Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 53 [The Human-Faced Spider Breathing Technique] - A Triumphant Return! (Please Read On!)

Hoping for luck and being greedy are inherent psychological traits in many people.

Li Wei's role in this operation was absolutely worth two bottles of ambergris.

Even though Graf gave Livy two bottles of ambergris, he could still have made a fortune from them. However, his arrogance led him to choose an even more greedy approach, and he deserved what he got.

"One should always be wary of others, but fortunately I was prepared for your little group, and fortunately I am strong enough."

Since becoming a full-fledged knight, through his battles with other full-fledged knights, Li Wei discovered that his strength was far greater than he had imagined. Apart from being injured by the assassin of the mid-ranking knight, he could fight other knights without taking any damage.

They're both official riders, but the difference is huge.

This also prevented Li Wei from developing an arrogant or complacent attitude; there are always mountains beyond mountains and people beyond people.

Having escaped danger, Li Wei began cleaning up the battlefield.

First, there were the thirteen bottles of ambergris. Li Wei calculated that, with his current dosage as a formal knight, one bottle of ambergris was enough for him to use the secret medicine for a month, which meant that he wouldn't lack ambergris for more than a year.

I should be able to reach the level of a mid-level knight by the end of this year and cultivate the Black Serpent Breathing Technique to the fifth level.

By then, the special effects will likely be upgraded again, and my strength will reach a new level!

After carefully storing the ambergris, Levi began searching Graf's person. This person seemed to have some channels for obtaining ambergris, and Levi guessed that Graf might be a smuggler of ambergris between the Tuva Empire and the Emerald Kingdom.

In the end, they found nothing except a little over a hundred gold coins.

"Damn poor bastard."

However, under normal circumstances, no one would carry a large sum of money with them, as that would be too inconvenient.

Li Wei then approached the dismembered Red Spider Knight. He was curious about the Red Spider Knight's poison-making techniques, so he wanted to see if there were any secret manuals or anything that could help him gain experience.

Surprisingly, he actually found it.

"That woman, Red Spider Knight, is really something else. She hides all the good stuff under her breasts." Li Wei looked at a pile of small bottles and jars stained with blood. These were the ingredients that Red Spider Knight used to concoct poisons.

In addition, there were dozens of gold coins and a piece of parchment.

The parchment contains a diagram illustrating the transmission of breathing techniques.

This breathing technique is called "Human-faced Spider Breathing".

The figures, still in various poses and movements, surround a bizarrely shaped, house-sized red spider with eight human faces in the center. This must be the human-faced spider, a terrifying and eerie creature from legend.

Li Wei took a look. This breathing technique was a bit special. It didn't focus on the conventional attributes that Li Wei was familiar with, such as strength, physique, defense, and speed. Instead, it focused on a very magical aspect: perception.

This perception is incredibly mysterious; it allows one to detect subtle vibrations of gas, liquid, and solid from all directions through the fine hairs and skin on the body's surface.

Any movement within the perception range can be detected through this sensory system, without the need for sight, hearing, or other aids.

In short, this is an essential skill for Lee Sin.

However, correspondingly, this breathing technique is very poor in other aspects of combat, making it arguably the weakest of all the basic breathing techniques.

That's why the Red Spider Knight was so weak. In Li Wei's view, it was a purely auxiliary breathing technique that was extremely specialized. It could only be used in combination with a combat-oriented breathing technique; otherwise, even the strongest senses would be useless.

"Interesting, worth practicing." After saying that, Li Wei put away the breathing technique inheritance diagram.

The Spider-Man Breathing Technique also possesses secret elixirs, but these elixirs are somewhat unique; they are not used to aid cultivation, but rather for poisoning. This is why the Red Spider Knight possesses many cunning and dangerous poison formulas.

Next, Li Wei went to the corpses of the Blue Falcon Knight and the Black Rhino Knight and touched them. Unfortunately, apart from a few gold coins, there was no Breathing Technique Inheritance Diagram. Li Wei originally wanted the Breathing Technique practiced by the Blue Falcon Knight, but now it seemed he had no choice but to give up.

Normally, ordinary people wouldn't carry the Breathing Technique Inheritance Diagram with them. The Red Spider Knight carried it because the various poison recipes she needed were all on the Inheritance Diagram.

However, the Black Rhino Knight's armor, long shield, and greatsword were quite good, so Li Wei accepted them without hesitation.

After touching the bodies, Li Wei humanely cremated them to prevent them from becoming food for wild animals.

Li Wei finally focused his gaze on the earth dragon beast's corpse, which resembled a small mountain.

His biggest worry was how to bring the corpse, which was worth at least a thousand gold coins, back with him...

The earth dragon was larger than any living land mammal that Li Wei had ever seen in his previous life. It would be difficult for him to bring such a large creature back to his territory.

However, he would absolutely not leave the Earth Dragon Beast's corpse here.

That would be a terrible waste. The Earth Dragon Beast is a treasure trove, and Li Wei had already figured out how to use it.

Since Li Wei wasn't in a hurry to return to his territory, he began dealing with the earth dragon beast after disposing of the four people's corpses.

The scales on the earth dragon beast were very hard. It took Li Wei a lot of effort to pry open the scales of this dead giant beast. He cut it open and took off the scales one by one, piling them together. This should be the most precious part of the earth dragon beast besides the ambergris. After these scales are polished, they can be used to make armor. The hardness may be slightly weaker than iron armor of the same thickness, but it is lightweight and can be made into high-quality scale armor.

Li Wei was to have a set of scale armor made from the hardest scales on the back of the earth dragon beast for himself, and the rest for Knight Fred and the three brothers.

However, the three brothers are still growing and their size changes every year, so Li Wei can only wait until they are fully grown and their size has stopped changing before he can build them. In that case, Li Wei will have three armored war bears with the strength of high-level knights and fully armed, which will be invincible for guarding the house and fighting!

In the wilderness, Li Wei patiently processed the carcass of the earth dragon beast. The smell of blood attracted some wild animals, but Li Wei hunted them down and made them his food.

And just like that, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

It took Li Wei three days just to pry off all these scales. The Black Rhino Knight's greatsword, which he used to pry off the scales, was already somewhat deformed.

However, looking at the mountain of scales on the ground, Li Wei was satisfied. As for the flesh and blood of the earth dragon beast, although it had not spoiled after so long, it had been completely contaminated by the venom of the Red Spider Knight. Li Wei could only reluctantly give it up. Otherwise, he would have liked to taste the flesh of the earth dragon beast. It is worth mentioning that Li Wei also found dozens of gold coins in the stomach of the earth dragon beast.

This reminded him of the legend that the Earth Dragon Beast liked to collect shiny things, so he immediately went to check out the Earth Dragon Beast's lair in the distant dense forest. Unfortunately, he was greatly disappointed; there was nothing inside except some corpses, and he could only leave disappointed.

Upon returning, Li Wei washed and dried the skin of the earth dragon beast, made it into bags, filled them with scales, and then found the carriage they had previously abandoned. The carriage was loaded with earth dragon beast scales and dismantled armor-piercing crossbows, and they headed back in the direction they had come from.

The armor-piercing crossbow is extremely powerful, and Li Wei wants to try to replicate it when he gets back.

On his return journey, he did not go back to Icewind City. Instead, he retrieved the gold coins he had buried and took a long detour, arriving at Blackwater Valley half a month later.

Thank you Tang Ji for the 100-yuan reward.

(End of this chapter)