Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 231 Ancient Saint! (Long chapter, please vote and subscribe)

Kelvin's life trajectory was not ideal.

As a genius knight of the Silver Mountain family, he became famous at a young age and broke through to the Great Knight realm at the age of twenty-five.

This speed is comparable to that of Edward the White Horse Knight from the Emerald Kingdom in history.

His grandfather was the son of the Silver Mountain Knight, one of the Seven Northern Cavalry.

Grandpa told Kelvin that Kelvin's talent surpassed even that of his great-grandfather.

Therefore, Kelvin has always lived up to expectations, and he has lived up to expectations by breaking through to the Great Knight realm early on.

The ancestral Silver Mountain Dragon Breathing Method has undergone a transformation of the life seed.

Kelvin's life was originally destined to be that of inheriting the title of Earl of Silvermountain in Icewind City and guarding the family territory until his death. If he could break through to become a legendary knight before he died, that would be even better.

Until one day, a strange man, dressed in a witch's robe and reduced to nothing but blue frost skeleton, appeared in Icewind City.

Behind the strange man was a massive army of Blue Frost undead.

In less than a day, Icewind City fell...

Kelvin's father and grandfather both died in battle, and his grandfather, a top-tier knight, was quickly overwhelmed by the Blue Frost Undead in the face of that terrifying monster.

At that moment, Kelvin learned what true despair and helplessness meant.

With the desperate protection of his family guards and elders, Kelvin escaped through a secret family passage.

He saw Icewind City frozen solid in the terrifying blue frost fire, and the loyal soldiers and people of the Silver Mountain family all turned into ice sculptures.

The soul fire in the eye sockets of that strange man in the witch's robe was chillingly cold.

Behind the strange man were thousands of Blue Frost Undead.

Later, Kelvin heard that a "four-winged paladin" from the Church of Holy Light had arrived in Icewind City and engaged in an earth-shattering battle with the strange man.

The final outcome remains to be seen, but Kelvin no longer cares.

He lost his family and fiefdom, and became a wandering knight.

As he traveled south, when he passed through Peacock City, the city's guard captain invited Kelvin to join the guard, but he declined.

He couldn't even protect his own city, so he has no desire to protect other people's cities.

He headed south.

Upon arriving in the Green Forest Province and passing through the Tulip Territory, where spring reigns all year round, Baron Reed of the Flower City also extended an olive branch to Kelvin.

Oh, by the way, Baron Reed is the grandson of Baron Levy, who is said to have been a good friend of his great-grandfather.

However, disheartened Kelvin only wanted to wander.

What's the point of painstakingly practicing the way of chivalry?

In the end, they couldn't even defeat the summoned creatures under that strange man's command.

Humans are ultimately just ants.

The glorious era of knights is gone forever.

In this era where all sorts of monsters, such as werewolves, vampires, ghouls, and blue frost necromancers, are vying for attention.

Knights? They're just useless old relics that are all show and no substance.

Even the most powerful legendary knights would feel sorrow in the face of this era, unable to catch up with those extraordinary beings even after a lifetime of cultivation.

Kelvin arrived at the seaside and heard about a secret organization called the Holy Serpent Society.

It is said that the sacred serpent possesses a holy water that can make humans powerful, called the "Serpent's Saliva".

Taking a single drop of the sacred serpent's saliva can make an ordinary person incredibly strong, capable of fighting a wolf with their bare hands.

However, if one consumes ten drops of the Holy Serpent's Saliva, even an ordinary person can gain combat power at the level of a formal knight.

It is said that senior members of the Holy Serpent Society have consumed hundreds of drops of Holy Serpent Saliva, and their strength is comparable to that of a Grand Knight, with some powerful ones being almost on par with top-tier Grand Knights.

Some even consume thousands of drops, enabling them to directly confront extraordinary creatures like werewolves and vampires.

The Holy Serpent Society's so-called "Ancient Saints" are all beings who have consumed tens of thousands of drops of Holy Serpent Saliva. Their strength has surpassed that of legends, reaching an unparalleled realm unimaginable to mortals. Killing legendary knights is as easy as taking candy from a baby!

Having just experienced the loss of his family and the burning desire for power and revenge, Kelvin inexplicably joined this organization.

