Wizard: My skills can be upgraded indefinitely.

Golden Oak Street was quieter than usual in the early morning; even the wind seemed to hold its breath.

A dark gray metal mailbox sits on the counter in the front hall of Workshop No. 12.

It was branded with the Just family's dark gold emblem and felt cold to the touch.

Old Finn's withered fingers paused as he picked up the mailbox.

He turned around and walked heavily toward the courtyard.

Adele stood beneath the half-withered old golden oak, the morning light filtering through the sparse leaves, casting dappled shadows on her delicate face.

Hearing old Finn's footsteps, she turned and took the mailbox.

The moment my fingertips touched the metal, my heart skipped a beat.

With a soft "click," the mailbox was turned on.

The dark red parchment slipped from my palm; the words on it were so neat and precise, each one as cold as ice.

Adele's gaze swept over the first few lines, her pupils contracting.

"Twenty days later..." Her voice was somewhat bitter.

"Family Colosseum, three late-stage Tier 2 monsters, a gauntlet battle."

The words and phrases are like icicles, piercing the air one by one.

Delia strode out of the corridor and looked nervous when she saw the parchment in Edel's hand.

"Miss……"

"Ultimately, we have to face it."

Adele interrupted her, taking a deep breath and forcibly suppressing the chill surging in her chest.

She looked up at the closed metal door at the end of the corridor.

In the laboratory, Ian had just woken up from a deep meditation.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the pale golden crystallized core slowly rotated, and the star trail patterns on its surface were thicker than they had been ten days ago.

Elementalization progress... 11%. Without star fragments, the progress has slowed down.

There is still a long way to go to reach the 20% target.

"We still need to think of a way..."

A knock sounded at the door, the rhythm was light, but it carried a tense urgency.

Ian opened his eyes, and a flash of silver light disappeared deep in his pupils.

"Come in."

The door was pushed open, and Adele walked in, clutching the roll of dark red parchment in her hand.

Her back was ramrod straight, but Ian could feel the tremor within her.

"A notification from the family."

She placed the parchment on the lab table, trying her best to keep her voice steady.

"Twenty days later, the Colosseum practical assessment."

Ian picked up the parchment and quickly scanned it.

Three-headed, late-stage Tier 2 monsters, random species, gauntlet battles.

You may invite a guest advisor or ally to fight alongside you.

Their performance will be counted as a bonus for the heir's ability to "recognize and win over" people.

His fingertip lightly tapped the words "Late Stage Two of Three Heads".

"You want me to play with you?"

Adele looked at him with a complicated expression.

Expectation, hesitation, and a deep-seated unease.

"The rules allow it, but..." She paused, her voice lowering.

"It's too dangerous, and your purpose isn't in the arena."

Ian put down the parchment and looked up.

The morning light slanted in through the ventilation window high up in the laboratory, outlining a clear profile on his profile.

"Danger is two-way."

His voice was calm, as if he were stating a very simple fact.

"If they try to stop you from passing, my situation will also become dangerous."

Adele's breath hitched slightly.

Ian stood up, walked to the other side of the lab bench, picked up an empty crystal bottle, and gently twirled it between his fingertips.

The bottle reflected the morning light, revealing the steady silver gleam in his eyes.

"My strength is too weak to be of any help."

He paused, then looked at Idyl.

"But we still have twenty days, which is enough for us to get things done."

Adele's eyes lit up.

"First, I need a large amount of star crystals. If you have a way to collect them for me, please do so."

This is the reward I promised him, and Idel needs to provide it to him so as not to delay his elementalization process.

Ian's gaze fell on the lab bench, where materials and notes were scattered about.

"Secondly, if there's enough time, I'll have a batch of medicine custom-made for you."

Adele's breathing quickened for a moment.

"Medicine?"

"A potion that rapidly enhances combat power in a short period of time."

Ian turned around and looked at her.

"But we need a lot of raw materials, especially the blood essence of first-tier and higher magical beasts. The more the better, and the more diverse the types, the better."

His eyes were deep. "The more essence blood I have, the more I can do..."

Adele stood there, her palm unconsciously touching the parchment.

She looked at Ian, the young wizard from the remote island, her face still calm.

Yet it carried a certain unwavering certainty that allowed it to sweep away everything.

Three seconds later, she took a deep breath.

"I'm going to find Fifth Sister."

After saying that, he turned around and quickly walked out of the laboratory.

The footsteps faded into the distance in the corridor, carrying a sense of desperate determination.

