actually exists. Alas..."
"Do you feel regretful?" asked the old wizard.
Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "I think they should know what they are doing, so they followed Hastings to fight against the gods. On the way here, I heard the bards singing hymns praising Hastings, but it seems that the story of the Dream Tower was not mentioned in them?"
"Many of the glamorous characters on the historical stage are not necessarily the real protagonists. Hastings's battle to kill the gods is just a rumor without knowing the truth. Behind him was not only the Dream Tower, but all the Seven Sacred Towers participated in that battle."
"Seven Holy Towers?"
"Those are the seven most powerful magic towers in the Heroic Age. Compared to them, the Spirit Eye Tower is just a little brother. It was truly a glorious era. The Forge Tower was good at refining and changing, the Star Tower interpreted the stars and space, the Spirit Tower controlled the living and the dead, the Sword Tower was keen on controlling soldiers and fighting, the Talisman Tower was proficient in formations and spells, the Source Tower controlled existence and destruction, and the Dream Tower was free between illusion and reality. These seven towers were the pinnacle achievements of magic civilization. And Hastings himself is actually the master of the Sword Tower."
Could this be the Seven Towers mentioned in the letter from the Magician's Mansion? This is the relationship between the Seven Towers and the gods.
Xiao Chen took a deep breath and said, "The book doesn't describe the outcome of the final battle."
"Because everyone who entered the divine realm never came back, and the seven towers either disappeared or became ruins. People in the world can only conclude that the elite troops were wiped out and the seven towers were completely destroyed."
"I don't understand, since the wizards have challenged the bottom line of God, why are there still magic towers surviving today. I just read in a book that many magic towers have an inseparable relationship with the Seven Holy Towers, right?" Xiao Chen asked puzzledly.
"Because after the war, the gods fell into a deep sleep and never woke up again, and humans need magic. Even the priests of the Temple of Nature do not want magic to disappear and the world to regress to the age of ignorance. Our small sects did not participate in the act of killing the gods at that time. Perhaps it was some magic seeds that the Seven Sacred Pagodas deliberately left behind... And now..." Master Ikasa looked at Xiao Chen and said slowly, "A seed that truly belongs to the Seven Sacred Pagodas seems to have sprouted."