Guided by his informant, he traveled by boat to a deserted island in the middle of the ocean.

He didn't see the sacred serpent's saliva; instead, he saw a group of ferocious and terrifying scaled people.

These people are divided into two types: one is the lizard people, who are basically no different from humans except that they are covered with scales; the other is the snake people, whose legs have degenerated and whose slender snake bodies support their bodies.

Then, he was attacked suddenly and lost consciousness.

When he awoke, he found himself bound along with the group of ignorant sailors who had come to search for the sacred serpent's saliva, and placed on a strange altar.

The altar was simply piled up with bones, resembling the skeleton of some kind of giant serpent.

He was clearly being used as a sacrifice to some evil god by the burly, tall lizardman leader in front of him.

"My life can finally come to an end."

Kelvin sighed inwardly; he had come to terms with it.

The expected death did not come. Kelvin opened his eyes and saw the dazed snake people and lizard people.

Even the leader in charge of sacrificing to the evil god was stunned, his face filled with shock.

Kelvin looked in the direction they were looking, where long-dormant lava burst through the sky from the crater, billowing heat waves swept across, and volcanic ash rapidly spread to the surrounding areas of the island.

After the lizardmen realized what was happening, they panicked and scattered in all directions.

Amidst this terrifying apocalyptic scene, accompanied by a rain of lava falling from the sky, a colossal crimson object crashed to the ground.

The earth cracked open, fissures spread, dust flew, and a deep pit appeared.

As the smoke cleared, a burly middle-aged man emerged, shaking his head and stretching his limbs.

His imposing figure slowly emerged from the smoke, his golden scales gleaming in the firelight.

Good heavens, flames are even erupting from his body! Is he even human?

It must be some kind of more powerful lizardman.

Kelvin's heart sank to the bottom.

Could this be the evil god that these lizardmen are going to sacrifice?

Wait a minute, these offerings haven't even been enjoyed yet, and the evil god has already descended so impatiently?

Never mind, let it all end. I'm tired.

"Thank God, I'm back!"

Li Wei was completely disoriented. Without the protection of the spatial portal, this teleportation was incredibly confusing.

However, just as he had expected, he successfully passed through the subspace node.

The spatial distortion force dissipated the moment it touched Li Wei's golden scales.

This is enough to prove that his self-created "heavy water barrier" is really useful.

Unexpectedly, the exit from this point was inside the crater.

Moreover, it's unclear whether it was because of Li Wei's teleportation that the volcano erupted.

He was swept directly into the sky by the terrifying lava flow, and then, in a daze, fell onto the island.

Li Wei exhaled a breath of turbid air filled with volcanic ash, and lava rained down on his naked body, splashing out in all directions.

He was like a demon crawling out of hell, bathed in fire and rain, without any scruples.

"What kind of monster is this?" Kelvin's understanding was overturned. A scorching heat came from above, and a huge rock, red-hot from the lava, was falling down. If it hit him, none of Kelvin and these sacrificial sailors would survive.

Li Wei leaped up and delivered a whip kick.

boom!

There may be hundreds of tons of boulders that are directly blasted away, falling into the sea in a perfect parabola.

"Such a familiar aura... You must be a descendant of the Silver Mountain Knights." Li Wei tore open the ropes binding them.

Kelvin was carefully examined, but Kelvin didn't dare to say a word until he realized what was happening.

"Yes, sir, I...I am Kelvin Silverhill."

"I see," Li Wei said calmly, looking at the sailors before letting out a sigh.

With a wave of his hand, he sent them all into Alice's Ring.

They turned and left the volcanically erupting island.

He had just sensed that a group of strange creatures seemed to have jumped into the sea to escape.

Li Wei released the tyrant II and the mountain giant Bogan.

"Go and catch those little bugs that escaped," Li Wei said.

Li Wei, on the other hand, found a deserted island to rest for a while, and then assessed his current location to make plans.

He naturally intended to take the descendants of the Silver Mountain family with him and deliver them to the Twilight Knights' Hall.

As for the sailors, Li Wei planned to use the already maxed-out [Dreaming with the Wind] spell to modify their memories, erasing any trace of his presence from their minds.

He gazed at the boundless sea, waiting for Bo Gang and the others to return.

