Cultivating in the Wizard World-Chapter 251 - 222: Knowledge and David’s Return

The advancement to a Second Level Wizard brought about a leap in life level, and the feeling of controlling power was so wonderful.

So much so that Jeming couldn’t help but want to spend more time to fully familiarize and develop his newly acquired abilities.

Unfortunately, after the advancement, Jeming didn’t even have time to savor the new powers brought by becoming a Second Level Wizard before being urged by the contract to quickly dive into studying new knowledge.

Although there were a lot of things he still wanted to arrange and organize, such as further optimizing his four core witchcraft or quickly handling the various spoils brought from the Ice and Flame Plane.

But initially, to purchase that disposable witchcraft artifact capable of space jump, he entered into a contract with Master Roland from the Tower of Annihilation.

Strictly speaking, he was burdened with a huge debt from Master Roland.

As part of the debt, the contract they signed stipulated that Jeming must prioritize learning the specified knowledge provided by the other party after advancing to a Second Level Wizard.

Moreover, he had to quickly assimilate this knowledge, then optimize it, and integrate it into his unique "All-Purpose Eye" witchcraft model.

Thereafter, he needed to provide this optimized new "All-Purpose Eye" witchcraft model fully to Master Roland.

By then, their debt would be considered half settled.

As for the other half... that would have to wait until he advanced to a Third Level Wizard in the future.

The binding force of the contract acts directly on the soul.

Feeling the constraint from the soul, Jeming dared not slack off and immediately contacted Master Roland, who was still researching in the Ice and Flame Plane, through the Magic Network Terminal.

The other party seemed to have anticipated that Jeming would contact him at this time.

Almost instantly, an unimaginably large data stream was poured into Jeming’s laboratory terminal through an encrypted channel.

The other party sent Jeming a huge pile of all kinds of information, like a mountain or sea.

Just a rough glance at the directory made Jeming’s head begin to ache faintly.

All of this information was extremely advanced knowledge about "space niche"!

The content mainly described a certain cognitive and applicational understanding of special spatial properties.

It should be known that, generally, only Third Level Wizards officially start to contact and research spatial knowledge.

It wasn’t that Second Level Wizards couldn’t contact it in advance, but because of the limitations in life level and cognitive abilities, usually, what they’d learn wouldn’t be usable.

Moreover, learning it had an extraordinarily high difficulty, like asking a primary school student who just learned arithmetic to directly study calculus.

Jeming roughly estimated that to master all this knowledge and truly understand it rather than just memorize it by rote.

He estimated it would take him at least a hundred or two hundred years of continuous study day and night!

Fortunately, after advancing to a Second Level Wizard, not only did his strength increase drastically but the wizard’s lifespan also greatly extended with the life level leap.

As life expectancy increases and time passes, wizards gradually undergo fundamental changes in their "sense of time."

For example, when they were First Level Wizards, their theoretical lifespan was about one thousand to one thousand five hundred years.

Thus, some long-living wizards would unconsciously have their sense of time extended about ten times compared to ordinary people.

It’s like when Jeming previously participated in the war of the Ice and Flame Plane, but due to an accident, ended up serving for over fifty years.

This time seemed like nearly a lifetime for mortals.

But converted to a First Level Wizard’s sense of time, it would feel to an ordinary person like planning a business trip originally for just over a year but due to some accident, ended up extending to five years.

Though still exaggerated, it was within an acceptable range.

Whereas for a Second Level Wizard, while the lifespan increase wasn’t as exaggerated as when advancing from First Level.

A healthy Second Level Wizard would have no issue living for four to five thousand years.

So, for a Second Level Wizard, dedicating over a hundred years to studying a crucial subject was not something unacceptable.

For many wizards, this was even quite the norm.

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"Spatial knowledge is indeed notoriously difficult to learn..."

Only when Jeming truly got hands-on with learning did he came to a profound understanding of this.

Once getting practical, even with his highly active brain and soul post-advancement, when faced with those twisted, abstract, and completely unconventional physical cognition space theories, Jeming still felt his head swelling.

And it’s not just a conceptual difficulty; the sheer amount of data learning and understanding also caused quite considerable pressure.

However, this extreme pressure wasn’t without its benefits.

