February 4, 14527 in the Astral Calendar.

In the blink of an eye, Pei Ze has been in the shadow world for nearly a year.

After solving the Pei family, he began to practice in retreat, spending most of his time in his room meditating or practicing the omniscient breathing method.

Occasionally, he made a potion and let Su Ya and Peng Yan go to Exchange Square to sell it to make up for the expenses of the room fee and the purchase of the Raven magical creature.

After seven months of meditation, Pei Ze's spiritual power reached the crystallization standard as he wished.

"Omniscience, detect my current state."

In the hotel room, Pei Ze sat cross-legged on the bed and said a word silently in his heart.

[Spirit 384.00]

[Constitution 355.77]

"It's time to start crystallizing."

A flash of joy flashed on Pei Ze's face.

Without hesitation, he immediately took out the Divine Mind Elixir, directly picked out a bottle of the best quality and took it, and then began to condense his spiritual power.

After several experiences, Pei Ze is now familiar with condensing his mental power.

After about half a day, the spiritual power in the second spiritual crystal had already crystallized.

"I consumed seventy-five bottles of Divine Thoughts Elixir, but fortunately I brought enough potion."

Pei Ze breathed a long sigh of relief, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

Finally broke through to the secondary crystallization stage.

Because the spirit crystallization is larger than that of ordinary wizards, he needs to increase his spiritual power much higher than other wizards every time he breaks through, and even with the assistance of the omniscient eye, it takes a lot of time and energy.

Otherwise, if he had broken through the same standards as other wizards, he would have been a third-level wizard by now.

"The standard for condensing the third spiritual crystallization is that the spiritual power reaches the 576 energy level, which is still 192 energy levels."

"Now the daily increase after the superposition of the Visualization Secret Method and the Dragon Pattern has dropped to 0.56 energy level, and it will take about a year to reach the standard."

Pei Ze nodded secretly, a year is not a long time, if it weren't for the creation of the dragon pattern, the time required to break through would have at least doubled.

Now it's only been a year, which is already a short time.

Moreover, when the third spiritual crystal is condensed and the third dragon pattern is engraved, the speed of spiritual power growth can be further improved.

"When you are promoted to a third-level wizard, it is almost time for the Battle of the Holy Ring to begin."

Pei Ze's eyes flickered slightly.

He was not interested in the so-called glory and fame.

But if he can get more resources in Dawn City, he won't resist participating in the Battle of the Holy Ring.

And if he really wins, the Dawn Council will definitely not treat him badly, and maybe the resources of the Elemental Wizard will be guaranteed.

However, it is predictable that it will not be easy to win the battle of the Holy Ring.

After all, the people who participated in the Battle of the Sacred Ring were all genius wizards from the major wizard cities, and there were even descendants of rule wizards known as the Chosen One.

You don't have to think about it to know that the strength of these people must be far superior to that of wizards of the same level.

Even Pei Ze didn't dare to say that he was completely sure that he could win in the Battle of the Holy Ring.

"Anyway, let's go to the third level of wizard first."

Pei Ze got up and walked out of the room and came out into the corridor.

The black shadow flashed in front of him, and the mist feather had already landed on his shoulder, rubbing his cheek affectionately.

Pei Ze smiled slightly and touched the little guy's cold feathers.

During his time in retreat, Su Ya and Peng Yan bought Raven magical creatures from Exchange Square to devour Misty Feather.

Now the number of fog crows in the little guy's body has broken through the nine thousand mark, and it is approaching ten thousand.

It is worth mentioning that among the Raven magical creatures devoured by Fog Feather, there is a Raven magical creature called the Shadow Raven that is very compatible with it.

The Shadow Ravens are half of the Shadow Realm's native creatures, born from another outer plane called the Shadow Plane, but they like to run to the Shadow Realm.

This magical creature is born with the power of shadows and has the combat power equivalent to that of a third-order legendary knight.

After devouring the shadow crow, the shadow power obtained by the fog feather gradually fused with his own atomization ability and evolved another new ability, which made Pei Ze very happy.

There was no doubt that the Shadow Raven was a good fit for the devouring target he had planned for Fog Feather.

