Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 766 The Secret of Mana
Tianmai Dragon Island, outskirts.

"This is really... shocking."

A murmur with a tone of disbelief came from the cliff at the edge of the island. The middle-aged green-haired elf looked at the scene in front of him, looking at the huge castle in the center of the island, his eyes full of shock.

Building a city on the island of Tianmai Dragon and letting the legendary giant dragon with almost eternal lifespan carry you around the world, such a thing sounds no different from a fairy tale.

"Mr. Craft, someone will come to pick you up later. Just ask them if you have any questions. I'll go ahead."

Xin Lailai, who invited Kraft to the island, did not say much about the reaction of the middle-aged green-haired elf. After a brief explanation, he hurriedly rushed towards his experimental area.

Normally speaking, bringing a powerful character like Kraft, whose strength is enough to rank among the top five in the entire Flillian world, to the island should be something that he should prepare and arrange personally.

But this epiphany was too important for Xin Lailai, so it had to be handed over to Bell, Mingyu and others. Moreover, from another perspective, Bell probably also urgently needed a reason to extricate himself from the siege of Star Girl and Saint Ji.

"Hmm? Fellow Daoist Black Sword, please go back..."

Peng——! !

A sharp sound of breaking air passed through the air, and Xin Lailai seemed to turn a deaf ear to it, and directly ignored the Taoists and others he met along the way. He rushed into the magic experiment area where various large instruments were placed, raised the protective cover, and started all the instruments with great skill, quickly recording the massive inspiration in his mind.

"Domain...Domain. If you want to use the domain to control mana, the most important thing is the technique itself...!"

That's right, even if you have a direction, disposable mana is never something that can be achieved simply by accumulating so-called proficiency and practicing blindly for thousands of times with wrong results. It is even more impossible to comprehend various effects that suit your wishes just by relying on so-called feelings when you know nothing, like some systems.

For a wizard, even if he has an idea, it is only the first step on this path. Only when he uses the knowledge in his brain to transform inspiration and ideas into tangible results can it be called a complete success.

Taking the control of free mana in the air as an example, if you want to achieve this step by relying on the domain, you must at least know how the wizard and even all systems that need to use mana usually refine the mana in the air.

"Normally, if you want to transform the free mana in the air into mana that can be manipulated, you must absorb it near your own spiritual field and refine it. After eliminating the various chaotic mental fluctuations mixed in it, absorb it into your body and purify it with the pure energy environment in your body..."

In the experimental area, Xin Lailai was seen standing in front of the instrument, as if possessed, writing down a large number of formulas on the 'draft book' of the imprint interface at an unimaginable speed, while he and Ling Yuzi multitasked, operating the instruments in front of them to assist in simulation and calculation results.

That’s right, first comes the normal mana refining steps.

Under normal circumstances, if one wants to refine the free magic power in the air, one must first eliminate the chaotic mental fluctuations and various similar impurities in it. This is the first step in their daily process to restore magic power.

Generally speaking, this step is usually completed by the spiritual field lingering on one's body surface. The reason why mages and many systems can obtain the effect of accelerated mana recovery during meditation is precisely because these systems will actively expand their own spiritual fields during the meditation process, or add various characteristics to their own spiritual fields, allowing themselves to capture and refine free mana and other extraordinary energies in the air with higher efficiency.

After refining the chaotic mental fluctuations in the free mana, you need to absorb these "spiritually" ownerless mana into your body, use the stable energy environment in your body to further filter out the other extraordinary energies mixed in it, and purify these free mana. This is the second step in restoring mana in daily life, and it is also the most important step.

You have to know that the free mana in the air is different from the mana that exists stably in their bodies. The mana in their bodies, after being filtered and purified by their own energy circulation, are all standard mana that is at the upper limit of the strength that the current intelligence attribute can carry.

To put it simply, a wizard with 80 points of real intelligence attribute, excluding other passive attributes, must have all the mana in his body at the uniform third level 0 strength.

However, the mana in the air is completely different. Take the Fulilian world where they live as an example. Even in the same area, the energy intensity of the free mana in it will have extremely obvious fluctuations.

Therefore, in order to prevent the energy environment in one's body from becoming disordered, when absorbing free mana in the air, one must first process it into mana with an energy intensity similar to that of the mana in one's body, before it can truly stabilize in one's body.

Many mana recovery rate-increasing effects that do not require meditation often increase the gain at this step. For example, their energy cycle templates classically use a perfect energy cycle to increase the basic mana recovery rate.

This is the detailed process of converting the free mana absorbed by the contractors into controllable stable mana when they restore their mana. It is also the basic knowledge that every wizard will understand and learn when they get started.

After understanding these contents, we can move on to a new question:
So where does the free magic power in the air come from?

Or in other words, why is it that after their magic power is used up, it is transformed into these free magic powers full of impurities?
In fact, the specific processes involved in this issue are actually completely different depending on how each spell uses mana, but if you look at it from a macro perspective, the concepts are actually similar.

Taking their Crystal Gravity Technique as an example, during the release process, their Crystal Gravity Technique converts their own magic power into real 'gravitational fluctuations' acting on the material level, thereby achieving the purpose of manipulating gravity in the area.

And when the effect of their crystal gravity spell ends, the part of mana that they converted into gravitational fluctuations at that time will actually spontaneously return from the fluctuation state to the mana state, just like the evaporated water vapor condenses into water droplets again over time. From beginning to end, what they changed was only the state of mana, not the mana itself.

