Age of Wizards: I Can Analyze All Things

In an instant, the surrounding ghosts swarmed forward like starving wolves that had spotted their prey. They let out sharp, piercing shrieks, stretching out hands like bestial claws and clawing madly at Wuyu.

But without exception, all these ghosts turned to ash and vanished when they got within about half a meter of Wuyu, transforming into the purest Soul Energy and flowing into its body.

After hundreds of ghosts had perished, the others finally grew fearful and retreated, their expressions terrified.

Wuyu paid them no mind, simply lowering its head to drink from the water.

A moment later, Wuyu returned to Pei Ze’s shoulder. Its aura had changed considerably, growing even colder and more profound.

Through their link via the Magic Pet Contract, Pei Ze could clearly feel that Wuyu’s power had increased substantially, already approaching the critical point for a breakthrough.

All it needed was the final ingredient—the Death God’s Blood—to take that crucial step and break through.

’Now I just have to find that divine creature,’ Pei Ze thought.

Pei Ze took out the claw he had purchased from Ruby and held it between his thumb and forefinger. With a slight squeeze, the claw instantly shattered into dust with a CRACK.

A light breeze blew, carrying the dust into the air, where it scattered and coalesced into a small, fist-sized bird, purple-black all over.

After a brief pause, the little bird flapped its wings and flew forward.

Pei Ze immediately followed.

Using a part of the target’s body as a material for a prophecy spell to lock onto its location, and with the enhancement from his Eye of Omniscience, Pei Ze’s prophecy spells were just as strong, if not stronger, than those of Wizards who specialized in the Prophetic Domain.

However, this was the chaotic Abyss, and the target was a divine creature. Even Pei Ze couldn’t guarantee a one hundred percent chance of finding it.

If this didn’t work, he would have no choice but to use the Desire Technique.

But the Desire Technique came at a steep price, requiring either extremely precious casting materials or a sacrifice of one’s own lifespan.

Pei Ze would never accept the latter cost.

Using the Desire Technique to find a divine creature would consume several hundred years of his life at the very least. Even though Pei Ze’s current lifespan was over ten thousand years, he had no intention of wasting it like that.

That left only the first option.

Fortunately, this was the Abyss. If there was one thing it had in abundance, it was demons.

If worse came to worst, he could just hunt more demons, extract their souls, and craft Soul Crystal Stones to use as casting materials.

If the quality was insufficient, he would just make up for it with quantity.

Lost in thought, Pei Ze flew for more than ten kilometers along the River of Blood.

He encountered many demons along the way, but they were all Low-Tier Demons like Kuase Demons and Flomars.

After spotting Pei Ze’s Wizard Robe from a distance, these demons turned and fled without a second thought.

Pei Ze had no interest in pursuing them. He gave them a glance and continued his search.

From time to time, Wuyu would dive down to devour the souls in the River of Blood, feasting to its heart’s content.

There was no day or night in the Abyss; the sky was a constant, bloody red.

Pei Ze estimated that he had been searching along the banks of the River of Blood for nearly three days.

Just as he was beginning to think the Prophetic Technique had failed, the little purple-black bird suddenly let out a cry.

Pei Ze’s spirits immediately lifted. He extended his senses and, sure enough, detected a dense and frigid aura of death five or six kilometers away.

"Found you."

The corner of Pei Ze’s mouth lifted into a smirk. Lightning flashed around his body, and in the next second, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and shot forward, covering the five or six kilometers almost instantaneously.

On the bank of the River of Blood, a creature that looked like a cross between a tiger and a wolf, with dark, lustrous fur, was drinking from the river. It was startled by Pei Ze’s sudden arrival and immediately tensed up, its pair of cold, beastly eyes staring straight at him.

Pei Ze sized up the monster before him.

When standing upright, the monster was a full five meters tall and nearly ten meters long—a veritable behemoth.

Moreover, it emanated a cold aura of death that was just as strong as Wuyu’s, if not stronger.

According to the information fed back from his Eye of Omniscience, the monster before him was indeed a level five divine creature.

Without hesitation, Pei Ze attacked. He instantly became translucent, with lightning flashing within his form.

The next moment, countless arcs of searing lightning erupted forth, sweeping toward the monster like an overwhelming tide.