Once he inherits the shadow power of the Shadow Raven and successfully evolves a new ability with Atomization, Fog Feather's combat power will definitely jump a lot.

Maybe you can directly reach the level of a third-level crystallization wizard.

And the current fog feather can barely compete with the third-level liquefied wizard.

"Dumb!"

A crisp scream suddenly sounded, interrupting Pei Ze's contemplation.

He turned his head to look, and saw Xiao Yi flapping his wings and rushing towards him, burrowing into his arms, and protesting loudly.

During his retreat, Xiao Yi stayed by Misty Feather's side all the time.

With Misty Feather by her side, she can play in Owo Castle with peace of mind.

It's just that the shadow world is not as good as the material world, the environment is desolate and bleak, and even the vegetation is rare.

Although Ovo Castle is more lively, it is still much worse than Dawn City, Xiao Yi quickly got tired of it, endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't help but protest when he saw Pei Ze appear today.

"Got it, we'll leave the Shadow Realm today and go back to Dawn City." Pei Ze said with a smile.

Hearing this, Xiao Yi suddenly waved his hands excitedly and shouted, signaling Pei Ze to take out the goblin hut, and then took the initiative to get in.

Su Ya and Peng Yan, who were cultivating in the backyard, heard the familiar voice in the corridor, and immediately walked up, and when they saw Pei Ze, their faces were overjoyed.

"My lord, have you finished your cultivation?"

"Hmm." Pei Ze smiled slightly, "Clean up, let's go back to Dawn City today." ”

Su Ya and Peng Yan were stunned, but quickly came back to their senses, and immediately returned to the room to prepare.

Pei Ze came downstairs and walked towards the counter.

Idar, who was reading a book behind the counter, seemed to be aware of it, and looked up at Pei Ze, his eyes were slightly fixed, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Congratulations, you've taken another step forward on the wizarding path."

"Thank you." Pei Ze smiled, "I'm here to say goodbye, I'm ready to leave the Shadow Realm." ”

"Come to me often when you have time in the future."

"If you have the chance."

The two didn't talk much, and after a brief goodbye, Pei Ze left the hotel with Su Ya, who had packed up and gone downstairs.

Dawn City, the Ring of Truth.

Mansion.

Stepping into the gate of the mansion, the familiar environment made Pei Ze's body subconsciously relax a lot.

In the dangerous shadow world, he had to keep his mind on guard against the danger that could come at any time, but here, he didn't need to worry about anything.

"Master."

Sensing the change in the magic circle, Nymph immediately greeted him, and a happy smile appeared on his face after seeing Pei Ze.

Pei Ze asked casually, "Did anything happen to the mansion during my departure?" ”

"No, master, everything is fine." Nymph said with a smile, and then as if remembering something, she added, "But Miss Tinin came to me three times to buy the Huiyue Orchid, and according to your instructions, I made a deal with her, and the insect crystals and insect materials in exchange were piled up in the warehouse. ”

Pei Ze raised his eyebrows, he traded three times in less than a year, and this was still when he gave a batch of wood spirit elixirs in advance, it seemed that the situation on Ti Ning's side was not optimistic.

Waving off the Nymph, Pei Ze came to the hall and released Xiao Yi with his hand.

After finding that he had returned to the familiar mansion, Xiao Yi immediately cheered and ran to the backyard.

Looking at that appearance, I guess I rushed to find the group of flower goblins.

Pei Ze shook his head with a smile, thought about it, turned around and left the mansion, and hurried towards the Yinguang Legion station.

The corpse of the Pei family wizard in the dimensional bag needs to be handed over to the Silver Light Legion for inventory first, and then it can be exchanged for a successful medal, during which it will take two or three days to wait.

Coming out of the Silver Light Legion station, Pei Ze turned around and rushed to the Tower Academy again.

No. 8 Medicine Garden.

In the potion hut, Mo Weng was refining potions as always.

Casually putting away the refined potion, his expression suddenly moved, and he turned his head to look out of the door, a rare gentle smile appeared on his solemn face.

It didn't take long for Pei Ze's figure to appear at the door.

"Teacher."

Mo Weng glanced Pei Ze up and down a few times, and a look of relief flashed in his eyes.

