Magic Meditation (3)

"Theoretically, you can create your own cultivation skill. In fact, that's how almost all cultivation skills were created, whether it be for your clan, from the country, or from the schools.

A cultivation skill is basically a collection of different, complementing cycling pathways for every class, starting from Elite to Divine class. In reality, most of our cultivation skills are actually created by higher class magicians, such as Divine, Sage, or even God class.

Remember the stories about the group of God-class cultivators that transcended and left our planet 800,000 years ago? Well, before they left, they had scattered a total of 20 cultivation skill books, each was ranked above Perfect rank, hitting the Transcendent quality. However, according to rumors, there were plenty more available, most of which are guarded inheritances of major, minor, and hidden clans in Eteria, while some were buried along their creators or discovered within ruins.

If you want to create a cultivation skill, personally based on your abilities, you can only create the first cycling pathway for the Elite class; for the next stage, the cycling pathway must not be in conflict with the first cycling pathway; for Legendary, the cyclic pathway must not be in conflict with the previous two, and so on.

The risk here is that if the cycling pathway you design is problematic at the start, it would be impossible to create the following cycling pathways, so you would still have to switch to a new one, restarting the process of magic meditation.

The biggest benefit, however, is that the cultivation skill you would be designing would have the highest affinity towards your body, meaning it would be out of the classification of rank since it might be perfect for you, but for other people, it can be just trash."

The student who asked the question nodded his head, understanding the problem. It would basically require too much calculating power to sequence a cultivation skill perfectly tailored for your body while being compatible for the next cycle.

At the same time, everyone realized a problem as well: The time it would take to create one, as well as the pain of producing a wrong pathway. Numerous calculations can be done, but it takes time; every wrong or dead-end path would result in a reset, making the user cycle a new path 1080 times in suffering.

"Now, I know it might be quite burdening to understand the information, which is why I had allowed voice recording of the class since the beginning of the semester. I am teaching this basic information to you all because you will need to select your own Magic meditation cultivation skill for tomorrow's class. You can either already use the one for your respective families, or use one of the cultivation skills the university provides for one's choosing." Ms. Lim said, emphasizing that the first day was only focused on theoretical, and the following days were going to be on the experience of Magic meditation.

Even Xander was excited. Although he had no idea what cultivation skills would work on him, he had a lot of available skills in his personal database, some of which even reached Immortal rank. He could just select one of the best-fit ones for him and be done with it. However, Xander had an even more absurd idea: Why not create his own cultivation skill tailored for him?

He wasn't daunted with the task of creating a cultivation skill; not only does he have a surplus of material to refer to, but he also had the ability to accelerate his thought process, making this fast and stable enough to be done. That was going to be his mission tonight after he had returned from campus.

The class progressed on the topic, with Ms. Lim emphasizing the dos and don'ts of cultivation skills. However, it was more of the things you should not do.

1. Never disturb someone undergoing Magic meditation. That is enough grounds for someone to kill you without being prosecuted, as well as enough to sue someone.

2. Never attempt to divert the prescribed pathway of the cultivation skill without sufficient knowledge or ability to do so, as that is enough to cause magic psychosis and cause your mind to lose rationality and/or control over your body. The worst-case scenario is you being crippled or killed, the minimum would be being stuck in a short-term comatose state or severe internal injuries.

3. Never cultivate more than 1 cultivation skill when undergoing Magic meditation.

4. Do not indiscriminately absorb the elements around you; accept only the elements you have a stronger affinity for. The more useless elements you have absorbed, the slower the cycling state, as well as the build-up of elemental particles and energy in your body. Do this only if you have a special constitution body for cultivation.

5. Do not break through classes while running your cultivation skill; if you sense you are about to breakthrough, stop the cycling properly and complete the breakthrough. However, breaking through stages within classes is just fine.

6. If you already sense that your elemental/magic energy is destabilized or about to lose control, immediately stop the Magic meditation, and undergo deep meditation to calm it down. You may undergo deviatory magic psychosis due to the rampaging magic/elemental energy.

