Mental Power

With a plan now formed in his mind, Zhao Nan took out paper and a pen to begin sketching out his ideas.

First, since his affinity for the wind element had reached the super-super grade, he could focus primarily on wind magic, ideally aiming to reach the Saint-level.

To become a Saint-level powerhouse, warriors could only train step by step, but for mages, there were certain shortcuts.

This shortcut was none other than the Flat Blade Style of sculpting that Linley practiced in the original story.

Thinking of this Flat Blade Style, it suddenly occurred to Zhao Nan that he should perhaps acquire a method for training spiritual energy.

One had to realize that it was precisely because of this Flat Blade Style of sculpting that Linley was able to further widen the gap between himself and his peers.

However, this Flat Blade Style of sculpting had its limitations: one had to be an earth-element mage.

Since he possessed the Teacher System, it was impossible for him to only take Linley as a disciple.

Therefore, a method for training spiritual energy was absolutely imperative.

Otherwise, once Linley obtained the Coiling Dragon Ring, wouldn't he, as the teacher, be overshadowed by Doehring Cowart?

Although he felt he should save the old man, that didn't mean he enjoyed being suppressed by someone else!

Furthermore, even if Linley had Doehring Cowart giving him private lessons, what about his other disciples?

The other disciples couldn't exactly go and practice Doehring Cowart's Flat Blade Style of sculpting, could they?

Most importantly, he couldn't possibly only recruit earth-element mages as disciples!

Having figured this out, Zhao Nan began to ponder the nature of increasing spiritual energy.

Speaking of methods for training spiritual energy, it was essentially a process of constant depletion and replenishment.

Just like Doehring Cowart's Flat Blade Style of sculpting, it involved immersing one's body and mind into nature, constantly consuming spiritual energy while simultaneously replenishing it, thereby slowly increasing it.

Therefore, theoretically, it wasn't just the Flat Blade Style of sculpting; even writing, painting, or playing chess could achieve this effect.

But why was it that only the Flat Blade Style of sculpting could produce such results? Zhao Nan had pondered this back when he read the book in his previous life.

After arriving in the Coiling Dragon World and discovering that he only possessed an affinity for wind-element magic, he had conducted even more research.

Through that research, Zhao Nan discovered that it wasn't that the other activities were ineffective, but rather that they couldn't allow for total immersion of the mind and body.

Just like in the original story, Linley was able to rapidly increase his spiritual energy because of those ten days and ten nights spent sculpting 'Dream Awakening'.

Apart from that one instance, the Flat Blade Style only provided a marginal increase.

In reality, it wasn't much different from his own experiments with writing and painting.

At the same time, writing and painting were done on a piece of paper, which created a sense of restriction.

Zhao Nan pondered for a long time without finding a clear solution.

Now that Zhao Nan had reached the level of a seventh-rank mage and had a deeper understanding of spiritual energy, he suddenly realized that he could use his spiritual energy as ink to write or draw within his own sea of consciousness.

This was similar to the Visualization Technique found in the novels he had read in his previous life.

However, the Visualization Technique in those novels could grant abilities like blessings from the visualized images, whereas his version of the Visualization Technique could only increase spiritual energy.

Acting on his thoughts was a fine quality to possess.

Therefore, as soon as Zhao Nan thought of this method, he closed his eyes and began to use his spiritual energy to outline some of the patterns he had seen before.