My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"Remember, when you see this wall, you must remain calm. Any emotional fluctuation will immediately pull you out of the meditative state."

“Yes, Professor, I understand,” Xia Zuo said.

"

Beatrice reached out and made a grasping motion, summoning small specks of light from nothingness:

"Imagine these are the obedient elements you incorporate into the ocean of your mind."

"When you practice the basic meditation technique created by the Tower Scholars, the obedient element will float in your mental ocean, slowly helping to transform it. Like this..."

Beatrice released her right hand.

The tiny speck of light transformed into a shooting star, flying from the fingertip and trailing a long tail as it danced along the surrounding gray walls.

Every time a small meteor scrapes against the wall, a barely visible scratch appears.

"Let's speed things up. What if you become a full-fledged mage overnight?"

Beatrice flipped her palm over.

A large number of small meteors flew out of her hand, and after merging with other meteors, they suddenly accelerated their flight speed.

They transformed into streaks of swirling light, rapidly cutting through the walls, gradually making the surrounding space more spacious.

"This is roughly how the obedient elements transform the spiritual ocean. They float along the gray walls, gradually helping you expand the size of your spiritual ocean."

"Can you understand?" Beatrice looked at the student beside her.

“I understand,” Xia Zuo nodded.

“That’s good. Do you know about elemental dissipation?” Beatrice asked.

She noticed a strange look flash across his handsome face. "You hesitated. So, you know about the elemental dissipation."

Xia Zuo took a breath. Talking face-to-face with someone with high perception was really stressful.

"Yes, Professor. Senior Mars told me."

"Hmm. Then I don't need to explain further. When a mage's emotions and mental state are unstable, their spiritual ocean will undergo drastic changes, and the obedient elements residing within may secretly slip away. This is a common way of saying elemental dissipation. Just remember this."

Beatrice snapped her fingers, causing the surrounding space to expand outward a little further.

She took a few steps forward, then turned to face the students and said:

"Each school of thought has its own meditation methods. Our alchemy school is no exception. After thousands of years, absorbing obedient elements is no longer a problem."

"The only challenge that no mage can overcome is the dissipation of elements."

"At Starry Night Academy, most alchemy branches have developed meditation methods to cope with elemental dissipation."

Now let's get down to business.

Xia Zuo straightened up and gazed at his mentor's beautiful face.

"The meditation methods of the disciplines of potion alchemy and oil alchemy come from the scholars of the Tower, which is the basic meditation method mentioned earlier."

"Basic meditation is almost the first meditation method for all monks. But after mastering its introductory content, whether to invest time in further study or switch to other meditation methods depends entirely on the monk's personal wishes."

"The basic meditation method for dealing with the dissipation of elements is very simple."

Beatrice raised her left and right hands, with several small points of light floating on each side, forming the shape of a balance scale:

"Since the dissipation of elements is inevitable, we should simply absorb back as many elements as have been dissipated. We just need to maintain a certain number of obedient elements in our spiritual ocean."

To catch as many as run away as possible, and to keep the ocean of the mind in a state of slow expansion... is indeed a very simple and unpretentious concept.

"I just demonstrated the process of using basic meditation to expand the ocean of the mind. We use subtle elements to repeatedly polish the gray walls that envelop the soul, expanding the space of the ocean of the mind outwards to accommodate more subtle elements."

"You must remember that only this basic meditation method, inherited from the scholars of the tower, requires the mage to constantly expand the ocean of the mind. It is precisely because of this that the basic meditation method is the meditation method with the lowest threshold."

Chapter 2 Starry Night Academy Meditation Method (Part 2)

Beatrice held up two fingers, "

She stretched her arm out towards a wall.

A few tiny points of light flew there, clung to the wall, and carved out a simple stove.

"Of the three branches of magical alchemy, the most dangerous is the science of giant creation."

Beatrice rubbed her fingers together, and flames leaped from the simple stove by the wall:

"The meditation method of the discipline of colossal creation is called the 'Furnace.' This meditation method is very special; once you practice it, you cannot practice any other meditation method."

"In his mega-matter course, Professor Bolton would turn on a huge furnace and hammer red-hot iron ingots. The bigwigs of the mega-matter discipline believed that only metals that could withstand high temperatures were good materials."

"The same applies to their attitude towards unconventional elements."

"The mages of the Great Creation discipline will use the secret elixir of fire to transform their spiritual ocean into a spiritual furnace, sending all tamed and obedient elements into the spiritual furnace to be burned."

"The obedient elements that want to escape will run away on the spot. The obedient elements that do not want to escape will voluntarily become part of the furnace."

"Even if the ocean of spirit is severely damaged, as long as the furnace does not go out, there will be no elemental dissipation."

Beatrice rubbed her fingers together again, and several more burning stoves appeared by the wall.

The temperature inside the spherical dome suddenly rose.

