If the breakthrough could be compared to a battle, it would be a battle in which everyone was besieged on all sides.
Once the breakthrough was decided, Angor would have to face four different battlefields. He had to eliminate the conflicts in each of them in order to achieve immortality and become a wizard.
The four battlefields were the body, the soul, the spirit, and the mind space.
The first one was the spirit sea, which was also the easiest one to deal with. With the help of the Spirit Actuation Potion, Angor could temporarily ignore the spirit sea's influence on the breakthrough.
And the second to start clamoring was the mental space.
With the help of the Spirit Actuation Potion, Angor temporarily stabilized the problem of his spirit expansion. Now, he focused on his mind space.
If the expansion of the spirit sea was the horn of war, then the mana vortex in his mind space was the beginning of the war.
If he was determined to break through, he would have to take the initiative and open up his mana pool to alter the mana vortex.
In his mind space, which was much brighter than before, Angor focused on the mana pool connected to his spirit model.
Under the influence of the wind, his mana pool had expanded to an unimaginable size.
Angor waited patiently. When his mana pool was about to explode, it would be time for him to open up his mana pool.
Time passed.
Angor read some records before. Many apprentices relied on absorbing primal mana for this step. In about fifteen minutes, their mana pool would reach its limit. With a little calculation, Angor could figure out the limit of his mana pool's capacity.
However, his mana pool had been holding mana for more than half an hour already.
Due to his different channeling method, his mana pool was already much larger than ordinary apprentices'. After such a long time of accumulation, his mana pool was more than twice as large as the average apprentice's.
There were pros and cons to this situation.
Before the vortex, the bigger the mana pool, the stronger the vortex, the more mana he could control, and the faster the conversion rate of primal mana would be.
However, this only saved him some time. Once the breakthrough was completed, an ordinary mana vortex could also reach the same height after some training.
Also, if the mana pool was too large before the vortex, it would cause a greater danger during the process.
This was because when the vortex was formed, the energy would constantly dissipate, and this dissipated energy would cause great damage to the mind space.
If he didn't have the Ancient Silver Flower, he would have had to spend a lot of energy dealing with the scattered energy, which would have been an unnecessary risk.
But there was nothing he could do. He didn't dare to touch it before his mana pool reached its limit.
Unless he decided not to break through and went to remove the mana in his mana source. Otherwise, he could only wait patiently for his mana pool to swell to a critical point.
Meanwhile, Sunders was observing the situation from afar.
He couldn't see what was happening inside Angor's mind space, but based on his experience and the energy ripples nearby, he could tell that Angor hadn't reached the Vortex stage yet.
In other words, his mana pool had yet to reach its true limit.
For Sunders, the more mana pool he had, the better. However, this was also a double-edged sword. Especially during a breakthrough, it was very easy to cause a deviation in the final result.
Moreover, half an hour had already passed.
Sunders couldn't imagine how large Angor's mana pool was now. Once the vortex was formed, Angor's mana capacity and efficiency would be comparable to a mid-level level-1 wizard.
However, the stronger the mana pool, the more worried Sunders became.
He was confident that Angor would be able to break through without the Ancient Silver Flower. However, he was not sure if Angor could survive the Mana Vortex without the Ancient Silver Flower.
Apart from this, Sunders had another thought in mind.
Angor's channeling method was Singularity Dispersive Meditation, but it was slightly different from the one he used before.
Sunders didn't see Angor using the "36-dimensional space coordinate system localization method", so it was still very different from the original version.
Even so, Angor's mana pool was still so strong.
Sunders couldn't imagine how terrifying the final result would be if someone really followed Singularity Dispersive Meditation's method.
Of course, he didn't think any apprentice could do it. The "36-dimensional space coordinate system localization method" required too much computing power for an apprentice.
On the other side, Angor waited for about 45 minutes.
His mana pool, which had expanded to almost the same size as his spiritual model, finally began to enter the critical range.
At first, Angor was worried about how to deal with the mana vortex. However, when his mana pool grew so large, he no longer worried about it.
