The Way of the Spell

The world of cultivation is as vast as an ocean, with magic treasures, spirit weapons of immense power, talismans with magical abilities, and in addition to these, there are all sorts of wonderful spells.

Although the power of these spells is not as powerful as that of spiritual weapons, they consume less spiritual energy and do not require any medium, which is why they are so popular among lower-ranking practitioners.

For example, the ice bomb trick, the inner vision technique and the spiritual shield are all spells that belong to the commonly used category.

Cultivation is divided into eight stages: spiritual movement, foundation building, dan condensation, genital infancy, separation, dongxuan, diversion, and tribulation, and demonic beasts are also similar to them, from level one to level eight.

The reason for this is that cultivators at the Dan Condensation stage have magic treasures, which are incomparably powerful, whether for defence or attack.

The only two stages of cultivators who can use spells are the Spiritual Movement stage and the Foundation Establishment stage, of which the Spiritual Movement stage can only learn low and middle-order spells, while the Foundation Establishment stage cultivators can learn high-order spells.

In fact, it is the Spiritual Movement stage that is used the most, as Foundation Establishment practitioners generally have Spiritual Weapons, which are more powerful than spells.

This shows how rich Lin Xuan, who has three spiritual weapons, one of which is of the highest quality, is.

The alternative was to learn some suitable spells. Having made his decision, Lin Xuan began to take action.

He took out an ordinary book from his storage ring, unobtrusive and the words on it were written by hand, which could not be seen to be of much value from the surface, but Lin Xuan appeared to attach great importance to it.

These were notes, written down by Lin Xuan's own hands over the past three years.

Because of his lack of spiritual roots, Lin Xuan's cultivation speed used to be far behind that of his fellow students, and without sufficient magical power to support him, he could only look at many of the spells taught by the chairs.

To others, such behaviour seemed silly, but Lin Xuan had his own ideas, and in hindsight, was indeed very clever and far-sighted.

At that time, Lin Xuan thought that although he could not cultivate these things for the time being, he could study them later when he reached his power and write them down in a book first, so that he would not forget them.

It was also fortunate that he had done so in the first place, otherwise now, even if he wanted to cultivate spells, he would not know where to start practising them. This was also a benefit of Lin Xuan's character, he liked to do things for a rainy day and plan before he acted.

In the past three years, the teacher had taught many spells, but of course, it was impossible to practice them all, for one thing, there was not that much time, and for another, there was no need.

With such a decision, Lin Xuan began to carefully go through his notes, first excluding the lower-ranked spells, which were easier to learn but also had limited power, and Lin Xuan did not want to waste precious time.

His target was the middle-ranking spells, and after careful sifting, he picked out three, the Spiritual Shield, the Ice Needle Technique and the Royal Wind Technique.

Such a choice was made with careful thought.

When facing an enemy, the first thing you should consider is how to save your own life, so the first magic skill Lin Xuan wanted to learn was defensive in nature.

The Ice Needle Technique, a water attribute spell among the five elements, is characterised by strong attacking power and incomparable defence, although it is relatively difficult to practise, it does not matter, Lin Xuan is never afraid of suffering, as long as the power is sufficient.

The last one, the Royal Wind Technique, was an auxiliary spell, more similar to the lower level spell Lin Xuan had studied before, the Light Body Technique, but more powerful and more advanced.

Even the strongest Heavenly Dao experts among mortal martial artists could not reach them. After all, the Royal Wind Technique was based on spiritual power, and cultivators were not on the same level as ordinary people.

Lin Xuan chose one spell for defence, one for attack, and one for escape or dodging, each of which could be used to attack and retreat.

The rest of the day, Lin Xuan became extremely busy, purifying his pills, meditating and practising, in addition to this, he had to squeeze in time to practice his spell techniques, and really had no rest at all.

If one were to suffer the hardships, one would be an immortal. If one were a different person, it might be difficult to endure such a hard life of cultivation, but Lin Xuan was different. In the past, because he had no spiritual roots, he had failed time and again and was ridiculed by his fellow disciples.

He had to cultivate hard!

As the days passed, Lin Xuan's practice went quite well. The first thing he learnt was the Spiritual Shield, which was a middle-rank defence technique, and also the most preferred and commonly used basic defence spell for Spiritual Movement stage, and even Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

The principle is not difficult, and can even be said to be very simple. It is to spread spiritual energy on the surface of the body to form a qi shield, thus blocking the enemy's attacks from outside.

It is very strong and invulnerable to swords and spears, but of course the exact upper limit of defence varies according to each person's magic power.

To put it bluntly, although this was an intermediate level technique, it was still very easy to cultivate as long as one had enough spiritual power to back it up. Even for an ordinary person like Lin Xuan who had no spiritual roots, it only took him three days to master the spiritual shield proficiently because his magic power was strong enough!