Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 217 Nightmare! (Long chapter, please vote!)

Li Wei's heart area.

The crimson dragon had a ferocious expression, sometimes dispersing into a cloud of mist and sometimes coalescing into a solid form, giving people an unreal feeling of uncertainty between reality and illusion.

Blood-red scales surrounded his body, and gushing blood energy emanated from him.

"Crimson Dragon. It seems to be dominated by the Emerald Dragon Breathing Technique. That's for the best. We just need to absorb the advantages of the Blood Beast. The Blood River Will is too strange; it's best not to get involved with it."

Li Wei looked at the Crimson Poison Body. This body had completely fused with the legendary organ, the Poison Sac, born from the Emerald Dragon Breathing Technique, and Li Wei's physical body, while retaining all the functions of his previous Blood Mist Body.

Li Wei can still dissipate into a cloud of blood mist, and the damage reduction effects against physical and magical immunity will still exist.

The Crimson Poison Body differs from the Blood Mist Body in two ways.

Firstly, when subjected to a fatal attack, Li Wei no longer scatters into a certain number of Blood Demon Bats, but instead transforms into Blood Flying Dragons.

Secondly, the blood mist is more potent than before, with the degree of toxicity depending on the variety of poisons used in Li Wei's secret medicine.

In other words, now that Li Wei has transformed into a blood mist, even if he can no longer cast spells, he can still poison his enemies by releasing toxins after the blood mist enters their bodies.

The poison sac merged with Li Wei's body, turning him into a poison man. Without deliberate control, he would continuously emit poisonous radiation, which was extremely terrifying.

Li Wei took out a black-horned sheep, an ordinary extraordinary creature that was grazing freely in Alice's ring.

These extraordinary creatures exist as food for Gustavs, reproduce quickly, and have delicious flesh.

Then, in an instant, Li Wei transformed into a thick, scarlet poisonous mist.

The poisonous fog quickly enveloped the panicked black-horned sheep in front of them.

The poisonous fog that filled the entire training room seeped into the body of the black-horned sheep.

In a matter of moments, the black-horned sheep died suddenly from the combined effects of various toxins, turning into a pool of blood, with even its bones dissolving into it.

"How terrifying, it feels like a villain's skill..."

Li Wei felt the power of the poisonous mist body.

This method of attacking someone by entering their body is quite unique.

However, this also carries certain risks. There is a fear that some wizards might possess strange magic and completely seal him inside their bodies, which would be like catching a turtle in a jar.

In addition, the Crimson Dragon Breathing Technique transformed the previous Blood Pact into a new Crimson Pact.

[Crimson Pact: Using the crimson blood within you, forcibly contract your defeated subordinates as your crimson servants. These crimson servants possess absolute loyalty to you, and you can control their death at a glance. The number of crimson servants you can contract depends on the concentration of crimson blood within you. Currently, you can contract 2 crimson servants, and 1 has been used.]

"They've actually increased the number of contracts... Any defeated opponent can become my Crimson Servant, that's a bit perverted."

Without a doubt, Crimson Pact is a much more advanced skill than Blood Pact.

"Besides Skearin, I can add new contract slots, and they are not limited by race."

That way, it will be much easier for me to deal with powerful and difficult-to-tame extraordinary creatures in the future.

The most terrifying thing is that the number of Crimson Contracts can grow.

This means that Li Wei can contract many Scarlet servants in his future career.

"That's too powerful. As expected, the poor rely on mutations."

In addition, the Crimson Dragon Breathing Technique has an extra special effect.

[Crimson Escape: Burns all the crimson power and a portion of your primal life force within you, tripling your maximum speed to evade powerful enemies. The greater your stamina, the longer Crimson Escape lasts. After using Crimson Escape, you will enter a period of weakness.]

"Good heavens, a blood-burning escape technique from another world?"

The Crimson Power is alright; even if it's completely burned out, the Crimson Seed can still be slowly born in the future.

The original life force is no ordinary thing; it cannot be restored simply by relying on a strong physique.

The fundamental life force is vitality, and to some extent, it represents lifespan.

This means that Li Wei needs to expend his lifespan to use Crimson Escape.

