Pioneering

Chapter 8 Visualization and Meditation

What is the relationship between spirit and matter?Which is the source of consciousness and matter?

If Zhong Ming was still in Blue Star, he would talk to you about the truth of materialism, but now in Sorge Continent, he probably doesn't have the confidence to insist on materialism.

The beings on this continent called Sorge believe that the world is not purely material, or that both matter and spirit are attributed to the mysterious high-energy particle-ether, which is the source of all things, and it is the original origin of all life and death in the world. substance.It has also evolved high-energy particles of different attributes such as water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, ice, thunder, and nature, which are invisible and intangible but actually exist and pervade the material world.

The so-called natural attribute high-energy particle Zhong Ming feels that the "wood" attribute has been renamed. The strange thing is that there seems to be no "gold" attribute?
These high-energy particles are similar to the elements in Blue Star's literature and film and television works, but there are no elements in this world, and they all directly refer to fire-attributed energy, water-attributed energy, and *-attributed energy.

Wizards believe that the space they live in is not alone, and there is a higher-dimensional and more mysterious spiritual world besides the material world that can be touched and directly felt.

When wizards communicate with the spiritual world, they can absorb high-energy particles of a certain spiritual attribute to promote the growth of wizards' own spiritual power.

This method of communicating and absorbing the spiritual particles in the spiritual world is much faster than the method of maximizing the expansion of the body's biological energy after consuming one's own mental power.

So the wizard's idea of ​​meditation was conceived, and the idea of ​​meditation is a way to communicate with the spiritual world and form magic power.The meditation method includes two parts: "visualization" and "meditation", corresponding to the two needs of "communicating the spiritual world" and "forming magic power".

A wizard mainly visualizes some powerful existence or a certain natural phenomenon, supplemented by potions, guiding gestures, and even geographical environment and weather environment, so that his own spiritual power can communicate with the spiritual world, thereby absorbing spiritual particles to strengthen his own spiritual power.

The essence of magic power is the special energy with spiritual imprint formed by wizards' own spiritual power and high-energy particles in the material world.

Wizards use high-energy particles in the material world through meditation. The difference between meditation and visualization is that visualization is "he thinks" and imagines things other than "I"; while meditation is "I think" and imagines own image.

The steps are roughly:

imagine yourself first

Then perceive high-energy particles of different properties in the material world;

Then imagine your own image to link and absorb these high-energy particles;
Secondly, when these high-energy particles are absorbed into the body, they need to be imprinted with their own spiritual imprint;

Finally, the branded high-energy particles are fused with one's own spiritual power according to a specific ratio to form magic power with different effects.

After the magic power is formed, it is stored in the sea of ​​consciousness of the wizards.

As for the nature of the spirit?Is the spirit and sea of ​​consciousness in the brain or in some unknown higher dimension?At present, no wizard can give a systematic and precise answer.

In the process of forming magic power, high-energy particles and magic power will have a certain feedback enhancement on the wizard's physique.But it mainly focuses on the brain and spirit, and the strengthening of the body is limited, which is far inferior to the strengthening of the body by breathing.

Various schools have different methods of imprinting the spirit of high-energy particles. The widely circulated methods include "collision method", "acupuncture method", "induction method" and so on.

Different meditation methods have different types of high-energy particles absorbed and the ratio of mixing with their own spiritual power, and the magic power formed is also good at different spells.

For example, it cannot be said that the magic power formed by absorbing a large proportion of water attribute energy can cast fire spells, and it can still be released under the guidance of the spell model. After all, all attribute energy is a form of evolution of ether.

But doing so will consume a lot more mana, and the release speed will be much slower.

If the magic power formed by absorbing a large proportion of fire attribute energy is used to cast fire spells, the consumption of magic power will be greatly reduced, and the release speed will be greatly accelerated due to the reduction in the transformation steps.

What is a spell?In the final analysis, it is just a way of utilizing energy such as magic power.Throwing the magic ball directly at Bo can also be said to be a kind of spell, but it is less efficient to use.

What is the spell model?It is an efficient way to use magic power.

Wizards regard runes as nodes, magic power as a medium, and spiritual power as a circuit, and they can build spell models in the sea of ​​consciousness.Then use the magic power to act as the spell model built by the energy link, and then use the mental power to lock the target of the spell, and then you can successfully release the spell.

