Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 658 - 63: Ascension

"...Destiny, huh?"

Richard looked at the mark on his hand, pondering for a moment as he touched it. But he didn’t dwell on it too much, as he had already figured it out.

No matter what the future holds, the days must continue to pass one by one.

"Ulysses, how do we deal with the Crown of the Ghost King?"

Richard turned back to look at the battlefield they had just left. Due to the sudden events, they hadn’t paid attention to the remains of the Ghost King when they fled.

"Caw, let’s just kill another one."

Ulysses came to, shaking his head slightly.

"The Crown of the Ghost King has a very short existence time; if we go back now, it’s probably already gone."

Hearing this, Richard sighed softly and waved his magic wand. Shortly after, a rift leading to the Material World appeared in front of them.

"Then let’s go back first, and hunt again in soul form."

Ulysses was slightly surprised, "You actually figured it out on your own!?"

During this period, he hadn’t taught Richard how to open a Dimension Rift.

Richard glanced at him, saying blandly, "It’s not that difficult. Watching you do it three times, I should have picked it up if I paid a bit of attention."

"Caw, you’re boasting now. Hurry up and get inside; the commotion from earlier was tremendous, best not invite the Dimension Dominator of the Ghost Soul Dimension here."

Returning to the Secret Realm, their souls detached. After safely storing the items they had acquired, the duo set off again.

Once they switched to a pure soul form, the Ghost Soul Dimension became more amiable. Deprived of the guidance of Life Energy, the ghosts in this dimension treated Richard and Ulysses with mutual respect.

There would be no battles unless provoked.

However, for someone like Richard, not provoking the ghosts was evidently implausible.

[Material: Ghost Crystal]

[Extractable Substance: Death Energy Essence]

[Refining Consumption: 20000 Magic Power]

[Extractable Substance: Soul Essence]

[Refining Consumption: 0.025 spiritual power]

In Richard’s hand, a Ghost Crystal compressed from ghostly bodies glimmered under the purple moonlight of the Ghost Soul Dimension.

"I can even extract Soul Essence from this."

Richard gazed at the information provided by the Miracle Furnace, a hint of pleasant surprise appearing on his face.

Although he wasn’t worried about the Power of Nightmare thanks to his association with Wuni, he felt somewhat overreaching continually turning to Wuni for it, as a mentor.

But he couldn’t possibly take over the Nightmare Farm where Bone was, because after the start of all-out war, all worlds of the Wizard Civilization were unified under the Truth Council’s control, including the Wizard Commerce. Furthermore, the rapidly formed Wizard System had completely overturned the previous wizard market. The new wizards now used mass-produced Magic Equipment from the Alchemy Workshop, with few crafting their own.

This meant that even though the Wizard Commerce still existed, it would go bankrupt due to the abrupt market shift.

The Truth Council, a colossal conglomerate, had already dominated all market spaces.

Of course, this was only temporary. Even a Truth Wizard couldn’t brazenly seize a wizard’s personal belongings without consequence; otherwise, the Wizard Civilization would be no more. What was taken at the start of the war would be returned in full once the war ended — as long as you survived. Also, the coun

After a month of effort, Richard and Ulysses discovered a Level 4 Ghost King. For a Level 4 peak, soon-to-be-Four Rings Wizard and a High-level God, a Level 4 Ghost King was nothing more than a plaything.

In a moment, the Ghost King perished — or more accurately, its sanity dissipated, for ghosts inherently are "dead."

This Ghost King resembled a three-headed dog; with its demise, its body transformed into a palm-sized canine tooth in midair. Richard, who was ready, promptly sealed it with the Sealing Skill, extending its existence, and the duo returned to the Immortal Country.

With materials equipped, all that remained was constructing the ritual site.

Richard designated the plains in the central-west of the Immortal Country as his promotion area. Here, the magic power environment was stable, with no geographical features that might interfere with the ritual.

Richard himself drew a vast magic array with a diameter close to a hundred kilometers on these plains — it was his Promotion Ceremony, and he couldn’t trust anyone else to do it.

Besides, for a World Master, this wasn’t any complicated feat.

After three months, Richard completed the construction of the magic array. From the array base to the magic conduction circuit, and even the nearly countless runes, all were crafted by his own hand.

Upon completing all this, he placed numerous precious materials prepared in advance on the five altars of the magic array. Additionally, he filled out his Life Rule and supplemented his soul with Soul Essence.

"Caw, an awe-inspiring creation indeed."

Ulysses descended from the sky, landing steadily on Richard’s shoulder.

"Are you okay?"

Richard replied while moving his body, "I’m doing alright."

At this moment, he stood at the center of the array, magic power surging through his body, the life’s radiation on him as vibrant as the sun, causing numerous grass to sprout on the land around him.