"Like resurrection, it's a skill that can save your life in critical moments, but you can't use it in daily life unless you're like those immortal beings."

Li Wei is now a second-ring wizard, in addition to the Bloodborne Knight realm.

He felt that his lifespan should be no less than that of a third-circle wizard, which is five hundred years.

It seems like a long time, but as you progress, it becomes increasingly difficult. Five hundred years is simply not enough.

After all, he has already used up seventy years.

"But when the time comes, you must not hesitate. Lifespan can always be made up for, but life only comes once."

Li Wei reminded himself of this.

"Golden Serpent Breathing Technique, Death Ash Breathing Technique, Crimson Dragon Breathing Technique."

"My breathing techniques for defense, speed, and physique are now basically complete."

These three attribute dimensions represent three distinct and powerful dragon races.

What's still missing are the dimensions of strength, endurance, and perception.

Li Wei's next plan is to integrate the four breathing techniques of the power dimension into one, and to combine the Silver Mountain Dragon and Maya breathing techniques into one.

In this case, except for the most difficult type of perception to collect.

The final breathing method of the five dimensions can then be fully formed.

Any new breathing techniques developed in the future will only serve to reinforce and supplement these five dimensions of breathing, filling in any gaps or deficiencies.

The main body will not change much.

Once the perception-based breathing techniques catch up, find a suitable opportunity to combine the six dimensional breathing techniques into one, creating the ultimate biological breathing technique. Li Wei's chivalry will then be considered a preliminary success.

Judging from the current trend, the closest to the ultimate life form is the dragon race.

It's even possible that Li Wei's six future dimensions represent six different powerful dragon races.

"That's good, it saves me from turning myself into an ugly monster. The dragon race is still quite good-looking."

Li Wei took out the Rowling Crystal.

[Unknown dragon bloodline 12%, Crimson Lotus Dragon bloodline 11%, Unknown dragon bloodline 10%... Human bloodline 96%]

"Now they're all unknown dragons..."

"The rate at which human bloodlines decline seems to have slowed down compared to before, which is a good thing."

Li Wei put away the crystal.

He is already seventy years old and is expected to reach the limit of the second ring senior level around the age of 75, and then begin the vaporization of spiritual power.

Once he successfully completes the initial vaporization process, he will become a third-ring wizard.

At that time, he can solidify the spell onto the vaporized spiritual energy, making it his own innate spell.

It is said that after the third ring, the main standard for judging the strength of a wizard is no longer how many spells he has mastered, but rather the quantity and quality of his innate spells.

The innate spells are almost instantaneous and consume very little energy, making spellcasting as instinctive for wizards, as simple as eating and drinking.

The quantity and quality of the innate spells that can be solidified depend on the degree of vaporization.

For a regular wizard in the third ring, at most, there is only one innate spell.

A senior wizard in the third ring can solidify up to three innate spells.

It seems that Aishidi has just advanced to the third-ring senior wizard level, and his mental strength has reached the required level.

However, he only mastered one innate spell, and his strength was only average among the senior third-ring cultivators.

If he can master three different types of talent spells specializing in attack, defense, and control, and form a perfect combination and cycle, his strength will increase dramatically.

Therefore, the gap between third-ring wizards is still quite large.

"What we need to focus on now is the Black Whale Breathing Technique and the Maya Breathing Technique. Once we improve the speed of these two techniques, we can immediately begin to integrate them."

Li Wei has been actively searching for the formula for a potion from the psychic school that can help psychic beasts advance their bloodline.

This allows Leviathan to quickly reach the second ring. Only after reaching the second ring can the Whale Blood Elixir barely sustain the practice of the Black Whale Breathing Technique.

Unfortunately, he still hasn't found one. In fact, he hasn't even met a single psychic sorcerer yet.

"Take it slow. Let's first study the method of vaporization and start preparing for advancing to the third ring. The most urgent task is still to advance to the third ring."

Li Wei took out a memory stone tablet.

This contains the secret method used by the Golden Lion family to transform spiritual energy.

After reading the contents of the secret method, Li Wei looked thoughtful.

The method for transforming spiritual energy recorded here is called the "Earth and Fire Energy Transformation Method".

