At the same time, on the other side. Outside of Baruch City, within Mt. Blackraven.
Ever since he had decided to establish his kingdom, Linley had been training within Mt. Blackraven.
At this moment, Linley was dressed in a very simple sky-blue robe. His long hair was casually draped over his shoulders, and he was wielding a violet longsword as he trained with the sword by the side of a lake. Wherever the violet sword passed, even the air itself seemed to distort, causing Linley's body to appear somewhat blurry.
Not too far away, a black rat was leisurely lying on the surface of the lake, squinting its eyes and enjoying the sunlight. It was the divine beast Linley had abducted when he was young – the Godeater Rat Bebe.
But in the next moment, Bebe suddenly rose to his feet. In a very human-like manner, a suspicious look appeared on his face, and then he quickly flew into the air, flying towards the lake. A mage-looking person was approaching Mt. Blackraven.
"Who is it?" Bebe floated next to the person and asked.
"Lord Bebe, I am an instructor at the Baruch Academy. I have an important matter to report to Lord Linley!" The magus immediately said.
"Bebe, who is it?" Right at this moment, Linley, in the middle of his training, put away his sword and looked over.
"Boss, an instructor from the Baruch Academy is looking for you!" Bebe turned and shouted.
"The Baruch Academy … I almost forgot." Linley was startled, but then he came to his senses. He had just assumed the title of Principal of the Baruch Academy.
Taking a step forward, Linley transformed into a gust of wind and appeared in front of the magus.
"What is it?" Linley asked.
"It's like this. Just now, a peerless genius appeared at the magus testing area. We don't know what to do …" The person succinctly explained to Linley what had just happened.
"At the age of six, his spiritual force is at least that of a magus of the sixth rank, or possibly even a magus of the seventh rank?" Linley was also somewhat flabbergasted. This kind of talent was far beyond his imagination.
In Linley's entire life, the most talented magus he had ever met was Delia's older brother, Dixie. But even Dixie was only a Beyond-Level magus in both the elements of wind and fire. Given that his spiritual essence was sixty-eight times that of an ordinary person, there was a huge gap between him and Zhou Tong, who was a Beyond-Level magus in all three elements and had three thousand times the spiritual essence.
"Wow, she broke your record at the age of six?" Bebe also made an exaggerated expression.
"Sir Linley, he hasn't even entered the academy, but he has already met the requirements to graduate. This kind of person … This kind of person, we really don't know how to deal with. Besides, he's still so young … "The mage said with a troubled expression. They couldn't teach such a genius.
Even if Linley hadn't yet learned any magical incantations, all he needed to do was read a few books and he would understand. There was no way they could interfere.
"A natural-born Grand Magus. So there is a genius like this. Bring him to see me!" Linley said.
At the same time, at the gates of the Baruch Academy of Magic and Force.
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye. Zhou Tong's first meditation session had finally concluded.
"If my guess is correct, my spiritual essence has already reached the level of a magus of the ninth rank. But to reach the level of a magus of the ninth rank, I still need at least a year." Zhou Tong said to himself.
Fusing with mageforce was a very long process, especially for someone like Zhou Tong, who had started from nothing and directly reached the level of a magus of the ninth rank. The amount of time needed was even longer.
But to the vast majority of magi, the bottleneck in their advancement was their spiritual essence. Their spiritual essence broke through slowly, which was why it seemed as though they didn't need to spend time fusing with mageforce.
Linley's spiritual essence had broken through from the sixth rank to the seventh rank, but it had taken him a month to fuse with the mageforce.
Zhou Tong had gone from zero to the ninth rank, and he had one more element than Linley, but it would take him at least a year to fuse with the mageforce, perhaps even longer.
"However, after fusing with a portion of the mageforce, I can clearly sense that my body has improved." Zhou Tong inspected his own body. The golden light that had been everywhere in his body had become even denser. Clearly, the rate at which his blood was mutating had increased.
Not only that, but the battle-qi in his dantian seemed to have been stimulated by the mageforce as well, and it was showing an unprecedented level of activity. Most likely, he would soon break through to become a warrior of the seventh rank.
"Since I have to wait here, then I'll continue to train!" Zhou Tong didn't think too much about it. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he immediately began to circulate his battle-qi.
As Zhou Tong circulated his battle-qi, his entire dantian began to tremble. The golden battle-qi, which had been extremely viscous and nearly liquid, began to surge forth like a tidal wave. In a short period of time, the battle-qi in his body had reached an unprecedented peak.
"Rumble!!"
Even as the battle-qi in his body circulated, there was a thunderous sound. This change was too violent. Every strand of battle-qi in his body was transforming, transforming in essence.
"I'm finally going to break through to the seventh rank." Zhou Tong continued to circulate his energy as he quietly observed the changes in his body.
Very quickly, drops of golden battle-qi, as heavy as mercury, began to condense in his dantian. As time passed, more and more of it gathered, faster and faster. In a short quarter of an hour, all the battle-qi had completely liquefied, transforming into an even more powerful battle-qi of the seventh rank.
"Boom!!"
After reaching the seventh rank, the completely transformed golden battle-qi immediately began to circulate through Zhou Tong's meridians. His entire body was nourished by the brand new battle-qi, causing Zhou Tong's strength to increase, his bones to become harder, and his body to become even more sturdy.
At this time, Zhou Tong once again opened his eyes.
"Seventh rank warrior, I've finally reached the seventh rank … With my strength, a seventh rank warrior is enough to defeat an eighth rank warrior. The current me can finally be considered to have a bit of strength." Zhou Tong said inwardly.
With the mutation of his bloodline, Zhou Tong's physical strength became extremely terrifying. Even the undying warriors with the greatest strength and defense among the Four Great Supreme Warriors couldn't compare to Zhou Tong at the same level.
It was because Zhou Tong's opponent wasn't an ordinary undying warrior at all, but rather one of the Four Divine Beasts, the Black Tortoise, and a descendant of the Black Tortoise from several generations ago.
With Zhou Tong's current Heavenly Horned Ant bloodline density, it was only equivalent to the fourth or fifth generation of the Black Tortoise. However, it could be foreseen that as the degree of his bloodline mutation became higher and higher, it would advance to the third generation, second generation …
"After advancing to the seventh rank, my spiritual force has been reorganized, and at the same time, I have to come into contact with magic. What follows is the core of this world's cultivation system — the profound mysteries of laws!" Zhou Tong had long thought about his following cultivation process. He had already planned everything out. Right now, what he needed to do was to advance according to his plan.
"Kahn, Sir Linley invites you!!" Right at this time, the mage who went to inform Linley returned.
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