Meditation Method and the Status Panel

Huo Ling could barely contain his excitement. He wanted to throw back his head and laugh, but since he was in the Spirit Realm, he restrained himself.

Just then, a sharp pain stabbed through his head again, and a virtual panel appeared before his eyes.

Huo Ling was startled. What was this thing?!

He shifted his gaze to inspect it closely.

Name: Huo Ling

Bloodline: Human

Strength: 1.3

Constitution: 1.1

Agility: 1.1

Mental Power: 2.1

Skills: None

Potential Points: 0

What was this? Could it be a measure of his physical attributes?

Huo Ling stared at the translucent panel before him, somewhat bewildered.

If this panel stayed in front of him all the time, it would be inconvenient whether he was living or fighting.

It would be nice if it could disappear. The moment that thought crossed Huo Ling's mind, the panel floating before him retracted.

Hmm?!

"Come out again."

Looking at the vanished panel, Huo Ling thoughtfully muttered in his mind. Sure enough, the status panel reappeared before his eyes.

Good. Although he had no idea where this panel had come from, having such a data panel would make it easier to monitor his progress while training in the future.

Strength, agility, and constitution were all a little over one. Judging by comparison, a normal adult's attributes should be one. His physical condition had likely been enhanced as a side effect of successfully awakening his spirit.

As for these potential points, he had no idea what they were.

His mental power was the highest, reaching 2.1. It seemed that once he returned, he could train to become a spellcaster.

At that thought, Huo Ling could not help but smile.

Then, carrying his axe, Huo Ling opened the door and carefully inspected the entire room. He even stepped out into the corridor and checked the building from top to bottom, making sure no danger had been drawn here while he was unconscious. Finding nothing dangerous for the moment, he finally retreated inside with relief.

Leaning against his backpack, he opened a pack of compressed biscuits, cut off a portion with his knife, and silently gnawed on the dry rations.

At the same time, he focused his mind and sensed the Blue Star Beacon within his consciousness, checking how its energy storage was progressing.

This inspection gave him quite a shock. Beside the beacon, he could sense a book as well.

Spirit Realm's Blessing!

After Blue Star people entered the Spirit Realm, some lucky individuals received blessings from the will of the Spirit Realm after successfully awakening their spirits.

Some were granted scarce high-grade resources, while others received inheritances.

Most of the cultivation inheritances practiced on Blue Star today had been developed from those lucky individuals.

Could he be this lucky too? Huo Ling was overjoyed.

His consciousness lightly touched the book.

"Snap!"

The book materialized in reality, floating before Huo Ling.

Huo Ling stared at the hovering book, his heart blazing with anticipation. This had to be some kind of inheritance.

An inheritance bestowed by the Spirit Realm would be the most compatible with his constitution. He only needed to follow its instructions and cultivate.

Huo Ling reached out and caught the book. Several symbols were written on its cover. Though he did not recognize them, with the Spirit Realm's help, he could understand their meaning.

Alik's Spellbook

Was this the inheritance of a mage named Alik?

Recalling what the books said about Spirit Realm's Blessings, most inheritances granted by the Spirit Realm to Blue Star people were like this.

For warriors and knights, they would be the original owner's weapons or armor, through which they could comprehend the inheritance.

For spellcasters, the inheritances were mostly spellbooks or casting notes.

By comparison, spellbooks were better, because they were important items that accompanied a spellcaster throughout their life and contained the most records.

Now, Huo Ling only hoped that this mage named Alik had been as high-level as possible. The higher his level, the more valuable the knowledge he had left behind.

Huo Ling opened the cover. The first page he saw was densely packed with symbols, enough to make anyone's head ache.

After the Spirit Realm translated them, Huo Ling drew a deep breath. This was a mage's meditation method—the very method Alik had practiced.

Breath of Darkness

Judging by the name, this meditation method leaned toward the darkness attribute. He was clearly such a sunny young man, so why had the Spirit Realm recommended an inheritance with a darkness attribute?

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. Then Huo Ling continued flipping through the book.

The later contents were spells, and they occupied considerably more pages.

The first zero-rank spell: Ashen Mist

Generally speaking, zero-rank spells were called cantrips. Their offensive power and various other capabilities were quite weak.

Ashen Mist was an area spell. After casting it, the spellcaster released a patch of gray mist that did not cover much ground. The mist had no destructive power and could only obscure vision.

Though it was a zero-rank cantrip, it occupied no small amount of space in the spellbook—three full pages.

One page was dedicated to spell runes, another to casting techniques, and the last to Alik's spell analysis and various notes.

Seeing that even a single zero-rank spell took up three pages, Huo Ling estimated that this spellbook probably did not contain as many spells as he had imagined.

Huo Ling continued flipping through it and found the second zero-rank cantrip:

White Bone Fangs

Spell Effect: Use mana to condense a White Bone Fang. After a brief pause, fire it at an enemy through kinetic force. Attack range: mental power x 25 meters.

This was a zero-rank spell with offensive power. Not bad.

The third zero-rank cantrip:

Touch of Fatigue

Spell Effect: Release an illusory tentacle that induces fatigue in the target until the spell ends.

A spell capable of inflicting a negative effect.

After reading this, Huo Ling tried to keep turning the pages, but this time he could not. The pages beyond would not move.

Seeing this, he understood. With his current strength, he could probably only learn this meditation method and the three zero-rank cantrips.

He would likely need to begin meditating and gain a certain level of strength before he could learn the spells that followed.

Since that was the case, Huo Ling stopped trying. Instead, he flipped back to the first page to study the meditation method, Breath of Darkness.

He carefully read and comprehended the meditation method.

He had not realized it before reading, but once he did, he was stunned. This meditation method was actually of gold rank.

He had struck treasure!

According to Blue Star's classifications, inheritances bestowed by the Spirit Realm were divided into five ranks: black iron, silver, gold, sanctuary, and legendary.

Most people received no blessing from the Spirit Realm. The inheritances they could learn after returning—whether breathing methods for warriors and knights or meditation methods for spellcasters—were mostly black iron or silver rank.

Could black iron and silver inheritances be cultivated to high levels? They could, but their later efficiency was simply too low.

Gold-rank inheritances were exceedingly rare, much less sanctuary and legendary ones. As an ordinary commoner like Huo Ling, he was not even qualified to hear the names of inheritances at those two ranks.

Huo Ling stared at the spellbook before him, his breathing heavy. Breath of Darkness, sorry. My earlier thoughts had been too hasty.

So what if it was a darkness attribute? I, Huo Ling, love darkness attributes. If I cultivated any other attribute, I would cough and be completely unable to continue.

Gold rank—absolutely irresistible!!!

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