Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After killing off Mutumbu and the gang, and dealing a ruthless blow to the Church’s plan to spread the word of God along the coastal areas in the South, Yang Ling closed himself off to practice cultivation once again, making use of the time to train.

The Great Wizard Altar was the best place for a Soul Wizard to train. In order to increase the speed of training, he gathered a million top-quality Crystals and a huge number of the Crystal Essence of Magical Beasts and used Soul Fire to offer it up as a sacrifice creating a giant Wizard Weapon out of the Great Wizard Altar. He enhanced it with Restriction and layered it with Spirit Gathering Formation and Illusory Formation.

In this way, if he expanded the Great Wizard Altar, it could immediately become a space of Restriction. Within the area of the Restriction space, the enemy’s power, speed, and senses would all be greatly reduced and there would no longer be any need for him to hurriedly set up Restrictions every time.

The crystal mines on the Tailun Continent were already few. Crystal mines that produced top quality Crystals were even rarer. It was exactly because of that that people would use the Crystal stones as currency. If a top-quality crystal mine was discovered on the border, it would definitely cause an intense conflict or even a large scale battle. A million top-quality Crystals was already an astronomical figure to a lesser Lord, who would not even dare think about it. Even to the big empires like the Rossi Empire and the Banto Empire, it was an incredible figure.

But to Yang Ling, this was nothing difficult!

The rainbow mineral veins within the Taildon Valley contained large amounts of high-quality Crystal stones. Apart from high-quality Crystal stones, there were also many top quality ones as well. With the help of the Cave Dwellers, Goode sent adventurers and discovered a few high-quality crystal mines. Every month, they could produce many top quality Crystal stones.

More importantly, among the fortunes accumulated over a thousand years by the Thebes Empire, there was a vast quantity of top quality Crystals. Most of the one million Crystal stones came from the spoils of his battle in the Underground Tomb. If not for the limit he had on his Wizard Power and Mental Energy, Yang Ling still could have thrown in the leftover Crystal stones all at once as a sacrifice, to make an unprecedented Great Wizard Altar.

After sitting cross-legged on the re-made Great Wizard Altar, and feeling the immense energy falling from the sky, Yang Ling felt so good that his pores opened up one by one. If he had to describe what he was feeling now, then there would only be one word: great, extraordinarily great!

That kind of feeling was as if he had swallowed a pound of Viagra, and there were all sorts of beauties lying beside him. With beauties all over him, his highs came one after another!

After combining exactly one million top-quality Crystals and large amounts of Magical Beast Crystal Essence, the Spirit Gathering Formation recorded on the Stele expressed its astonishing power. If Yang Ling were to use it fully, all the energy within the radius of a hundred, or even a thousand miles, would be all absorbed. In the day, he absorbed the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth and the abundant Life Force of the Amazon Forest, while at night, he mainly absorbed the immense Astral Energy. All this energy quickly formed a mushroom-shaped whirlpool above the Main Residence.

Having experienced it before at Wissen Castle, the people beside Yang Ling, like Yuna and Alice, no longer were shocked or surprised when they saw the energy whirlpool. On the contrary, they benefited from it. They discovered that the Magical Energy around Yang Ling’s courtyard was abundant, making it much easier to train and practice.

Thus, a rare sight appeared within the Main Residence.

No matter whether it was the normally slack Corpse Wizard King who spent his days hanging out on the streets and dragging the little she-devil Annie along, or the extremely busy Yuna, all of them were sitting still within Yang Ling’s courtyard, unmoving, insanely absorbing the immense Magical Energy in the air. People like Goode and Alice, having received the news, also rushed over. Even Master Aaron and Elder Gnome, who were always in the Alchemy Experiment Tower, also joined in the fun, causing Yang Ling’s courtyard to be overcrowded. Taking all precautions, Ashnamov and Argus made the decision to strengthen Jaboli’s defenses, setting up a tight web of surveillance within a hundred-mile radius, to strictly prevent any of the Church’s men from slipping in.

After absorbing immense energy, his Body Honing Wizard Spell activated automatically, and Yang Ling felt his body’s muscles and bones strengthen over and over again. Every piece of muscle embodied immense energy, and every blood vessel was expanded to an unprecedented point as the Body Honing Wizard Spell circulated faster and faster around his body.

With the help of the Spirit Gathering Formation on the Great Wizard Altar, Yang Ling absorbed large amounts of energy. But it paled in comparison to the Wizard Pagoda’s Space!

Passing through the Pagoda-shaped mark between Yang Ling’s brow, the Wizard Pagoda’s Space kept on absorbing most of the energy, like a bottomless hole. As such, the Wizard Pagoda’s Space got bigger and bigger. Plants began sprouting on large areas of wasteland where grass did not grow. Cactus-like plants began to appear one after another in boiling hot deserts. Magical Beasts within the ancient forest began howling at the sky, one after another, gulping down big mouthfuls of the Magical Energy traversing the air between the sky and the earth. The Magical Beasts carved on the Wizard’s Pagoda, like the Chimera and Five-clawed Golden Dragon, started to get clearer and clearer while emitting wave after wave of low roars and exuding a deluge of an aura of savage, beastly energy, that would send shivers down one’s back…

After absorbing a large amount of energy, his Wizard and Mental Energy increased like a boat on rising water. But unfortunately, no matter how he tried, he could not break through to the level of Soul Wizard, once again reaching a bottleneck in his training. After practicing for a few days in silent meditation on the Great Wizard Altar, Yang Ling did not seem to have much progress in the area of Soul Wizardry.

Could it be that he really needed to continuously tamper with the souls of all living beings on earth to be able to become a Soul Wizard and refine powerful Soul Crystals?

