Chapter 273 Conditions for Breaking Through Level 4
Chapter 273
Level 4 creatures, compared to level 3, represent a qualitative leap.
In the endless plane system, the wizarding world's division of civilization levels can clearly reflect this point.
A plane without the birth of fourth-level life.
No matter how many level three peak individuals exist within it, it is still just the most common "resource plane".
Only the appearance of a fourth-level being can make this plane leap from the resource layer to the "primary civilization plane".
This rule applies not only to external judgment, but also within the wizarding world.
In the wizard civilization system, the only ones who truly have the right to speak and are called the "leadership class" are those who have reached level four, that is, the "Morning Star Wizards".
Only Morning Star Wizards are eligible to be invited by the "Wizards Council" to become members.
From that moment on, they had the right to participate in the internal affairs of the wizard civilization and the decision-making of foreign expeditions, and had supreme authority to issue decrees, guide development, and lead wars.
Therefore, crossing the "chasm" of the fourth level and being promoted to a Morning Star Wizard is the lifelong dream of all third-level wizards.
Not to mention the leaps in strength, lifespan, life form, etc.
The identity, resources, authority and privileges granted by the "Wizard Council" alone are enough to drive any third-level wizard crazy.
However, reaching this peak is equally difficult.
Take the "Furnace Stone" as an example. It is one of the four major furnaces in the southern part of the wizarding world, and its influence covers a vast area.
But even so, there are only a few hundred people under his command who have truly reached the realm of Morning Star.
Moreover, a considerable number of them are only nominally affiliated, and there are only a few Morning Star Wizards who are truly trained by Furnace Stone himself.
Even those powerful Morning Star wizards who possess the "Constellation Title" cannot guarantee that their subordinates or disciples will be able to break through to the Morning Star.
This is true for Ophiuchus, Aquila, and Sirius.
Only "Hercules" had a Morning Star disciple who successfully ascended, Green.
But even so, this honor should be attributed more to Green's own talent rather than Hercules' training.
After all, if it were someone with average aptitude, even if he followed Hercules to practice, he would probably be unable to escape the fate of stopping at the third level.
The difficulty of being promoted from a third-level great wizard to a fourth-level Morning Star Wizard is all-round and multi-layered, and it is almost a complete reshaping of the life level.
The most fundamental and difficult barrier is the violation of "rules".
Since becoming an official wizard, a wizard has been following the research path of his choice, constantly studying, experimenting, and evolving to build his own witchcraft system.
Take the most typical elemental wizard as an example.
A wizard who studies fire and has focused on the refining and manipulation of fire elements since level one.
As the level of cultivation progresses, the power of the flame also increases layer by layer, evolving from ordinary flame to will-o'-the-wisp, ice flame and even void fire.
When he reaches the pinnacle of the third-level great wizard, if he wants to enter the Morning Star level, he must look back on his own research accumulation of decades or even hundreds of years to summarize the prototype of the "Fire Rule".
Only by touching the origin of "rules" can one be qualified to take the first step towards level four.
It is worth mentioning that the promotion methods and required conditions for wizards of different categories are completely different.
For example:
Elemental Wizard: Must build up the cognition of rules based on experiments and knowledge, which is extremely difficult because it is to extract "existence" from "nothingness".
Bloodline Wizard: You can use the "fragments of rules" contained in your blood to refine and "extract the essence" from the existing rules, which seems to be much easier.
But the advantage of a bloodline wizard has a fatal prerequisite: the bloodline itself must have the "potential" to be promoted to the fourth level.
If it is just an ordinary bloodline of the third level, even if one has extraordinary means, he is unable to deduce higher rules, and his bottleneck is even more rigid than that of an elemental wizard.
Since the bloodline cannot evolve, the wizard’s path stops at level three.
As for Lin En, he is neither an elemental wizard nor a blood wizard, but has taken the more rare path of a "natural wizard".
From a classification perspective, natural wizards are unique in that they neither rely entirely on the evolution of elements nor on the inheritance of blood.
But in terms of promotion mechanism, natural wizards are closer to bloodline wizards.
Bloodline wizards rely on the fragments of rules in their bodies to "awaken";
Natural wizards, on the other hand, need to turn their attention to the extraordinary plants they have nurtured.
It is these plants that serve as the bridge for natural wizards to communicate with the natural world, and are also the key for them to reach the "rule level".
However, although the way natural wizards break through is somewhat similar to that of bloodline wizards, the two are fundamentally different.
Bloodline wizards rely on the fragments of rules contained in their own blood to refine and sublimate.
Natural wizards, on the other hand, place their hopes on the contracted extraordinary plants.
If the extraordinary plant contracted by the nature wizard has the potential to be promoted to the fourth level, it can be pushed to a qualitative change by continuously investing rare resources.
