Niu Niu's Concerns 1

"Boom!" As Ryan was feeling excited, he suddenly felt a surge of energy in the soles of his feet. This energy quickly flowed into his mind, accompanied by a hint of fire-type elements. The dry magic in his body was immediately consumed, with more than seventy percent of it being absorbed. Ryan estimated that within a minute, he would have enough magic to cast a small Fireball spell. The benefit of practicing Qi Gong was becoming clear to him now. He thought about how he could sustain this for an hour. What if he did it for two hours, or even 24 hours non-stop? Suddenly, Ryan felt a sharp pain in his head, and before he could finish his thought, he fainted, with only the image of a petite, cute girl with a big stick flashing through his mind—"Niu Niu."

"What's going on with this kid? A first-level mage can last this long? He must have just become a mage, too excited, leading to nervous tension. Luckily, I woke up in time, or the consequences could have been serious," Niu Niu thought to herself. After Ryan fainted, she noticed her wings hovering in mid-air. This was strange—she was a Grass Sprite, so her wings should have been flapping, but they weren't. She was floating without any movement. Ryan, being a raw mage with no formal training, had no idea what was going on, but at least his understanding and luck were good. Otherwise, how could he have accumulated enough magic to become the mage that millions dream of being?

"Hmm... this kid's strange. A first-level mage can only cast about twenty Fireballs, but look at all the marks on the wall. Could he be carrying some kind of magic recovery potion?" Niu Niu waved her hand, causing Ryan to levitate. However, upon seeing the dense markings on the wall from countless Fireballs, she became excited. Magic recovery potions were rare and precious. She immediately interrupted the magic she was casting. Poor Ryan "Boom!" He fell hard to the ground again. However, he didn't wake up, because Niu Niu was right—Ryan had been mentally overexcited for too long. If Niu Niu hadn't interrupted him in time, his cultivation path would have been filled with even more obstacles.

The mind is a manifestation of the soul. Overusing mental energy can easily harm the spiritual core—the soul itself. Although Ryan's magic power was three times that of an average person, his mental strength was only two to three times above average. The subsequent Fireballs drained his mental energy, causing him to become mentally exhausted and growing his mental power in an unnatural way. Niu Niu's timely arrival was crucial. If she had been a moment too early, the mental power increase would have been much less significant. Had she arrived even a bit later, Ryan would have continued casting magic silently, risking a backlash from his own magic. Niu Niu's interference, however, ensured that Ryan's mental strength grew permanently. Ryan's luck was clearly extraordinary—like a person answering multiple-choice questions on a whim and somehow scoring a 68%.

"Huh? Why is there nothing here? Is he unconscious or meditating? Could this be the legendary deep meditation?" Niu Niu tugged at her already messy green hair, looking at Ryan's naked form, almost losing her mind. She suspected that Ryan was hiding some kind of powerful magic recovery potion or another valuable item. She quickly dragged him back to the cave and stripped him down, but found that he had nothing on him. Oddly, his sleeping position was strange too—when Niu Niu had checked on him earlier, he had been lying on his back, but as soon as she let go, he had reverted to his previous position. Confused, Niu Niu suddenly noticed that the fire elements around Ryan were rapidly flowing towards him, detectable through her mental energy. Niu Niu was taken aback. Meditation and sleep were two entirely different things—meditation consumes mental energy to absorb elements, while sleep restores mental energy. If meditation were like sleep, then everyone would be a mage. After all, mages were rare, only one in a million. How could sleep and meditation be the same? This was completely incompatible—one was the cold of ice, the other the heat of fire. Niu Niu could only widen her eyes, staring at Ryan in disbelief.

One hour.

The limit of a first-level mage's meditation.

Two hours.

Even a second-level mage can only manage this much.

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Seven hours.

My heavens! A level nine mage can only meditate for a maximum of seven hours in a day. Although level nine mages only use a third of their mental energy for meditation, that is already impressive! Level nine mages are the ultimate in worldly power, Niu Niu thought, nearly losing her mind.

"If this guy is this abnormal, then I'll have a chance to get my revenge," Niu Niu muttered, her thoughts drifting to a long time ago.

Back then, Niu Niu had just hatched from her egg. She was of the highest bloodline—a Diamond Angel, the daughter of the angelic tribe's leader, who ruled countless planes and was also the god of light. However, the divine realm was not peaceful. Their archenemies, another powerful realm almost equal to the divine realm, would send a god to guard a time-space rift every ten thousand years. When her father, the current god of light, was sent to take up this post, he was ambushed by a mysterious, powerful group.

Niu Niu's father had the power to escape, but the problem was that he was carrying Niu Niu in her egg form, in a beautiful bag. In the end, her father detonated his divine artifact and sent Niu Niu flying into the time-space rift caused by the explosion. The last thing she remembered was that she could already perceive the world around her, but her soul was injured as a result of passing through the rift. Niu Niu, who needed to absorb energy to heal, was drawn to Ryan's energy, which she felt as an egg. When she was born, she was at level zero, but after consuming the eggshell, she instantly shot up to level seven. Of course, this was theoretical, but there were benefits—during the soul contract with Ryan, she unintentionally absorbed fragments of his soul, repairing her own. Niu Niu suspected that the divine realm was still searching for her and her father. They were probably pretending to search for the orphaned child, but in reality, some of her kin were likely involved in this, tracking her father's movements. Thus, Niu Niu decided to cultivate enough power to expose the evil deeds of the divine realm.

But for now, she needed to keep a low profile, so she dyed her hair green to blend in. The rest, since her Diamond Angel wings were transparent, looked just like those of a Grass Sprite, which saved her some trouble.

PS:（"Original owner of the body, Ryan: Damn them! One of them took over my body, the other absorbed my soul! Ah, ah, ah! I hate this!"）