Unable to repay my student loans, I had no choice but to work part-time as a demon hunter.

"Stay away from me," Gray said, dismissing Gordon. He waited until there was no sound from inside, sensing Gray lying down in a corner, seemingly oblivious to what was happening outside. Reluctantly, he turned back, lost in thought. He didn't know if Gray had even listened to him.

He returned to the meditation hall and continued reading "The Hunter's Code: From Transcendence to Death".

Gordon flipped through the chapters he had already read and continued studying the training method for the source substance.

According to the advanced tutorials that follow, source training includes processes such as calibration, overload, and retraining.

Calibration involves repeatedly using the capability in a stable state, recording the duration and output intensity, until the boundary is identified.

The next step is moderate overload, briefly exceeding the limit, and observing how the ability changes at the edge of the limit. The book emphasizes that the overload must be brief and controllable.

Then comes retraining, which involves actively reducing output after overload to restore the scattered power to its original order.

Gordon recalled that he had experienced an overload once when he was reflecting at the train station.

At that time, his mind was almost torn apart by countless connections, but this also expanded the boundaries of his ability to "recognize strings," demonstrating that stimulating and testing the boundaries of ability is very effective.

He bought bread, smoked meat, and boiled eggs from the hunter school's logistics department, and also replenished his fury with oatmeal and apples, before leaving the school.

After riding for about ten miles, the countryside became even quieter. Gordon arrived at a secluded rural lake surrounded by dense birch trees. The wind blew through the treetops and created ripples on the lake's surface.

The lake wasn't wide. Gordon tapped it with his cane, and his spiritual snapshots were projected in all directions before returning to his consciousness. There was no trace of human activity; no one had been around for at least several weeks.

He left his rage under a willow tree, and then tested the divine line by casting it into the lake.

The thin line was released rapidly along the reel groove, and the end of the line landed precisely 12 meters away, tangling with a tree branch. Gao Deng flicked his hand, and the branch flew through the air and landed on the shore, giving him a real sense of being an angler.

He left his shoes on the shore and walked barefoot into the lake to feel the icy cold of the water.

open!

The water rises from the lake surface like a transparent ribbon, curving and swirling in the air. A second stream of water rises from the left, and a third stream just takes off before falling back into the water.

Gordon tried again.

Three shares, four shares, five shares...

With each additional stream of water he controlled, a portion of his attention was diverted, and he focused intently, constantly pushing his limits.

Ten minutes later, he was able to control more than ten water jets, each about the thickness of a waist, at the same time.

As the water expands further upwards, it continuously collapses from the edges, causing the source energy required to sustain itself to rise sharply.

Gordon drank the calming potion given to him by Eve. The dark blue potion had a slightly bitter taste, but a cooling sensation spread from his throat to his head, greatly reducing the pressure from mobilizing his source essence.

"Maybe I really should call her 'senior'...?"

Gordon closed his eyes, continuously adjusting the flow, and trying to grasp the essence of the water's movement.

……

Training continued until evening, and Gordon ate at a tavern on the edge of the village, a typical country restaurant where farmers drank ale against the wall.

Gordon ordered beef kidney pie, onion soup, baked potatoes, and light beer; the post-workout hunger and dizziness came quickly and directly.

He continued to draw water flow structures in his notebook, pondering the true meaning of fluid mechanics.

Based on his experience, the human brain has difficulty controlling multiple independent objects.

While humans can process complex information such as color, movement, and sound simultaneously, these are instincts of the underlying nervous system. However, when it comes to coordinating and executing complex control, the human brain struggles to perform parallel computations.

Conversely, if we view the flow of water as a uniform and consistent whole, our minds will be able to process it more easily.

Gordon wrote and calculated on the paper.

Rotation, pressure, and cyclone curves. If the outer water layer continuously gains angular momentum, the water will accelerate its rotation, causing the water level in the middle to drop, while the low pressure in the center will cause the water at the bottom to rise automatically.

That night, Gordon was still meditating on the structure and imagery of flowing water, the currents of water, the tides, the flow of fate, the tide of destiny…

He continued training for the next two days.

He began to superimpose the Divine Line, which first plunged into the lake water and spun rapidly, then caused the cold water to circulate.

At first, it could only make the water column rise half a meter, and then it would fall back into the water like a transparent jellyfish.

But gradually, more source energy was injected into the lake.

The water surface, with a radius of six meters, began to rotate. Initially, there were only a few ripples, but then the ripples chased each other, forming a continuous circulation, and the reflections of the clouds in the sky were elongated and distorted.

Gordon raised Blackthorn Lee's cane.

A column of water rises high into the air, spreading outwards from the top with a splashing sound. The falling water is caught by the outer swirling currents, returning to the lake surface along a spiral trajectory, and then flowing back to the center.

The loop has been established.

Moreover, Gordon hardly needs to exert any effort; most of the movement is accomplished by inertia and pressure on its own.

Gordon intensified his efforts.

As the outer flow velocity increases, the controlled radius grows larger, and the central low pressure increases rapidly.

More lake water was drawn into this funnel-shaped structure, and the rising water column grew to four meters, then broke through five meters in a few breaths.

boom!

Gordon's mind reached its limit, but the lake water had already swirled and stood up!

The lower end of the waterspout connects to the lake surface, while the upper end creates a wave.

Gordon's eyes lit up.

Several wild ducks swam out from the reeds and witnessed the lake where they had lived for many years suddenly take flight. They froze briefly on the water's surface before flapping their wings and hastily fleeing.

Gordon's vision began to darken at the edges, and his fingers trembled slightly.

He knew that the system had reached overload, so he began to recycle.

As Gordon weakens his angular momentum, the speed of the outer ring decreases layer by layer. The top of the waterspout loses its supply and falls back down, eventually releasing the backflow from the bottom as well.

The turbulent current slowly collapsed in front of Gordon, who stood in the lake, feeling the ripples on the water, his chest heaving violently.

[Tides of Destiny: Deepening Integration]

He closed his eyes, feeling the ripples that had not yet subsided.

This experiment confirmed to him that as long as the correct flow potential is created, water can maintain complex motion on its own.

In the future, it will no longer be necessary to manipulate the water flow one by one. As long as key nodes are established, directions are defined, pressure is applied, and vectors are calibrated, the water can migrate on its own, forming whirlpools, water prisons, water walls, and even more complex structures. These capabilities will no longer be just a fantasy.

He let out a long breath, drank the sedative, and regained his composure.

The insights he gained from controlling the flow of water were immense, greatly increasing his mental strength and enhancing his ability to maintain focus.

Gordon remembered Sinclair saying that source energy could now be concentrated and released at the head of the cane, and he wanted to try it too.

First, infuse the power of two source materials into it until the staff head emits a distinct spiritual glow.

Then Gordon aimed at a tree and smashed it down hard.

boom!

Gordon was stunned for a moment when he saw what happened next.