Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 195 The Twelfth Order! A Dragon's Body Descends, A Crimson Lotus of Karmic Fire! (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)

Tiankeng (sinkhole).

Secret Alliance.

The castle is now completely empty.

Most vampires either died or fled.

"I only came here to rescue Anderson. We're not related, so why should I let you go? Give me a reason," Li Wei asked calmly.

Anduin remained silent for a moment, then said, "Why don't you tell me what you need? If it's something I have, I can give it to you. After all, with your strength, you probably wouldn't even look at the money and status of an ordinary person."

Li Wei's thoughts began to race.

Anduin, as the leader of the Secret Alliance, is an old monster who has lived for hundreds or thousands of years. Even though human resources are scarce, he should have accumulated quite a few good things over the years.

"Breathing techniques, Tai Shi, witchcraft artifacts, the inherited knowledge of your vampire clan, blood artifacts—there are so many things that interest me," Li Wei said with a meaningful smile.

Upon hearing this, Anduin's face lit up with joy, and he quickly said, "Breathing techniques? I have those. From the time I came to the human world until now, I've lost count of how many human knights have tried to kill me or trespassed on my territory and been killed by me. Because of this, I've obtained quite a few breathing technique inheritance diagrams. If you need them, I can give you all the breathing techniques I have."

"As for witchcraft artifacts, I only have some quasi-witchcraft artifacts here, all of which I obtained from wild witches in the human world. I do have a little bit of Tai Shi, but not much."

"The core knowledge passed down through our original bloodline is something that every original bloodline inherits from the Blood River. Even if I wanted to pass it on to you, I couldn't do it without the ingredients. We, the offspring of the Blood River, only have the right to use this knowledge, not the right to pass it on. However, I can provide you with some ordinary knowledge passed down through our bloodline."

Anduin said helplessly.

Li Wei confirmed with Skine that it was indeed the case.

He increasingly felt that Blood River was no ordinary creature and that he needed to mutate the Blood Beast Breathing Technique into another breathing technique as soon as possible in order to have any chance of fighting against Blood River.

He didn't want to finally reach the true limit of the Blood Beast Breathing Technique only to find himself transformed into a clone of the Blood River.

"What about the blood artifacts? Surely your William family doesn't even have a single blood artifact?" Li Wei asked.

"The Blood Artifact... Five hundred years ago, our Secret Alliance had a conflict with the Church of Holy Light. Our family's Blood Artifact was taken away by a powerful member of the church, and it may now be sealed in the church's sacred Heavenly Mountain. You can ask Skearin to verify this; what I said is absolutely true," Anduin said.

"Indeed, our William family's blood weapon, the Blood Feather Bow, is a level three blood weapon that is no less powerful than this Blood Forbidden Cone. It is forged from the ribs of a level three blood clan member and the dragon tendons of a powerful mixed-blood dragon clan member."

Drawing this bow requires vampire blood and immense strength, but once fully drawn, its maximum range can reach a hundred miles!

Previously, the Nalesenba family had repeatedly tried to obtain the Blood Feather Bow from our family.

They wanted to use their family's [Blood Forbidden Cone] paired with the [Blood Feather Bow].

Only the most powerful bow paired with the sharpest arrows can unleash the true power of these two blood weapons!

Within a hundred miles, as long as the aim is good enough, it can pierce through anything below level three. Even a level three expert would definitely not be well-treated if hit.

William said.

Upon hearing this, Li Wei stopped worrying about it.

"Then let's pay the rest with gold coins."

The original vampires do not have souls similar to those of humans and wizards; they only possess true spirits born from the Blood River, rendering the contract tablets useless to them.

Li Wei only released Anduin and several other native vampires from the same faction after making Anduin swear a blood oath.

Li Wei collected these Blood Forbidden Cones.

This item isn't very useful for wizards in sealing spells or spell-like abilities, since the spells or spell-like abilities it seals are random.

Even the weakest first-level wizard, including magic tricks, has mastered at least dozens or even hundreds of spells.

If it's possible to seal the wizard's main spells, that would be fine, but sealing a trick that the wizard doesn't actually need is completely useless.

However, the Blood Forbidden Cone itself is extremely hard and can penetrate its own twelfth-tier golden serpent scales, which means it can also penetrate the defensive force field of a second-circle wizard.

Li Wei felt that this thing would be absolutely effective as a concealed weapon.