This also includes the part of mana that is converted into devouring energy. Although the process of the pure mana used in it returning to free mana is somewhat different from the crystal gravity technique, it is directly condensed back to normal-sized mana from the mana particles at the microscopic level, rather than condensing back to normal from the fluctuations in the material world, but in essence it is just a change in the state of mana.

Just like water turning from steam back into water and ice melting into water, although the process is different, the result is the same.

Once you understand this process, it will also be easy to understand why there are so many impurities in the free magic power.

Just as water vapor will wrap up a lot of tiny particles in the air when it returns to the water droplets, in addition to mana, there are a lot of different extraordinary energies in the normal spiritual world. Therefore, when mana returns to normal from other states, it will naturally come into contact with these extraordinary energies, and then add a lot of impurities in the process of returning to normal, turning into free mana that no one can directly use. By the way, this is why a lot of magic experiments can only be carried out in a laboratory environment, because only in this environment is it suitable to draw the surrounding spiritual world area into an 'energy vacuum' state, filter out various interferences, and accurately control the variables in the experimental process.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the route Xin Lailai intends to take. Although theoretically speaking, one only needs to filter the surroundings into an energy vacuum state to allow the mana consumed to avoid the process of free mana and directly return to a controllable state, but this approach obviously has no practical value and can only be used in a laboratory environment.

As for how Xinlailai specifically plans to prevent mana from becoming free mana after consumption, the answer is also very simple:
Sword power + spiritualization.

In the final analysis, the reason why pure mana turns into free mana full of impurities after being consumed is that the mana itself is too "stupid". It neither knows how to keep itself clean nor how to reject those corrosive supernatural energies.

In other words, if their mana can be made sufficiently 'smart', then theoretically it is entirely possible to make it actively aggregate into pure mana without impurities after consumption.

As for how to achieve this day, the answer is the same as that given by Xin Lailai.

Relying on the energy erosion immunity of the sword and the aura diffusion array they developed, they can make their magic power smart enough to reject the 'yellow-haired' and return to a pure state.

Of course, although this is said in theory, considering the differences in the way different spells use mana, in practice you can tell with your eyes closed that there will definitely be many problems in the results.

Apart from anything else, there is a huge difference in difficulty between the two consumption methods of converting mana into gravitational fluctuations and converting it into other structures in terms of skipping the step of free mana.

The former is the kind that even if one uses both sword power and the art of infusing spirits, in the end, at most can block 20~30%; while the latter, unless one encounters destruction at the level of annihilation energy, it is estimated that 40~50% can be recovered by just adding some sword power.

And this is just the difference between the two spells. If all kinds of situations are taken into consideration, the gap between the actual situation and the theoretical calculation will only be greater than the example above.

However, Xin Lailai had never expected to develop a heaven-defying field that could perfectly recover all forms of magic power at this stage.

In fact, preventing mana from transforming into a free mana state after consumption is only the least important purpose of his development process this time. The real core of their research this time is actually how to control the free mana that already exists in the surrounding area!

That's right, preventing the pure mana from falling into evil is just a by-product of this research. The real focus is on how to make the mana that has already fallen into evil return to the right path.

As for why this is the key to this study? First of all, we need to understand one thing:
It is always easier to be a thief for a thousand days than to be on guard against thieves for a thousand days.

Secondly, you need to know a piece of common sense that most of the technical barbarians have never thought deeply about, but it is crucial for the mage:

That is, in most extraordinary environments, the amount of free magic power contained in the air is actually so huge that it is far beyond the imagination of most people.

Take the Fulilian World as an example. As a derivative world mass-produced by the park, the Fulilian World itself has the setting of "abnormally abundant magic power". Because of this, the concentration of mana in the air of the entire Fulilian World directly reaches an astonishing 0.01μc (3) /m.

By the way, "μc" is actually the standard unit of extraordinary energy currently defined by the astral academic side. In human terms, it is what they usually call 1 mana point. If converted into standard academic terms, it is actually 1μc of mana.

At the same time, just like the mass unit in the material world, in addition to "μc", the academic side of the star world actually defines several units corresponding to different orders of magnitude. The most commonly used conversion ratio should be:

0.001mc = 1μc = 1000nc
As for the specific concept of the mana concentration of 0.01μc (3)/m mentioned above, let's just put it this way. It means that in the world of Fulilian, without considering the fluidity of energy, on average, every 1m of air area can extract 0.01 points of pure mana equivalent to the third-order level 0 energy intensity.

At first glance, does it feel like there is very little?

但那仅仅只是数字上的错觉而已，对数字不敏感的人在听到边长为1m的区域内只能提炼出0.01点法力时会感觉简直少到可怜，可当其听到边长为1000m的区域内能提炼出足足1000万点…亦或是半径1km的区域能提炼出将近419万点的法力的时候，就能明白这究竟是一个多么夸张的数量了。

Yes, in the world of Fulilian, the area within a radius of 1km alone contains nearly 419 million points of free mana.

Although after converting all the free mana into pure mana that matches his mana strength, there are only less than 40 points left, but even so, this is already an extremely huge and outrageous amount of mana.

This is why Xin Lailai attaches so much importance to the control of free magic power.

Perhaps preventing pure mana from turning into free mana would have an extremely high upper limit in the later stages, but for them at the moment, it was obviously more correct to directly control the massive free mana around them, rather than repeatedly using their own mana, which was less than 30,000 points when the two of them put together.

As for how to implement this process specifically?

This involves the most critical step in their research, which is——

On the Feasibility of Violent Refining to Control Free Supernatural Energy

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(End of this chapter)