During the learning process, Jeming found that under such intense mental pressure, the Body Refining Technique he cultivated, adapted from the Cultivation Immortality World, was evolving in some peculiar way!

It seemed to be adjusting the body’s and soul’s structure, proactively adapting to this external pressure from the soul and spirit.

The manifestation of this was his brain’s increased activity under the pressure of high-stress learning!

Moreover, the understanding of certain abstract concepts has also become increasingly smooth.

When he was studying this space knowledge, he went from initially struggling to making rapid and smooth progress!

Those theories that were originally obscure and difficult now seemed clear.

Jeming couldn’t help but be a little shocked by this.

He never imagined that the Body Cultivation Method from the Cultivation Immortality World could even adapt to and evolve from the ’mental pressure’ that comes from learning knowledge!

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After Jeming had immersed himself completely in the ocean of knowledge, ignoring matters outside the window, more than a dozen years passed.

On this day, he was in the lab, struggling to analyze a complex model on ’space curvature folding’ when his Magic Network Terminal suddenly emitted a soft sound, notifying him of a new message.

Jeming temporarily pulled himself out from the ocean of knowledge and glanced at the source of the message.

It was David.

He had returned from the frontline.

Jeming had a rather deep impression of David.

This Tenth Level genius from the Nolun Workshop seemed to have been significantly impacted after his trial on the Elorcia Plane.

It was heard that after arranging all the work post-trial, this fellow buried himself in his lab and worked diligently for over thirty years.

He thoroughly assimilated all the gains from the trial.

Only then did he confidently head to the Plane Battlefield to fulfill his military service.

David’s luck was evidently much better than Jeming’s, encountering no surprises like Living Plane.

He was assigned to a relatively stable plane, where he stayed safely in another unfamiliar world for over thirty years, smoothly completing the military service contract stipulated by the academy before returning.

The reason he contacted Jeming immediately was because he had seen the message Jeming sent after returning himself.

After all, the reason Jeming accepted those Elorcia Plane refugees initially was also because of his request.

Although the two did not meet often, they could still be considered acquaintances.

They exchanged updates through the Magic Network Terminal.

Jeming briefly spoke about the modification situation of the refugees on his territory, informing him that Nolun Academy had taken over and everything was going smoothly.

Then, the two briefly shared their respective experiences in the plane war.

In the end, David also disclosed to Jeming the real purpose of his return this time.

"Speaking of which, the reason I came back this time is because I sensed the opportunity to advance to Second Level Wizard on the battlefield. So I ended my mission early to prepare for the breakthrough," David said with a hint of undisguised excitement and anticipation in his voice.

"Is that so? That’s truly good news," Jeming replied, genuinely happy for him.

"Congratulations in advance, David."

Don’t be fooled by the promotional materials at Nolun Academy, which are always filled with stories of ’Seniors advancing to Third Level Wizard after five years of plane war participation’ or even ’Ten-year advancements to Fifth Level Wizard’ legends of the lucky ones.

But in reality, those are very rare indeed, a ’Child of Destiny’ born from among billions of wizards.

Moreover, almost all who advance so quickly are from the Combat Wizard element.

Jeming remembers very clearly that when he first entered the academy, most of those logistics seniors who had participated in a round of plane war were still First Level Wizards.

Many were even at the stage of Third Level Wizard Apprentice, not yet official wizards.

This is considered the essential difference between Logistics Wizards and Combat Wizards.

Common statistical data shows that the advancement speed of logistics wizards in the early stages is generally average.

They rely on thorough accumulation and sudden breakthroughs.

In contrast, the advancement speed of Combat Wizards shows severe polarization.

The lucky ones may find rare materials on the plane battlefield or obtain important information and receive official rewards.

Reaching the sky in a single bound is not impossible.

While the unlucky ones may fail to advance to Second Level Wizard due to injuries or lack of resources, struggling for hundreds of years.

Nonetheless, according to the academy’s overall statistical data, the number of advancements on both sides seems to be evenly split.

Sometimes, there are even more quickly advancing Combat Wizards.

But Jeming and David are well aware of the harsh truth behind these numbers: only those who get lucky can come back alive from the bloody plane battlefield!

And those without luck have already perished.

(Caught by the mentor for some labor, taking a day off in advance, taking a day off tomorrow.)