Author: The fog dissipates

Chu Ming has been practicing witchcraft for more than half a year. When he went back and read "Bloodline Bridging", he suddenly gained new insights.

Especially when Chu Ming studied bloodline bridging from a critical perspective, he suddenly discovered that a lot of the taken-for-granted knowledge seemed to lack theoretical support.

For example, practicing witchcraft requires a bloodline medium, but the book only vaguely states that a bloodline medium allows wizards to more easily enter the depths of the bloodline and obtain the bloodline power of other creatures, thereby constituting witchcraft.

It did not explain why the blood medium has such an effect.

"The entire process of bloodline bridging requires nothing more than the spiritual power of the witchcraft practitioner, the bloodline medium containing the power of the bloodline, and the bridging ceremony carved with the witchcraft practitioner's own blood."

"What is the principle that combines these three to form witchcraft..."

Chu Ming thought for a while, an idea flashed in his mind, and he came up with an idea.

"After I became a witch, my bloodline did not change in any way, and witchcraft itself is driven by spiritual power."

"Could it be that witchcraft actually appeared after some changes in my mental power?"

"Bloodline bridging requires the use of a bloodline medium just to make my mental power match it, so that the mental power can change, and the bridging ceremony completely fixes this change in mental power."

"So when I want to release the witchcraft, my mental power will fluctuate specifically, and then the witchcraft will be released."

But after thinking about this, Chu Ming had a new doubt in his heart.

"If it is true that changes in mental power can release witchcraft, then why can't I detect this change?"

"Unless this change in mental power only occurs when witchcraft is released, and because the change lasts for such a short time, not even I can detect it."

"It is indeed possible, but after all, it is just a conjecture, unless I can find evidence of changes in mental power during the release of witchcraft to verify my conjecture."

"How to do this..."

Chu Ming scratched his head, confused.

If, as he suspected, this change in mental power was extremely short-lived, then his mental power would have to at least reach a whole new level to be able to observe this change.

"I guess even epic wizards may not be able to do it."

"Is there any tool that can help me observe changes in my mental power?"

Soon, Chu Ming recalled the crystal disc in the last stage of the apprentice test in his mind.

"That crystal seems to be made of the same material as the lenses Dipper often wears."

"I remember that Dipper used it to observe my mental state at the beginning. Maybe this magical crystal can also observe the fluctuations of mental power."

"Go to Dipper and ask for one?"

Chu Ming muttered to himself for a while, then shook his head, "No, it's too suspicious to suddenly ask for crystal stones."

"Is there any other way to obtain crystal stones?"

Chu Ming thought hard for a while, and suddenly he thought of Marin.

"Marin has been in the Wizard Tower for so many years. Maybe he can get this kind of crystal."

"As for whether he is willing to cooperate..."

Chu Ming smiled. He could use the excuse of preventing Dipu and the wizards' secret plan to deceive Marin's trust.

After all, Marin has no choice.

Thinking of this, Chu Ming pushed open the door and found Allen.

"Alan, do you know where Marin went?"

"That guy Marin?" The little fat man scratched his head and whispered, "I think I saw him walking towards the mandala flower garden."

Chu Ming said goodbye to Allen, and he walked down the stairs non-stop to the backyard.

Sure enough, in the backyard, Chu Ming saw Marin scolding the slave who was taking care of the mandala tree.

"Marin."

Chu Ming's faint voice came from the darkness. Ma Lin paused and turned to look at him.

"what do you want to say?"

Chu Ming pointed to the dark forest, "Let's talk as we walk."

After saying that, he turned around and walked into the forest.

Marin's expression remained unchanged, he ignored the slave and left.

The servant stood there with his head lowered. After the two left, he breathed a sigh of relief and had a look of joy on his face.

Although he took good care of these datura trees every day, one of the datura trees died.

If Chu Ming hadn't interrupted him just now, he might have been thrown directly into the fertilizer bucket by Marin.

…

In the dark forest, Chu Ming slowed down and Ma Lin followed.

Chu Ming asked: "What material are Teacher Dipu's lenses made of?"

When Ma Lin heard this, his face showed a bit of surprise. He thought Chu Ming would tell some shocking secret, but he didn't expect that it was just a confusing sentence.

But he still patiently explained indifferently, "White crystal is also called spiritual crystal."

"Teacher Dipu probably didn't give you the spiritual crystal he promised."

Chu Ming's mind suddenly moved. If Ma Lin didn't mention it, he would almost forget about the spiritual crystal.

When Dipu promised that either he or Miguel could master witchcraft within a month, he would give him a spiritual crystal.

But at that time, Chu Ming didn't know the function of the spiritual crystal, and didn't take it to heart.

Now it seems that he has missed a piece of experimental material.

Chu Ming asked: "How did you know?"

Marin sneered and said: "Spiritual crystal is the best spiritual container for wizards, and can also be used to make various experimental equipment."

"A piece of pure spiritual crystal with no cracks is much more expensive than you think. It costs dozens of gold coins to get one."

"Besides, Dipu's experiments also require a large amount of white crystal. How could he give it to you?"

Chu Ming thought for a while and asked, "Do you know their specific actions?"

Marin shook his head, "I only know that they need to use spiritual crystals to create a container, and our spiritual power will become the relay in it. As for the rest, I don't know."

"Those wizards have hidden themselves too deeply. If I hadn't been exposed to the lion-snake meditation method before, I wouldn't have been able to discover the strangeness in it."

Chu Ming frowned slightly, and the topic returned to his original purpose.

"I need a spiritual crystal, can you help me get it?"

Marin stopped and looked at Chu Ming.

"Why should I help you?"

The corners of Chu Ming's lips raised slightly, "Do you have a way to break the conspiracy of Dipu's wizards? I do."

"Now I just need a little help from you."

In fact, he had a stupid idea. He just said this to fool Marin and ask him to help obtain the spiritual crystal.

However, Marin still liked this idea. He took a deep look at Chu Ming and said, "I can help you get it, but the purity of the crystal may not be enough."

"It's okay, I can try it first."

"good."

Marin turned around and walked towards the direction of the Wizard Tower.

…

Two days later.

At the door of Chu Ming's room.

"Dong dong..."

Chu Ming opened the door, and Ma Lin, who was paralyzed, threw a box to him and left without saying a word.

Looking at Ma Lin's back, Chu Ming sighed: "It's really convenient with the help of local snakes."

After packing his things, Chu Ming returned to the laboratory.

Opening the box, he took out a slightly cloudy crystal.

【Spiritual Crystal】

[Quality: Gray]

[Skill: Spiritual Storage]

"The quality of this is indeed much worse than the one in Dipper's hands, but I just want to observe whether the mental fluctuations exist, and I don't require accuracy."

Putting the crystal on the table, Chu Ming started thinking.

"According to Marin, the spiritual crystal can store spirit. So after storing the changed mental power, will it still retain the original fluctuations?"
To be continued...