What's on the other side of the sea?

A thought suddenly occurred to Li Wei.

Based on the geographical knowledge I've always received from the church.

The human world is basically centered around the vast continent where the seven kingdoms are located.

The areas outside the seven continents are referred to as "overseas lands".

But how big is the overseas land? What is on the other side of the sea?

The church's knowledge did not cover this; it only said that the further out to sea one went, the more turbulent the ocean would become, and that any ignorant mortal who ventured into it would surely perish.

Throughout the history of the Emerald Kingdom, many navigators have attempted to explore the boundaries of the outer seas.

Some navigators have even proposed that the human world is a super-giant sphere.

The Seven Kingdoms are merely a small part of the sphere.

Of course, this speculation was ruthlessly shattered by the church, and the navigator was even labeled a heretic and burned at the stake.

"The land where the Father's light shines is the human world. All other places are dark realms. If any ignorant mortals carelessly abandon the Father's light, they will be met with devils and demons, and countless dark creatures."

At the assembly where the heretic was burned at the stake, that generation of popes said these words.

Later on, very few navigators went to explore overseas territories.

It became a forbidden zone in the eyes of ordinary people, a place of devastating storms, indescribable terror, and the remains of countless adventurers.

However, in the Wizarding World, Levi gained another version of geographical knowledge.

In the past, there was indeed only one continent in the human world. That was in ancient times, before the council was established and before Sauron, the ancestor of wizards, rose to power.

At that time, mortals, wizards, churches, native supernatural beings, and extradimensional beings that came with each celestial convergence all lived on a boundless continent.

This continent is called "Land of Divine Radiance" by the Church of Holy Radiance and "Land of Dragon Soaring" by the Church of Dragon God. In short, the seven competing and bickering churches all have their own names for this continent, in order to deceive the world and make it easier to harvest faith.

However, the Church of the Seven Gods uses a fairly consistent name for overseas regions where its own faith cannot reach.

"The land forsaken by God".

It signifies a barren land abandoned by the gods, a place fraught with danger, devoid of future, shrouded in darkness, and filled with misfortune.

In the early ancient times, the ancient geographer Alfred Wegener left behind the book "The Geography of Nora".

He called that earliest continent "Nora," also known as "the Land of Man" and "the Land of Abundance."

Wegener also learned another explanation from a remote indigenous people who called this continent "Pangu Continent"!

"Pangu".

In the local dialect, it means "ancient, primitive, chaotic, and pioneering".

In short, from the perspective of the wizarding world, the human world in the early ancient times was actually much larger than the human world that Livy had seen.

However, with the outbreak of the ancient war and the relentless pressure from the gods, Sauron, who had already advanced to the legendary level, led the wizard civilization in a protracted war against the angels of the seven gods.

This war was accompanied by the prolonged use of legendary forbidden techniques and the power of the seven gods.

The continental plates began to become unstable, and finally, after an earth-shattering battle that almost reshaped the earth, fire, wind, and water, the continent disintegrated and continued to crumble.

The emergence of subspace nodes is very likely related to that war of gods.

In short, as the elemental power in the human world gradually thinned, the subspace continued to expand on its original foundation, gradually becoming dependent on the human world and forming its own ecological pattern, which also became a paradise for wizards.

The wizarding civilization, no longer at odds with the gods, quickly conquered native inhabitants of the Warp, such as the sea people, and became the rulers of the region.

Furthermore, relying on this, they ventured into other planes and became a new civilization comparable to some established and powerful civilizations in multiple planes.

The seven continents of the human world thus became the last refuge of the seven gods.

The seven gods and the wizards did not interfere with each other and lived in peace until their deaths.

Actually, it makes sense when you think about it. The entire human world and the subspace are actually two dimensions of a large sphere.

The subspace is the outer sphere, within which are densely packed, bubble-like realms of the faithless.

These realms of the faithless might be as small as a secret realm, roughly the size of a great lord's territory in the human world.

The largest of these unbelievers' realms is the Endless Sea. Based on current explorations in the Wizarding World, the Endless Sea's area should be equivalent to the total area of ​​the unbelievers' realms of all other major schools, and it is countless times larger than the Seven Kingdoms continent as currently understood.

