His vitality had been fiercely consumed, and even if it was replenished by the Health Potion, it had already become a hidden injury. He would need to refine a special potion to properly nourish it.
And with so many curses, even if they were dispelled, the hidden injury would still remain. If it wasn't healed as quickly as possible, it would become a huge problem in the future.
This was something that countless mages had verified with their own blood. After being cursed, regardless of whether there were any hidden injuries or not, they had to be healed.
But it wasn't that there weren't any benefits this time. The fierce battle, coupled with his mana and vitality, and even his mind power and soul being shaken, slightly shook that gate that wouldn't fluctuate even if the world was destroyed.
This meant that he should be able to advance to the Heaven Rank soon. As long as he grasped the opportunity, he might be able to advance to the Heaven Rank. And the best way to advance was to look for an opportunity in a fierce battle.
After finding a way to advance to the Heaven Rank and shattering his perfect foundation, Lin Yun felt that today's battle was worth it. But this wasn't the end. He was almost cursed to death, and Lin Yun wasn't a good-tempered person.
He used a pile of materials from the Raging Flame Plane, Noscent's materials, and even a lot of materials from the Endless Sea, as well as two kinds of plants native to the Abyss, to compound a potion that looked like lava.
This potion was the Rebirth Potion that could only be compounded by an Artisan. If it was directly swallowed, apart from the heart and brain, all other parts of the body would regrow.
If one used another method to concoct a pot of medicinal liquid, it would have another effect. It would nourish the body and soul, and any loss of life force would be perfectly replenished. Moreover, after being nourished, the body would become even more perfect than before.
It would even nourish the soul during this process, making the soul feel as if it had returned to its mother's body, becoming even purer and more powerful.
Lin Yun could already refine this potion when he returned from the Endless Abyss, because he had found the last of the scarce materials in the Abyss.
But his vitality had always been formidable, and it was even perfect to the point of being at the pinnacle of his rank, so it was useless.
There was no need to repair an item that was in perfect condition. If it wasn't damaged, it couldn't be repaired.
After preparing a crystal barrel filled with the purest Mana Water of the Demiplane, Lin Yun poured the potion into the crystal barrel. In an instant, the Mana Water started boiling and the crystal barrel looked like a bucket of viscous blood.
Falling into the wooden barrel, Lin Yun's body was completely wrapped in water. Slowly, wisps of black gas emerged from Lin Yun's body, and was then strangled and purified by the bright red liquid around him.
The huge and gentle life force slowly combed through Lin Yun's body, and by relying on this huge life force, Lin Yun's soul was nourished.
Three hours later, the liquid in the crystal bucket turned light gray. Lin Yun walked out of it. Half of his white hair had already turned back to black. His whole body exuded a vigorous life force like that of a baby.
He sensed the terrifying pressure emitting from the gate in the depths of his mind. It was still suppressed there, but Lin Yun had a faint feeling that this gate had already been pushed a bit, even if it was only a slight tremble.
But this was still a lot better than before. His foundation was too powerful, his magic path was too perfect, too perfect. It was already powerful to the point that he couldn't break it. This was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Because he didn't know how long he would be stuck at the peak of the 9th Rank of the Archmage realm, Lin Yun's mood was a lot better now that he saw some hope.
After leaving the laboratory, Lin Yun instantly moved to the side of the Mana Lake, just in time to see the Holysong Blood's flower slowly blossoming. Then, the flower rapidly withered as the three blood-colored seeds swallowed the flower's last bit of power. The blood-colored seeds slowly dissipated and turned into three dusky seeds that didn't seem special.
The blood-red color on the back of the Holysong Blood's leaves instantly spread to the front, causing the emerald green on the front to be stained with blood. The 18 layers of leaves turned blood-red, and the tiny runes on each leaf changed color.
After putting away the three seeds, he immediately planted them next to the Mana Lake. After putting away the eighteen leaves of the Holysong Blood, Lin Yun faintly sighed.
If the Holysong Blood had matured and been refined into a Bloodsobbing Holysong Potion, he might have been able to get rid of that scoundrel Layford.
But thinking about it, the Starry Sky College wouldn't allow him to get rid of Layford in the Starry Sky College. If that had been the case, he wouldn't have found a way to advance to the Heaven Rank.
Finding a way to advance to the Heaven Rank was the most important thing. As for Layford, he would have plenty of opportunities in the future. As long as he advanced to the Heaven Rank and grasped Extraordinary Power, the other side's curse wouldn't be able to easily break through his defenses.
After refining the Holysong Blood into a potion, the vitality of the three seeds had already started growing. Germination was only a matter of time.
The mana next to the Mana Lake was definitely enough for the Holysong Blood to grow, it was impossible for it to not germinate.
