Chapter 101: Promotion, Tier 1 Wizard (Fifth update)

It's like if you need an organic substance like "benzene".

After precisely recording the material structure, elemental composition, and energy fluctuations corresponding to the benzene ring, Jie Ming can use Extraction Wizardry to precisely dismantle and collect the "benzene ring" structure from various organic substances rich in carbon and hydrogen.

Even in a completely unknown plane, as long as you confirm that a thing contains substances or energy with a similar component structure to what you need, you can directly extract the part you need from it.

Amy also explained from the side: "This kind of operation is actually a huge waste for some novel raw materials, because you only take a very small part of it, and the rest is discarded."

"But its advantages are also obvious—in a completely strange environment, as long as you can confirm that a thing contains substances or energy with a similar component structure to what you need, Extraction Wizardry can directly extract the part you need from it, thereby helping wizards quickly produce the magic potions they need in a completely strange environment."

Victor suddenly realized.

So magic potion study has such mysteries!

No wonder those high-level magic potions are theoretically more difficult, but the price is not expensive.

In such rushing and learning, time passed quickly.

After another few days and nights, the three finally arrived at the edge of this desolate wilderness along the mountain range.

Here, boulders stood tall, rocks were jagged, and the air was filled with a desolate atmosphere.

Jie Ming, relying on the exploration of the Eye of Reconnaissance, locked onto an extremely hidden underground crack.

"Here." Jie Ming pointed to a narrow entrance covered by vines, "Going deep underground can isolate most energy fluctuations."

Victor nodded, while Amy was a bit worried: "The energy fluctuation of promoting to a Tier 1 Wizard is no joke. The three of us are all going to be promoted, which will definitely attract powerful magical beasts. In this tense moment, it might even attract the investigation of gods."

"That's right, so we must take turns to be promoted."

Jie Ming activated alchemy, powerful spiritual power poured into the underground crack, quickly expanding its interior, and reinforced it with hard rocks and runes, forming a temporary safe underground secret room.

The entrance was also cleverly sealed by him, leaving only an imperceptible gap for ventilation: "When one person is promoted, the other two are responsible for nursing. Considering the enemies we will face in the future, the more we drag it out, the higher the danger for the three of us. So I decided to let myself be promoted first. In this way, even if we encounter powerful enemies later, I can handle it."

Amy and Victor had no objections.

Jie Ming had the strongest strength. Being promoted first could also provide them with stronger safety guarantees.

In the secret room, Jie Ming sat cross-legged, placing a bottle of promotion potion emitting silver light in front of him.

He sank his mind into his spiritual sea, restored his spirit through meditation, and confirmed that his spiritual power reserve was far above the passing line.

"Almost there."

He picked up the potion and drank it in one gulp.

The potion melted upon entering his mouth, and a cold energy with a hint of spiciness instantly poured into his limbs and bones, rushing straight to his spiritual sea.

Jie Ming clearly felt that this energy was not like ordinary wizard potions, just simply replenishing magic power or nourishing the spirit.

It was like a scorching flame, instantly igniting something in his body.

Just as he had expected at the beginning—there is an essential chasm between a Tier 3 Wizard Apprentice and a Tier 1 Official Wizard.

The core role of this so-called "promotion potion" is not promotion at all, but burning!

It burns the "remaining life" in the wizard's body in an extremely short time, and in an extreme way, sublimates the essence of life to a higher stage in an instant!

And what wizards need to do is to construct the Ring of Truth in the spiritual sea at the fastest speed during this extremely short time of "life sublimation" that is fleeting.

Relying on the characteristics of the Ring of Truth, stabilize one's own life state, which has been forcibly raised by the potion, at this moment.

The price of doing so is huge.

If the promotion is successful, then a higher life essence can feed back to oneself, and all the "burning" paid will no longer be a price, but a paving stone to a stronger path.

However, if the promotion fails...

Then under the side effects of the potion, what awaits the wizard will be the permanent loss of life essence, the collapse of the spiritual sea, and even the tragic end of dying on the spot.

But for Jie Ming, this price is negligible.

Because what flows in his body is the pure true essence of the Foundation Establishment Stage!

His life essence had already experienced a rebirth-like sublimation at the time of Foundation Establishment, far exceeding ordinary wizard apprentices.

This so-called "promotion potion" is like icing on the cake for him, at most bringing a trace of imperceptible warmth, without any pain and weakness of "burning life".

What's more...

Jie Ming's throat rolled up and down, and a drop of Foundation Establishment Potion was extracted from the space in his body and swallowed directly into his mouth.

With the Foundation Establishment Potion as a supplement, he didn't even feel the final consumption of the promotion potion.

He only needs to focus on the core, and the only difficulty—constructing the Ring of Truth!

Feeling the soul ascension brought about by the promotion potion taking effect, Jie Ming's mind was completely immersed in his spiritual sea.

Nine bright truth runes were like nine stars, located at nine key nodes of the spiritual sea.

What he had to do was to construct a solid connecting bridge with majestic and subtle spiritual power, connecting these nine truth runes into a perfect circular ring.

This process is the same as constructing a wizardry model, only more complex and vast.

The difficulty lies in the fact that the core runes inside these nine truth runes represent different wizard truths.

They contain different power laws, which easily cause power conflicts.

Once these conflicts cannot be resolved, the Ring of Truth will collapse, and the promotion will fail accordingly.

This is also the main reason why the academy recommends that wizard apprentices should best organize all their core runes into wizardry models before promotion.

During his apprenticeship, Jie Ming independently constructed three different wizardry models, each representing the connection of three core runes.

What does this mean?

This means that the power conflicts between these runes had already been completely resolved by him during the process of constructing the wizardry models!

They had already reached a state of perfect balance!

Now, all Jie Ming had to do was resolve the power conflicts between these three rune groups that had already achieved internal balance.

He skillfully manipulated his spiritual power, like the most precise engineer, referring to the wizardry models, first connecting the constituent runes of the three wizardries into three small internal cycles.

Subsequently, he began to carefully build larger and more complex connections based on these three small cycles.

He keenly perceived the flow of every trace of energy, adjusting the angle and force of every connection point.

When conflicts appeared, he used spiritual power as a comb to smooth them out as much as possible.

The light of those nine truth runes became brighter and brighter, and the connections between them became clearer and more solid.

Finally, at a certain moment, with the completion of the last connection, the nine truth runes perfectly merged into one, forming a circular ring emitting powerful fluctuations!

The Ring of Truth, successfully constructed!

Hum...

A majestic energy fluctuation erupted instantly with Jie Ming as the center!

His spiritual sea expanded like the ocean, and his spiritual power became more condensed and vast, reaching dozens of times the level before.

Every cell seemed to be injected with new vitality, and his soul resonated with the laws of heaven and earth at a deeper level.

He was promoted successfully!

Officially stepped into the Tier 1 stage of a wizard!

However, the energy fluctuation brought by this promotion also spread outward like a lighthouse in the dark night.

"Roar!"

In the distance, a low roar came, followed by more roars carrying greed and malice.

"Something is approaching!" Victor whispered, unable to help but take a deep breath.

Amy also felt the restlessness outside, holding her staff, ready to go.

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