After realizing that within a short period of time, he would not be able to breakthrough, Yang Ling shook his head. According to the Stele, after reaching a certain level in the training of Wizardry, the speed of leveling up would get slower and slower. In ancient times, there were people who spent their whole lives training but were unable to reach the level of Divine Wizard. In the case of Yang Ling himself, who by pure luck and coincidence was able to break through to the level of high-level Divine Wizard rapidly, was already a rare sight. It seemed that it would not be so easy if he wanted to reach the level of Soul Wizard or Wizard Deity in one shot!

“Ice Wind Storm!”

After he stopped pursuing a breakthrough by force, Yang Ling started studying the Ice Wind Storm he had only recently mastered, creating a huge number of frozen micro Soul Slaughtering Arrows in midair. Due to the big improvements in his Wizard Power and Mental Energy, the micro Soul Slaughtering Arrows increased by over two hundred, and he was able to handle them with plenty of ease, controlling them proficiently. Very quickly, wave after wave of bone-chilling cold air spread far and wide, causing the meditating Goode and Corpse Wizard King to awaken promptly, and retreat rapidly in alarm.

Could it be that Yang Ling had already advanced to the level of Divine Level Expert?

Looking at the Ice Wind Storm, which was circling up and down over the Great Wizard Altar, and feeling its terrible attack power, everybody shouted in astonishment. They could not help but think of Elder Brent’s Wind Ripple Dagger and its astonishing power. Similarly, the Ice Wind Storm had countless sharp weapons closely packed together, giving out the same aura that caused people to shudder in fear…

He was not yet of Divine Level, yet, he was more frightening than an ordinary Divine Level Expert?

The Corpse Wizard King had been training in the Mind Magic Field, so his Mental Energy far exceeded the rest, including the Dark Dragon King and Immet. He could sense that Yang Ling’s Ice-sealing Domain had not changed in quality. But, looking at the rapidly spinning Ice Wind Storm beside Yang Ling, he could instinctively feel its astonishing power. It seemed that not only could it tear through the enemy’s defenses, it could also directly attack the enemy’s soul. As a Corpse Wizard who could summon large numbers of Undead to do battle, no one understood better than him how terrifying Soul Attacks were!

After closing his eyes. Yang Ling used his thoughts to control the Ice Wind Storm, completely destroying a thousand-year-old tree. After that, he slowly opened his eyes and lightly leaped off the Great Wizard Altar. After keeping it away, he summoned his close guard Orlando and gave him some instructions in a low voice. Thereafter, he strode away.

The Spring that awakened all living things on the land was ending soon, and in the blink of an eye, it was the Elf, Sophia’s birthday!

“Brother Yang, why are you here?” Seeing Yang Ling striding in, Sophia, who had just bathed, shyly put on a deerskin cloak, lightly flicking her long, wet hair.

“After eating nothing but air for the past few days on the Great Wizard Altar, I’m starving, so I’m just about to come and see if there’s anything good to eat!” Looking at Sophia’s petite figure under the cloak, and her enchanting face, and thinking of her warm and soft hands, and wet and hot lips, Yang Ling was moved. “Sophia, I’ll bring you a stick of something that you’ll not be able to finish eating, no matter what. Want a taste?”

Back then, when he had gotten the rare and precious Crystal Marrow, he had especially saved the biggest drop for Sophia. If there was no incident, the Elven beauty would be able to break through to the level of Chief Moon Priestess in one shot after she had swallowed it. Then, the two of them would be able to enjoy sexual intercourse.

Even though the Elven Beauty’s soft, small hands and wet hot mouth were so pleasurable, he did not want to stop and ignited wave after wave of passion in him, it was after all, not a real close relationship, like the one a fish has with water. Having hugged the beauty’s naked body, touched her suet-like snow-white skin, and seen her firm and perky peaks and seductive valley, he was feeling pure torture to be able to see but not eat her up. Yang Ling did not want to become a real bald monk, unable to wash his hair even though he was by the stream.

Something good?

After being hugged tightly by Yang Ling and feeling the hard, erect, and fiery passion on the lower half of his body, Sophia could not help but recall their passionate encounter a while ago. Her pretty face turned beet-red. “Yang Ling, you’re very naughty, very, very naughty. So mean!”

Women love bad boys!

Seeing that there was only Sophia alone in the room, Yang Ling laughed evilly, and conveniently set up a simple Restriction. After kissing Sophia on the mouth once, he pressed her head hard downwards. Very quickly, he was once again able to feel like he was on cloud nine. After staying in the Underground Tomb for a few days, followed by an insane training session, this long-awaited feeling felt so good that it almost drove him crazy.

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After a round of passionate love-making, Yang Ling looked at the elven beauty lying in his arms, stroked her beautiful long hair, and smelled the waves of the intoxicating light scent of a virgin. He then flipped over and sat up before taking the shiny Crystal Marrow. “To the Goddess of Nature watching from above, I am giving my last drop of Crystal Marrow to the woman I love most. I hope that my Elven beauty will be forever young. If a time limit must be set, then I hope it will be ten thousand years, tens of thousands of years…”

Crystal Marrow?

Looking at the brilliant Crystal Marrow in Yang Ling’s hand, and his clear, bright, eyes, Sophia leaped into his embrace, lying lovingly on him, tightly leaning on his big, broad chest. She did not know why her eyes were red or why she suddenly felt a twitch in her nose.

Ten thousand years was too long. She only wanted this every day and night!

She wished to be forever young, but she wished more dearly to be able to lean against Yang Ling like this forever. If the Goddess of Nature could hear her prayers, she wished that time would stop at this moment, for eternity!