Chapter 7: Meditation and Magic

  Deep in the training camp, a small team of dozens of Bimon passed through many wooden houses and tents, entering a narrow valley. This team was all the Bimon that Liu Yu and others were going to receive magic training this time, with only a dozen or so people, while there were more than 300 young Bimon who came to the training camp this time, and the proportion was less than one in ten.

  Fate's spiritual power is inferior, naturally he doesn't have the qualifications to learn magic.

  After walking in the valley for a while, Liu Yu and his party followed the Wei Shi Chang into a large cave. The walls inside the cave were smooth, with several exquisite golden lanterns evenly distributed to illuminate the interior brightly.

  At this time, it was already autumn, and even in the wooden house where Liu Yu and others stayed, they felt quite cold. However, inside the cave, it was warm and cozy, making people feel very comfortable. After passing through several intersections, a huge iron gate appeared before everyone's eyes. The iron gate was about five meters high, with two door leaves each about four meters wide, and at first glance, there was a sense of thickness, obviously this iron gate was carefully crafted to protect the things inside. After the leading guard showed a token, eight robust mouse people, larger than ordinary mouse people, pushed open the large gate with great effort.

  "Listen up, this is your classroom for learning magic. Everything inside is not to be damaged, you must obey the orders of the magic instructor, and absolutely nothing can be damaged. Whoever disobeys will know the consequences. Alright, let's all go in." The head guard then led the way into the door.

  Liu Yu looked around curiously in the team and thought to himself, "It's quite like the secret cave for storing nuclear weapons described in the legends of my previous life."

  The environment inside the cave really opened Liu Yu's eyes. The space inside the cave was tens of meters wide and over ten meters high, and it stretched out so far that he couldn't see the end of it. "It's like a whole different world in here," Liu Yu thought to himself.

  At the very front, several rows of chairs were arranged in a semicircle around a large wooden table. Behind the wooden table, several rows of bookshelves stretched towards the back of the cave, lined up one after another. The white pendant lamps on the ceiling shone brightly like stars, illuminating the entire cave. A gray-robed old man with a slightly thin face and a hint of a smile on his face was standing with his hands clasped behind his back, looking at them. Although the old man's golden hair had some white streaks, his waist was straight, his eyes were bright and shining, and he showed no signs of aging.

  "Tyro Elder, all of this time's disciples have arrived." The Guardian Captain respectfully bowed his head to the elder who was a head shorter than himself.

  "Go ahead and attend to your business, I'll take care of things here." The old man said with a smile.

  "It is the elder." The captain of the guard bowed slightly to the old man and turned to leave.

  The next thing was relatively routine. The elder named Tui Luo led Liu Yu and others to familiarize themselves with the environment, and explained many introductory mysteries of magic.

  The sky was about to turn dark, and Liu Yu and Ivan Blagoev returned to the wooden house together. When they first moved into the big camp, the wooden houses chosen by Liu Yu and Ivan happened to be very close, and over the past few months, Ivan, Liu Yu, and Fei had gotten along quite well. Now that the two were studying magic together, they naturally felt even closer.

  Although Liu Yu was generally unwilling to associate with young children, Ivan seemed more mature than his peers, with good manners and decent relationships with others, which made Liu Yu have a few more favorable impressions of him.

  Back in the wooden house, Liu Yu saw Fei Te sitting on the bed meditating and practicing his internal energy. Over the past few months of cultivating his internal energy, Fei Te's hair seemed to have become even redder, except for his face which was still white, but his entire body had turned red like a roasted eggplant. This made Liu Yu want to laugh when he saw him. However, after laughing, Liu Yu still admired Fei Te's diligence in cultivating his internal energy. Every day, Fei Te would get up early and head to the training grounds to practice sword techniques and other combat skills. If there was something he didn't understand, he would immediately ask his internal energy instructor for guidance. At night, when he returned to the wooden house, he would spend a large amount of time meditating and practicing his internal energy. This made Liu Yu see a strong desire for self-improvement in Fei Te's heart.

  Liu Yu understood in his heart that, among the Mongolians, the most valued were naturally the Huangjin Bimong, while the treatment of the earth and fire systems' Bimong was much worse. In history, there had never been a beast king from the earth or fire system, so someone like Feite, who was born in a large family but not a member of the Huangjin Bimong family, could only constantly become stronger to improve his position within the family.

