Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

"Consciousness projection?"

Dago lowered his head, looked at his translucent hands, and roughly made a judgment in his mind.

His high-level robe, the titanium armor he carried, and even the spatial ring on his finger were all left outside the tower along with his physical body.

At this moment, only a pure consciousness clone entered the Tower of Spells.

Dago tried calling out to Arahan in his mind, but there was no response.

He closed his eyes and looked inward at the body constructed of energy.

Several soul runes still emitted a faint glow, but one spiritual crystal was missing, and the overall strength of spiritual power had also greatly declined, almost returning to the level of the second purification stage.

Dago frowned slightly. He carefully examined his current state.

This projected clone was meticulously replicated, almost identical to the original body, but it possessed a strong sense of "emptiness".

Without the energy orb that continuously provides life from the [Blue Demon Body], the blue snails that once resided in the [Double Snail Palace] have also been lost.

Even the blood tree magic array engraved on his heart disappeared.

Only the ten soul crystals floating in his mind, and the fragmented storm patterns that had long been deeply rooted in his spiritual bones, still flickered with his breath.

Dago raised his hand, attempting to mobilize his mental energy.

Instantly, a continuous stream of energy particles roared and converged in the air, effortlessly achieving a magical resonance.

However, before he could fully familiarize himself with this restricted body, the surrounding void suddenly changed.

Suddenly, a cluster of intense, dark blue light burst forth from the void beneath their feet, like a fountain bursting from the ground, surging wildly upwards.

Dago instinctively took a deep breath and raised his body.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the cluster of blue light rapidly expand in his field of vision, with layers of water ripples spreading out from the dazzling light.

In just a few blinks, the void transformed into a vast, magnificent blue sea.

Under a clear blue sky, the sea ripples gently.

A gentle sea breeze, carrying white foam, blew in my face, filling my nostrils with a faint salty and damp smell, and I could even faintly hear the cries of seagulls in the far distance.

All these sensory details are so real, so real that they are chilling.

Before Dago could even marvel at the creative power of this consciousness space, a sudden change occurred on the sea directly in front of him.

A huge ball of water burst out of the sea with a roar, the waves churning and twisting violently, quickly stretching out the outline of a giant blue fish with two tails.

On the broad back of the giant fish stood a wizard clad in a light blue robe.

The wizard's face was blurred, his features indistinct. He gripped a staff formed from turbulent currents tightly in his hand, and his body emanated a powerful aura of a late-stage peak third ring cultivator!

"Suru ba na—"

As soon as the wizard riding the giant fish appeared, obscure and short spellcasting syllables rolled from his throat.

As the surge of magical power exploded, the sea around him instantly caved in.

"Boom!"

Twelve thick water columns, as thick as towering trees, rose from the sea, rapidly intertwining and entwining in mid-air like wildly dancing vines, finally condensing into a gigantic water hand that blotted out the sky and grabbed down at Dago's head!

Around this giant magical hand, dense magical energy cascaded down like waterfalls.

The giant hand compressed the air, creating violent walls of water tens of meters high along its path, crashing down like a tidal wave.

At the same time, the giant two-tailed fish let out a deep, muffled roar, like that of a water buffalo.

Its thick, twin tails slammed against the sea, shattering the air, and carried the wizard like an arrow as it hurtled closer.

"It's actually a resonance of two realms of magic."

A cold glint flashed in Dago's eyes. His lips moved slightly, but he didn't bother to make a sound.

The ten crystallized souls in his mind shone brightly at the same instant!

Dago suddenly spread his five fingers and pressed his palm down hard.

Centered on the point where his five fingers of energy landed, the turbulent sea beneath him was instantly frozen by extreme cold, emitting a piercing sound of freezing!

The endless frost energy surged violently upwards like a dragon emerging from the sea.

Large plumes of extreme cold frost twisted and condensed in mid-air, quickly transforming into the shape of a long, narrow, and sharp ice blade.

Dago's right hand was raised in a loose fist, as if he were holding an invisible sword hilt.

He seemingly pulled the ice blade, filled with a chilling and frigid aura, from the frozen Dead Sea.

【Extreme Frozen Sword Domain】!

The ancient ice blade with its narrow, icy-blue blood groove swiftly rose into the air, its blade trembling slightly under the blazing sun, emitting a crisp, melodious hum like crystals colliding.

The next moment, the huge magical ice blade suddenly disappeared from its original spot!

Instead, a vast expanse of ice rain and frost flowers suddenly spread across the void, along with a deadly blade trajectory that twisted and tore like a black venomous snake.

"Whoosh—!"

The pitch-black blade marks, shrouded in frost, brutally tore through the sky.

The hundred-meter-long wall of water that lay before Dago couldn't even hold for a second before silently and neatly splitting open from the center to both sides.

Starting with a smooth, mirror-like cut, the surging seawater gradually solidifies into a deathly silent ice wall.

The blade pierced through both sides of Dago's body, and finally exploded into a shower of fine ice dust hundreds of meters behind him on the sea surface.

Also completely frozen by this extremely cold sword intent was the giant two-tailed fish that was suspended in mid-air.

And on the back of the giant fish, there was a third-ring water mage who was raising his staff, preparing to continue chanting.

At some unknown time, both had transformed into lifelike, enormous ice sculptures, refracting a dreamlike, hazy glow under the sunlight.

Then, all the dreamlike colors shattered with a crash.

Countless crisscrossing, fine cuts suddenly appeared on the surface of the Third Ring Wizard's and the giant fish's bodies.

In a moment of deathly silence, the ice sculpture collapsed with a deafening roar, turning into countless large and small ice fragments that crashed down onto the sea below like hailstones.

"Buzz—"

Only then did the long, narrow ice blade that had disappeared reappear in the wind and snow.

As it flew backward, spewing out biting frost, it rapidly compressed and shrank in mid-air.

Finally, it transformed into a beautifully crafted scalpel, only an inch long, as if sculpted from pure ice crystal, which hovered quietly above Dago's palm, spinning endlessly and trembling incessantly.

Even though his mental strength cultivation was forcibly suppressed by the Trial Tower, Dago still possessed the substantial foundation of ten soul crystals and the ultimate purity brought about by the second purification.

In addition, there's the Fine Snow Sword Domain, which he had already entered the realm of resonance of the third level of the Dharma Domain.

For him, instantly killing a mere third-ring wizard was as easy as breathing.