Under the bright sunlight, Ji Hao was squatting in a herb garden. Countless finger-thick, snake-shaped herbs had grown out of the dark-blue soil. He was carrying a jade bucket, and was carefully pouring the poisonous liquid, which was mixed with the venom of eighteen different kinds of poisonous snakes and thirty-six kinds of wild beasts, into the herb garden.
The sticky poisonous liquid flowed down through tiny channels. Wherever the liquid flowed through, the colorful herbs, which were about three feet tall, would shake intensely, like poisonous snakes that were crazily fighting for food.
Soon, all the herbs in the entire herb garden began shaking, and at the same time, a hissing noise came from the roots under the soil.
Visibly, a few herbs had grown about three inches taller, and a flower bud slowly sprouted from the top of each herb. A pungent smell slowly spread out from the flower bud. From the grasses surrounding the herb garden, countless multicolored poisonous snakes slowly swam towards Ji Hao, following the smell. They coiled around those herbs, which had already bloomed, and breathed out poisonous gas from their mouths.
Ji Hao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and let out a long breath.
Only a brave man like him, who had been living with poisonous snakes and insects since he was a kid in the Southern Wasteland, could take on the task of growing 'Spirit Snake Grass'.
A few days ago, Ji Hao saw with his own eyes a few beautiful and spoiled female apprentices, who were from large clans in the Midland. They were all crying and screaming, and hurriedly crawling out of the herbal garden. Two pretty little girls were even crazily waving their arms to shake off the poisonous snakes coiled around their wrists. They accidentally bumped into a tree stump and fainted right away.
After that, Ji Hao hadn't seen these few girls around the herb garden for the past few days.
Ji Hao spent an entire morning to finish growing the 'Spirit Snake Grass', and was praised by a Magi of the Magi Palace. Altogether, thirty thousand apprentices had been working with Ji Hao to grow the 'Spirit Snake Grass', but within only a few days, the 'Spirit Snake Grass' cultivated by Ji Hao had grown two inches taller and thicker than the other apprentices, and had even sprouted flower buds a few days earlier than the others.
This Magi, who was responsible for growing all kinds of magical herbs in the Magi Palace, had already extended an olive branch to Ji Hao. He made it clear to Ji Hao that Ji Hao was very talented in the cultivation of medicinal plants, and as long as Ji Hao was willing to become his disciple, he would teach Ji Hao everything he knew.
Ji Hao smiled and thanked the Wizard for his kindness, but he didn't make a decision. It had only been five days since he joined the Magi Palace, and he hadn't figured out exactly what he was going to do.
In the afternoon, in a huge cave that was several miles long, the earth fire was blazing, and the heat waves were striking. Like thousands of apprentices, Ji Hao was also bare-chested, carrying a gigantic iron hammer and madly hammering the soft iron block on the anvil, which was still letting out sparks.
Thunderous booms resounded against the walls of the cave, then bounced back into the cave like roaring sound waves. The entire cave seemed to be burning, exploding, twisting and spinning crazily, like a glowing red iron block on an anvil that was rapidly changing its shape.
Ji Hao subconsciously activated the [Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words]. His physical coordination was unparalleled, and every single one of his hammers accurately hit on the most appropriate part of the iron block. Within a quarter of an hour, a two-foot and four-inch long dagger had already been shaped.
Beside the glowing red anvil was a large vat of dark-blue spring water, which was releasing a bone-piercing coldness. Ji Hao threw the formed dagger into the vat. Along with a loud sizzling noise, the spring water boiled intensely for a while, but soon calmed down.
Ji Hao reached his hand out and grasped the air. A shining, sharp dagger appeared in his hand. He grabbed a piece of iron ore from the ground and chopped it down. Along with a loud cracking sound, the iron ore was cut into two. The cut was as smooth as a mirror, without even a single thorn.
Ji Hao injected his power into the dagger, after which, the three simplest spell symbols on the edge of the dagger lit up one by one. These three spell symbols had increased the sharpness and flexibility of the dagger by over ten times, which was now more than enough to easily cut all kinds of metals in the natural world.