"Yes, you have broken through to the second-level crystallization stage, it seems that you have gained a lot from this trip to the Shadow Realm."

"It's all thanks to the teacher's intelligence." Pei Ze smiled, "Besides, teacher, I met someone from the Pei family." ”

Mo Weng raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell me in detail." ”

Pei Ze did not hide it, and told the story roughly, and skipped the things in the dark realm.

After all, the ability to predict the Dark Realm was too unbelievable, and he couldn't explain the source.

In addition, the Silver Frost Calamity Wolf bloodline mark was also concealed by him, and he only said that he relied on the explosive insect crystal sneak attack to severely damage the Pei family wizard, which wiped out all the other party.

After hearing this, Mo Weng didn't ask much, but his expression was slightly embarrassed.

Although they are enemies of each other, the Pei family is a bloodline wizard family that has been inherited for tens of thousands of years in Dawn City, but because of one wrong step, they fell to the point of extinction of the family, which is really embarrassing.

Of course, emotion is emotion, give him another chance, he will still attack the Pei family mercilessly.

"Do you know about the Battle of the Ring?" Mo Weng suddenly changed his words.

Pei Ze said: "I came to the teacher today, and I also want to ask about this matter, does the teacher think I should participate?" ”

Mo Weng said: "The mortality rate of the previous Sacred Ring Battle is very low, after all, the participants are all true geniuses of the Astral Alliance, and the alliance has done a good job of protecting the participants, there is almost no risk, but the rewards are extremely rich. ”

"That's why all the major wizarding cities want their own participants as many as possible."

"It's a pity that none of our rule wizards in Dawn City have direct descendants, and at present, there is not even a third-level wizard under the age of twenty, and the only one who has any hope of participating in the Battle of the Holy Ring is Ling."

Mo Weng looked at Pei Ze with a smile on his face.

"The council has contacted me and said that if you are willing to participate in the Battle of the Ring, they will assist you in advancing to the third level of wizardry as soon as possible."

Pei Ze's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked, "How is the council going to assist me?" ”

Mo Weng smiled slightly: "Truth Secret Realm." ”

The Secret Realm of Truth?

Pei Ze was stunned, does this place still have an effect on him?

Before he was promoted to wizard, he had entered the Secret Realm of Truth three times in a row.

The last time I entered, I got very little to gain.

With his current strength, the Secret Realm of Truth may have no effect on him.

As if guessing Pei Ze's thoughts, Mo Weng explained: "The secret realm of truth in the council is naturally not comparable to the secret realm of truth in the academy, the latter is just an elemental wizard who has touched a trace of rules, and created the secret realm of truth based on his own superficial understanding of the rules. ”

"And the secret realm of truth mastered by the council was created by a powerful rule wizard at the beginning of the establishment of Dawn City, and after tens of thousands of years, more than a dozen rule wizards have successively integrated their own understanding of the rules, and constantly improved the secret realm formed, in terms of the gain to wizards, far beyond the academy."

"Even if a third-level wizard enters the secret realm of truth, he can get a lot of gains."

Pei Ze was suddenly a little moved.

The secret realm of truth that is beneficial to all third-level wizards, and he will definitely gain more as a second-level wizard.

"It's also the secret realm of truth, and the secret realm of truth controlled by the council should also be able to get rule points, although you can't use it now, you can keep it for analyzing or improving your knowledge in the future."

"And the secret realm of truth can also strengthen spiritual qualifications and improve the efficiency of meditation, which is the most important thing!"

Pei Ze had originally planned to participate in the Battle of the Holy Ring, but now that he could get benefits from the council, he was naturally more happy.

"Teacher, I'm participating in the Battle of the Sacred Ring."

Mo Weng was not surprised by Pei Ze's answer, and nodded with a smile.

"I'll communicate with you on the council's side, and in a month at most, you will be able to enter the secret realm of truth and make preparations in advance."

"Yes, Teacher."

Although it is necessary to prepare for entering the secret realm of truth, there is actually nothing to prepare.

After returning to Dawn City, Pei Ze took the time to contact Tinin once.

Following his advice, Tinnin has moved away from the forest where he used to live, moving in the opposite direction to the invasion of alien insects.