This matter gave Lin Yun a wake-up call. Not only did he refine a Bloodsobbing Holysong Potion as a backup, but he also sorted out all the harvests he had obtained. He handled everything once, maybe he would find something that he normally wouldn't use to save his life.
After recovering from his injuries, Lin Yun left the Starry Sky College by himself. There was still close to a week before the start of the gathering, and the coordinates he had deduced from the strange letter in the Merlin Family weren't too far from Neverwinter City.
Finding the coordinates first and finding the Reedpush Plate was the most important thing.
After leaving the Starry Sky College, the mana fluctuations and aura of life on the surface of Lin Yun's body instantly dissipated. If one didn't look directly at him, they definitely wouldn't be able to find any trace of Lin Yun.
But Lin Yun's speed had become even faster. He would cross several dozen meters in a flash, and the surrounding air seemed to be taking the initiative to avoid Lin Yun. He was very fast, but he didn't raise any gales. He was like a phantom floating over.
Not long after Lin Yun disappeared, some people chased after Lin Yun, but they lost him in less than an hour.
After breaking away from all the pursuers, Lin Yun arrived at the location marked on the coordinates by nightfall.
There didn't seem to be anything special here. It was just an ordinary mountain range, neither high nor low. The mountains were lush with trees, but there were no precious plants or precious minerals. Even the number of magical beasts in the mountain range was very low, and their levels were not high.
Lin Yun frowned as he looked at the mountain range. He flew dozens of kilometers around the mountain range, but he didn't notice anything different here.
After confirming repeatedly, he finally locked on to a place within five kilometers of the mountain range, which was the location marked on the coordinates.
Within five kilometers, there were only two mountains not too far apart. There were not many plants on the mountains, and they were pure granite.
Lin Yun explored the two peaks for four hours, but he didn't find anything abnormal. He then started to search the surroundings with the two peaks as the center, but he still didn't find anything wrong.
Everything here was too ordinary. There were no resources, no magic beasts. A Level 18 Fanged Tiger was the strongest magic beast within ten kilometers.
Even within a few dozen kilometers, there were no human towns. According to the map of the Odin Kingdom, this was a place with no value to mages. And to ordinary people, this place was rich in prey and resources, but ordinary people simply didn't have the power to develop it.
In Noscent, most places didn't have any special resources, or it could be said that there weren't any resources beneficial to mages.
This kind of place was called the Barren Land. As time passed, there would always be a lot of plants that would absorb the Mana in the air, producing special changes and slowly nurturing a lot of magic materials.
But looking at this place, Lin Yun frowned. The vegetation here was very dense, but the number of plants containing mana was pitiful. There weren't many of them, and some of them were very low level.
Moreover, the mana here was very normal. Although it was a bit worse than some places with dense mana, it wasn't so barren.
Lin Yun released mana to sense the surroundings and kept spitting out runes that entered the air. Not only on the ground, but even in the air, he started doing a carpet search.
As long as there was something here, it would definitely be discovered. But after five hours of searching, Lin Yun didn't find any clues. There was nothing of value, no traces of a small plane's entrance, no traces of ruins, nothing that could be hidden.
The sky started brightening as the first rays of dawn shone from the east, tearing apart the darkness with an unstoppable momentum. The angle of the first rays of dawn slowly changed as the sun rose.
Slowly, as the sun rose above the horizon, the angle of the scorching sun changed once again. The rays of light passed through the middle of the two mountains, and as the sun rose, the rays of light brushed past the right side of the first mountain before brushing past the left side of the second mountain.
As the sun slowly rose above the horizon, the rays of light that could brush past the two mountains at the same time became fewer and fewer. Finally, only a ray of light that was several meters wide could pass through.
The angle of the rays of light slowly tilted and shone on the forest that Lin Yun felt a bit strange but couldn't find the problem. In an instant, an illusory Phantom Door appeared in the forest.
Lin Yun arranged a large pile of runes and suddenly found something strange.
In the dense forest, a three-meter-tall Phantom Door was erected on the ground, and this Phantom Door didn't seem to have any effect on the surrounding light. The rays of light passed through the Phantom Door, and the shadows of the branches also passed through the Phantom Door. Only a faint mana fluctuation appeared.
The monitoring runes that Lin Yun arranged in the forest immediately discovered something strange.
After flying into the forest and looking at the ancient door, Lin Yun frowned. The door looked very dilapidated, its surface was full of cracks, and many decorative patterns had already peeled off. There were also vines and moss growing on the lintel. If it wasn't for the Phantom Door, Lin Yun wouldn't have found anything wrong with it.
Lin Yun turned his head and glanced at the sunlight that was constantly changing its angle. He suddenly understood that this seemingly ancient stone gate was the entrance to some ruins.
It wasn't that he couldn't find the entrance to the ruin before, but rather that there simply wasn't an entrance before the light of dawn shone on this place.
