"It's not difficult to open a spatial door, it's rare to maintain it. If we want to use it to achieve the purpose of teleporting the army, at least a mage of our level needs to constantly transmit mana. That doesn't make sense at all. ”

"I know a formation that can constantly gather magical power. As long as it is not damaged, it can continue to take effect. But that's something from another magical system. Further research is needed to fuse the two. ”

"Then let's get started. We don't have time to waste. ”

Although it was Lin Xuan's idea. But now Medivan has dominated the whole of the research. Lin Xuan and Khadgar have both become his assistants.

"Khadgar, there's something I want to ask you about."

"Of course, please." Khadgar already regarded Lin Xuan as an elder like Medivan.

"Remember the young mage named Kel'thugad that I asked you about earlier? Can you tell us about how he's doing lately? ”

"Of course, I was about to tell you something. According to some of my friends. There seems to be a little bit of a problem with Kel'thugad? ”

"What's the problem?"

"It seems to be starting to focus on spells that involve life, souls, and so on. This means that he may take that path of no return. ”

"The Road of No Return?"

"Yes, that's Kenrito's statement. Refers to a mage who is obsessed with the study of eternal life. You know, in Kenrito's account. All mages who try to live forever end up either falling into darkness or becoming insane. Even Egwene, a guardian as strong as the previous generation, only used his powerful magic to forcibly maintain his own life. Eternal life is the right of the gods. Mortals can't peep. ”

"Hehe, if you don't say it, I really don't know what Kenrito thinks about eternal life. It was a surprise, but I had a different opinion. ”

Khadgar organized himself with a serious face. Immortality can be said to be an eternal pursuit, so before Lin Xuan could speak, Khadgar was ready to hear the shocking theory. Even Medivan, who was obsessed with the portal on the one hand, didn't know when he came over and made it clear that he wanted to join the discussion. For a while, the hot style of painting turned into a life seminar.

Lin Xuan paused for a moment, and then smiled helplessly. It doesn't look like throwing away some real goods, but you can't get mixed up. He cleared his throat and spoke.

"First of all, eternal life is definitely not the right of the gods. He is not anyone's right. If it is really about the question of belonging, he is the right of the strong. Life is a somewhat abstract concept. What exactly is life? Can a person's body be alive, but completely unconscious, to be said to be alive? Or if a person dies, but the soul is still there, what is it? ”

Medivin and Khadgar didn't speak, because they knew that Lin Xuan would explain in the next time.

"The meaning of life is different in different people, in different cultures, in different belief systems. So we can't simply define life. But for magicians, a big part of our definition of life is to keep the ** healthy and alive. Because all our actions cannot get around the bondage of the flesh after all. As Suzi and Ou Ti age, we become sluggish, forgetful, and unable to perform powerful magic smoothly. One can only wait for death to come. Unless we choose to abandon **, but that is a painful choice. ”

"Indeed, there is a way in dark magic to forgo the flesh and gain eternal life. The theory has a sense of cognate with what you said. But basically no one will use it. ”

"You're talking about the Lich. Losing all senses and having only one consciousness alive is really not interesting. I was once in a certain world when I came across a special spell. In that world there was a rumor, a rumor about alchemy. ”

"Eternal Alchemy?"

"It's similar to that, it's alchemy developed based on the idea of immortality. They tried to synthesize life force using alchemy. ”

"Vitality?"

"It's the kind of life force you think, it's very abstract and hard to describe in words. Some dark spells drain life force when used. Excessive consumption will make people get old. Based on this phenomenon, they embodied the vitality and tried to synthesize it artificially. ”

"Success?"

"It can be said that it was successful, but it can also be said that it was not successful."

"They ended up crafting a Philosopher's Stone. There is a high purity of life force with ready-made entities. Theoretically, just soak it in water and drink it to replenish your vitality. ”

"What are the side effects?" Medivan was more sophisticated, and he knew there was something to go on as soon as he heard it.

"Like the lich, the mage began to lose his senses. The sense of smell, taste, and even hearing and sight began to be lost. ”

"Did something go wrong?"

"That's the most incomprehensible part. The experiment didn't go wrong, they synthesized the life force perfectly, every aspect of it was not wrong, and the life force was proven to be a side effect. I had an idea about it. And here's my personal analysis. ”

"Tell me about it." Medivan already had considerable interest.

"I think the reason for that side effect is that they did it so perfectly. They synthesize the perfect life force. But what the human body needs may not be perfect. ”

"I kind of see what you mean?" As an old Jianghu, Medivan quickly understood what Lin Xuan meant.

"What?" Khadgar still looked confused.

"There was a proverb in an ancient country of the world that when the water is clear, there are no fish. This means that what is too pure is not fit for life. After all, life itself is infinitely complex. ”

Khadgar nodded as if he didn't understand.

"Since you've raised this question, you have a way to solve it, right?"

"It's infinitely easy to solve this problem, but it's infinitely difficult."

"You're talking about directly extracting the life force of others? It's evil dark magic. Khadgar suddenly realized.

That's why it's infinitely difficult. Because in any world, this way is bound to be unacceptable. Even what little conscience I had left prevented me from doing such a thing. So I try to replenish the life force. ”

"You mean to find the things that are missing, and then replenish them by merging them into the pure life force."

"I mean, I just thought I could let that mage named Kel'thugad do this promising job."