Chapter 877 – Magic Research

Dragon-tongue magic only required sufficient Mana levels and mastery of the corresponding incantations to cast, making it far easier than practicing Witch Magic or researching mage magic.

Mo Lan first re-familiarized herself with the dragon-tongue magic incantations of the red Dragon, blue Dragon, and white Dragon at the ancient dragon stage, and crafted a batch of corresponding Magic Cards to store in reserve.

Red Dragon magic contained the ultimate forces of extreme heat and destruction. Blue Dragon magic could command thunder and storms with unparalleled ferocity. White Dragon magic was associated with ice sealing and blizzards.

All three types of dragon-tongue magic reached an extremely high level in terms of offensive power, not much weaker than Seventh Rank Spatial Magic, and with a sufficiently high total Mana reserve, could even rival Eighth Rank magic.

Green Dragon ancient dragon magic mostly involved cursing and weakening civilizations, making it of little use in this kind of one-on-one direct confrontation, so she set it aside for the time being.

As for other dragon species’ ancient dragon-level dragon-tongue magic, Mo Lan didn’t have any, and the adult dragon stage versions were far less powerful.

After quickly completing the card crafting for ancient dragon-level dragon-tongue magic, Mo Lan immediately devoted her energy to researching mage Psychic Magic.

In her battle against the Dao Ancestor of Thunder Light, though she had ultimately won through her abundant disposable Mana and home-field advantage, the consumption had been far too great.

Had it not been for the Celestial Profound Realm helping with defense, along with years of prior accumulation, she likely could not have sustained such high-intensity output.

Mo Lan pondered that she still needed to improve the power and efficiency of her single-target magic, so she could be more composed and more economical in the future.

Her total Mana was only at the Seventh Rank, and magic cast using Mana could never exceed the Seventh Rank no matter what.

However, her psychic power had already surpassed the Ninth Rank, and Mo Lan intended to focus her efforts in this area.

Psychic Magic was highly useful whether for disrupting a Dao Ancestor cultivator’s consciousness during battle, controlling their actions, or for capturing and killing them when a Dao Ancestor cultivator’s primordial spirit attempted to flee.

When the Dao Ancestor of Thunder Light’s primordial spirit had attempted to escape, had she not been prepared in advance, it truly could have been quite troublesome.

In just that brief moment, the cards she had used cost nearly as much to produce as all the Magic Cards consumed in the preceding battle.

Elevating Psychic Magic to a higher level would also save her some costs down the line.

Several dozen beast cores emitting a hazy luminous glow floated before Mo Lan. These were all beast cores she had collected in the past that contained psychic-type skill imprints, but the highest-ranked among them were only around the Fifth Rank.

She had previously relied on her deep understanding of the Psychic Magic system, combined with the naturally formed skill imprints within these beast cores, to successfully derive and construct several Sixth Rank Psychic Magic spells. The Sixth Rank Soul Imprisonment she had previously used to capture primordial spirits was one of them.

By now, the knowledge contained within these beast cores had been thoroughly exhausted by her.

What she needed to tackle next was constructing Seventh Rank or even higher-rank Psychic Magic spell structures. These beast cores were of little use anymore. She could only attempt to disassemble and analyze all the Psychic Magic spell structures she currently possessed, to see if she could find a direction forward.

She patiently disassembled the existing Sixth Rank spell structures piece by piece, analyzing the function and load-bearing limits of every node and every circuit, then attempted to replace and optimize them with newer structures that were more efficient, more stable, and capable of channeling greater psychic power.

This not only required an enormous investment of time but also demanded a deeper understanding of psychic power.

Fortunately, Mo Lan’s accumulated foundation of knowledge was deep enough. Drawing upon her rich reserves of knowledge and powerful computational deduction abilities, the progress of constructing Seventh Rank Psychic Magic spell structures, though slow, advanced steadily.

After the Seventh Rank Psychic Magic spell structures were successfully researched, Mo Lan attempted to push further, stepping into the domain of Eighth Rank Psychic Magic, and finally felt a clear bottleneck.

The knowledge she had previously acquired from mage magic and beast cores now felt somewhat inadequate at this level.

Those complex structures involving the fundamental nature of psychic power caused her repeated setbacks. The spell structures she deduced always lacked something critical. When she tried to innovate, she had no leads either, and she simply could not achieve the stability and power that an Eighth Rank spell structure should possess.

At this point, Mo Lan recalled the cultivation methods and divine techniques related to training spiritual sense and primordial spirits that she had obtained from the memories of the Blazing Flame Dao Ancestor and the Dao Ancestor of Thunder Light.

In her view, when cultivators opened their spiritual seas, condensed their spiritual sense, and tempered their primordial spirits, the essence of it was remarkably similar to how mages meditated. Both were fundamentally forms of training psychic power, just following different paths with different terminology and manifestations.

The Dao Ancestors’ various methods of tempering the primordial spirit, along with those divine techniques specifically targeting the primordial spirit, opened a new window for her, providing many unprecedented ideas and inspirations.

The cultivation system’s unique insights in this area happened to fill the gaps in her current knowledge system.

Mo Lan first studied the primordial spirit cultivation methods and divine techniques at the Taiyi level and below, comparing them one by one with Psychic Magic of equivalent rank, which confirmed her thinking. She then used these as reference, attempting to convert the cultivation system’s principles of harnessing primordial spirit power into knowledge relevant to Psychic Magic spell structures.

Time slipped quietly away in her absorbed research.

She tirelessly simulated new spell structures within her mental sea again and again, deducing their stability and potential explosive power.

Failure, adjustment, incorporation of new inspiration, another attempt… the cycle repeated endlessly.

Finally, after countless attempts and optimizations, several Eighth Rank Psychic Magic spell structures — stable in form, varied in effect, and radiating powerful psychic fluctuations — crystallized one after another within the mental sea before her, like meticulously sculpted works of art.

Their complexity far exceeded the Seventh Rank, and the power they contained was worlds apart.

Mo Lan let out a long breath of relief, a look of satisfaction crossing her face. This breakthrough was of extraordinary significance.

She carefully recorded these precious Eighth Rank Psychic Magic spell structures and began crafting the corresponding Magic Cards.

Unfortunately, whether from the Blazing Flame Dao Ancestor or the Dao Ancestor of Thunder Light, the highest-level primordial spirit cultivation methods and divine techniques in their memories only corresponded in theoretical ceiling and described power to roughly the Daluo realm — that is, the Eighth Rank level.

Regarding how Dao Ancestor realm cultivators should further temper their primordial spirits, or what earth-shaking primordial spirit divine techniques they could employ, their memories were completely blank. It seemed that within the Immortal Realm’s inheritance system, those at the Dao Ancestor realm no longer emphasized the tempering of the primordial spirit.

Constructing even more powerful Ninth Rank Psychic Magic spell structures would be very difficult with her current knowledge alone.

However, Eighth Rank Psychic Magic would pose little problem when dealing with Dao Ancestor realm cultivators’ primordial spirits.

She was just about to strike while the iron was hot and systematically review all her knowledge regarding Psychic Magic — including old and new understandings, as well as experiences from both successes and failures — to see if some new research inspiration might emerge from the collision of ideas, when a gentle knock came at the study door.

From outside the door came Zhizhi’s slightly excited voice: “Master, we’ve discovered a new cultivation world!”