With the intermediate-level staff in hand, Mu Xingran was halfway to successfully learning intermediate-level magic.

After successfully reciting the spell according to the inherited incantation of intermediate magic, Mu Xingran cast a healing spell on Shen Jue.

How do you feel about your body?

Shen Jue: "I feel warm all over my body, what kind of magic is this?"

"This is a healing magic that repairs internal injuries. If you feel warm all over, it means that the hidden injuries you suffered before are now healing."

She takes such good care of her body, yet she still has hidden injuries. It makes me think about how I, disregarding my own health, was both rescuing people and rushing about.

Even the best body can't withstand her kind of abuse.

Unexpectedly, this trip to Starfish Island yielded unexpected gains. After using this intermediate healing spell, Shen Jue not only felt comfortable all over, but the circulation of her cultivation technique also became smoother and smoother. The faint feeling of stagnation she had felt before had completely disappeared. This was a sign that her cultivation level was about to break through to the ninth level.

"Sister Xingran, you can study magic on your own from now on. My cultivation technique is about to advance."

"Is it the same cultivation method I taught you before? Would you like me to teach you a higher-level cultivation method?"

Shen Jue shook his head. "No need. I later obtained a martial arts technique of decent quality. It is said that cultivating the Unity of Heaven and Man realm can grant one a long life of a hundred years. I don't know exactly how many years one can live. I'll teach it to you first."

“Alright, then you can go into seclusion. It’s relatively safe here. Now that the staff is finished, I’ll continue to study intermediate magic. Once I’ve mastered it, I’ll teach it to others, including the techniques for making staffs.”

Only by increasing our strength will we have a greater chance of winning the battle against the alien army.

Both of them are making progress and are working hard to improve their skills.

Half a day later, Shen Jue's cultivation technique successfully advanced to the ninth level of the Boundless Heart Method, still a little short of the tenth level of the Unity of Heaven and Man realm.

To reach the state of harmony between heaven and man, one needs fate, luck, and state of mind—all three are indispensable. It cannot be achieved solely through cultivation. If the state of harmony between heaven and man could be reached through cultivation alone, then this cultivation method would not be described in such detail by the game system.

Perhaps, one day, I might suddenly have an epiphany and directly enter the state of oneness with nature.

The stronger you are, the greater your chances of survival.

After finishing her meditation, Shen Jue felt incredibly comfortable and refreshed all over!

Meanwhile, not far away, Mu Xingran was diligently studying intermediate magic.

Looking at the counter next to her, well, Sister Xingran has already learned 30 intermediate spells. What an amazing learning ability!

Seeing that Xingran was very focused on her studies, Shen Jue stopped talking and quietly observed from the side.

In her view, whether it's magic, abilities, or internal cultivation techniques, all paths lead to the same goal: to become stronger and increase one's power. However, of these three ways to increase power, magic is the most lethal to alien spirits.

Why did so many powerful individuals at sea still die at the hands of the alien army? It's because their abilities weren't very targeted and didn't effectively counter the alien army.

Everyone is studying with all their might to drive the alien spirits out of this world, so they can go back to where they came from. Stop thinking about invading their homeland.

While Shen Jue was observing and learning intermediate magic, several small, strange spirits suddenly appeared in the sea not far from Starfish Island.

From the sky, these intermediate-level alien spirits formed a huge encirclement around Starfish Island.

Those black shadows were all otherworldly spirits.

It was all mid-level alien spirits leading low-level alien spirits, quietly lurking around Starfish Island.

Any living being that passes by Starfish Island will be mercilessly killed by the evil spirits lurking nearby.

So far, none of the creatures on Starfish Island have noticed anything amiss.

A great catastrophe is about to befall us. If the alien spirits succeed in their sneak attack, all the efforts of all races will be in vain.

This time, the top and core forces of the Alliance of Myriad Races have all come here to learn magic, magic that can fight against or even eliminate intermediate-level alien spirits.

This news was also shared with the advanced aliens by the traitors. According to the current progress of the invasion, the advanced aliens will not be able to fully reach the sea world for another month.

The low-level and mid-level alien spirits that arrived first were just the vanguard.

Upon receiving this news, the advanced spirits immediately dispatched their strongest advanced spirit to arrive first. Based on the individual movement speed of an advanced spirit, that advanced spirit would be able to descend upon the sea world within three days at the latest.

The reason for remaining inactive now is twofold: first, to await the arrival of the advanced alien spirits; and second, to prevent the island's inhabitants from noticing their presence and thus lowering their guard.

This decision was extremely effective.

Because later on, not many creatures came out of Starfish Island. They were all immersed in observing and learning. Only after they had learned something would they send people back to the island.

Therefore, from the perspective of the creatures on the island, their clansmen who had completed the basic magic should have already returned to their clans and begun teaching basic magic to the younger generation.

But the reality was quite the opposite. Those creatures who had just finished learning basic magic were surrounded and killed by a net of alien spirits as soon as they stepped off Starfish Island, or even before they had traveled far.

Before they even left this sea area, they were silently slaughtered by the alien army.

Lower-level spirits commanded by intermediate-level spirits will instinctively obey spirits of higher level than themselves. As a result, lower-level spirits that obey the commands of higher-level spirits can actually achieve quite good combat power.

I'm not afraid of strong opponents; I'm afraid of opponents who are both intelligent and strong.

Such opponents are often the most difficult to deal with, because what you can think of, your opponent can also think of.

They might even use feints or diversions to distract you.

The alien race left this planet billions of years ago to conquer other planets, but what happened during their conquests, how did they develop, and why did they return billions of years later to compete for the planet's resources once again?

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the alien race may have encountered setbacks in the star system and happened to see that this planet they left millions of years ago was doing well and wanted to continue to occupy it. However, this time, the creatures of the sea world will not be like their ancestors millions of years ago, who did nothing but fight.

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Seeing that Mu Xingran was engrossed in learning, Shen Jue ran outside the hall and joined the rest of the group in learning basic magic.

When Mu Xingran finished learning all the intermediate spells and looked back at Shen Jue, she found that Shen Jue had already learned most of the basic spells in a haphazard way.

Upon seeing this, Mu Xingran was surprised again, as she had always known that Shen Jue's learning ability was quite astonishing.

When she first taught Shen Jue the art of divination, she thought Shen Jue wouldn't learn it so quickly, but it turned out that Shen Jue learned it very fast.

Now, the speed at which Shen Jue is learning basic magic has made Mu Xingran realize that Shen Jue is also very talented in the art of magic.

Geniuses always appreciate each other. Mu Xingran called Shen Jue to her side and handed her intermediate-level staff to him.

"Next, I'll recite one sentence, and you recite one sentence. I'll teach you an intermediate magic spell."

Mu Xingran taught him a sentence, and Shen Jue memorized it.

"Then comes སྨན་པའི་མཐུ་ཡིས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྟོང་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག!" (Menpé thu yi dukngal tongpar gyur chig!) (meaning "With healing power, let the pain vanish!")

"Did you remember?"

Shen Jue nodded and then repeated it.

Mu Xingran nodded with great satisfaction. If she could teach Shen Jue as soon as possible, Shen Jue could help her teach others.

Subsequently, Shen Jue learned many intermediate magic spells from Mu Xingran.

"Come on, give it a try!" Mu Xingran taught Shen Jue the intermediate staff and let Shen Jue try out intermediate magic.

Shen Jue: After learning the spells, it's time for practical application, right?

She no longer finds learning magic fun at all!