Ian watched her leave, then sat back down at the lab table.

He closed his eyes, and the crystallized core in his mind began to spin faster.

20% elementalization... still 8% short.

Once he arrives, his strength will undergo another minor qualitative change.

Time is tight, but if he has new Star Core fragments or crystals, he can use the Starry Night Ritual and Star Seeds for assistance.

Twenty days is not necessarily impossible.

more importantly……

He opened his eyes and his gaze fell on the notes about bloodline potions.

The knowledge that Aisha brought was like a key, unlocking the tightly closed doors in his mind.

Now, he needs another key... the third breakthrough of the [Bloodline Purification Technique].

His shoulders slumped slightly.

Gaga flew back at some point and landed on the edge of the lab table, its little paws scratching at the empty crystal bottle.

His eyes were full of curiosity.

"Ian, are we really going to fight a three-headed monster?"

"We're not going."

"Can we help? Adele is great, I don't want her to lose."

Ian reached out and gently rubbed its little head.

"Of course you can, and... you'll be a great help very soon."

Gaga's little eyes suddenly lit up, like two little stars that had been lit.

"Really?!"

"When have I ever lied to you?"

Ian withdrew his hand and took out a pale red blood crystal from his dimensional ring.

That was the essence and blood crystal of a first-tier wind-type magical beast, "Gale Falcon," with mixed energy fluctuations.

The interior is mixed with a large number of impurities and violent residues.

He held it in his palm and closed his eyes.

The Bloodline Purification Technique has begun operation.

Pale golden energy threads surged from the palm of the hand, like countless slender tentacles, and burrowed into the blood crystal.

The Soul Devouring effect is activated.

Impurities are precisely stripped away and absorbed, transforming into pure spiritual energy that feeds back into the spiritual sea.

The wake-up effect is triggered simultaneously.

Fragmented bloodline information began to flow into the blood essence that was about to condense.

The Swift Falcon's flight posture, the instinctive memory of controlling the wind blades, even the fear and resentment before death...

It felt like watching a movie on fast-forward.

Ten seconds later, Ian opened his eyes.

The blood crystals in his palm had disappeared, replaced by a drop of liquid the size of a soybean, as pure as a ruby.

It is completely free of impurities, with gentle yet surging energy fluctuations, and even retains a trace of the spirituality of "wind".

First-tier blood essence, with near-perfect purity.

Gaga came closer, its little nose twitching, staring intently at the drop of blood essence.

A faint "gurgling" sound came from his throat.

"Want some?" Ian asked.

"Mmm!" Gaga nodded vigorously, flapping its little wings twice.

Ian handed over the blood essence.

Gaga opened its mouth and carefully swallowed the blood essence.

next second...

Its feathers suddenly fluffed up, and a bright silver-gray light burst forth from its eyes.

The shadow lines on its back began to flow slowly, as if it had come to life.

"So warm...so warm..."

It mumbled softly and rubbed its little head against Ian's fingers.

"And... the smell of the wind."

Ian's eyes flickered slightly.

As expected, the blood essence extracted by the [Bloodline Purification Technique] can not only replenish energy, but also retain some of the original bloodline's characteristics.

If Gaga were to ingest a large amount of homologous or complementary blood essence...

Without further hesitation, he took out all the stored essence blood from his dimensional ring and began to refine it with all his might.

Time slipped away in monotonous repetition.

In the laboratory, there was only the faint hissing sound of energy threads weaving through the air, and the occasional satisfied gurgling of the machine.

As evening fell, Adele returned.

Behind him followed two young men and women dressed in gray apprentice robes, each carrying two heavy metal boxes.

The surface of the box is engraved with protective runes, but one can still feel the complex and surging bloodline energy fluctuations emanating from inside.

"The first batch."

Adele's voice sounded tired, but her eyes shone with an astonishing brightness.

"Fifth Sister has used all the channels she can mobilize, and at least three more batches can be delivered within twenty days."

She paused, then added.

"Among them... there is a small amount of second-tier essence blood."

Ian nodded without asking any further questions.

He opened the metal box.

The box contained hundreds of crystal bottles, each filled with a different colored liquid.

Dark red, deep blue, purplish-black, silver-white...

Welcome to the fantastical world of fantasy novels. The entrance is here:

The energy fluctuations were mixed together, like a pot of boiling magic potion.

Tier 1 Armored Rhinoceros, Tier 2 Fire Lizard, Tier 1 Frost Wolf, Tier 2 Thunder Eagle with low health...