With this size, he would either make a fortune or fall into the mud. Instead of worrying about it now, he should focus on breaking through.
When a crack appeared on the outer shell of his mana pool, Angor realized something.
The time had come!
If his mana pool kept growing, he would have to drink a second bottle of Spirit Actuation Potion.
For other apprentices, 45 minutes was more or less the end of the breakthrough. Success or failure was already determined. But Angor was just getting started.
When the crack on his mana pool grew bigger, Angor quickly activated his spirit model and used the method recorded in Singularity Dispersive Meditation to open up his mana pool.
As the energy contained in his spirit model was added, the outer shell of his mana pool blossomed like a flower and turned into energy particles, which were absorbed into his mind space.
These energy particles would stabilize his mind space and give him more time to proceed with this crucial step.
Mana vortex!
Angor put on a serious expression and focused his mind. He no longer paid attention to any information from the outside world.
Now that his mana pool was broken, the vortex had begun!
It was an irreversible process. When he reached this stage, he would either successfully transform his vortex and become a wizard. Or he would fail and fall from the clouds and become a pile of mud.
From now on, there was no turning back. No regrets!
As the outer shell of his mana pool dissipated, only a ball of pure, faintly glowing energy remained under his spirit model. The energy was so large that even Angor himself was surprised by its purity and quantity.
Because of the convergence, this mass of energy didn't start to run amok and was still stable. However, if Angor did not turn the energy into a mana vortex soon, it would run amok in his mind space, which would greatly increase his failure rate.
More than half of apprentices failed at this step.
Vortex was a process with a fixed result, but everyone's vortex was different. For example, the "36-dimensional Space Coordinate Positioning Method" had a different mind space for everyone, so there was no accurate reference. To use this method, one had to calculate it himself.
As for the "36-dimensional Space Coordinate Positioning Method", even a wizard would need a long time to calculate it, let alone an apprentice.
This was why apprentices could not use this method.
Vortex was the same. Every apprentice had a different mana pool, so the energy left in the vortex was also different. Sparse, dense, pure or not, total mana pool, changes in nature, and so on.
Therefore, in order to create a vortex, every apprentice had a different way of operating it.
This stage was a test of the apprentice's knowledge.
Did you know enough about energy? If you did not know enough or could not react fast enough, the energy would dissipate at an unimaginable speed. In the end, your mind space would become a mess, and there would be no way to fix it.
Angor was not only lucky on his path of cultivation, but his talent was also valued by Sunders.
He was more sensitive about energy than ordinary apprentices. Otherwise, Sunders would not have asked him to prepare for the breakthrough.
When Angor saw the energy, he did not panic. Instead, he began to observe the energy.
It was like an exam.
Examine the question, analyze the data, determine the solution, and then enter the final stage.
This was something every apprentice had to go through.
For other people, their energy clusters were not large, so they could quickly observe the pattern of energy circulation and then immediately calculate the vortex.
But Angor was different. He had too much energy, and it took him longer to complete one cycle than others, which meant he had to spend more time observing.
Angor had already lost track of time.
When he was about to confirm the vortex, he glanced at the energy pool and sighed in relief.
The energy pool was still in an aggregated state and did not dissipate, which meant he did not spend too much time on it.
According to the records he read, some apprentices already had a large amount of energy dissipating when they decided on the vortex. Compared to other apprentices, Angor might need more time, but he did not make any mistakes so far.
The vortex was his top priority. Angor quickly went through his mind to make sure nothing went wrong. Then, he began to work on the energy pool.
First, he had to form the seed of his mana whirlpool.
Next, when the energy pool entered the rhythm of the seed, it would gradually rotate and become the initial form of a mana whirlpool.
When the initial form of the mana whirlpool was formed, he had to stabilize it.
The steps were simple, but the process was not. And it was not a single process.
Did Angor think he could do it by focusing on the mana whirlpool? Of course not. During this process, his soul space and body would be affected as well.
In other words, including his mind space and spirit sea, the conflict between four battlefields would begin at the same time.
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