Three days later, Li Qing, looking tired yet satisfied, watched the two large transparent palms he manipulated before him. They could expand and contract according to his will. As long as the magic power output was activated, they could even expand to a maximum size of three meters. Although Li Qing couldn’t sustain the extreme state for long, such efficient and streamlined magic power flow nodes were more than sufficient for him to squander an hour without any concerns.
"I have a fairy wand, it grows bigger, smaller, and prettier..."
Humming a tune randomly, Li Qing lay beside the alchemy platform, surrounded by scattered A4 papers, his expression quite tense.
He was conducting a very important mount experiment. If successful, it would truly be as if he was cheating.
Carefully placing the ’Basic Meditation Technique’ into the load option, he checked the loop operation box and clicked afterward.
Li Qing fell straight to the ground.
Eight hours later, only when his spirit had reached its limit, unable to sustain system operations, did Li Qing finally wake up.
The Martial Artist, with a splitting headache, groaned and struggled on the ground for a long while before leaning against the wall to sit down. After recovering for most of the day, he staggered up to have a drink of water.
It’s not feasible; this mod mount can’t reach that level yet and has many functional defects.
Releasing magic wasn’t problematic, but once performing meditative operations like meditation, it became very difficult.
He needed to multitask or, rather, add an auxiliary practice function so he could meditate while performing normal activities. Otherwise, once the meditation skill ran, he’d fall to the ground straight, stopping only when the spirit reached its limit and couldn’t sustain the system.
This type of meditation was indeed more efficient, at least increasing by fifty percent compared to his own previous meditation.
However, it’s somewhat unbearable; appropriate meditation could boost essence, qi, and spirit, but overdoing it made him feel somewhat empty.
Enhancing spiritual power and refining magic power both consumed a lot of physical strength.
Overall, the profession of a mage respects the law of conservation of mass quite adequately, at least without external energy replenishments, the required energy transformation relies solely on physical strength.
Therefore, his recent meditation practices were mostly completed in the safe house at the Gray Magic Academy, where energy elements for absorption supposedly existed, allowing the light dots dispersed from light groups to re-enter the brain, providing spiritual gain and energy to refine and gather magic power during meditation.
Li Qing was curious about the energy returned in meditation, wondering what it was since it couldn’t be found in the real world.
Resulting from this, his need to recuperate physical strength in reality led to a significant increase in appetite, leaving him lean-looking yet with a small potbelly.
He turned into a typical middle-aged, greasy uncle image.
No, he needed to research how to load without affecting normal activities genuinely. Solving this issue would highlight the system’s biggest bug since adjusting the practice frequency from full effort would allow limitless magic power enhancement with continuous twenty-four-hour uninterrupted practice.
Over time, that accumulation was terrifying.
Due to headaches, Li Qing lay on the bed, asleep for a day and a night, finally coming around.
Having set the system to automatically cancel after four hours of meditation, Li Qing woke up, regaining his masculine vigor.
He tidied up his personal hygiene meticulously, and looking in the mirror at his handsome self, Li Qing helplessly patted his face.
It seemed he had gained weight recently, his face becoming more rounded; he truly needed to find time to work out.
There were only three days until the vacation ended.
Li Qing looked at the calendar, casually picking up his phone to check the latest messages; apart from some spam texts, only messages from Chen Chencheng remained.
A whole string of them, which Li Qing was too impatient to read. Ever since knowing Chen Chencheng only regarded him as a research subject, he had lost interest. With such woman, even if they ended up in the same bed, he’d have to sleep with one eye open, unsure of what she might do otherwise.
"I’m currently in secluded meditation, do not disturb!"
He casually replied, then no longer paid attention to the phone’s persistent vibrations, logging onto the computer to study the source code of the Elder Scrolls V mod loader, along with some other modifier plugin concepts. Finally, at the midnight of the final day, Li Qing sorted out a preliminary idea.
Instead of truly multitasking, he aimed to set up an auxiliary mount function, distinguishing the priority, placing the Basic Meditation Technique in the auxiliary mount option, adjusting the meditation frequency when necessary.
Although it would lose at least half the efficiency, the trade-off was continuous twenty-four-hour meditation practice without affecting daily activities, a decent exchange.
Moreover, after confirming it wouldn’t affect simultaneous magic execution, Li Qing felt he added a permanent beneficial buff to himself.
A continuously upgradable one at that.
After the holiday ended, apart from leisurely studying magic during work, Li Qing placed house hunting and physical exercise high on his agenda.
From the magical knowledge accessible at the moment, the only confirmed way to strengthen a mage’s body was the First-Ring Magic ’Mutation Skill’ from the Transformation Series, unfortunately only producing monsters.
Beneficial magic appeared in the second or third ring; otherwise, only priests and druids, who established faith in gods from the start, possessed beneficial magic.
The Gray Magic Academy’s books elegantly warned against violating sacred boundaries, cautioning that becoming ashes under the gaze of gods would happen if such actions were undertaken.
Li Qing wasn’t overly curious to attempt this; despite every mentor in Gray having ulterior motives, they adhered to school rules, and as long as he wasn’t curious, he’d live longer.
Adhering to his behavioral norms in line with school regulations meant nothing significant to worry about.
"Mr. Li, this neighborhood was established in ’03; it’s well-equipped, with convenient shopping and groceries nearby. Most importantly, it’s a school district, only ten minutes from the subway. Due to being on the top floor, it includes an attic of the same size, and above the attic, there’s a small terrace, a layout that’s absolutely a great deal at under six hundred thousand yuan!"
Beside him, a fresh-faced, just-graduated young woman in professional attire, lightly made-up, trying hard to look mature, made Li Qing quite nostalgic.
He, too, had come this way back then.
Li Qing noncommittally looked around; he had viewed a dozen or so second-hand houses, and this one had the best location, was fairly priced, and ninety square meters, quite spacious.