Full-Time Magister: The Strongest Summoned Beast is Actually Myself

Chapter 60, Intermediate Light Element

Half a day later.

[Light Element: Beginner Level 3 (100%)]

[Advanced options are available; please select the advanced option.]

[1. Independent Breakthrough – Using one's own mental energy to break through cultivation bottlenecks, with a 100% success rate, but taking a long time. Successful advancement results in improved mental energy quality.]

[2. Soul Power Breakthrough – Using high-energy soul power to break through cultivation bottlenecks, 100% success rate, relatively short time required, and star quality improved upon successful advancement.]

[3. Magic Energy Breakthrough – Using high-energy magic to break through cultivation bottlenecks, 100% success rate, relatively short time required, and improved magic energy quality upon successful advancement.]

— Sure enough, it's that familiar "dog system training package" again.

Last time, having no other choice, he chose [Soul Power Breakthrough], and also learned a secret technique that could refine soul power, from which he is still benefiting to this day.

Since this is a choice between three, I might as well choose one I've never experienced before.

"Magic power breakthrough confirmed."

[Importing advanced methods...]

A familiar dizziness washed over him, and a mysterious law was branded into his mind. Then, a brand new secret method for refining high-energy magic was fully formed.

[Sparse high-energy magic detected, can be absorbed!]

"Tsk... It came so easily."

If you're looking for a place with high-energy magic, the Three-Step Tower itself is an energy source with an extremely high concentration. However, the magic inside the tower has been refined and is extremely gentle, so that basically any mage can absorb it.

This secret technique is clearly designed for unrefined, high-energy natural magic, such as magic stone veins, spirit seeds, soul seeds, celestial seeds, and even rare world crystals like the core of the earth!

Although it won't be needed in the short term, it has increased the efficiency of cultivation to a new level.

Another half day passed.

[Congratulations, host! You have successfully advanced!]

[Light Element: Intermediate Tier 1 (1%)]

[Awakening Talent: Light Magic Enhancement (Increases magic output efficiency by 15%, enhances magic quality, and increases the intensity of light magic)]

Chen Hao opened his eyes, a faint golden glint appearing in them.

The momentary tranquility had barely ended when the heavy breathing of cattle and horses filled the air.

……

Meanwhile, the bull and horse beasts were finally entering a critical moment.

[Summoned Beast: Bull-Horse Beast]

[Life Level: Early Stage Servant (Can be upgraded)]

Please select one of the following advanced options:

[1. Autonomous Advancement - Success rate 40%. Successful advancement guarantees the awakening of the Blood Beast Physique and control over the power of Blood Runes.]

[2. Soul Fusion Breakthrough - Success rate 40%~100%, the quality of the soul determines the success rate and the content of talent awakening.]

[3. Advanced Spiritual Material-Assisted Breakthrough - Success Rate 40%~100%. Success guarantees the awakening of a spiritual talent. The effect depends on the quality of the spirit stone.]

[4. Demonic Courage Breakthrough - Success rate 40%~100%. Success will definitely awaken a change in battle aura attributes. The attributes and strength depend on the quality of the demonic courage.]

"Damn, with this success rate... what's the difference between this and gambling with your life?"

Chen Hao smiled helplessly. Sure enough, the success rate was pitifully low. The core problem was that the bull-horse beast's mental strength was too weak.

The four options were not much different from when he advanced himself, except for the reward for [Autonomous Advancement], which was probably due to the different races.

He had previously chosen option 1 and option 4 twice, but this time, his focus was on option 2, Soul Fusion Breakthrough.

"I just happened to acquire a decent spirit essence during this assessment. Consider it... spending five million to buy a system secret technique."

In an instant, another mysterious method flooded his mind. This time it was much simpler. He took out the essence of the enraged boar and bear, and used a secret technique to mobilize the summoning star particles and magical energy to form a magic array in the void.

A moment later, the essence of the enraged boar and bear was completely decomposed, transforming into a stream of pure energy that flowed into the body of the bull and horse beast.

After completing all this, he smiled, closed his eyes, and entered a meditative state again, waiting to see what fate awaited the beasts.

