26: Chapter 26 Elemental Affinity

"Experience +30."

"Phew."

Mo Bai slowly opened his eyes, a flicker of divine light retracting within them. The Spiritual Power he had just consumed had completely recovered and even grown significantly.

As his Spiritual Power spread out, the response speed of the Elemental Power in this area seemed to quicken slightly.

"If I cultivate in the same place long enough, the response speed of the environmental Elemental Power to me should be able to double."

"And the longer I stay, the slower the speed at which others can condense elements will become."

"With one side gaining and the other losing, a huge gap can be created directly."

"I need to pay more attention to this home-field advantage in the future."

Mo Bai pondered slightly on the impact of this home-field advantage and further applications of its principles.

Specifically, more applications for using Spiritual Power to subtly place a personal mark on Elemental Power.

After a brief thought, he recorded this rule in the forum's notepad.

Closing the forum notepad, he looked inward at his mind, where the afterimage of the Quiet Lake was slowly dissipating.

He could clearly sense that the Quiet Lake in his memory was still quite blurred, lacking more details—both in terms of the lake's appearance and its elemental characteristics.

By projecting his mind onto the Quiet Lake, he used external objects to steady his spirit, using the Quiet Lake as a foundation to amplify his perception and merge his spirit with the elements, thereby strengthening his spirit.

And now, he used the impression of the Quiet Lake to anchor his mind, entering the state of spirit-element fusion through mental reflection.

"If the details of the Quiet Lake were more concrete, with more specifics, or if I could even keep the Quiet Lake permanently in my mind..."

"Then perhaps I could enter a cultivation state anytime, anywhere, and even stabilize my mind."

"This method can be used from the very beginning when one has no Spiritual Power all the way through to the subsequent strengthening of Spiritual Power during cultivation."

"This is the foundation of a Mage, this is..."

Mo Bai wrote down three large characters in the notepad:

"Meditation Technique!"

"Quiet Lake Meditation Technique!"

Slowly reeling in his thoughts, Mo Bai handed two of the six Wind Blade Technique magic scrolls in front of him to Yang Hao and one to Zhou Rin.

"There's more combat coming later, take these as backups. Also, Yang Hao, you can spend more time sensing the Magic Spell Model on the magic scroll."

"Then try to use your Spiritual Power to move the wind element and construct the Magic Spell Model."

"See if you can learn to release the spell."

"Okay."

Yang Hao nodded.

"Mm, but we'll talk about that later. For now, do something with me."

Mo Bai immediately took a Dagger and carved fifty-five dots directly onto a large rock nearby, then connected them one by one with lines.

In the blink of an eye, a complex blueprint appeared on the surface of the rock, its intricate lines making anyone who looked at it feel dizzy.

Yang Hao watched seriously from the side. Initially, Zhou Rin also followed along, but after a while, he gave up due to dizziness and conscientiously stood guard nearby.

Meanwhile, Mo Bai continued to carve the Spell Structure onto the rock's surface.

Excluding the Spell Structures he had already deduced and those he had already ruled out, about two-thirds remained.

Looking at this two-thirds, Mo Bai drew a line directly down the middle.

"You take this half. Use your Spiritual Power to guide the earth element to construct these Spell Structures."

"If the circulation is successful, mark it with a check; if it fails, mark it with an X."

Hearing this, Yang Hao scratched his head.

Starting directly with experiments? Why did it feel like being assigned work the moment he joined, without any internship period?

As if he could hear Yang Hao's inner thoughts, Mo Bai patted his shoulder.

"You have great talent, I believe in you."

The originally hesitant Yang Hao immediately felt a surge of spirit.

"Okay, I will definitely work hard."

Mo Bai nodded, then said nothing more, sitting directly in front of the rock to prepare for the final exhaustive search.

Since his Spellcasting Gloves were of the wind element, they couldn't guide the earth element, so he had no way to use hand seals to assist the experiment.

Otherwise, with sufficient earth element, testing one structure per second wouldn't be a problem.

"In the future, I must build a laboratory, store enough pure substances of every element, and prepare Spellcasting Gloves for all elements."

"The speed of experimentation and the speed of deducing Magic Spell Models would definitely be more than ten times what it is now."

Mo Bai couldn't help but mutter to himself, then reeled in his thoughts as his Spiritual Power spread out.

He currently had neither earth element Spellcasting Gloves nor enough pure earth element substances; everything had to be accumulated bit by bit and experimented on one by one using Spiritual Power.

However, as soon as his Spiritual Power moved, his brow furrowed slightly.

Capturing the earth element was not nearly as effortless as capturing the wind element.

Although the difference was minuscule, Mo Bai still keenly caught it.

"Is the wind element special? Or is it a matter of the earth element's nature?"

Mo Bai immediately tried all the elements one by one and reached a conclusion after a moment.

"The water element and wind element are smoother; although not by much, it definitely exists."

"This should be a characteristic of the Meditation Technique. Perhaps if I used a mountain as a meditation object, the corresponding earth element response would be a bit faster."

"This point should continue to change along with the depth of the Meditation Technique."

Mo Bai was lost in thought, then looked at the Spell Structures on the stone surface and began to try them one by one, using Spiritual Power to move the earth element.

Time passed minute by minute, and one Spell Structure after another was ruled out.

Yang Hao's progress was also smooth. Initially very unskilled, he would watch Mo Bai's operations for a while after each try, learning as he went. With a foundation of fifteen points of spirit, he was able to get the hang of it quickly, completing the experiments one by one.

Time flew by until noon. After completing a round of earth element Spell Structure checks, Mo Bai also conducted a round of fire element checks.

These fifty-five Spell Nodes contained the Magic Spell Models for earth, fire, and water.

After completing a portion of the fire element checks, he obtained a fire element Spell Structure.

Flame!

"Phew."

Manually using Spiritual Power to bring in Elemental Power and activate the Spell Structure, a fist-sized ball of fire appeared in Mo Bai's hand.

He kept up the supply of fire element at all times; the moment he stopped the supply, the flame would disappear.

But even so, it made Zhou Rin's breathing quicken slightly.

He couldn't help but strike a pose, leaning against a tree, holding a cigarette in one hand while lighting it out of thin air with the other.

In front of him, a group of little fangirls would let out screams... "Brother Mo, I want to learn this!"

"Mm, I'll teach you later."

Mo Bai waved his hand nonchalantly, then put his hands behind his back with the air of a master, before rubbing them hard against his clothes behind his back.

Hiss, this damn fire is really hot!

"Great, I'll definitely learn seriously."

Hearing that Mo Bai was willing to teach, Zhou Rin nodded frantically, his attitude and spirit many times higher than before.

It was practically one thousand percent earnestness!

Just then, Yang Hao, whose eyes were slightly bloodshot, said excitedly,

"Brother Mo, I've finished! A total of two Spell Structures!"

Yang Hao pointed at the stone surface, which was now covered with checks and crosses.

"Good, then do the water and fire elements as well."

Hearing this, Yang Hao became even more excited. Although his eyes were full of bloodshot streaks, he was still very hyper, which made Mo Bai look exceptionally satisfied.

Good, very good.

This was the assistant he was looking for! He'd take as many like him as he could get!

"Sure, go through all of these later; you've basically gotten the hang of it now."

"But before that, let's do something with a bit more technical skill."

"Hard practice is the foundation, but learning shouldn't fall behind either."

As he spoke, Mo Bai also looked at those five already confirmed Spell Structures with slight excitement.