Mo Fan at his best – Versatile Mage

Mo Fan stared at the Little Loach Pendant in surprise, then quickly went in to observe the world inside the Little Loach Pendant after a few seconds.

The Nether River formed with the Underground Holy Spring was flowing as quietly as usual. Lots of Soul Remnants were floating on it, but now the strange lotus was among them. It was emitting rings of glowing ripples across the surface of the river.

“What the heck is going on?” Mo Fan’s thoughts were full of question marks. He could not understand why the Little Loach Pendant had placed the Eternal Lotus in the Nether River.

However, a few moments later, Mo Fan discovered that one of the petals on the Eternal Lotus had begun to wilt!

The flower was wilting; the tender leaves first turned yellow, before gradually turning black as it fully wilted!

The second petal started to wilt, following the first.

The process was quite time consuming, but Mo Fan stared at the wilting petals with his full attention. He was worried that the petals would grow back again. Mo Fan did try to burn the flower with fire when he was walking, but the flower soon recovered, and looked even livelier than before.

After observing the flower for a while, the fourth petal on the flower had wilted, but there was no sign of the wilted petals coming back to life! The flower was dying!

“Nice job!”

Mo Fan was overjoyed. It turned out that the Nether River was the lotus’ nemesis. Speaking of which, how poisonous exactly was the water in the Nether River, that even the unkillable lotus could not withstand it?

As the Little Loach crazily drank in the energy of the lotus, Mo Fan shockingly discovered that the space in the Pendant suddenly grew a lot more spacious. Even the Nether River was wider, with rolling tides. It looked significantly livelier than before!

“A level up?” Mo Fan glanced around the space inside the Little Loach Pendant in disbelief. "Wait no Xiaohou needs this Little Loach PLEASE LISTEN TO ME transfer some of the energy to Xiaohou I don't want it this time pleas"

Ever since Little Loach drank the Underground Holy Spring, it had no longer shown any interest in Servant level or Warrior level Soul Essences, giving them all to Mo Fan to strengthen his Stars. The Pendant, which would initially take in any source of energy to improve itself, now had a high standard. It would only choose the sources that suited its tastes!

Little Loach finally found a food that suited its standards when it discovered the lotus. It had been trembling in excitement ever since it had detected the presence of the lotus.

Mo Fan did not really have high expectations when he gave the lotus to the Little Loach Pendant. After all, the Pendant had stopped growing after evolving into a top tier Magic Tool, so Mo Fan’s cultivation speed had remained the same for quite some time. It was not as efficient as it used to be since he now had six Elements. His cultivation would only improve rapidly when he used the Three Step Tower.

For a long time, Mo Fan was hoping that the Little Loach Pendant could evolve further, but it lacked appetite even when he fed it a Warrior level Soul Essence worth over twenty million RMB. What else could Mo Fan feed it?

The Little Loach Pendant finally found a food that it was interested in. It simply gulped down the strange lotus with a single bite.

On top of that, it finally leveled up, as he hoped!

Damn it, how many years had it been since its last level up? Mo Fan almost burst into tears when he saw the glowing pendant, as it felt like his effort in nurturing Little Loach over the years had finally paid off!

However, the feedback from the Little Loach Pendant was not directly flowing into Mo Fan this time.

The instant the Eternal Lotus was truly on the verge of death, the entire hall suddenly stirred with a strange resonance. The runes on the white jade pillars lit up one after another, and the air in the palace tomb began to tremble slightly. Countless tiny currents of air that had originally been drifting through the hall without direction suddenly became restless, as if they had sensed a suitable vessel.

Mo Fan immediately lifted his head.

Not far away, Zhang Xiaohou was standing there. The wind around him had somehow become unusually active.

At first it was only a few strands brushing past his clothes.

Then they began to circle him.

Then the currents grew faster and faster, until his hair and clothes were all flung wildly about, even though there was no open passage in the sealed hall.

Zhang Xiaohou himself was stunned for a moment.

“What is going on?”

Mo Fan’s eyes narrowed. He could clearly sense that the mysterious power released after the Eternal Lotus was digested was not entering his own Spiritual World. Instead, it was being drawn toward Zhang Xiaohou!

The small lotus seemed to contain an endless supply of mysterious power. As Little Loach was digesting it, a burst of energy was released into the hall, and Zhang Xiaohou, who had repeatedly used his Wind Element on the lotus and whose aura had already entangled with it, became the one chosen by that power!

Zhang Xiaohou was no amateur either. As soon as he noticed the terrifying energy surging into him, he immediately sat down and entered meditation, not daring to waste a single trace of it.

