706 Painstaking Cultivation 1 (1/2)
Lu Sheng quickly displayed his talent in the arts after several attempts to unleash the arts.
He did not use Deep Blue. He laid down his foundations through hard work. While he silently looked for Mental Energy within the seven-colored dragons' treasure cave, he displayed his talents in unleashing the arts. He avoided attracting the attention of the elders as much as possible.
Due to his extremely formidable Spirit Power, within his first year of learning from the art materials, he successfully became a rank-1 Sorcerer.
He easily mastered three incantation languages and 16 art modules.
It should be known that unleashing an art required weaving one's own mind power into various modules to match the various peculiar materials. The user had to build the art module just like assembling a machine.
Then, the user would have to infuse it with elemental energy and unleash the art.
Different arts would require the infusion of elemental energy in different proportions. It was the same as preparing chemical solutions. If there was a slight mistake in the preparation, the end product of the unleashed art would probably result in an accidental explosion.
Hence, the basic arts recorded in the books were the most perfect modules attained after the art users' countless years of improvements and accumulation.
Lu Sheng did not dare create his own art modules, either.
Usually, the success rate of an original art would be anywhere between one over a thousand or five over a thousand. The instability of the elements was the greatest contributor to the probability of an explosion happening.
Hence, Lu Sheng merely followed the contents of the textbooks and improved through meditation.
Even so, he successfully became a rank-2 Sorcerer in his fifth year. However, he maintained an appearance of an ordinary apprentice's level before the elders.
At this point, he started noticing the system of the magic net. This system allowed him to unleash arts with greater ease, but it lessened his contact with and manipulation of the art's nature.
What caught his attention more was that the magic net was something controlled by the gods.
This fact reminded him again that there were gods in this world.
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Within the dragon cavern.
Lu Sheng drew his claw along the ground and left a fine, slender mark on it.
The scratch marks under his feet formed a pattern which resembled a grand formation.
This was a Dragon Language Formation. It was a special formation that could only be controlled by dragons. It was constructed using a runic system unique to the dragons.
Lu Sheng, with Deep Blue's help, had spent a whole month to master this.
”Lu Sheng!” Suddenly, a young dragon called his name. When Lu Sheng was three years old, he had the other dragons call him by this nickname so that his real name would not be exposed.
He was the only one who knew that it was his actual name.
”What's the matter, Sari?”
”Brother Lu Sheng, Teacher Yati wants us to attend her evocation class…” said the young dragon Sari carefully.
Lu Sheng's claws, which were drawing the formation, paused slightly.
He knew that Teacher Yati was the best teacher among their teachers. However, that was judging by the other young dragons' standards.
He was now close to becoming a rank-3 Sorcerer. However, Yati was still teaching the young dragons to progress from being an apprentice Sorcerer and construct a module to become a rank-1 Sorcerer…
According to normal logic, a Sorcerer with average qualities would at least need 15 years to progress from being an apprentice to a rank-1 Sorcerer.
Progressing from a rank-1 Sorcerer to a rank-3 Sorcerer would depend on the user's natural endowments. A handful of elites could achieve this, but they would need another 15 years or so.
Lu Sheng, on the other hand, progressed from an apprentice to a rank-3 Sorcerer in six years.
With this pace, even in the human society, where experts reportedly grew at the quickest pace, he could be considered a terrifying genius.
'Content that's about rank-1 Sorcerers… is of no use for me. However, it's not a bad idea for me to head over and get on her good side to obtain some antiques.' The most important thing was that he did not want to expose his terrifying talent... yet.
The Dragon Tribes always attracted the attention of the gods. Even the abject seven-colored dragons were no exception.
Hence, he had to make sure that his words and actions would have no flaws.
”You go on ahead. I'll be right behind you,” Lu Sheng replied drily.
”O-okay!” Sari hastily responded.
For some unknown reason, she found herself fearful of this Delin Anka who hatched first among them. She did not understand why Delin Anka wanted everyone else to call him Lu Sheng.
That name was strange and difficult to pronounce.
However, she could clearly sense that Lu Sheng was different from the other two young dragons.
He was a loner who liked to immerse himself in books, and would seldom take a step out of the cave for a whole day. Nay, he might even spend a week or an entire month cooped up within the cave.
If the hunter dragons did not provide the young dragons with food at fixed intervals, Sari suspected that Lu Sheng would have died of starvation in the cave.
When they began to move out into their own caves, Lu Sheng chose a mine which was located slightly further away than the other young dragons.
The other young dragons' caves were close to the dragon cavern. He was the only one who intentionally chose to live further away.
Sari had been curious about him to begin with. Now, she felt that he was shrouded in mystery.
Her opinion of Lu Sheng was that he was very powerful. Even the strongest Ansaifei would not be a match for him.
Although the two dragons had never actually fought, Sari could not explain this blind confidence she had in the young dragon.
In truth, Lu Sheng was a taciturn dragon, but whenever he spoke, Ansaifei and Bog would listen to him.
This made Sari admire him.
She hurried on to the class in high spirits. Lu Sheng arrived on time as well. Although he made it into the cave on the clock, he managed not to be late.
”Today, we're having a practical session.” Teacher Yati was the most beautiful female dragon among the Seven-colored Dragon Tribe.
She had the most brilliant and gorgeous wings, the most beautiful neckline, and the most slender and fit body. Her voice was also as crisp and sweet as if a young girl'.