However, because most of the land is ocean and there is very little land, the actual area available for wizards to practice is relatively small.

In fact, Li Wei had a guess: the subspace should be an extension and fold of the human world, or a magnified projection, because he found that every time he was teleported from the Endless Sea to the human world, he appeared on the sea.

Does this mean that the Endless Sea is actually an extension or reflection of the overseas lands on earth?

The area of ​​the overseas lands is far larger than the seven continents, and no one knows where the boundaries of the overseas lands are.

The area of ​​the Endless Sea is also far greater than that of other unbelievers.

Are these all coincidences?

Perhaps, in the ancient times before wizards appeared, in the primordial era before the belief in the Seven Gods arose.

The so-called human realm and the subspace were originally one, but for some unknown reason, these two dimensions began to separate, with one part rising and the other sinking.

This part of history has long been buried in the endless river of time.

Perhaps only in the myths and legends of some ancient races can we glimpse this.

"I wonder if the sea creatures know about this part of history? The sea creatures already existed before the wizards descended upon the Endless Sea. They should have lived there in ancient times, or they may be an ancient race that came from the distant past."

Li Wei pondered in his heart.

If given the chance, Li Wei would like to try to explore the borders of overseas lands and see if there are other isolated continents and other civilizations on the other side of the sea.

Just now.

Accompanied by the thunderous roar of the crashing waves.

Bogan and Tyrant II each brought a group of struggling lizardmen and snakemen to the island where Livy lived.

These lizardmen, beaten senseless and covered in wounds, stared in fear at the middle-aged man sitting cross-legged on the boulder.

The tall lizardman chieftain lay prostrate on the ground, his staff resting there.

"Respected Ancient Sage, we had no intention of disturbing you. We were merely offering a sacrifice to the Holy Serpent and were unaware that you were slumbering in this volcano."

The chief spoke a human language.

Li Wei stared at the chief, who didn't dare to breathe.

"The resurgence of the demonic tide has intensified further; even the lizardmen have emerged," Li Wei murmured to himself.

The monster manual in Frankenstein also contains an introduction to lizardmen.

This is a race that is widely distributed across many planes, and together with the snake people, they are called "creeps".

This race is said to worship a supreme being called the "Holy Serpent," a giant serpent that supposedly encircles the entire plane, somewhat resembling the "Black Serpent Holding a Candle" of the Livy family crest. It is unknown what the relationship is between the two.

Of course, legends are bound to contain exaggerations; the idea of ​​a giant serpent encircling a plane is likely an artistic embellishment.

However, Li Wei estimated that the Holy Serpent should at least be a god-like being comparable to a legendary wizard, otherwise it wouldn't have such a huge influence, spreading across multiple dimensions.

"The human world is getting more and more lively." Li Wei felt that returning to the human world for the time being seemed like a good choice.

The increasing number of things resurrected by the demonic tide in the unknown overseas lands also indicates that there are more opportunities waiting for Li Wei in the human world.

He could clearly sense that, after fifty years away, the concentration of elemental power in the human realm was several times greater than before he left.

Although it still can't compare to the realm of the unbelievers, with his own elemental transformation array and some elemental convergence arrays, a third-ring wizard like Li Wei can actually manage to cultivate without regressing in his cultivation; it's just that it's a bit slower than in the wizarding world.

The wizarding world is in too much chaos right now, so Levi plans to stay in the human world a little longer this time.

Other wizards might care a lot about the concentration of elemental power, but Levi doesn't. He has a proficiency panel, various elemental affinity talents, and potion materials he's collected over the years in the wizarding world, enough for him to live a carefree life on earth for a while.

Sometimes, you can't put too much pressure on yourself. Just like in my past life, if you can't make it in a big city, just go to a small city. There's no need to go through the intense competition.

The old saying, "Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix," still holds true.

The lizardman chieftain felt uneasy as Li Wei ignored him. He never expected to encounter a powerful Ancient Saint in this strange and unfamiliar world.

It and its tribe are not native to this world, but rather come from the [Ancient Holy Empire] of another world.

The Ancient Holy Empire was a powerful empire whose entire population worshipped the Holy Serpent, and its members were all various lizardmen, serpentmen, and other reptiles.

