To the mages on the mainland, Luo Ling's words were just a sarcastic joke.
For a high-level wizard to advance to a great magician, his mental strength and thinking ability need to be gradually improved. For an underdeveloped medieval society, it was very difficult to systematically train people's thinking ability.
When those mages interpreted magic practice with immature and even superstitious worldviews and methods, they actually set up many obstacles for their own advancement. Their backwardness in mathematics, logic, and thinking methods often shackled their own talents.
Moreover, these mages are not only unprepared in terms of academic foundation, but are also full of fear in their mentality, and this fear will have a very big impact on the improvement of their realm.
Those who are lucky enough to become great magicians are often those who have very strong thinking talents and have an extraordinary understanding of mental power and magic structure, and their experiences are mostly mixed with various adventures and enlightenment. It is difficult for ordinary magicians to follow the traditional meditation and practice methods to succeed.
But for Xiao Chen and his fellow travelers, they had gone through rigorous thinking training since childhood, and after arriving in that world, they used modern scientific methods to study various magic learning methods, so they did not have such restrictions. Moreover, they knew from Liu Yisheng that many people had achieved the status of great magicians or even saints in another timeline. They were not afraid of these realms, and felt that as long as they put in enough effort, everything would be natural.
This is like mountain climbing. If the mages in the original world were unequipped, untrained, and even thin and malnourished, Xiao Chen and his team were wearing professional mountaineering clothing, carrying all kinds of auxiliary equipment, undergoing rigorous training, well-nourished, strong, and equipped with professional guides. The same person, in the latter case, can undoubtedly climb much higher than in the first case.
Xiao Chen knew that he was already at that point, but to achieve the great success of the Spirit Integration, he still needed an opportunity.
"Mao Kai and I completed the practice of the Fusion of Spirits stage, which allowed us to break through two boundaries, one is the boundary between truth and falsehood, and the other is the boundary between inside and outside. We completely integrated our mental power into every detail of the projected clone, making her almost a real person. From here, I mastered the ability to control mental power at the microscopic level, and naturally reached the level of a master." Luo Ling talked about what she did in another world, as if she had also traveled to this world at this moment, "But there is more than one way to get there. I think your contact with the clone in that world this time is also a means to advance to a master. To let your consciousness travel through the world to control the clone, your mental power needs to be extremely tenacious, and you also need to have a very subtle grasp of the fluctuations in space.
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "I understand. Becoming a master and controlling your clones are actually two sides of the same coin. If you accomplish one, the other will follow naturally."
"Let's go to my house. You need a place to think about this problem quietly." Luo Ling had already called the waiter to settle the bill. She packed up the ingredients that had not been boiled and took Xiao Chen home.
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An hour later, Xiao Chen was ready. He sat cross-legged on the sofa in Luo Ling's living room and began to try to contact the clone in another world. Based on the node connecting the two worlds, his mental power could vaguely feel the existence of the clone, but he could not touch him. There was a layer of tenacious force blocking his mental power and the clone.
“I’m blocked.”
"That should be the barrier between the two worlds." Luo Ling said as she sat beside him, "At that time, you relied on the 'dream crossing' ability of the Traveler's Heart to find this world, but in this world, you don't have its help and can only rely on yourself."
Xiao Chen tried to sharpen his mental power and then pierced into the barrier. It went smoothly at first, but the deeper he pierced, the greater the obstruction he felt.
This was a very strange feeling. Xiao Chen felt as if he was floating on the sea and saw a glowing spot on the bottom of the sea. He wanted to dive into the sea and swim there, but the buoyancy of the sea water repelled him and wanted to lift him up. Not only that, there were all kinds of turbulence in the sea water, interfering with his movements. He guessed that it was the energy interference in the space.
Xiao Chen lasted about ten minutes the first time before opening his eyes. "It's too difficult. It gets harder and harder as time goes on. Not only do I have to stretch my mental power long enough, I also need to keep it moving steadily. The worst thing is that in that world, I have no sense of distance at all. I don't know where I am, and I don't know how long I have to work hard to get in touch with that clone."
"Hold on, try again! I can see that you are far from reaching your limit." Luo Ling said.
"Okay." Xiao Chen closed his eyes again. He divided his mental power into two streams, and then mixed them together to form a spiral drill. He continued to go deeper along the path just now. This time he felt that it seemed to be a little faster, and the difficulty of breaking through the obstacles was also a little easier.
When he opened his eyes again, he heard Luo Ling say, "Twenty-five minutes, great progress. Can you continue?"
"Yes!" Xiao Chen recalled the feeling of swimming in the sea in the past. People cannot force themselves to fight against the current, as this will quickly exhaust their strength. Instead, they must follow the rhythm of the waves and utilize the power of the water itself.
He closed his eyes again, softened the two entangled mental powers, followed the fluctuations in the space, and stabbed at those positions with less resistance and stable fluctuations. He clearly felt a difference from before. Although he was not walking in a straight line and had gone a longer distance, his mental power consumption became less.
He even discovered that in some locations, he could disperse the condensed mental power, bypass some large obstacles, and then combine them together again.
He commanded his mental power and kept moving forward, and finally began to feel that the sensitivity of the clone on the opposite side was becoming stronger and stronger.
At this moment, his mental strength was a little insufficient. Since he reached a high level, he rarely used up his mental strength like this. The previous few attempts consumed too much mental strength, so he was a little lacking in stamina this time.
Xiao Chen smiled and said, "I think I found a way. I may need to rest for a while and try a few more times, but I will definitely be the great magician!" (To be continued)