His Wind Nebula had already reached its limit long ago. What restricted it was precisely the barricade surrounding the Wind Nebula. No matter how hard he cultivated, he could never truly take that final step.

Now, he had finally obtained enough energy to break through the barricade. It could only be done in one go!

The energy provided by the Eternal Lotus was extremely pure, and because it had been filtered through the Little Loach Pendant and then stirred by the ancient aura of the palace tomb, it seemed even more suitable for this kind of breakthrough. The forty nine Stars in Zhang Xiaohou’s Wind Nebula quickly brightened, each one of them becoming restless and vigorous.

It was like even the Stars were tired of being restricted within such a confined space. They were demanding more room!

The forty nine Stars suddenly became Zhang Xiaohou’s vanguards in breaking down the barricade. Cracks were appearing on the thick walls!

Once there were cracks, it was a lot easier to focus on the weak spots and break down the barricade. Zhang Xiaohou held his breath and prepared himself to break down the barricade fiercely when the next wave of energy arrived!

The petals of the lotus on the Nether River fully wilted, implying that Little Loach had sucked away all its life force. The green ripples spread further in the newly spacious world. At the same time, surges of green energy spilled out and flowed into Zhang Xiaohou’s Spiritual World!

“It’s coming, here it comes!”

Zhang Xiaohou immediately directed the energy into his Wind Nebula.

As soon as the energy arrived, the forty nine Stars propelled themselves forward wildly, landing consecutive glows on the barricade surrounding the Nebula. It had already started to expand. The Stars were so vigorous that they were on the verge of exploding, this little Nebula could not satisfy their ambitions!

The cracks on the barricade grew larger. Zhang Xiaohou held his breath as he gathered all his focus, directing the energy to pour into his Nebula like a waterfall. He was determined to destroy the barricade!

Each time he broke through, he would experience overwhelming pain. The feeling of his head exploding was unbearable, yet even under the pain, he could not afford to lose his attention. He continued to direct the destructive energy into his Nebula, adding to the pressure...

“AHHHH!!!” Zhang Xiaohou uttered a deep scream from the depths of his soul due to the pain. His voice echoed in the palace.

Mo Fan was startled when he heard Zhang Xiaohou’s sudden cry, but his expression changed almost immediately.

“He’s breaking through...” Mo Fan said in astonishment.

As a Magician, he would never forget the process of a breakthrough. Even though he had not expected the Eternal Lotus’ power to choose Zhang Xiaohou, it was obvious that Zhang Xiaohou was already in the middle of the process. Mo Fan could even feel the restless energy leaking out from Zhang Xiaohou’s Wind Nebula...

The hall watched Zhang Xiaohou anxiously. He was still standing where he was, yet the air around him had already gone completely chaotic. Fierce currents of wind burst out uncontrollably from his body, lashing the pillars and floor as his energy began to run wild.

A person’s mind and thoughts were linked to their soul. Their soul needed to grow stronger to strengthen the mind and heart, which was the reason why the process of breaking through was incredibly torturous for Magicians. The growth of their soul was never an easy process...

“It looks like he can’t hold it any longer!” Mo Fan frowned.

A breakthrough was not something that would happen on the first attempt. Those who first experienced the pain would immediately give up. The trick was to continue putting your will and mind through the mill, and once you were fully prepared, you would then break through to the Advanced Level. Zhang Xiaohou was clearly forcing it in one go!

Zhang Xiaohou was now at the most important part of the process. The barricade surrounding the Wind Nebula was half destroyed.

The truth was, Zhang Xiaohou had already felt the urge to give up several times during the process. It felt like his soul was going to break into pieces if he decided to hold on even a second more. However, when he thought about the situation he was in, when he recalled how minuscule the humans were in the calamity of undead, when he remembered the civilians using their own lives to clear a path for them, when he thought of Mo Fan walking into the Dark Abyss without hesitation, he immediately clenched his teeth and made up his mind to settle it once and for all!

Advanced Level; once he leveled up to the Advanced Level, his Wind Element would be able to cast the Advanced Spells!

The reason why he followed Mo Fan here was never because he wanted to watch from the side. He did not want to be the one always being protected. He did not want to be the one always lagging behind. If Mo Fan could charge into hell itself, then he, Zhang Xiaohou, could at least break through this goddamn barricade!

Just bear with it a little longer! Even though an Advanced Magician was too insignificant in the huge calamity to make any difference, the stronger he was in the current situation would bring a greater hope to the millions of people in the city!

The wind in the palace hall grew sharper and sharper.

The runes on the pillars lit up even more brilliantly.

The entire hall seemed to be responding to Zhang Xiaohou’s breakthrough.

Break! Break! Break!

Just break, you goddamn barricade!