Chapter 6: Magic Duel

Bilbohm's hard work finally paid off, and although Jenny was not fully recovered from the pain, she ate and drank medicine every day according to Bilbohm's rules. In less than three days, Jenny was able to get up and walk with the help of the maid.

Seeing Jenny recover day by day, both Bilbom and Li Zijun are happy from the bottom of their hearts! Li Zijun can also let go of his worries and devote himself to the knowledge and understanding of magic and martial arts.

Bilbohm's erudition made Li Zijun feel sincerely admired! Bilbom not only had a deep understanding of his mastery of earth magic, but also had a very deep understanding of martial arts! He seemed to be a signpost leading to the road of the strong, pointing out the way forward for Li Zijun.

Through Bilbom's explanation during this time. Li Zijun has a certain understanding of magic and martial arts. Magicians and warriors are divided into three levels according to their strength. They are: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. After entering the advanced level, the mages are further subdivided into: magicians, archmagicians, magisters, and archmages, while warriors are subdivided into: swordsmen, intermediate swordsmen, advanced swordsmen, and great swordsmen.

Whether it is a mage or a warrior, as long as they enter the advanced stage, they will be treated very favorably by the empire where they are located. Mages are given knighthoods for their peculiarities and the great contributions they can make in war. However, such titles are generally only for life, and are not hereditary. Unless the mages have really contributed on the battlefield, their titles are likely to be transformed into hereditary!

Compared to the innate limitations necessary to become a magician, it is much easier to become a martial artist. Generally, as long as they cultivate according to those cultivation methods that are popular in the Youlan Continent and put in the corresponding efforts, most people can become intermediate martial artists. But after reaching this stage, in addition to being talented enough, you also need to get the support of the nobles!

The most striking difference between an intermediate martial artist and a high-level martial artist is that the Dou Qi is released outwardly! Although an intermediate martial artist can also cultivate a Dou Qi, if they cannot master the technique of releasing the Dou Qi outward, they can only linger in the ranks of the intermediate martial artist for the rest of their lives. And the skill of expulsion is completely in the hands of the nobles, and even if some extremely talented people find some feasible methods, they will quickly be pulled into the ranks of the nobles. Therefore, without their permission, the release of Dou Qi is an eternal secret for ordinary martial artists!

The nobles' control over magicians is much more relaxed, except for very special forbidden spells and necromancy, other magic will not restrict ordinary people from learning, and even regularly arrange for commoners to test whether they can become magicians. In fact, this is also the helpless move of the nobles, the innate conditions that must be possessed to become a magician are too harsh!

First, it is necessary to have a strong and concentrated mental force. Only if the spiritual power is strong enough can the magician control the magical elements in an orderly arrangement, and the concentrated mental power is to be able to make the magical elements work at the same time, and the two complement each other to complete the release of the magic zuihou. Therefore, strong and concentrated mental power is a prerequisite for becoming a magician!

The second condition that a magician must have is that the body has enough perception and affinity for the elements of magic. In order to become a magician, you must be able to feel the presence of the magic element, and at the same time, you must be recognized by the magic element and be willing to attach to the magician's body. Only when the magician has accumulated enough magic elements can it be possible to drive more magic elements to move with them under the action of spiritual power, and finally release magic after reaching the amount required to release magic. It is for this reason that sufficient perception and affinity for the magic element has become a necessary condition for entering the ranks of magicians!

Magical elements are usually static most of the time, and the mysterious spell is actually the key to activate the movement of the magic element, which is the least important thing for a magician!

There are only one in ten thousand people in the Blue Continent who can meet the above two conditions, and even if they can become magicians, most people will wander between the junior and intermediate levels all their lives due to the limitations of their talents, and there are very few magicians who can enter the advanced stage! Magicians have always been at an absolute disadvantage compared to the combat power of martial artists of the same level before the early stage of intermediate. The situation only improved in the middle and late stages, but by that time, it would have been decades away for most magicians!