However, the pace of the insect conquest of the plane was very fast and violent, and every time it didn't take long to stay in one place, the army of the insect had already caught up, and the half-deer girl had to continue to migrate with her people, and many battles broke out in the middle.

Relying on the Wood Spirit Elixir and Hui Yuelan supported by Pei Ze, their clan barely survived.

Now Tinin has fled with his people to the Grand Canyon of Veros, the center of the Ancient Forest Plane.

Most of the magical creatures of the Ancient Forest Plane are now gathered there, ready to fight to the death against the army of insects.

Now the two sides are still in a standoff, and they are mobilizing combat power and accumulating strength for the next big war, and it is visually estimated that there will be no war in the short term, so there is no need to worry about what will happen for the time being.

Pei Ze couldn't help much at this stage, so he could only refine a batch of wood spirit elixirs to support Ti Ning.

Three days later, the reward for killing the Pei family's wizard was successfully distributed.

It was about the same as Pei Ze expected, with a total of more than 52,000 merit points.

He didn't hesitate to exchange all merit points for Shadow Raven.

Now he still has nine purified soul crystals in his hands, which is enough to support his cultivation for more than half a year.

The remaining balance can also be purchased with Magic Stone Coins.

The same is true of the energy-absorbing stone mother required to condense the third spiritual crystal.

These resources, which can be purchased from the Traveler's Guild, can be purchased for Magic Stone Coins, so naturally there is no need to waste merit points.

On the other hand, when it comes to magical creatures, the Traveler's Guild is far less accessible than the Dawn Council, which has its own channels for cultivating magical creatures, so it's more convenient to spend merit points to exchange them directly from the Dawn Council for Raven magical creatures.

After devouring a large number of Shadow Ravens, Misty Feather successfully inherited the power of Shadow and fused with Fog to form a new ability.

The new ability makes Misfeather's body closer and closer to being incorporeal.

In the past, the fog feather's mist body was as tangible as the fog, but now the fog feather's body is as tangible and substantial as a shadow, almost completely virtual like a spirit body.

This means that Fog Feather is immune to almost all physical attacks, and even the damage caused to it by energy particles has been reduced considerably.

On top of that, it also has spell abilities such as Shadow Stealth, Shadow Dash, Shadow Manipulation, and more.

Pei Ze refers to these abilities collectively as shadowing.

In addition to shadowing, the number of fog crows has finally exceeded the 10,000 mark.

It can be said that today's Fog Feather combat power is no longer inferior to ordinary third-level crystallization wizards.

"The little guy is so strong now that he doesn't look like a magic pet at all."

Pei Ze estimates that he will be able to fight with Fog Feather in the future, and it is estimated that the only one who has grown up is the shadow dragon.

The task of improving the texture of the Shadow Dragon Dragon Egg has been completed, and Pei Ze immediately purchased materials to improve it.

After the improved texture, the speed at which dragon eggs absorb energy particles is greatly increased, the time required to hatch is greatly reduced, and the power and potential of the final hatched shadow dragon will be greatly enhanced.

However, if you want to make dragon eggs hatch better, you also need a lot of rare materials to help.

For this, Pei Ze made a special trip to the inner city library and consulted the information about the Shadow Dragon in detail.

"Dark Crystals, Earth-Centered Milk, Condensate Sand, Dragon Crystals. After a series of materials, nearly 200,000 magic stone coins were gone. ”

Pei Ze looked a little emotional.

Now he only has less than 10,000 magic stone coins left on him, and most of his wealth has been invested in buying materials.

Next, if you want to buy Purified Soul Crystals and Energy-absorbing Stone Mother, you have to refine potions to make money.

"Then wait for the dragon eggs to hatch."

Pei Ze looked at the center of the room, where a small magic circle was drawn, and in the center was a pitch-black dragon egg.

As the circle operated, rich energy particles poured in from all directions, mixed with the rich energy escaping from the material, and sank into the dragon egg like a sea of rivers.

With his powerful spiritual power, Pei Ze could clearly feel that the life in the dragon egg was undergoing a transformation.

"I guess it will take a year or two before it hatches."

Pei Ze thought about it, this is not bad.

The giant dragon in his youth was basically very large, and the mansion would definitely not be able to accommodate it.