  Liu Yu lay on his bed, thinking about the gains of the day. The aura and magic were both extremely attractive to Liu Yu. These things that belonged to supernatural powers in his previous life, only superheroes like Superman and Spider-Man had them, but now they were within his reach. Every time he thought about it, Liu Yu felt a kind of inexplicable excitement, as if he was reliving the thrill of watching mythological TV dramas when he was a child.

  In terms of aura and magic, Liu Yue felt that aura was more like internal power in martial arts novels; while magic was like the immortal spells in mythological stories. Apparently, the latter had a greater appeal to Liu Yue, and since his own aura talent was average, he had higher expectations for magic.

  Although he had learned some magic from his parents and Master Wu Lin, it was still too little. Liu Yu's understanding of magic was only a glimpse, but today, thanks to this old man, Pushuo, he finally gained a general understanding.

  Magic can be broadly classified into seven categories based on the elements of earth, wind, water, fire, lightning, light and darkness. However, there are some ethnic groups on the mainland that use special methods to employ magic outside of these seven categories, such as the Elves' life system magic and the ice system magic used by a few magical beasts in the northern part of the continent. This is necessarily different from the properties of Qi, which must be one or more of the seven attributes.

  The ranking of magicians is the same as that of Dou Qi, from one to nine levels, divided into first-level Fa Tu, second-level Fa Sheng, third-level Fa Shi, fourth-level Da Fa Shi, fifth-level Mo Dao Shi, sixth-level Da Mo Dao Shi, seventh-level Mo Dao Shi, eighth-level Da Mo Dao Shi, and ninth-level Fa Zun. Even Luo Changlao didn't mention anything beyond that.

  However, he solved the doubts that Liu Yu had been having in his heart all along. Although it can be confirmed that there is a great relationship between spiritual power quality and the prospects of a magician, but specifically what's going on, Liu Yu was still in the dark.

  Tyrone Elder explained that the strength of a magician depends on the quality and quantity of his spiritual power. All magicians can increase their total spiritual power through meditation, but the level of spiritual power is innate.

  To become a high-level magician, it is necessary to master advanced magic spells. Each advanced spell has very high requirements for the quality of spiritual power. Therefore, a magician with lower spiritual power can only improve his total spiritual power through meditation, but cannot change the quality of his spiritual power, making it difficult to become a high-level magician.

  A magician with a superior spiritual quality, as long as he continuously meditates to increase his total spiritual power, combined with his high-quality spiritual power, has a very high possibility of becoming an advanced magician.

  Liu Yu felt a great sense of relief in his heart, knowing all this from the elder of Tyre. After all, he had an average talent for martial arts and his magical talent gave him some comfort.

  Reconsidering the Tuiro elder, Liu Yu still had some unexpected thoughts. Because the two words "elder" were not casually called among the Bimeng tribe. Following Weilin's guidance, Liu Yu had already read a lot of history and systems after the Bimeng tribe moved to the plateau.

  After the Baimon tribe retreated to the plateau, two major power centers were formed politically, one was the king and the other was the Baimon tribal council.

  The Council of Elders is composed of all the strong men in the Bimon tribe who have reached the ninth level. Although the Bimon tribe far surpasses the human and semi-beast tribes in terms of cultivation talent, there are still very few ninth-level strongmen, so each one is a person of great status. Like his own grandfather, Cro King, Liu Yu knew that he was a late-stage ninth-level strongman who had dual-cultivated both earth and fire magic and martial arts.

  And this elder of Tyre was almost a 9th-level strong practitioner, yet he condescended to teach these novice children who had just entered the door, which was still somewhat puzzling.

  However, Liu Yu understood that the nine-tier strongman was not the peak of the mainland's strongmen. In various historical records and legendary stories, there were many instances of holy-tier strongmen who transcended the nine tiers. They were the pillars of their respective countries, figures who were "seen at the head but not at the tail". The guards and the elder Pushuo didn't mention them, but Liu Yu still yearned for these figures standing at the peak of power.

  The Dreamer himself could easily move mountains and split rocks like his father Gaia, or casually throw out a few lantern-sized fireballs like his mother Naya. Liu Yu gradually calmed his mind and began to meditate in the way that Elder Tuluo had taught him.

  Fei Teng soon woke up from his cultivation and took a glance at Liu Yu who was still cultivating, not disturbing him before going to sleep by himself.

  Later, Liu Yu would go to the Garrison Chief every two days of magic practice to practice his aura. On the Kordila Plateau, spring came and autumn went, year after year, snow fell and melted, and three years passed in the blink of an eye.