"No, thank you. I've already eaten."
Luo Rui looked at Li Qing's face, stunned: "Brother Qing, when did you get so avant-garde? Did you give yourself a smoky eye makeup?"
Smoky eye makeup?
Li Qing instinctively touched his eye sockets: "Is it that bad? I didn't sleep well last night..."
"Stayed up late last night?"
Luo Rui displayed a slightly ambiguous smile: "Was it because of..."
Li Qing chuckled helplessly: "What on earth are you thinking? Last night... um, I was too engrossed in studying, and by the ti I realized, it was already morning."
Li Qing checked his phone. Nine fifteen; fifteen minutes left.
Luo Rui frowned: "What a letdown."
She thought she could hear so gossip. She's been at the company for half a year, and although Li Qing loves joking with colleagues, he never sought a girlfriend.
She kept chattering beside him about her work troubles yesterday, leading to overti until seven, blah blah blah, and then asked Li Qing to check her computer at her desk.
Li Qing agreed casually while recalling the first step of practicing the "Basic ditation Technique" from last night.
After taking the elevator and clocking in at the company, Li Qing directly headed to his server room office and slumped onto the desk.
Indeed, thanks to this company's local server room setup, his workspace was moved to a small partition within the server room, a single space. Although the server noise buzzed continuously, the soundproofing was excellent, and he couldn't hear much else.
After completing the routine system maintenance, checking the servers for anomalies, and solving minor issues on colleagues' computers, he leaned over his desk and stared at himself in the mirror.
At the first glance, he couldn't help but be a bit stunned.
The reflection showed him wearing glasses, his face frighteningly pale, with eye sockets darker than a black smoky makeup, resembling chronic exhaustion.
So much so that when he went out to solve problems earlier, many colleagues were laughing at him.
"This exhausting to the spirit?"
Li Qing blinked, finally placing the mirror aside. After resting for two hours post-lunch and taking it easy, he finally regained his spirit.
He unfolded the paper and began carefully reading "Magic Origin".
The book detailed the basic structure of magic very clearly, and Li Qing judged it was entirely crafted for a beginner.
Magic originates from so-called gods, similar to Western mythology, where deities observe all things and transform their insights into a book, thus creating the mysterious "Primordial Magic" Magic Book. Later, humans like Adam and Eve, driven by greed, stole this Magic Book, allowing magic to spread in human society.
Yet, according to those archeological veteran mage scholars, while this legend seems implausible, it can serve as one piece of evidence.
This legend contains many Magic Holy Artifacts existing in the current world.
Another legend, like Protheus pitied humanity's harsh life in the Barbaric Land, stole fire to spread it. Subsequently, humanity, gaining Extraordinary Power, began researching tirelessly, creating a thriving Magic era that lasts to this day...
Li Qing read with great interest, and unknowingly it was already six o'clock, ti to get off work.
Upon realization, Li Qing quickly tidied up, clocked out, and left.
After leaving the company and grabbing dinner at a fast-food restaurant, he eagerly returned to his residence, set the alarm, and directly lay down to sleep.
"Basic ditation Technique" already clearly stated that sleep is the best Recovery thod if the Spirit is overused.
Exhausted, Li Qing fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.
"Beep beep... beep beep..."
Li Qing instinctively pressed the phone's volu button, turned off the alarm, flipped over, and continued sleeping.
This repeated several tis until nine thirty when Li Qing groggily climbed out of bed, then washed his face in the bathroom to wake up, and lay back down on the bed, closing his eyes to ditate, drawing lines.
Three minutes later, Li Qing opened his eyes in a peculiar state. Despite having fewer distractions than the previous day, they were still rushing in, preventing him from calming down.
No wonder Taoism emphasizes calming the Monkey Mind; ditation and Taoist sitting have much in common.
Li Qing instinctively touched his lower back, determining he could still endure a few rounds, then clicked open a hidden folder on his computer.
Nineteen minutes later...
Li Qing lay on the bed, his expression calm and content, in a sage-like state, slowly sketching lines from the ditation Image.
Completing a line ant it settled completely and solidified.
If unobstructed, Li Qing estimated he could only complete around thirty percent before the Gray Magic Academy started.
However, if the sketched ditation lines effectively enhanced the Spirit, he'd have extra energy to speed up the sketching process.
"Basic ditation Technique", true to its na, should be Gray Magic Academy's simplest, most straightforward Magic Entry Level ditation thod.
The second line started once again from the origin, extending outward, bit by bit, in a precise manner, appearing from the void...
Once the second line was completed and repeatedly visualized until solidification, Li Qing slowly opened his eyes, then rested with closed eyes for a while, confirming no headache or splitting pain, only a slight cloudiness in his head, causing a slight change in expression.
It seed his guess was correct, as more lines were sketched, his Spirit grew increasingly tenacious; this was quite evident.
On the third day, Li Qing still couldn't easily ditate and finally resorted to deploying his trump card.
Seventeen minutes later...
Li Qing sketched two complete lines, showing considerable progress.
On the fourth day, Li Qing again deployed his trump card.
Sixteen minutes later...
Swiftly entering the ditation state, he sketched three lines.
On the fifth day, Li Qing adeptly deployed his trump card.
Fifteen minutes later...
On the sixth day, fourteen minutes later...
Until three days before the start of the sester, the true man Li Qing had fully sketched all three hundred sixty-five white lines of the "Basic ditation Technique", forming a perfectly round sphere, identical to the image on the ditation Image.
Sunken cheeks, deep eye sockets, and a slender fra made him look as if a strong breeze might topple him, yet what caught attention were his remarkably bright eyes, like a pair of light bulbs, giving him a strikingly energetic appearance.
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