Full-Time Magician: Demon Mage

Chapter 328 The Realm of the Mind

In first class, Wang Teng sat quietly cross-legged on the bed, his eyes flashing with various illusory scenes, like those in a movie.

This is his way of familiarizing himself with the characteristics of super-order illusions and deeply analyzing their essence.

Mind magic, behind many magical skills lies an essential characteristic: the foolish merely grasp the form, while the wise see the essence.

For example, the three basic skills, Soothing, Impact, and Mind Wall, are essentially just simple applications of mind-based magic.

The three intermediate-level skills—fear, agitation, and fearlessness—represent deeper emotional evolutionary characteristics.

Advanced techniques like Soul Control, Mind Confusion Array, and Mind Crushing Chapter represent a higher level of soul manipulation, allowing users to control themselves and their enemies, explore memories, and more.

Upon reaching the Super-Order Illusion, another level is raised, which is the characteristic of illusory construction. The mind is inherently formless and intangible, yet it truly exists.

Its skills include dreams, shadows, and illusions, which deceive people's six senses through illusory construction.

Humans perceive and distinguish the external world through the six senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and thought. However, the essence of this perception is the outward manifestation of the power of the mind.

Why can't the dead be distinguished from the living, but the living can? It's because of the existence of the soul; after a person dies, the soul goes away.

The soul, however, possesses remarkable plasticity, capable of changing shape at will, becoming large or small, while the body merely grows according to the template of the soul.

At a deeper level, the soul is the manifestation of spiritual power. The soul is merely an outward appearance; the saying "appearance reflects the heart" perfectly describes this situation.

When a person is feeling down, their expression changes; when they are happy, it's different. The person is still the same person, the body is still the same body, the soul is still the same soul. What has changed? Only their mood has changed.

Changes in mood are reactions produced by acquired thoughts and consciousness in relation to external circumstances. The self-cognition defined by these changes is, in essence, a manifestation of the power of the mind.

It is commonly said that a restless mind is controlling a pure heart.

Super-level illusions are essentially illusory constructs that deceive the brain, which is filled with all sorts of messy memories, including intangible memories and tangible muscle memories, and then produce various cognitive illusions.

For example, when people dream, sometimes the dreams are very realistic. Super-level illusions can materialize, allowing you to achieve the same dreaming effect when you are awake.

For example, if someone is very itchy, or is blindfolded and told they are going to be scalded with boiling water but is instead scalded with ice water, they will still get burned.

Cognition has an effect; the mind controls the power of the mind, constructing the illusion of cognition. The more certain and attached one is to the definition of cognition, the more significant the manifestation of the power of the mind becomes.

At this moment, Wang Teng is using this power to easily create dream worlds that look just like real ones. As long as they are within the scope of his cognition, he can construct them at will.

It's true that you can have whatever you want, as many beautiful women as you want, and as much fun as you want!

You can get any kind of physical sensation you desire—ultimate pleasure, ultimate enjoyment, anything is possible!

dong dong dong~

"Dear passengers, we have arrived at our final destination. Please collect your luggage and disembark."

The flight attendant's voice came from outside the door. Wang Teng trembled, the illusion in his eyes vanished quickly, and his eyes flashed with confusion for a moment before returning to clarity.

"How come it's so fast? It feels like only two and a half hours have passed?"

He glanced at his phone in confusion and realized that more than ten hours had indeed passed. He looked out the small window and saw that it was already dark.

"Holy crap~ Getting addicted to illusions is no good~"

Wang Teng quickly got up, walked out of the small room, and saw the flight attendant outside smiling.

"Sorry, I overslept."

"It's okay~ Many passengers do this. We've arrived in Shanghai, let's get off the plane."

The flight attendant's eyes lit up; she didn't mind at all, and her eyes were practically glued to the young man.

She recognized him; he was Wang Teng, the National Team member who had been the subject of much discussion recently. She hadn't expected him to be so handsome, and his masculine aura was as alluring as poison.

I've already finished get off work, I wonder if we'll have a chance to go get some mala tang together...

Wang Teng nodded and turned to leave, his heart filled with joy. For the first time, he felt that studying mind magic was so exhilarating.

This is practically spiritual practice in bliss, a state that everyone dreams of.

However, this thing needs to be done in moderation, otherwise it's easy to lose interest in reality, since the brain has a serious tendency to get bored easily.

Stepping outside, Wang Teng breathed in the cool night air, gazing at the deep darkness. "Is this world really real? Or could it just be a dream?"

As soon as he stepped out of the airport, he saw a red sports car pull up in front of him.

"It's too late! Get in the car!"

The window slammed shut, and Ding Yumin poked her head out, saying happily.

Wang Teng's face twitched. This girl has gone astray. He then sat in the passenger seat.

"A lot of people are here to welcome you tonight. They're all gathered in Shanghai now. We've booked a large private room at a private restaurant and are just waiting for you."

Ding Yumin spoke with great interest, immediately started the sports car, launched it off like a catapult, and sped away in the blink of an eye.

Boom boom boom boom...

Magic energy was burning—a streak of red light sped across the empty highway, like a crimson demon.

Wang Teng leaned back comfortably in his seat, his left hand reaching out to the side to stroke and feel the smoothness of the long legs, his mind finally returning to reality.

It wasn't that he had this doubt, but rather that reality was being interfered with by illusory forces, which was very strange.

The virtual is virtual, and the real is real; there is a fundamental difference between the two.

His current illusions can easily tear apart the bodies of ordinary people, which shows that ordinary illusions can be defeated by stronger illusions.

Moreover, the source of all this is the mind, so he has no doubt that the mind is the only reality and everything else is an illusion.

"What an interesting mind-based spell... When it comes to forbidden spells, it's probably possible to turn the ethereal into reality and create it."

Wang Teng thought of the Nazca Lines, where there wasn't a single hair, just loess plateaus, yet the monsters that emerged there actually had iridescent crests.

Isn't this just a virtual construct that has been made real?

Furthermore, the power systems of the Parthenon and the Holy City seem to be fundamentally related to this.

Using the soul as a vessel and faith as energy?

The soul is special; it inherently possesses illusory characteristics. If it were materialized, wouldn't that mean it could transform between the two?

The illusory nature represents a wide range of capacity, while the material nature represents a high capacity to bear weight and release power.

It seems that Athena at the Parthenon and the Father of the Holy City are both forging artifacts of the soul, which would indeed ensure the inheritance of power.

And should faith be used to restrain the use of power and prevent tragedy?

We should not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients...

Even if Feng Zhoulong created fusion magic, it would only result in an additional mutated weapon, still incomparable to the methods of those two.

Khufu and the Old King also forged their own paths, and even if they couldn't compare to the two top-tier players, they were still among the most powerful.

As for Mo Fan, this freak demon? He was probably a product of an accident.

(End of this chapter)