"Thank you, sir!"

After being released, Anduin quickly expressed his gratitude and looked at Li Wei with a cautious expression.

He had witnessed Li Wei's strength firsthand.

Even Skearin, who possesses the Blood Forbidden Cone, is no match for him. So, among the vampires in the human world today, there is probably no one who can reliably defeat Levi.

"No need to thank me, we each get what we need," Li Wei said calmly.

After collecting all the Blood Forbidden Cones, Li Wei counted them and found that he had obtained a total of ten Blood Forbidden Cones.

When vampires of level three or above die, they leave behind blood remains, which are similar to relics.

Blood remains can be any part of a vampire's body, but this Blood Forbidden Cone is a sharp fingernail of a level three vampire, which, combined with the vampire's weapon-forging methods, is made into a blood weapon.

Therefore, blood artifacts can only be made using the blood remains of vampires of level three or above, making them extremely precious. For vampires, the Blood Forbidden Cone is as intimidating as a third-ring artifact in the wizarding world.

There are very few such things in this world.

This set of blood artifacts is one of the treasures of the Lesenba family within the Demon Banquet Alliance. If it weren't for the need to help Skine successfully seize control of the Secret Alliance, the Lesenba family would never have given these to Skine.

In addition, Levi discovered that these crosses themselves seemed to be good materials, so he collected them all and could use them to make artifacts or craft magic arrays back in the wizarding world.

As promised, Anduin handed Li Wei a blood-red pouch, which was likely a vampire's storage item.

Li Wei looked at it and saw that there were a total of eighteen breathing technique inheritance diagrams inside. Most of them were of rudimentary quality, three were of excellent quality, and none were of perfect quality.

Apart from homeless wandering knights, most knights do not carry the Breathing Technique inheritance diagram with them, so as to avoid dying outside and causing the family inheritance to be cut off.

Therefore, although Anduin killed many knights, very few of them were able to obtain the Breathing Technique inheritance diagram.

These breathing technique inheritance diagrams primarily focus on strength and speed, but also include parts on endurance, physique, and defense.

These will all be the raw materials for Li Wei's future breakthrough in breathing techniques.

As for the Tai Shi, there were less than a thousand in total, which was nothing to Li Wei.

These items all came from some wild wizards in the human world. Many of these wizards had never even seen Tai Shi, so Li Wei was mentally prepared for this quantity.

There wasn't anything about the witchcraft that Li Wei found appealing.

Besides that, there were mountains of gold coins.

This money will allow Andrew to continue collecting breathing techniques for himself while he is still alive.

The rest consisted of common vampire knowledge, such as the blood slave curse that Anderson had given Li Wei, or some methods for using blood artifacts.

These things can only be used by people with vampire bloodlines; ordinary people can't use them even if they get their hands on them.

However, Li Wei possesses the bloodline of a high-ranking vampire, so he can naturally use it.

This knowledge is peripheral and unimportant. The core knowledge, such as their cultivation secrets and the original vampire advancement rituals, cannot be taught. Forcibly teaching such knowledge would result in the Blood River's will destroying it, taking it back into the Blood River, and remolding it.

In this way, vampires can establish their own secondary vampire tribes in the human world through the Embrace, and impart non-core vampire knowledge to these secondary vampires.

However, the core knowledge is never revealed to the secondary vampires. In this way, the vampires are able to maintain firm control over these secondary vampires.

In the end, Levi led Skearin and the others and quickly left the place.

Anduin went to find other powerful members of the Hidden Alliance. Although Li Wei's arrival indirectly prevented the Demon Feast Alliance from carrying out its next blood sacrifice ritual, these busybodies would certainly not let it go.

The following days.

Time flies.

Levi had been sharing his advanced Legendary experience and techniques with Anderson and Black inside the Flower Castle, hoping to inspire them.

If Li Wei wants to establish his own power in the Wizarding World by relying on the Twilight Knights, he will inevitably need a group of powerful subordinates.

Legendary knights, thus, became ancestors and patriarchs among mortals.

In the wizarding world, it's far from enough.

Therefore, he also hopes that Anderson and Black can break through to the legendary status as soon as possible.

After listening to Li Wei's sermon, Anderson and Blake also benefited greatly. Regardless of whether they could break through the shackles of the Legendary Realm in the future, Li Wei's concept of the "Six-Dimensional State of Legendary Realm" and the realms of "Blood Awakening" and "Blood Thirst" were quite shocking to them.

