flstandardbreds Chapter 323: Tier Three Peak
Chapter 323: Tier Three Peak
Li Wei used the money he earned from the Fire Source Secret Medicine to buy the materials for making Energy Secret Medicine.
He spent three days refining enough Energy Secret Medicine to last for a month.
To gather all the materials, Li Wei nearly picked the Dragon Blood Tree clean.
Only a few good leaves remained on the tree.
Carrying a large supply of Energy Secret Medicine, Li Wei entered the Cultivation Secret Realm.
Thanks to the independent Teleportation Gate in the Celestial Realm, Li Wei could go to the Cultivation Secret Realm without passing through the Secret Realm Plaza.
He was prepared for a long haul.
Purple Level Class students had a monthly cultivation quota of fifteen days.
Li Wei still had nineteen days’ worth of quota on his Cultivation Card.
If he wanted to, he could stay in the Cultivation Secret Realm for forty-nine days straight.
However, when it came to cultivation, longer wasn’t always better.
Without enough energy, staying in the Cultivation Secret Realm was just a waste of time.
Li Wei walked into the Cultivation Secret Realm.
He headed toward the depths of the Cultivation Secret Realm.
The deeper he went, the higher the temperature and the better the cultivation effects.
As he ventured deeper, Li Wei transformed into the Flame Lord.
In the depths of the Cultivation Secret Realm, he saw a familiar figure.
"Stier?"
Li Wei was a little surprised.
This was his first time coming this deep.
Previously, he hadn’t been able to withstand the high temperatures here.
Nor could he enjoy the benefits it offered.
When Stier heard the voice, the flames in front of him flickered for a moment before shattering and dissipating.
A hint of confusion crossed Li Wei’s face.
’Why do I get the feeling Stier was talking to someone?’
Stier turned and saw Li Wei in his Flame Lord form, a confused look on his face.
He didn’t recognize Li Wei at first glance.
Li Wei had only obtained the Flame Lord Extraordinary Trait after he and Stier had parted ways.
Therefore, Stier had never seen him in this state.
"Who are you?"
Stier asked.
"It’s me, Li Wei. Who were you talking to just now?" Li Wei asked.
A look of surprise crossed Stier’s face.
"Li Wei?"
He quickly recovered and said, "What are you talking about? I’m the only one here. Who would I be talking to?"
"You must have seen wrong."
Stier’s denial was a dead giveaway.
Li Wei had no intention of pressing the issue.
’As long as it doesn’t interfere with my cultivation, whatever Stier does is his own business.’
Li Wei asked, "Last time we were being chased by the Fire Elemental Lord, how did you escape?"
Stier shrugged and said, "I wasted a few Space Teleportation Scrolls and managed to shake off the Fire Elemental Lord."
"That couldn’t have been easy," Li Wei remarked.
"Indeed. I really thought I was going to die back then."
Stier nodded, agreeing with Li Wei’s sentiment.
In reality, the two of them weren’t talking about the same thing.
When Stier was being hunted by the Fire Elemental Lord, he had indeed used several Space Teleportation Scrolls.
However, he was still caught and failed to escape.
The Fire Elemental Lord captured him but did not kill him.
The Fire Elemental Lord, Ragnar, had originally planned to toss him into lava to roast for a few days and torture him.
But later, due to certain events, the Fire Elemental Lord Ragnar gave up on the idea of torturing Stier.
Instead, he signed a contract with Stier, becoming one of Stier’s Summoned Creatures.
To obtain a powerful Tier Six Fire Elemental Lord as a Summoned Creature out of thin air...
...should have been a cause for celebration.
But Stier couldn’t bring himself to be happy.
Recently, he had been trying every method he could think of to sever his connection with the Fire Elemental Lord Ragnar and terminate their contract.
Li Wei was unaware of what had happened between Stier and the Fire Elemental Lord Ragnar.
After greeting Stier, he continued toward the depths of the Cultivation Secret Realm.
He walked until he reached the very depths of the Cultivation Secret Realm.
Li Wei had once seen Sean sitting on a rock here.
Now, Sean had already left the Elemental Tower.
He had headed for the outposts on the front lines of the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.
His figure was no longer to be seen here.
Li Wei sat cross-legged on the smooth, round rock.
He began to cultivate.
The cultivation effect here was twice as good as at the edge of the Secret Realm.
It was the difference between a tenfold and a twentyfold effect.
This could save Li Wei a great deal of cultivation time.
He could even feel the faint presence of Fire Spirit.
This place was extremely close to the Fire Elemental Plane.
As a spatial fragment cut from the Fire Elemental Plane, this place had not completely lost its connection to it.
Otherwise, the Fire Element within the Secret Realm would have been depleted long ago over hundreds of years of use.
Water without a source will inevitably dry up.
The Elemental Tower was well aware of this principle.
Therefore, this was also the place in the Main World closest to the Fire Elemental Plane.
Li Wei immersed himself in cultivation within the Cultivation Realm.
「A month passed in the blink of an eye.」
The Crystal in his mind had become completely clear and translucent red.
There wasn’t a single trace of impurity in the red Crystal.
His Spiritual Power had been purified to the absolute limit of Tier Three.
This highly pure Spiritual Power brought Li Wei’s control over his Mana to a new level.
[Crystal Meditation Method (Tier Three Awakening)] 0/10000
Li Wei had cultivated to the Tier Three Peak.
His Crystal Meditation Method had already reached the Realm of Perfection.
There was no room for further progress.
If Li Wei wanted to advance further, he would have to seek out a higher-level Cultivation Method.
However, that was something for a Tier Four Grand Mage to consider.
What Li Wei needed to consider right now was awakening a Tier Four Extraordinary Trait.
He looked at his Flame Lord Extraordinary Trait.
Logically, since he already possessed a Tier Four Extraordinary Trait, breaking through to Grand Mage after reaching Tier Three should have been a natural and easy progression.
’It should have been very simple.’
But the awakening progress before him was at zero, meaning Li Wei hadn’t even taken the first step toward becoming a Grand Mage.
’Is the Flame Lord Extraordinary Trait alone not enough?’ Li Wei wondered.
’Based on my pattern of awakening two Extraordinary Traits with each advancement, does that mean I need at least two Tier Four Extraordinary Traits to become a Grand Mage?’
Li Wei took out a Spirit Gathering Crystal.
He used the deduced awakening ritual to absorb the Fire Spirit from the Spirit Gathering Crystal and increase his awakening progress.
A moment later, Li Wei stopped his cultivation.
He felt that something was wrong with his state of cultivation.
The Fire Spirit he absorbed was running amok inside his body like a headless chicken.
It completely failed to find the path to a breakthrough.
In the end, it was all assimilated and became part of his Flame Lord Extraordinary Trait.
If cultivation were compared to walking, then before this, Li Wei had always been moving forward along a set path.
When he reached the Tier Three Peak, the road ahead suddenly vanished.
It wasn’t that the road had vanished, exactly.
A wall had appeared on the path, blocking his way forward.
By relying on his proficiency panel to grind EXP, Li Wei could slowly break through the wall in front of him bit by bit.
But it was too inefficient.
And after breaking through, the path that appeared before him might not be the one he wanted to take.
Li Wei left the Cultivation Secret Realm.
He went in search of the way forward.
’What exactly is the difference between a Grand Mage and a Mage?’
Li Wei felt he had to figure this out first.
Before this, Li Wei had never really thought about it.
Because he had killed more than one expert at Tier Four or above.
And he hadn’t noticed much of a difference.
Purely in terms of combat power, Tier Four was indeed many times stronger than Tier Three.
But that was all there was to it.