Ethan's mental power surged toward the Primal Seal.
The moment the first incision was made, his mental sea erupted.
The greyish-white runic projections that had been reset to zero trembled simultaneously.
The imprinting of the new frequency disrupted the underlying structure of the old runes, causing all thirty-six runic projections to let out a sharp, buzzing hum.
The buzzing hum echoed, overlapped, and resonated within his mental sea, causing the grey mist to churn violently.
Ethan's body suddenly tensed.
A severe tearing sensation surged from the depths of his mental sea, spreading through his nerves to his entire body.
His bones creaked, his muscle fibers twitched involuntarily, and his fingers dug deep into the flesh of his knees.
This was the conflict between the old and new frequencies.
Although the old runes had been reset to zero, their basic mental power structures remained.
As the new frequency was imprinted, the two different frequencies clashed head-on in his mental sea, producing an impact far exceeding Ethan's expectations.
On the stone slab beside him, twelve magic crystals lit up simultaneously.
Mana surged out, spreading along the stone slab into Ethan's body, seeping through his skin and into his mental sea.
The thirty-six runic projections stopped trembling, and the sharp, buzzing hum gradually subsided.
Seizing this window of opportunity, Ethan continued to imprint the Primal Seal.
The second incision was made.
The third.
The fifth.
The tenth.
With each incision, the old runic projections trembled.
The energy of the magic crystals was continuously consumed with each tremor, dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.
By the time the thirty-seventh incision was made, the first magic crystal was completely depleted, crumbling into a pile of greyish-white powder.
Ethan paid it no mind.
His consciousness held nothing but the forming Primal Seal.
Under his precise control, his mental power carved out incision after incision, each falling flawlessly along the path outlined in the visualization diagram.
The seventy-third incision.
The one hundred and fourteenth incision.
The one hundred and sixty-fifth incision.
The seventh magic crystal shattered.
By the time the one hundred and ninetieth incision was made, eleven magic crystals had been completely depleted.
The light of the final magic crystal was reduced to a mere sliver, the pale green halo within so thin it was nearly invisible.
Ethan's mental power did not fluctuate in the slightest.
He breathed evenly, the precision of his mental power output in his mental sea remaining in a perfect state.
The one hundred and ninety-third incision.
Made.
The Primal Seal lit up.
An emerald-green light erupted from the surface of the Primal Seal.
This was not the faint, flat light of the old runes, but a deep, three-dimensional, almost physical pillar of emerald-green light.
The pillar of light shot out from the center of the Primal Seal, piercing through the grey mist and illuminating his entire mental sea.
The thirty-six runic projections trembled simultaneously within the light of the Primal Seal.
Then, they began to change.
At the core of each greyish-white projection, a speck of emerald-green light ignited.
The light spread along the structural framework of the old runes, from core to edge, and edge to periphery, replacing the greyish-white with emerald-green bit by bit.
The new frequency had been successfully imprinted.
Under the washing of the new frequency, the old runic projections were spontaneously aligning themselves toward the High-Level Meditation Method.
Their structural frameworks remained, but their internal mental power frequencies had completely switched to the frequency of the Myriad Forest Meditation Method.
The pain receded like a tide, replaced by a state of absolute clarity.
Ethan opened his eyes.
He exhaled a breath of turbid air.
The first two steps were complete.
Resetting and imprinting had both succeeded on the first try.
Next was step three: runic recasting.
The runic chart of the Myriad Forest Meditation Method unfolded in his consciousness.
The complete set consisted of thirty-six runes, each with a structure over ten times more complex than those he had condensed using the low-level meditation method.
The arrangement sequence between runes, the energy resonance methods, and the flow paths of mental power were all completely different from the old system.
He needed to use the method of the High-Level Meditation Method to recast all the old runes that had already been imprinted with the new frequency.
His consciousness sank back into his mental sea.
The first rune hovered in the mist, its emerald-green light having regained stability.
Its structural framework was still the old one, with visible impurities inside, rough incisions on its surface, and fine burrs along its edges.
A rune of this quality would have been considered high-grade under a low-level meditation method, but under the Myriad Forest Meditation Method, it did not even meet the passing standard.
Ethan began to visualize the corresponding rune from the Myriad Forest Meditation Method.
The runic visualization diagram of the High-Level Meditation Method unfolded in his consciousness.
It was an extremely intricate mental power construct, with the position, angle, and depth of each incision specified to an outrageously precise degree.
His mental power surged toward the old rune, beginning to polish it according to the requirements of the new visualization diagram.
The first corrective incision was made.
A rough incision on the surface of the old rune was washed over by mental power, smoothing out the rough edges and recalibrating the depth of the incision to the specified value.
The rune trembled gently, and a faint ripple of emerald-green light spread across its surface.
Then the second.
The third.
Guided by the new visualization diagram, the old rune was reshaped bit by bit.
Impurities were removed, incisions were calibrated, and the structural framework was progressively adjusted to the form required by the High-Level Meditation Method.
Polishing a single rune took Ethan an entire day.
When the polishing was complete, the rune had completely transformed.
Its surface was as smooth and clean as jade, its incisions as precise as if measured with a ruler, and its edges as sharp as a knife's cut.
The emerald-green light flowed within the rune, sending a faint ripple through the surrounding mist with each pulse of brightness.
Ethan did not stop.
Having finished polishing the first, he immediately began the second.
Then the third, and the fourth.
Time lost all meaning within the cultivation room.
His entire attention was focused on the runes in his mental sea, which were being recast one by one.
With each completion, another true Myriad Forest rune was added to his mental sea, and the traces of the old runes faded a bit more.
By the seventh day, he had finished polishing nineteen runes.
The scene inside his mental sea was now completely different.
Nineteen emerald-green new runes hovered in the mist, radiating a deep, three-dimensional, almost physical emerald-green light.
Their arrangement had also changed, no longer loosely distributed like under the old meditation method, but aligned in a precise formation according to the chart of the Myriad Forest Meditation Method.
Resonance began to occur between the runes.
The emerald-green light flowed among the nineteen runes, each cycle increasing the stability of his mental sea.
Under this resonance, the remaining old runes awaiting polish also began to adjust their positions, actively moving toward the new formation.
By the thirteenth day, Ethan had finished polishing the thirty-sixth rune.
The moment the final rune finished recasting, all thirty-six emerald-green runes lit up simultaneously.
His entire mental sea trembled.
The thirty-six runes were arranged in a perfect formation, each one resonating simultaneously with the other thirty-five.
The emerald-green light flowed between the runes, connecting them into a single, seamless whole that illuminated the grey mist, making it bright and transparent.
Rate on N.U.