During the transformation of extraordinary plants, natural wizards can comprehend the origin of rules from the growth and sublimation of plants, and take the opportunity to step into the realm of Morning Star.
This is the most ideal advancement path for natural wizards.
But if the extraordinary plant talent of the contract is limited, and its highest level stops at the level of a third-level great wizard, then this road has almost come to an end.
Even so, the nature wizards are not completely hopeless.
Unlike bloodline wizards, the talents of plants will not lock down their path of practice.
They can still choose to switch to other systems, such as the most widespread elemental witchcraft school.
However, such a "change of route" means starting all over again.
Compared to their peers who have been practicing along a single path since their official wizard days, the probability of a change-up practitioner breaking through to become a Morning Star Wizard is extremely small.
…
In a secret room filled with books, scrolls and experimental instruments, Lin En was writing furiously at his desk, deducing his path to becoming a fourth-level Morning Star Wizard.
His pen tip moved like the wind, the ink was not yet dry, but his eyes became more profound.
"Evgrid's essence has indeed not yet truly entered the fourth level, but her state is already far beyond the ordinary third level peak..." Lin En whispered.
"Although she has not yet transformed into a fourth-level extraordinary plant, she can no longer be considered a third-level creature due to the influence of that plane expedition."
This is definitely good and exciting news for Lynn.
If you want to continue on the path of a natural wizard, the most feasible options at the moment are:
Invest more resources that suit Ivgrid's 'taste' and guide him to complete his transformation.
As long as Ifgrid reaches level four, Lin En can take advantage of the resonance of rules emitted during her transformation and be promoted to Morning Star.
"Natural witchcraft is a unique path... I will never give it up until I have no other choice."
Lin En knew very well that this path was not something that an ordinary wizard discovered by chance, but a great system built on the corpse of a great god.
In the genealogy of the wizarding world, the so-called "Lord God" is equivalent to the highest level of the Shining Moon wizard.
"As long as I can thoroughly eat the cake of the natural witchcraft system... I may even be able to touch the realm of the 'Lord God'!"
At this moment, there was a fiery light flashing in Lynn's eyes.
What's more, after a series of adventures and expeditions, he now holds the Spirit of the Blue Sky in his hands: a rare treasure that is very likely a fragment of the divinity of the "Goddess of Nature".
Such a precious resource is of great importance to every natural wizard.
Now that these treasures have fallen into Lin En's hands, even if he has the ability to switch to other systems, there is no reason for him to give up natural witchcraft easily.
"In fact, if I didn't have the resources to feed Ivgrid, it would be easiest for me to switch to elemental wizard and rely on my talent to break through..."
"Continue on the path of a natural wizard, the pros and cons of moving forward..."
Lin En's eyes were burning as he quietly pondered his own strengths and weaknesses.
In the wizard system, the first-level wizard to the third-level great wizard belongs to the formal wizard stage. Every breakthrough depends on three key factors:
A breakthrough potion, a permanent witchcraft template, and an Advanced Meditation Method that is highly compatible with your own path.
Once one enters the fourth-level Morning Star Wizard, it means a true leap in essence.
At this time, the role of "Advanced Meditation Method" will be greatly weakened, and its value is only reflected in the word "inspiration", and it is no longer an indispensable standard answer.
Because every Morning Star Wizard walks a unique path that no one has ever walked before.
At this moment, there are only two core factors that Lin En needs to consider:
One is a “breakthrough potion” or substitute that can ignite the spiritual fire at a critical moment;
The second is the permanent witchcraft template belonging to its own system.
These two items are still indispensable in any system of wizard breakthrough.
The reason why Lin En understood this so thoroughly was because he had the complete memory of the Morning Star Wizard, the Spirit Eye Wizard.
The Spirit Eye Wizard back then was not a nature or bloodline wizard, but a spiritual wizard similar to the elemental school.
During his journey to the Morning Star, meditation had little effect.
It’s not that he didn’t use ordinary potions, but he used a rare spiritual crystal treasure instead of the traditional breakthrough potion.
As for the permanent witchcraft template, it cannot be purchased on the market or taught by others.
Instead, at the moment when the Spirit Eye Wizard touches the rules and completes sublimation, a "unique mark of witchcraft" is actively imprinted in the depths of his consciousness.
This is the most essential sign of breaking through level 4:
A unique and permanent witchcraft mark that belongs to you alone.
Lynn's eyes were burning and his thoughts were surging like the tide.
"If this is true... then I have now sorted out the major difficulties in breaking through the Morning Star Wizard."
He whispered to himself, with a sense of relief in his voice:
"Meditation won't hold us back, so we can put it aside for now. As for the potion to increase mental strength, I have taken out a batch of Level 4 treasures from the Landscape Treasury, which are enough to deal with it. As for the permanent witchcraft template... we just need to wait for the moment of breakthrough and sublimation, and it will naturally condense in the collision of rules."
