At night, after dinner, in the manor room, under the magic crystal lamp, Lin Tianqi slowly picked up the first of the four basic wizard textbooks - "Spirit, Elements, and Wizards".
"What is spirit? What is element? What is mage?"
Turning over the cover, these three questions were on the first page, but Lin Tianqi felt that these three questions seemed like mental retardation.
If I knew this, why would I want to read your book?
After scanning the entire article at a glance, Lin Tianqi simply ignored the nonsense at the beginning and continued to read the text.
The content of the entire book also corresponds exactly to the name of the book. It mainly explains the three aspects of spirit, element and mage. The first part is about spirit.
There are a lot of spiritual explanations in the book, with more than 800 pages. However, Lin Tianqi feels that more than 99% of these 800 pages are basically nonsense. It can be summed up in one sentence, that is -
-Spirit is a kind of soul power, and it is a power that can be powerful and used through practice, and the method of practice is meditation, which is also the method of mage practice.
However, the specific meditation method has not been mentioned in detail here, but it has been briefly mentioned. After reading this part, Lin Tianqi continued to read further.
After the spiritual part is explained, there is the elemental part. The explanation of this part in the book is much more detailed and detailed than the spiritual part, with more than a thousand pages.
"Elements exist in the heaven and earth, of different types, and together constitute the world. Among them, the seven elements of water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, and darkness are the most common..."
After spending several more hours, Lin Tianqi read the entire element section, and immediately understood the meaning of elements. The so-called elements are actually energy, which is the same as the energy of heaven and earth understood by their Taoist practitioners, but it is only the energy of this world.
Mages generally call them elements, and these elements are also the most basic units that make up the world, filling every corner of the world.
The seven elements of water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, and darkness are the seven most common elements in the world that mages believe are the seven basic elements that make up the world. In addition, there are some other elemental energies.
For example, poison, shadow, life, death, etc. can all be regarded as a kind of elemental energy, but they are slightly different from basic elements such as water, fire, wind and thunder and are not directly expressed.
The mage believes that everything in the world is composed of elemental energy. Even life, death, and soul have corresponding elemental energy, but it is different from the basic elemental energy of water, fire, wind, and thunder. The elements of life, death, and soul
Energy is more mysterious and difficult to figure out, but in essence, it is still composed of corresponding energies.
In short, in one sentence, Master believes that everything in the world is composed of energy, but some energy is obvious and easy to discover, while some energy is more mysterious.
Even time, the mage believes that there is a corresponding time energy, but this energy level is too advanced and difficult for ordinary people to reach.
“It’s a good concept to regard everything in the world as energy.”
Lin Tianqi's heart moved slightly, but he felt that the Master's point of view coincided with many aspects of their Taoist concepts, which regarded everything in the world as energy.
What is a mage?
After reading the entire elemental part, Lin Tianqi's book progress finally reached the last part of the book, which is also the part he cares about most - the mage.
"A mage wields the power of heaven and earth and controls the laws of heaven and earth."
There was such an opening sentence in this part. Lin Tianqi glanced at it and then continued reading.
"What is a mage? What is a mage? In the eyes of ordinary people, mysterious, powerful, and majestic are synonymous with mage, but in fact, we are actually a group of explorers seeking knowledge."
"Mages are a group of people with special and powerful soul talents. They absorb the energy of heaven and earth through meditation and practice magic, thereby controlling the power of heaven and earth..."
The latter part still does not elaborate on the meditation practice of the mage, but by connecting the previous two parts of spirit and elements, it still explains the essence of the entire mage's practice, making people understand the essence of the entire mage's practice.
We have the most intuitive and clear understanding.
The so-called mages are a group of people with outstanding talents who absorb the elemental energy between heaven and earth through meditation to cultivate magic power, and then use magic power to control various forces in heaven and earth.
In fact, it is almost the same as practicing Taoism. You can control the power between heaven and earth through practice. However, asceticism is about cultivating the soul, and then using the powerful soul to control the power of heaven and earth. Here, the mage is practicing magic power, and finally controlling the power of heaven and earth through magic power. However, Lin Tianqi doesn’t think so.