A Magus who was responsible for forging the dagger walked over with big steps, grabbed the dagger from Ji Hao's hand and fiercely cut on his own finger.
Along with a sizzling noise, fire sparks flew out from the Magus's finger, and a thin layer of iron chips was scraped off from the edge of the dagger. The Magus laughed out loud and said, "A top-grade ordinary weapon, Ji Hao, you are quite talented in forging. What do you think? How many years do you want to learn from me? After a thousand years, you might be able to forge a Divine-Magus-level magic treasure! "
Ji Hao smiled but didn't say anything. Being a blacksmith for the rest of his life? He wasn't too interested in this.
Followed by a thunderous boom, a few apprentices around Ji Hao saw that Ji Hao had succeeded. They hurriedly threw their own daggers, which were still releasing a great heat, into the vat as well.
The daggers they forged weren't purified, and the spell symbols on the edge of the daggers weren't properly processed either. Once the daggers were thrown into the vat, the daggers exploded, sending countless pieces flying in all directions. A few poor apprentices were hit by the explosion, and fell on the ground while howling and vomiting blood.
"Idiots! Idiots!" Yelled the Magus who was responsible for this forging cave, "Who sent these idiots here to waste materials? Kick them out! Don't let them take even half a step into this workshop for the rest of their lives! "
Taking advantage of the chaos, Ji Hao slowly walked out of the cave, and turned towards the place where he learned to make magic talismans.
Planting medicinal plants, concocting magic medicines, forging magic weapons, drawing magic spell symbols, even raising ghosts, raising monsters, making puppets, making bows and crossbows, researching magic formations, exploring magic theories … Two months had passed in the blink of an eye. Ji Hao had gained good comments from all of the Magi Palace's Magi Palace's projects.
Ji Hao had been cultivating his soul since he was a little kid, which made him tens of times more intelligent, tens of times more perceptive, and hundreds of times more powerful than other apprentices at the same level. While the other apprentices were still blindly copying what they had done, Ji Hao had already started to understand the essence of things, and put forward new viewpoints by analogy.
In his previous life, Ji Hao had read a lot of Taoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures and countless ancient books from different sects, and had extracted the [Mantra Dan with Nine Secret Words] from them.
Now that Ji Hao had condensed his Golden Dan, his soul was at least ten times more powerful than it had been in his previous life. Only in terms of intelligence, Ji Hao was truly a genius, none of the other apprentices could compare with him.
Some birds might not sing for three years, but they would amaze the world with a single brilliant feat.
Ji Hao was such a giant bird with beautiful feathers and a thunderous voice. Those Magi Palace Magi who knew about Ji Hao's background had tried their best to value Ji Hao, but none of them had thought that Ji Hao was actually so outstanding, so outstanding that even those Magi Palace Magi were a bit creeped out, and didn't know what to do with him.
Two months later, Si Wen Ming was sitting on a stone block in Ji Hao's room, looking at him with a bit of worry and annoyance.
"I've heard about what happened to you … Really, I don't know what to say."
"Alright, on behalf of a group of old men in the Magi Palace, I ask you, what are you interested in the most? As long as you bring it up, you will receive the full support of this branch of the Magi Palace. All the resources that this branch of the Magi Palace has, whatever you want and what the Magi Palace has, we will give it to you. "
Ji Hao smilingly saluted to Si Wen Ming.
"I want to become the most powerful."
Si Wen Ming stared at Ji Hao in shock and asked, "Wait, I … what do you mean?"
Ji Hao remained silent for a while, looked at Si Wen Ming and said proudly, "The most powerful means that I am omnipotent, and I am the most powerful in everything!"
Si Wen Ming was stunned and speechless, staring at Ji Hao with a pair of soulless eyes.
Ji Hao stood up, let out a fierce and proud aura and said, "Believe me, I will be the most powerful."
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