30: A moment of "opening the door" is a moment of pleasure

A month later, at Mentor Jordan's training ground.

Glynn was practicing the basic Knight Breathing Technique with flowing movements.

His transitions were incredibly smooth, and his breathing became more steady and powerful. After completing four sets of the Knight Breathing Technique, Glynn finally stopped, drenched in sweat and radiating heat from the intense workout.

"Good, that's enough..."

"Glynn, it seems your talent in the Path of the Knight is quite good."

"I thought it would be good if you could just master the Knight Breathing Technique in a month, but I didn't expect you to go even further," Mentor Jordan said, a rare smile gracing his face as he praised him.

"Today, go back and get some good rest, adjust your posture."

"Tomorrow afternoon, come to me with your most energetic state, and I'll give you special training."

"Understood, Mentor," Glynn said excitedly. A month of hard work was finally going to pay off handsomely... He had finally passed Mentor Jordan's assessment.

Glynn was very excited to experience the legendary Devil's special training.

Adler said that special training greatly helped a Knight's cultivation. He was able to break through to the Advanced Knight realm at eighteen, and Mentor Jordan's special training was indispensable.

But when Glynn wanted to know the details of the special training, Adler became elusive, saying that Mentor Jordan would explain everything clearly when the time came, and not to overthink it.

To pass Mentor Jordan's assessment so easily and even receive praise, given Glynn's original Knight aptitude, this would have been impossible.

Yes, Glynn had a Golden Finger.

The original Glynn's Knight talent was very ordinary, not to mention Glynn from Blue Star. Glynn on Blue Star was just a homebody; he truly had no athletic cells.

So, after a week of strenuous practice with Adler yielded little results, Glynn unhesitatingly chose to use his Golden Finger—Hundredfold Harvest.

Fortunately, the Golden Finger also treated the Knight Breathing Technique as a skill, capable of a hundredfold increase like witchcraft.

Therefore, to pass Mentor Jordan's assessment as soon as possible, Glynn diverted all his available Golden Finger quotas to amplify the Knight Breathing Technique during this month... The next day, at 6:30 PM, at Mentor Jordan's training ground.

At this time, Mentor Jordan was once again wearing his custom full set of armor.

"Glynn, let me first clarify the precautions for the special training."

"You must keep them in mind and strictly adhere to them."

"Otherwise, the special training could cause damage to your Spiritual Power, understand?" Mentor Jordan's expression was extremely serious.

"Student understands, student will not joke with his future and life," Glynn replied earnestly.

"First..."

"Let me tell you why I, 'Devil Jordan,' am known as the number one Knight Mentor of Plant Heart Wizard Academy. It's not just because my strength is the greatest among Knights."

Mentor Jordan explained in detail that special training was a dangerous endeavor, involving the student's future and life. Mentor Jordan spoke very carefully, striving to make Glynn understand its intricacies and dangers.

"A Knight Mentor, being powerful alone is not enough."

"They must also be able to teach students, and capable of teaching students."

"Most importantly, they must be able to train Grand Knights, and I have trained five Grand Knights in just ten years."

"This is an achievement no one has ever accomplished since Plant Heart Wizard Academy was established."

"Some Knight Mentors diligently teach for decades, and perhaps none of their students become Grand Knights."

"This involves the advanced mysteries of the Path of the Knight."

..."The Path of the Knight, after all, was created by ancient Bloodline Wizards, and it's also the basic cultivation method for Bloodline Wizards."

"The advancement to Formal Knight is a threshold."

"Three conditions must be met..."

"First, you must practice the basic Knight Breathing Technique to a certain level. For example, for the Heart of Life Breathing Technique, you need to be able to continuously complete five sets of the breathing technique."

"Second, you must be able to perceive the rhythm of your own life energy."

"This requires you to focus on sensing yourself while practicing the breathing technique. Theoretically, the better you practice the basic Knight Breathing Technique, the faster you will perceive life energy."

"Third, auxiliary potions to supplement vitality. You need to take a tube of auxiliary potion—low-grade Knight's Water—to assist in condensing the life seed of a Formal Knight."

..."Advancing to Advanced Knight is a slow, painstaking effort, the simplest of the three advancements."

"You only need to nurture and refine the life seed to its limit, nourish your physique with the life seed to a certain strength, then take a tube of medium-grade Knight's Water that burns vitality, and let the life seed undergo a burning transformation and sublimation. That's all it takes."

"However, advancing to Grand Knight is the most difficult."

"How difficult is it?"

"The Academy once conducted a survey, tracking one thousand Knights who practiced the Heart of Life Knight Breathing Technique for thirty years."

"In these thirty years, five hundred sixteen people, a 51.6% promotion rate, advanced from Novice Knight to Formal Knight."

"Four hundred twenty people, an 81.4% promotion rate, advanced from Formal Knight to Advanced Knight."

"However, only forty-one of these four hundred twenty Advanced Knights became Grand Knights, a probability of less than 10%."

"Because the advancement to Grand Knight involves Spiritual Power."

"Before Grand Knight, it's the transformation of the life seed, which is relatively simple."

"The breakthrough to Grand Knight requires the transformation of Spiritual Power."

"And this transformation of Spiritual Power is completely different from the Spiritual Power meditation changes of orthodox Elemental Wizards."

"I understand it as the transformation of belief!"

"The transformation of belief requires the Knight to first establish a firm belief in his heart."

"Then, persevere, and practice and defend your belief with your life."

"And after experiencing multiple life-and-death crises, if you still hold your belief firmly, and after being sufficiently stimulated (usually a life-and-death crisis), your Spiritual Power combines with your belief to undergo sublimation and transformation, only then do you achieve Grand Knight."

..."Mentor, is there no other way to bypass the so-called belief transformation?"

"If I become an Advanced Wizard Apprentice, wouldn't my Spiritual Power be strong enough to directly become a Grand Knight?"

Glynn asked. If he could only become a Grand Knight by constantly experiencing life-and-death crises, Glynn estimated he would never become a Grand Knight in his life.

"Those are two different things."

"Without belief transformation, even if you have Formal Wizard-level Spiritual Power, you are not a Grand Knight."

"In other words, your belief transformation does not affect your ability to become a Formal Wizard."

"My understanding of belief transformation is a kind of spiritual strength, which is a different power from a Wizard's Spiritual Power," Mentor Jordan explained.

"Then Mentor, how do you help others become Grand Knights?"

"Isn't belief transformation a very personal matter?"

"Do you have a special training method that can quickly strengthen a person's belief?" Glynn continued to ask.

..."Indeed, you've hit the nail on the head."

"However, I don't have any special training methods."

"My Knight training method is also the one inherited from the Academy."

"Every Knight Mentor knows it."

"However, I have an extraordinary auxiliary effect, and that is the key to my Devil's training camp."

"Remember when I gave you the first lesson..."

"I said that I comprehended a Spiritual secret technique in my famous battle—Bloodkill Demon Eye!"

"This Bloodkill Demon Eye can be used for combat, and also for micro-control to assist Knight training," Mentor Jordan said with a mysterious smile.

"You've experienced its effect once."

"When did I experience it?"

Glynn was a little confused.

"Bloodkill Demon Eye, Blood Killing... Blood Killing... That killing intent that day?!"

"Indeed..."