Chapter 9: Awakening (3)
With the conjunct of the water elemental points of light converge towards the center of the spiritual world. Bing Xuan began to control their arrangement and combination. Soon, a thin film made up of points of light from the water element appeared. He sped up his speed, constantly attracting the water elemental from the outside world into his spiritual world. Then it began to merge with the spiritual power, and finally gathered in the center of the spiritual world again, and began to arrange and combine.
Time passed minute by minute, and Bing Xuan in retreat had already reached the world of selflessness. With his efforts, a hexagonal crystal prototype has appeared in the center of the spiritual world. For some reason, no matter how Bing Xuan controlled it, the water elemental light point would automatically condense towards this crystal, and he tried several times, but he couldn't change the shape of the crystal and the action of the water elemental light point.
Forget it, it's all fate. Bing Xuan had given up his futile control and allowed the free consciousness of the water elemental point of light. Finally, the water element is completely filled with crystals. Bing Xuan felt that the crystal at this time was the size of an egg, like a blue gem suspended in the center of the spiritual world.
With this change, Bing Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, perhaps, this is the so-called awakening. After calming down for a moment, Bing Xuan tried to continue to channel the water elemental light points into the crystal. This time, however, the crystal uncharacteristically kept out the water elemental light point he was guiding.
Bing Xuan woke up from his retreat, and the crystals were clearly saturated.
"What else should there be?" Bing Xuan pondered carefully.
"By the way, in this illusory world, is it possible to use spells? With so many water elements in the body, has your level improved?" Bing Xuan thought, and began to draw his spiritual power to sense the elemental aura around him, brewing a fourth-order spell—the Ice Spear Technique.
To his surprise, he had to use his spiritual power to perceive the ice element in the outside world, and then use the blessing of spells passed down from ancient times to manifest the spell. Now, inadvertently, the water elemental light points in the spiritual world overflowed with the spiritual power, constantly colliding and splitting into the required ice elemental light points, and then after the spiritual power left the body, it combined with the spiritual power by itself. A thick ice spear more than two meters long levitated in front of Bing Xuan.
This time, it completely subverted Bingxuan's previous cognition. He thought it was incredible. Could it all be the cause of crystals?
Bing Xuan's spiritual power retracted again, perceiving the crystal in the spiritual world, and the ice spear fell freely under the control of losing its spiritual power, shattering into countless ice slags and falling to the ground. In turn, it was evaporated into a mist by the residual heat of the ground.
Bing Xuan found the crystals in the spirit world, and began to absorb the water elemental light points hovering nearby, until it was replenished to the state before the release of the spell, and then stopped absorbing.
"Could it be that the spell released just now did not use the water element from the outside world, but from this crystal, which was partially extracted from the water element, and had the space to absorb the light points of the water element. Bing Xuan guessed suspiciously.
"By the way, it seems that I didn't recite the ancient ice spear spell just now, all of this is made up of my mental control. Could it be that this is the so-called instantaneous technique?" Bing Xuan felt extremely happy at this time.
He experimented repeatedly, and yes, he did master the ability to instantaneously use magic. However, spells that are limited to the fourth order or less, and spells that exceed the fourth order require the blessing of spells. Moreover, a fifth-order earth ice spike had almost drained the water element in the crystal.
In this way, the storage of the water element in the crystal is limited, and he can't use the spell as he wants, once he uses the fifth-order spell once, there is no storage, and if he wants to use it again, he needs spiritual power to sense the water element in the outside world, but his spiritual power is still so weak that he can't collide, split, and combine the water elements in the outside world at all, even with the blessing of the spell, he can't complete the previous fifth-order spell - the Earth Ice Thorn.
"In this way, my spiritual power has reached the level of a fourth-order mage, but I have the opportunity to use a fifth-order spell. If my crystals store more water elementals, does it mean that I can use fifth-order spells more times? Although the spiritual power has not reached that level, the control of the water element in the crystal does not require too much mental power at all, and it is extremely easy. Bing Xuan thought of this and began to think about how to increase the water element reserves in the crystal.
Once again, he exclaimed a trace of spiritual power and seeped into the crystal to perceive. The water element in the crystal is like a mist wandering in the crystal, without any regularity, once there is the traction of spiritual power, it immediately gushes out wildly, scrambling to be the first.
"If these vaporized water elements are compressed into a crystal-like solid form, won't its reserves increase?" Bing Xuan's casual thinking made him discover a new direction of cultivation.
If you have an idea, you have to put it into action, and only through continuous experimentation can you turn your dream into reality. Bing Xuan immediately sat down cross-legged and entered the state of meditation.
Originally, I thought that the compression process would be extremely simple, after all, the water elements in the crystal were all in line with their own spiritual power, but once implemented, those water elements would run around as if they had their own consciousness. Bing Xuan played a game of cat and mouse within this crystal.
Finally, a small part of the water element was compressed by itself, but in the process of compression, the water element accidentally split into the ice element, and the compressed ice element attached to the inner wall of the crystal. And the compression process consumes his mental power abnormally. After compressing less than a quarter of the water element, Bing Xuan felt that his spiritual power was almost exhausted, and he had to wake up from his state of meditation.
"My strength is still insufficient, it seems that I have to recover my mental strength before I can continue to compress. Bing Xuan muttered.
At this time, the rain had stopped in the valley, but there were still large dark clouds suspended in the sky, as if a bigger storm was brewing.
The tired Bing Xuan fell to the ground casually, and the feeling of his body being wet with muddy water made him very unhappy.
"Isn't this illusion constantly changing? Is there still an exit to the next scene? Perhaps, there will be no more discomfort there. Thinking of this, Bing Xuan immediately got up and began to explore the valley, looking for the exit that might be hidden.
After working hard for most of the day, Bing Xuan did not find the exit in his heart, and he also lost his patience, so he simply lay down in a slightly drier place in the valley to rest.
"Could it be that I will always be trapped in this place? How can the awakening ceremony end?Is my current state considered to have passed the awakening?" Bing Xuan thought to himself. After all, he was still a child, and such a long time of running around cultivating had already made him a little impatient. Although his strong strength and persistent cultivation are inseparable, he has never had such a sleepless cultivation since he was a child. In the past, he would sleep after meditating for about two hours at night, but now, he didn't know how long he had been cultivating like this.
"When will I be able to leave? This awakening, is it cultivation or torture?" Bing Xuan muttered irritably.
"Torture? Yes, maybe this awakening is to torture us so that we can find the true meaning of cultivation. This should be an opportunity, if you leave here, I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to experience this perverted forging opportunity again. What's more, this place is like reality, but I won't be harmed here, isn't this an ideal holy place for experimentation and cultivation?"
After figuring it out, Bing Xuan began to sit down cross-legged, recovering what little spiritual power he had left, and the things inside the crystal could only be taken care of when his mental power state was restored.
A large dark cloud slowly floated out from the top of the mountain again, slowly moving towards the top of Bing Xuan's head.