The people of the Li family all have extraordinary talents in martial arts, and no one has ever stopped at the level of a sword master! Charity's eldest sister Caroline had already become a sword master when she was twenty-three years old, and she was not yet thirty years old this year, and she was about to enter the ranks of senior sword masters. Jenny's performance is even better, she is twenty-two years old, but the sword that blocked the hammer has already shown that she has the strength of a swordsman!

It was for this reason that Ed rejected his father's desire to become a magician, and his dream at that time was to become a Juggernaut!

The Sword Saint and the Law Saint are supreme beings in their respective realms, and they are worshipped like gods in the Blue Continent. In the hundreds of years of history of the Seven Great Empires, no empire has ever had more than two digits in the number of Holy Ranks, and this is only when the Holy Rank can usually live to be three hundred years old. If it weren't for the super long life of the Holy Order, I'm afraid the number of Holy Orders in the Blue Continent would be even less.

And as the supreme of magicians, the number of Dharma Saints is even more pitiful, in the records of thousands of years, there is no period when the number of Dharma Saints exceeds nine people, at this time, the seven empires of the Youlan Continent plus the two major sects of the Light God Sect and the Dark Moon God Sect, there are only seven Dharma Saints in total. The Turk-Hungarian Empire and the Xianbei Empire on the steppe have become the desert of the Fa Sheng!

After learning about these things from Bilbohm, Li Zijun began to practice magic step by step, and the first step was to see which system of magic elements he could feel through meditation before he could choose the direction of cultivation. To Li Zijun's surprise, he could actually feel all the magical elements, but he was quickly dissipated by another incident, and those magical elements were very fond of surrounding him, but they were reluctant to enter his body. After a night, Li Zijun didn't store a single magic element.

Li Zijun consulted Bilbom because of this problem, and Bilbom was also very strange, which was very different from the situation that Li Zijun had tested at the beginning, and he couldn't tell whether it was because of Weishenme, but there was some disappointment in his eyes. This kind of thing is not a new thing in the magic world, there are many people who perform well in the test, but when they actually cultivate, there is a lot of difference! This has actually shown that Li Zijun is not very suitable for cultivating magic.

Seeing that Li Zijun was still full of hope for magic, Bilbo couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm, so he comforted him a little, but the meaning of his words was already that he hoped that Li Zijun would be able to switch back to cultivating martial arts.

Li Zijun also understood what Bilbom meant, but he really didn't want to give up before he started, he was ready to shiyan for two more days, if it really didn't work, he could only give up his dream of becoming a magician. When Li Zijun meditated again, he observed the magical elements around him more carefully, and he found that it was not that his affinity was not enough, but that when these magical elements were about to enter his body, they would always be bounced away by a magical liliang.

What the hell is going on?Li Zijun focused his attention on his body, and to his surprise, he didn't know when he already possessed a part of the magic element in his body. It's just that these magical elements are not attached to the various parts of his body as Bilbow said, but are concentrated in the position of the dantian. Li Zijun also felt that the magic elements in his body were slightly more powerful than those ordinary magic elements.

After two consecutive days of observation, Li Zijun also found that the magic elements in his body were constantly growing. After repeated experiments and observations, Li Zijun finally figured out the reason, it turned out that these magic elements were the aura he absorbed when he cultivated his internal force every day! These aura was purified by him into true qi, which was purer than ordinary magic elements, and the true qi had become a part of his body, and they continued to grow with Li Zijun every day, which also caused these magic elements to become stronger.

Since the true qi flowed back and forth in Li Zijun's meridians every day, they had an instinctive rejection of their own kind, which also made those ordinary magic elements unable to enter Li Zijun's body at all.

With this surprise discovery, Li Zijun understood that he had found a shortcut to cultivating magic. As long as he can persevere on this path, he will climb to the pinnacle of magic more easily than others.

