Chapter 70: Black Qi Wizard

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Early the next morning.

"Where is Teacher Lv?" Song Xia asked, puzzled.

"He went to look at the scenery," Mu Ningxue said.

"We have to walk the rest of the road by ourselves."

"Look at the scenery?"

The corners of everyone's eyes twitched wildly.

"How can there be such an irresponsible teacher?" Lu Zhenghe said anxiously.

"Irresponsible?" Zhao Manyan looked strange.

"Did you forget? Teacher Lv's only responsibility this time is to guard against attacks from Commander-level demons; he has absolutely nothing to do with our training."

"He walked with us for a whole day yesterday; that was already decent of him."

A High-level Mage, no matter how strong, is still in danger when facing Commander-level demons, not to mention that this is the wilderness; even a Super-level Mage has to be careful. For the sake of safety, one must naturally maintain their best state at all times. The most basic thing is that Magic Energy cannot be squandered at will; otherwise, if an accident happens, it's all over.

"He..." Lu Zhenghe was momentarily speechless.

"If you're scared, you can turn back the way you came right now," Mu Ningxue said indifferently.

"Or just light the signal and stay where you are."

The danger of the training is very high, and it is not mandatory; one can choose to quit.

It is just that completing the training can earn rewards from the Magic Association, resource rewards from the academy, and can also improve one's reputation and attract investment from more forces, which is why everyone is willing to risk their lives to participate in the training.

This is the wilderness, full of danger everywhere; they are here to complete a mission, not to go sightseeing.

"I..." Lu Zhenghe's expression froze.

"Forget it, let him go if he wants to."

After the small interlude, everyone set foot on the road to Jinlin City again.

High in the sky.

"Jingyun, you follow them from now on. If you encounter a Commander-level demon, you step in and help kill it; you don't need to worry about anything else," Lv Cheng said.

He had placed several Warrior-level shadow soldiers in the shadows of Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue; as long as this group did not separate at will, nothing would happen.

As for Mo Fan, who likes to explore alone, with the Winged Demon Wolf, even an ordinary Commander-level demon could not catch up to him.

"Good luck to you all."

Taking one last look at the departing team, Lv Cheng's figure flickered and disappeared into the air.

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On a steep cliff, a strange and gloomy ancient castle stood.

Inside the castle, an old man with a full head of white hair, wearing a purple-black Wizard robe, holding a withered wood staff, and with a Dark Spell carved on his forehead, was concocting some kind of strange Magic Potion.

"Demon... Heh! Damn Shendu! I will never trust a demon again!"

Great Dragon, who had returned home after great effort from the lost space-time, was cursing Shendu.

Xiao Long, Shendu's son, must be of the same ilk!

Still trying to trick him into entering Hell?

The Panku Box can only open the Hell gate three times; now all three opportunities have been used up, the Hell gate has been completely closed, and one can only enter but not exit!

If he were to enter that damn Hell, he would be eaten as a snack by those demons in a minute!

"Even if I put eternal life in front of you, you are unwilling to accept it?"

An abrupt voice rang out. Great Dragon was shocked and instinctively wanted to activate Black Qi Magic to protect himself, but before he could take any action, a powerful force entered his body and restrained his Black Qi.

"Don't be agitated." Lv Cheng patted Great Dragon on the shoulder.

Great Dragon was shocked in his heart, "Saint Warrior?"

This aura of Righteous Magic, it absolutely could not be wrong!

"I am not a Saint Warrior." Lv Cheng sat on a chair nearby and lifted the seal on Great Dragon's Black Qi.

If he completely suppressed the power of Righteous Qi, he would be a pure Demon, so he would be strongly repelled after coming to this world.

Therefore, he could only release the power of Righteous Qi and enter the state of mixed Yin and Yang again.

In this way, although his strength was greatly reduced, at least he could descend into this Reality with his physical body.

"Not a Saint Warrior?" Great Dragon had an expression of looking at an idiot.

Do you think I'm blind?

This level of Righteous Magic aura can only be possessed by a Saint Warrior!

"Don't just look at things under the sunlight." Xiao Long's soul floated over.

"Feel it with your heart, Black Qi Wizard, you will sense something interesting about my uncle."

Great Dragon was stunned, "Uncle?"

Shendu's son calls this Saint Warrior uncle?

Although Great Dragon was puzzled, Lv Cheng had sealed his Black Qi energy with a wave of Righteous Magic, which showed that the other party's strength was far above his; if he wanted to kill him, he would be finished by now.

Taking a deep breath, Great Dragon relied on the Dark Spell on his forehead to sense Lv Cheng's aura.

"..."

"Demon?!" Great Dragon was dumbfounded.

There is actually a Demon aura on the Saint Warrior?

Moreover, this Demon aura had never appeared before!

A new Demon?

Impossible!

In ancient times, the Eight Immortals banished all the Eight Demons into Hell, and the Eight Immortals also departed from the human world; from that moment on, the human world entered the End of Dharma Era, and such immortal creatures as Demons would never be born again!