Born a year or two later, he also has plenty of buffer time to sprint to the elemental wizard.

Once the Wizard's Tower is built, it's easy to carve out an area for the Shadow Dragons to rest and play.

Walking out of the room, Pei Ze came to the underground hall, his mind moved slightly, and the silver star instantly melted and fell off from his wrist, forming a mass of molten metal suspended in the void in front of him.

After breaking through to the second-level crystallization, Pei Ze immediately made up the last standard amount of metal combination, and successfully made the silver star evolve into a fourth-order witch weapon.

With his current spiritual energy level, it was enough to use a fourth-order witchcraft as a regular weapon.

You must know that the vast majority of second-level crystallization wizards can only use third-order witchcraft at most.

Even a wizard like Yin Xue, who had cultivated the top-level high-level meditation method, could only control the fourth-order witchcraft for a short period of time in the second-level crystallization stage.

Among the second-level wizards who can use fourth-order wizards as conventional weapons, except for a very small number of direct descendants of talented rule wizards, he is the only one who has opened the hanging.

The metal combination of Silver Star's evolution to the fifth order has already been calculated.

A standard amount of the new metal combination costs 100 magic crystals, which is equivalent to 100,000 magic stone coins.

And the evolution of Silver Star into a fifth-order witchcraft requires a total of fifty-five standard amounts of metal combinations, which is converted into five thousand five hundred magic crystals.

When he calculated the price, Pei Ze was very surprised.

After all, 5,500 magic crystals are more than 5 million magic stone coins!

However, after thinking about it, if 5,500 magic crystals could be exchanged for a fifth-order witch weapon, it would be very worthwhile.

On the auction house, this magic crystal may not even be a fraction of the transaction price of a fifth-order witch weapon.

"Five thousand five hundred magic crystals have been making money selling potions for a long time."

Pei Ze secretly sighed.

It's no wonder that none of the third-level wizards I have encountered so far have held fifth-order witch weapons.

There weren't even a few people holding fourth-order witch weapons.

In the final analysis, it is because high-level witch weapons are too expensive, and the number is scarce, and most of them are priceless.

If he hadn't started cultivating the Evolution Silver Star since he was a first-order junior, it wouldn't be easy to find a fourth-order witchcraft now.

Pei Ze tested it, and the evolved Silver Star could already load more than one hundred and thirty lightning runes, plus breaking through to the second-level crystallization stage, his physique had increased a lot, and now after fusing the Silver Star, he could withstand more than three hundred lightning runes.

If the Silver Body is activated again, the number of lightning runes will soar to more than four hundred.

Not to mention the Burning Silver Body.

"Before the Battle of the Holy Ring, it's best to strengthen the Silver Star to a critical point of +54."

Pei Ze had a plan in his heart.

Only ordinary third-order crystallization wizards can barely manipulate fifth-order witch weapons.

Even if it was him, he would have to be at least a third-order wizard before he could use a fifth-order witchcraft.

For routine use, it is necessary to wait until the tertiary liquefaction stage.

Until then, strengthening the Silver Star to Tier 4 +54 is the best option.

"Now it's time to enter the secret realm of truth."

As Mo Weng said, only half a month later, the notice of the council reached Pei Ze.

It's time to enter the secret realm of truth.

As soon as he received the notice, Pei Ze came to the very center of the inner city, a magnificent complex located at the bottom of the hundreds of wizard towers.

Led by an officer of the Wizarding Administration, Pei Ze soon came to a towering spire-shaped building.

Before he stepped into the door, a figure flashed in front of him, and Mo Weng appeared out of thin air.

Waving the officer away, Mo Weng glanced at Pei Ze, turned around and walked towards the building.

"Keep up."

Pei Ze immediately stepped forward to follow.

The two of them walked through the gate one after the other, stepped on the spiral staircase that extended upward, and walked for more than ten minutes before they came to a spacious hall.

The entire hall is made of blue-gray rock, and there are no gaps between the rocks, as if the entire hall was carved from a single piece of rock.

There was not a single magic stone lamp in the main hall, and the only light source was the silver light door standing in the center of the main hall, and inside was a slowly rotating silver vortex.

(End of chapter)