"What's the hardest next?" The boy asked.

"Well," Su Meng nodded, "Actually, the release link is the easiest, and the reason why you realized it at the beginning was to give you a small reward," she looked at Wen Cheng seriously, "The next thing is the most important thing, that is, you have to wake up your own circuit."

"You mean, my circuit hasn't woken up yet?" Wen Cheng was puzzled.

"Yes," Su Meng nodded with a wry smile, "For many magicians, awakening the circuit is the hardest step."

"Yes, everything is difficult at the beginning," Wen Cheng said, "but I will try."

"It's going to be painful next, Wen Cheng, do you want to rest for a while?" Su Meng said.

"No," the boy patted his chest, "I'm in high spirits right now."

"Well, you have to sense the circuit before waking it up, I think you remember the location just now?"

"Impressions." The boy nodded.

"To completely disconnect the five senses, you can sit cross-legged." Su Meng slowly knelt on the ground with her skirt and patted the ground in front of her.

Wen Cheng nodded and sat down.

"Close your eyes and breathe deeply." Su Meng said.

"How long will it take?"

"Listen to me, don't talk anymore." Su Meng slowly became serious.

The boy nodded and closed his eyes.

After five minutes, the boy began to get agitated with his eyes closed, his brow furrowed, his thoughts racing, and a chaotic line of red and blue appeared in his mind, tangled and jumped. The noisy flow of people between classes appeared in my mind, the teacher tapping on the blackboard with a teaching ruler, the girl in the red sweater holding her chin and looking out the window, the sweatshirt and backpack riding a bicycle through the street, the disgusted eyes of her classmates, the warm smile cast by the girl with short dark blue hair and glasses, the scattered poems in a long scroll, the rough refining array of drawings stacked on top of each other, these pictures intertwined and flew in the air like pieces of paper.

"Wen Cheng," Su Meng's gentle voice came, "I can see that your mind is very messy, come, try to ring a bell in your head."

The boy understood, and a "ding!" sounded in his head. The sound is far and deep, like an ice pick that has penetrated for thousands of years. The pitch-black and chaotic lines were suddenly replaced by a piece of pure white like ink, as if you were in a white temple of immaculate silence.

"Very well, keep breathing and keep it up." Su Meng's gentle voice seemed to be floating from the deep sky above his head at this time.

Time passed like sand, and Gu Wencheng continued to breathe in and out in the white hall, gradually merging with the hall, as if he was about to become a statue inside.

The facial features were suddenly lost, except for the brain, which seemed to be cut off, and the body seemed to be cut off at all, no matter how hard he tried, the body seemed to be in constant motion, and he no longer obeyed the boy's command.

"Very well, Wen Cheng, can you still hear me now?" Su Meng's voice seemed to come from a very distant universe.

The boy couldn't respond.

"It looks like you're settled, but I've been watching you outside for four hours, to be honest...... You're making really fast progress."

The boy listened to the whispers of words from the distant universe, like feathers brushing his ears.

He couldn't respond, and quietly followed the flow of time and space like a Buddha statue.

"Wen Cheng," Su Meng said, "Although it would be better to explain the principle with you, but in order for you to understand better, I will use the description method we used when we discuss literature together, and you should listen carefully to the rest of the words."

"An unactivated circuit is like a lost string, or a dusty stone, remember, it must be gentle, gently, gently with the mind, like a sleeping child, telling a fairy tale in a soft tone, or a piece of soothing music as if you are at the door of gradual nature."

"Next, you will feel the essence of heaven and earth slowly converging towards your circuit, but they have not yet taken shape, and as a characteristic point, you will feel a new gravitational field slowly converging in your body."

"The last step is to tap your mind on the back of your heart, and your Dharma source will flow out like a spring."

The girl paused for a long time.

"Wen Cheng, remember the above words well, then turn off your five senses, even block my words, repeat the above steps, if it doesn't work, then go back to the beginning and clear it again." The girl paused for a moment,

"This is the most dangerous step, if you are not careful, you will be lost in the sea of your mind, and the chaotic thoughts will entangle you, and no one can wake you up, so be sure to remember the steps I said."

The boy nodded silently in his mind.

"Wen Cheng," the last gentle voice came, as if it was about to be lost, "Come on, I'll be waiting for you all the time outside."

The boy nodded silently, and the white hall disappeared in an instant.

Wen Cheng found himself in the void of the universe, with no place under him, floating down eternally like space junk, and at the end of the horizon that he didn't know how far, black and white spots rolled up spiral ripples.

