Chapter 76

This magic treasure is too strong!

Powerful escape speed is its unrivaled advantage and is the ultimate trump card for desperate escape.

But at the current cultivation level, the huge consumption, the weakness and stiffness after the escape, and the characteristic of being completely unable to control the landing point make it an "one-time" skill that can only be used in desperate situations.

Using it once is almost equivalent to losing the ability to resist, completely handing one's life to luck—either the enemy can't catch up, or one won't be attacked before recovering.

The Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror, as the Great Dao Book Pavilion said, is a sharp tool for desperate escape and must not be abused!

But for Jie Ming, these drawbacks are not unacceptable.

Just as he thought before, if the moment truly arrives where he needs to use this magic treasure, it means he has no way to retreat and no hope of counter-killing.

Fighting for a chance to see if he can run away with his life is better than waiting quietly for death.

Moreover, this is only the primary form of the magic treasure.

The Great Dao Book Pavilion mentioned that the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror possesses growth potential that is almost without limit.

As his cultivation level improves, as he integrates more and stronger light concepts, the magic treasure's escape speed, duration, controllability, and even derivative special effects will continuously strengthen.

The current huge consumption is because the magic treasure and his own cultivation level are not enough to perfectly bear and transform the concepts.

In the future, as his cultivation level improves, his true essence and spiritual sense will be more powerful and pure, and his understanding of concepts will be deeper, these problems will be alleviated.

He struggled to stand up, and the true essence in his body was slowly recovering.

Although embarrassed, a hotter flame ignited in Jie Ming's heart.

"I want to... research this!"

What wizards are best at is integrating things from other systems into their own system; this is also the main reason why wizards like to launch plane wars.

All wizardry is essentially the final product obtained after omitting the principles and processes of certain experiments or phenomena.

As long as one can learn the principle of a thing, one can try every means to reproduce it.

Next, one only needs to keep researching, try hard to reduce the unnecessary processes, and finally, all things can be concentrated into a wizardry.

Alchemy is like this, fireball is like this, and Jie Ming's talisman wizarding tools are also similar principles.

And now, the powerful effect of the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror made him find the thing he wanted to imitate next.

Of course, it is still too early to say these things now.

He sank the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror into his dantian again, started to slowly recover his true essence and spiritual sense, and used the recovered power to continue nourishing the magic treasure.

It's time to return to the academy.

After testing the preliminary power of the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror, Jie Ming found that he didn't seem to have anything urgent to do next.

Whether it is the development of the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror's spirituality, the research on its light-transformation escape ability, or the improvement of various talisman wizarding tools, none of them are things that can produce results in a short time.

And except for talisman wizarding tools, the rest also need to wait for the Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror to go further before they are more suitable for research.

For a time, Jie Ming found that he was idle again.

Of course, saying "idle" is a bit too exaggerated; it should be more accurate to say "not so busy."

But suddenly being so busy, Jie Ming was even a bit unaccustomed to it.

"Damn! Really a cheap skin, not even accustomed to having some free time."

Although he said so, Jie Ming still subconsciously started to plan the next step.

Considering that new students have already enrolled and there are only five years left before heading to the front line, his gaze turned to the next challenge—advancing to a Tier 1 formal wizard and the Foundation Establishment Stage.

For a wizard apprentice to advance to a Tier 1 formal wizard, three strict conditions must be met:

First, mental power reserves must meet the standard.

This is the most basic condition that is also most affected by talent.

Everyone's talent is different, and the upper limit of mental power that can be naturally stored after reaching Tier 3 wizard apprentice is also different.

Generally speaking, only apprentices with Tier 5 talent or above can have their naturally accumulated total mental power reach the minimum requirement for advancement; this is also the main reason why apprentices with Tier 5 talent or above are called "geniuses."

And apprentices with talent below Tier 5 also need to use some mental sea expansion potions to increase the upper limit of mental power.

However, such expansion potions usually cause damage to the wizard's body, and even at the cost of shortening lifespan and damaging vitality.

Apprentices with Tier 4 talent usually need to take 1 to 3 expansion potions to barely meet the advancement requirements.

And the number of expansion potions required by apprentices with Tier 3 talent exceeds 5.

But because the damage of mental sea expansion potions to the body and lifespan is huge, the body of ordinary wizard apprentices can withstand at most four side effects of such potions.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, wizard apprentices with Tier 3 talent cannot advance to formal wizards at all.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything.

If a Tier 3 wizard apprentice can obtain high-level special potions with fewer side effects.

Or use some heaven-and-earth treasures that can strengthen the body or extend lifespan and increase vitality to offset the negative effects of the potions, then theoretically they can continue to advance.

However, whether it is higher-level potions or these precious treasures, they often need to be exchanged with military merits or massive points, and the quantity is extremely rare.

This is also why countless wizard apprentices are willing to risk their lives to fight in the endless planes.

In addition to accumulating military merits, it is also to see if they can find relevant treasures in new planes to improve their vitality.

Of course, some more extreme wizard apprentices will even choose to transform their own bodies to obtain a stronger physique and vitality.

The second requirement for advancing to a formal wizard is to use an advancement potion.

This is a more core potion used to stimulate the potential in the wizard's body and complete the leap in the level of life; it is an essential item for advancing to a formal wizard.

Of course, the degree of damage this potion causes to the body also far exceeds that of mental sea expansion potions.

When Jie Ming sorted out these advancement conditions, he also compared the similarities and differences between his own cultivation system and the wizard system.

Ever since he advanced to Qi Condensation Stage 7, Jie Ming clearly discovered that the power level of a Qi Condensation Stage 7 cultivator is roughly equal to that of a Tier 3 wizard apprentice.

Even if there was a meeting before, the eldest lady Albert Vera Augusta, who had a talent as high as Tier 9, her total mental power and quality after filling up her mental power at the Tier 3 wizard apprentice stage were only similar to those of a cultivator at the peak of Qi Condensation Stage 7.

And Jie Ming is also very sure that the level of a Tier 1 formal wizard is at the same level as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and can even be better in some aspects.

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