This secret technique of vaporization requires treasures rich in earth elemental power, and then finding a land of earth fire to cultivate for years, relying on the high pressure brought by the earth element and earth fire to continuously temper one's spiritual power.

Ultimately, relying on this external environment, and with the assistance of the Three-Ring Breakthrough Potion, the illusory spiritual energy was transformed into countless streams of spiritual energy particles.

"The Land of Earthly Fire? My Blackfire Island can do that. It's rich in earth element treasures. I even kept one for the Tower Master when he went to the Mysterious Realm to retrieve the Heart of Stone. I never thought I could use it here."

Although the Heart of Stone is just the heart of a single-ringed rock troll, the earth elemental power within it is extremely pure.

Aside from the Earth Spirit, there is probably no more suitable treasure than the Stone Heart of the Rock Troll.

"Moreover, for someone like me with a strong physical body and extremely high resistance to fire elements, it would be no problem to directly jump into ordinary magma and fire to cultivate. I imagine the efficiency of vaporization would be higher than that of an ordinary wizard."

"In this way, the only thing missing to advance to the third-ring wizard is the Lake Naga."

Li Wei said to himself.

In the days that followed, he quietly cultivated himself, detached from worldly affairs.

In this chaotic era of war, they were able to enjoy a rare period of peace and quiet.

The four mink knights' path was also progressing steadily.

After Argenta advanced to the rank of Grand Knight, he made little further progress.

This indicates that she has reached a bottleneck in relying on the blood of the Frostwolf within her.

Next, the Frostwolf Knight Advancement Potion is needed to continue the breakthrough.

However, Li Wei has not yet developed this magic potion.

Meanwhile, at the Golden Lion Castle, Emperor Mu began his seclusion to prepare for breaking through the shackles of his bloodline.

As for the Ash World, Li Wei had long since put it aside.

He hasn't been back in since the last time he went in.

Owens is only occasionally summoned with iron coins to learn some basic facts about the Ash World.

Although Li Wei didn't want to go in voluntarily, he felt that if he used this ability properly, it could save his life.

That's right, it's about escaping the pursuit and hunting of powerful enemies by entering the Ash World.

Knowing in advance is better than being caught off guard.

As for the kind of corrupted crystal that Owens mentioned, Levi had absolutely no interest in it.

He was already quite satisfied with his current pace of cultivation.

Given his personality, it's impossible for him to use something as unknown and potentially risky as the Fallen Crystal.

……

The year 1061 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, the month of Green Grass.

The Great Expedition lasted 25 years.

Wailing City.

10 Downton Street, the residence of Lady Blue Dragon.

The conflict between the Dragon Faction and the Thunder Faction lasted for several years, involving countless human and material resources.

Although Lady Blue Dragon basically secured her position and even severely damaged Thunderspear.

However, terrorist attacks by the Thunder Faction occurred frequently within the city, and everyone in the city lived in fear.

Having endured years of war, Huffman looked more weathered than before.

His face bore many hideous scars, which he deliberately kept to constantly remind himself of the mistakes he made when he was greedy for petty gains.

Because of the war, many apothecaries were killed or wounded, and Huffman had to personally work overtime to refine various potions.

Of the pharmacists he once worked for, Li Wei took leave to go home and has not returned since. With the chaos and turmoil outside, he is probably also busy running around.

Green and Toman have disappeared without a trace, and it seems they are also in grave danger.

To live is the only dream in the hearts of many wizards in this era.

In a certain sea area of ​​the sixth district, near the former location of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Realm.

Deep beneath the sea lies a hidden ancient shaman's ruin.

As a ripple spread across the hidden magic circle outside the ruins, a wizard left without a trace of emotion.

In his hand was a magical artifact. If Li Wei were here, he would recognize it as a protective artifact given to him by Toman's family.

It seems that Tomman and Green ultimately perished in these ancient wizard ruins, killed by their own teammates who were exploring together.

"Interesting. It seems that both of them have a deep impression of a wizard named Levi in ​​their memories."

The wizard muttered to himself before leaving the seabed.

……

Inside Lion City.

Li Wei, who was in a meditative state, suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with some confusion.

