2 Decoding the Mysterious Meditation

"This is..."

Andrew's hands trembled slightly, and he guessed in his mind.

Did his cheating program pop up online after being offline for a hundred years?

"Dad, what are you doing?"

Tim felt something strange with Andrew. He felt that Andrew was in a higher spirit and his energy had improved quite a bit.

Andrew just smiled.

"You guys go in first. I sensed something magic."

"Really? That's great!" Mary said.

Before Tim could say anything, Mary pulled him away from the balcony excitedly.

At the same time, the voice in Andrew's mind was sounded once again.

[The first stage of the billion times of talent has been activated--A hundred times of talent]

In an instant, Andrew felt that his entire body had been transformed by a strange power that was like a stream.

The blazing tide, which was an ordinary celestial phenomenon for Andrew made the spiritual power in Andrew's body dozens of times more active than before!

Even a few years ago, Victor, who was known as the child of fire in the country, had only increased his spiritual power by nineteen times under such circumstances!

"Besides, I'm regaining my memories..."

A trace of joy flashed across Andrew's eyes.

After all, he was already one hundred years old. Many things of his past become blurry in his moory, but in the blink of an eye, they become vivid in his mind again.

Even that Tim swore to him that he would become a great mage when entering Magic Academy was clear in his mind as if it had just happened.

What surprised Andrew more was that he finally knew why he had regressed to the level of a magic apprentice. 

"Sure enough, there is a problem with my spiritual structure."

Andrew closed his eyes slightly and could feel that in his mind, his pentagram-shaped crystal structure was full of cracks, and his magical power constantly seeped out from these cracks and then disappeared.

If not for the sudden gaining of the talent, Andrew would not have noticed this at all and could only wait for his death!

"It's a pity that even if I find the problem, I can't solve it."

Andrew calmed down soon and felt upset.

With his one hundred years of experience, he certainly knew how to repair his spiritual structure.

'But the meditation method to repair a spiritual structure is in the charge of the highest echelons.'

'I can barely support my family and don't have enough money. Even if I have money, it is difficult to get the method.'

"Unless..."

Andrew thought of something.

With his memory enhanced, he remembered that he luckily obtained a book about an obscure meditation technique in a country-destroying battle.

At that time, Andrew couldn't understand the contents of the book. At the same time, he realized that the book was an extraordinary item, so he took it home and hid it.

"Now that my talent has been strengthened ... Perhaps, I can decipher the secret of the meditation technique."

Andrew thought for a moment and then rushed into the study.

"Let me think... Where did I hide it?"

He quickly took down two books, "General Knowledge of Fire Magic" and "On the Extensibility of the Aether Element", from the top of the bookshelf.

Then, Andrew reached out and fumbled a few times. Finally, he took out a roll of parchment.

"That's it!"

He was overjoyed and then opened the book.

Andrew remembered that the first time he flipped through the parchment, every symbol on it made him dizzy. But at this time, as soon as he opened it, countless messages flooded into his mind.

It was as if the scroll was initially unwilling to impart its knowledge to Andrew. But after sensing Andrew's talent, it took the initiative to transmit the information to him.

The sensation was intoxicating. 

Time flew.

Andrew didn't come back to his senses until Tim, who was worried about him, knocked on the door.

"Dad, are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

Andrew smiled as he put away the parchment. He looked calm. But actually, he was ecstatic!

The mysterious meditation technique was a secret technique to help people strengthen their spiritual structures. It could also help people how to repair their spiritual structures!

"Though I've regressed to the level of a magic apprentice, I can practice this meditation technique better with my current level. Otherwise, I'd have to dispel the magical power in my spiritual structure first."

Andrew rubbed the parchment in his hand. In this world, there was a scientific and strict system of magic cultivation.

In essence, a magic apprentice is a basic realm. Both high-level and ordinary meditation techniques were the same. When cultivating, one should capture the spiritual power in his body, and the power would be continuously compressed and then turn into a liquid. Later, the liquid was condensed into a solid. 

After completing this step, one would become an apprentice.

After becoming an apprentice, one would need to adjust their solid spiritual power to a specific form according to different meditation techniques and individual talents.

The more talented one was, the greater the amount of spiritual power he would have. The more he adjusted the power, the more stable and complex his spiritual structure would be.

The stronger one's ability to control magic power was, the faster his cultivation would be in the future!

The high-level meditation techniques could help repair the cracks that might be caused by the cultivation. At the same time, they served to reduce the amount of spiritual power consumed during the process and enabled people to make full use of it.

Therefore, the power of a magic apprentice was enough to create a huge gap between a genius and an ordinary person.

The pentagram spiritual structure that Andrew possessed was the most common. If he did not repair it, no matter how talented he was, he would be encumbered by it!

When figuring out the function of this mysterious meditation technique, Andrew made up his mind to re-construct his spiritual structure. And the top priority was to stabilize his spiritual structure so that he could go on to the next step.

Andrew nodded at Tim and said, "Leave me alone, please. I need to meditate and cultivate."

After that, he could not wait to sit down cross-legged. Then he began his first try to repair his spiritual structure according to the meditation technique in the mysterious parchment. 

At this moment, the crystal with the pentagram structure in Andrew's mind trembled slightly. From time to time, some broken pieces fell off.

Andrew observed it for a few seconds and then tried to gather a trace of spiritual power. To his surprise, the spiritual power was almost completely reintegrated into his spiritual structure.

A crack was repaired successfully.

"It's so effective!"

"Is it because of my talent?"

Andrew vaguely understood something.

"Looks like it's easier than I thought."

After that, he calmed down a little and continued the repair of his spiritual structure.

And the cracks were quickly repaired one by one.

...

"Is it morning?"

When Andrew opened his eyes again, he saw the sun rising and shining through the shutters into the study.

He stretched, feeling that his perception of the various magical powers in the world had become countless times stronger. The pentagram spiritual structure in his mind was almost repaired.

There were only a few extremely tiny cracks that would repair themselves automatically.

"The leakage of my magical power also stopped."

"What I need to do next is to wait for the spiritual structure to fully recover and then begin the cultivation."

Andrew pushed open the study door and saw his children looking at him with pleasantly surprised looks.