Seeing Pei Ze attack, the monster was not surprised. It had suffered no shortage of unprovoked attacks during its time in the Abyss and had long since grown accustomed to them. It let out a low roar and, instead of retreating, charged forward to meet the assault.

In the blink of an eye, a violent energy fluctuation erupted on the bank of the River of Blood. A thousand souls near the bank were instantly torn to shreds by the furious tide of energy.

The remaining souls frantically pulled back, watching in terror as the surging lightning and the cold aura of death intertwined in the distance.

The monster’s attacks were quite monotonous, consisting of nothing more than rending with its claws and biting with its fangs, just like an ordinary beast.

But empowered by the Power of Death, these simple movements transformed into terrifyingly lethal attacks.

Facing the monster’s ferocious assault, Pei Ze’s expression remained unchanged.

He unleashed one blast of searing lightning after another, which danced like frenzied serpents, instantly turning the surrounding several kilometers into a Thunder Tribulation Hell of flashing lightning and rampant thunderbolts.

This was the first time Pei Ze had fought at full strength since advancing to become a Level 5 Wizard, and he was holding almost nothing back.

Faced with the violent, surging torrent of lightning, the monster struggled to defend itself, appearing rather battered.

Wuyu’s presence made things even worse. It appeared and disappeared like a ghost, launching sneak attacks from time to time, making it impossible for the monster to defend against.

After only a few moments of combat, the monster realized how powerful its enemy was—on a completely different level from the demons it had encountered before. The thought of retreat instantly took hold.

It suddenly threw its head back and roared. Its massive body abruptly turned illusory and phased through the deadly torrent of lightning like a phantom, covering two or three kilometers in the blink of an eye.

’Trying to escape?’

Pei Ze had been expecting this move. He sneered, and with a single thought, a drop of the Power of Rules deep within his Sea of Consciousness spun around once before suddenly erupting in a blinding flash of lightning.

At the same time, countless bolts of lightning burst from Pei Ze’s body. The dense and violent Thunder Elemental Energy condensed in the air, forming a compressed ball of lightning that shone with a dazzling, brilliant blue-white light hundreds of meters wide and radiated a terrifyingly high temperature.

More than ten kilometers away, a group of Flomars that couldn’t escape in time were instantly incinerated into ash, unable to even let out a scream.

A deep RUMBLE echoed from within the ball of lightning as it shot toward the distant monster like a blazing meteor.

Viewed from the ground, it looked like a dazzlingly incandescent pillar of lightning tearing through the void, carrying a majestic and ferocious momentum as it slammed into the fleeing monster.

BOOM!

A blinding light erupted in that instant, dispelling the blood-red color of the firmament and illuminating the entire sky.

More than ten seconds later, a figure wreathed in searing lightning fell from the sky.

With a thunderous crash, it smashed a huge crater into the ground.

Carrying tens of millions of volts of electricity and a temperature of over ten thousand degrees Celsius, the impact instantly blasted a crater more than ten meters deep—or rather, a pool of high-temperature molten rock.

Under the ravages of the extreme heat and powerful current, countless rocks were instantly vaporized.

A few seconds later, the sharp roar of lightning tearing through the air finally arrived.

Pei Ze slowly descended from the air, his body having returned to its normal state. He was utterly spotless, as if the fierce battle had been nothing more than a casual game.

Looking at the monster lying motionless on the ground, already on the verge of death, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"The Power of Rules is as formidable as I expected."

This was, in fact, the first time Pei Ze had ever used the Power of Rules in combat.

Although he had long anticipated the might of the Power of Rules, witnessing it firsthand was still a pleasant surprise.

A creature as strong as a level five divine being was instantly defeated by the Power of Rules.

Pei Ze even felt that using the Power of Rules against this divine creature was a bit of a waste.

Even the Power of Rules from before its ’upgrade’ would have been more than enough to defeat this divine creature.

But regardless, his goal of capturing the divine creature was finally achieved.

With a flicker of his will, the monster on the ground floated into the air. Then, man and beast flew off into the distance.

The prey was in his hands. Next was to find a place to extract its blood, refine it, and allow Wuyu to evolve to level five.

With a level-five Wuyu to help him, he would have another layer of security for the upcoming blood battle.