He watched the hairs tremble slightly, sensing a faint warning from the spider's senses.

These faint warnings occurred from time to time, and Li Wei had no way of knowing why.

Unable to find a solution, Li Wei entered a state of synesthesia, perceiving his surroundings.

In the end, they gained nothing.

"It's probably just a small matter. Maybe I'm being overly cautious," Li Wei muttered to himself.

"However, let's leave Lion King City for a while. We've stayed here long enough."

Thinking of this, Li Wei immediately packed his things.

"Argenta, all of you, enter the Alice Ring," Levi said.

"Master, are we moving again?" Argenta asked, wiping away sweat as she finished training, panting heavily.

Li Wei nodded.

For a person who believes in the ways of the world, in chaotic times, one should never stay in one place for too long.

Otherwise, some indelible traces will always be left behind, allowing some enemies with ulterior motives to discover them.

Places like Lion City could also attract other dark wizarding forces, thus drawing them into conflict once again.

So he wanted to travel around the Loess Continent and look for clues about the Lake Naga.

After finding the Lake Naga, he left the Yellow Earth Continent and went to Blackfire Island to begin his seclusion, preparing to vaporize his spiritual power and strive to become a third-ring wizard.

The furry tribe had nothing to say; they were perfectly content to stay inside Alice's Ring for the rest of their lives.

Golden Lion Castle.

Li Wei came to say goodbye.

"Lord Li Wei, with things so chaotic outside, you'd be better off staying in my Lion King City," the old golden lion laughed.

Having wiped out the Aisidi family, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and his overall energy and spirit were much better than before.

"Never mind, I want to travel the continent and broaden my horizons," Li Wei said.

"Well then, I won't try to stop you." Leon sighed. If Levi settled in Lion King City, it would relieve some of his pressure.

But he knew that the Joestar family's resources were insufficient to attract a wizard like Levi.

Inside Dinos's room.

"Lord Levi, this is information about places where Lake Naga might appear. This is all the information our family can gather." Dinos handed a stone tablet to Levi.

"Thank you for the Joestar family's help!" Li Wei said solemnly.

"Speaking of which, is Emperor Mu still in seclusion?"

Dinos nodded: "My teacher said this seclusion will last at least one year, and at most three years..."

"This guy, does it really take this long? I remember breaking through so easily back then. Oh, I forgot, I'm a cheater."

Having used cheat codes for so long, Li Wei has lost the ability to understand the hardships of lower-level wizards.

He deeply reflected on his recent somewhat arrogant attitude.

Li Wei, you can't become even a little bit arrogant and complacent just because you killed a few trashy third-ring wizards.

"In that case, I won't bother him any longer. I hope the Joestar family's business will flourish, and I also hope that you, Dinos, will soon break through to a higher level and strive to catch up with your teacher," Li Wei said.

"Thank you! The Lionheart Knight's fame will one day resound throughout this sea! The Joestar family keeps its word!"

At this moment, Joestar was filled with determination.

With a teacher like Mudi and an unfathomable predecessor like Levi, he was full of confidence in the future of the knight's path.

"Fame is not essential; in this chaotic era, survival is the most important thing."

Li Wei patted Dinos on the shoulder and said meaningfully.

Then he turned and left, disappearing on the horizon.

……

Mirror Lake.

It is a vast lake located in the southern part of the Loess Plateau, stretching 5,000 li in length and 3,000 li in width.

Fishermen once heard the song of a siren in the lake while they were here.

Legend has it that anyone who heard the song of the female demon in the lake disappeared in the vast and misty Mirror Lake and never returned.

Beside Mirror Lake, there is a small town called Fog Flow City.

Every morning, the misty white fog from Mirror Lake sweeps across this small town, creating a picturesque scene.

Outside the city, there was a small tavern.

The tavern is run by ordinary people and sells their own brewed rye beer.

In a corner of the tavern, an elderly man with a full head of white hair and a ruddy complexion sat there, drinking beer in large gulps.

"Cough cough... Good wine, good wine indeed, boss lady, another barrel, please." The old man in white robes hugged the barrel of wine, gulping it down and occasionally letting out a satisfied burp.

"We are not responsible for anyone who drinks themselves to death," the proprietress said, glancing at the drunken old man.

