Chapter 11 Meditation
Jasmine didn’t go shopping for long.
Within an hour, she returned to the library and continued to preview her homework.
But the differences in their thinking and behavior have emerged.
After staying in the library until evening, the two of them went to the cafeteria to have dinner together, then dispersed and went back to their dormitories.
Link returned to the dormitory, rested for a while, used Occlumency to enter the palace of thought and sorted out what he had learned during the day, then got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
After changing into his pajamas, it was still early, so Link went into the study again and read through the four books he hadn't read during the day before going to the bedroom to sleep.
The next day, Link woke up early again.
After washing up, Link took his books, pens, notebooks and laptop, had breakfast in the cafeteria, and went early to the teaching building where today's class was held.
During this period, in accordance with the agreement before they left last night, Link sent a message to Jasmine through his mobile phone, asking her to take action together.
But Jasmine didn't reply, and Link didn't care. He found the classroom and sat down in the middle of the second row. He just occupied a seat for Jasmine with a book and a laptop.
Jasmine was late, arriving at the classroom only ten minutes before class started.
…
Two weeks flew by.
Link's life was extremely monotonous but fulfilling.
He goes back and forth between four o'clock and one line in the dormitory, canteen, teaching building and library every day. Apart from this, he has neither visited the college campus nor participated in the entertainment activities organized by the new blood with whom he has gradually become familiar, nor has he deliberately gone to To make connections, at most, when you are tired, you can log into the "forum" with your mobile phone and relax.
Hmm...
Jasmine also discovered the "forum" function and told Link about it.
Jasmine's life is much richer.
She has a good balance between study and entertainment. In her spare time, she will go to the library to read with Link, and also participate in recreational activities and make friends.
Jasmine was born in a noble family, and she has been influenced by it since she was a child. She is gifted in communication.
Soon, a small circle was formed around Jasmine and several other new bloods who also had aristocratic backgrounds on the islands of the Storm Sea.
Link privately persuaded Jasmine to focus more on her studies. Seeing that Jasmine didn't take it seriously and being able to guarantee her basic study time every day, he didn't say anything more.
Everyone has his own way of life, and everyone is responsible for his own choices.
But, but...
The junior college of Riversoth College of Biology and Medical Sciences is divided into two campuses. The new blood from many islands in the Storm Sea is in the south campus, and the local apprentices from the west coast of the main continent are in the north campus. .
There was little communication between the two sides, almost none.
The deep meaning behind this, combined with the agreement that the new blood must sign, makes me feel sick just thinking about it.
In order not to become a badass, Link chose to abandon entertainment and study hard.
...
hard work will eventually pay off.
While most of the newcomers couldn't even complete the first level of meditation, "containing distracting thoughts," Link was already ready for his first formal meditation.
There are three levels of meditation.
The first step is to curb distracting thoughts, empty your mind, and focus on nothing else.
Link was able to do it immediately after using the "Occlumency" learning card, let alone after he had practiced "Occlumency" to the highest level.
The second level is to capture the mental power. The mental power is invisible and scattered. It is very difficult to control the mental power and condense it into threads. Link had already been able to freely control his mental power when his "Occlumency" was at the stage where he could disguise his memory at will.
The third level is to open up the sea of consciousness and construct runes.
The so-called Sea of Consciousness is the name translated by Link himself. The wizards called it the Ocean of Spiritual Power. Link thought it was too long and too difficult to pronounce, so he translated it as the Sea of Consciousness.
The palace of thinking is the sea of consciousness, located three inches inward between the eyebrows, a place that seems real and imaginary.
Constructing runes is the real obstacle standing in front of Link.
Through studying "Rune Literature", Link learned that runes are mainly divided into three categories, one is will runes, the other is elemental runes, and the third is rule runes.
The structure of each rune, whether it is a will rune, an elemental rune, or a rule rune, is very complex and three-dimensional.
The essence of the meditation method is to use the threads condensed by mental power to construct will runes and elemental runes in the sea of consciousness, and connect the constructed runes into specific shapes to form a cycle.
Depending on the meditation method, the will runes and elemental runes that need to be constructed will be different, and the shapes and cycles will also be different.
The academy issued targeted meditation methods based on the new blood's wizard qualifications.
After Link finished the course "Psychic Power Overview and Meditation", he went to the library to pick up the "Water-Wood Meditation Method" issued to him.
After repeatedly reading and chewing, and making sure that he had fully mastered the first level of meditation, which is suitable for the initial stages of mortal to third-level wizard apprentices, Link was ready to conduct his first formal meditation.
Dormitory, study room.
Link sat on the ground, with his five hearts in the sky, calmly and fully operating his "Occlumency".
In the sea of consciousness, the palace of thinking disappears, returning to the original state when the sea of consciousness was first opened.
There is no frame of reference, I don’t know up, down, left, and right, and I am in a trance.
Tranquility and stillness seem to be the eternal themes of the sea of consciousness.
After a long time, a little fire suddenly appeared.
The invisible and qualityless spiritual power is "burned" by the equally invisible and qualityless "fire of divine thoughts", and is condensed into silk, and then five strands of silk are twisted into a thread.
The threads swim and follow a specific trajectory to build a complex and layered three-dimensional structure in the vast sea of consciousness.
This three-dimensional structure is a will rune, which is the core of the first layer of the "Water and Wood Meditation Method". Its main function is to derive spiritual power and increase the amount of spiritual power.
The derived runes had just been constructed and seemed very illusory, not imprinted in the sea of consciousness.
Link controlled the spiritual power thread and repeated the construction process over and over again.
The derived runes gradually changed from virtual to real.
After an unknown amount of time, the derivative runes finally took root and were imprinted in the sea of consciousness.
As long as Link himself does not destroy it, or suffers a strong blow from external mental power, the derived runes will exist forever and are real.
In this process, the highest level of "Occlumency" played a great role and gave Link very powerful help.
It can be said that Link was able to successfully construct a will rune for the first time through meditation, and his "Occlumency" was a great achievement!
Link worked hard and continued his efforts, constructing a water element aggregation rune and a wood element aggregation rune one after another.
After that, take the derived rune as the top corner, the water element aggregation rune as the left bottom corner, and the wood element aggregation rune as the right bottom corner. Connect the three runes to form an equilateral triangle.
The first level of "The Meditation Method for the Mutual Creation of Water and Wood" has been completed!
From then on, Link was a true wizard apprentice.
Well...
there are no first-class wizard apprentices who have mastered witchcraft.
(End of chapter)