The variety and quantity far exceeded expectations.

Adele looked at Ian's calm face, her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she just silently withdrew.

She didn't know what Ian wanted so much essence blood for.

But she had a vague feeling that this young wizard was brewing a breakthrough she could not imagine.

All she could do was believe and give her full support.

Ian wasted no time.

He sat down cross-legged, placing his hands lightly on top of the metal box.

[Bloodline Purification Technique] Full Power Operation!

Pale golden energy threads surged out like a tide, splitting into dozens of strands that simultaneously drilled into dozens of crystal bottles.

Soul devouring, awakening, purifying, refining...

It's like dozens of sophisticated metalworking machines operating simultaneously.

The energy fluctuations in the laboratory began to surge violently.

Various colors of light intertwine, collide, and are then forcibly stripped away and condensed in the air.

Bloodline Purification Technique Proficiency +1

……

Ian had never encountered so much Tier 1 essence blood before, and he was slightly pleased.

"These large families have a really good supply of goods!"

With his current strength, he fully activated the purification technique, and his proficiency began to increase rapidly.

Gaga squatted in the corner of the lab table, her little eyes wide open.

It watched as the mixed blood essence rapidly transformed into drops of pure blood essence in Ian's hand.

Ian picked up an empty crystal bottle and mixed, shook, and fused together a dozen drops of different types of blood essence in a certain proportion...

The liquid inside the bottle began to change.

The colors gradually become unified from a chaotic state, and the energy fluctuations tend to stabilize from a disordered state.

"For you."

Ian handed the crystal bottle to Gaga.

"A blood essence that combines wind and shadow elements should be the best fit for your current state."

Gaga took the bottle and hugged it tightly with her little paws.

The wind patterns flowing inside the bottle were reflected in his heterochromatic eyes, as if he were seeing the most precious treasure.

"Ian! You're so good to me!"

It tilted its head back and swallowed the blood essence in one gulp.

The next second... its body suddenly swelled up!

Its wingspan surged to three meters, the shadows and patterns on its feathers deepened, and the silver-gray light in its heterochromatic eyes almost overflowed.

The breath began to slowly rise.

Edel sensed the movement inside, her mental energy sweeping across the room, her pupils contracting slightly.

She finally understood.

Ian needed so much essence blood not only to refine potions, but also to feed this familiar.

And the speed at which this familiar was growing... was terrifying, making her scalp tingle.

In the days that followed, Ian did not stop.

Aside from meditation, he devoted almost all his energy to this witchcraft.

He was like a tireless machine, refining, blending, and experimenting day and night.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the pale golden crystallized core maintained a stable rotation.

The elementalization process is progressing slowly but steadily: 11.3%...11.4%...11.5%...

Meanwhile, the experience points for the [Bloodline Purification Technique] began to soar at an astonishing rate.

The progress bar for breaking the limit a second time began to jump wildly with the continuous supply of essence blood.

（1100\/3200）……（1200\/3200）……（1800\/3200）……

On the seventh day, we broke through (2500/3200).

Day 10, breakthrough (3000/3200).

Day 15...

Late at night, the laboratory was brightly lit.

Ian sat in front of the experimental table, his hands resting lightly on the last batch of semen.

This is the third batch sent by Aisha, which includes three complete sets of Tier 2 essence blood.

Thunderhawk, Fire Lizard, and a rare "Shadow Leopard".

The energy fluctuations were extremely violent, and the air in the laboratory was trembling slightly.

Ian closed his eyes, fine beads of sweat appearing on his forehead.

The relentless extraction of essence and blood over a long period of time consumes an astonishing amount of mental energy.

But he didn't stop.

Pale golden energy threads penetrated the essence blood, like the most precise scalpel, beginning to peel away impurities and devour residue. Awakening bloodline information...

Time passed second by second.

The laboratory was so quiet you could hear your own heartbeat.

Gaga perched on Ian's shoulder, its little paws gripping his collar tightly, its heterochromatic eyes filled with worry.

Edel and Delia stood guard at the door, holding their breath.

Old Finn had arrived sometime earlier, his back hunched over as he leaned against the doorframe, the embers in his pipe long since extinguished, his cloudy eyes fixed intently on Ian.

at last,

A low hum emanated from Ian's body.

It wasn't a sound, but a deeper tremor that seemed to touch upon the very rules of the universe.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, the magical runes of the bloodline purification technique began to adjust, melt, and coalesce...

Ultimately, this resulted in a more complex dark red rune.

