With anxiety and anticipation coexisting, Muhadi waited until the second week to learn psionics.
This time it was Fatuma who sent him, but it seemed that the girl was very worried. Muhadi knew that she should be worrying about the negotiation with Tyre City, but he could not comfort the other party. Because in theory, Muhadi should not know these things.
The two rode all the way to the outside of the black forest around the Dust Hall before breaking up. Fatuma sternly dropped a sentence, "Don't waste time, come back to me immediately after the old witch's class!"
Mo Hadi wanted to go up and beat her for a while, and seemed to want to comfort him, but in the end he didn't say anything, just nodded silently, then turned and walked into the black forest.
Although the Black Forest was as gloomy and desolate as the last gang, Muhadi no longer felt it was terrifying. After seeing the various illusions that Tianqin showed during the painful training that day, a few strange trees and the cold wind in the desert, it seems that it is not so scary.
The broken and collapsed dome and columns of the Dust Hall were getting closer and closer, and Muhadi became a little nervous. I don't know what course the old lady Tianqin prepared for this time? Do you want to go through that maddening maze again?
Muhadi walked the path like last time, went around the back of the main hall, and pushed open the ancient stone gate.
A vast starry sky suddenly appeared in front of him.
The darkness was empty and deep, and scattered stars dotted the black velvet curtain.
Looking at the endless void beneath his feet, Muhadi hesitated whether to step forward.
"Step." Like last time, the old woman's voice came out of thin air. "Have you forgotten how to walk?"
Muhadi looked at the nothingness under his feet, took a deep breath, and took a step forward calmly.
The boy did not fall, and his feet were on the hard rocky ground.
The starry sky suddenly disappeared, and Muhadi found himself in the simple stone room from the last time, with the old woman sitting aside. The girl named Aisha looked at him with concern, and she was obviously relieved to see that Muhadi had come in safely.
The old woman's dull eyes had no focus, and she said in a way that was close to a murmur: "With any rational thinking, it is impossible for this broken house to be stuffed with stars."
"And it can't be a portal or anything like that, or the difference in air pressure can push you through."
"But you still hesitate."
Muhadi defended. "That illusion is too real, and your psionic energy is so powerful that it may be able to do seemingly impossible things, I dare not take the risk."
"Don't forget that I can read your emotions!" The old woman Tianqin suddenly raised her voice.
"Your hesitation just now was because of your fear of the unknown!"
Muhadi was speechless. Aisha gave him a comforting look.
"This is today's lesson. You have to learn to use reason to overcome primitive animal feelings." After the old woman finished speaking, she changed her tone and became a girl's voice. It seems that another personality of hers has surfaced.
"Let's start with theory."
Seeing an old woman-like person speaking in the voice of a young girl is somewhat strange. But Muhadi did not dare to show it at all. He sat cross-legged with Aisha and listened carefully.
"There are a lot of superstitious people in the world who believe in the existence of souls, who think they are some sort of shimmering, translucent suspended human figure. Ridiculous."
"When most people in the world were still immersed in this baseless superstition, my generation of psions began to study the system of the human heart long ago."
"Psions in ancient times discovered that every intelligent creature, whether it is a human, an elves, or a dwarf, has three levels of personality. Ancient Psions named these three levels of personality as id, ego, and superego. "
"The id (id) symbolizes the beast instinct of intelligent life, and represents the most primitive desire to satisfy instinctual impulses such as appetite and sexual desire. It only follows the principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. It is the driving force of personality."
"The ego (ego) is the psychological component of intelligent life, where the reality principle temporarily suspends the pleasure principle, which reconciles the conflict between instinct and reality. Ancient psions believed that it was the enforcer of the personality."
"The super-ego is the mysterious part of the personality, which is governed by the principle of perfection, which is often opposed to the instinct. The noble actions of intelligent life that go against instinct, such as sacrifice, devotion, are the function of the super-ego. The sorcerer also draws on this part of the power, the superego is the manager of the personality."
Aisha listened with relish, but Muhadi shouted loudly in his heart, isn't this Freud's psychoanalysis? Apart from this psychological theory developed on earth, how come no one has become a psionicist.
"Similar to personality, human consciousness is also divided into three types." Tianqin continued to explain in a girl's voice, her face showing an unusual religious ceremony-like solemnity. "Conscious, subconscious, unconscious."