Xiao Long was also a branch of fire Qi created by Shendu using a special Magic Spell, and his aura was extremely close to Shendu's.

But this strange Demon before them, although possessing fire Qi, had an aura completely different from Shendu's, and was also unlike other Demons; he was a brand-new Demon!

Moreover, Shendu's fire represented disaster and destruction, filled with threats, while this Demon's fire did not have that kind of aggression.

"My situation is a bit complicated; I will explain it to you later," Lv Cheng said.

"For now, I only ask you: do you want to obtain eternal life?"

Great Dragon frowned, "You will give it to me?"

For these immortal Demons, eternal life was not a difficult matter, but why would a Demon give it to him?

"Of course." Lv Cheng took out a red gemstone and tossed it to Great Dragon.

"This gemstone will slow your life force depletion by one hundred times; consider it a down payment."

Shendu's treasury was full of magical treasures, but that old thing was quite stingy; even he, his own brother, had to pester him for a long time, and with Great Dragon as a legitimate reason, before Shendu brought out this Life Gem.

"One hundred times?" Great Dragon was stunned and hurriedly sensed the red gemstone in his hand.

"The aura of life! This is... this is a Life Gem from the ancient era?!"

Before the Eight Demons ruled the human world, there was an even more distant era where a vast number of Demon Wizards roamed the world, creating a brilliant era of Magic and countless alchemical items.

Until one day, based on the rules of the world, the Eight Demons corresponding to the Eight Trigrams were born, slaughtering the vast number of Demon Wizards and opening a new Demon era, while human civilization also began to gestate.

Later on, the eight Immortal Gods descended, the Eight Demons were expelled from Reality, the End of Dharma Era began, and the era of human civilization officially started to develop.

The power of Magic also gradually weakened after the disappearance of the Eight Demons; knowledge regarding the Magic of the ancient era was sealed off by Righteous Chi Wizards working together, because they felt the world needed to move forward, and Magic was ultimately only the power of a few; once utilized by those with ill intent, it would bring new crises to the world, so they decided to hide Magic away.

But the thoughts of the Black Qi Wizards were exactly the opposite; the Demons had indeed left Reality, but no one knew if they would descend again; if the power of Magic were sealed, humanity would face the Demons in the future just like in the primitive era, with no power to fight back!

The Black Qi Wizards believed that humanity should take this opportunity to start a new era of Magic, and they, who controlled powerful Black Qi Magic, should naturally replace the position of the Demons and become the new rulers of the world.

Thus, the Righteous Chi Wizards and the Black Qi Wizards went to war.

The Righteous Chi Wizards were led by the Saint Warriors left behind by the Eight Immortals, and the Black Qi Wizards retreated steadily, disappearing from the secular world in just a few hundred years.

Especially when Shendu returned to the human world a thousand years ago, he almost killed off the lineage of human Mages; whether Black Qi Wizards or Righteous Chi Wizards, they were almost all wiped out by Shendu; that old thing wanted to destroy human Magic.

If not for the appearance of Luo Pei, the era of human Magic would have ended completely a thousand years ago.

Even so, in the battle against Shendu, human Wizards suffered heavy losses; by his era, one could not find a few Black Qi Wizards in the whole world, but unlike the inheritance of Righteous Chi Wizards, the Black Qi Wizards had preserved a large amount of ancient Magic knowledge and also recorded that unknown ancient history.

The Life Gem before him was a magical creation from the era before the Eight Demons!

With such vast life force, he could possess at least several thousand years of lifespan!

"You say, this is just a down payment?" Daolong looked at Lv Cheng with extremely burning eyes.

This was a Demon who reasoned!

"Of course." A flame ignited on Lv Cheng's hand.

The flame, as if possessing life, danced in the air, outlining a detailed map.

"The Life Gem in your hand is ultimately not a long-term solution, and that thing is a consumable; strictly speaking, it belongs to a semi-finished product," Lv Cheng said.

"This map was found by Xiaolong in the past spacetime; it is the legendary location of the Manta-bu people, and they have a finished Cup of Life."

"Cup of Life?" Daolong was stunned.

"That thing has complete life runes carved onto it!" Xiao Long said.

There were many Magic Spells for eternal life, but they were all quite complex, and achieving them was very difficult.

And a technique like the Cup of Life, where life runes were carved onto an actual object, was extremely rare even in the distant Demon era.

Because Demons were all immortal, the Eternal Life Spell had no value to them, so naturally, no one had studied it in depth.

The human soul could not withstand the Eternal Life Spell and could only indirectly obtain more life through objects and runes.

That Cup of Life was perhaps a magical creation created by some human Wizard in the ancient era.

Lv Cheng wanted to use eternal life to tempt humans, and the Cup of Life was the most suitable!

Because to maintain life, one needed to drink the water from the Cup of Life regularly.

And as for the water of life, once you take the first sip, you can never quit!

(End of chapter)