A dark panic struck suddenly, all kinds of chaotic fragments passed through his body, and there was a tingling sensation from his fingertips, and the boy watched the chaotic and unknown things pass through his body, and there was a tingling sensation from his heart and lungs, and he swallowed sharply, and his breathing immediately became rapid.

"No...... You can't ...... like that."

No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't stop the memory fragments from increasing, and the movement around him was an accretion disk, and the ring became tighter and tighter, almost suffocating him.

He saw the back of his father leaving the house in a sailing suit, saw the scene where his mother walked into the small room alone after cooking food day after day, and then came out to eat leftovers after he finished eating, saw the excited smile when he was admitted to Qiantang City for the first time, saw the boy who reported two days late for the first year of high school, the boy who wore a wet T-shirt and passed through the laughter of his classmates, and even forgot to bring paper and pen, sat on the seat and saw a red girl who was always looking out of the window, and the blue girl on the other side of the strait on the left hand handing over a pen and paper with a smile.

"Damn, more and more."

The boy's breathing began to panic, and he seemed to see that the red girl was surrounded by a mechanical dog, her forehead was covered with sweat, and she seemed to have hurried away without even eating lunch......

He remembered his ideals, ideals that had been since his freshman year of high school, Hamlettrio Felia longed for romantic love with his singing, and Tolkien's Middle-earth, where the gray-robed wizards went back and forth for justice, made him yearn for duty.

Wanting to become a magician who can protect his beloved, this is his goal, and this idea gradually became clear, like a stone tablet that has been sealed in the dust in his heart for a long time, and finally unearthed.

No, he's going to say it himself.

"I...... Gu Wencheng," he desperately pushed away the shards that were getting tighter and tighter, "to become a magician, a magician who wants to fight to the death and protect his beloved!"

The fragments were quickly disintegrated by him, peeling off and dissipating one after another!

"Turns out, I can do it my own way!"

Now that the first hurdle has passed, it's time to start over, and after the boy has made his goal clear, he breathes down again.

Exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale.

I don't know how long it took, the boy's body floated motionless, the years passed, and the stars changed.

A lost string slowly floated over and fell softly on the boy's hand, the string was a transparent crystal, tough and powerful, as if caressing the guqin, and the boy called on it, making the string vibrate slightly, in line with his own gentle breathing, gradually synchronized.

The strings stood up, and like a dancer's thank-you gift, they circled around Wen Cheng's body tactfully, slowly absorbed into the boy's body, and relaxed with his breathing.

The main circuit from the left shoulder to the pubic bone is like a magnet, and there is a slight traction and twisting sensation from the internal organs, and it hurts slightly, and the boy endures the pain and continues to slow down his breathing, and after a while, the pain dissipates, and the circuit gets hotter and hotter, dancing as if he is being teased by the slender hands of an angel, conveying waves of joy to the boy.

"Plop!" With the violent resonance of the heart and circuit, the center of the main circuit lit up like a sunrise, and the bright light began to spread from the middle to the sides, and the warm self-dharma source ushered in a newborn cry, beating happily in the boy's body.

Wen Cheng opened his eyes, and the girl with glasses in front of him was kneeling in front of him, with a drop of dew in the corner of her eye, looking at him in surprise and joy.

"Hmm......" The boy slowly opened his eyes without feeling a trace of exhaustion.

"Wen Cheng! You've officially woken up the loop now!" Su Meng smiled.

"Can I try it?" Wen Cheng asked.

"Come on!" Su Meng nodded, "It's the same as just now."

Wen Cheng nodded, and when he raised his fingers, he realized that the circuit had been filled with a thin and warm energy beam, and after concentrating, "Bang!" With a bang, a white flame lit up from his fingertips.

Su Meng looked at the boy's firelight and smiled sourly.

"By the way...... Gu Wencheng remembered, "How long has it been?"

"Ten hours." Su Meng replied with a smile.

"So long?" The boy's mouth opened wide, "Why can't I feel it at all?"

"Because you're very focused......" Su Meng smiled sweetly.

"You...... I won't watch it for ten hours." Wen Cheng asked with a blushing face.

"Hmm......" Su Meng replied with a blushing face.

"Are you hungry?"

"No, not hungry." Su Meng smiled and shook his head.

"Where's the outside?"

"After two hours, it's almost time for class," Su Meng stood up and stretched out his hand, "Wen Cheng, do you want to go to class first?"

"No, Su Meng."

Wen Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged, took her hand and said,

"Keep teaching me offensive spells."