Furthermore, they also expressed that the names of these realms were quite good, of a high standard, worthy of the title of leader.

Of course, before imparting this valuable knowledge, Livy learned a profound lesson from the demise of the Colin family.

Even Anderson and the Black Knight need to sign a contract with him, and this knowledge cannot be passed on casually unless Levi's permission is obtained.

It wasn't that Li Wei was being overly protective of his own knowledge, fearing that other knights in the world might learn from him and surpass him.

With his proficiency panel, he was confident that no one could surpass him on the path of chivalry.

What Li Wei was truly worried about was that such a shocking event might alert the Church, thus nipping his Twilight Knights in the bud.

He didn't want his business, which aimed to become the number one power across multiple dimensions, to collapse halfway through its very inception!

Therefore, one can never be too careful in such matters.

Meanwhile, Li Wei's breathing technique practice was also proceeding step by step, and he was getting closer and closer to the twelfth level of the Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique.

On the vampire side, the frequency of vampire uprisings has noticeably decreased recently.

But Li Wei did not let his guard down; this might be the calm before the storm.

According to the intelligence obtained from Skine, the Demon Feast Alliance has developed several plans for the Blood Sacrifice.

Skearn only knew one of the plans; he was completely unaware of the others.

This plan has now been thwarted by Li Wei, while the others remain hidden in the shadows.

After learning of the changes on Skearn's side, the Demon Feast Alliance completely severed its ties with Skearn.

To prevent Li Wei from meticulously investigating and uncovering their identities.

In reality, Li Wei didn't care at all what they wanted to do.

He was hoping the vampires and the church would fight, so he could probably take advantage of the chaos and reap some benefits.

And after several months of such days.

The year is 1037 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, the month of winter.

After packing his things and giving instructions, Li Wei bid farewell to Anderson and the Black Knight and left Flower City. The Hogg Knight had not contacted Li Wei during this time, and he did not plan to wait any longer.

Before leaving, Li Wei asked the Black Knight if he wanted to come with him.

Since the Black Knight also has wizarding talent, he can follow Levi into the wizarding world. With Levi's guidance, it won't be difficult for the Black Knight to become a formal wizard in the future!

Moreover, if the Black Knight wanted to advance his Black Magic Blade further, he would have to raise his mental power to the level of a formal wizard, a point that Levi had also informed the Black Knight of.

However, the Black Knight refused. He was used to life on Earth, and if he went to the Wizarding World, he would have to start from the bottom and struggle, which he probably wouldn't be able to adapt to.

As for the Black Demon Blade, the Black Knight believes it's not too late to figure out a solution after breaking through the legendary barrier.

Seeing that the Black Knight was determined, Li Wei naturally wouldn't force him. Everyone has their own ambitions, and walking one's own firm path is victory!

Having the Black Knight on Earth to look after Anderson is a good thing.

……

Blackwater Valley.

Li Wei stood alone beneath the Black Serpent Fortress, which had been abandoned for many years and buried under heavy snow, filled with emotion.

The invasion of Blue Frost caused a significant drop in temperature across the northern part of the kingdom, as if it had entered an ice age.

It was the dead of winter, and the temperature in the North was so high that water would freeze instantly, and the Blackwater River had stopped flowing.

Snowflakes are falling.

After realizing there wasn't much to see.

Li Wei sighed and left Blackwater Valley.

He went to Icewind City.

He planned to revisit those places from his memories before leaving this world.

Icewind City is now sparsely populated, and those who still live here are either minor nobles who are reluctant to leave their ancestral lands or people who have no other choice but to stay.

Li Wei sensed the entire city and learned that the Icewind Church had long since evacuated the area, leaving behind only a few priests who remained, and the city in a state of disrepair.

Inside Yinshan Fort.

A well-proportioned, silver-haired knight is training his soldiers.

This is the new Earl of Silver Mountain, the son of the former Earl.

Under Andrew's protection, he has become a Grand Knight and now possesses the power to protect his family.

The soldiers under his command were wearing mithril equipment that Li Wei had made for them decades ago. These pieces of equipment, weathered by time and battle, bore mottled battle scars and indelible bloodstains.

Although the Blue Frost Plague was contained, the Blue Frost's invasion of the North never ceased.