They have a fervent faith in the sacred serpent and are dedicated to spreading and reviving its glory.

During a tribal hunt, they stumbled upon an altar in a dilapidated ancient temple in a primeval forest. Inside the altar, they saw another azure world.

Curiosity drove them through the altar, and when they reappeared, they were in another world.

The lizardmen discovered this plane, and so far, its strength level is not as good as that of their own ancient holy empire.

The strongest among them, the so-called legendary knights, are only at the level of a small tribal chief in their Ancient Holy Empire. Only within the Church might there be some powerful individuals comparable to the Ancient Saints, but their numbers are not many.

So they boldly began to preach in the other world and established the Holy Serpent Society. They used the fabricated "Serpent Saliva" as a pretext to trick humans into joining the society and then offer them as sacrifices to the Holy Serpent in an attempt to obtain the real Holy Serpent's gifts.

There's no such thing as becoming stronger by drinking the saliva of the Holy Serpent. Only foolish humans would believe that.

But the one before us is definitely an ancient sage hidden among humans.

In the Ancient Holy Empire, the strongest among the crawler race throughout history gave birth to the "Blood of the Holy Serpent," reaching a higher level of existence and being called "Ancient Saints."

The pressure emanating from the person before him, the ancient and sage-like majesty that commanded respect without anger, made the chieftain involuntarily prostrate himself on the ground.

Li Wei observed the lizardmen with great interest.

He suddenly spoke up, saying, "I have been asleep for a long time. Tell me about your current situation, and if I am in a good mood, I will spare your lives."

He speculated that these lizardmen might come from another dimension.

The strongest among these guys is the chieftain, who is only at the level of a first-ring wizard, while the other lizardmen are only at the apprentice level.

If they can all safely arrive in the human world through spatial nodes, does that mean that I can also use spatial nodes to invade other dimensions?

Li Wei is currently worrying about the secret potion for the Knight's Breathing Technique. If he could have his own plane that has not yet been explored by wizards, that would be the best.

Like locusts, the wizard civilization firmly controls the resources of each class in every plane it conquers.

For ordinary wizards, acquiring resources is extremely difficult.

Only a "New World" can solve Livy's current predicament.

He planned to take this opportunity to start with these lizardmen, to learn about the situation on the other side, and then, depending on the level of danger, quietly explore his own new world.

"Let those wizards fight it out. I'll leisurely lead the Twilight Knights on a great sea voyage of discovery in the human world. By the time they find out, I'll have made a fortune."

Li Wei began to daydream.

Before Li Wei, the tribal chief recounted his experiences of coming to the human world in detail, and Li Wei also subtly obtained a lot of information about other dimensions from him.

In the end, it was pretty much as Li Wei had guessed.

These guys are outsiders who came here after the resurgence of the demonic tide.

"The plane where the Ancient Holy Empire is located has already intersected with the plane where the human world is located..."

Judging from their descriptions, they arrived here through an altar, which appears to be the spatial node between the ancient holy plane and the human world.

"Take me to the altar," Li Wei said.

"Yes, Ancient Saint." This chieftain, named Kaku, led a small tribe of crawlers numbering several dozen.

In the ancient Holy Empire, there were hundreds or even thousands of such tribes.

Li Wei learned that there seemed to be only thirteen "Ancient Saints" like himself in the Ancient Saint Empire...

From this perspective, the Ancient Holy Empire also appears to be quite weak.

Of course, the Ancient Holy Empire may only be one of the forces in that plane, and cannot represent the highest combat power in that plane.

However, in general, the fact that a group of weak lizardmen can establish a powerful empire in this plane indicates that the overall combat strength of this plane is not very high.

Perhaps a high-level elemental spirit wizard could completely subdue it.

Therefore, this kind of plane should be the lowest level of small plane, which cannot be compared with Blue Frost, Blood River, let alone Abyss or Hell.

Before long, led by these chiefs, Li Wei arrived at the place where they had just come to the human world.

There is a deserted island covered with dense primeval forest, which looks like it is far away from the mainland.

On the island, Li Wei discovered an ancient altar. The altar seemed to be made from the bones of some powerful giant serpent. It remained intact after countless years. It was covered with runes that Li Wei could not understand, but judging from the style, it was clearly... the rune system of an ancient wizard.

