70 Soul Crystal (1/2)

Xue Wei felt excited. Although Lan's training method was rather spartan, it was also proving to bring many benefits to him.

Lan was a tough but very skilled teacher. He would drill the abilities so hard into Xue Wei that he could do them even during his sleep.

The following day, they went to their special location on the field. Once more, Lan began to explain how to best understand and use the ability. He did this every time.

”The Seed of Mirage focuses on the word 'mirage'. The mirage is based on illusions, and it spans over many different types of attacks. One can hide in the illusions and cover all tracks of oneself, making it so that no one can sense that they are there.”

”It is possible to use the mirage to change the appearance of a person, and it is possible to make people see things that are not there.”

”Your Seed of Mirage is creating a mirage – creating a replica of something out of nothing.”

”As such, it is a very high ranked ability among the category of skills that use mirages, as it enables you to create something real from nothing. It creates real copies that can attack and not just confuse.”

Lan introduced the mirage to Xue Wei. Xue Wei listened intently and made sure that everything Lan said was forever engraved in his heart so that he would not forget it in the future, and that his abilities would continue to improve.

The Seed of Mirage is an ability where one creates a seed from Qi. The stronger one is, the more seeds one can create. And at the same time, one could also determine how strong it would be by how much Qi was provided to it.

The strongest the copy could be was half of his strength, but the Qi used to create such a figure was equally high.

The first attempt of the seed that Xue Wei made was thrown out, and both Lan and Xue Wei were eagerly awaiting the three breaths of time for the seed to sprout, only to see that nothing happened.

They both felt rather anticlimactic as they had watched the seed with bated breath only to see it dissipate into nothingness.

Lan laughed at it, and Xue Wei felt rather embarrassed, but then they began anew.

The Seed of Mirage was harder to understand than what he had expected. The first seed that successfully sprouted turned into a blur that also dissipated into thin air, as it could not hold its shape.

After trying for half the day, Xue Wei was capable of creating a figure that lasted for five breaths of time before it could no longer hold its shape. Although it was a short amount of time, the clone was already capable of sending out a few attacks.

Every attack it sent out was aimed at Xue Wei so that he could get a feel for how powerful the attacks were and how much Qi he should send into the seed.

At the start, he had sent so little Qi into the seed that it was incapable of sprouting.

After that, he slowly adjusted it and found that the more Qi he added, the longer it lasted and the stronger the clone was.

As time went on, Xue Wei became more and more proficient at creating the seed, and he found that the clone would act according to his own thoughts without a need to command it.

It was completely loyal, did exactly what it could to work with Xue Wei's own plans, and he found that it complimented his fighting style quite a bit.

It took three days for Xue Wei to finally get it under control. During these three days, they were at the field from early morning to late evening.

Many an expert had glanced at them to see what exactly they had been doing, and they were curious as to what exactly Xue Wei was being taught by the prophet. Even the upper echelons of the army were curious. Some of them even felt slightly sour in their hearts for not being given the same attention.

Although the youngsters knew about Lan being a prophet from the center of the continent, they did not know exactly how strong he was or how outstanding his reputation was.

They were very well aware of what he could do, however. They knew he could topple kingdoms and destroy empires with the wave of his hand, and now he was patiently teaching a random youngster.

Xue Wei continued to study the Seed of Mirage for a few days more before he felt that he had grasped the technique.

Having been able to understand a technique in just a week was incredibly fast. During this week, Lan had been Xue Wei's sparring partner.

After Xue Wei had gotten a good understanding of how much power the clone had depending on the Qi he used, he and the clone had fought against Lan in an attempt to get used to the coordination between himself and the clone.

”I only have a few days left here,” Lan said as the night drew close and they were walking towards the dining hall.