The Jade Conduit

Zachary Reed was sitting in the yard, staring at the packages in front of him. These were all the various materials he had bought. He kept telling himself that the things he had bought before were all just wishful thinking and were useless. But another thought came to his mind. Let's continue testing. What if? Anyway, so much has been wasted, so it doesn't matter if it's just a little bit!The two thoughts kept entangled in his mind. Finally, Zachary gritted his teeth and decided to continue testing. He comforted himself in his heart, saying, "Anyway, testing these doesn't require much spiritual energy. If I give up now, wouldn't the spiritual energy I invested before be really wasted? I'll just test these. If the test doesn't work, I won't test it anymore!"Although he thought so in his heart, Zachary decided to save as much as possible, so he chose the most likely effective material at the beginning, a piece of inferior jade plaque, about five or six centimeters long, three centimeters wide, and about one millimeter thick. He bought it in a Taobao store. The store manager said that if it's not jade, he would compensate ten times. Three jade plaques, one hundred dollars, free shipping.Zachary knew that these were of the lowest quality jade, but they were just for the purpose of experiment. After thinking for a while, Zachary decided to draw the second rune first, because the second one looked much more bizarre than the first one.When Zachary began to use his spiritual sense to guide the aura and prepare to draw the rune, he found that the jade material was indeed a little different. It was very difficult for his spiritual sense to penetrate into other materials and dead objects, but the jade card, Zachary's spiritual sense easily penetrated into the inside of the jade card as soon as it touched.Zachary, who encountered this situation for the first time, was stunned for a moment, then pondered for a while and decided to draw the rune inside the jade card. As the rune was completed, Zachary began to get excited.Because the rune inside the jade card, after being drawn, flickered under the observation of the spiritual sense, and then darkened, but the eyes did not observe it. The strangeness in between showed that the rune drawn on the jade card was still a little different.Zachary wanted to save his spiritual energy and wanted to test the jade card before testing other materials. However, after waiting for a long time, he did not see any movement from the jade card. He could not help but feel excited again. He picked up the jade card and checked it with his spiritual sense. He found that the rune was still there.Zachary pondered for a while. This time the test was successful. He found that the jade material could store his spiritual energy. But why did the rune he drew not work? Uh? What was missing?After thinking for a while, Zachary's eyes lit up. He thought that he had these spiritual energy after being struck by lightning, and thought of the electric sparks around the rune after it was drawn.He got up and took out an old-fashioned power strip in the utility room, disassembled the power strip and connected two wires, then connected the power supply, picked up the two wires from the power strip, and gritted his teeth. He thought that success or failure depended on this one move.Then he placed the wire on the jade card. To the naked eye, the jade card did not move. However, Zachary was extremely ecstatic at this time, because in his spiritual consciousness, the jade card actually began to slowly release spiritual energy. Yes, that's right, that rune can convert electricity into spiritual energy!Zachary rubbed his face with trembling hands. He understood that the nonsense he had denied some time ago had a solid foundation at this moment! Zachary decided to temporarily name this rune "electricity". Next, he naturally drew more "electricity" runes in the jade card. However, when he drew the eighth one, the jade card broke through and broke into countless small pieces, which made Zachary, who was drawing the rune, stunned for a moment, and then felt heartbroken.Zachary thought for a while and guessed that it might be a problem with the material. Only so many runes can be drawn on a jade plaque made of this material. He took another jade plaque and drew it again. After carefully drawing the sixth rune, Zachary thought about it and did not continue to draw it, so as not to follow the footsteps of the previous one.Zachary then carefully connected the power supply to the jade plaque. Suddenly, a much thicker aura than the initial test drifted from the jade plaque. Zachary, who felt this change, waved his arms excitedly, which showed that his inference was correct. The more "electric" runes, the more aura would be converted.Zachary felt that it would be most appropriate to rename this "electric" rune as the Gathering Spirit Rune.Afterwards, Zachary began to guide the aura into his mind with his spiritual consciousness, but the speed of guiding the aura with his spiritual consciousness was not very fast. Moreover, the aura converted from the jade plaque was different from the one in his body before. Zachary found that after guiding the aura converted from the jade plaque into his mind, he could not immediately guide it to other parts of his body.Zachary guessed that the spiritual energy coming in from outside might need a refining process. After all, this kind of spiritual energy, after all, is a variation of mental power, and it is definitely not that simple to convert mental power that does not belong to oneself into one's own mental power.Sure enough, after a while, Zachary felt that the spiritual energy in his mind was divided into two parts, one large and one small. The small part can now enter various parts of the body with the guidance of his spiritual consciousness. At this point, Zachary was completely relieved!However, Zachary still found several bottlenecks:one is that the speed of spiritual consciousness guiding or absorbing spiritual energy is very slow.The second is that the mind cannot accommodate a lot of unrefined spiritual energy. Assuming that the spiritual energy value of the whole body is 100, the unrefined spiritual energy that can be accommodated in the mind can only be about one. Zachary believes that it may be that the spiritual energy in his mind is in a mist state at the beginning, while the spiritual energy converted by the jade card is gaseous, so the spiritual energy that can be accommodated is so little.The last one is that the speed of refining spiritual energy is very slow. It is estimated that it will take about two or three hours to refine a spiritual energy with a value of one. In other words, if the spiritual energy is used up, I will have to work without sleep for at least two days to replenish it.Zachary sighed secretly, thinking that the effect was not as good as he imagined, but then he thought that he was really greedy. Now that he has a way to replenish spiritual energy, he can use it as he pleases in the future!At this time, because the speed of the jade card converting spiritual energy is much faster than Zachary's absorption speed, the room has begun to be filled with converted spiritual energy.Zachary, who had been carefully observing the conversion of spiritual energy in his mind, finally relaxed completely at this time. Looking at the spiritual energy floating in the room, he smiled and shook his head. When he was about to get up and disconnect the power, he found that he had just inhaled a few spiritual energy when he breathed in, but no spiritual energy came out when he exhaled.