Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

Floating before the cave, Wang Yi took a deep breath and began to focus his attention on the surrounding magic.

The magic power inside the Minshan Insect Bridge was naturally much more abundant than in the real world. Countless streams of magic power flowed slowly, enveloping Wang Yi as if he were immersed in an ocean of magic power.

With his eyes closed, Wang Yi focused all his energy on harnessing his soul power, trying to project his senses outwards with all his might.

One hundred meters, three hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters!

Wang Yi's current limit is that he can sense magic power within a radius of one kilometer. Beyond that, it starts to become blurry very quickly.

Of course, being able to perceive does not mean being able to control, and even if you can control, you may not be able to control it at will.

As Wang Yi's soul power spread, the surrounding environment began to appear in his mind.

While it may not reach the level of detail and meticulous detail, it is like having a 360-degree perspective for observation.

Moreover, the things that the power of the soul can perceive are much more detailed than what the naked eye can observe.

In general, it's roughly a combination of various mental detection spells such as magic perception, life perception, and telekinesis, and it doesn't consume magic power.

This also means that the magic monitoring network will not be triggered.

Of course, Wang Yi doesn't care much now, since he has a set of equipment that can be legally and legitimately registered in advance on the magic monitoring network.

The magic flowed slowly like water; perception was not the goal. Wang Yi's objective was to control the magic in the outside world.

After a short period of adjustment, Wang Yi's soul power seemed to sprout countless invisible tiny tentacles, which then grabbed the surrounding magic power and stuffed it into his body.

Although it's a bit rough around the edges, controlling magic with soul power should be similar to instinct and not too difficult.

In no time at all, the magic power that Wang Yi had just consumed was immediately replenished.

Wang Yi continued to pour magic into her body, and soon she felt as if she was being "stretched" by the magic.

Two seconds later, Wang Yi, unable to bear it any longer, finally stopped.

Chu Zhaoding said that after mastering the use of soul power, it would help him accelerate the accumulation of magic power in his body and increase his advancement speed. So that's how it is.

In the past, Wang Yi's cultivation involved constantly emptying his body of demonic energy and then replenishing it.

Levitation magic is simple; just keep using magic, and you can also increase your proficiency and control over magic.

However, replenishing one's magic power after it's depleted becomes a bit of a hassle.

The magic system in this world doesn't have any cultivation techniques or anything like that; at least, no such things have been created yet.

After all, the magic system has only existed for less than a hundred years. Humanity is currently only in the process of discovering, summarizing, and applying the rules, and there are not many fundamentally disruptive innovations.

After a mage empties their internal magic, external magic will naturally gather in their body. At first, due to the pressure difference in concentration, the magic recovers quickly. Later, once the internal magic and the external magic are stable, the mage can only slowly absorb the external magic that their body comes into contact with through meditation until their internal magic is full.

This is the most time-consuming process in cultivation, but if you have a magic crystal, you can directly consume the magic power in the magic crystal, which will greatly shorten this process.

This cycle of emptiness and fullness constitutes a period of time. With each cycle, the body becomes more adapted to magic, and the amount of magic that can be stored within the body increases slightly.

If no magic crystals are consumed, the time for one cycle is roughly between one and two hours.

With magic crystals, the time for one cycle can be compressed to within ten minutes.

Therefore, the time spent cultivating with magic crystals and cultivating without magic crystals can differ by tenfold.

Besides cultivation resources, the second biggest difference is talent, which is sometimes even greater than the difference in cultivation resources.

So-called talent can be understood as follows: because everyone's physique is different, even if they complete ten magic cycles, some people may increase their magic power by ten, while others may increase their magic power by one hundred.

Therefore, even if they all have sufficient cultivation resources, their advancement speed will vary greatly.

Not to mention the mysterious bottlenecks and barriers between each major rank, which have not yet been fully understood. If these factors were not involved, everyone could probably advance to the extraordinary level.

Wang Yi's advancement from the initial stage to the intermediate stage was smooth and easy. Although he has not yet reached the advanced stage, he has already paved the way for the extraordinary. At least before he truly becomes extraordinary, Wang Yi does not need to worry about these things.

Moreover, with the aid of soul power, daily cultivation no longer requires the consumption of magic crystal resources, which saves the Night Watch Army a lot of money. After all, the Night Watch Army is responsible for providing the magic crystals that Wang Yi uses for cultivation.

However, considering that it would be too abrupt not to use the magic crystals for cultivation, Wang Yi had no choice but to reluctantly keep the magic crystals for the time being.

After playing with magic using his soul power for a while and feeling much more proficient, Wang Yi began to study how to use external magic to amplify the power of magic.

Even true extraordinary mages still need to rely on the power of the human crystal within their bodies to cast spells, and cannot directly use their soul power to control external magic to form spells.

Therefore, the key to amplifying magic is to inject a large amount of controlled external magical power into the magic at the very moment before it takes shape, adding fuel to the fire.

Wang Yi raised his hand and released the green vines. Six green vines, each as thick as a wrist, grew rapidly from the ground of the cave and soon took root at the top, like hanging aerial roots.

"Too fast, no way." Wang Yi frowned. He always relied on instinct to release magic, just like a magical beast, he could create magic by bringing out the power in the human crystal. Now, suddenly having to add a step to the process of releasing magic was definitely not something he was used to.

"Take it slow, slow down." Wang Yi took a deep breath, contracted his soul power, and narrowed his perception range to gain a clearer sense of perception.

What he needs now is to break down the process of casting magic step by step.

By using the power of his soul to examine himself, Wang Yi clearly sensed the human crystal in his mind and the magic power constantly circulating in his chest.

"There is magic in the human crystal and there is also magic in the body. Why is the magic in these two places separated? What is the difference between them?" Wang Yi wondered, but he soon figured out a reason.

As Wang Yi released the magic again, a wisp of magic flowed within his crystal, then rushed towards his chest at incredible speed. He drew a large mass of magic from his stored magic and sent it bursting out of his body to the cave entrance where he intended to release the magic. The magic mass took root and vines began to grow.

This process sounds slow, but it's actually completed in the blink of an eye.

As a result, what was seen was that the magic was already released the moment Wang Yi had a thought.

Previously, Wang Yi had never experienced this process; she only knew that after obtaining magic, she could simply release it.

Just like when a person wants to move their fingers, the fingers move automatically without the person realizing that the brain sends a signal, the nerves transmit the signal to the hand muscles, and then the muscles contract to move the fingers.

"Amazing!" Wang Yi, who clearly perceived the entire process of the magic's release, couldn't help but have a glint in his eyes, and then a thought popped into his mind:

"These things should be studied by extraordinary mages. The advantage of soul power is too great. How come the dean and vice dean of Huajing are only high-level mages? Their strength is so weak. No wonder they haven't produced any results in so many years."