Chapter 3: Advanced Mage

  Xiao Chen's soul power withdrew from the source of magic.

  Dezhi Long and others rushed over.

  The tornado in the sky has long since disappeared.

  "Huh, a person." Nasa Li's eyes were sharp and she saw someone half-reclining under a bush.

  He was a black-haired youth wearing an ordinary-quality robe.

  "It's still our school's, the prep class."

  Natalie said disappointedly, "Just now, I saw that wind-elemental dragon formed by magic. It's at least a mid-level magician's formation. Absolutely impossible for this prep student who doesn't even have formal mage qualifications."

  "Huh? No way! The prep class, what are people from the prep class doing here?!"

  Natalie suddenly reacted and let out a series of screams.

  Everyone here is from Tianxing Academy.

  Naturally clear, the school's rules, preparatory students, even those who are not considered formal students of Tianxing College, but only enter through various relationships. If they cannot pass the assessment and become a one-star professional within three years, they will be expelled. In other words, they are the lowest level, the lowest group of people in the school, and do not even have the qualifications to wear the school badge.

  This reserve student, who hasn't even reached the level of a one-star professional, is actually going to appear in the terrifying "Black Blood Marsh" trial, and it's just an outer district trial at that. Is he crazy?

  "Is this guy crazy?"

  "The trash from the prep class dares to come here, are they tired of living?"

  "Kai Er, have you heard which idiot from the preparatory class is participating in the trial this time?"

  In an instant, bursts of snickering sounds filled the air.

  The members of this trial team all seem to have seen the biggest joke. They are all thinking, after going back and telling their classmates, it will definitely be a good laugh.

  "Hey, prep school brat, didn't you see any other cops around here?" Nataly asked with a chuckle.

  Xiao Chen looked at them but didn't respond.

  "Grass, idiot, I'm asking you something, and you're mute." Sa Ping said viciously.

  Xiao Chen's pupils slightly contracted, revealing a dangerous glint. In his past life, no one dared to be arrogant in front of the "Demon Star", those who were arrogant all died.

  Sa Ping cursed and scolded as he prepared to go forward.

  De Long's face changed slightly, and he pulled him back. He said in a low voice: "Don't go over, he's been poisoned... by the venom of a black-scaled snake."

  "Poisoned?"

  At this time, everyone found that the sole of one foot exposed under the black-haired boy's robe was purple and swollen severely.

  De Long is the only one here who knows this poison.

  A lingering fear still visible on his face.

  Last year when he came here to try out with a group of people, one of the students was bitten by a poisonous black-scaled snake and died after suffering for a whole day and night.

  This snake's venom is slow-acting but extremely insidious, corroding flesh and blood bit by bit. At the time of death, the entire body's veins are like terrifying black lines that float to the surface, with a dense web-like pattern. Ordinary antidotes are completely useless; only an alchemist or someone with the cultivation of a swordmaster or spellmaster can counteract it.

  However, the Swordsmen and Mages are of a different cultivation level. Each one is a major figure, even in the Tianxing Academy, they would at least be an inner courtyard instructor. In any third-rate or lower civilization, they could at least be enfeoffed as a marquis, and even kings would have to show them respect. How could these outer courtyard students possibly compare?

  As for alchemists, that's even more impossible, their status is higher than swordsmen and mages, they can't possibly appear in a low-level civilization...

  De Long's mind flashed with countless thoughts, looking at Xiao Chen's eyes like a piece of dead meat.

  "In the end, he simply said faintly: 'Let's go, the venom of the Black Scaled Snake is incurable.'"

  "It turns out that he was poisoned by the snake, as expected. This kind of idiot from the preparatory class is here to send himself to death." Sa Ping sneered with satisfaction.

  "Enjoy your last moments of life."

  "Haha, there's still such an idiot."

  One by one, they laughed coldly and mockingly, turning their heads to leave.