Earl Silver Mountain had a resolute expression, and his handsome face certainly inherited the best features of old Silver Mountain.

Li Wei found the tomb of Yinshan alone; the former Seven Generals of the North were now just bones in the tomb.

"Watching old friends leave is also a unique experience of spiritual practice," Li Wei said with a wry smile.

He bought a Snow Beer at the Shining Tavern and collapsed in front of Silver Mountain's grave.

"After all, we were acquainted. May you rest in peace underground, carrying the courage of the Snow Knight!"

Behind him, Earl Silver Mountain stared nervously at the man who had appeared before his father's grave, though he didn't know when he had arrived. He still asked, "Who are you? Why have you trespassed into... my family cemetery?"

Li Wei already knew that Xiao Yinshan had come. He turned around, smiled, and said, "I've come to see an old friend."

"An old friend...you are my father's friend?" Earl Silver Mountain breathed a sigh of relief, but was extremely shocked. The man in front of him looked to be only middle-aged, but Silver Mountain could not fathom his strength at all.

"Friends? I guess so." Li Wei said slowly, a look of reminiscence on his face. He patted Earl Silver Mountain on the shoulder, then turned and left, leaving only his voice echoing.

"Your father is a respectable nobleman!"

In the blink of an eye, Li Wei's figure had completely disappeared before Xiao Yinshan's eyes.

"An absolute powerhouse! A top-tier Grand Knight? Or perhaps a legendary knight?"

The worldview of Earl Silver Mountain was shaken.

After leaving Icewind City, Li Wei headed north, and at his current speed, he soon arrived at Black Mountain City.

This is the city of his mortal enemy, the Duke of Black Mountain, which has now become a city of the dead.

Blue Frost Undead are everywhere, including several of them at the Grand Knight level.

These Blue Frost Necromancer Cores are valuable. Li Wei plans to collect more. Currently, Blue Frost Necromancer Cores are only produced in the human world.

Although the summoned creatures from the Hell Plane also have similar energy cores, their quality is inferior to that produced by Blue Frost.

Li Wei didn't lift a finger; he released the living dead, who flooded into the Black Mountain Dead City.

Before long, a huge pile of undead cores was piled up in front of Li Wei.

He put them away, then looked at the blue light in the center of Black Mountain City that tore the sky apart.

He had encountered this thing before at Blue Feather Castle.

A rift suspected to be an invasion of the human world from the Blue Frost dimension.

At that time, the air inside emanated an aura that made Li Wei's heart tremble, so Li Wei did not go up to check.

"Should we go take a look?"

Li Wei tried walking forward a bit, and he felt that he had become much stronger, so maybe he could give it a try.

As he approached, his spider-sense began to react slightly. When Li Wei was about a hundred meters away from the blue light, this sense of danger made him stop.

"I'm already a twelfth-order golden serpent, plus the level of a first-ring senior wizard, yet my spider senses still warn of danger. It seems that at my current level, I'm still no match for Blue Frost."

The unknown is the greatest terror and danger. Li Wei didn't know what lay beyond the blue rift. It could be the Blue Frost Plane, or it could be something else entirely.

In short, you can't go wrong by listening to what the spider senses.

Li Wei silently left the place, continuing his journey north.

He traveled to the Eternal Night Kingdom, to the Ice and Snow Royal City, and visited many, many cities. In some of the city ruins, he unexpectedly found some Breathing Technique inheritance diagrams and gold.

These cities were destroyed by Blue Frost long ago and are now desolate.

The same was true of Happes's hometown, the Ice Pillar Islands. The natives had all become Blue Frost Undead, wandering endlessly across the ice plains until they were killed by Li Wei and finally freed.

"Where did the Goddess Knight go? She was a legendary female knight after all, and our Twilight Knights need her."

"Never mind, if she goes to the wizarding world, we'll meet again someday if fate allows."

Li Wei said to himself.

He left the far north and headed for the Emerald City.

He wanted to see how much of the Emerald Royal Family still had left. If it was about to collapse, he might as well find a way to secretly steal the Breathing Technique from the Royal Treasury.

The Jade Kingdom has been established for so long that it should have collected some breathing technique transmission diagrams from the common people.

The Iron Crocodile Breathing Technique of the Iron Crocodile family is most likely in the King's Treasury, and perhaps we can even obtain the Dragon Breathing Technique.

……

Green Dragon Collar.

