Training All Four Elements Together!

Returning to his lodgings, Mo Fan found Xinxia sitting serenely on the small balcony, eyes closed — she was probably deep in Meditation herself.

She planned to take the Magic College Entrance Examination next year, and there was still so much left to learn.

Mo Fan wanted to share his excitement with her, but seeing how focused and composed she looked, he couldn't bring himself to interrupt.

*Better to say nothing yet*, he decided. *Save it for later — give this girl one big surprise.*

It was early afternoon. Bright sunlight draped over Xinxia's delicate frame like a length of sheer white silk. She sat with exceptional poise, the soft corners of her lips curled ever so slightly upward — she looked like a girl lost in a beautiful dream.

She must have made considerable progress in her Meditation. Normally she was as unhurried and detached as still water about everything, so this faint trace of quiet joy was rare for her.

Mo Fan stayed silent, standing beside her and simply watching.

Jet-black hair cascaded around her small, clean features. Xinxia's face wasn't a perfect oval — when she pressed her lips gently together, her cheeks showed a faint, endearing roundness, and once those beautiful eyes were closed, her curved lashes made her look all the more fragile and lovely.

With a girl like this, you couldn't even entertain a wayward thought. The fragility her wheelchair gave her only deepened the urge to protect her.

On that night of disaster in Bo City, Mo Fan had promised her: if she couldn't walk, he would give her wings.

Wing Enchanted Gear existed.

But it was so expensive that an ordinary person couldn't afford it in several lifetimes.

Before, that dream had felt genuinely out of reach. But now — with limitless potential driving him forward, he would only grow stronger, accumulate more. One day he would personally place a beautiful pair of wings in her hands. The freedom of running, something she had never known — she could trade it for the feel of wind in her ears and clouds beneath her feet.

Mo Fan never did wake her.

He knew what he had to do. The joy of his Dual Elements awakening hadn't dimmed — it had transformed into boundless anticipation for what lay ahead, into the confidence that he could one day command everything himself, into a blazing, relentless drive that roared through him like a furnace.

Back in his own room, Mo Fan couldn't stand to waste a single moment.

Four full elements. Awakening them didn't mean he was already powerful — it only meant that the harder he pushed himself, the more room he had to grow.

More time would need to go into Meditation. More practice on Star Mote Control across each element. More resources consumed.

Fortunately, the Little Loach was there to help enormously.

In reality, many Mages never even mastered a single element to a high standard — where would they find time to Meditate on anything else? For Mo Fan, who had four elements to cultivate at once, sheer time would never be enough on its own.

But the Sacred Aura from the Loach Pendant let him Meditate for twenty-four hours a day without growing tired.

Mo Fan simply locked himself in his room and wrung every minute out of each day.

The Sacred Aura of the Earth Sacred Spring had been fully absorbed into the Loach Pendant. It couldn't replicate the Spring's direct effects, but it still doubled his Meditation speed compared to an ordinary person.

A Common Grade Stardust Artifact improved Meditation speed by roughly 20%. A Spirit Grade one pushed it to around 40%.

After absorbing the Earth Sacred Spring, the Little Loach had undergone yet another metamorphosis. Mo Fan couldn't even begin to determine its grade now, but the moment he entered Meditation, he could feel the Loach Pendant's effect — half the effort, double the result.

A full twofold increase.

And that was the hard baseline boost alone — not counting Mo Fan's own deepening grasp of Meditation, nor his extraordinary daily practice hours. Even when he wasn't actively Meditating, the Loach Pendant's nourishing effect never stopped, quietly pushing his cultivation higher with every passing hour.

Every Mage gained something different through Meditation. Even setting aside any natural talent, the stacked Sacred Aura and nourishment from the Loach Pendant alone were enough to leave every peer his age in the dust.

Mo Fan had arranged his time with complete efficiency.

After roughly three months of this, he was stunned to discover that his Shadow Element Stardust had already reached the level it had once taken him a full year to achieve.

His Shadow Element Stardust had grown at rocket speed — he could barely believe it himself.

*Must be because after reaching Intermediate Level, working with Stardust becomes second nature for a Mage who already has a Star Nebula. That's why the pace is so much faster than before.* He turned that thought over in his mind.

With Meditation time split evenly across all four elements, he held no particular advantage over others in hours devoted to any single one. But the Sacred Aura and nourishment the Loach Pendant supplied, stacked together, raised his overall Meditation speed by roughly 2.5 times.

By all logic, three months under a 2.5× boost should have equaled maybe seven or eight months at his old pace — yet the result matched a full year's worth of cultivation. At this rate, sweeping straight S grades on any annual assessment would be trivial.

The more Mo Fan turned it over, the only explanation he could find was that his own innate Meditation efficiency had also climbed by roughly 1.5 times.

It came from tending to his Star Nebula-level Fire Element and Star Nebula-level Lightning Element every single day. By the time he turned his attention to his Stardust-level Shadow and Summoning Elements, they felt effortless in comparison.

It was like being a veteran parent who had already raised two rowdy kids from infancy all the way to their early teens. By the time the third and fourth arrived, you handled them with the ease of someone who'd seen everything — every element in its place, every Star Mote in line.

Once both his Shadow Element and Summoning Element Stardust had developed to the point where Release was possible, Mo Fan finally began reaching out to his Shadow Element Star Motes.

The Star Trail, by this point, was something he'd grown completely fluent with. And although building trust with Shadow and Summoning Star Motes meant starting from scratch, the old playbook still worked perfectly — lead with coaxing, back it up with a little trickery. No matter how proud or stubborn a Star Mote, it eventually fell in line.

Cultivating Shadow Element and Summoning Element went far more smoothly than Fire and Lightning had in his early days. No unnecessary detours, no spiral of confidence lost to repeated failure.

Mo Fan had already been drilling Control well ahead of schedule. Normally, someone who'd just finished linking all seven Star Motes together would be desperate to cast new spells, pouring most of their time into full Release practice. But given the time pressure bearing down on him, Mo Fan strangled that urge and kept his focus on building a rock-solid foundation.

Once he got to university, there'd be all the time and training space he needed. Out here in this desolate resettlement area at the edge of nowhere, there were hardly any pretty girls with figures good enough to make Shadow Fade worth deploying for a peek.