"The Upgrade Assessment is passed?"
Downstairs in the dormitory, Wang Nan saw Mu En, whom he hadn't seen for some time.
"Yes, I passed smoothly."
"Then congratulations." Mu En nodded. "Time really flies. In the blink of an eye, another group of young people has arrived. Feeling your vigorous energy can help an old fellow like me live a few more years."
Wang Nan looked up at the surroundings. There were many new students wearing white school uniforms downstairs in the dormitory, gathering in small groups to discuss something, with curiosity and anticipation on their faces.
Thinking about it, it's true. It seems like in the blink of an eye, I have already spent a year here.
"Have you learned any interesting skills from Spirit Beasts recently?"
Hearing this, Wang Nan looked down at Mu En, seeing him with his eyes closed and only a faint smile on his face, as if he was just asking casually.
After a moment of pause, seeing that Wang Nan didn't answer, Mu En continued, "I've watched your matches. Your skill is actually using mental force to imitate the posture of Spirit Beasts, and then using your body to make similar movements. This is how you achieve the integration of mental force and spirit power for attack. Is that about right?"
Although Mu En didn't know the truth, he was already very close. Every time Wang Nan released an extra skill, he would first communicate with the light cluster in the sea of consciousness, drawing out a trace of the Spirit Beast's charm from it, and then releasing it together with spirit power.
"Very impressive. I've seen many talented Spirit Masters, but they couldn't use such techniques at your age. However, I have been a Spirit Master for longer, so I still have a slightly different perspective."
"So-called mental force is actually the manifestation of a Spirit Master's will. Imitating other Spirit Beasts can make it easier for you to integrate mental force and spirit power, but it also limits your performance. In the future, you can try to incorporate your own will into it."
Mu En slightly opened his eyes and continued, "Spirit Master's Spirit Abilities are granted by spirit ring. When we use Spirit Abilities, we only need to inject spirit power, and they can exert various effects, either assisting others, amplifying ourselves, or bringing great destruction. But one thing will not change, and that is that once a spirit ring is obtained, its effect cannot be changed."
"However, self-created skills that are detached from Spirit Abilities are much more difficult to learn than Spirit Abilities, but they are also more free and flexible. Because they are created by the Spirit Master, the flow of spirit power, the preparation time, and the range of release are all determined by the Spirit Master themselves."
"A slight adjustment in one of the links will cause a huge change in the result presented by the skill. Your skill already contains two kinds of power, spirit power and mental force. Trying to integrate your own will is also a kind of adjustment."
"When you have fully mastered the rules of skill change, you can apply your skills to every movement, every move, and even Spirit Abilities."
Just like a nagging old man, Mu En kept talking while lying on the recliner. Things that some ordinary Spirit Masters could never come into contact with in their entire lives entered Wang Nan's mind during this casual chat.
Time passed by, and as it approached noon, a cute little boy with dark blue hair walked over from a distance and threw himself into Mu En's arms.
Immediately afterward, a young woman of seventeen or eighteen years old also came along. She was about to speak, but after seeing Wang Nan on the side, she took her words back.
"It seems I should go back." Mu En raised his hand and touched the boy's hair, saying to Wang Nan, "What I told you may not be possible for you to do in a short time with your current mental force, but with your foundation, I believe that day won't be too far away."
After saying that, he slowly got up with the support of the woman, and led the little boy towards Sea God Lake.
Wang Nan stood in place for a while before he came back to his senses, mainly because Mu En said too much. How to adjust skills, how to control mental force, how to try to integrate will into spirit power. If these things were recorded and compiled into a book, it is estimated that other Spirit Masters would snatch it like crazy.
Saying goodbye to Mu En, Wang Nan was finally able to return to his dormitory. He had never felt that the road back to the dormitory was as long as it was today. This was already the third time he had stopped.
As soon as he pushed the door open, he saw Gongyang Mo sitting at the table, holding a mirror in his hand, not knowing what he was doing.
"Little Nan is back. Was the assessment not smooth? Why are you back so late?"
"No, it was quite smooth, but I met someone I knew, knew, knew on the way back, that's why I was late."
"How did an Upgrade Assessment turn you into a stutterer?" Gongyang Mo put down the mirror and glanced at Wang Nan in surprise.
"No, I mean I met three people I knew on the way back."
"Pfft." Gongyang Mo covered her mouth and chuckled, "Your joke is not funny at all."
"What about you? What was the content of your assessment?" Wang Nan didn't doubt whether Gongyang Mo could pass the assessment. After all, he will be an Inner Courtyard Disciple in the future, so he shouldn't be eliminated now.
"There was a lot. For example, simultaneously providing different buffs to several Spirit Masters under certain interference, and also assessing the duration of Spirit Abilities. It took a lot of time."
Wang Nan nodded. It seemed that the support system's assessment was not easy either.
After all, both of them were Spirit Masters. After a few simple chats, they went to cultivate separately.
Wang Nan came to the bed and sat down cross-legged, opening the scroll that Ma Xiaotao had given him.
As expected of Shrek Academy. The cultivation technique in Wang Nan's hand had been carefully polished by countless generations, and it actually involved most of the Meridians in the body.
For Spirit Masters with narrow Meridians and ordinary talent, this cultivation technique may not even be able to get started, but in the hands of talented people, this cultivation technique has many other benefits besides increasing spirit power cultivation speed.
This should be prepared by Shrek Academy specifically for talented Disciples.
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Changing cultivation technique is not an easy task, and fortunately, Wang Nan has a solid foundation. Half a day allowed him to successfully control spirit power to complete a cycle in his body. When he opened his eyes again, the sky had completely darkened.
Gongyang Mo on the opposite bed was still meditating. Wang Nan didn't make a sound and tiptoed out of bed. He was about to go to the cafeteria to see if there was anything left to fill his stomach when he suddenly found two neatly placed food boxes on the table.
Wang Nan smiled, picked up the food boxes, and quietly walked out of the dormitory.
It was very quiet outside the dormitory. Most of the students were meditating to improve spirit power, and a small number wanted to be lazy and slept soundly.
Although it was a bit cold, Wang Nan didn't care too much. He picked up the food box and stuffed it into his mouth. However, before he could eat a few bites, an ear-piercing alarm sounded throughout Shrek Academy. Sea God Island lit up as if it were daytime. Immediately afterward, several teachers flew rapidly towards the Outer Courtyard.