According to the ancient records, it would take three years to become a Rank-2 Wizard, nine years to become a Rank-3 Wizard, 30 years to become a Rank-4 Wizard, and perhaps a Rank-5 Wizard would be a skeleton.
Zhang Lisheng would have been hopeless if he had not obtained the Witchcraft's Gate of Death cultivation method from Rank-2 Wizard to Rank-12 Wizard as he thought to this point.
"The road ahead is long, I'll … sigh …" He pulled out half of the ancient verse to motivate himself while frowning. He decided not to turn on the lights as he looked at the gloomy moonlight outside. He returned to his bedroom in the dark gloomily and slowly fell asleep, tossing and turning.
Another night passed. On the third day, Guawo Village was still covered in heavy rain. Zhang Lisheng could only stay at home and practice witchcraft for the entire day.
The moon was bright in the sky late at night, the dark clouds had finally dispersed. The crisp chirping of birds and insects replaced the annoying 'whoosh whoosh …' sound of rain and shrouded the entire mountain village again.
Zhang Lisheng's mood turned from gloomy to sunny along with the weather. It was the first time in two days that he used the stove to cook a whole, fat hen. He planned to reward himself by leaving early the next morning to refine another wizard worm in the mountain forest.
He extinguished the stove fire after the chicken soup was done. He opened the porcelain pot and wanted to divide the hen into two bowls by instinct. He suddenly recalled that his father was dead, so it was meaningless for him to do that.
Zhang Lisheng took a deep breath and rejected himself from thinking about that again. He held the porcelain pot and blew on it while sipping the hot chicken soup while walking to the old house's central room.
He saw a black silhouette jumping over the wall and into his courtyard with the help of the bright moonlight just as he took a few steps.
The black silhouette seemed to have never expected his master to be awake and drinking soup in the cold courtyard with a clay pot in his hand in the middle of the night. He could not help but be stunned.
However, the intruder soon reacted and charged at Zhang Lisheng. Judging from his agility, he must have a strong foundation in martial arts.
If he was an ordinary young man, he might have been knocked out or even broken by the black silhouette. However, Zhang Lisheng who had become a wizard was calmer in such a critical moment.
He was fearless and threw the porcelain pot filled with boiling chicken soup at the attacker. At the same time, he retreated quickly without turning his head.
The black silhouette did not dodge and punched the porcelain pot that was coming at him. It seemed like he wanted to capture Zhang Lisheng first regardless.
But before the porcelain pot cracked, he felt the boiling heat inside. His figure flashed, and he actually avoided the hot soup that filled the sky at the critical moment.
Seizing the opportunity of the attacker dodging, Zhang Lisheng turned around immediately and dashed into the kitchen behind him. He closed the wooden door and bolted it.
There was a small window in the kitchen that faced the courtyard, and one could clearly see what was going on in the courtyard.
After getting out of danger temporarily, Zhang Lisheng took a deep breath. He did not panic and call for help. Instead, he walked to the window in big strides expressionlessly and looked at the black shadow that jumped over the wall and attacked him out of nowhere through the glass. He began chanting witchcraft incantation in a 'pst shh …' manner.
Regardless of the reason, since he had trespassed into the Zhang Clan's old residence and offended its owner, he had to be prepared for death.
The shadow in the courtyard did not sense any danger at this moment. He saw Zhang Lisheng rushing into the kitchen without saying a word and did not continue to chase after him. Instead, he walked quickly to the old house's door and opened the latch softly.
The black silhouette in the courtyard did not sense any danger at the moment. Although he saw Zhang Lisheng dashing into the kitchen without saying anything, he did not continue to chase after him. Instead, he walked quickly to the old house's door and opened the bolts softly.
The door opened and a young man leaped into the courtyard. He said in a low voice while giggling, "Tiesi's still so agile on vacation. He must be bored."
"Is this considered 'work'? We're here to pick up the goods."
"Big Eye, be serious when you're doing something serious. Go do your work." Following behind the young man nicknamed 'Big Eye', a middle-aged man with two lines of blue paint under his eyes walked into the courtyard steadily and reprimanded his overly lively companion in his deep voice.
The middle-aged man did not look like a robber who broke into the temple when he was speaking. Instead, he looked like a guest who was invited to a banquet. However, he looked a little pretentious.
"Third Brother, I'll get the goods now." Big Eye dared to fool around with Tiesi when he was doing something serious, but he dared not talk back to Third Brother. He put away his weird expression immediately and walked to the central room of the old house.
Another person barged into the courtyard of the Zhang family's old house when Big Eye was walking to the central room.
His face was covered in colorful paint, as if he was afraid that others would recognize his true appearance. Moreover, his movements were timid, and he was not as calm as the previous three people.