These 6 rules were quite easy to understand, and the students and Xander didn't have any more questions. Ms. Lim then just summarized the class for the next 10 minutes, before ending it, allowing the students to leave or eat lunch in the canteen.

Xander used this opportunity to go to the Elemental Control class building, where he felt had better food, to be honest.

He waved goodbye to his classmates and Ms. Lim, before heading to the building behind it. After a few minutes, he reached the entrance and scanned his ID before going in, and headed to the second floor to eat.

The meal this time cost him 10 SCPs, but Xander felt it was worth it. He was planning to do some of the missions available for students to earn some SCPs through the School bounty Board. The school even had an internal app that can check the contents of the board, as well as accept missions from it.

While eating, he began to browse some missions available. He first removed the ones that paid very low or the ones that were repeatable. He began looking for high-valued one-time missions.

[Calling for experimental test subjects]

[Complete my term requirement]

[Help me understand Advanced Theory Magic....]

[Need a sparring partner!]

[Collect some ingredients]

[Collect some metals]

[I need this ....metal]

[I need this ....plant material]

....

There were around 150,000 different one-time, high-valued requests, all coming from Grand Hyatt and the different universities that Grand Hyatt is in partnership with; roughly 15,000 missions came from his university. He began to limit the options to [collection missions], [teaching lessons], and [sparring missions]. He didn't want to be an experimental test subject for a thesis or research of the university.

What was left were around a thousand missions, and from there Xander arranged it from highest to lowest.

[I need a magic artifact of these specifications]

[Looking for a sparring partner, physical trainer]

[Collect 20 Bloody Drop Berries!]

[Looking for a branch of a 10,000-year-old tree sprite]

[Help me understand Homer Simpson's papers!]

[Looking for a sparring partner, magic trainer]

[Get me an Adamantium and Vallarium ore!]

...

After a few minutes of scrolling and viewing the missions, Xander had selected to do 2 missions: [Collect 20 Bloody Drop Berries] and [Get me an Adamantium and Vallarium ore!]. The latter he could easily replicate through [Material Transformation] while the former was quite easy to do for him: Get a regular Drop Berry shrub and advance the time of the area around the plant; he wouldn't bother going to some weird deep forest area to collect these berries. After he had finished eating and confirming his acceptance of the two missions, there were 10 more minutes before class began.

He headed downstairs and Faykes was still absent. Xander decided to send a message to Faykes, asking when he will go back to school. After a few seconds being sent, a reply returned, Faykes replying to Xander that he was returning in 2-3 days. He just had to take care of some private things. Xander rolled his eyes at the pathetic excuse and then used his space power to instantly have a 3rd-person view of where Faykes was.

Immediately, he was in a windowless room. He could see 3 figures present, one of which he was familiar with: Faykes. There were 2 other people who he was talking with, to the point of arguing and shouting at one another.

Xander continued to observe, but he couldn't hear any sound since he was technically "seeing" the place; he wasn't really there. There were stacks of documents, as well as the desk terminal open, showing several files and documents open.

Xander briefly looked at the contents before his eyes squeezed to tiny slits. It seems the Valentine clan's control truly runs deep. They even had information from the Galactic Empire; could it be from one of their ancestors who was in a high, stable position in the empire? Xander thought to himself. He checked the current database for any names that had the last name of Valentine. Huh, no match. At this Xander pondered; could it be the ancestor was using an alias? That makes it hard to track then, oh well.

He didn't really care, and he believed that the Galactic Empire wouldn't easily accept unknown cultivators without a clear background in anything important in the government.

Seeing nothing much was happening to Faykes, he canceled his viewing mode, opening his eyes. He began to talk to the other students in the class, socializing and even giving them tips.

After a few more minutes, Ms. Amelia entered the building, and everyone settled down as she headed to the podium in front of the training mats. All the students were sitting upright and relaxed, waiting for the lesson to begin.

"Good afternoon class. As you know, since last week we already finished our coverage of the Elemental control theory. For this week, we will focus on Elemental control outside of the body."