It was clear that Ryan was not at all familiar with the flow of this ritual. So Betty began to quickly explain what he was supposed to do during the ritual.

After Betty's explanation, Ryan knew that the offerings must be obtained by his own hands, and the process of obtaining them must not be mixed with any evil deeds.

Each person can only put one offering on the table, so be careful in choosing the offerings.

The most important thing is that the preciousness of the offering is not the most important thing, but the process of obtaining such a thing. The will of nature will obtain this information from the offerings and give it back impartially.

Ryan was a little surprised as it sounded like a simple ritual, as he didn't understand why this ritual process, which was so important to centaurs, was so simple. Aunt Betty sees Ryan's confusion and tells Ryan that people value nature and therefore oppose red tape. Now these ceremonies are already very grand and complicated in the eyes of the centaurs.

Sure enough, different races have different values, and only mutual understanding can further communication. It's like Ryan's deep contact from step by step and finally fighting side by side to be recognized by the centaur tribe. Bureaucratic actions such as the Ministry of Magic's direct establishment of a centaur office are a great counterexample of communication.

After explaining his inner doubts, Ryan began to consider the question of what to choose as an offering. After thinking for a few minutes, he opened the door of the space and began to select the things he chose from the grocery store of the Ten Thousand Worlds. After rummaging, Ryan finally pulled out what he had chosen: an animal gallbladder the size of a school bag.

This is the guts of the basilisk, and Ryan is worried that it will be bad if he makes an offering from other worlds, and the natural consciousness of this world does not recognize it. So after careful consideration, Ryan chose the best loot he could get in the world: the basilisk's guts.

When Ryan took out the basilisk gall, Aunt Betty, who was standing next to her, shrank her pupils sharply, and then asked in an uncertain tone, "Is this a snake gall?"

"Yes, the gall of a thousand-year-old basilisk. I did everything I could to get rid of it. Ryan said with a little pride.

"At least we centaurs haven't made such a significant offering in the last few hundred years, and I have to say that you are more powerful than I thought. Alright, now that you have your tribute, let's start the ritual quickly. With that, Aunt Betty motioned for the ceremony to begin.

Ryan routinely held the snake gall in both hands to Aunt Betty, who took the snake gall and placed it on the offering table through the archway, and then began to chant the incantation.

When the first part of the incantation was finished, Ryan went to the bottom of the arch and bowed his head, then clenched his hands into fists on his forehead, communicating with the natural consciousness of the Emerald Dream as required by the ritual.

As Aunt Betty's incantation reaches the most important passage, the Emerald Dream is opened, and the snake gall on the altar begins to change. Unlike the offerings at the ceremony, which turned into dots of green light, the snake gall on the offering table glowed green like a fluorescent lamp. In the green light, the snake's gall slowly became smaller, and finally disappeared from the altar.

At this time, the green light on the arch also enveloped Ryan. An extremely gentle energy slowly poured into his body, and at the same time, a part of knowledge began to pour into Ryan's mind.

This seems to be the high-level natural baptism that Aunt Betty just said, and only a few lucky people can enjoy this. Thinking of this, Ryan focused his attention because, according to Aunt Betty's previous explanation, this advanced baptism has the opportunity for the baptized person to gain some useful abilities.

Ryan felt that after a long time, the green light in front of him finally receded. This also marks the end of this coming-of-age ceremony. The horses began dancing in the moonlight to celebrate the foal's coming of age. To the rapid beat of the drums, Ryan stepped down from the altar and found a quiet corner to check the changes in his body.

After a closer inspection, Ryan found that he had gained a lot this time. Because the magic power in his body was originally gathered in the sea of consciousness in his head, and the spiritual power was contained in the dantian in the lower abdomen, and the two have always been well water and river water.

He had been nervous about this situation before, after all, it was easy for different energies to make things wrong with themselves in the body. But this baptism of nature has allowed Zhihai and Dantian to form an energy cycle, and the two energies can be transformed into each other. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two powers that Ryan has mastered are the main forces of natural balance, and it is estimated that if he practices the power related to death and killing, it is likely that he will explode directly on the spot during the baptism ceremony.

In addition to building a cycle of energy within one's own body, natural baptism also strengthens Lane's physical and magical abilities. It's just that because it takes too much power to build an energy cycle, the improvement in terms of body and spells is very limited, and it may only be half of the improvement of other centaurs.

Last but not least, Ryan's soul confronts the will of nature in the Emerald Dream during the ritual. In this way, Lane's affinity for nature has risen again, but fortunately, whether it is Lane's life magic or the Dao technique of cultivation, natural affinity is helpful to their cultivation. At the same time, the affinity of nature allows Ryan to pay more attention to the whole world, and imitate everything in nature to realize his own magic.

Of course, this also comes at a cost. Ryan may encounter unprecedented difficulties and disadvantages when learning certain magical transformations or evil magic in the future. For example, it is almost impossible for Ryan to learn the Fire Charm or Voldemort's permanent magic transformation of himself, and he will be half-effective when learning the Unforgivable Curse.

Seeing that it was already early, Ryan said goodbye to Aunt Betty and prepared to go back to the castle. Aunt Betty had planned to have Wolf send him. But Ryan watched Wolf having a good time, and told Betty that he didn't need anyone to send it, because this time he had improved his affinity with nature during the ritual, making him as safe as at home in the Forbidden Forest, where he had made great contributions.

Leave the centaur village and head back to the jungle. Ryan gradually realized the effects of natural affinity: he felt a sense of peace in the Forbidden Forest, dispelling the fear of walking alone in the forest at night. At the same time, even if it was dark around him, he could know where to go and tell if there was an obstacle under his feet.

This also allowed him to walk without the tiredness of walking in the Forbidden Forest before, and after walking for a while, he got used to it. Ryan even put a hooked wrist guard on his arm, and then hooked a branch to swing around the treetops.

Soon he came to the path on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and when he walked out of the Forbidden Forest and took out his pocket watch to check the time, he was surprised to find that it had only taken half the estimated time.

It seems that this natural affinity contains more mysteries than I imagined, and I must study it carefully when I have time, and maybe I can develop more uses.