The Jade Kingdom.

Inside the Shining Tavern, a weary, unremarkable wandering knight held a cup of blood wine, the crimson liquid sliding down his throat like blood.

"sweet."

This wandering knight was none other than Li Wei, who had traveled all the way to the royal city.

He listened to the conversations of travelers from all directions in the Shining Tavern, collecting auras that were useful to him.

Within the Emerald City, the headquarters of the towering Holy Radiance Church is also located here.

I just don't know where Paradise Mountain is.

Logically speaking, if a mountain range were located at headquarters, one should be able to see it.

Could it be some kind of secret realm?

Li Wei pondered inwardly.

"The Van Helsing family's legacy is in the Holy Radiance Church, and the William family's blood weapons are also in the Holy Radiance Church. These charlatans are plundering and amassing wealth everywhere. There must be a lot of good stuff hidden in Paradise Mountain."

Li Wei walked out of the tavern, looked at the church, and muttered to himself.

Based on the information he has, the Emerald Royal Family is currently facing numerous crises beneath its surface of calm.

After a period of recuperation, some of the powerful southern nobles, who had grown stronger through war, began to stir and seek to annex other territories.

Even in the Yellow Sand Province, a young top-tier Grand Knight has emerged, who is expected to reach the level of a legendary knight within ten years!

Although the royal family has recovered to some extent, the strongest one on the surface now is the old guardian sword among the Seven Divine Swords of the King.

This is a powerful figure who is close to becoming a legendary knight, but he is quite old, and it is unclear whether he will be able to reach that level in his lifetime.

If possible, the power of the legendary knights might allow the royal family to prolong its existence for a while longer.

Li Wei also learned that the Wilderness Brotherhood, which had been dormant for a long time, was up to something again.

Although these guys aren't very strong, they have a keen sense of smell. Basically, every time the Wilderness Brothers appear, the world will soon be thrown into turmoil.

With Andrew and two legendary knights guarding his territory, Li Wei naturally had nothing to fear.

However, it might not be the case for other lords.

And apart from the Wilderness Brotherhood.

Two more emerging organizations have been growing and developing in recent years and have begun to become active on the stage of the Seven Kingdoms.

The Death Society and the Moon Cult!

Li Wei could guess with his toes that the forces behind these two new organizations must be the Blue Frost forces and the Demon Banquet Alliance.

For the astral gods or the rulers of multiple planes, the best way to conquer a plane is undoubtedly to have their faith conquer it first.

As long as faith can take root and be passed down from generation to generation, even if one fails once, one can always make a comeback.

Therefore, the Church of the Seven True Gods now faces an increasing number of heretical cults and sectarian attacks.

The Wilderness Brotherhood, the Death Society, the Moon Cult, and established organizations such as the Silent Monastery, the Temple of War, and the Voice of the Dead Bird—more and more forces are emerging, each carrying their own beliefs, gradually ascending to the grand stage of this era.

This is merely the prelude to the resurgence of the demonic tide. As the demonic tide surges, elemental forces from other planes will gradually infiltrate the human world, and perhaps the end of the Dharma era in the human world will come to an end.

In that case, it is highly likely that some wizarding forces will also secretly get involved in the future, hoping to gain a share of the spoils from this momentous upheaval.

Li Wei was merely an observer of the times. He remained detached from these events, catching glimpses of information, watching from the sidelines, always ready to fish in troubled waters, reap some benefits for himself, and then run away.

Li Wei was too weak to participate in such conflicts in the past, but now he has absolute strength and only needs to avoid conflict with the Church of the Seven Gods.

After spending a few days in the Emerald City, Li Wei felt that now was not the best time to make a move against the royal treasury, so he prepared to leave quietly.

But he returned shortly after leaving.

……

Emerald City.

In a small courtyard, Asat, Skine, and Levi sat together.

Now, Skine is Levi's blood slave, and Asat is Skine's blood slave. Through this layered enslavement, Levi has also gained control over Asat.

Unlike Skine, Asat was originally a member of the Lesenba family. The Demon Feast Alliance only knew about the changes on Skine's side, but not about the changes on Asat's side.

Therefore, not long after Li Wei left the royal city, Asat received a message from the Lesenba family.

The family ordered Asat to immediately go to the Emerald City and contact the leader of the Moon Goddess Cult.

