Experiment

Outside Central Capital City, Li Shiming stood at the foot of a small mountain.

He had come to test spells. There was no problem using spells with minor Spiritual Power Fluctuation like the Golden Geng Art in Central Capital City, but using the Fireball Spell was absolutely out of the question.

Gu Jia was stationed in Central Capital to maintain its peace, and he would not allow cultivators to cause trouble within this area.

Although Li Shiming had dealings with Gu Jia, he would not act recklessly because of that.

Besides, though Central Capital City was large, there was still nowhere he could truly test the Body Lightening Art.

Spiritual power lit up on his finger, drawing the runes of the Body Lightening Art. The intent he had comprehended long ago appeared along with the body-lightening runes and fused into them.

Using a Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman and casting the Body Lightening Art himself were two different experiences. The Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman was like a body-lightening rune containing spiritual power solidified inside a Talisman; it only required a small amount of spiritual power to activate.

Casting the Body Lightening Art, however, required him to mobilize his spiritual power himself and use it to draw the body-lightening rune.

Activating a Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman only took one breath, while casting the Body Lightening Art depended on how fast the body-lightening rune was drawn.

Li Shiming cast the Body Lightening Art. When a cyan glow appeared on his legs, he felt that he had consumed about one-tenth of his spiritual power.

It seemed the spiritual power consumption of the Body Lightening Art was still within an acceptable range, but the casting speed was far too slow. It had taken more than five seconds.

This was the first time he had truly completed the Body Lightening Art in the real sense, and he had deliberately slowed the casting process. He believed that as long as he practiced more, he could compress the casting time of the Body Lightening Art to within two seconds, or even faster.

He exerted force with both feet and sprinted toward the Mountain Peak.

As he ran, he sensed the difference in speed. After being enhanced by the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman, his speed had been around one hundred kilometers per hour.

But the Body Lightening Art he cast on himself brought his speed to one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. A twenty percent increase was extremely important in a chase.

"Why is it like this?" he muttered to himself in confusion as he stood on the Mountain Peak.

His realm was only Qi Refining Second Level. Perhaps the speed increased by the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman was related to realm, but only a few days had passed since he last enhanced himself with the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman, and his strength had not changed.

"Could it be an issue with the intent?" he asked and answered himself.

He was certain that the intent he used when casting the Body Lightening Art was different from other cultivators'.

Because the intent of the Body Lightening Art came from him sitting inside a high-speed Convertible Sports Car. The IBMz15 let him experience it as if he were there through his five senses, which also allowed the Body Lightening Art to resonate.

There were no Convertible Sports Cars in this world, so such an intent could not possibly exist here.

"Could there be many possible intents that work with spells?" he asked again.

The things he was pondering should all have been answered only after he joined a sect or had a Master.

However, with the help of the IBMz15, he could simulate countless scenes, and those scenes could then be transmitted through his five senses so that he could immerse himself in them.

These scenes could be videos and images that existed in the database, movie or animated clips, or even scenes he designed himself with the IBMz15 according to his imagination.

For images or animations with an unreal feel, with the IBMz15's powerful Computing Power, its 190 CPUs could forcibly render them into scenes close to reality.

Li Shiming called up a scene of galloping on horseback. This scene featured a Top Racehorse.

Through the senses of a rider, he experienced the feeling of the fastest racehorse from his Previous Life racing at full speed.

At the same time, the body-lightening rune condensed from spiritual power on his finger resonated. As long as he fused the intent he had comprehended at this moment with the body-lightening rune, he could cast the Body Lightening Art.

Without hesitation, a new Body Lightening Art was cast, and the original cyan glow on his legs was replaced by a new cyan glow.

He spread his legs and ran down the mountain. Soon, he discovered that the spiritual power consumed this time was no different, but his speed was much slower, about the same as when he had used the Low-Grade Body Lightening Talisman before.

Perhaps this intent was the correct intent for the Body Lightening Art in this world, while the intent of the Convertible Sports Car was an outlier.

After testing the Body Lightening Art, he still had four-fifths of his spiritual power left in his body, so he could continue testing other spells.

The next test was the Fireball Spell. This intent was the simplest. He only needed to find any explosion scene and immerse himself in it to sense the corresponding intent.

As the intent fused with the fireball rune, a small fireball shot out.

In Li Shiming's perception, he should have been able to slightly adjust the fireball's direction, but he also felt willing yet unable.

Most likely, his own realm was too low; at Qi Refining Second Level, he could not control the Fireball Spell.

The small fireball flew more than thirty meters and struck a tree trunk. The instant the fireball came into contact with the trunk, it exploded, blasting the bowl-thick trunk into two pieces.

"Isn't this thing basically a grenade?" Li Shiming could not help comparing as he looked at the power of the Fireball Spell.

When he came to the broken trunk, he discovered that at the break, fiery red spiritual power was burning downward along the trunk.

It seemed the Fireball Spell's power was not limited to the explosion; after hitting the target, it also inflicted continuous damage.

Compared to the Golden Geng Art, the Fireball Spell was stronger and had a larger attack range.

When the Golden Geng Art hit a target, it made a small hole, while when the Fireball Spell hit a target, it exploded and affected a small area.

In addition, the Fireball Spell also consumed one-tenth of his spiritual power. He had a suspicion that this spiritual power consumption was very likely related to his spiritual root.

However, since he could not even be certain about his own spiritual root, this suspicion could only remain a suspicion.

With today's task complete, he used the Body Lightening Art still enhanced on his legs and turned back toward Central Capital City.

And as he sprinted, a copper coin hovered above his palm.

This was the Object Manipulation Spell. Among all the spells he had mastered, learning the Object Manipulation Spell had been the same as the other spells; he had not encountered any difficulty.

The intent of the Object Manipulation Spell was easy to merge with. He only needed to imagine an invisible hand to resonate with the object-manipulation rune.

But the Object Manipulation Spell was the most useless spell, at least for now.

The Object Manipulation Spell could only move objects weighing a little over ten jin. That weight was not enough to drive even a Low Grade Long Sword Magical Artifact. It could only serve as a pair of extended hands, convenient for taking small objects within Five Meters of his surroundings without moving his body.

Fortunately, once the Object Manipulation Spell was cast, it lasted a very long time. Aside from the spiritual power consumed when casting it, the spiritual power consumed to maintain the object-manipulation state depended on the size of the object and how frequently it was moved.

With these additional spells, Li Shiming felt that he could be considered a true cultivator.

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