"Hehehe, it's none of your business. The most I've ever drunk in one go was three barrels of wine," the white-haired old man laughed, clearly boasting.

"Unless you're a wizard, how could you possibly drink so much? Even a human's stomach isn't that big."

A little girl appeared before the white-haired old man, her face full of disbelief. She stood with her hands on her hips, wearing an apron. At such a young age, she had already started working at the tavern.

"Hiccup..." The white-haired old man pinched the little girl's cheek.

"Hehehe, I am a wizard, don't I look like one?"

"No, I've met wizards before. Wizards are very serious and look fierce. You're more like a boastful bard," the little girl said.

Her name is Lia, the daughter of the tavern owner. Her dream is to become a female knight-errant who travels across the Yellow Earth Continent, but in reality, she works as a handyman for her mother in the tavern.

"Little Liya, that's a stereotype. There are kind and gentle people among wizards too," the white-haired old man said.

Just then, an explosion seemed to be heard on the lake outside the tavern.

"Look, it looks like wizards are having a magical duel."

"Oh no, a huge wave is coming!"

"Run!"

Rumble.

Outside the window, on the lake, huge waves surged and swept everything away, accompanied by a deafening rumble of thunder.

In an instant, the small tavern was in complete chaos.

"Lia, come to Mommy's side quickly." The landlady's expression changed, and she picked up Liya.

At this moment, on the lake shore outside the tavern, a giant wave, two stories high, was already crashing towards them.

The small tavern was about to be swallowed up by the sudden, huge wave.

Suddenly, a series of obscure and complex syllables rang out.

The next moment, those giant waves suddenly turned into solid ice and froze in place.

The white, wave-shaped ice sculpture was less than three meters away from the tavern.

"Lia." The tavern owner held Lia's head, her face filled with the joy of surviving a disaster. She suddenly looked towards the corner of the tavern.

The white-haired old man was currently drunk, slumped over the table, fast asleep and snoring.

"It seems I was overthinking things. I thought that if this old man really was a wizard, I could entrust Lia to him and embark on a wizarding journey to end the wandering life of a mortal. Now it seems that he is just an ordinary person." The proprietress's heart stirred slightly.

At this moment, the people inside the tavern all came out to look at the giant wave ice sculpture that was tens of meters long and about two stories high.

This scene was incredibly moving.

The white-haired old man was none other than Li Wei, who had come to Mirror Lake in search of the Lake Naga.

A few days ago, he saw a tavern for ordinary people below and suddenly recalled the days he spent drinking at the Shining Tavern. On a whim, he stayed there, drank a lot of ordinary people's wine, ate ordinary people's food, and experienced ordinary people's life.

"It still doesn't taste as good as the wine at the Shining Tavern." Li Wei licked the wine from his lips, his hazy eyes gazing at the mortals admiring the ice sculptures.

These days, Li Wei noticed that Li Ya was exceptionally intelligent, so he secretly tested her aptitude and discovered that she was actually a rare dual-element affinity user.

Unfortunately, he had no intention of taking on any apprentices.

Moreover, in this chaotic era, there is not much difference between being a wizard and being a mortal; neither may see the sun rise tomorrow.

Rather than spending your life in fear as a wizard, it's better to be an ignorant mortal and live each day to the fullest.

During this journey, Li Wei felt that his state of mind was constantly settling and changing.

He felt that this process of settling down seemed to help his spiritual energy to settle and transform.

Therefore, he has rarely used his abilities these days, using the Hermit Rune to shield his mental energy fluctuations.

He actively integrates into the lives of ordinary people, chatting and boasting with them, just like a mischievous old man who doesn't know anything.

"Spiritual power is inherently ethereal, so the transformation of spiritual power also has no standard procedure. Perhaps for me, this journey of settling my mind is also a kind of spiritual practice."

Li Wei called this process "transformation into the mundane".

When you let go of your power and, with a peaceful mind, carefully experience the world around you.

The mental energy in his mind was no longer churning and surging, but was as calm as the mirror-like lake before him.

"My mind is like a clear mirror. Before, I was still somewhat impetuous, swept along by this era, blindly rushing forward, living like a robot. In the long run, I would eventually lose my human will and become numb."