Three months from now, the Demon Banquet Alliance will hold a blood sacrifice ceremony in the royal city, at which time all the humans of Emerald Royal City will sacrifice their blood to the Blood God!

This will completely open the passage connecting the Blood River Plane to the human world, and welcome the powerful beings of the Blood River Plane to descend to the human world in human form.

Upon hearing Asat's report, Li Wei felt relieved that he hadn't killed Asat.

Otherwise, how could he possibly know such important information?

Skine has now been abandoned by the Lesenba family, but Asat is still using him.

Those people probably thought that Yasat was still living in seclusion somewhere in the human world.

Li Wei decided not to rush off for the time being.

He went into hiding in a valley outside the royal city to avoid falling into the vampires' trap.

Since a blood sacrifice is to be performed on the entire city, some kind of terrifying array must be prepared. Even with Li Wei's strength, he might not be able to escape.

He planned to observe the situation outside the city. If it was chaotic enough, he would take the opportunity to disguise himself as a vampire and, together with Skearin, rob the King's Treasury, loot the Breathing Technique, and then leave.

As for Asat, in order to avoid being exposed, Levi ordered Asat to follow orders and act freely for the time being. After all, Asat was already Skine's blood slave and could not escape Levi's control.

Li Wei never expected that the Demon Banquet Alliance would choose the royal city as the site for the blood sacrifice.

You must know that this is the headquarters of the Holy Radiance Church, where powerful figures are definitely hidden. Going here would be tantamount to courting death.

However, since the Demon Banquet Alliance dared to do this, they must have their own reasons.

These beasts are always so crazy and unpredictable!

……

The year 1038 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, the Month of Vitality.

In the wilderness outside the royal city.

Inside an underground cave in a valley.

A massive dragon-like monster, lying prone on all fours, twisted its strong, slender body. It was engulfed in blazing flames, resembling a blooming red lotus. Beneath the lotus were dark golden scales that gleamed with a metallic sheen, and a single golden horn grew from its forehead.

The monster's face was a cold, closed-eye human face, which looked quite eerie, like the Zhulong from Li Wei's previous life in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

It flicks its menacing tongue, and wherever it goes, the earth turns scorched black, rocks crack, and over time, the ground turns into a pool of lava.

It would occasionally open its gaping maw, spewing out endless flames that scorched everything inside the cave. Before long, the entire cave was ablaze with red, resembling a living hell.

A moment later, the flames on the dragon-bodied monster began to fade, and its tall and majestic dragon body transformed into a normal human body.

Li Wei stood naked inside the cave, deep in thought.

"The twelfth level of the Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique is quite a commotion. The way I was just now seemed a little inhuman."

Today, Li Wei's Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique has also advanced to the twelfth level!

The previous [Solid Flame Body] has been upgraded to [Newborn Dragon Body].

But he didn't expect the changes after the twelfth level of the Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique to be so significant.

After activating the power of his nascent dragon body, Li Wei's torso grew thicker and longer, and he involuntarily crawled on the ground, moving in a posture similar to that of a giant dragon.

Li Wei dripped blood into Rowling's crystal ball.

[Unknown dragon bloodline 5.1%, Crimson Lotus Dragon bloodline 5%... Human bloodline 99.9%...]

"Damn it, the human bloodline was 100% before, how did it drop to 0.1%?"

"It must be that Rowling's crystal ball is inaccurate."

"However, with 99.9% purity, I am still essentially human, so there's no need to worry too much."

I, Li Wei, am not a monster; I am simply a perfect human being constantly evolving towards the ultimate life form.

"Yes, that must be it."

Li Wei muttered to himself, then put away Rowling's crystal ball.

It was pretty much as he expected.

After reaching the twelfth level of the Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique, the Crimson Lotus Dragon's bloodline reaches 5%, which is the same as the Golden Serpent Breathing Technique.

"It seems that 5% is the starting point for the twelfth rank. Above 1% but below 5% is the Blood Awakening Realm, and above 5% is the Blood Thirst Realm."

Li Wei analyzed the changes and then opened the proficiency panel.

Li Wei————

Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique: Twelfth Rank (12/400000), Special Effects: Newborn Dragon Body, Crimson Lotus Blood, Child of Karmic Fire.