Once his thoughts were sorted out, Lin En suddenly felt that the road ahead became clear.
Although there are still many details and variables, the overall framework has been stabilized, and there is only one core problem left that truly restricts his breakthrough.
That is:
Can Ivgrid truly step into the threshold of level four from the level of "level three and a half"?
Thinking of this, Lin En stood up and pushed open the heavy stone door of the secret room.
A cool and clear moonlight blew towards him. He stepped out and what came into his sight was a dreamlike silver-white world.
This place is located right above the second bright moon and closer to the other bright moon, so it is always bathed in the flowing moonlight.
The silver light fell like fine sand, rendering the entire surface into an extremely clean picture.
In front of the secret room is a land paved with silver light.
On it, there stand two giant trees with completely different styles but equally shocking.
One high and one low.
The tallest one reaches straight into the sky, with strong branches and a crown that stretches like a sea of stars, like a pillar between heaven and earth. It is the World Tree that is suppressed and controlled by Lin En.
Although the shorter one is only more than ten meters high, its entire body is crystal clear, and its branches and leaves are emerald green, like a work of art carved by nature. It is the extraordinary plant, Ifgrid, that has been with Lin En ever since.
Lynn walked between the two trees, his eyes moving back and forth between the World Tree and Ifgrid.
"According to my current understanding of the natural wizard system... Level 4 is the real dividing point."
"Before that, even if you are already a level 3 Great Wizard, you can still switch to other paths: elements, bloodline, spirit... there are still many possibilities."
"But once you reach level four... it means you have truly chosen the way of nature wholeheartedly. The extraordinary plants behind you will no longer be just your companions..."
"But... nutrients."
Lin En's eyes were deep and his heart was heavy.
The fourth-level path of a natural wizard is destined to be completely different from other schools.
It is no longer about guiding nature or relying on nature, but about completely integrating nature into oneself.
The moment a Morning Star Wizard steps into the world, the extraordinary plants that have been contracted for many years will be actively absorbed and devoured, becoming a part of the wizard's soul, bloodline, and even the rule structure, and completely integrated into the core of the soul.
This is not abandonment, but a higher level of integration and sublimation.
The growth path of a natural wizard requires two fateful choices.
The first time is when a wizard apprentice is promoted to a formal wizard. Only when he successfully enters the official ranks can the seeds of the extraordinary plants truly "sprout".
At this stage, the natural wizard must use his own will to take over the extraordinary plant, making it an extension of the body, isomorphic with the spirit, and transforming it into the "second heart" of the soul and the law.
The second decision was when the third-level great wizard attacked the Morning Star Wizard.
At this moment, the natural wizard must completely devour the extraordinary plant that has already taken over his body, and incorporate its life, will, rules, and even "existence" into himself, so as to complete the final sublimation.
From this point on, there is no turning back.
Nature wizards will be like bloodline wizards, bound to their origins, their destinies intertwined, and they will no longer have any exit mechanism.
If that extraordinary plant does not have the qualifications to break through to level four.
Then, after devouring it, not only will he be unable to be promoted to a Morning Star Wizard, but he will also lose the natural system he has built over many years, which is equivalent to cutting off his own extraordinary foundation with his own hands, and his future will be blocked.
But in response, Lin En just smiled calmly, with a hint of calmness and confidence in his eyes.
"Fortunately, this problem...is not a problem for me."
He whispered softly, his tone full of undisguised confidence.
After saying that, Lin En slowly spread out his hands and stretched them towards the two majestic trees in front of him.
One is the World Tree, with branches like pillars and a crown like clouds. The moonlight flows slowly over it like water, reflecting the vast and tranquil sacred meaning.
One is Ifgrid, crystal clear, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and a faint green light flowing, like the rhythm of the origin of life, refreshing the heart.
The moonlight and the green light each attracted the aura of Lin En's hands, as if responding to his call.
However, in the next moment.
Lin En suddenly turned around, moved his hands sideways in the opposite direction, and flipped 180 degrees, instantly changing the connection object of his palms.
The seemingly inverted movement did not cause any stagnation.
On the contrary, the moonlight that originally led to the World Tree actually flowed towards Ifgrid naturally like a stream of water;
And the green light in Ifgrid's body also flowed smoothly into the World Tree.
It was as if these two trees were originally of the same origin, with the same energy, and there was no essential difference between them at all!
Lin En looked at this scene, and the smile in his eyes became even more intense. A guess in his mind was confirmed.
"Are these two different extraordinary plants?"
He asked and answered his own questions, but his tone was full of confidence:
"No... The difference between Ifgrid and the World Tree is probably much smaller than the difference between humans and monkeys."
"Almost... can be called the same kind."
"Goddess of nature and life... Shantia..."
(End of this chapter)
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