In the following days, Li Zijun was completely immersed in the cultivation of internal force, and even the Ouchi guards and royal guards sent by the imperial court to Da Praia were ignored by him. Fortunately, the rest of them still regarded him as a child, and no one paid too much attention to his slightly rude performance.

Three days later, Higgins, who had been strongly supported, had no excuse to stay here and was ready to start again.

After this period of recuperation, Jenny's mood slowly calmed down as the injury eased, and occasionally Li Zijun could see a light smile on her face. By the time the team set off, Jenny was able to walk on her own!

Compared with him finding a shortcut to cultivating magic, Li Zijun would rather see Jenny gradually come out of the haze in his heart. Li Zijun is now more and more accustomed to thinking from Edlaide's point of view, and while he occupies Edlaide's body, he is increasingly influenced by Edlaide's emotional aspects.

Removing the obstacle to Jenny's injury, Li Zijun can devote more energy to the cultivation of internal force, and he cultivates internal force in the carriage every day. Although Li Zijun's cultivation method is fundamentally different from meditation in nature, it is difficult to distinguish it from each other on the surface, even Bilbom didn't notice Li Zijun's abnormality, and thought that Li Zijun was doing Zuihou's efforts!

These days, Li Zijun can feel every day that with the increase of internal force, the magic element in his body is also growing rapidly! This also makes him more convinced of his previous judgment and more diligent in cultivating his internal force.

The team followed Higgins's jihua every day, but Li Zijun was already completely immersed in cultivation and didn't notice where he was going. But I don't know about it today, Li Zijun can't let himself calm down and cultivate at all, and he hasn't changed in the slightest after trying a few times, which is something that has never happened to him.

Li Zijun opened his eyes suspiciously, although such a phenomenon was also mentioned in the cheats, this situation usually does not appear until a certain stage of cultivation. And his progress during this period of time is indeed quite rapid, but it is far from the realm mentioned in the cheats. And as the team advanced, there was a strong uneasiness in his heart, and he was a little confused!

"Second sister, where are we here?" asked Li Zijun as he looked at Jenny, who was sitting opposite in a daze.

"What, Ed, are you talking to my sister?" asked Jenny, who woke up from her trance and looked at Li Zijun with a blank expression.

Li Zijun looked at Jenny's appearance, sighed secretly, and repeated his question.

Jenny pushed the window and looked out for a while,

"Now that we have entered the jurisdiction of the town of Il, in about half an hour or so, we can enter the town of Il to rest. Is there anything wrong with you?"

"Second sister, I don't know weishenme, I feel very uncomfortable! It seems that something unpleasant is waiting for us in front of me. ”

"Is it that you have been meditating for too long, and when you get to the town in a while, you can get off the car and do the activities. Jenny said tenderly stroking Li Zijun's cheek.

Although Jenny's action made Li Zijun feel very warm, the inner turmoil not only did not alleviate in the slightest, but felt more and more serious.

Li Zijun looked at Jenny and smiled, leaned most of his body out of the window, and looked in the direction of Yier Town.

"What, does Ed feel bored?" This place is located on the plain, and the surrounding situation is in full view, and it is unlikely that there are any people lying in ambush around, so Bilbohm, who followed the carriage on horseback, did not stop Li Zijun's slightly outrageous behavior, and greeted him with a smile.

"Uncle Bill, I want to see how far away it is from the town of Eir?" Li Zijun replied to Bilbrom as he casually glanced in the direction of Eir. He immediately sensed that something was wrong, and looked at it again for a while, and finally let him notice something unusual.

"Uncle Bill, please ask General Higgins to stop the team!" Li Zijun shouted anxiously at Bilbohm.

"Ed, what did you find?" Bilbow asked puzzled when he saw Li Zijun's appearance.

"It's too late! You inform General Higgins first, you must hurry!"

Seeing Li Zijun like this, Bilbohm knew that he was not joking, and hurriedly stepped forward to convey Li Zijun's meaning to Higgins.

