Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

Wang Yi's idea was actually somewhat presumptuous.

Extraordinary mages are extremely rare, no matter where they are. Many small countries, unless they are incredibly lucky and a powerful individual is born, can only rely on their own talent to advance to the level of an extraordinary mage. Otherwise, the entire nation's resources cannot support even one extraordinary mage.

Even though China has over a hundred recorded extraordinary mages, it is still far from enough.

While this number ranks among the highest in the major powers of the human world, the vast majority of extraordinary mages are distributed within the military system, serving as the top force to resist super-level magical beasts and holy beasts in the Demon Abyss.

After all, there are three 'Abyss' level interdimensional passages within the territory of China. Although the Abyss of Departure is now broken, the other two Demon Abysses still face considerable pressure in terms of defense.

The extraordinary mages active in the mortal world, apart from the national guardians in the Night Watch, the principals of several top magic universities, the principals of several top magic high schools, and the heads of law enforcement departments in a few important cities, are probably only some hidden secret guard forces of official leaders.

In an ordinary city, it's rare to even see a single extraordinary mage.

Moreover, even the principals of top magic universities, who are considered extraordinary in the education system, are among the more average extraordinary mages.

Even so, most schools wouldn't be able to get one. Among all the magic schools in the country, you couldn't even find ten examples of extraordinary mages serving as principals.

The number of extraordinary individuals in the research institute is even smaller. Unless they are researchers trained by the institute itself and are lucky enough to be promoted to extraordinary mages, the path is different. Even if extraordinary mages from other systems are transferred to the research institute, they will be completely clueless.

After all, no matter how strong someone is, at most they're good at fighting, but that doesn't mean they also have outstanding scientific research capabilities.

The researchers in those research institutes, even if they are mages, spend almost all their time on research, so their ranks naturally improve very slowly, making it even more difficult for them to become extraordinary.

Overall, the chances of extraordinary individuals appearing are indeed higher within the military system.

The large number of mages is one aspect, but another is that constantly experiencing life-and-death battles, as long as one can survive, is definitely more likely to step onto the extraordinary path than simply burying oneself in cultivation step by step.

It was only when Wang Yi experienced the powerful effects of soul power for the first time that this idea suddenly came to him.

As for the role and distribution of extraordinary mages, and the various issues related to the research system, he naturally did not understand them.

That's just wishful thinking on the part of an outsider.

Of course, this fleeting thought was immediately swept into the trash heap by Wang Yi.

The most urgent task is to study how to amplify the power of magic.

After several attempts, Wang Yi discovered that there are two opportunities during the entire process of releasing and forming magic that can be infused with additional magical power, thereby amplifying the power of the magic.

The first is the wisp of magic power surging from the human crystal. It's like a catalyst, which Wang Yi calls the nascent form of magic. When the nascent form of magic reaches the chest where magic power is stored and takes away its own magic power, the more magic power it takes away, the greater the power of the magic will be.

The second is the moment just before the magic takes root and is about to take shape.

Because once magic has truly taken shape, if you then try to infuse it with magical power, the magic will never be able to break through the limitations of its own grade.

Just like when Wang Yi finished releasing the Green Vine Entanglement and then controlled the external magic to continuously inject into the vine, although the vine would become thicker, longer and tougher, it could never break through the limit of rare-grade magic.

Once the limit of rare-grade magic is reached, forcibly injecting more magic will only result in the vines bursting and the magic collapsing on its own.

Therefore, if one wants to amplify magic to the point of breaking through its own grade, it is only possible before the magic truly takes shape.

After releasing the green vines more than ten times, Wang Yi gradually grasped a bit of the trick.

Wang Yi took a deep breath, focused all his attention, and raised his right arm with his palm facing the cave entrance.

"Entwined with green vines!"

From among the clusters of green vines as thick as a wrist and an arm, more than twenty enormous vines, each thicker than a person, suddenly burst forth.

The deep green vines twisted and turned like giant pythons, intertwining and almost blocking the entire cave. Then they plunged into the cave ceiling, their immense power penetrating the mountain rocks and crushing large chunks of rock.

"We finally succeeded!"

Wang Yi smiled excitedly. The power of this green vine entangling spell was definitely among the better ones in the divine-grade magic.

Although it was only an upgrade from the rare grade to the divine grade, considering that he had just mastered the power of the soul, it was already quite good to have achieved such a level after just a small test.

Of course, Wang Yi wasn't quite satisfied with just this level, because he could use divine-grade magic at will.

"So, what exactly is the key point...?"

Wang Yi kept reviewing her actions and then realized that the key issue was that she didn't have enough magic power.

Because the release of magic was so fast, in that instant, Wang Yi could neither allow the nascent magic to take away all the magic power in his body, nor could he only have time to inject a small amount of external magic power into the nascent magic.

Wang Yi understood that this was because he was not yet proficient enough in using his soul power and was unable to make any further moves in that instant.

However, now that we have a direction, all we need to do is practice hard, and sooner or later we will reach the standard of an extraordinary mage... right?

Wang Yi clicked his tongue and looked at the cave, which had partially collapsed.

Although it didn't achieve the desired effect, if we do it a few more times, we can probably seal the cave completely.

Just as Wang Yi was preparing to unleash the enhanced version of Green Vine Entanglement a few more times, an idea suddenly popped into his mind.

"Since there's not enough time, can I prepare in advance?"

Wang Yi recalled how Chu Zhaoding had been gathering magic power in his palm, and decided to try it one last time, following that idea.

So Wang Yi focused his mind and began to use his soul power at the edge of the cave, constantly gathering the surrounding magic power and compressing it into a sphere.

Wang Yi compressed countless magical energies nearby, and then magical energies from afar flowed in to fill the gaps, continuing to be compressed until the sphere gradually emitted a visible glow.

A minute later, Wang Yi felt that if he continued to compress, he would lose control, so he stopped.

Having consumed a lot of his soul power and feeling somewhat weak, Wang Yi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and released the Green Vine Entanglement once more.

Just before the green vines had fully formed, Wang Yi poured all his compressed magic power into the unfinished spell.

The next moment, everything went black before Wang Yi's eyes. Countless huge black vines grew rapidly like towering trees, layer upon layer, twisting and turning with each other, completely obscuring Wang Yi's vision like a city wall.

The twisted black vines not only crushed the cave, but also burrowed deep into the mountain, growing and penetrating countless rocks before bursting out from the mountaintop and transforming into a vast black jungle, continuing to stretch its claws towards the sky.

Rumble!

Rocks fell, the cliff, over a hundred meters high, trembled violently, and then half of the mountaintop exploded and collapsed amidst the swirling giant vines.

Because they were too close and he was completely unprepared, Wang Yi had no time or space to dodge and was directly swallowed up by countless out-of-control, expanding vines.

Faintly, one could hear the crisp sound of bones snapping and breaking, followed by a scream.

"His own mother...entwined with green vines...ah!"