Arcane Lord

Inside the laboratory.

Xia Duo sat cross-legged. In his opinion, psychic power is always a mysterious existence, so creating a sense of ritual may also play a certain auxiliary role in awakening psychic power.

Around him, the ground that can be used to arrange various rituals is covered with complicated and mysterious mithril patterns. This is the void array he designed and arranged personally. The main function is to weaken perception or even deprive perception.

Further away is Niya, whose eyes are full of worry. This is Xia Duo’s last move. Although he doesn’t want Niya to worry, he trusts Niya more than others.

So he still called Niya to help.

In addition to Niya, Xia Duo also arranged for the intelligent brain to block. The connection and interaction between the intelligent brain and him are carried out at the subconscious level with the help of the mental spell [Suggestion].

In order to prevent his consciousness from becoming uncontrollable due to weakened perception, he asked the intelligent brain to wake him up immediately after the suggestion feedback was fruitless. If the intelligent brain cannot work due to an accident, then it will be Niya’s turn.

Before the intelligent brain, Xia Duo himself, who was in the void array, was the first layer of insurance. He would actively choose to give up when he felt not so good.

After all, he never expected to successfully awaken his psychic power in one experiment. Whether it was to collect more experimental data or for safety considerations, it was necessary to conduct multiple gradual experiments.

...

After everything was ready, Xia Duo started his first experiment, which was also his first real "meditation".

What he called "meditation" before was actually a highly focused conscious activity, which was data classification and data management at the conscious level.

And now the meditation he is doing is the real meditation. The so-called "heart condenses the body, and merges with all things" is not obsessed with a specific idea, but to empty the mind and embrace nothingness.

But emptying is not the purpose, otherwise Xia Duo would empty himself when he was tired, which is not meditation. The emptying of meditation is to achieve a higher level of purpose.

For example, spiritual sublimation, but Xia Duo does not believe in this statement, so he has never made similar attempts in the past.

Now the purpose of his meditation is to create psychic energy from nothingness, a more specific and clear purpose. He is not sure whether his purpose conflicts with meditation itself.

But he feels that if he pursues something too ethereal, he may not be able to obtain psychic energy.

…

As the void array is activated, Shado feels like he is locked in a box made of frosted glass. He can't see everything around him, and he can't hear the quiet laboratory environment.

This feeling makes him feel a little uneasy. This is the fear that cannot be perceived in the real world. For a moment, he wanted to give up directly, so he really gave up.

There is no need to force progressive experiments, especially the special existence of psychic energy, which is closely related to the inner state of the experimenter. Since even Zhamdas has given up starting from the emotional aspect, he naturally doesn't need to torment himself emotionally.

Since you feel fear and uneasiness, just give up. It's not difficult to start over.

…

The movement of the array in the laboratory alarmed Nia. She cast an inquiring look at Shado, as if she would wake him up immediately if she didn't get a response.

Xia Duo quickly blinked at Nia, told his wife that he was fine, and then restarted the void array.

As the body's own perception was weakened little by little, Xia Duo felt uneasy again, but because he had experienced this once before, he quickly calmed down this time and accepted the lack of perception calmly.

But when the perception was weakened to a certain extent, Xia Duo's front was already pitch black, no, even the concept of black disappeared, and he could not hear any sound from the outside world in his ears, only the sound of his heartbeat and the sound of blood flowing.

But such sounds were also continuously weakening.

In terms of touch, he could still feel that he was sitting cross-legged at first, and could feel the texture of his fingers rubbing, but gradually, this aspect of perception began to blur.

He couldn't even perceive the shape of his body, only a vague feeling lingered in his heart, that is-he still exists.

Although he had experienced similar feelings during the deep experience of Mojave's spiritual awakening, it was after all from the perspective of others, which was very different from personal experience.

The biggest difference is that even if he is in Mojave, he can still feel himself and know that there is always an anchor point that can return to reality, and this anchor is clearly visible.

But now, when he personally experiences the weakening of perception, he feels that reality is unprecedentedly far away. In the void, only his heart is the most real.

But even so, this real heart is constantly weakening, as if it may die at any time.

But the next moment, the whole world began to roar, and countless brilliance, sound, and texture information began to flow into Xia Duo's consciousness. At this moment, he was even a little absent-minded, but fortunately, this was his normal perception information.

When he came to his senses, he found that Niya had come to him, sitting on the ground and holding him in her arms. Xia Duo broke free from Niya's arms and said softly:

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Niya looked at Xia Duo deeply, then stepped aside.

...

Looking back at the experiment, Xia Duo found that after his perception was weakened, his own consciousness was also weakened, and the means of self-abandonment that he had originally prepared also failed.

The experiment was interrupted entirely because the hint feedback from the intelligent brain when it interacted with him was fruitless, so the virtual array was closed according to the preset program.

Niya saw that the array was closed, and he fell to the ground as if he was unconscious, so she stepped forward to help him up, and then there was the scene that Xia Duo saw when he woke up.

I didn't expect that there would be such benefits to cross-legged experiments, which can be regarded as an alternative insurance mechanism.

However, when Xia Duo first made this decision, he didn't think about this. At that time, he just wanted a sense of ritual.

Now it seems that this sense of ritual can continue!

...

Next, Xia Duo did not conduct the experiment immediately. The experience of almost annihilating his consciousness just now made him feel scared, which was definitely different from the experience of putting himself in other people's shoes.

So he decided to slow down for a while, and it would not be too late to continue the experiment after getting rid of the fear in his heart, and he could also check Rodas's focusing magic weapon by the way.

...

Just like that, two days later, Shado returned to Evereska again, but this time he did not come empty-handed, but brought Rodas's focusing artifact.

After many experiments, he determined that he could use this artifact to a certain extent, but the specific effect was not clear, and he did not trace the remains of the first generation of psychic mentors mentioned by Rodas.

After asking Rodas again, he learned that the detection of artifact projection was also like the perception of the psychic magic tools made by the psychic mage, and would be shielded by the excited state energy.

In other words, at this time, Kalish was likely to have hidden the remains of the first generation of psychic mentors in a high-energy place.