Chapter 6: Meditation

Meditation - a mage's regular cultivation method, after entering the meditation and other steps, it is easier for a mage who is in a state of mental concentration to separate the magical elements corresponding to his own body system from the air and absorb them into his body. This step is called meditation, and meditation is also a regular way for mages to regain their own magical powers.

The specific steps of meditation are – concentration, closing eyes, calming the mind, concentrating, perceiving, and absorbing.

As for the following is an introduction to these six words.

Concentration - Keeping the body in a relatively calm state can improve the perception of the external magic elements, if in a state of motion, the magic elements will be disturbed by the body's movements, becoming very difficult to absorb.

Close your eyes – Closing your eyes and blocking your vision can quickly help you calm down, otherwise beginners can easily be disturbed by various things in the outside world.

Peace of mind - block out other distractions and sounds, and keep your mind in a very calm state, in this case it is easy to improve the body's perception of the magical elements.

Concentration – Mental concentration (or concentration of thoughts), blocking out all distracting information from the outside world and focusing one's attention entirely on one's body.

Perception – Concentrate your mental attention until you perceive the magical elements of the outside world.

Absorption - After feeling the magic elements from the outside world, you can channel them into the body (the literal description is very vague, understand that these magic elements will move with your thoughts), and the magic elements you perceive and absorb can only correspond to your own body's own magic system, so there is no need to worry about anything else.

Luo Miao looked very slowly, because he had to keep himself fully aware of the meaning before he continued to read the next line of words, and after reading this introduction to meditation, he understood the meaning of Old Man Luo's words.

Grandpa, this is going to let me start practicing magic, Luo Miao thought.

Immediately, he flipped back to the front of the book and read it again......

Magic - the only power that humans have ever developed that can fight against the demons, and those who wield this power are called mages.

Mages - the people who wield the power of magic, they are the core of humanity, a barrier to protect humanity.

Desolate Demons - genetically mutated species after the "Nirvana Rain", their power is incomparably powerful, and they have been a threat that we humans have faced almost every day for 1,000 years......

Luo Miao slowly read it line by line, of course, the description above cannot be written so short as before, the front is just a general specific meaning, if you really want to describe it, each paragraph is not not clear without seven or eight hundred words at all.

As Luo Miao, who was fascinated, read the book slowly, time was passing, and by the time he came back to his senses, the sky didn't know when it was dark.

Luo Miao scratched his head, he didn't expect him to look at it for so long, and when he turned his head, the sky had already darkened, and at this time, Old Man Luo, who was sitting at the door, didn't know when he had gone back to rest.

Luo Miao walked back to his room and sat down cross-legged on the bed, he was about to start meditating according to Old Man Luo's instructions.

Although meditation does not require any specified movements, Luo Miao still feels that this posture of sitting cross-legged is more suitable, because this posture can give him a feeling of concentrating and cultivating.

Closing her eyes and slowing down her breathing, Luo Miao recalled the six steps of meditation in her mind.

I don't know if it's because he has awakened the magic, Luo Miao, who has maintained this state of meditation, quickly sank into a wonderful feeling......

Luo Miao, who was immersed in this feeling, seemed to be completely emptied, reaching a point where his heart was like stopping water, and even his thoughts were all emptied, and at this moment Luo Miao had no thoughts in his mind.

The surrounding magical elements produced almost imperceptible slight fluctuations, and they were absorbed into Luo Miao's body at a slow speed.

Luo Miao's eyes seemed to have the strange scene he saw today, a slowly rotating blue shimmer, a more pure black shadow entrenched in the darkness, a wandering and somewhat scarce strange energy, an invisible but intuitively perceptible space with some changes.

Unlike the situation when his spirit was in a state of flux during the day, Luo Miao was very awake at this time, and he didn't even feel any sleepiness when his spirit was so condensed.

He observed the four energies that dwelt in the darkness, and as he remembered reading a small portion of the black book he had read, he understood what he was in.

Spiritual World - that's the name of the space that entrenches the four magical powers.

As the meditation progresses, the mage's perception will extend to his own spiritual world, and he will be able to intuitively perceive his own magical power.