The moment the runes formed, the second-tier essence blood of the Shadow Leopard in his palm also transformed into pure blood essence.

The deepest level of shadowy spirituality flows within.

In my mind, the long-dormant progress bar finally came to an end.

Bloodline Purification Technique Proficiency +1

As the last bit of proficiency floated away...

【血脉提纯术：破限三次（0\/6400）（破限特效：1噬灵2.唤醒3.原血溯源）】

【Original Bloodline Tracing: Within a short period of time, the user will experience phantom images of the ancient characteristics of the bloodline's origin appearing on parts or the entire body.

This is not a true transformation, but a temporary overlay at the rule level; the world's rules temporarily recognize the user as part of the original species.

New special effects information flooded into my consciousness like a torrent.

After a while, Ian opened his eyes after processing the information.

Deep within his pupils, a crimson light flashed and disappeared, only to be quickly covered by pale golden starlight.

He slowly raised his hand and looked at his palm.

A pale gray leopard blood essence shimmered, as if countless fine runes flowed within it.

"Tracing the origins of the original bloodline..."

He muttered to himself, his voice filled with barely suppressed shock.

This is not a simple purification process.

This is pure primordial blood that touches the essence of bloodline, reverses its origin, and is close to the state of "ancestor".

If the previous blood essence was a finished product with impurities removed, it awakened some extraordinary information.

So now, what he can extract... is a seed containing information about the origin of his bloodline.

It can not only replenish energy but also retain properties.

It can also evoke a deeper resonance and even stimulate the evolution of one's bloodline.

Ian recalls the evolution of the purification technique's limit-breaking effects.

The first time was [Spirit Devouring], which purified impurities, nourished the spirit, and resolved the hidden dangers in the blood essence.

The second is "Awakening," which involves reading extraordinary information and inheriting imprints, further enhancing the exploration of potential.

This time, the "Original Blood Tracing" has focused on the essence and touched the source, and has already subtly touched the level of "rule resonance".

"If we keep breaking limits... is it possible to trace back directly to the source of our bloodline, and even surpass it?"

Ian turned his head and looked at the restless Gaga on his shoulder.

The little guy had already sensed something; the silver-gray light in his heterochromatic eyes flickered intensely.

"Ian..."

Its voice trembled slightly, "I...I really want to eat it..."

"Ian..."

Its voice trembled slightly, "I...I really want to eat it..."

This is the ultimate temptation, a yearning for transformation welling up from the depths of one's blood.

Ian took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart.

"No rush, I'll give it to you when you're a bit stronger."

Gaga was very obedient and did not continue to ask Ian for more.

That was its subconscious thought; it knew it couldn't absorb that powerful blood essence yet.

Ian turned around and looked at the mountain of notes piled up on the lab table.

A deduction regarding the fusion and improvement of [Rock Bear Potion] and [Earth Bear Potion].

Theories about bloodline fusion, and the reconstruction of energy pathways...

Previously obscure and difficult knowledge points were now connected by an invisible thread under the illumination of the "Original Blood Tracing" special effect.

The integration solution that was originally stuck at a certain bottleneck suddenly became clear.

Previously unsolvable points of conflict suddenly have a clear path to resolution.

Ian grabbed a quill and began writing frantically on the blank parchment.

The pen tip almost tore through the paper.

Lines of formulas, charts, and deduction paths...

Like a flood bursting its banks, it poured out.

Old Finn stood at the door, his pupils contracting as he watched Ian's almost frantic writing.

He didn't know what Ian had realized.

But you can sense that the air in the laboratory is undergoing some kind of qualitative change.

It's like something... is about to hatch.

Finally... the pen stopped.

Ian raised his head, his eyes flashing with a mixture of silver and crimson light, which eventually settled into a deep calm.

He put down his pen and picked up the parchment filled with writing.

At the very center of the paper is a brand-new second-tier bloodline potion formula that combines all the advantages of the [Rock Bear Potion] and the [Earth Bear Potion], and incorporates the core of the "Original Bloodline Tracing" theory.

His own unique recipe.

It has no name, but Ian knows what it should be called.

He looked at Gaga on his shoulder, and a confident smile slowly curved his lips.

"Twenty days...that's just the right amount of time."

His voice was soft, yet it was like a sword slowly being drawn from its sheath.

"I will make everyone remember what a true bloodline potion is."

Outside the laboratory, the night sky was deep and the stars were shining brightly.

"Tomorrow will definitely be a good day!"