The Clamor

He entered a meditative trance.

Yin Ming's consciousness entered the Wondrous Scene constructed in his Sea of Consciousness.

As if transformed into a tiny figure, he stood on the still surface of Silent Lake.

"Boom! Crash!"

Above his head, the Vast Sea surged. Waves swept across it with a roar like ten thousand galloping horses.

Countless crystalline droplets formed on the perfectly smooth surface of Mirror Reef below. They became a fine rain and fell into Mirror Lake without raising a single ripple.

"Ding!"

Yin Ming caught a droplet. It pierced the lake like a marble and sank to the bottom.

Ten First-Ring Mental Runes rose to the surface. He only needed to combine them into a single Second-Ring Mental Rune for his mental power to break through to the Second Ring.

In fact, two months earlier,

Yin Ming's Vast Sea Meditation Method had reached the tenth layer of Silent Lake, the limit of the First-Ring Wizard realm.

He had spent another two months improving his control over his mental power. Now he was only one step from becoming a Second-Ring Wizard.

Robert Kava had cultivated for nearly two hundred years and still remained at that level.

Even discounting the time he had been trapped at the First Ring without a method to advance, he had spent nearly a century cultivating.

Yin Ming had taken just four short years. Beyond his meditation being far more efficient than an ordinary person's because he was a First-Ring extraordinary human, the main reason was his cultivation resources.

He had consumed no fewer than a thousand pieces of pure Soul Crystal Essence alone.

"Splash! Splash!"

Undercurrents stirred beneath Silent Lake's calm surface.

The ten First-Ring Mental Runes dormant on the lakebed surfaced one after another.

They spread across Silent Lake's vast surface, arranging themselves