He didn't know if any other wizards in this world were in a similar situation to him.

In short, he felt that this method should also help with the vaporization of spiritual energy.

Li Wei yawned and then got up from the table.

"What's going on? Why are you making so much noise? Can't you let the elderly get some sleep?"

Li Wei stretched and went outside, looking at the huge ice sculpture.

This is certainly Livy's masterpiece.

During his travels, Li Wei used magic tricks and first-circle spells to create his own second-circle spell.

"The ice age has arrived."

Compared to single-target penetrating spells like Frostfinger, Glacial Descent is a wide-area frost spell. It can kill a large number of enemies through area-of-effect ice control, and freezing the large waves outside is naturally no problem.

Meanwhile, on the lake outside, two wizards were engaged in a magical duel, completely oblivious to the mortals who were nearly killed by the aftershocks of their battle.

Until they discovered that the giant waves on the lake shore had turned into ice sculptures, gleaming in the sunlight and emitting a chilling aura.

Only then did they realize that there was actually a hidden powerhouse in that inconspicuous little tavern.

With their second-ring wizarding spiritual power, they couldn't sense any fluctuations in the powerful individual's spiritual power.

What does this mean? That powerful figure's realm is far superior to theirs, and he has suppressed the fluctuations of his spiritual power, which is why they cannot sense him.

They all quickly moved away from the tavern without prior arrangement.

They suspected that a third- or even fourth-ring wizard was stationed in the tavern, and that the ice wall they had just seen was merely a warning.

Before long, the misty town returned to its tranquility.

Unbeknownst to the mortals in the tavern, they had survived a calamity because of Li Wei.

These were all insignificant interludes for Li Wei.

He had had enough of experiencing life in Misty Stream City, so he came to Mirror Lake.

During this time, he would often use synesthesia to explore the situation of Mirror Lake.

The investigation revealed that, apart from some ordinary fish and some first-order creatures, there was nothing resembling a Naga in this Mirror Lake.

However, given the rumors of the lake's siren's song circulating here, Li Wei felt it couldn't be unfounded, so he patiently waited there.

Since leaving Lion City, the sense of danger that had made Li Wei feel uneasy had indeed faded somewhat.

Lion City will definitely be in turmoil in the future.

As one of the most important places on this loess continent, it is bound to be a battleground for black wizards.

Leaving Lion King City ahead of time can be seen as a way to avoid some potential disasters.

"Why not find a place in this quiet Mirror Lake, build a cave, and live in seclusion for a while? On the one hand, I can cultivate myself to become a mortal, and on the other hand, I can carefully search for the so-called lake demon's whereabouts."

Li Wei's heart stirred.

He was like a fish swimming in a mirror-like lake, searching for a suitable place to retreat into seclusion.

Seven days later.

Li Wei arrived at the center of Mirror Lake, where there was a bottomless rift. Even with Li Wei's current range of synesthesia, he could not detect the bottom.

Moreover, there seems to be a force within this rift that can shield Li Wei's senses.

"This Mirror Lake is just an inland lake, how could it have such a deep abyss?" Li Wei muttered to himself.

This was the first time he had ever discovered this place.

The spider senses didn't detect anything unusual. Li Wei flicked his tongue, making a decision in his mind.

"The Lake Siren is probably below this trench. I have thoroughly explored the entire Mirror Lake with my synesthetic senses. There is no way the Lake Siren could be found anywhere else except here."

With this in mind, Li Wei donned defensive skills such as the Copper Armor, Earth Spirit Escape, Diamond Body, and Ash Entanglement, and dark golden scales appeared on his body.

Fully armed, Li Wei prepared to go down and take a look. Now that he had the Crimson Poison Body and Crimson Escape, his ability to protect himself had been greatly enhanced, so he should not be in any danger.

As Li Wei continued to descend, the light gradually disappeared, and he calculated the depth of his dive.

Hundreds of feet, thousands of feet, tens of thousands of feet...

"It's not at the bottom yet. This place is deeper than some ocean trenches. No wonder I can't sense the bottom."

There were no powerful creatures in the entire trench.