Although Higgins didn't think that Li Zijun, the child, could say anything, for the sake of Bilbohm's face and Li Zijun's identity, he still stopped the team and came to Li Zijun's carriage with Bilbohm.

"Marquis Edlaide, is there anything wrong with you?" Higgins was still polite, but Li Zijun could hear the dissatisfaction in his words. It's just that at this time, Li Zijun couldn't care so much, he pointed in the direction of Yier Town,

"General Higgins, do you think there's something wrong with Eir?"

"What's wrong, why don't I see anything!" Higgins replied disapprerovingly, glancing at Yier Zhen along Li Zijun's hand. Bilbow next to him also looked a little unpleasant, and he also thought that Edrade was a little nervous.

"General Higgins, Uncle Bill, it's supposed to be cooking time, but you see, there isn't a single bit of cooking smoke in the whole town of Eir, do you think this phenomenon is normal?"

Hearing Li Zijun's words, Higgins and Bilbohm were shocked, and when they looked at Ilzhen again, their faces became extremely ugly.

"Who's in charge of scouting into town, call him to me. Higgins commanded as he looked at his lieutenant with a gloomy face.

"It's Team Zekariya! I'm going to get him. The adjutant turned his horse's head to look for Zekariya.

After a while, the adjutant came to Higgins with Zekariya's body.

"What the hell is going on?"

"General, when I just summoned him, he saw that there was no way to escape, and suddenly committed suicide. I didn't stop!" said the adjutant in trepidation.

"What about the rest of the squad?"

"When I got them under control, I found out that they were all dead! I had to order the soldiers to pull them off their horses and burn their bodies. Fortunately, in the process, they did not resist!" The adjutant also felt that his words were a little incredible, and his voice became smaller and smaller.

"What?" If it weren't for the fact that the adjutant was Higgins' cronies, he must have suspected that something was wrong with the adjutant's brain. How could a dead man come back on horseback!

"You say they're all dead?" Bilbohm asked nervously as he heard the adjutant's words and thought of the necromancer.

"Yes, Bilbom Magician! I don't know if they can swagger back on horseback?" the adjutant thought that Bilbom was doubting himself, but he really didn't know how to explain it, and said embarrassedly.

"General Higgins, I think there's a good chance we'll meet the Necromancy!" Bilbohm said unusually heavy.

"Are you sure?"

"Nine times out of ten!"

"All on alert!" Higgins and Bilbo exchanged glances, and immediately gave the order, and at the same time arranged for all the Ouchi guards to surround Li Zijun's carriage.

"What shall we do now, Mr. Bilbohm?" asked Higgins earnestly.

"I'll go to the town first and then figure it out. "Bilbom is a high-level mage of wind and water, he can fly in the sky for a short time, and he wants to go over the town of Ils to see what is going on.

Bilbom instructed Jenny and Li Zijun, turned back to the carriage's magic defense array, nodded to Higgins, and flew towards Il.

It wasn't long before Bilbohm returned to Higgins with a pale face.

"How?" Higgins asked anxiously, pulling Bilbohm.

"General Higgins, we're in big trouble!" Before Bilbohm's words could land, a large number of villagers suddenly appeared at the entrance of the town, as if they had not seen the royal guards waiting for them, and walked towards them in a neat formation.

Through the magic array, Li Zijun looked at these villagers and felt extremely depressed in his heart. He looked closely at these villagers, and he actually found that these villagers were not breathing at all!

"Uncle Bill, why do these villagers seem to be dead!?" Li Zijun himself felt his voice tremble a little.

As soon as Li Zijun's words came out, Higgins immediately turned his head and looked at Bilbohm nervously. Bilbohm didn't say anything, just nodded with a heavy face.

"Spearmen rush forward to defend and try not to let them get close to our team!" Higgins didn't have time to think about it, and immediately gave the order. The Royal Guards were worthy of being the most elite troops of the Dongyu Empire, and in the face of such a terrible scene, not only did they not panic in the slightest, but they changed their formation in a very timely manner, and the cavalry that had been rushing forward turned to both sides, and the pikemen were at the front.

