Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 545: See the truth at noon tomorrow (new book content)

Honestly, Li Qing really admires those young ladies who still wear cooler clothes in this cold weather.

There's a saying that ham needs refrigeration, which does make some sense.

The busiest street in Shu Capital is already adorned with splendid lanterns, filled with a festive atmosphere everywhere.

Street photography is still incredibly hot, with various dazzling young ladies walking along the street. When they notice someone taking pictures of them, their surprised faces are followed by a hand cover, then a hair flip, along with a teasing smile as they small talk briskly past the crowd, sometimes pretending to be couples. When someone snaps photos of them, the girl shows off playfully while the guy pulls her away like a domineering CEO.

Beside them, a group of people dressed in traditional Han clothing strike various poses.

Life is indeed too busy.

As for Li Qing, like most men idling away their weekends, he squats on a public bench with a cup of milk tea in hand, his eyes darting around ceaselessly.

His gaze specifically targets those refrigerated hams or mini skirts. And when the moves of those glitzy young women reveal something hidden, he can't help but exclaim 'Wuhu'!

He takes a deep breath to calm down, and then slowly channels magic power using the Mage's Hand magic nodes.

The magic nodes for the Mage's Hand are rather simple, with just over a dozen nodes, originally designed to help mages fetch things from afar.

He settles his mind and slowly employs magic power, carefully maneuvering it according to the magic nodes. If careless, any deviation may lead to power chaos, driving his spiritual power out of control and potentially blowing his own mind.

There are examples of such incidents.

After around a minute, Li Qing repeatedly activates the magic nodes, maintaining their operation.

Success!

Li Qing suppresses the excitement in his heart, sensing a transparent hand floating beside him as though ready to disperse with the wind.

Though still unstable, this is the first step toward becoming a mage!

"Buddy, just watching you shiver, are you feeling unsure?"

A guy nearby approached with a smile, looking at Li Qing.

Li Qing instinctively glanced at himself. Honestly, he's been exhausting his body a lot recently to gather magic power, leaving him bony and frail like a bamboo stick, looking like he's about to fly away with the wind...

Need to exercise. Magic Theory contains some beneficial magic to enhance oneself, worth researching.

Li Qing retorted defiantly, "What's 'unsure'? Don't mistake my thinness for frailty! My bones have grown that meat, while fat retracts inward, thinness makes one's advantages stand out!"

Real man, Li Qing, replied to the guy and controlled the Mage's Hand to float forward about ten meters.

That's the limit.

If it went further, the Mage's Hand would be uncontrollable and disperse. It's still too short of meditation practice time; with more spiritual power, magic power would increase, expanding control scope.

Alright, next let's see if he can manipulate objects.

The Mage's Hand fiercely fans forward, causing a sudden demon wind that startled the group of posing women ahead.

"Wow!!"

"Wuhu!!!"

"So thrilling!!!"

"Thank heaven for the divine wind!"

Beside, Li Qing quickly dissolved the Mage's Hand, walked away unfazed. He had no interest in these painted vulgar commoners.

Just kidding, if becoming a mage at thirty years old, nothing else is traded!

A burst of excitement as he returned to the rented room, about to enter Gray's safe house when a coarse voice stopped him.

"Little Li, here to collect water and electricity fees, good to catch you at home!"

Li Qing turned back and smiled, "Sister Ni, how much?"

"Forty-seven bucks."

After promptly calculating the utility fees, Li Qing pondered for a while; this rental still has two months left, he needs to move out.

Buy a house!

This has always been his wish after entering society, exhausting his passion and fiery enthusiasm, being polished smooth by the corners of society.

He pulled out his phone to check.

At thirty years old, living frugally, had accumulated up to 280,000 RMB.

In some parts of Shu Capital, he can buy an old second-hand small house, although dilapidated and small, still having a place of his own.

Temporarily setting aside these matters, he put on the black robe. Upon entering the safe house, Li Qing opened his panel to check.

"Surname: Li Qing

Tier: Junior Apprentice

Intelligence: 4

Physical Strength: 0.8

Skills possessed: Basic Meditation Technique (Entry Level), Mage's Hand (Entry Level)

Talent: Identification Skill (Level 1), Wise Man's Time

Character Evaluation: Damn it, I can't get out! This damned cunning villain, Gray's minion!"

Hmm, gained a talent, Wise Man's Time?!

Also, this character evaluation, could it be a devil's confession?

After a brief grumble, Li Qing was quite curious about Wise Man's Time; with a slight deliberate thought, the introduction rapidly enlarged.

"Wise Man's Time: A talent acquired through 30 years of single life as a solo, recently activated due to frequent Dragon-Catching Pillar-Hugging Skill practice, true man's talent, passive skills, can significantly extend magic casting time, and improve magic learning ability, enhances one's agility in thought.

Evaluation: You damned human, do you think you're the endless protagonist?!

Not seeing his attribute panel for a while brought him quite a surprise; no wonder he feels he's faster at deriving math formulas and studying magic recently.

Checking out if this talent can be upgraded, if possible, it would be even more monstrous!

After a bit of jumping around to warm up his body, Li Qing panted and continued to study 'Mage's Hand'.

From a novel mathematical perspective, Li Qing thinks that while the magic flow program involves node connections.

The steps of parsing, constructing, solidifying, releasing are very similar to code operation.

Although his job involves very little code development, mainly creating some small tools for operations management, now his mind is clear, with the enhancement of agility provided by Wise Man's Time. He has gained new insight into Mage's Hand, a level 0 magic.

Perhaps, he could try altering some magic flow nodes to use a more efficient Mage's Hand.

Li Qing, despite being eager, managed to restrain his impulse; he hasn't even reached entry level regarding magical knowledge.

Magical knowledge is vast as smoke and sea, he's now just touched a bit of the iceberg's tip below some small fragments.

If magic space exploded, his head would instantly blow apart.

If only his system could develop spiritual space simulation!

Li Qing let out a long breath, just preparing to get further acquainted with Mage's Hand when a sudden apparition made his expression freeze; he noticed a system progress bar appearing in the lower right corner of his eye.