Dimensional Anchor was a very tricky spell. Its effect was to create a subtle connection between the subject and the current space. This connection would make the rules think that the subject and the current space were one. Since the teleportation spell couldn't teleport the space itself, it naturally couldn't teleport the subject who was one with the current space.
What was worse was that existing defensive spells had no effect on Dimensional Anchor.
After the Dimensional Anchor took effect, the adhesion between the subject and the current space was very difficult to peel off. If it had to be forcefully removed, it would require at least a ninth-level spell. It was far less convenient to use a sixth-level spell like "Advanced Dispel Magic" to directly destroy the spell structure of the Dimensional Anchor. Naturally, no one would invent a spell to specifically dispel the Dimensional Anchor.
To defend against the Dimensional Anchor, Spell Nullification Enchantment could actually do it. However, the problem was that Spell Nullification Enchantment was a spell that only had a basic duration of ten seconds. It was simply not enough to defend against the Dimensional Anchor that was mainly used to trick people.
The best way to defend against the Dimensional Anchor was to invent a status spell that could be maintained for 24 hours so that the Dimensional Anchor couldn't take effect on the user.
Through a series of complicated calculations and spell experiments, Feng Chou finally came up with a spell that could be immune to the Dimensional Anchor. However, even if he had done it to the extreme, the duration of this fifth-level spell could only reach five minutes. Even if he upgraded the spell to seventh-level, the duration was only half an hour.
Half an hour wasn't enough to deal with the Dimensional Anchor. He couldn't cast a seventh-level spell on himself every half an hour. The cost was too high and it was too troublesome. This was the trouble with defensive spells. The attack could be flexible and varied, but the defense had to be all-encompassing.
If it were other mages, they would probably have to stop here. However, Feng Chou wasn't an ordinary mage. He changed to using the thinking of a cultivator to solve this problem.
Since the cost of using a mage's method to forcefully maintain this spell was too high, could he let the world's rules maintain this effect by themselves?
Thus, Feng Chou began to practice this newly invented Level Five spell. After spending more than a year, he finally managed to practice this spell to the level of Dharma Seal.
After reaching the level of Taoist Seal, Feng Chou found that he could easily increase the duration of this Magic Art to two hours. Moreover, if he used Taoist Seal as a medium to let the effect of the Magic Art and the corresponding rules of the world continue to interact, this Magic Art could be maintained forever, and the consumption of Internal Qi was next to nothing.
Feng Chou gave a very local name to his newly invented "status" spell, which was specially designed to resist dimensional anchors, "Spatial Scholar".
As long as he activated the Space Scholar status, he would be immune to the Epidemic Dimensional Anchor spell.
After completing the Space Scholar ritual, Feng Chou temporarily stopped his research on cultivation techniques and began studying the Transfiguration master-level arcane spell information that he had just obtained.
When Feng Chou was choosing his reward, the purpose of choosing the Transfiguration master-level arcane spell information was very clear. It was for the Level Nine spell, "Time Stop".
The Level Nine spell, Time Stop, was jokingly called "Level Nine Legendary Spell" by mages. On one hand, it was because this spell's heaven-defying effect was comparable to legendary spells. On the other hand, it was because this spell's difficulty was too high. Among archmages, the proportion of those who mastered this spell was almost the same as the proportion of archmages who advanced to legendary. There was even a large portion of legendary mages who were unable to master this spell.
Feng Chou returned to the Mage Tower on Green Dragon Island to study mages' spells. Naturally, he couldn't leave the laboratory in the Mage Tower.
After more than four months in the real world, which was four years in Qiankun Pagoda, Feng Chou finished his research.
The main purpose of his research this time wasn't achieved. In other words, Feng Chou wasn't able to master the Level Nine spell, "Time Stop" this time.
In fact, in these four years, Feng Chou only used three years to master almost all of the Transfiguration spells. The last year was basically spent on the Time Stop spell.
However, his research wasn't without results. He discovered that his inability to master the Time Stop spell didn't seem to be due to a lack of intelligence. It was very likely that it was due to a lack of prerequisite knowledge.
Of course, Feng Chou wasn't certain about this conclusion. This was something that he knew from the cultivation memories of his previous life. The rules of space and time seemed to have no relationship, but in fact, the two were essentially one. Knowing this secret made him think of this point.
With this vague inference, Feng Chou decided to continue deriving Space Cultivation techniques. Perhaps other people's stones could be used to improve jade?
Even if it wasn't, there was no loss.
For Feng Chou, there was a problem with researching Cultivation techniques, and that was that he could not do it in the Heaven and Earth Pagoda.
Qiankun Pagoda's Qiankun Microcosm in the pagoda was a world of its own, completely isolated from the real world. This not only protected the Qiankun Microcosm in the pagoda, but also prevented him from sensing any of the rules of the real world when he was in the Qiankun Microcosm in the pagoda.
It was precisely because of this that Feng Chou had to return to the real world to complete his experiments when he was researching arcane spells. If he were to experiment in the Qiankun Small World in the tower, the results would likely be completely different.
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During the three years of seclusion on the deserted island, Feng Chou did not ignore the affairs of the world. In fact, he had to return to Green Dragon Island every once in a while to deal with the affairs of the territory and arrange the construction of the territory. Of course, every time he returned, he would take some time to accompany his woman to the island villa for a vacation. After all, life could not only be about cultivation. Otherwise, what was the point of living?
It was worth mentioning that Feng Chou made adjustments to the roles of the demon wizard Anrik and the goblin engineer Mossock. He merged the fleets led by the two of them under the command of the old captain and Captain Haddock, leaving the two of them in the territory.
Feng Chou gave Anrik and Mossock secondary authority in the Wizard Tower to support their research.
He felt that it was far more valuable to use their talents in research than to let them be captains.
In the next two years, every time the merchant fleet led by the old captain and Haddock passed by Green Dragon Island, Feng Chou would add one or two new ships to the fleet.
No one knew where these new ships came from.
A portion of the crew of the new ships were drawn from the old crew members, while the rest were recruited from the green dragon descendants on the island.
According to Feng Chou's orders, the green dragon Ayrsala had continuously gone to the Amazon rainforest to recruit some green dragon descendants.
Feng Chou had people select a portion of the green dragon descendants to undergo systematic sailor training.
The green dragon descendants were rather outstanding sailors. Their intelligence was no different from that of ordinary people, and they were powerful. They were born with water-elemental talents, and with a little training, they could be competent for the work on the ship.