Lord of Arcane

Chapter 503 Perception of the soul is indescribable
After separating from Eberke, Xia Duo returned to his residence in the Tower of Time. The rehearsal just now made him feel physically and mentally exhausted, and he wanted to take a good rest at this time.

However, before he fell asleep, he still had to reflect on the mistakes he had made in the process of creating the Olympic Fire just now, and the areas that needed improvement.

It's a completely different feeling to experience it myself and listen to other people's descriptions. The spell [Create Arcane Fire] may be classified as a 5th-level spell, but the actual difficulty of casting it is far beyond the scope of normal 5th-level spells.

Almost equivalent to casting 20 teleportation spells at the same time!

If it weren't for the specific, isolated and weakened magic net environment, he wouldn't be able to do this at all!

Of course, from another perspective, if someone can cast such a spell in the normal environment of the magic net, they may be able to directly create Austrian Fire without using an advanced laboratory.

With all kinds of speculation and thinking, Xia Duo fell into a deep sleep.

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When he woke up again, it was already the next day. Fortunately, the daily meditation was not limited to the morning, it only needed to be in the best mental state.

There is no problem in creating the Austrian Fire. At this moment, Xia Duo is only one sentient soul away from becoming an arcanist.

For the next few days, Xia Duo stayed in the Tower of Time. He didn't want to hang around outside to avoid accidents. Although the possibility was very small, he couldn't be too cautious at such a time.

Traveling to the present, including the projection plane, it has been more than seven years, and I am finally going to become an arcanist.

Perhaps because of the fact that "people are refreshed on happy occasions", in the next few days, Xia Duo's meditation progressed very smoothly, and finally at the end of April when Niya reminded him not to miss the snowmelt competition, he reached the level of perceiving the soul.

Although Master Nether does not have instruments or devices to measure the specific level of concentration, through the traditional advanced concentration training, as long as he can complete the ninth stage of concentration training, he will be considered qualified.

These days, besides meditating every day, Xia Duo will also try the concentration training of Mage Nether, so as to control his training progress.

When he knew that he had reached the level of perceiving the soul, Xia Duo was filled with joy, not only the advancement itself, but also the expectation of more than seven years, finally bearing fruit.

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In the bedroom, Xia Duo lay flat on the bed, welcoming the truth of the soul in the most comfortable posture.

On the earth, the soul in a narrow sense is generally considered to be the activity of the brain, or in other words, the soul is thinking.The soul in the broad sense is the expansion and extension of the soul in the narrow sense.

But in any case, as of Xia Duo's time travel, there is no evidence to prove the existence or non-existence of [entity soul]. (The entity is real and concrete, and its counterpart is virtual)
The magic world can make the caster perceive the soul through simple training (easy to implement).And the same training, or similar training, is entirely possible on Earth.

But Xia Duo has never heard of anyone who can perceive the soul. If it can be verified on a large scale, then the soul is no longer an illusory theory.

Xia Duo has always been curious about whether this earthling has a soul, and if so, what does his soul look like?

Is it a point of light?Or is it the same as the body?Or is it some other form?Or indeterminate form?
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With all kinds of doubts and conjectures, Xia Duo began his first attempt to perceive the soul.

There are no nagging thoughts or sensations, just perceptions in the literal sense, just like ordinary people listening, as long as they have hearing, they can hear the sound.

Similarly, when the concentration reached a certain level, Xia Duo suddenly felt as if he had entered a void. Such a real experience made him feel very incredible.

The first thing to be perceived was actually his consciousness.

Xia Duo has experienced many trips to the projection plane before, in fact, he projected his consciousness into the projection plane located in the astral world, and the silver thread he saw on the way back was actually an extension of consciousness The materialized existence of the line in the astral world.

At this time, the consciousness that Xia Duo perceives is not a silver thread or a silver color, but his real body, or him in a state similar to a spirit body.

In this state, he is able to realize that all parts of his body, including the inside, are transparent and very clear.

Netheril's research on the soul is not perfect, and even the "Psychology" itself contains a lot of doubts and speculations, and there are few really verified conclusions.

Among them, the earliest verified one is probably—consciousness is the projection of the soul on the body.

To a certain extent, consciousness is thinking, just one side of the soul, and the other side of the soul - will, is the real key to casting spells.

Austrian fire also needs to be combined with will.

Nether mages didn't know much about will, they just confirmed the existence of will and it can be used, there are almost no related theories.

Just after Xia Duo perceived consciousness, he went further upwards, and perceived a lofty and indescribable existence, that is his soul.

The soul has no form, or it is detached from form, but it is a real and concrete existence, not a virtual existence that only exists in imagination.

However, this is different from the souls of other arcanists!

When other arcanists just perceive the soul, although they don't have a form, they will immediately transform into a form similar to the body based on their own cognition.

Instead of being like Xia Duo, who is still shapeless!

Is he some unfathomable, nameless being?Or is that the soul of the earthlings?
However, the indeterminate form of the soul did not affect Xia Duo's consciousness, nor did it affect his perception of will.

From the consciousness to the soul, and then from the soul to the will, the whole process is a matter of course.

The feeling of perceiving the will is very strange, as if seeing one's own eyes without looking through a mirror, or seeing the texture of the skin directly without touching it.

It's as if an extra sense has been created out of thin air.

And when Xia Duo released the perception state, and then re-perceived, this time there was no need to jump through the soul, but directly perceived the existence of will.

Consciousness and will are not independent of each other, but two different aspects of the soul. If consciousness is the projection of the soul on the body, then will is also the extension of the soul in a certain direction.

Just like the three primary colors of light on the earth, their manifestations are different, but their essence is one, they are all light.

The manifestations of consciousness and will are different, but the essence should be the soul.

As for the body, it should be the residence of the soul.

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Perceiving the soul, this incident itself did not directly improve Xia Duo's combat effectiveness, but it greatly expanded his horizons, and at the same time removed the last obstacle for him to become an arcanist.

It's just that the extra senses that come from the will completely disappear after exiting the state of extremely focused perception.

There is no direct benefit, which is a bit disappointing.

Xia Duo lay on the bed, constantly thinking about what happened just now, it was really like a dream, but it was an extremely real existence.

Next, it's just some little tricks about the use of will.

At this point, the advanced preparations have finally come to an end.

(End of this chapter)