Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

The firelight illuminated the mountains and forests, radiating light and heat, making it extremely conspicuous in the night.

Lin Qingyu sat by the fire, watching the crackling firewood, and asked Wang Yi:

"How much longer until you advance to the extraordinary level?"

"With my current soul strength assisting my cultivation, it would normally take about three to four years. However, the magic power in the magical world is too concentrated, so the speed will increase significantly again. I estimate it will take about another year."

"A year?"

Across from Lin Qingyu, Ren Tianque was surprised.

If I remember correctly, Wang Yi is about nineteen years old this year.

In other words, a year from now, Wang Yi will become a transcendent mage at the young age of twenty.

At twenty years old, while other genius mages might not even have successfully advanced to the high-level stage, Wang Yi had already become extraordinary.

Ren Tianque originally thought that his advancement to the extraordinary level at the age of twenty-nine, which directly improved the world record by seven years, was a huge progress that was rare in a century and was enough to maintain the record for a long time.

Unexpectedly, just six months after becoming a transcendent mage, he was told that he would be removed from the position soon.

Good news, he is indeed still the world's youngest transcendental mage.

The bad news is that he can only hold this position for another year, and his record will only last for a total of one and a half years.

They can't even make up a whole Kun year.

Ren Tianque wasn't too disappointed by this, after all, even without his Li Huo's assistance, Wang Yi's current strength wasn't much different from that of a true extraordinary mage.

In a fight to the death, he is even more powerful than many newly promoted extraordinary mages.

Ren Tianque suddenly realized that before he broke the record, the person who advanced to the Transcendent Mage level in the world at the fastest speed was Lin Qingyu.

Lin Qingyu became a transcendent mage at the age of thirty-six, which means it has been nineteen years since then.

Lin Qingyu's record stood for eighteen years until it was broken by Ren Tianque six months ago.

However, because Ren Tianque was deeply immersed in the magical world, his advancement to the extraordinary realm and breaking records remained unknown to humans.

"A year is too slow."

Although a year is a short time, Lin Qingyu shook his head in dissatisfaction.

"This is slow? May I ask how old you were when you became a transcendent mage?"

Ren Tianque, a 29-year-old extraordinary monk, sneered.

Lin Qingyu looked up, glanced at Ren Tianque through the firelight, and yawned boredly.

childish.

It seems that among the three, Lin Qingyu's promotion speed is the slowest.

But don't forget, Lin Qingyu, Wang Yi, and Ren Tianque are not from the same era.

Lin Qingyu was born in the forty-fifth year of the Magic Era.

In just over a month, the Magic Calendar will have reached its centenary.

In other words, although Lin Qingyu still looks like a young man in his twenties, he is actually a 55-year-old monk.

Strictly speaking, he was probably a figure from the same era as Bai Jingting, Xu Jun, and Chu Zhaoding.

Of course, among these three, only Chu Zhaoding's age is not much different from Lin Qingyu's.

Bai Jingting and Xu Jun were both about ten years older than Lin Qingyu.

But they can still be considered figures of their time, just like Wang Yi and Ren Tianque today.

Moreover, when Lin Qingyu awakened, the magic power in the human world was naturally much thinner than it is now, and the magic crystal resources were not as abundant as they are now.

Therefore, the overall advancement speed of mages in that era was much slower than that of modern mages.

Lin Qingyu's advancement speed was absolutely unprecedented in that era; otherwise, he wouldn't have broken the record for advancement of extraordinary mages.

From the start of the Battle of Li Yuan, the damaged Li Yuan became like a giant leaky bucket, allowing massive amounts of magic power to continuously seep from the magical world into the human world.

The emergence of mental and spatial magical beasts brought about a new wave of magical beast outbreaks. Although human mages also experienced a continuous increase in the number of deaths, the magical crystal resources they obtained also increased several times over.

After that, the advancement speed of the new generation of mages improved significantly.

Therefore, the Battle of Liyuan can be considered the third major turning point in magical history since the emergence of the Abyss, which ushered in the magical era, and the development of the Awakening Ritual, which selected a large number of mages.

Now, all three mages who broke the world record have gathered here.

They even need to unite to deal with the sacred beasts that have always been among the most threatening to humanity.

It has to be said that it has a strong sense of destiny.

"A year is slow? Do you really think my advancement is as easy as eating and drinking? Besides, what if I encounter some kind of bottleneck? I might get stuck at the high-level mage level."

Wang Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Lin Qingyu as he continued, "Or are you saying that even if it's only been a year, you can't hold on any longer?"

Given Lin Qingyu's continuous efforts to erase his own soul, he might also have some kind of limit.

Self-awareness is like a wire; each death is like being bent once.

Even if Lin Qingyu's self-awareness is resilient, it will eventually be broken over time.

"A pointless test."

Lin Qingyu glanced at Wang Yi: "With your soul strength, you won't encounter any bottlenecks in advancing to the extraordinary realm. Moreover, I can hold on for a year, but I'm afraid China can't."

"What do you mean?" Ren Tianque was immediately anxious upon hearing this and hurriedly asked.

"Since you have asked so sincerely, I will mercifully tell you."

Lin Qingyu's tone suddenly changed, then he chuckled and explained to the two of them:

"You should know that after the Queen Bee's last defeat, she didn't just give up. Instead, she searched for new entrances to the Demon Abyss in this magical world while scheming to rule over more magical beasts and become the queen of all races."

"The magical world is vast and boundless. Although the territory of the sacred beasts is large, it is insignificant compared to the entire world."

"The reason why humans can seek a moment of peace is simply because the area affected by the entrance to the interdimensional passage is too small, and not many magical beasts from the human world have been discovered."

"The reason we chose to attack Li Yuan was simply because the entrance to Li Yuan was located in the territory of the Bee Queen. The Bee Queen only mobilized the power of her subordinates and cooperated with the two sacred beasts whose territories were adjacent."

"That's enough to crush Li Yuan."

"Once the Queen Bee gathers enough magical beasts, even if you are given several more decades to develop, how much power can you accumulate? When the Queen Bee leads thousands of super-level magical beasts to charge into the Abyss again, can humanity withstand it?"

At this point, Lin Qingyu smiled and looked at Wang Yi.

"Sixteen years have passed since the War of Liyuan. Guess how many magical beasts the Bee Queen has gathered now, and do you even have a year left?"