Successful Cultivation

"Teacher!"

After a long while, Linley regained his senses and looked up at Zhao Nan, a smile appearing on his face as he spoke to him.

Watching the smile on Linley's face, Zhao Nan couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile as well: "It seems you have succeeded! Congratulations, Linley."

"Thank you, Teacher. I have indeed succeeded in learning your unique secret technique. Only now do I understand why you said this mental energy secret technique is so significant for a mage's cultivation."

Linley looked at Zhao Nan with a face full of admiration.

Although Linley was still a youth without much experience, after this period of cultivation and Zhao Nan's guidance, he had gained a very clear understanding of various aspects of cultivation.

Therefore, Linley understood even more clearly just how terrifying the secret technique Zhao Nan had imparted to him truly was.

This was something that could overturn the magical world's understanding of cultivation.

This secret technique was so potent that a single session of practice yielded more mental energy than he could gain from many days of meditation.

At the same time, Linley also understood that this secret technique did not merely increase mental energy; it refined the very essence of his mental energy—his soul.

At this moment, Linley believed that he would be able to break through to a third-rank mage within a year.

Afterward, Zhao Nan asked Linley about his experience practicing the Visualization Technique and checked his sea of consciousness before letting him go to chat with Hogg and the others.

After Linley left, Zhao Nan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Zhao Nan discovered that when others practiced his Visualization Technique, it seemed somewhat different from his own practice.

First, when others practiced it, the objects they visualized could not be too far beyond their own level. For instance, since Linley was currently a first-rank mage, he could only visualize simple things; he couldn't even visualize the pack of Sawtooth Boar that he had helped him wipe out earlier.

Second, when he practiced this Visualization Technique, it increased his soul power, whereas for Linley, it increased his mental energy.

Zhao Nan was unsure whether it was because his own level was high enough that it increased his soul power, or if the secret technique simply functioned as a method to refine mental energy when learned by others.

It was much like the Stellar Transformations from that world of Linley's; Qin Yu could become a transcendent, but whether others who practiced Qin Yu's cultivation method succeeded—or if they even could—Zhao Nan did not know.

Perhaps this Visualization Technique of his was his own version of the Stellar Transformations; it increased his soul power when he practiced it, while it increased mental energy for Linley and the others.

Zhao Nan couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped overthinking it. Once Linley grew stronger, or once he took on other high-level disciples, he would eventually understand.

After Linley successfully mastered the Visualization Technique, Zhao Nan stayed for two more days. Finding that Linley had no issues, he finally left Wushan Town.

Zhao Nan had already made up his mind: he was going to seek out the other Four Ultimate Warriors to take on as disciples.

It was for no other reason than to wait until he could take a group of disciples to the Infernal Realm to awaken their bloodline talents, thereby gaining the shared benefits.

One had to know that Linley's bloodline talent was the Dragon Roar, which could affect time. What would happen if he inherited the bloodline talents of the Four Divine Beasts?

Having spent this time guiding Linley, Zhao Nan had now mapped out his path to transcendence, and recruiting the Four Ultimate Warriors was the first step.