This was the first time Bilbom had encountered such a situation, and he tried to unleash a series of small wind blades. In the face of these wind blades, the villagers did not react and walked towards the wind blades.

"Bang bang bang!" the wind blades were like defeating leather, and they all hit the villagers. Several villagers were shot through their bodies, and several villagers had their limbs cut off, but the strange thing was that no half drop of blood came out of their wounds! They completely ignored their wounds, and even though one of their thighs was cut off, the villagers still jumped on one leg and kept approaching the royal guards.

"Chop off their heads!" Li Zijun shouted loudly, not knowing that this thought would flash through his mind.

Bilbom didn't have time to think about it, and tried to release a few wind blades. The villagers whose heads had been cut off fell to the ground and never got up again.

Seeing the performance of these villagers, Higgins and Bilbohm finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Bilbohm, you wait a minute!"

Bilbohm heard Higgins' words and looked at him in bewilderment.

"To control such a large group of death golems, that necromancer must be nearby, I suspect he is hiding in the ranks of the villagers!"

"The success or failure of this battle depends on whether we can successfully find the necromancer and destroy him in time! You are the most important bargaining chip for our victory! I hope you don't use magic against these villagers anymore, you just need to be prepared to deal with that necromancer! You can leave these villagers to us. Higgins looked at Bilbohm and said solemnly.

Hearing Higgins's words, Bilbohm also figured out the trick of this battle, withdrew the magic that was about to be released, and prepared for a more advanced magic to wait for the necromancer to appear.

"Archers ready, shoot in sections!Cavalry prepare for assault!" Higgins immediately gave the order, hoping to force the necromancer out with the archers, and then use the impact of the cavalry to destroy him.

Elber had been prepared for Higgins's reaction, he transformed the three villagers standing in front of him, ordinary swords and arrows could not pass through their bodies at all, and Elber relied on them to block him and ensure his safety. But this is also Elber's limit, otherwise he would have been able to kill Edlaide with just these villagers around him!, but if he continued at this rate, Higgins would still quickly discover Elber's location. So Elber sped up the crowd and charged towards the royal guards.

The archers fired three rounds of arrows, but before Elber could be forced, the corpses had already rushed in front of the royal guards, and they collided with the pikemen.

It was at this moment that Higgins gave the order for the cavalry to attack, and the cavalry quickly swiped against the sides of the corpse.

Thanks to Li Zijun's reminder and Bilbom's demonstration, the cavalry's saber slashed directly at the villager's neck. Like two sharp scythes, they harvest the heads of the villagers to their heart's content. The sluggish villager was cut to the ground in an instant, unable to make any more movements.

The pikemen also blocked the onslaught of the corpses, and the scales of victory seemed to be tilting in favor of the royal guards.

When Elber saw the behavior of the cavalry, he couldn't help but hate it in his heart! He really couldn't understand who knew the secret of controlling the corpses, and now it seemed that his wish to rely on the corpses to rush to Edlaide could not be realized. Elber gritted his teeth,

"Explosion!" Looking at the cavalry and pikemen who were in front of the corpse group, Elber chose to explode.

The villagers standing on the periphery of the corpses exploded one after another, and the pikemen in front of them and the cavalry who happened to rush to their side were all blown to pieces! Many of the soldiers who were a little farther away from them were also implicated, and although most of them were not in danger of life, the huge impact of the corpse explosion still brought them strong injuries, and many of them fell to the ground in pain. But these members of the Royal Guard all endured the pain, and none of them groaned, which also made Li Zijun who saw this scene admire!

Witnessing such a tragic state of the royal guards, Higgins's eyes were instantly bloodshot. Most of these people were Higgins's cronies, and seeing his brotherly comrades-in-arms being hurt like this, he felt as if his heart had been pierced violently, and he fell into extreme pain!

