Lin Xiao pressed down with his backhand:
"#@)."
A huge flaming hand flew out and grabbed the black mask in its palm. There was a crackling sound of insects exploding, and all the black beetles were burned.
At the same time, he waved his hand, and countless souls flew out and transformed into phantoms that scattered everywhere like fireworks.
"Um?"
Julian suddenly stopped, and saw countless black shadows in the mirror that disappeared.
He quickly rushed to the dead beetle, but saw nothing and could not catch any scent.
"You can't run away!"
He snorted coldly and took out another bead and threw it into the mirror. Soon a masked woman appeared. She turned her head and looked at Julien and asked,
"What's the matter?"
Julian said respectfully:
"I want to pay 1 contribution point and request to publish a task."
"Is it about that human descendant?"
"right."
The woman showed a trace of doubt in her eyes and said:
"Contribution points are not easy to obtain. You have only accumulated four points after so many years of coming here. Are you sure you want to use one for a son of the human realm?"
Julian nodded seriously:
"I am willing to contribute a little. If any of my companions can help me capture him alive and send him here, I am willing to contribute two points."
"Two contribution points, I believe there will be a level 3 wizard willing to help. Recently, a level 3 wizard happened to pass by that wasteland looking for a material. I will send your task to him, but I can't guarantee whether he will accept it."
"By the way, he has a magic weapon that has the ability to control souls. It's extremely powerful!"
"I'll record it."
The mirror returned to its original state and soon a task interface appeared. The first item on it was the task posted by Julian. When he clicked on it, there were already several messages, most of which asked about some specific situations. He thought about it and replied to them one by one.
On the other side, Lin Xiao didn't know that in order to hunt him down, Julian spent his contribution points to post a bounty mission on a network owned by his organization.
This thing comes from a limited network opened by an ancestor of the same clan that Julian serves through his power in the wizarding world. All the descendants of the alien gods who are employed by the True Nether Ancestor can connect to this network over long distances and even consume enough to contribute to cross-world connections, share what they have and help each other.
Julian was willing to spend half of the four contribution points he had accumulated in such a long time to issue the bounty. Of course, it was not just to vent his anger, there was a deeper reason, which was the huge benefits of Lin Xiao.
After he escaped with the power of the True Ming Ancestor, he came back later, but Lin Xiao had disappeared by then. At first he thought he was dead, so the matter was left unresolved.
The wanted notice was not issued by him, but by the school.
He never told anyone whether Lin Xiao was alive or dead. He told the academy that he had defected and disappeared, so he was naturally wanted by the academy.
However, three years later, Lin Xiao suddenly appeared, and he was extremely surprised. How could a wizard apprentice escape from such terrifying divine power?
Then it is certain that there must be external interference, and the only problematic thing nearby is the strange valley.
To be precise, it is called the Strange World. Strictly speaking, this Strange Valley is just a tentacle projection of the real Strange World. It exists in many places in many worlds, and even in this world there are several Strange Valleys.
Julian inquired about the situation in the Strange Valley, used his authority to look up information about the academy, and used the organization's channels to look up information about other forces, and learned about the existence of the Lord of the Strange World and the Strange Apostles.
At first he was not very sure, until the information he collected showed that the high-grade materials that Lin Xiao had been selling in recent years belonged to the scorpion giant who was good at detaining souls. He also saw Lin Xiao demonstrating the detainment of souls in front of him with his own eyes. He was sure that this son of the human gods was lucky enough to obtain the power bestowed by the Lord of the Strange World and became a strange apostle with the power to detain and devour souls, or also called a soul messenger.
The limited information available shows that the Soul Messenger can imprison souls, devour souls, and use the enormous power of souls to strengthen himself.
According to historical records, every Soul Messenger is a Dawn Wizard of Level 4 or above. Although each of them will degenerate into a terrible monster due to their own souls being polluted by the large amount of souls they devour, they are still feared and desired by many wizards.
You would be afraid if others have it, but if you have the opportunity to get it, everyone would desire it.
The pollution and degeneration of the soul is terrible, but having no strength is even more terrible.
Moreover, soul pollution is not a big deal for them. When they really can't hold on any longer, they can consume a lot of contributions and ask strong people to help them purify themselves. Or, if your accumulated contributions are enough, you can ask the ancestor of the True Underworld to purify yourself, and then you can be a hero again.
So when Julian confirmed that Lin Xiao was a newly born soul apostle, he had the idea of seizing the identity of the apostle of the strange world.
In fact, if he was not afraid of being suspected, he would be willing to give all his contribution points to ask the strong people in the organization to help.
In order to keep the secret, he also claimed that the human descendant had a magic weapon that could use the power of the soul, so as to avoid being suspected by the strong man who took action.