"Third … Third Brother, how … how is it?" The fourth person locked the old house's door in a rush after entering the courtyard. He then asked nervously in a low voice. His accent sounded weird with his tongue rolled.
"Don't be nervous, everything's under my control.
Tiesi, tell our temporary partner what's the situation now? "
"I went over the wall to enter the courtyard and found something. He ran into the kitchen and didn't say anything," Tiesi said simply.
"What a smart young man. If that's the case, we won't hurt him since we're only looking for money …" Third Brother smiled with admiration on his face and said generously.
He was only halfway through his sentence when he was interrupted by a shrill scream coming from the central room of the old house, "Ah, ah, f * ck, what's this? Help, help …"
Tiesi, who was in the courtyard, heard the scream and immediately took out a specially-made switchblade from his waist. The blade was thirty centimeters long after it was unsheathed.
He reminded Third Brother, "It's Big Eye's voice. Be careful, Third Brother." He then crouched and dashed into the central room of the old house like a leopard cat.
However, before Tiesi could leap into the central room of the old house, Big Eye had stopped screaming and stumbled out of the central room.
Under the moonlight, his face that was initially covered with a few streaks of black paint had turned greenish-black. It was hard to tell if it was paint or if it was normal skin color.
His mouth kept opening and closing, but he could not make any sound. However, one could tell from the shape of his mouth that he was saying silently, "Help, help …"
Looking at his partner's horrifying appearance, Tiesi's determined gaze could not help but flash with fear. However, he did not delay his actions at all. He said hurriedly, "Big Eye, remember not to panic if you're still conscious. Don't move." He used the switchblade in his hand to make a quick cut on Big Eye's swollen and deformed face.
The knife felt like it was cutting rotten wood. Moreover, the blood that spurted out of the wound was thick and smelly.
Tiesi, who was used to life and death situations, immediately came to the conclusion that Big Eye could not be saved.
However, Tiesi, who was extremely cold to outsiders, could not make the choice that he should make at that moment when he saw that his partner could still understand him and was looking at him with a pleading gaze without moving. He could not cut Big Eye's neck with the switchblade and end his pain, fear, and life.
In a rare moment of compromise with his emotions, Tiesi finally decided to try his best to make a last resort.
He took out a silver metal cylinder from his waist. He pressed the spring with his nimble fingers and pushed it forward, turning it into a high-dose syringe. He inserted the needle into the protruding artery on Big Eye's neck with a backhand.
"Big Eye, you've been poisoned. I'll inject an antidote into your vein. It might be very painful later. Hang in there. Also, don't bite your tongue." After reminding Big Eye, Tiesi was about to inject the common antidote into his partner's body when a gigantic centipede suddenly broke through the flesh on Big Eye's neck. It crawled out abruptly and extended its head towards his arm that was holding the syringe.
In the nick of time, Tiesi was stunned for less than a second before he released the syringe agilely. He retracted his arm immediately and retreated at the same time.
Unfortunately, the venomous worm was still too close to his arm. The vicious attack was too unexpected. In the end, the centipede's sharp green fangs bit Tiesi's wrist hard.
After getting a foothold, the gigantic venomous worm wiggled its thousands of limbs. Its body crawled out of Big Eye's bloody neck and wrapped itself around Tiesi's arm.
Tiesi did not panic even though his life was hanging in the balance. He stabbed the spring knife that was almost a foot long into his arm that was bitten by the gigantic centipede and cut off his blood vessel.
After that, he shook his other hand lightly, and a metal thread that was almost invisible to the naked eye drilled out of his sleeve. With another shake, the metal thread nimbly and densely wrapped around his arm that was attacked by the centipede.
With a tug with one hand, Tiesi tied the upper body of the seventy to eighty centipede tightly to his arm.
Then, he touched his waist with his remaining hand and took out a custom-made spring knife. He slashed at the struggling head of the venomous worm.
The giant centipede's body was not split into two after the slash. There was only a crack on its thick outer shell.
As soon as the crack appeared, black smoke seeped out of the venomous worm's body. The thin silver metal wire that was made of a special alloy that was tied around the centipede slowly showed signs of rust.
Seeing that the thin metal wire could no longer be used, Tiesi swung his knife without hesitation and cut off his arm along with the venomous worm.
An ordinary person would definitely not be able to harm themselves to such a degree. Even if they managed to do it, they would die of blood loss. However, for Tiesi who had been practicing traditional Chinese martial arts since he was young, he knew the structure of the human body's meridians like the back of his hand. He had also gone through several years of rigorous special combat training. Cutting off one of his arms would not cost him his life.
"Third Brother, let's go." After getting rid of the venomous worm temporarily, he took out a few silver needles from his waist and inserted them into the acupuncture points around his broken arm to stop the bleeding. He then injected himself with a stimulant and a common antidote.
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