After Zhao Nan had settled on a plan, he immediately took out paper and a pen and began sketching.
First, his wind-element talent had reached the super-superior level, so he could focus on wind magic and, ideally, reach the Saint level.
To become a Saint-level powerhouse, a warrior could only cultivate one step at a time. Only mages had any shortcuts.
And that shortcut was none other than the Flat Blade Style carving method Linley had practiced in the original story.
Thinking of the Flat Blade Style carving method, Zhao Nan suddenly wondered whether he should come up with a method for cultivating spiritual power.
After all, in the original story, it was the Flat Blade Style carving method that had widened the gap between Linley and his peers even further.
But the Flat Blade Style carving method had its limitations: it required the practitioner to be an earth mage.
And since he had the Teacher System, there was no way he would take on Linley as his only disciple.
So a method for cultivating spiritual power was absolutely essential.
Otherwise, once Linley got the Coiling Dragon Ring, wouldn't his own teacher be overshadowed by Doehring Cowart?
He thought the old man deserved saving, but that didn't mean he liked being outdone!
Besides, even if Linley got special one-on-one instruction from Doehring Cowart, what about his other disciples?
It wasn't as if his other disciples could all practice Doehring Cowart's Flat Blade Style carving method.
Most importantly, he couldn't only take on earth mage disciples!
Having figured all that out, Zhao Nan began to consider how spiritual power could be improved.
As for the method of cultivating spiritual power, it was really a process of repeatedly expending and replenishing it.
Doehring Cowart's Flat Blade Style carving, for example, involved immersing oneself in nature, continually expending spiritual power and replenishing it, gradually strengthening it.
So, in theory, this wasn't limited to Flat Blade Style carving. Writing, painting, and even playing chess could achieve the same thing.
But why was Flat Blade Style carving the only method known to have this effect? Zhao Nan had wondered about that while reading the original story in his previous life.
After coming to the Coiling Dragon World and discovering that he only had wind-element talent, he had investigated the matter further.
Through his research, Zhao Nan had realized that it wasn't that other activities were ineffective; it was that people couldn't fully immerse themselves in them.
In the original story, Linley had been able to rapidly increase his spiritual power because of the ten days and ten nights he spent carving Dream Awakening.
Apart from that one occasion, Flat Blade Style carving only brought a slight improvement.
In fact, it wasn't all that different from Zhao Nan's own experiments with writing and painting.
Another issue was that writing and painting were done on a sheet of paper, which created a sense of constraint.
Zhao Nan thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with an answer.
Now that Zhao Nan had reached the level of a Level Seven Mage and had gained a deeper understanding of spiritual power, he suddenly realized that he could use spiritual power as his pen and ink, writing or painting within his own Consciousness Sea.
It was much like the Visualization Techniques in the novels he had read in his previous life.
But the Visualization Techniques in those novels could also grant abilities through blessings from the images one visualized, while his method could only improve spiritual power.
Once he had an idea, he acted on it. That was a fine quality.
So, as soon as Zhao Nan thought of this method, he closed his eyes and began using his spiritual power to sketch some images he had seen.
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