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[Newborn Dragon Body: The bloodline seed within you grants you a rudimentary form of the Crimson Lotus. Although this is merely the level of a newly hatched Crimson Lotus larva, its immense power and explosive force should not be underestimated. Simultaneously, you possess the same level of fire elemental immunity as the larval Crimson Lotus, allowing you to roam freely in magma without any defensive capabilities. The larval Crimson Lotus spends its weakest period in a magma ocean filled with abundant fire elemental power, absorbing the radiant energy of geothermal magma to continuously grow stronger.]

"So, my current body is already at the level of an infant-level Crimson Lotus Dragon?"

From this perspective, even a legendary or mythical creature like the Crimson Lotus wasn't very strong when it was first born. After all, a second-ring level of strength is only considered low-level in the wizarding world.

Of course, the greatest strength of mythical creatures like the Crimson Lotus lies in their ability to hide within underground magma and grow by relying on thermal radiation. Given sufficient time and radiation, and provided they don't perish prematurely, the future potential of a Crimson Lotus dragon larva is limitless.

Li Wei felt envious.

Although he possessed some of the abilities of the Crimson Lotus Dragon hatchling, he lacked the core ability to continuously grow stronger through radiation.

Of course, even if Li Wei possessed this ability, he could not possibly have the long lifespan of a true Crimson Lotus Dragon. Relying on radiation to grow would likely take tens of thousands of years.

Regardless, after acquiring the body of a newly born dragon, Li Wei's overall strength increased dramatically.

With the twelfth-tier Golden Serpent and Crimson Lotus, possessing defense and power surpassing even the legendary ones, Li Wei had essentially stabilized his second-tier strength with this offensive and defensive weapon in hand.

It won't be like before, where you need to desperately unleash your full power when facing a second-tier wizard.

In addition to the [Newborn Dragon Body], another special effect was created after the twelfth level of the Crimson Lotus Breathing Technique.

[Child of Karmic Fire: Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, Burning Away Darkness! The Crimson Lotus bloodline within you grants you the unique Karmic Fire characteristic, significantly enhancing your affinity for fire elements. Furthermore, all fire elemental spells or spell-like abilities you unleash will be imbued with the "Karmic Fire characteristic." Under this characteristic, dark races from the Abyss and Hell, whose primary energies are dark elements, death, slaughter, and destruction, will receive a 10% damage bonus. This effect cannot be upgraded.]

"They have this kind of ability? Could it be that the Crimson Lotus Clan has a grudge against the Abyss or Hell? I wonder if this special effect will work on vampires. On the surface, vampires also seem to be biased towards negative energy."

"Any darkness will be brought to justice before the Red Lotus Karmic Fire!"

This special effect isn't very useful to Li Wei right now, but he believes it will definitely come in handy in the future.

After studying the new ability, Li Wei emerged from his seclusion. The blood sacrifice ritual was drawing ever closer; there was only one month left.

With Asat acting as a double agent, Li Wei roughly learned about some of the vampires' plans, but Asat was only a level one vampire, so he didn't know the more detailed scheme.

Li Wei observed all of this from the sidelines. He believed that the Church had stood the test of time for countless years, and he did not believe that the vampires' blood sacrifice would succeed this time.

Deep down, Li Wei didn't want the vampires to succeed either. After all, although the Church was bad, at least it didn't slaughter entire cities and cause widespread suffering.

However, Li Wei still hoped that the vampires could cause some big trouble for the church, so that he could have the opportunity to benefit from the conflict between the two.

The year 1038 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, the month of Green Grass.

Li Wei's senses covered most of the royal city except for the church, but he did not detect any vampire aura.

This was a bit of a struggle for him.

"Could it be that the vampires are deliberately creating a smokescreen? Pretending to perform a blood sacrifice in the Emerald City to lull other forces into a false sense of security before launching a surprise attack?"

Otherwise, Li Wei felt that with his perception, he shouldn't have detected nothing at all.

Meanwhile, a thousand feet underground in the Emerald City.

A blood-red sphere floated in the air, its surface covered with dense veins; it appeared to be the heart of some kind of being.

The heart was trembling slightly, and a layer of hazy, blood-red light enveloped the area, isolating it from all other senses and perceptions.

Within the blood-red light, powerful figures stood ready, their faces filled with excitement.

"Let it begin, a blood sacrifice to the Blood God, an offering to the River of Blood!"

9000 words, plus 3000 extra words, 17000 words still owed. I'll update first and then revise later. If all goes well, I should resume updating at noon tomorrow.

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(End of this chapter)