After dinner, the servants were once again asked to leave. Several people gathered around Huo Yuner by the garden beside the courtyard. Though it was called a garden, it was actually filled with spirit herbs Huo Hai had brought back.
"Yun'er, give us a demonstration now. I also want to see exactly what the difference is between a Spell Adept and a Spell Spirit Master."
Huo Hai pointed toward the middle of the garden. None of these spirit herbs were particularly precious anyway. Huo Hai usually only used the herbs here for experiments in concocting Gu Insects. Most of the insects produced by those experiments were failures, and he disposed of them casually in the end. If any looked somewhat interesting, he kept them for the time being.
Yun'er nodded and stretched out her hand toward the center of the courtyard. Spirit energy surged throughout her body, then flowed forth like a great river. Feeling that power, Huo Hai came to a silent realization. This was probably the greatest difference.
When Spell Spirit Masters cast spells, they mobilized their spirit energy thread by thread, fully merging it with and controlling it through their minds. Spell Adepts, on the other hand, did not possess such precise control. They relied entirely on their own powerful spirit energy to forcefully unleash spells.
Generally speaking, Spell Adepts were among the Spirit Masters with the most powerful spirit energy. Huo Hai did not count; his spirit energy was far stronger than that of a Spell Adept. Yun'er's spirit energy entered the plants in the garden. Then, every spirit herb began to change. Under the effects of that enormous spirit energy, the herbs rapidly grew, their leaves stretching out without end.
Then, the leaves of the spirit herbs turned into vines. The vines shot skyward and