There was an intrinsic connection between the poison and life spells that witch doctors specialized in. It was precisely because they understood life that their poisons were even more terrifying. Understanding poisons naturally meant that they also understood normal medicinal herbs. Coupled with their understanding of life, the healing ointments that witch doctors created were rather effective.
Witch doctors were similar to druids in that they were both perception-type spellcasters. What was surprising was that Feng Chou discovered from his exploration of the magical items that the principles and methods of spellcasting for these two professions were actually similar.
The only difference was that witch doctors' perception was more towards the soul and life, while druids' perception was more towards nature and the elements.
In the memories that Feng Chou recovered related to cultivation, life, the soul, and nature were all directions that were easier to sense in the laws of heaven and earth.
Witch doctors' sensing method was the same as druids', using the soul to sense directly. It was poles apart from the cultivators' Qi Training Technique.
This made Feng Chou very disappointed.
Feng Chou's gaze swept past the voodoo doll, totem statue, ointments, voodoo staff … Finally, his gaze landed on a wooden statue that seemed out of place.
This was a black dragon carved out of ebony.
The carving technique of this statue was crude and simple, but also extremely lifelike. With just a few strokes, not only did it depict a black dragon with its head held high and its chest puffed out, spreading its wings as if it were about to take flight, but had yet to take flight. Even in terms of details, just a few crisscrossing lines were enough to vividly depict the dense and smooth dragon scales on the black dragon's body.
This black dragon did not have any magical waves on it. When Feng Chou saw it, it was thrown at the bottom of a narrow low-level magic cabinet.
The shopkeeper told him that this was the totem that the black dragon carried around by the lizardmen Dragon Cultists.
The Dragon Cultists were a group of mysterious fellows. It was said that they could raise the level of their dragon bloodline by worshipping this kind of giant dragon statue.
The shopkeeper mysteriously told him that the secret of how the Dragon Cultists could raise the level of their dragon bloodline without a bloodline ceremony was hidden within this statue.
Of course, Feng Chou would not believe his nonsense, but he still spent more than ten crowns to buy this statue.
This was because the memories of cultivation from his previous life told him that this black dragon statue should be a secret statue of "visualization".
The so-called "visualization" was a cultivation term used by cultivators. It was somewhat similar to the Druid meditation technique of this world.
Visualization was a method that cultivators used to imagine some kind of secret image in their minds, and in turn, they could mobilize their spirit or stimulate their physical body and internal organs.
Although visualization was also a fantasy, visualization was not an ordinary fantasy. When ordinary people fantasized, the things in their minds were often blurry and indeterminate, as if they were separated by a layer of frosted glass. It was very difficult to conjure specific details. Visualization, on the other hand, required a cultivator to completely reproduce a certain image in their mind. The image that was conjured had to be down to the tiniest detail, and not a single mistake could be missed.
In order to achieve this, one would need many years of training and subduing one's inner monkey.
Only after subduing the unsettled mind and allowing one's mind to become absolutely tranquil would one be able to grasp the visualization technique.
The tricks of visualization in the Cultivation World were generally the same. However, the content of visualization, namely, the secret diagrams, was ever-changing. Each secret diagram represented a completely different way of cultivation.
Some of the secret diagrams could strengthen one's spirit, some could strengthen one's internal organs, some could give a cultivator's inner Qi a certain strong attribute, and some could assist a cultivator in cultivating a certain secret technique …
These secret diagrams were so miraculous that they naturally had their own extraordinary aspects.
The so-called secret diagrams were actually some kind of concrete representation of the laws of Heaven and Earth. When a cultivator was not psychic, they could use these secret diagrams to allow their body and mind to interact with the laws of Heaven and Earth represented by the secret diagrams, thus achieving the goal of cultivation and strengthening one's body.
Feng Chou had been a direct disciple of a rich and powerful sect in his previous life. He had seen countless secret diagrams of cultivation techniques. Therefore, when he saw the black dragon statue, he felt that it should be a secret statue of visualization.
A secret statue was a three-dimensional version of a secret diagram. Some secret diagrams could not be expressed in a flat surface, so they would use a secret statue.
Feng Chou sat in the cabin and played with the black dragon statue for a long time. Finally, he decided to try visualizing the black dragon statue according to the visualization technique.
After making up his mind, Feng Chou entered the Pagoda Qiankun Pagoda and let Qiankun Pagoda guard him. He sat cross-legged and carefully looked at the black dragon statue again before closing his eyes.
With the memories of his previous life, Feng Chou quickly adjusted his body and mind, allowing his mind to completely calm down and enter the state of meditation.
What Feng Chou did not know was that as a mage, being able to enter the state of meditation could be considered a small miracle.
The learning and cultivation method of a mage determined that a mage needed to maintain an extremely active state of mind. A mage's meditation technique was to construct an extremely complex virtual spell circuit in the mind to achieve the goal of tempering one's mental strength.
This method and the visualization technique of a cultivator were two extremes. One was active and the other was still. One required the mind to be absolutely silent, while the other required the mind to be highly active.
If an ordinary mage were to learn the visualization technique, it would probably be worse than killing him. Moreover, it would be impossible to succeed.
Mages and cultivators were like a pair of contradictory bodies. It was very difficult for them to get along peacefully. A person who received cultivator training would find it very difficult to receive mage education, and vice versa.
If Feng Chou hadn't refused to recover his memories as a cultivator after his rebirth and waited until he had fully received the education of a sorcerer before recovering his memories as a cultivator, then he would have found that it was very difficult for him to learn and accept the logic and knowledge of a sorcerer. No matter how much his intelligence had increased, learning would take twice the effort for half the result, and it might even be difficult for him to make any progress.
After a long time, Feng Chou left the state of meditation and opened his eyes. His eyes were filled with excitement.
During the visualization just now, Feng Chou sensed his kidneys and felt the familiar yet unfamiliar surge of kidney qi.
It was familiar because he was sure that the stimulated organs were the kidneys, and the surging vitality was the kidney qi. It was unfamiliar because the kidney qi was very different from the kidney qi in his memory.
As for the specific differences, he still needed to figure it out carefully. However, this was enough, because these differences were the entry point for him to study the differences between the two worlds!
With an entry point, it was equivalent to having a direction. With a direction, he knew where to go. No matter how bumpy the road ahead was, as long as the direction was correct, there would always be a day when he would reach his destination.
For the next period of time, Feng Chou hid in the captain's cabin and rarely showed his face.
Fortunately, the crew on the ship were all veterans who had been to the West Coast for a long time. They could handle it without the captain.
After the fleet anchored in Maledean Port for a week, they lifted the anchor early one morning and continued north.
Feng Chou was obsessed with the study of the Black Dragon Visualization Technique. He locked himself in the captain's cabin all day long. Even when the fleet set sail, he only showed his face in a hurry.