Chapter 114: The Spiritual Realm (I)

Things are going well. Even when he entered a semi-meditative state, Cheese could still accurately receive all kinds of information from his body, but at this time, he no longer dominated his body as usual, but set a simple goal for it and chose to watch. It feels a lot like being in a physical exercise, where the physical pain and fatigue are no longer enough to support clear thinking, but even so, the body can continue to move for a while following the simple commands given by the mind. Of course, the technique of temporarily separating the mind from the body is far from a simple matter, and it is a skill that requires long-term training to master. It's just that it's rare to use it even among casters who know how to use it, after all, not everyone is busy enough to increase their efficiency in this way, and it is inevitable that various problems may arise in the body without conscious control.

That's why Cheese thinks things are going so well, Kailas and Atta in the outside world may have lost their idea of where they are and how much time has passed, but the mage who has entered another state has clearly calculated this information. As a result, Cheese was well aware that his companions on a physical level did not encounter any substantial obstacles, no tentacles that had grown from the worm, no guards to protect their bodies, and even the mental oppression had been greatly reduced by Kairaz's acumen. Cheese breathed a sigh of relief from these circumstances, even though he didn't have the organs to do that in the spiritual realm.

Retracting attention from the physical senses, Cheese is not in a very laid-back situation right now. It is very difficult to describe things on the spiritual level, mainly because after the five senses are abandoned, it is difficult to provide accurate descriptions of the language and words that serve real life. That's why so many books on this subject take another approach, metaphor, when it comes to this kind of question. Of course, metaphor is not a random analogy, the so-called metaphor is the use of one's own life experience to describe abstract things through certain characteristics or characteristics.

For example, if you were to describe your current situation, Cheese would say that she was walking in a desert. The reason why the desert is not used is because the sand of the beach soaked in sea water is thicker, and the sand grains are stuck together as if they were stuck together by a viscous liquid. This is not the case in the desert, where every grain of sand has a dry and hard texture, it is non-collective, it is self-contained, and it only takes a breeze for them to fly away, without any attachment to their companions and the place where they were. Stepping on the desert sand is uncomfortable with every foot, the fear of being pulled under the yellow sand at any moment, the stinging pain of the sand grinding against the surface of the foot and the Achilles tendon, and the worry of what is hidden in the sand. It's just that Cheese doesn't really set foot in the desert now, and the area he comes into contact with is not a physical area, and the sand and imagination of the desert are all associations made by him trying to make his surroundings more familiar.

Many things become complicated in the spiritual realm, but not everything is like this, such as casting spells, and casting spells purely in the spirit is the easiest, and any apprentice will try to imagine and construct his own spells before mastering real magic. In the same way, a seasoned fighter can complete a battle with his opponent before he can make a move. These are not just wild imaginations, in the realm of the mind, the mind has no physical limitations, it can more quickly simulate, deduce, and measure many things that are subject to actual conditions in reality. However, this is not entirely a good thing, the absence of the restraint of the corpse means that there is no physical protection, and the mind will jump through memory, thinking, and imagination at a very fast pace, and the slightest carelessness will deviate from the original track. Even if you indulge in it too much and let your mind get scattered, in the end, the main body of your mind may get lost in this invisible territory and never find the way back to your body.

As a result, most casters will not move too far from their origin, the passage to the body, when they move in the spiritual realm. Anyway, there is no real difference between far and near here, as long as the imagination and control of the mind are enough, no matter how much calculation can be completed in a square inch. But that was the state of a single caster when he was thinking alone, and now the cheese was some distance from his body. This distance was especially noticeable when the sand around him tried to pull his mental legs into it, and he couldn't return to his body quickly.

This is quite dangerous, and any caster with common sense should avoid this physical and mental distance. After all, the body and the inner body are inseparable, and the actual body is the key to the composition of the self and the discriminating of the self, and excessive attempts to separate the consciousness from the body will only cause the spirit to lose its identification with the body, and the body will lose the motivation to live after losing the command of the spirit, and the result is that they will perish together. Fortunately, specially trained cheeses can adapt to much longer distances than casters trained by other systems.

The wizard walking in the desert gradually sensed something, vaguely certain that it was other spirits, but he could not confirm the number and state. Whether or not to approach is a question to ponder, there is no concept of distance in the spiritual realm, and the moment Cheese decides to approach him or them, his spirit will be completely exposed to the other person. Besides, it is a bit strange that there will be a spirit body in such a place, those ghosts who are obsessed with life cannot appear here, and the other companions of the mage do not have similar abilities, no matter how you look at it, the current encounter reveals a smell of traps.

But Cheese can sense others, and others may not be able to perceive Cheese, and the spirit body that has just been uncertain moves to the mage's side like a cheetah that has found its prey. Cheese subconsciously planned to cast a spell, but when he noticed the other party's appearance, he gave up on this plan. Because it is very difficult to forge an appearance in the spiritual realm, the identification of the self will determine the appearance of oneself in the sense of other spirit bodies, and the two spirit bodies that came to the mage, one took the form of a goshawk, and the other was a green light.

He knew both of these spirits, the spirit of the eagle that had once manifested on the head of the Shale tribe, and the wood spirit that had no body but had a temperament that reminded people of ancient and huge plants. It is no coincidence that these two appear here, and their purpose is clearly the same as that of cheese.