Mental Power Breakthrough!

The bullet train to Magic City.

"Lanzi, what if a demon suddenly shows up on this train?" Mo Fan asked Lin Lan in the back row as he looked out at the wilderness beyond the window.

"There's a Safety Barrier. You can even tell what kind of magic someone is using, yet you're as clueless about basic knowledge as a magical illiterate." Lin Lan looked at Mo Fan helplessly.

"I just focus on the essentials, not the common stuff. I usually only read the important things," Mo Fan explained.

"It feels like Brother Mo Fan transmigrated here or something. He doesn't know so much common sense." Xin Xia smiled faintly as she teased Mo Fan.

"Yeah~ I came from a scientific world where every phenomenon could be explained by science. Magic was superstition where I came from, okay? Hahaha..." Mo Fan said with a straight face before bursting into laughter.

"Mo Fan, then let me ask you: is Lightning Magic alternating current or direct current?" Lin Lan asked as he looked at Mo Fan. Mo Fan's laughter abruptly stopped. "Alternating current? Direct current? Lanzi, you transmigrated too, didn't you?!" Mo Fan immediately leaned over the front of Lin Lan's seat in excitement.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Alternating current, direct current..."

"Without those great figures' exploration of magic, how could you have the lives you do today? Not to mention riding a giant locomotive like this bullet train, powered by a Lightning Element driving spell diagram. You have no respect for history and only read those useless science-fiction novels." The old gentleman seated beside Lin Lan, who had been reading a newspaper, could not help speaking up. His tone carried a trace of mockery at the two for being ignorant.

"Sir, these two children of mine just like saying strange things. Please don't mind them. From the way you speak, could you perhaps be an old professor?" Mo Jiaxing turned back and said to the old gentleman. Judging by the man's scholarly appearance, it was not hard to guess.

"A history professor at Pearl Academy," the old gentleman said calmly, stroking his beard.

"Pearl University!" Mo Fan looked stunned. "That's the university every mage dreams of getting into~" Mo Jiaxing was also somewhat astonished.

"Sir, does Pearl Academy have special admissions?" Mo Fan asked while leaning over the seat.

"You want to apply to Pearl Academy?" the old gentleman asked.

"The man beside you and I had originally planned to apply there," Mo Fan said.

"There are special admissions, but the two of you should forget about it. The requirements are already high, and the competition is fierce. It's extremely difficult to stand out among tens of millions of examinees. Just looking at you two, I can tell you're ignorant." After saying that, the old gentleman glanced at Lin Lan beside him and continued reading his newspaper.

"Lanzi, so did you transmigrate here?" Mo Fan asked Lin Lan curiously.

"No. I've just been reading science-fiction novels lately."

After leaving the train station, Mo Jiaxing led the group toward the resettlement area Magic City had arranged for Bocheng.

"Dad, Lanzi and I are planning to buy a place together, somewhere near Pearl University." After discussing it with Lin Lan, Mo Fan had decided they should buy a house. It would certainly be better than having everyone live together in the resettlement area. They already had enough money, and after selling the Soul Essence, they could buy more cultivation resources as well.

"How can that be? It's such a waste of money~ Besides, Lin Lan is already part of our family. He can just come to the resettlement area with us. Lin Lan, don't waste your money either." Mo Jiaxing had long treated Lin Lan as family. There was no need for Lin Lan to drain his savings over a house.

"It's fine, Uncle Mo. Mo Fan and I will split the cost and buy a place near Pearl Academy. It'll be more comfortable to live in, and it'll be convenient for us when we start school," Lin Lan said when he saw Mo Jiaxing's reluctance.

In the end, after Lin Lan and Mo Fan persuaded him, Mo Jiaxing agreed to the idea, though he made one request: they were not to buy anything too expensive.

"Mo Fan, your wish of buying a house has come true too. Too bad it's not in Bocheng," Lin Lan teased.

"What difference does it make where we buy it? It's just a place to stay. Why did you decide to buy a house with me? If you hadn't said anything, I was planning to go to the resettlement housing." Mo Fan was somewhat curious. Lin Lan could have bought a place by himself, lived alone, and gone demon hunting to make money on his own.

"For this next year, aside from cultivating, I plan to hunt demons. If I buy a house, it might end up empty, so you can help me share the place." The college entrance examination had been missed because of the Bocheng disaster. Simply put, there was nowhere for them to take the exam, and other places would not change their schedules for the students of one city. They had no choice but to study for another year. Of course, he could not spend that entire year merely cultivating. Hunting demons would speed up his cultivation and earn money, making it the best choice.

"Lanzi, take me with you~" Mo Fan pleaded. Hunting demons with Lin Lan meant his experience would shoot up and money would keep flowing into his pockets. The moment Mo Fan heard it, he asked to be included.

"I can take you, but I get the Soul Essences Little Mudfish absorbs. You can keep the ones it refines. Deal?" Lin Lan said, looking at Mo Fan's Little Mudfish. After upgrading, Little Mudfish could already condense Remnant Souls into Soul Essences. Asking only for the ones directly absorbed was not too much. After hunting demons in Bocheng, they had discovered that Little Mudfish could refine Soul Essences, which had made Mo Fan overjoyed.

"How could that work? I'd be losing out big time. Let me think about it." Mo Fan hesitated, but then reconsidered. Soul Essences that appeared directly would surely be rare, while there would be far more Remnant Souls refined into Soul Essences. It was a worthwhile deal. Lin Lan was willing to keep taking him demon hunting—he was both a great benefactor and a good brother. There was no reason to refuse.

"Fine! Lanzi, I agree. When the time comes, we'll have to kill lots of demons to feed my Little Mudfish."

"Hello, we're here to look at houses." Lin Lan brought the group to the sales office, planning to move in today.

"Certainly, sir. What kind of requirements do you have?" The young saleswoman came over with a smile. She first arranged seats for them, then had someone serve tea and pour water. When people were buying houses, the service really was excellent.

"Do you have any places near Pearl Academy? Let us take a look."

"Ah, Magic City really is something~ Even the sofa is this comfortable." The moment Mo Fan entered, he flopped onto the sofa with a contented look.

The house was only a few hundred meters from Pearl Academy, and it was not cheap. More than twenty million was enough to buy a Spirit Seed. Lin Lan and Mo Fan each paid half, and it took them a long time to persuade Mo Jiaxing to agree. The house was over a hundred square meters with four rooms, just right for them.

"Come on~ Let's celebrate moving into our new home."

"Cheers~"

After cooking at home and sharing their first meal together, Lin Lan returned to his room to cultivate. He was now at Level One of the Intermediate Space Element, Level One of the Intermediate Lightning Element, Level Two of the Summoning Element, and Level One of the Ice Element. Space and Lightning had always cultivated quickly, while Summoning and Ice had fallen somewhat behind. This was likely related to innate talent.

"My mental power feels like it's on the verge of breaking through." Mental power could be constantly honed and strengthened through using magic, and it could also be cultivated to improve. Lin Lan felt that he was only one step away from the fourth realm of mental power.

"The fourth realm of mental power!" Lin Lan's perception suddenly expanded at once.

"Mind Control~ Void Grip~" He used his mental power to form a claw and uprooted the trees outside the window. "Forget it, forget it. I'll end up damaging public property." Lin Lan had just wanted to pull them out by the roots, but after thinking it over, he decided against it.

"With my current mental power, I can casually exert several tons of grip strength. A single Void Grip would crush even a servant-class demon to death!" Lin Lan was delighted and could not help marveling that not many people could attain the fourth realm of mental power at the intermediate level.