This is somewhat similar to the inner vision described in some Xiuxian novels.

The name "spiritual world" refers to the description of a mage entering a certain state, but in fact human beings have so far not found where the spiritual world is located in the human body, it may be the brain, the heart, an organ, or some corner of the body.

Human beings have a vague understanding of the birth of the spiritual world, but it is undeniable that it does exist.

The description of the spiritual world has a perception that has not changed for more than 1,000 years - a gathering place of magical power.

Through meditation, the magic elements absorbed by the mage seem to enter this spiritual world, and then absorbed by the magical forces that gather together to achieve an effect of strengthening themselves.

The source of the magic surging in the meridians of the human body also seems to come from the spiritual world, through which the spiritual world flows from the gathered magical power.

Regarding these magical powers gathered in the spirit world, there is actually a clear collective name - palace.

Although the gathering points of these magical powers are described in this way, there is nothing literal about them. Because in fact, the condensation point of magical power in the spiritual world does not have the image of a palace at all, this is just a name for the magical power in the spiritual world, and it is possible that the people who first came up with this word just wanted to describe magic more noblely.

Although the name is a general term, due to the difference in the magic department, in order to distinguish it, the name of the magic department will be added in front of it.

For example, the ice system is the ice palace, the fire system is the fire palace, and so on, the magic power that is now entrenched in Luo Miao's spiritual world is the ice palace of the ice system, the shadow palace of the shadow system, the spirit palace of the spirit department, and the space palace of the space department.

Luo Miao's feeling extended to the depths of the spiritual world, "looking" at the magic palace entrenched in the southeast, northwest direction, he observed with interest.

I don't know when some faint points of light have floated in the spiritual world, some of them are four colors, uh...... No, not four colors.

Because except for the blue points of light, the remaining three Luo Miao couldn't distinguish the colors.

Although this was the case, Luo Miao could intuitively distinguish that these four points of light were indeed different, and they corresponded to the four magic palaces one by one.

The blue points of light slowly drifted into the ice palace, while the other three points of light merged into the magic palace that matched each other.

The magic palace, absorbing the same elements, was slowly growing at an almost imperceptible rate......

Luo Miao, who was in a meditative state, quickly noticed this situation, and his mind moved, and the perception that extended into the spiritual world advanced with his thoughts.

He approached the side of the Shadow Palace, "watching" the black points of light merge into the Shadow Palace, and in the process, the Shadow Palace slowly grew stronger.

Observing Luo Miao, who was growing stronger and stronger in the magic palaces, he had an inexplicable mentality.

It is like the sense of accomplishment of a child who has built a building block fortress with his own hands, like the satisfaction of a person planting flowers and plants with his own hands and then watching it slowly grow and pull out his teeth, and it is also like the happiness that a person produces from caring for a small life born from himself.

Luo Miao didn't know where this weird feeling came from, but at this moment, it was really this feeling that came to his heart.

As he became more attentive and more delicately observed, his meditative state became more and more induced by this mesmerizing feeling, so much so that he completely emptied his mind and ignored the passage of time......

Maintaining this state, Luo Miao completed his first meditation since becoming a mage.

After a period of time, Luo Miao, who was suddenly distracted, opened his eyes, and looked at the situation in the room, he was slightly stunned.

Even when the lights are shining, there are still relatively sealed rooms, but these do not block the reflection of sunlight.

Sky...... Is it dawn?

Luo Miao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that a night had passed between opening and closing his eyes, looking at the sunlight that was reflecting, which meant that his meditation time had lasted for at least eight or nine hours.

Luo Miao didn't know what this meant, the time for the first time to meditate could reach such a long time, which meant that he had a very high magical talent.

Otherwise, in the midst of this, the state of meditation can easily be interrupted, not because of external factors, but because of oneself.

After all, how many teenagers and girls of the same age as Luo Miao could calm down and do such a boring thing. Don't really think that the process of meditation is easy, but if the mind fluctuates too much, it is easy to stop meditating.

How many teenagers and girls who tried meditation for the first time were able to maintain such a state of concentration after a few hours.