After a long while, Ye Bing finally heard a knock on the door.
"Ye Bing, you can come out now." Bai Tingting's voice came from outside the bathroom.
When Ye Bing emerged from the bathroom, Bai Tingting's clothes were already dry, but her face was still flushed, looking very cute.
"Uh, Ye Bing, I'm so sorry. It was clearly my own mistake, yet I yelled at you," Bai Tingting apologized.
Ye Bing quickly waved his hand and said, "My grandpa once said that girls need more tolerance, and in that situation just now, anyone else's reaction would only be more intense than yours, Tingting, so there's no need to apologize to me."
Bai Tingting's ears turned red. She had never heard such words in her life. This was completely different from the etiquette and upbringing she learned in the Bai family.
"Uh, thank you, Ye Bing. Come out, I'll teach you how to meditate and cultivate. Although I'm only a beginner mage, I can still teach the basics," Bai Tingting said.
"Understood, thank you for your trouble."
"There are only three very simple steps to casting magic. First, meditation. Second, control. Third, release!"
"First is meditation, which is also called contemplation. Empty all thoughts. For those who become mages, a void world will appear in their minds, revealing the corresponding Magic System Star Dust. For example, I have Healing System Star Dust, so when I meditate, there will be a white Star Dust in my mind."
"The second step is control. Our beginner Star Dust has seven Star Seeds. We mages need to completely control these seven Star Seeds and connect them into a Star Track to cast beginner magic. This process is very long. It took me a full five months to complete it back then."
"The third step is release. Look, it's like this."
After Bai Tingting finished speaking, she quickly connected the Star Track, and the next moment, a milky white ball of light appeared in her hand.
Ye Bing was stunned, a flash of inspiration crossing his mind. In his long-sealed memories, he seemed to know about this Star Dust Magic System, but because too much time had passed, it was difficult to recall it all at once.
"Ye Bing, come on, you also try to see if you can sense the Star Dust, which is what you saw when you awakened your magic," Bai Tingting urged.
Ye Bing nodded and quickly emptied his mind, sinking into his mental space.
Within Ye Bing's mental space were two vortices, one large and one small. The large one was translucent ice-blue, and the small one was a colorless, transparent vortex. However, neither vortex showed the Star Seeds that Bai Tingting mentioned. Aside from the colors, they were empty.
"What's going on? Where are my Star Seeds? Wait a minute, could it be that my so-called Chaos System, like my Ice System, can skip the first and second steps and be released directly?"
Ye Bing suddenly thought that his Ice System power and the power released by Ying Grandpa and Bai Tingting were similar, only the attributes were different.
With this conjecture, a mix of excitement and worry rose in Ye Bing's heart. He was excited that he wouldn't need to spend a lot of time and effort on control, but worried about his difference from others. Especially whether the pills he cultivated would conflict with this magic Star Dust.
"How is it? Did you see it?" Bai Tingting asked quickly when she saw Ye Bing open his eyes.
"Yes, I saw it," Ye Bing replied truthfully.
"That's good. First, meditate for two months to strengthen your Star Dust, and then try to control the Star Seeds. Don't rush at first; Star Seeds are very mischievous and will dart around. To make them settle down and stay in a certain position requires a lot of time, understood?" Bai Tingting continued.
"Yes, I understand," Ye Bing nodded and said.
"That's good. I've taught you everything I know. It's getting late, and I should go. My contact information has been saved to your phone, it's the second one. The first one is He Hao's number. If you have any other questions, you can call me." Bai Tingting stood up and said to Ye Bing.
"Are you leaving?" Ye Bing said with some reluctance.
After so many years, it was his first time meeting a girl his age, and a pretty one at that, which made Ye Bing feel a sense of reluctance.
Bai Tingting smiled sweetly, "We'll have a chance to meet again, classmate Ye Bing."
"Huh?" Ye Bing was stunned, then remembered that He Hao had said he would handle his enrollment. So Bai Tingting was his classmate.
After Ye Bing saw Bai Tingting off, he returned to the apartment, took some pre-prepared food from the refrigerator, heated it in the microwave, filled his stomach, and chose a room on the first floor as his bedroom.
He took out the gifts that various grandpas and grandmas had given him as souvenirs before his departure.
Originally, Ye Bing had only considered these items as ordinary gifts or amulets, but after witnessing Ying Grandpa's strength, Ye Bing no longer thought that way.
He picked up a jade pendant given by Grandma Mu. It was called a jade pendant, but it looked more like marble, cloudy and coated with a layer of pulp.
Ye Bing injected magic energy into the jade pendant. The jade pendant immediately became clear and translucent, and Ye Bing could clearly see a pair of dragons and phoenixes carved on it.
Immediately after, Ye Bing felt his magic energy rapidly drain, and his Golden Core also spun wildly. Two very faint ethereal figures appeared on the jade pendant, precisely those carved dragons and phoenixes.
However, just as they flew out, Ye Bing only caught a general glimpse before his magic energy was exhausted, and his Golden Core also became dim. The two ethereal figures instantly vanished, and the jade pendant reverted to its marble appearance.
Ye Bing gasped for breath, lying on the sofa, looking completely drained.
After a short while, Ye Bing slowly got up from the sofa.
"What, what is this? How could 90% of my magic energy be drained in just a few seconds? It seems that with my current strength, I'm not yet qualified to use these artifacts," Ye Bing muttered, wiping the sweat from his forehead. (Note: The protagonist's current total magic energy is only at the level of a dual-system intermediate mage.)
After recovering some magic energy, Ye Bing tried to control the Chaos System's magic energy. Sure enough, a colorless, transparent halo with a faint outline appeared in his hand.
Ye Bing felt the power, sensing it had little destructive force, and casually threw the ball of light away.
It happened to hit a water glass. The glass wobbled a few times, then suddenly rose into the air before falling to the ground.
"What's going on?" Ye Bing was a bit bewildered. What was this? Levitation?
Ye Bing used the power of the Chaos System again.
Suddenly, Ye Bing heard the buzzing of a mosquito and instinctively flicked the Chaos magic energy in his hand towards it.
The mosquito, which was flying forward, was struck by Ye Bing's Chaos magic energy and immediately shot rapidly towards the ceiling. After hitting the ceiling, it then rapidly plummeted to the ground, not at all like the speed of freefall.
"Anti-gravity? No, chaos, chaos. Breaking order is chaos. Could it be that the Chaos System is a magic system that breaks order and rules?" Ye Bing exclaimed in surprise.
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