The ox-horse beast lay prostrate on the ground, its dark brown skin now glowing with a strange red light. This was the essence of its soul power permeating its core, attempting to reshape its life essence. [Estimated breakthrough time: 3 hours.]

Three hours is but a moment for Chen Hao, but for the beasts at this moment, it is an extremely painful baptism.

It remained curled up for a full hour, its hooves twitching and its entire body trembling violently, as if its soul were being ripped out.

Then, the space suddenly trembled slightly.

Bang! !

An indescribable heavy aura suddenly erupted from the beast's body, and it abruptly opened its eyes, which shone like lightning as it stared ahead.

A thick aura of blood gushed from its pores, gradually coalescing into a blurry phantom—a projection of some kind of ferocious beast ancestor, enormous, blurry, with three eyes and four hooves, a horse's body and a human body, holding a trident, and covered with the blood patterns of countless beasts on its back, as if it came from the ancient primordial era!

A system notification then rang out:

[Congratulations, host! You have successfully advanced!]

[Summoned Beast: Bull-Horse Beast]

[Health Level: Early Stage of Warrior Level]

[Awakened Bloodline Talents: Beast Physique, Bloodthirsty Battle Qi]

"General-level, successful."

There was little surprise in Chen Hao's eyes, but rather a sense of calm as if it were the most natural thing in the world. With the help of the system and such a good environment, it would be strange if he failed.

"I never expected this guy's bloodline to be so powerful, but it must be incredibly diluted, a true bastard among bastards," Chen Hao thought to himself.

He shook his head, ignoring it and focusing on his own cultivation. Wasting even a second of the Three-Step Tower's time was a heinous crime.

In the blink of an eye, six days have passed.

There are less than three hours left until the seven-day deadline.

It was pretty much as Chen Hao had predicted.

[Intermediate Level 2 Summoning (10%)]

[Light-type Intermediate Level 1 (88%)]

[Health Level: Late Warrior Level (5%)]

However, his Light Element hasn't reached the second level of the intermediate stage yet, but it's not far off. He estimates he'll reach it during the summer vacation, so he's prioritizing his Life Element.

In the last three hours, try to see if you can make it to the third floor.

He exhaled a breath of turbid air, his spiritual power, like silk and sword, wrapped around himself layer by layer. At the same time, a faint wisp of Blue Star Battle Qi also quietly circulated to prevent his spirit from collapsing under high pressure.

Footsteps landed, first step, second step...

Starting from the third stage, a sudden change occurs.

boom--! !

A mental pressure several times greater than that of the second level suddenly descended, as if the will of the entire Three-Step Tower was pressing down on his mind!

In that instant, Chen Hao's vision went almost black, his ears rang, and his consciousness seemed to be pulled into a realm of extreme cold and heat, intertwined with excruciating pain—it was not an illusion, but the backlash of the elemental source on his spiritual power!
He forcefully stabilized his consciousness, his mental strength acting as a sturdy shield against the oppression, his fighting spirit burning wildly within his body to protect his mind.

He gritted his teeth and stepped onto the fifth step, the seventh step... each step felt like crossing a precipice.

At the eleventh stage, blood was seeping from the corners of his eyes, and his sea of ​​consciousness was roaring like thunder!

[Currently under extreme mental pressure, the optimal solution has been provided.]

Awesome!!! Damn system, I love you!!
Chen Hao never expected that his unintentional action would trigger the system again, and a secret technique for guarding the mind would flood into his mind.

As the saying goes, the greatest truths are the simplest. The secret techniques provided by the system are all geared towards the highest efficiency. This secret technique is to allow one's mental energy to form an extremely contracted structure, minimizing mental energy loss to the greatest extent.

At this moment, Chen Hao finally stepped onto the last step and ascended to the third level!
—The element of light, like a thousand swords piercing the heart, is dense to the extreme!

— Dimensional power flows like dozens of spatial rifts, sometimes tearing apart the soul, sometimes expanding the mind!
At the same time, the stars in the spiritual sea also frantically absorbed and exhaled this energy that had surged a thousandfold.

Awesome! I can still try it out in the last two hours. Next time I'll be on the third floor or higher.

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(End of this chapter)