  "Natalie, after all, he is also from our college... In this way, throwing him here, isn't it too pitiful..." A weak voice sounded amidst the mocking voices.

  Everyone stopped in their tracks and looked towards the source of the sound.

  That was a girl with Nasa Li, short hair in light yellow, also very ordinary, with a few freckles on her white face... At this time, she was looking at Xiao Chen with a hint of unbearable.

  Due to his ordinary appearance and extremely introverted personality, he is the most inconspicuous in this adventure team.

  "Betti, don't be too sympathetic... This is the Black Blood Marsh trial with a high mortality rate. It's clearly written in our trial contract with the academy that we have to take responsibility for any danger ourselves."

  "This idiot without self-awareness, what's the big deal if he dies..."

  "But..."

  "There's nothing else... Let's go quickly, don't you want to be left here alone..."

  Natalie's voice turned cold and she turned around and left.

  They walked out for over ten meters... From deep within the marsh, strange and terrifying beast howls occasionally echoed out.

  Betsy shivered.

  Fear in heart still suppressed sympathy.

  Betti was well aware that in this treacherous swamp, her meager strength alone would be suicidal. Moreover, this trial... for her, it was also an opportunity that could not be abandoned.

  She hastily lowered her head and hurriedly followed the footsteps of the trial team.

  She couldn't help but turn her head and take another look.

  That black-haired youth still sat there calmly, without showing any signs of being poisoned by the incurable snake venom. At his age, he should have shown fear and despair.

  Even more, Betty clearly saw the boy's mouth corners slightly raised.

  A cold and sharp arc was drawn.

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  Xiao Chen watched as the trial team walked away, his expression calm and emotionless.

  So-called fellow students of Tianxing Academy, even those who would watch him die without lifting a finger, couldn't provoke the slightest anger from him.

  It was those few ant-like things that just dared to jump around in front of him.

  If it weren't for now... Hmph...

  He sneered and his eyes flickered, gradually calming down. His divine sense once again observed himself.

  Just a moment ago, the snake venom seemed to have penetrated and corroded another section, getting closer and closer to the heart.

  "I'm now no different from ordinary people except that my soul is a bit stronger, I don't have any cultivation at all, and the meridians in this body haven't been opened... Can't mobilize the power of the stars in the heavenly cycle, it seems like I can only try using that magical energy from earlier..."

  Xiao Chen muttered to himself.

  Just now I used soul power (mental strength) to enter the source of magic, absorb wind elements, and induce dragon whirlwind power that is not weak.

  Talk is cheap.

  He once again controlled the soul power into the magical source in his lower abdomen.

  The wind element in the sky went crazy again, but Xiao Chen had experience this time and suppressed the wind element from entering his body bit by bit.

  Innumerable invisible wind elements continuously enter the body and flow into the source of magic.

  Continuous compression, compression.

  That yellow bean-sized magical source, which was almost "extinguished" by the snake's venom, continued to expand... Expand... The color of the magical source also became more and more green...

  BOOM~~~~~~~~~~~

  Finally, quantitative change led to qualitative change.

  The source of magic burst forth when it grew to the size of an egg, suddenly shattering into countless green dots that formed a multitude of cyan threads, densely filling the entire dantian. The cyan threads slowly coiled and condensed under the pressure of spiritual energy...

  Finally, a small, pale blue whirlpool forms, spinning rapidly like a tiny tail.

  Intense wind elements are constantly moving in small green whirlwinds and then being flung out of the whirlwinds.

  In the body and within a meter outside of it, almost all wind elements have merged with itself. It seems that there is a layer of breath of wind around the body, a flavor of wind.

  Any French job with a bit of flair is here.

  Everyone found that the black-haired youth in front of them had broken through the threshold of law in just a few minutes, condensed the wind and became a one-star law enforcer.

  However, this breakthrough has not ended yet...

  Xiao Chen did not feel the weakness of his soul power.

  Wind element, keep pouring in...