The magic power of accidents is also closely related to the soul. For magic power, the soul must also play a decisive role.
"Dong dong——"
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
Lin Tianqi closed the entire book he had read, raised his head and said.
Immediately, the door was pushed open with a creak, and Mia with long purple hair opened the door and walked in, holding a pot of hot tea on a plate in her hand.
"Master, the weather is getting cold. I have stewed ginseng soup for you. Have a cup of soup to warm yourself up."
When Mia walked in and spoke, she exhaled and said with a smile, the cold season here in Luoying City does come early. It's okay to have the sun during the day, but at night, the temperature plummets to almost zero degrees.
"Okay, please."
Lin Tianqi also looked at Mia and smiled and said, it is indeed good to have such a caring and beautiful maid by my side.
"No trouble, this is what I should do."
Mia smiled again, walked over and put the ginseng soup on the table, then thoughtfully poured a cup for Lin Tianqi and handed it to Lin Tianqi.
Lin Tianqi also smiled and took it, took a sip, and then picked up the second book again - "Magic, Runes, Spells".
Seeing Lin Tianqi pick up the book again, Mia didn't say anything more, but she walked behind Lin Tianqi, put her hands on Lin Tianqi's shoulders, and started massaging them gently.
hiss!
Lin Tianqi couldn't help but take a deep breath and closed his eyes comfortably. He felt a sense of comfort spreading from his shoulders to Tianling Gai.
Mia's massage techniques are really good.
"Master, how are you?"
Mia asked.
"It's very comfortable, just try harder."
"Well, okay, Master, let me push harder. If it hurts if I push too hard, please tell me."
Mia nodded obediently, and immediately the strength of her hand increased. At the same time, seeing the expression of enjoyment on Lin Tianqi's face, the smile on his face became stronger and stronger. I wonder if Master, you are too young now.
Mia can also make you more comfortable.
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The next morning, at the city gate, Lin Tianqi said to Adrian.
"Teacher, take care and be safe on the road."
Adrian led six knights on a tall horse. Hearing this, he also raised his hand to Lin Tianqi.
"Young Master, too, please take care of yourself here. When I get back, I will inform the Count and Madam of the Young Master's situation as soon as possible. The old Madam and the others, I believe they will be very happy."
"Um."
Lin Tianqi smiled and nodded when he heard this.
"Alan, after I leave, the safety of the young master will be entrusted to you. Even if you die, you must ensure the safety of the young master. Do you understand?"
Finally, Adrian said to Ellen behind Lin Tianqi.
Allen is the strongest one in the team of knights escorting Lin Tianqi this time, besides Adrian. His cultivation as a formal knight was retained by Adrian. At the same time, there were four trainee knights who stayed with Lin Tianqi.
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"yes."
Allen immediately responded.
Seeing Ellen's assurance, Adrian nodded, and then saluted Lin Tianqi again.
"Then young master, I will leave first."
"Well, take care on the road."
Lin Tianqi also nodded and watched Adrian lead the people away. This time Adrian was originally escorting him for his safety. Now that he has officially enrolled in school and worshiped Randolph as his teacher, Adrian naturally has not much time left.
There is a need to stay longer, and in Hill City, as the only great knight besides Ackerman, Adrian still has a lot to do.
After seeing Adrian off, Lin Tianqi took Mia and others back to the rented manor. Lin Tianqi picked up the Mage Urgent Textbook again and started reading it. After finishing last night, he finished reading the first "Spirit, Element, Mage".
In the second book "Magic, Runes, and Spells", I have only finished reading the magic part, and I am continuing to read it now.
Lin Tianqi's plan is to finish studying the four books before the official class on Tuesday.
It is best to start practicing meditation early after learning how to meditate and see how it goes.
However, Lin Tianqi wondered if he had read the order of the four books in the wrong order, because until now he has not seen a specific introduction to meditation for mage cultivation.