After separating from Eberk, Sha Duo returned to his residence in the Tower of Time. The rehearsal just now made him feel mentally and physically exhausted, and he wanted to take a good rest at this time.
But before falling asleep, he still had to reflect on the mistakes he made in the process of creating Arcane Fire and the areas that needed improvement.
Personal experience and listening to other people's descriptions are completely different feelings. The spell [Create Arcane Fire] may be classified as a 5-level spell, but the actual difficulty of casting the spell is far beyond the scope of a normal 5-level spell.
It is almost equivalent to casting 20 teleportation spells at the same time!
If it weren't for a specific magic network environment that was weakened by isolation, he wouldn't be able to do this at all!
Of course, from another perspective, if someone can cast such a spell in a normal magic network environment outside, they may be able to create arcane fire directly without the need for an advanced laboratory.
With all kinds of guesses and thoughts, Xia Duo fell into a deep sleep.
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When he woke up again, it was already the next day. Fortunately, daily meditation does not have to be in the morning, it only needs to be during the time when he is in the best mental state.
There is no problem in creating arcane fire. At this moment, there is only one sentient soul left before Shado becomes an arcanist.
In the next few days, Xia Duo stayed in the Tower of Time. As the critical moment approached, he did not want to wander outside to avoid accidents. Although the possibility was very small, no matter how cautious he was at this time, he could not be too cautious.
It has been more than seven years since I traveled through the world, including the projection plane, and I am finally going to become an arcanist.
Perhaps because "people feel refreshed when happy events happen", in the next few days, Xia Duo's meditation progressed very smoothly. Finally, at the end of April, when Niya reminded him not to miss the snow melting competition, he reached the level of sensing the soul.
Although Master Nese does not have instruments or devices to measure the specific level of concentration, through traditional advanced concentration training, as long as you can complete the ninth stage of concentration training, you will be considered qualified.
These days, in addition to meditating every day, Xia Duo will also try Master Nese's concentration training to control his own training progress.
When he knew that he had reached the level of sensing the soul, Xia Duo was filled with joy. Not only the advancement itself, but also the expectation of more than seven years had finally come to fruition.
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In the bedroom, Xia Duo lay flat on the bed, facing the truth of his soul in the most comfortable posture.
On earth, the soul in the narrow sense is generally considered to be the activity of the brain, or in other words, the soul is thinking. The soul in the broad sense is the expansion and extension of the soul in the narrow sense.
But no matter what, as of Xia Duo's time travel, there is no evidence to prove the existence or non-existence of [entity soul]. (Entity is real and concrete, and the corresponding one is virtual)
The magical world can allow spellcasters to perceive souls through simple training (easy to implement). And the same training, or similar training, is entirely possible on earth.
But Xia Duo has never heard of anyone who can sense the soul. If it can be verified on a large scale, then the soul will no longer be an illusory theory.
Xia Duo has always been curious about whether he, an earthling, has a soul. If so, what does his soul look like?
Is it a light point? Or is it the same as the original body? Or is it some other form? Or an indefinite form?
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With all kinds of doubts and conjectures, Xia Duo began his first attempt to perceive the soul.
There is no nagging thought or induction, it is just perception in a literal sense, just like ordinary people listening attentively, as long as they have hearing, they can hear the sound.
Similarly, when concentration reached a certain level, Xia Duo suddenly felt as if he had entered a void. Such a real experience made him feel incredible.
The first thing to be perceived is actually his consciousness.
Sha Duo has experienced many journeys to the projection plane before. In fact, he projects his consciousness into the projection plane in the astral world, and the silver thread he saw on the way back is actually an extension of his consciousness.
The embodied existence of thread in the astral realm.
At this time, the consciousness that Sha Duo perceived was not the silver thread, nor the silver, but his true body, or him in a state similar to that of a spiritual body.
In this state, he is able to realize that all parts of his body, including the inside, are as transparent and very clear.
Netheril's research on the soul is not perfect, and even the book "Soulology" itself contains a lot of questions, speculations, and few truly verified conclusions.
Probably the earliest one to be verified is that consciousness is the projection of the soul on the body.
To a certain extent, consciousness is thinking, which is just one aspect of the soul, while the other aspect of the soul, will, is the real key to casting spells.
Arcane fire also needs to be combined with will.
Regarding will, Nese mages do not know much about it. They only confirm that will exists and can be used. There are almost no relevant theories.
Just after Xia Duo sensed consciousness, he went further back and perceived a lofty and indescribable existence, which was his soul.
The soul has no form, or it transcends form, but it is a real and concrete existence, not a virtual existence that only exists in imagination.
However, this is different from the souls of other arcanists!
When other arcanists first perceive the soul, although they have no form, they will immediately transform into the same form as the original body based on their own cognition.
Instead of being like Xia Duo, who is still amorphous!
Is he some kind of unfathomable indescribable being? Or is this the soul of the people on earth?
However, the amorphous form of the soul did not affect Sha Duo's consciousness, nor did it affect his perception of will.
From consciousness to the soul, and then from the soul back to the will, the whole process is a matter of course.
The feeling of perceiving will is very strange, it is like seeing your own eyes without looking through a mirror, and it is also like seeing the texture of your skin directly without touching it.
It's like an extra sense has appeared out of thin air.
And when Xia Duo exited the state of perception and then perceived again, this time there was no need to jump through the soul, but he directly perceived the existence of will.
Consciousness and will are not independent existences, but two different aspects of the soul. If consciousness is the projection of the soul on the body, then will is also the extension of the soul in a certain direction.
Just like the three primary colors of light on the earth, they appear in different forms, but their essence is one, they are all light.
Consciousness and will have different forms of expression, but their essence should be the soul.
As for the body, it should be the residence of the soul.
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Sensing the soul did not directly improve Sha Duo's combat effectiveness, but it greatly expanded his horizons and at the same time removed the last obstacle to his advancement as an arcanist.
It's just that the extra senses originating from the will completely disappear after exiting the state of extremely focused perception.
There are no direct benefits, which is a bit disappointing.
Xia Duo was lying on the bed, constantly thinking about everything that had just happened. It was really like a dream, but it was also an extremely real existence.
Next, there are just some tips on using will.
At this point, the preliminary preparations for the advancement have finally come to an end.