Elber's corpse explosion, although it caused huge losses to the royal guards, he also exposed his position. Bilbom spotted Elber's position and unleashed the large icicle that had been prepared for him.

All of a sudden, countless ice picks appeared in the sky above Elber, completely covering a ten-meter radius around him.

This is the first time Li Zijun has seen the release of large-scale magic (the lightning last time Li Zijun didn't see it at all.) At this moment, he completely forgot his fear, was attracted by the flying ice picks, and his heart was filled with a desire for magic.

Elber had already noticed Bilbohm, and he had just felt Bilbom gather magical elements. It's just that he didn't expect Bilbom's strength to be so strong, just with this icicle technique, Bilbo has completely reached the level of a quasi-archmagister. And looking at Bilbohm's weightlifting, this is obviously not his strongest strength, Elber can't help but be a little worried. In the face of such a powerful icicle technique, Elber didn't dare to hope that the three stupid big men in front of him would protect him, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly held up a magic shield to protect himself. A cloud of black mist emerged from Elber's body, enveloping him entirely, and Elber was no longer visible outside.

"Attack with the whole army!Cut off the heads of these villagers!" Seeing that Bilbom and Elber were at a stalemate, Higgins seized the opportunity and ordered the team to eliminate the corpses as soon as possible.

The royal guards reacted quickly, rushing towards the corpses like a tidal wave, cutting off the heads of the villagers. After the corpse explosion just now, their hearts were filled with hatred, and their performance at this time looked extremely crazy. Soon, Elber's crowd of corpses was completely wiped out, and even the three stupid big men in front of him were nailed to the ground by Bilbom's icicle technique. The royal guards, with red eyes, gathered around Elber, waiting for Elber's magic shield to disappear and rushed forward to tear him to shreds.

Elber was now in trouble, he thought that he could easily complete the task of the Nine Princes, but now it seems that he has seriously underestimated the strength of his opponent, if it wasn't for his breakthrough in Il Town this time, he would have been ready to escape at this moment. Even so, Elber felt a lot of pressure. In order to prevent the Royal Guard from sneaking up on him from other sources, he had to prop up an all-round magic shield, which also made his consumption much greater.

With a "bang", the ice pick technique was finally over. Elber immediately fought back against Bilbohm, and he also knew very well that today's success or failure had become a duel between him and Bilbohm!

"Black Rain Technique!" a black cloud appeared above Bilbohm's head, and a black light rain began to fall.

"Disperse!" Bilbohm reminded the surrounding royal guards and Ouchi guards before hiding in the carriage's magical defense array. By constantly injecting energy into the defensive array, with the help of the liliang of the defensive array, resist Elber's Black Rain Technique, and at the same time prepare for the next round of attacks on Elber.

Despite Bilbohm's warning, some members of the Royal Guard didn't have time to hide out of the Black Rain Technique. At first, they didn't feel anything, but after a while, the black rain seeped into the soldiers' bodies, revealing their white bones. While the soldiers gritted their teeth and persevered, they also let Li Zijun see the horror of magic!

"Archers shoot freely!" Higgins ordered angrily as he watched Elber. Although he knew that this would not do much for Elber, it was the only way to make him feel better.

Just when Bilbom was also feeling a little struggling, Elber's Black Rain Technique was finally over! The strongest magic that Bilbom could unleash so far, lightning and thunder, had also been prepared.

Hiding inside the magic shield, Elber felt the magic elements in the air gathering frantically, and now he could finally be sure that Bilbohm was an archmage! But this was not what he was most worried about at the moment, he was worried that he actually felt a hint of divine magic in the air. Divine magic is Elber's nemesis! His magic shield becomes much more vulnerable under the attack of divine magic. Could it be that Bilbom also has the ability to unleash divine magic?" Elber watched in bewilderment as lightning was about to fall from the sky. He now regretted getting rid of the Bells too soon, and if Archibald and the Bells were still around, they would at least be able to pull Higgins' energy a bit. But now, he can only face it all alone!