My mental power is boosted by medicine?

On the way home, excitement continued to swirl around Gret.

He even went to fetch a few buckets of water under the cover of night, chopped wood, started a fire, and took a good hot bath, using up half of the firewood stored at home. Life in ancient times was troublesome; if only there were running water, a water heater, or even if he knew magic, he could heat the bathwater directly with it—

Tsk, even if only to improve his standard of living, he had to become a Mage Apprentice quickly!

Gret sighed as he lay in the bathtub. But no matter how troublesome it was, a bath was still necessary; to improve the success rate of meditation, bathing and changing clothes was a required step. He cleaned himself up, climbed into bed, and sat down cross-legged—

There's a problem with this body's flexibility! At only 16 years old, he couldn't place his left leg over his right foot, or his right leg over his left foot, to achieve the standard "five points touching the sky"!

This... although Basic Meditation didn't say he had to sit cross-legged, as a Chinese person, he felt uneasy starting meditation without trying this posture, feeling like his success rate would drop by -5, -5, -5...

Gret tried to bend his left foot, then his right foot, and after much effort, it was useless. He tried to relax his feet and loosely form a quadrilateral, but he couldn't sit stably; then he tried to straighten his legs and form a triangle, but he kept leaning back as he sat.

With no other choice, he flopped onto the bed, rolled to the wall, sat down leaning against it with his legs straight.

Ah, comfortable.

Now, close your eyes and clear your mind. Inhale—exhale—inhale—exhale—imagine yourself in darkness, vision closed... hearing closed... smell closed...

Gret followed the description in Basic Meditation, step by step, building his mental fortitude. Quiet down... quiet down... relax... stillness... emptiness...

Perhaps the self-hypnosis was somewhat effective, or perhaps after transmigrating, it truly gave him some advantage in learning magic. When Gret focused his Spirit to a single point, just like before casting a Healing Spell, something seemed to light up in the darkness.

What is this?

Neither above nor below, neither left nor right, neither inside nor outside, this is... me?!

Gret trembled violently, almost losing the state of clear emptiness he had achieved. He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself for a long while before finally stabilizing his mind again. Enter meditation, then, the next step!

According to Basic Meditation, to train one's Spirit, one first needs to construct a virtual "self." Then, draw power from the outside world to fill the "self" step by step. Once tempered to a certain intensity, one can then spread their Spirit outward and begin to influence the external world...

At this thought, the point of light in the darkness began to change according to the illustration in Basic Meditation. A small figure with limbs, a head, facial features, and flowing blood within its bones and muscles was outlined by points and lines of light, standing silently in the void.

The next moment, like a stone dropped into water, rings of ripples emanated from the light figure and quietly returned. With each return, the light figure outlined by the ethereal light seemed to become a little more solid.

Is this me?

Is this illusory light figure my Spirit?

Gret was slightly dazed. In the depths of his consciousness, a connection seemed to tell him: Yes, this is you, this is your Spirit. It is condensed based on your physical body, fluctuates with your will, and when it becomes strong enough, it can nourish the body and interfere with the real world!

But this light figure, its details are wrong!

The muscles are wrong!

The blood flow is also wrong! The arteries and veins aren't separated, the left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, right ventricle, the direction of ejection isn't depicted at all!

Nerves! Lymphatics! Capillaries! These aren't drawn at all!

Gret became somewhat agitated. The illustrations in the Basic Meditation book were too crude, many parts weren't drawn, and many parts were drawn incorrectly—on his honor as a medical student, he could easily find seven or eight, even ten, errors!

This won't do! Gret focused his energy and began to recall the anatomical charts he had seen in his previous life. Unconsciously, the small figure made of white light began to change as he recalled:

206 bones, connected by over 300 joints, from bottom to top, stably and elastically linked together;

640 muscles, attached to the bones by tendons, or directly connected to other muscles;

The heart beat powerfully, sending blood surging into the arteries, and after being recycled through capillaries, returning to the heart through the veins;

Nervous system, respiratory system, digestive, urinary, endocrine, lymphatic immune, reproductive...

Finally, the skin covered everything, with hair growing and nails emerging...

Every detail, even if he hadn't dissected or treated it himself, he had studied, drawn, and memorized countless times. Recalling it now, it was all vivid.

This is how it is, even in another world, the structure of a human must be like this. Gret thought with certainty.

He had personally treated patients, opened abdomens, stopped bleeding at the porta hepatis, cut open tracheas, and pierced thoraxes. Time and again, successful treatments had told him that his understanding was not wrong!

When he came back to his senses, the small figure in the void was already infinitely more refined than the illustration. Looking closely, it was exactly the same as the human anatomy he had studied in his previous life.

The heart made of white light beat powerfully. Thump, thump, thump, each beat. With every beat, a wave of ethereal light emanated—and the newly constructed small figure's emanated light waves were more than twice as powerful as before!

Is this it?

The Spirit needs to be as consistent as possible with the body to resonate with it to the maximum extent, receive support, and at the same time feed back to the body?

Gret didn't know. But he had a strange feeling: his Spirit was much stronger than when it was just constructed.

So, the next thing to try was to perceive this world... What does the world look like through the perception of Spirit?

Still following the description in Basic Meditation, Gret actively controlled the ripples emitted by the small figure, actively extending them outward. Then, the entire world, perceived by the Spirit... changed.

A steady and heavy power, solid and reliable, supporting this world;

A light and graceful power, free and joyful, never stopping for a moment;

A hot and restless power, unrestrained, also bringing the greatest heat;

A gentle and dense power, peaceful and nourishing, silently spreading vitality...

"Earth, Water, Fire, Wind? The Four Great Elements?" Gret was very surprised. With the fluctuation of his mood, the small figure in the meditation environment trembled violently again, almost disintegrating:

"This is... the world perceived by my Spirit?"

After the shock, Gret rejoiced again:

"According to Basic Meditation, being able to vaguely perceive the Four Great Elements means my Spirit has reached the level of a Mage Apprentice?"

"From today onwards, I can finally start analyzing magic!"

I deleted the draft I wrote yesterday today, cue the waterworks.

Please comfort me...

Yesterday was another day where my new book's collection growth didn't keep up with my old book's...

Please give me collections, recommendations, investments, reviews, and anything else you can