However, the more this was the case, the more cautious Li Wei became. Exploring this bottomless abyss alone certainly required courage.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Wei arrived at a vast, empty sea.

"The magnetic field and elemental power around here are somewhat disordered, somewhat like the ancient ruins mentioned in 'Jones's Treasure Hunt Notebook'."

Although Li Wei did not study the notes he obtained from Qiao An, he did study them.

He has now preliminarily determined that there is an ancient site at the bottom of this Mirror Lake.

"Ancient ruins..."

Li Wei was conflicted; he wanted to go but dared not.

After all, he is not lacking in cultivation resources right now.

Ancient ruins are a matter of luck; they can be dangerous or they can be very safe.

In short, anything is possible.

But now it seems that the Lake Naga is most likely in those ancient ruins, and I'm reluctant to leave without going.

"Let's take a look. As an outer region, the ancient ruins on the Yellow Earth Continent are usually belonging to low-level wizard organizations, at most mid-level, and high-level wizard organizations are very unlikely. With my strength, if I don't get greedy, I shouldn't have any problem escaping if I encounter danger."

After weighing his options, Li Wei continued swimming downwards.

He was in full synesthetic mode, sensing every rustle and movement. If his spider-sense detected any danger, he would immediately retreat.

Finally, he saw buildings hidden deep in the sea, which were wizard towers of all sizes.

"Indeed, judging from the scale of these wizard tower clusters, they should be the remains of a mid-level wizard organization."

Most of these buildings are intact and undamaged. Some buildings still have traces of magic arrays on their exteriors, and some magic arrays are even still operating automatically.

"This wizarding organization probably didn't perish because of the war; it's more likely that it was abandoned."

Li Wei arrived outside a wizard's tower. With his knowledge of formations, most of the formations inside were no challenge for him.

He broke the protective magic circle above and gently pushed open the door of the wizard tower.

The wizard tower has three floors. Generally, these small wizard towers are the accommodations for wizards of the first or second ring.

The first floor is the living room, which contains some sculptures and artworks, all of which are very ordinary objects.

Having found nothing on the first floor, Li Wei went to the second floor, which was probably where the master of the wizard tower usually researched and practiced magic.

Li Wei saw some strangely shaped specimens.

There were frogs with human faces on their backs, and grotesque, mermaid-like monsters with hideous faces.

These things were lifeless and had been dead for a long time.

Li Wei found a thick notebook on the table.

These were used by ancient wizards; modern wizards use various memory tablets instead.

David the Wizard's Research Diary

"7th Experiment Log: We captured some extradimensional creatures from the entrance of that extradimensional rift. Most of these creatures look strange and seem to grow haphazardly and without any pattern, completely defying the laws of evolution, much like the monsters that often appear in our dreams..."

"Experiment Log #23: Our research has revealed that the blood of these extradimensional creatures generally possesses hallucinogenic properties. Even powerful wizards can fall into hallucinations after consuming it. My neighbor, Mick, accidentally killed his maid while hallucinating..."

"87th Experiment Log: After unified research by the organizing wizards, we have tentatively named these creatures 'Nightmare Creatures.' The world they inhabit should be a new world that no wizards have ever set foot in before. The wizards at the Dream Tower headquarters call it: The Nightmare World."

"108th Experiment Log: Utilizing the [Dream Potion] developed from Nightmare Creatures, combined with a special magic array, allows wizards to enter the Nightmare World. This is a groundbreaking discovery. The Nightmare World is a bizarre and mysterious new world, containing endless resources. It may be a world on par with the [Astral Realm] and the [Netherworld]. From here, it seems possible to connect to and project the entire multiverse! If we master the method of teleportation using the Nightmare World, wizards will open a new route to distant multiverses! Countless riches await us! This is a shortcut that can greatly shorten travel time! I have a premonition that a new era for wizards is about to arrive, and our Dream School will be the pioneers leading this new era!"

……

"300th Experiment Log: The leader of the Dream Tower, the eighth-circle wizard [Daydream Wizard], has disappeared. In his empty wizard tower, a sentence echoes: Do not unknowingly enter the nightmare."

But it was too late…

The journal entry came to an abrupt end.

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