The spell models of wizard apprentices can only be constructed temporarily, and cannot exert the full effect of the spell model invoking the energy of the material world. Casting spells needs to be chanted to assist the spell model to invoke the energy of the material world. Spell models mobilize physical energy.

Therefore, apprentice-level spells are also jokingly called tricks.

Different runes and different circuits will produce spell models with different spell effects. Based on the spell model, various spells with different effects can be released. Spells are also called witchcraft by many people.

So what are runes?Runes are said to be a manifestation of the rules of this magical world.Existing runes come from the magic arts of the gods, the magic core of monsters, naturally formed wonders, natural landscapes such as energy tides, etc. Wizards discovered the runes after in-depth observation of the above phenomena.

Wizard apprentices need to condense magic power and high-energy particles into runes and store them in the sea of ​​consciousness. When the condensed runes reach a certain type and quantity, and the magic power accumulates enough, they can melt the runes into the magic source of wizards in the sea of ​​consciousness and possess magic power. A wizard from the source can be called a formal wizard.

The source of magic power can automatically induce high-energy particles in the material world and their own spiritual power to combine into magic power without the need for wizards to actively meditate, automatically leverage the spiritual particles that communicate with the spiritual world, absorb and improve the spiritual power of wizards, and greatly increase the quality and storage limit of magic power.

Because of the difference in physique, the affinity of various elements to wizards is completely different. Some elements are extremely friendly to a certain person, but some elements are extremely repulsive to this person. It is impossible to condense certain runes forever, which is the so-called energy attribute affinity, and it is also one of the important criteria for judging the qualifications of wizards.

Generally, apprentice wizards will have mentors use spells or instruments to measure the affinity of various attributes before they start. Of course, Zhong Ming obviously has no way to enjoy this treatment.

And mental power represents the speed at which various high-energy particles can be attracted and absorbed, so natural mental power is also one of the important criteria for judging a wizard's qualifications.

As for physical strength, it can only be regarded as the most secondary factor, and it cannot be said to be unimportant. After all, a strong body is like a wider water pipe, which can accommodate more attribute energy into the wizard's body at the same time.

一般学徒级的冥想法由其组合形成的魔力源泉的符文数量划分品质：96—256枚符文属于低级冥想法；256——480枚符文属于中级冥想法；480枚——726枚符文属于高级冥想法。

A higher-level meditation method with more than 726 pieces has never been heard of in Advia's memory.

"Snake Shadow Meditation Method" is an intermediate meditation method, which records the form of 362 runes and the method of smelting and combining 362 runes into a source of magic power. The rest are specific skills for practicing snake shadow meditation, including Visualize the method of tempering spiritual power, the unique visualization map, the method of perceiving and imprinting high-energy particles, the types of high-energy particles required for the fusion of magic power, the ratio of high-energy particles to spiritual power, the "breath of the cold snake" visualization potion The recipe along with a list of gestures and points of taboo.

According to the introduction of "Snake Shadow Meditation", the wizard apprenticeship stage can be divided into three levels.

Junior wizard apprentices belong to the stage of just getting started in meditation, and they are in the stage of concentrating their spiritual power.Those who have mastered and condensed twelve runes are considered to have entered this level.These twelve are runes formed by pure spiritual power, which embodies the spiritual rules in the world and does not need to be combined with high-energy particles in the material world.Generally, only when this stage is reached can one's spiritual power reach the intensity of perceiving and inducing various high-energy particles that exist in the material world.

Intermediate-level wizard apprentices can try to combine mental power and high-energy particles to form magic power with different effects, but the magic power is shallow and not strong, and they can cast some low-level spells with the help of spells to a limited extent. It takes a long time and costs a lot of mana.Those who have mastered and condensed 48 runes are considered to have entered this level.

Senior wizard apprentices are also called the reserve of official wizards. They can use more witchcraft and more powerful. Waiting for enough magic power and runes to accumulate enough, they can hit the level of official wizards!Those who have mastered and condensed 96 runes are considered to have entered this level.Because the most garbage source of magic power also needs at least 96 runes to try to smelt the combination.

Once you reach the stage of an official wizard, it's another world!There is not much information in Advia's memory. Only the effect of the source of magic power, instant casting without spells, and constant spell models can be seen as a leapfrog enhancement compared to the apprenticeship stage.

As the saying goes, it's not too late!Zhong Ming, who was full of expectations for extraordinary power, tried his first meditation in a "luxury" hotel room.

(End of this chapter)