Mage Manual
Chapter 673 - 532: You Are Lying

Chapter 673: Chapter 532: You Are Lying

Although the wait had been long, it was worth it.

As the silver dragon blood gradually replaced her mundane blood, Silver Lamp vividly felt her body energized in an unprecedented ’leap’, and her soul grew increasingly ’fervent’—a vitality she had never experienced before, having been frail since childhood.

The relationship between soul and body has always been interactive. Regular mages, even if they don’t exercise physically, will find their physical condition improving as long as they continually refine their souls in the Void Realm. A powerful soul naturally creates a robust body.

Conversely, a strong body can also nourish the soul.

The relationship between body and soul isn’t like a floating boat and its passengers, but rather like the sea and the sky—complementing each other, reflecting each other, consciousness merely being the ripples produced when they embrace.

In the realm of Magic, cultivating the body ranks first among the Weak Faction. The dragon blood cultivation system is the pinnacle of the Gray Fox Weak Mages’ achievements.

The Weak Faction has two paths, one being ’Mecha ’, which involves restructuring one’s own body with minerals, machinery, and related Technique Spirits such as the Diamond body, Oak trunk, or Mechanical Nemesis.

This path is excruciatingly painful, not just physically cruel but also a torment to the spirit—those who haven’t lost their flesh cannot imagine how crucial a complete body is to one’s personality. Some mages who lost the Great Skill transformed themselves into pure mechanical beings to dodge the "Senluo grasp", and though they managed to avoid it, they invariably developed severe mental defects, hating living beings more than the Senluo creatures themselves, and their Magic Realm regressed. These Weak Mages are neither alive nor dead, decaying like a stench in the mud.

However, the Weak Faction isn’t without its advantages; first, their defensive capabilities are astonishing, and they have basic sustenance abilities. Stone, dirt, electric currents, sunlight, and wind can all serve as their food, so there are many Weak Mages in Senluo, like those in the Senluo Holy Temple, who can live on eating rocks, and Silver Lamp has also consumed in the Silent Spiral.

Undoubtedly, if it were a society abundant in resources, normal people would absolutely not cultivate in the Weak Faction, a fact even those from Senluo who have never been to other nations could guess. The Gray Fox Era was undoubtedly a period with ample resources, logically, the Weak Faction should have been at the bottom of the contempt chain, unheeded by all.

Yet, in the Gray Fox Era, there was the ’Mist White Thought’ Great Skill, a follower of the Fire Cat Era’s ’Fangyuan Cicada’ Great Skill. Fangyuan Cicada’s ideal was Eternal Life, and Mist White Thought’s was not only to live forever but also to live passionately, proudly pursuing one’s ideals. From this, it’s clear why Mist White Thought Great Skill became one of the victors: its ideals did not conflict with those of most other Great Skills; they even complemented each other.

Because of the existence of Mist White Thought Great Skill, the Weak Faction successfully entered the elegant halls of the Gray Fox, hence creating the second pathway for the Gray Fox Mages within the Weak Faction: Evolution!

Flesh is weak, so it must be replaced with minerals, plants, machinery to navigate the painful reality. But those great beings, Angels, Void Realm Dragons, Abyss Lords, their flesh is anything but weak!

Of course, it’s not about directly replacing mages’ bodies with those of upper beings—that would be no different from the ’Mecha ’ path. If Mecha is about cramming immortality into flesh, then evolution is about bringing the ordinary close to the Legendary—the thought process of Gray Fox Mages was to let the mage’s body evolve on its own, maintaining complete integrity while gradually approximating those great creatures!

So, is there a medium that could stimulate the entire body and change it without affecting the integrity of the body? The answer is obvious—blood.

As long as a mage is infused with compatible high-level blood, it can naturally drive the comprehensive evolution of the body!

But there are no upper beings in reality, and it’s hard to bring the blood of Void Realm creatures out of the Void Realm, so how to obtain high-level blood? This doesn’t stump Gray Fox Mages; the dragon blood cultivation system is the answer, directly purifying the blood, flesh, and souls of lower beings into upper-level blood for a complete blood transfusion for the user!

This is the answer of the era, and also the luxurious full stop. This system didn’t come from nothing; it was built by Gray Fox Mages who stored hundreds of Miracles in the Void Realm in advance. When someone uses the key to activate the dragon blood cultivation system, these Miracles will automatically activate to serve the user.

Moreover, these Miracles are all at least of the Holy Sanctuary Level.

Silver Lamp doesn’t know how many Miracles are still sealed in the Void Realm, nor how many Holy Sanctuary Legendary beings have spent countless days and nights perfecting this system, just to pursue the ideals of the Mist White Thought Great Skill. What she sees is a Miracle feast spanning hundreds of years, and what she hears is the last Echo of that beautiful era.

"Task progress is now 90% complete; you may move freely, the remaining 10% will be managed by the subsystem ’Blood Seed’, continuing until the last drop of dragon blood is extracted."