This technique was very popular in the later stages of the Nesser Dynasty and the 3rd Dynasty, especially in some relatively hidden ruins, they used this method.
It could be moonlight or sunlight, but the entrance would only appear when the light shone at a special angle or at a special time. Before the conditions were met, the ruins would be completely sealed and wouldn't have an entrance.
The condition for the entrance to the ruins to appear was the combination of the conditions set by the ruins itself and the external conditions. It would only appear when both conditions were met.
After finding the entrance, Lin Yun calmly waited. Half an hour later, the ray of light passing through the two mountain peaks slowly adjusted its position before finally shining on the top of the Phantom Door.
In an instant, the round stone at the top of the Phantom Door seemed to have turned into a crystal and devoured the power of dawn. Then, the radiance spread over the entire Phantom Door.
In a few seconds, the stone door had completely solidified, turning from a phantom into a real stone door. A faint mana fluctuation appeared on the surface of the stone door.
Lin Yun rapidly chanted an incantation and law runes slowly entered the Stone Door. After a few seconds, a halo suddenly appeared in the empty center of the Stone Door. A layer of revolving light film enveloped the Stone Door, and a wisp of a different aura spread from behind the light film.
He cautiously raised a shield and summoned a Rock Puppet to scout the way. Lin Yun also followed in.
Cracking this kind of ruin's entrance was too easy for Lin Yun. He didn't need to know what the other side's secret order was, he only needed to know the operating principle of this kind of entrance to be able to easily open it.
After stepping through the light film, a wisp of ancient and silent aura assaulted his senses. It was as if this was a deathly still space that had been silent for countless years, and the air inside was deathly still.
He could see a wide avenue, a hundred-meter-wide solid ground. It looked as if a layer of glass had been poured over it and was reflecting a crystal-like radiance. Many stagnant runes could be seen inside. These runes and arrays seemed to have been unused for a very long time.
On both sides of the path were towering cliffs. The cliffs were a few hundred meters high and they once again overlapped, thoroughly sealing this place.
Only the footsteps of Lin Yun and the Rock Puppet could be heard as they walked on the avenue. After walking less than thirty meters, a crack suddenly appeared on both sides of the cliff and dust-covered puppets walked out. The puppets' scarlet crystal eyes suddenly shone.
It took less than a second for these puppets to wake up. The mana fluctuations emitted by these puppets seemed to explode.
The mana fluctuations emitted by the ten puppets were all at the peak of level 39.
In an instant, two of the puppets whose arms had transformed into four long blades suddenly appeared in front of the Rock Puppet. Eight two-meter-long blades slashed at the Rock Puppet, and an afterimage flashed as the Rock Puppet turned into a pile of rubble.
At this time, a large amount of dust fell off the blades that had already lost their luster. A layer of light shrouded the pitch-black blades and a sharp aura suddenly appeared.
The other eight puppets were all 2.5-meter-tall. Six of them were melee puppets, while the other four were casting puppets covered in enchanted magic patterns. One by one, the puppets dodged, their scarlet crystal eyes attentively watching Lin Yun, frequently flickering with a dangerous light.
Shock flashed in Lin Yun's eyes.
They were all at the peak of level 39, and from the mana fluctuations emitted by these guys, he could see that these guys had abundant mana, as if they had always been at their peak.
Ten level 39 puppets. Normally, Lin Yun wouldn't care about them. In a one-on-one fight, each of these guys could last five seconds.
The main point was that they were in the unknown ruins, and this was only the entrance to the ruins. Strictly speaking, this couldn't even be considered as truly entering the ruins.
Those who could guard this place were all relatively weak existences. At any time, unless it was an important Planar Path, there would be a powerful existence guarding the gate.
This kind of ruins was equivalent to the Merlin Family, and Lin Yun had never remembered the names of the people guarding the entrance to the Merlin Family. The strongest among them was only an Expert Swordsman.
Many times, the students of the Merlin Family Academy would be punished to guard the entrance of the Merlin Family after making a mistake. These people were at most Great Mages.
From the style and construction of the entrance, and even the method of opening it, it could be seen that this ruins had been built during the late Nesser Dynasty, or during the peak of the 3rd Dynasty.
And the ruins of that era liked to use arrays or puppets to guard the entrance, some even used magic beasts.
But the puppets guarding the entrance were definitely the weakest existences in the ruins. The most important part of the ruins wasn't the location of the entrance, but rather some of the more important places.
The ones guarding the entrance here were a bunch of peak level 39 puppets, and they were all terrifyingly rich in mana. If compared to the Merlin Family, these peak level 39 puppets were equivalent to the Expert Swordsmen guarding the entrance of the Merlin Family.
There was no need to think about how powerful the existences inside were. There were definitely many puppets that had already awakened wisdom, or some other dangers.