"Consciousness is a decision made by a person's main personality, while the subconscious and unconscious are mostly the influence of the id."
Tianqin suddenly withdrew her blurred eyes and stared at Muhadi, causing the latter to think she had done something wrong. "For example, you didn't dare to step in the door before because you saw the endless void below, and you subconsciously feared falling. And you often touch your nose from time to time, and your hands are exchanged and overlapped, which is an unconscious behavior, and you are exposed. Anxiety inside."
Muhadi was startled and listened to Lyra continue to speak.
"Fear of heights is the most basic fear of human beings. Elves and dwarves do not have such serious fear of heights, but humans are different. When humans are three or four years old, they will begin to have falling dreams. This is the collective of ancient tree dwellers. Remnants of memory. Let human larvae also know the danger of falling, so as to avoid the cliff and break the wall."
"I specifically tested you with the illusion of the starry sky, just to see if you could overcome the instinct and the unconscious with consciousness. Because the untrained subconscious will affect your decision, and the unconscious will expose your heart. This is in the Psion. During the battle, it is absolutely deadly. And a strong consciousness will make you useful for life, even if it is not in the field of psionics."
"You, and Aisha, have already gone through the first stage of pain training, so you will not continue to train your ability to withstand pain today. With your fragile will, continuous training will only cause you to suffer irreversible mental damage. ."
"But the effect is already present."
"There is a term called excess self-healing. When your bones are damaged, the body will automatically repair it. Moreover, the repaired part is often denser and thicker than the normal part. For the mind, there is the same phenomenon, you Once you have been injured, when you are injured to the same degree in the future, it is not easy to be knocked down. After receiving my painful training, ordinary suffering can no longer help you."
"...So today we learn another technique, how to stay awake, overcome the deception of the senses, and overcome the instinct with will."
After speaking, Tianqin snapped her fingers. Four flying knives appeared in the air, and the blades flashed coldly, looking extremely dangerous.
"Close your eyes now."
Muhadi did as he was told, and then felt a sharp, hard object pressing against his double eyelids.
"Now, go forward." Lyra ordered. Mo Hadi was at a loss for a moment, moved forward a little, and felt that the hard object on the eyelid was getting closer. It could be said that it was about to be stained with the eyelid, but now it is completely on the top.
"Go forward!" Tianqin raised her voice and became stern. However, Muhadi felt that if he moved a little further, his eyes would be pierced, and he had to stay in place where he dared to move.
"The two flying knives are simulated by illusion. There won't be any harm, the feeling is just to deceive you, you have to believe the facts and move on for me! Aisha has moved!"
So this is the deception of feeling, Muhadi thought. Then he stepped forward cautiously, and felt that the foreign object on his eyelids was also retreating step by step, and he didn't really hurt himself.
It seemed that it was an illusion, and Muhadi was relieved to take a big step, but his mind clearly knew that it was not true, but his body instinctively refused to obey. He felt himself clenching his fists unknowingly, and the muscles all over his body tightened. And this obviously couldn't hide Tianqin's observation.
"It's better than before, I know how to improve. But you are still influenced by false feelings. Why are the knuckles of your left hand turning white?" Tianqin criticized, "Keep walking until you can fully adapt."
Human eyes are fragile and sensitive, so when there is a foreign object approaching, they will instinctively want to avoid it. Lyra's training takes advantage of this.
Seeing that Muhadi was able to walk more normally, Tianqin raised the difficulty again, allowing Muhadi to open his eyes. Only then did he realize that the two flying knives were suspended less than 1 mm in front of the eyeball.
"Psionic power and magic can create all kinds of illusions. Sometimes you know it's fake, but you're still involuntarily affected by the illusion, and your senses deceive your reason."
"Now I tell you clearly that the flying knife is fake, if you can move forward normally. Then in the real battle, if you find an illusion, even if you still look at it, you will never be taken by the enemy. "
"If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses will be weakened, as will your will. Now, try it."
Just like before, Mohadi also paced nervously for a while, and then it was more natural to ignore the two flying knives and move forward. It's just that he doubted that if he hadn't seen that Aisha had succeeded, he still didn't know what he would have done.
Next, Lyra forced Muhadi to practice gesturing gestures in the illusion flame and read aloud normally in the smelly cloud. By the end of the day's training, Muhadi had been numb to all kinds of difficulties.