"How can it be?!"
Seeing a fly that was holding an iron needle against Li Kun's long sword, Ma Feiyu was stunned.
The Dwarf Blacksmith next to him was also shocked at this moment.
Originally, he had thought that this little pet of Lin Hao's would be powerful at most, but he hadn't expected that it would be able to block the attack of a level 4 warrior.
It's just anticlimactic!
"Wraiths?"
A flash of surprise flashed in Li Kun's eyes.
But as far as I can remember, there has never been such a peculiar type of fly amongst the varieties of magical beasts!
"If the deal doesn't work out, are you guys planning to rob by force, you're quite brutal."
Lin Hao smiled coldly.
As his voice fell, his hands changed, and under the traction of his spiritual power, he steeply outlined a runic glow, instantly flashing a large fireball.
Although the time-limited mission was required to be executed at the Underground Market Exchange tomorrow night, the current situation did not allow him to worry too much.
If he really wants to fight, he'll give it up.
"It's rare for a mage to be able to tame beasts as well."
Li Kun's eyes sank slightly, staring at Lin Hao, his voice carrying some surprise.
"There are more rare things, it's just that you're short-sighted." Lin Hao sneered.
"Then I'd like to see if a mere fly can block a few of my swords."
Li Kun snorted coldly, his body's spiritual energy spread out, pouring into the long sword in his hand in a steady stream.
All of a sudden, a brilliant white whirl of light suddenly bloomed on the silver sword, and the sword aura instantly skyrocketed, directly shaking back the Kung Fu Fly.
"Have you made enough trouble! This master's territory, if you dare to make trouble here, I'll hammer him to death!"
Just then, the Dwarf Blacksmith bellowed out, then reached out and grabbed his hammer with a ferocious air.
Apparently, the Dwarf Blacksmith was also a martial arts cultivator, and during the surge of spiritual energy, the hammer in his hand erupted into a searing whirl of fiery red light.
"Level 4 warrior!"
Li Kun frowned, and as he saw that the Dwarf Blacksmith was clearly on Lin Hao's side, a few more points of gravity were added to his face.
A battle-hardened fly, a level 4 warrior, and a mage.
With all three combined, the situation turned against them.
Even if the fight is won, the price to be paid is bound to be grueling.
"Young master, there's no need to make trouble over a piece of Lava Essence Iron."
As Li Kun weighed the situation in his mind, he whispered to Ma Feiyu beside him, "We still have business to attend to at the Underground Market tomorrow night."
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ma Feiyu was not a fool, and nodded lightly with an ironic expression on his face.
"Kid, count your luck this time! Don't let me meet you next time, or this young master will break your dog's legs!"
Ma Feiyu glared angrily at Lin Hao, and after giving a cruel word, he led his men to leave.
"Next time?"
A cold smile spread out from the corner of Lin Hao's mouth.
You want my leg, I want your life!
From the contact just now, this guy was really as described in the mission information, rampant and perverse.
If he dared to be so unselfish in Tianwu City, then wouldn't he be walking horizontally in Qingyang Town, where the Ma Family had power.
"Thanks for stepping in to help."
Immediately, Lin Hao smiled at the dwarf blacksmith.
He knew that without the other party's intervention, this matter today would definitely be endless, and he was afraid that it would also affect tomorrow night's plan.
"Small matter, this lord is most displeased with that kind of clamor."
The dwarven blacksmith grinned, then gazed oddly at the kung fu fly, his mind already calculating how to cast the most suitable armament.
After the two of them exchanged a few pleasantries, Lin Hao left the smithy workshop.
However, he didn't go back to the Zhao Mansion, instead, he walked towards the civilian area of the city and found a rental room, directly renting it.
It's not expensive, only three hundred taels a month.
In this way, he had his own secret nook instead.
In the future, when you take on jobs, you can change the place where you dress up to avoid being exposed.
The main thing was that practicing here would not be disturbed by anyone.
The landlord was a quiet, ordinary old man, so I guess there should be no need for scruples.
Inside the house, Lin Hao sat on the bed with his knees crossed and started cultivating spells.
Although there was a Divine Animal Evolution System nowadays, one's own abilities had to follow suit.