"This service has concluded smoothly; if you have any suggestions for the dragon blood cultivation system, please feel free to email them to The Blood of Immortals Research Institute; Parace · Blood Saint · Mist White Thought is looking forward to your valuable feedback."

Double surname?

Silver Lamp took a closer look at the name of the system’s creator. In Senluo, there has never been a tradition of middle names. Names are followed by a surname, which is also the name of the Great Skill, like she used to be surnamed Dust Tribulation Fire.

It seems there was no Great Skill called Blood Saint in the Gray Fox Era...

Swoosh.

The moment she heard the piercing sound, Silver Lamp immediately turned her head aside, but the gust from the flying stone still grazed her tender cheek, leaving a mark and causing silver blood to trickle.

"Your blood isn’t red."

"The word ’you’ echoed while still twenty steps away, but by ’red,’ it was already at arm’s length, followed by a final syllable and the piercing roar of thunder.

And with it, a shock wave engulfed in white fog!

This was a supersonic strike!

Even though Silver Lamp had raised the Defense Miracle ’Empty Sky Shield’ at her fastest speed, it simply couldn’t mitigate any damage! Fortunately, having been enhanced by silver dragon blood, even without the aid of Technique Spirit, her body reacted much faster than before, allowing her to shift the blow away from her heart to only pierce her shoulder!

Miracle·Flame Stream!

Silver Lamp turned into a pool of flames and swiftly moved back several dozen steps, but she had to revert to human form after three seconds, her skin too hot, momentarily unable to use ’Flame Stream’ a second time. However, her injury also recovered, her shoulder wound plugged and healed by the silver blood.

She wasn’t adept at running or direct defense, ordinarily, the Holy Sanctuary could have compensated for this weakness, but the Illusion Mirror Dragon Secret Poison had left her soul extremely fragile, three months ago in the Void Realm, she experienced her first Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon Harmony Prohibition ritual and hadn’t recovered since, estimating another instance was needed to construct her Holy Sanctuary.

This was one of the reasons why Silver Lamp had decisively fled: without Holy Sanctuary, she must rely on the shelter of either the Divine Lord’s Holy Temple or the Four Pillars God Sect. But now as she neared becoming a Holy Sanctuary Mage, she no longer needed the power to mask her frailty, and with the soul-strengthening silver dragon blood, she could confidently undergo the Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon Harmony Prohibition ritual.

As expected, the Divine Lord would never allow us to dream beautifully..." Silver Lamp saw the appearance of the attacker, raising her eyebrow, "After losing the Great Skill, have Ya Sha Jin Believers no longer satisfied with punishing the wicked, and now must slaughter every living person for your pleasure?"

Black Crow stood beside the campfire, the blazing fire light licking his grim mask.

"First, you don’t look like a good person."

"What if I am?"

"Second, as long as I haven’t heard your defense, even if you die, you die as a wicked individual." Black Crow spoke indifferently, "So, please stop this ritual immediately, my friends are in great agony, and nightfall is drawing near."

Silver Lamp shook her head, "I can’t."

"Why not?"

"This isn’t my power, but a legacy of the Gray Fox Era. Once activated, everyone in the camp will be drained dry, until they perish." Silver Lamp said, "I deeply apologize for what your friends are enduring. The only consolation is that such a death should be painless; just like falling asleep. By the way, why aren’t you affected?"

Black Crow: "You’re lying."

Silver Lamp: "I am not—"

"This is indeed a legacy of the Gray Fox Era, and truly cannot be stopped, until everyone is lost," Black Crow said. "But you saying you deeply apologize, that’s a lie. You have no remorse, I’ve seen many like you. The biggest difference between a Good Crow and an Evil Crow is how easily they apologize. Because Good Crows apologize with the weight of their conscience, whereas you have none, your apologies are as meaningless as a fart, all I can smell is rot."

"And, the essence being extracted from these victims, that’s the silver substance, right?" Black Crow stared at the scars on Silver Lamp’s face, "Silver blood, I’ve never seen it before."

"You are the beneficiary of the ritual, just by killing you, this ritual will have to end."

Silver Lamp shook her head, "Do you have evidence that points to me being the bad guy? I only accidentally activated this device, I didn’t expect this outcome, I don’t want to be the beneficiary, you shouldn’t harm an innocent person just to save others, right?"

Black Crow suddenly laughed, "In the old Ya Sha Jin Sect, this question was a topic of our weekly discussions: ’Encountering someone who seems evil but with no evidence of their wrongdoing, do we let them go or execute them?’"

"There are radicals, who believe in killing without mistake rather than letting go; there are conservatives, who advocate for imprisonment until things are clear. My Master was a centrist, advocating for breaking the limbs of the target, and if it turns out they were innocent, then reattach them and apologize with compensation."

"And my opinion is—" Black Crow leaned slightly forward, "If I am wrong, I am willing to suffer a thousandfold, ten thousandfold, a billionfold of pain in Hell, just wait for me there full of hatred, I have long looked forward to this."

"Only when the Crows are extinguished and Hell is full, will it be my turn to suffer in Hell."

"But before that—"

"My task is to send you to Hell!"