He wanted to open the Natural Demiplane and release Xiuban to deal with these puppets, but a wisp of powerful interference appeared in the surroundings when the Planar Path to the Natural Demiplane opened a crack and the Planar Path couldn't be opened there.
He tried to sense it, but he could still instantly return to the Natural Demiplane.
He frowned, but he could no longer sense what was going on. He didn't have time to think as the six tall and sturdy puppets had already rushed over, and the magic patterns of the four casting puppets in the back had already shone.
He took out his Draconic Staff and released a Four Element Shield. Lin Yun then immediately started spitting out law runes and a wheel shadow appeared behind him. A dense elemental aura spread out like a tide.
Lin Yun's body also transformed into a four-meter-tall Ice Fire Elemental Incarnation. The surface of the hundred-meter-wide passage was filled with flames, and a layer of ice clouds was floating above.
The six sword puppets surrounded Lin Yun and kept slashing at Lin Yun's body. Their coordination was very tacit. Every second, Lin Yun had to resist the attacks from four directions. Those blades were all enchanted with Sharpness and Magic Penetration Runes. They had a very strong ability to tear through a mage's defensive spells.
Lin Yun kept flickering within the sea of flames and charged straight at the four casting puppets. These puppets were all casting ray spells. Concentrated Firebolts and Frostbolts were firmly chasing after Lin Yun.
The six sword puppets closely chased after Lin Yun. Lin Yun coldly looked at them while calmly releasing flames and flashing within the sea of flames.
These puppets' coordination was too tacit. Their battle system seemed to be a complete set. The six sword puppets could display their greatest fighting power when cooperating, and the four casting puppets' ray spells were always just right, making up for the six close-range sword puppets' shortcomings. Even when the sword puppets achieved some results, these casting puppets' rays would burst out at the same time.
After resisting a few rays with the Four Element Shield, Lin Yun gave up on the idea of fighting recklessly and released his full power. These ten puppets would be torn apart within twenty seconds, but who knew what was behind them?
Moreover, these puppets were terrifyingly rich in mana. Lin Yun couldn't understand how these guys could still have so much mana after being dormant for so many years.
It would be a pity to destroy these puppets, but the most important thing was to investigate this matter. It would be troublesome if they met a Heaven Puppet with a terrifying amount of mana later on.
The power of each ray of the four casting puppets was comparable to that of an 8th Tier single-target spell. This was completely due to the huge amount of mana being compressed and forcibly raised.
Lin Yun kept flickering for three minutes, and his surroundings had already turned into a sea of flames. The temperature of the flames had already reached an extreme, distorting the air and making everything look fuzzy. And in the air, the temperature of the sea of ice kept dropping, as if a sea of ice had appeared above his head.
The extreme heat and extreme cold were so close to each other, and the convection of temperature seemed to be berserk. The mana fluctuations also became more and more chaotic. Lin Yun's Ice Fire Elemental Incarnation unconsciously transformed into Fire Elemental Incarnation before thoroughly hiding within the sea of flames.
After losing track of Lin Yun and being unable to sense Lin Yun's mana fluctuations, the movements of the puppets stopped and they unconsciously patrolled within the sea of flames. But the temperature of the sea of flames was still rising, and the puppets' bodies slowly turned red from the heat.
The blades of the six sword puppets were burning red, but the blades didn't deform at all. Their edges flickered with a silver radiance, and they simply weren't afraid of the flames.
After burning for three minutes, Lin Yun suddenly chanted a hurried incantation. The surrounding sea of flames seemed to have encountered some terrifying suction force and was completely devoured within three seconds. The sea of flames was completely devoured by the Book of Mantras, while the sea of ice in the sky poured down in torrents.
The power of ice submerged the ten puppets at the same time. They had been foolishly burned by the flames for a few minutes, and their bodies were somewhat red from the heat. Many of their components malfunctioned in an instant, and their bodies stiffened in an instant.
And at the same time, the ten puppets' mana burst out once again in order to recover from this stiff state. Many of their components were made of different materials. Some weren't afraid of high temperatures, but some weren't. They would swell a bit after being burned at high temperatures, and then suddenly suffer from low temperatures, which was equivalent to completing a tempering.
There would be a problem with the compatibility of the components, and their bodies would stiffen. Their bodies wouldn't be able to recover to that terrifying speed before the effects of the extreme temperature were washed away.
But at this time, the wheel shadow behind Lin Yun spurted out a flood of runes. Vivid and lifelike Mana Hands that looked like Lin Yun's slender hands suddenly rushed out.
Several dozen Mana Hands simultaneously fell on the bodies of the ten puppets, and each of them left afterimages as they rapidly revolved around the puppets for a few seconds.
In an instant, the ice slowly dissipated, and the ten stiff puppets simultaneously exploded into a pile of components that fell to the ground.
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