Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 821 - 820: Pain
"Oh oh!"
Chaichai nodded, a gleam deep in her eyes, feeling a bit excited.
"Next..."
Li Ang held the Psychic Ability Crystal Guidebook in his left hand and a bottle of Blessed Spring Water in his right hand, and a line of words immediately appeared before his eyes,
[Do you want to sacrifice Blessed Spring Water *1 to unlock one-third of the seal on the Psychic Ability Crystal Guidebook]
Li Ang motioned for Chaichai to stand a little farther away,
The latter immediately stood behind the Mechanical Workbench, casually picking up an Alloy Shield from the workbench and holding it in front of her body, cautiously peeking this way.
Li Ang clicked the confirm button in his view, and the spring water gradually disappeared from his right hand, while one of the three rhomboid crystals below the lock of the Spirit Power Manual dimmed from bright.
Then, Li Ang replicated the process and sacrificed another two bottles of Blessed Spring Water, making all three rhomboid crystals turn off.
Crack.
The lock engraved with flower-like ornate patterns shattered with a sound, and the book made of crystal material automatically opened, with the Otherworldly text inside instantly transforming into content Li Ang could understand.
This was indeed a very detailed and rigorous book about Spiritual Energy, with meticulous logic and clear layers,
The first chapter summarized Spiritual Energy—introducing how to discover, choose, and display Psychic Abilities. The use, boundaries, and limits of Psychic Abilities.
The second chapter described the characteristics and specialties of psychics—psychics undergo changes in both body and mind, allowing them to see the world and human nature more clearly, possessing some passive abilities (such as seeing through inner thoughts, sensing hostility).
The third chapter was about Psychic Jobs—recorded in the book are Spiritual Warlock and Spiritual Warrior, the former focusing on exploring the essence of Spiritual Energy, while the latter excels at using Spiritual Energy to enhance their combat abilities.
The two professions can advance to Ultra-thinker, Flame Manipulator, Slaughterer, or Blade Soul.
The fourth chapter went into detail about psychic abilities and learning methods—also known as skill books. Spiritual Energy is divided into six schools: Self-sculpting System, Transformation System, Teleportation System, Prophecy System, Creation System, and Enchantment System, and generally, one can only master one.
Each school has its characteristics, with its unique Psychic Abilities.
Psychic abilities are equivalent to spells, with a minimum level of zero and a maximum of nine.
Of course, this book only showcases abilities from levels 0 to 4.
The fifth chapter covered Spiritual Energy usage techniques—including Spiritual Energy training methods and combat arts.
The sixth chapter was about Psychic Items—psychics can imbue items with energy or create entities using Spiritual Energy.
The seventh chapter was a compilation of Spiritual Energy data and a miscellany—the author's self-account, Soralis, a fanatical spiritualist, and his experiences as an adventurer.
Overall, the richness and detail of the Psychic Ability Manual's content far surpassed the Alchemist's Travel Diary Li Ang had obtained earlier,
After all, the latter was a personal travel diary,
While the former was written by an eleventh-level senior Spiritual Warlock, specifically as teaching material for teaching and spreading Spiritual Energy.
The level of professionalism is not the same.
Li Ang quickly skimmed through the entire book; the biggest difference between Spiritual Energy and other power systems is that its power comes from the mind.
The entry methods of most power systems, such as True Qi, Chakra, etc., involve feeling the surging flow of life energy in the body, sensing it, grasping it, training it until it grows to the point where it can interact and connect with the free energy of the outside world.
Whereas the entry to Spiritual Energy requires beginners to understand their true selves, gain insight into the self, excavate memories, and tame emotions—a mentalist is not devoid of emotions or detached from feelings, emotions such as pain, joy, anger, and fear equally arise within them,
Excellent mentalists will condescend, calmly and rationally overlooking and observing their emotions, utilizing feelings to draw out majestic mind energy.
"There are three methods to learn Spiritual Energy, the first being an innate variant.
The special race of Mind Flayers with a long history is the most famous innate Spiritual Energy race, perhaps the only one.
Even a newly transformed adult Mind Flayer can use mind energy to control ordinary humans, using their tentacles to tear open enemy skulls and plunder their brains."
Li Ang looked at the Spiritual Energy learning methods and said softly, "The second is to receive transmission from a mid-level or higher mentalist.
A mentalist can directly impart Psychic Seeds in a parasitic manner to other intelligent life forms—the mortality rate in this process is extremely high, as the brains of ordinary intelligent beings cannot bear the mind energy contained within the Psychic Seed.
Moreover, the second generation of mentalists created in this way will be permanently controlled by the first generation mentalist until they surpass the latter in level.
It must be surpassed, not equaled."
Li Ang paused, shifting his gaze downward, "And the third method, also the slowest method, is normal teaching.
Mentalists can release spiritual energy, allowing ordinary people to experience the intense impact of various emotions,
forcing students to face themselves through repeated impacts and gradually becoming resilient and rational—pain is the most brutal mentor and the best friend of a mentalist.
The more intense the psychological pain, the faster beginners can grow..."
Li Ang's finger, pointing line by line at the Otherworldly text, stopped.
This manual clearly states that beginners are best guided and taught by a mid-level mentalist,
After all, ordinary people cannot place themselves in prolonged intense pain while fully experiencing and savoring it in all aspects—which is entirely contrary to the biological instinct to avoid pain.
Without a mentalist's guidance, the self-study speed of ordinary people will be very slow; they can only review memories repeatedly or whip their bodies.
However...
Li Ang looked up at the puzzled Chaichai beside him (she could still only see untranslated Otherworldly text on the book) and smiled as he asked, "What is 1000-7?"
"Uh, 993?"
Chaichai instinctively answered, "What's wrong, do you want to hurt more than Jin Mu?"
Li Ang didn't answer but raised his finger, and the tip of his index finger extended many thread-like fibers, slowly penetrating his temple, passing through skin, bone, and muscle, reaching the thalamus and cerebral cortex,
beginning to release "gentle" neural pulses.
Pain pain pain pain pain pain...
