**Chapter 8: ditation thod**
After mulling things over, Jie Ming cleared his thoughts and sat at the desk, inspecting the box’s contents.
“Though I’ve passed the first hurdle, I can’t let my guard down. I can’t be sure there’s no monitoring in the dorm, so I need to be cautious. For now, I can’t openly practice cultivation-related things…”
Since he couldn’t cultivate, he’d have to learn sothing else.
With Clark giving him only ten days, his priority was mastering the wizard system’s foundational practice, the *Basic ditation thod*.
Only by igniting his spiritual fla could he truly embark on the wizard’s path.
Jie Ming found a comfortable position on the bed and picked up the heavy book on the ditation thod.
The pages seed made of so tal, the text concise, each word imbued with a strange energy.
Skimming through, he grasped that the *Basic ditation thod* centered on “visualization” and “inscription.”
It guided practitioners to empty their minds, focus their ntal strength inward, and use it to “draw” and “construct” specific geotric patterns in their ntal sea.
The book explained that these patterns weren’t arbitrary; they were simplified forms of “truth runes,” developed by wizard sages over countless years to align with the wizard world’s energy system.
Successfully inscribing these patterns in the ntal sea would draw in ambient energy particles, nourishing ntal strength and forming a personal “ntal circuit,” marking the entry to the wizard system.
The first ditation pattern for beginners consisted of five components, forming an abstract triangular pyramid when combined.
The book advised beginners to first master inscribing each component before attempting to combine them.
Jie Ming closed his eyes, placed the book under his head as a pillow, and blocked out external senses.
For ordinary beginners, the first few attempts required using the book as a pillow for assistance—not just for its rich content but because it was inscribed with arrays to help novices quickly imrse in their ntal sea.
Jie Ming didn’t need the aid but did it as a precaution, keeping up appearances.
His consciousness deftly sank into his ntal sea, where he sensed his highly refined ntal strength, honed through years of cultivation.
Following the thod’s guidance, he began using his ntal strength to “draw” the first component pattern.
It was an odd sensation, his ntal strength like tendrils delicately tracing lines in his ntal sea.
Surprisingly, the process was remarkably smooth.
Perhaps due to his years of cultivation, Jie Ming’s control over his ntal strength was extraordinary. Drawing patterns with it was as effortless as a mortal writing on paper.
The lines he inscribed were smooth, stable, and precise, the pattern swiftly taking shape in his ntal sea, needing only one final stroke to complete perfectly.
But just as that final stroke was about to fall, a thought struck him.
“Wait!”
He abruptly halted the stroke and deliberately skewed it at the last mont.
*Boom!*
The near-perfect pattern was ruined at the final mont, and the gathered ntal strength lost its guide, spiraling out of control!
An invisible ntal shock erupted within his ntal sea, jolting his entire consciousness.
Jie Ming grunted, feeling dizzy as his ntal sea seed stirred by a giant hand.
Though painful, he quickly stabilized his mind and assessed the impact of this “failure.”
The sensation of being hit by his own ntal strength was uncomfortable but caused no real damage.
“That was close. I almost forgot about the control gap.” A chill ran through him.
Despite his low cultivation, years of practice gave him ntal control far beyond that of an uninitiated novice.
His true inscription ability and ntal control were not what a level-six aptitude apprentice just starting the ditation thod should have.
Conversely, unless extraordinarily gifted, normal apprentices shouldn’t inscribe truth runes so easily.
So, he had to pretend.
Pretend to be a beginner who’d struggle, fail, and need ti to fumble through.
“Not just the control gap—when a truth rune inscription fails, the stored ntal strength releases completely, causing a ntal shock to the ntal sea… I’ll need to watch my endurance and recovery, too.”
Jie Ming’s ntal strength and related attributes were equivalent to an unpracticed level-eight aptitude apprentice, aning he experienced the sa as they would.
But… what about apprentices with lower aptitude?
He was posing as level six, so besides control, he had to mimic other responses to ntal backlash.
Fortunately, he’d noted the ntal strength corresponding to each aptitude level during testing.
Jie Ming quickly calculated.
The backlash from failure was fixed, so while negligible to him, it would be painful or even dangerous for low-aptitude apprentices with fragile ntal seas.
By his estimates, apprentices below level five would suffer significant ntal sea disruption from such a shock, needing considerable ti to recover before trying again.
Conservatively, even nonstop, they could attempt six to eight tis daily, each failure a tornt.
For his displayed level-six aptitude, that backlash, while uncomfortable, would allow recovery in about an hour to try again.
As for level-eight or nine geniuses… their ntal strength and soul foundations were stronger, making backlash a re nuisance.
Unless they failed repeatedly, one or two shocks were trivial.
Aptitude didn’t just affect cultivation speed and potential—it also determined trial-and-error costs and fault tolerance!
High-aptitude apprentices could endure more failures and attempts, naturally progressing faster.
“The advantage of aptitude is clear early on… Ten days to master this isn’t easy for low-aptitude apprentices.”
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