"An ancient wizard once traveled to the Ancient Saint Plane due to the celestial conjunction and left behind this altar for passage. However, with the end of the celestial conjunction, this altar likely became useless until this celestial conjunction arrived, and the passage between the two worlds was reopened." Li Wei guessed in his mind, combining the information from the lizardman chieftain.

"How many of you have come to this world this time?" Li Wei asked.

The chieftain chuckled sheepishly, "My lord, only our tribe has come. We haven't told the other tribes or the Ancient Holy Empire about this yet."

Clearly, he shared the same thoughts as Li Wei, wanting to keep the discovery to himself, and certainly couldn't tell anyone else about it.

"Okay, go over there and come back. Don't try to pull any tricks on me," Li Wei said, casually calling out to one of the lizardmen.

The lizardman trembled, nodded frantically, stood on the altar, and vanished.

Not long after, he reappeared.

A thought flickered in Li Wei's mind, and he released a sailor from Alice's Ring.

The mortal sailor fainted again upon seeing himself surrounded by so many lizardmen.

Helpless, Li Wei called for someone with more courage. An old sailor stood there trembling, at a loss.

Li Wei pulled out a bag of gold coins.

"Go in, then come back, and this bag of gold coins is yours."

The old sailor dared not refuse. His eyes were fixed on the gold coin, then he stepped into the altar and disappeared.

When he reappeared, the old sailor was already in a lush primeval forest.

The trees here are all over a hundred meters tall, and the roars of wild beasts can be heard from time to time in the forest, and the ground trembles slightly.

He himself seemed to be in a dilapidated temple, where a broken, scaled, ancient holy statue with wings on its back lay collapsed, its hideous face staring at the old sailor.

"What kind of place is this?"

In the sky, shadows were cast on the earth.

A pterosaur-like creature with a wingspan of tens of meters soared through the clouds.

"A monster."

The old sailor returned to the center of the altar once more.

He saw the blue world opposite the altar, which seemed to be the human world where he lived.

He stepped onto it.

When I opened my eyes again.

A bag of gold coins had appeared in the old sailor's hands.

Li Wei looked excited.

"Even mortals can pass through this altar... This is incredible! This is completely different from wizards actively creating dimensional portals for travel. Is this the power of the celestial convergence?"

The old man's description was exactly the same as that of the lizardmen.

On the other side, it was a completely new world.

Moreover, although wizards have explored it, it dates back to ancient times.

That wizard has most likely perished in it as well.

I am very likely the first person to discover this new dimension.

Suppressing his emotions, Li Wei exuded a powerful aura, releasing his dragon's might.

"The aura of the Holy Serpent! This is the aura of the Holy Serpent, a true Ancient Saint!" The lizardman chieftain was excited. What did he do to deserve this? He was actually face to face with an Ancient Saint.

That was a great figure who stood at the pinnacle of the Ancient Holy Empire.

"You shall stay here and guard the altar," Livy instructed Bogan and the Tyrant to keep an eye on the lizardmen.

He thought for a moment, then stepped into the center of the altar.

Without the slightest discomfort or terrifying spatial distortion, Li Wei arrived in a new world.

He opened his eyes, breathing in a more primal, wilder atmosphere, and elemental power no less than that of the wizarding world.

With his senses, he could easily detect that in this vast and boundless primeval forest, there were many powerful extraordinary creatures lurking within. The earth would occasionally tremble, which was the extraordinary creatures fighting.

"This altar must be hidden, and we must not let the other powerful figures of the Ancient Holy Empire discover it. Only I can know about this place."

Li Wei immediately began setting up the magic array. He used all his magic array skills to hide the altar and the entire temple in the forest.

"That's not enough. I need to hurry up and find the blueprints for the Three-Ring Magic Array, become a Three-Ring Magic Array Wizard, and better hide and protect this place."

"Now that I know about the warp nodes between the wizarding world and the human world, and I also have an altar leading to this other world, I can travel freely between these three places."

Having done all this, Li Wei took a deep breath, disappeared from the center of the altar, and returned to the human world.

Li Wei gazed at the vast sky and sea, feeling relaxed and content.

"A new era has arrived."

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