After doing all this, Julian still felt unsafe, and after thinking about it, he posted a message on this communication channel again, offering a small contribution point plus a high price of 10,000 magic stones to purchase a top-level magic weapon.
On the other hand, Lin Xiao certainly didn't know how much price Julian paid to deal with him. If he knew, he would really run away instead of going back into the depths of the wilderness.
He did not continue to kill the Half-Scorpion people. Now the small tribes of Half-Scorpion people in the wilderness were almost killed by him. Most of the remaining ones fled or retreated to medium and large tribes. These large Half-Scorpion tribes all had strong people comparable to formal wizards, and there were many Half-Scorpion people equivalent to second-level wizards. Not only were they difficult to kill, but the scorpion giants summoned by the large tribes were also very powerful.
The strongest one he had seen before was a two-headed scorpion giant comparable to the third level. If he went to those large tribes, it would be entirely possible to summon a scorpion giant comparable to the fourth level. If he really encountered such a powerful existence, he might not be able to escape.
Perhaps there are still some small half-scorpion tribes in the wasteland, but he doesn't have the time to look for them one by one. Instead of doing that, it is better to go to the ancient battlefield in the center of the wasteland to look for those powerful monsters.
The soul of a powerful monster can replace a bunch of ordinary souls, so killing a few more will not be a bad harvest.
At this time, Lin Xiao had accumulated more than 270,000 souls, enough to satisfy the transaction with the Lord of the Strange World.
He planned to give up the contract with the Lord of the Strange World after completing the transaction in a few years. Controlling and devouring souls was too dangerous and evil. Although the benefits were huge, he was not like the natives who were often stuck in various bottlenecks. He had a complete way of growth and there was no need to get such a dangerous power.
The center of the ancient battlefield in the wasteland is obviously different from other places in the wasteland. The space here begins to distort, and from a distance all the landscapes look as unreal and unclear as a mirage.
In fact, what you see here is indeed like a mirage. You may see a tree about a hundred meters ahead, but in fact it may be hundreds of meters away or not even in that position at all. It is instead a reflection from the distortion of space.
There are very few monsters in this area, but once there are, they are extremely powerful. After all, ordinary creatures cannot pass through the broken space cracks.
In other words, theoretically, it is possible to travel to other worlds through the space cracks here, and wizards have done so before.
As to whether it really leads to other worlds, it is still hard to say, because no one has ever been seen to go in and come back.
Maybe he died in the space crack, or there was no way back after entering.
After Lin Xiao entered this twisted ancient battlefield, he consciously circled around the edge and did not dare to enter the central area. He killed an unknown monster covered with thorns in the edge area and occupied its nest. He sealed the entrance and set up a layer of barrier, using this place as a temporary residence.
While hunting, use the dissipated soul power to stimulate your own mental power, so that your mental power and magic power remain active at all times, which can maximize your mental power.
He had been doing this whenever he had time over the years, which was why he was able to elevate his mental power to a crystallized state in just a few years.
Now his mental power has reached the limit of a first-level wizard, and the next step is to be promoted to a second-level wizard.
It's just that he doesn't have the orthodox wizard's promotion method now. He was just a wizard apprentice at the beginning and had no chance to get promoted to a second-level wizard, whether or not he was an orthodox wizard or a bloodline wizard.
But this does not mean that he cannot improve his strength. In addition to these orthodox wizards, there are countless other power systems in this world. Many alien races can also produce strong people without orthodox wizard systems.
The simplest way is the promotion method used exclusively by soul apostles, which is to strip away the consciousness of a large number of souls, and then use secret methods to merge them into a powerful unconscious soul body, and then integrate one's own soul into this powerful soul body as the main consciousness, thereby making the soul undergo a qualitative leap, and once promoted, one will become a strong man comparable to a third-level wizard.
In fact, this professional system is called Soul Apostle. Most of the Soul Apostles called by outsiders are apostles who have embarked on this path. It is almost unique for someone like Lin Xiao who has more than 200,000 souls in his hands and has never devoured a single soul.
In addition, Lin Xiao also knew that there was a universal method of advancement, which was to continue to increase mental power directly on the basis of the existing mental power core, rather than opening up a second mental power core like orthodox wizards.
Strictly speaking, this promotion method is not much different from the orthodox wizard promotion method, and the benefits obtained after transformation are the same, but this promotion method has one biggest problem, which is that it is impossible to obtain a second innate spell.
Because the promotion is directly based on the original spiritual core, instead of condensing a second spiritual power core, the link of constructing a witchcraft model is naturally missing, and there are no new innate spells.
Although the original innate spells can be strengthened, there is only one innate spell, which has limited uses. It is no match for the multiple innate spells of an orthodox wizard.
But Lin Xiao had no choice. If he didn't want to be promoted to Soul Apostle, then he could only be promoted in this way.
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(End of this chapter)