Chapter 1: At the entrance of Novice Village, big guys are everywhere
Nolen College.
This behemoth is not built on the ground, but is suspended in the clouds, like a building block thrown there by an unreasonable giant.
On the ancient stone wall, an obscure and powerful energy fluctuation can be seen flowing with the naked eye.
Benjamin mingled among the thousands of young men and women crowded in front of the academy's huge bronze gate, trying to make the same expression as everyone else - looking around with just the right amount of tension and longing in his eyes.
But to be honest, the reason for his nervousness was completely different from that of others.
"...One hundred and eighty, one hundred and eighty-one... Shit, there are over one hundred and eighty Jindan-stage academy staff just greeting guests at the door... Uh, no, according to this world's saying, they are second-level official wizards."
Benjamin tried his best to maintain the standard "country kid coming to the city" expression on his face, but his eyeballs couldn't help twitching.
Fortunately, the faces of the young people around him who came to take the test were full of expressions of "Who am I, where am I?", which made him look less abrupt.
Feeling the true energy that had just been honed from the first layer of Qi Refining in his body, Jieming felt like he was about to laugh out of anger.
"What kind of interstellar joke is this? How on earth could this 'Absolute Spirit World', where there's no spiritual energy at all, produce so many Golden Core Stage... no, Level Two Formal Wizards? Could the knowledge my cheating cheat gave me be pirated? If something goes wrong, how can I escape?!"
He secretly glanced at the group of second-level official wizards in front of him who were as majestic as small human nuclear bomb launchers, and the first-level official wizards around them who were so numerous that he was too lazy to count them.
Any slight pressure released by these guys could make him, who was in the Qi Refining Stage, unable to move.
Thinking back on how he had been struggling day after day for more than ten years to practice the ancient method of "refining essence into qi", which is almost a museum in the world of immortal cultivation, and had barely reached the first level of Qi Refining...Jeming really wanted to slap himself to see if he was dreaming.
He has been in this world for a long time, so long that he almost forgot the era of his previous life, which was full of neon lights and high-speed Internet.
He became the son of an ordinary businessman in a remote territory of this world, with a well-off family and a life that went according to plan.
Except... the "librarian" authority hidden deep in his consciousness.
He took a deep breath to calm his mood which was more exciting than a roller coaster. Then, Benjamin separated a part of his consciousness and skillfully located the magnificent white jade palace in the depths of his soul.
【Da Dao Book Pavilion】.
This name sounds very cool, as if it represents the ultimate truth of the universe.
Its origin is unknown and mysterious, but the knowledge contained in it is indeed as vast as the ocean, from the most basic method of drawing qi into the body, to the supreme secret method of changing one's destiny, to alchemy and weapon refining, formations and talismans, covering everything in heaven and on earth.
"If I had this thing in my hand in a world of immortal cultivation with abundant spiritual energy, I would have reached the Golden Elixir stage by now, right? Maybe I would even have a chance of reaching the Nascent Soul stage and becoming a God!" Looking at the white jade palace standing quietly in the space of consciousness, Jieming couldn't help but twitching the corners of his mouth in self-mockery.
This golden finger is very good and powerful.
But Jemin found that it was more like a top-level online library and scientific research database, rather than a cheating device that could directly infuse him with power.
He needs to understand the knowledge in it, practice it, and find the "raw materials" himself.
Unfortunately, this world... has no spiritual energy.
Without spiritual energy, all those powerful techniques in the Dao Book Pavilion that require the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to enter the body, and those alchemy and weapon formations that require the assistance of spiritual herbs, spiritual stones, and spiritual veins, are useless!
Even a good cook cannot cook without rice, and even if the Dao Book Pavilion is extremely powerful, it cannot produce any spiritual energy.
He could only rely on the "refining essence into qi" methods in the library that were almost eliminated in the world of immortal cultivation, and literally "eat" his way to cultivation.
Every day's effort requires a lot of energy and time, and a lot of food to make up for the deficit.
The "first level of Qi Refining" which seemed insignificant in the world of cultivating immortals was, here, a ladder that he had barely climbed after more than ten years of eating dry food and exhausting countless efforts.
Then, just when he thought that his life might be like this, relying on his weak true energy to be just a little bit stronger than ordinary people and live a stable life, this world suddenly gave him a big surprise - this is actually a high magic world, inhabited by a group of wizards who control elements, study souls, and pursue immortality!
What's even worse is that these wizards are a group of research enthusiasts with an almost pathological desire for unknown knowledge.
As a person who has cultivated a completely different power system, he... is an extremely rare living research material!
Benjamin knew very well that once he was discovered to be a foreigner, the only tragic fate that awaited him was to be studied, sliced, squeezed dry, and exhibited as a specimen.
Human rights? Morality? Expect such things from a group of wizards who can freely start wars in other planes and conduct experiments on souls?
So when he heard his lord informing him that he had reached the age to go to the academy with other children for qualification examination, Benjamin wanted to refuse.
But facing the mountain-like pressure from the lord's second-level wizard, he turned those words of refusal around in his mouth and didn't dare to utter a single word.
Fortunately, Benjamin was not so desperate as to sit and wait for death.
Although most of the knowledge in the Dao Book Pavilion cannot be used directly, the number of methods it records and the variety of them are far beyond Jieming's imagination.
In addition to the mainstream knowledge of cultivating immortals, some special and unconventional methods are also recorded.
Following Jieming's thoughts, a stream of light flew out from the white jade palace, forming a phantom of a book in front of his consciousness.
He skilfully flipped through the contents, sensing the flow of vital energy in his body, and made precise checks and adjustments to ensure that everything was foolproof.
Internal Circulation Basics
Internal circulation is a rather non-mainstream method in the immortal cultivation knowledge system that Jieming knows. Generally, only those cultivators who specialize in body refining and try to refine their bodies into cave-heaven magic weapons will practice it.
Unlike mainstream cultivation methods that seek to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it focuses on internal exploration, using the essence, qi, and spirit in the body as nourishment to form a miniature energy circulation system in the body.
The most important advantage is that once the internal circulation reaches its extreme, it will disconnect the body from external energy, putting the body in an extremely closed state.
As long as you don't expose yourself actively, even if someone scans you with spiritual sense, it will be difficult to discover the true energy in your body that is completely isolated from external energy!
"Calm down... I've already gone through a simple preliminary aptitude test at the Lord's Mansion. I roughly understand that the wizard's aptitude test focuses primarily on mental strength and soul. As long as I use internal circulation to conceal the fluctuations of my internal essence and appropriately restrain the intensity of my mental strength, it should be no problem to conceal it... right?"
Even if it doesn't work, it has to work. This is the most effective method he can use under limited conditions!
Jiemin sighed and returned to reality.
He raised his head and looked inside the huge bronze door again.
To outsiders, it seemed that he was just dazed for a short while at the door because of nervousness.
The queue in front of him kept getting shorter, and as he got closer to the huge bronze gate, his heart became calmer.
The qualification test was carried out very quickly. Young people with anxiety and expectations walked in one after another, and came out in batches, with various emotions written on their faces.
Soon, it was Benjamin's turn.
He straightened his back, took a deep breath, and let go of the last of his concerns.
Come on! This is a life-or-death game!
(End of this chapter)
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