"Quack, is there anywhere you need my help next?"

"Don’t let anyone approach my array. Also, when I promote, there might be a large phenomenon, focus on controlling public opinion, see if we can increase some fanatics."

"Quack, you’re really getting more and more professional, my Main God."

Ulysses left, and Richard quietly adjusted his body to its optimal state.

Breaking through to become a fifth-level creature is a difficult process, no matter which evolutionary path you choose.

According to Wizard World’s data, if a wizard follows spiritual evolution, when advancing to become a Five Rings Great Wizard, they will once again fall into the Soul Mysterious Realm experienced during promotion to Four Rings, and this time the confusion level will be higher.

There is less data on the physique evolution route, but according to the remaining information, when advancing this route, the creature will face two significant challenges. The first is the shattering and reorganization of the life core, failing this step will lead to the creature’s body collapsing due to life core collapse. Secondly, after reorganizing the life core, facing the backlash of wild instincts from deep within the bloodline. If controlled by this instinct, the wizard will turn into a beast driven by primal lust, and in the endless changes of the life core, the life core will collapse and die.

The path of evolution is always strewn with thorns, and no path is without difficulty.

The sun slowly set on the horizon, Richard stood in the middle of the array, took a deep breath, and silently activated the array.

In the next instant, a blue light began to spread from under Richard’s feet, like a lit fuse extending in all directions. Within a few breaths, the massive array with a diameter of nearly one hundred kilometers was fully activated. At the moment the array was completely activated, the entire world seemed to fall into stagnation.

Then, the wind came.

The massive array with a diameter of one hundred kilometers required an immense amount of energy, even though Richard had inserted over ten million pieces of magic essence into this land, the array still needed external energy to maintain operation.

In the air, a whirlwind of energy was formed, the wandering elements in space attracted by the energy, creating one elemental phenomenon after another.

From outside the array, the sky above the array area seemed to be hosting a fireworks show, various indescribable colors forming surrealistic paintings in the air.

In the center of the array, Richard’s body began to manifest runes. These runes were all spiritual runes constructing the rule body, and at the moment when the rule body fully merged with the body, these runes also merged into the body.

But now, these runes were disappearing one by one, systematically.

The first step to constructing a composite rule body is to dismantle the original rule body.

As the rule body was dismantled, the energy sealed by the rule body was also constantly being released. This massive energy was sufficient to shatter mountains and split seas, but under the effect of the array, they were all dispersed and directed into the energy storage area of the array.

Soon, the rule body was fully dismantled.

Vast spiritual power surged from Richard’s body, constructing a new rule body framework at a dazzling speed. The spiritual power transformed into runes, continuously filling this complex array comparable to ten-ring witchcraft.

Time passed little by little, and the runes built as countless as stars were completed.

At this moment, Richard’s spiritual power was nearly exhausted, the construction of the composite rule body consumed more spiritual power than he estimated.

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Richard took out a bottle of magic potion from his waist pouch, the main ingredient being soul essence, and gulped it down. In the next instant, Richard felt his spirit incredibly refreshed, his previously near-depleted spiritual power now surged back to life as if injected with a stream of clear water.

Richard revitalized his spirit, extracted the two rules embedded in his body, or rather one composite rule from them.

After the life rule was complete, Richard’s composite rule was thoroughly established. Its external manifestation in the material world was an amorphous streamer. Anything illuminated by this streamer would feel a continuous influx of life’s energy.

Inserting this cluster of rules into the rule body, in the next moment, the streamer vanished, and the entire rule body began to operate rapidly as if an engine had been switched on.

Simultaneously, the enormous magic array that Richard spent three months setting up began to operate at full speed as if the final piece of the puzzle had been completed.

The sacrificial array located at the five array eyes of the array was completely activated, and the offerings on the altars began to take effect.

The star core attracted endless starlight on the altar, providing an endless supply of energy to the massive array. The Life Spring and Soul Spring continually supplied Richard with spiritual power and life energy, and the Crown of the Ghost King transformed into a giant three-headed dog, ready to integrate with Richard’s rule body at any moment. Before that, the fruit of the World Tree had already transformed into Evolution Origin, sacrificed to Richard by the sacrificial array.

Boom!

An invisible roar exploded in Richard’s mind.

It was the sound of his life core breaking.

If a level 4 creature is the strongest of a race, then the moment of becoming a level 5 creature is equivalent to opening a branch on the evolution tree.

If Richard succeeded, his bloodline passing down could become a unique physique among humans. In the ancient years to come, perhaps a wizard apprentice may awaken his bloodline and become a prodigy of an era.

But if he failed, his body would shatter. This promotion would be a complete failure.

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