"The [Furnace] meditation method can only absorb fire and earth elements, as well as a small amount of wind elements."

"Moreover, cultivation is extremely dangerous. The burning sensation of the Mental Furnace will affect the meditator's body. Without sufficient fire resistance..."

Beatrice snapped her fingers lightly.

The small furnaces around them rose from the ground and became high-temperature furnaces with towering chimneys, from which billowing heat waves gushed out.

Xia Zuo instinctively covered his head, afraid that the heat would set his hair on fire.

Fortunately, his mentor only wanted him to experience what it felt like to be attacked by flames.

Beatrice rubbed her fingers together, and the high-temperature furnace went out, turning back into a gray wall. "Without sufficient fire resistance, the [Furnace] meditator will be reduced to ashes in the flames."

"Turn to ashes, do you mean their bodies will turn to ashes?"

Xia Zuo was somewhat unsure and needed to make sure he hadn't misunderstood.

"Yes, the body turns to ashes. The dramatic changes that occur in the ocean of the spirit will have a repercussions on the body."

Beatrice raised her hands, bringing her palms together in front of her. When she opened them, a simple, dark blue eye appeared in her palms:

“At times, a magnifying glass is needed to precisely adjust the precision instruments.”

"The meditation method they practice is called the Eye of Kolas."

Beatrice gently cupped her hands, her palms close to the student's forehead, her dark blue eyes pressed against the student's forehead.

Xia Zuo felt a refreshing coolness coming from between his eyebrows.

Beatrice beckoned a small red dot of light. "Look closely at this obedient element in my hand. It's a magical creation, but it looks just like a real element."

"Yes, Professor."

Xia Zuo stared at the other person's palm.

The small red dot in my field of vision grew larger and larger, gradually filling the entire field of vision.

An octahedral crystal-like object appeared before my eyes, its surface covered with arc-shaped patterns.

Xia Zuo didn't recognize the pattern, but he instinctively understood its meaning: burning.

"Do you see the pattern on it?" Beatrice asked.

“Yes, Professor. This seems to be a fire element with the property of [burning]. I suddenly understand the meaning of the patterns.”

Xia Zuo touched his brow; his skin felt slightly cool.

“Very good. This is the advantage of conceiving elemental characteristics on your own. You can directly understand the patterns on some elements without learning the language of elemental patterns.”

Beatrice displayed several other elements in her palm for the students to observe, saying:

"When a mage casts a spell, they need to communicate with the element of obedience through their soul, drawing out the energy within the element of obedience. Then, through the connection between the spiritual ocean and the body, the energy released by the element of obedience is transported outside the body."

"This process will consume the mage's energy. By energy, I mean its original meaning, not a specific term in the theory of meditation."

"Reading books or refining poisons for a long time will make you feel tired, which is a sign that your energy is exhausted."

Beatrice extended her left hand and pointed to the small point of light in her right palm:

"Elemental patterns and elemental traits have a one-to-one relationship. Elemental traits, on the other hand, are related to spells."

"For example, if you want to release a flame, you must first contain fire elements with properties such as [flame] and [burning]."

"To extinguish the flames, you need to include water elements with the [Extinguish] property."

"The two traits you envisioned, 'Purify' and 'Moisten,' can also be used to cast spells that extinguish flames. The scholars of the Tower have developed a great many spells; there's bound to be one that suits you."

"The more elements of the same type you have in your spiritual ocean, the greater the power of the related spells you can unleash. I will teach you this knowledge in detail after you become a mage apprentice."

Xia Zuo nodded in response while keeping an eye on the element in his mentor's hand.

"The 【Eye of Kolas】 meditation method is a meditation method specifically for observing the elements, and it can coexist with other meditation methods."

"Its practitioners can detect signs of dissipation in time by observing subtle changes in the elements and prepare in advance. Magnifying the patterns on the elements to the point of being visible to the naked eye is only its most basic use."

Beatrice clasped her hands together, the small speck of light in her palms dissipated, and the student's dark blue eyes on his forehead also disappeared.

She took a few steps back, distancing herself from the other person.

"Next is the fourth meditation method. The [Elemental Shell] meditation method from the subject of elemental representation."

"This is the second meditation technique I've practiced. Now, a complete elemental shell has formed on the surface of my body. As long as this elemental shell doesn't break, no obedient elements will escape."

"The elemental body I currently possess is invisible to those below the rank of high-level mage."

Beatrice held up three fingers:

"I will count down to three. After three counts, I will temporarily dismantle my elemental body and then summon it again."

"I can only give you one second to observe the changes in me. Mages of my rank have a very high chance of experiencing elemental dissipation. The longer you dispel the elemental shell, the greater the possibility of dissipation."

Xia Zuo held his breath, stared at his mentor's body, nodded with his lips tightly pressed together, and prepared to unleash his Detection Technique in his mind.

"123."