Whoosh!!!
Just like that, as his fingers rapidly made seals, one fire rune pattern after another continuously flashed out from between his fingers.
Under this cultivation, his proficiency in runic inscription was also gradually increasing.
In almost the twinkling of an eye, he was able to cast a fire rune.
However, after about an hour or so, Lin Hao realized that his spiritual power was starting to get a bit overwhelmed.
The cultivation of a first level mage was too weak, and even though he had the assistance of the Ultimate Cultivation Talent, it was still not enough to accomplish such a long period of exertion.
The spiritual energy was getting less and less, and Lin Hao's body gradually had a feeling of being unsustainable.
Until finally, when the spiritual power in his body was rapidly drained, he felt a dizzying sensation in his brain and hastily stopped.
"Haste makes waste."
Lin Hao secretly shook his head, then slightly adjusted his mind and started meditating.
Under the support of the Ultimate Cultivation Talent, under normal circumstances, the spiritual energy that would have taken at least six hours to recover was revived in just half an hour.
"My spiritual power, it seems to have increased a bit from earlier."
Lin Hao suddenly realized that the spiritual energy in his mind was obviously much denser.
Well, for example, just now the storage capacity that could hold spiritual energy was just as much as a tank of water.
Now, however, there were as many as two tanks!
"Could it be that by depleting all the spiritual energy in your body and then regaining it to fill it up again, it will increase?!"
Lin Hao was overjoyed when he figured this out, as if he had discovered the trick to cultivation.
After all, on the path of martial arts cultivation, he had only just crossed the threshold, and there was no famous teacher to guide him, so everything needed to be fumbled by himself.
Immediately, Lin Hao practiced inscribing fire runes again, his speed increasing rapidly.
Then when the mental energy was all consumed, it was restored at an astonishing speed.
Just like this, Lin Hao was so constantly cycling, immersed in cultivation, wasting his sleep and food.
It wasn't until the evening of the second day that Lin Hao stopped cultivating.
At this moment, he looked rosy, completely devoid of the sickly pallor that he had before, as if he had been transformed, and was full of energy.
"I didn't expect to reach second level mage after only one night."
Lin Hao was quite satisfied in his heart.
Although this type of cultivation was boring and tedious, it was very effective.
However, with the elevation to second level mage, the spiritual power within his body had also increased by more than ten times.
Inscribing the runes for fireball magic alone is slow to consume.
At first it was one hour, but now it takes more than ten hours to exhaust all the mental energy.
This was also one of Lin Hao's more embarrassing points today.
Empty of a top-notch cultivation talent, but without any cultivation resources to back it up.
As the saying goes, poor in literature and rich in martial arts.
These four words have explained everything profoundly by those who have gone before us long ago.
Pills and treasure weapons were secondary, the main thing was the martial arts inheritance.
Although he was now dual-cultivating in battle techniques and spells, in the absence of battle techniques and spells, he didn't have much of an advantage if he encountered a martial artist of the same realm.
"It seems like we need to find a way to get some cultivation resources."
Lin Hao muttered and began to think about this.
That's right, the Academy of Heavenly Diffusion!
As his mind was spinning, Lin Hao suddenly had a flash of light in his head and thought of this academy.
As a martial mansion established by the royal family of the Great Yan Dynasty, it had a strong foundation and even more resources.
The vast majority of young talents, who were recruited every four years for the Academy students, could be said to be fighting for the limited number of places.
To them, the Heavenly Diffusion Academy was like a dragon's gate, and after crossing it, they could ascend to heaven in a single step.
This was because, if one could enter the Heavenly Diffusion Academy, they would definitely be able to obtain a constant stream of cultivation resources.
And two months later on the day of Autumn, it was the day of the Tianyan Academy's enrollment test.
That day was also the most important day for the many young martial arts cultivators of the Great Yan Dynasty.
Zhao Ling'er possessed the advanced cultivation talent of a mage and had long been internalized, passing without the need for an examination.
"Why don't I just go along for the ride."
Lin Hao hemmed and hawed, seemingly having a decision in his heart.
He remembered that Zhao Ling'er would be going to the Heavenly Diffusion Academy two months later to further her studies, so how would she react if they met there then?