Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 109 Evil Spirit Invasion! (1st update, 3400 words, please subscribe!)

"What? A snow demon?" Li Wei was slightly surprised.

Earl Silver Mountain nodded and led Li Wei to the prison inside the castle.

Unlike the desolate Black Serpent Fortress, Silver Mountain Fortress's prison held many criminals.

The prison is divided into two levels. The first level is used to imprison criminals among the common people, while the second level is used to imprison knight-level powerhouses, and even some peak knight-level powerhouses.

Li Wei couldn't help but sigh, thankfully he had been careful enough when he was weak, otherwise being imprisoned by Earl Silver Mountain would have been terrible.

As expected of a long-established noble family, the Seven Cavalry of the North are indeed formidable.

Finally, Earl Silver Mountain led Li Wei to the most secluded corner of the second floor.

Unlike other prisons, this cell was constructed entirely of solid, massive stones and encased in iron mesh, making it extremely secure.

With Li Wei's skill level, he could tell at a glance that there was a trace of mithril mixed in with the iron mesh. Although it was very little, it was definitely there.

Inside this cell was a humanoid monster, its clothes tattered, its skin pale blue, and much of its body rotten, with bones exposed.

The humanoid monster was currently clinging to the prison wall, occasionally bumping into the mithril iron bars, which would produce a puff of blue smoke before it retreated.

Li Wei looked closely and saw the monster's face.

That could no longer be called a face; it was more like the rotting zombies in Resident Evil or The Walking Dead, with pale blue bones and teeth protruding from the facial muscles.

The monster's eye sockets were also emitting blue flames similar to those of the two Mo brothers.

This is the Snow Demon, the terrifying undead monster that has gradually appeared in people's mouths, especially among the nobles of the North, over the years!

At first glance, it looks almost like a zombie.

"Has the master discovered anything?" Earl Silver Mountain asked.

"Judging from the clothes these monsters wore when they were alive, they were indeed living people. They wore clothes from the Eternal Night Kingdom. Their source of power should be the Frost Heart within them," Li Wei said.

"That's right, and through my experiments, these monsters are indeed particularly afraid of mithril products. I only infused a small amount of mithril into these iron nets, and they dared not touch them. Once they touched them, their bodies would be burned," said Earl Silver Mountain.

"However, if the mithril content is too low, they will ignore the fear it brings, while the higher the mithril content, the greater the damage it causes to them."

"I once tried to tie a piece of pure mithril to its body, and soon a large hole was burned into its body by the mithril."

"If you attack it with ordinary iron weapons, even if the monster's legs are cut off, it can slowly heal itself by relying on that mysterious power."

Earl Silver Mountain's expression was grave. This kind of monster was beyond reason. Even if the great knights were alright, ordinary mortals would be no match for it.

The opponent neither eats nor drinks, is not afraid of death, and as long as the Frostheart is still in his body, he is practically immortal.

Unless completely crushed into pieces, losing an arm or a leg is generally not a big deal. However, according to some people on the front lines, some powerful snow demons whose entire skeletons were scattered into fragments can slowly heal, but their strength drops drastically after healing.

This is absolutely unreasonable.

Upon hearing this, Li Wei's heart stirred.

"My Demon Shark and Demon Mountain also use the same energy. Does that mean they can also have their severed limbs healed?"

He regained his composure and then said, "What does Your Excellency intend to do next? It seems that the Snow Demon's southward journey is now a foregone conclusion."

Earl Silver Mountain sighed and then said, "Yes, it's too difficult to unite everyone. All I can do now is to strengthen the defenses of Icewind City so that it can protect my people when the Snow Demon comes in the future."

"Fortunately, I have mithril equipment forged by a master craftsman. In the future, elite soldiers and knights will be able to fight against snow demons with this equipment. One against ten will not be a problem. The difficulty lies in the production of mithril."

Li Wei also sighed, "Icewind City is very fortunate to have a leader like the Earl."

After leaving Silver Mountain Fortress, Li Wei thought about the Snow Demon.

Overall, the Snow Fairy isn't very strong; her strength lies in her immortality, but that's nothing compared to my own full set of mithril equipment.

After witnessing the Snow Demon, Li Wei's fear of such unknown beings lessened somewhat. This thing was much weaker than an evil spirit; it was essentially an enhanced version of a zombie, but without the infectiousness of a zombie.

These are all monsters spawned by the demonic tide.

"If I have the chance, I can go to the Eternal Night Kingdom for a trip, firstly to see what's going on there, and secondly to get more Frost Hearts to improve my Hell Seal proficiency."

"Since the materials for the other seals are hard to find, let's grind the levels of the Flame Stream Seal and the Hell Seal to the maximum and see how it goes?"

"With the Demon Shark and the Demon Mountain, plus my own strength, if we are careful, there shouldn't be any real danger in the Eternal Night Kingdom."

Li Wei went to the Shining Tavern to check on his commission results.

Regarding breathing techniques, he acquired a book titled "Flying Fish Breathing Technique" and a book titled "Mountain Monster Breathing Technique".

The Flying Fish Breathing Technique is a rudimentary bloodline breathing technique, a speed-type technique. Judging from the little man pattern, Li Wei believes it can be cultivated to the limit of the fifth rank.

Flying fish are legendary large fish that can roam the ocean and enter the azure sky. It is said that these creatures feed on "clouds".

"Not bad. After cultivating to the limit, it can break the limit of the Siren Breathing Technique."

The current progress of breaking the limit of the Siren Breathing Technique is (1/5). A copy of the Flying Fish Breathing Technique can increase the progress by 2 points.

The "Mountain Monster Breathing Technique" surprised Li Wei a little. It contained a total of thirty different little human figures. Mountain monsters are monsters in some local folk legends, possessing the power to move mountains and the might to overturn the earth.

Similar to the "Human-faced Spider Breathing Technique," the "Mountain Monster Breathing Technique" should be the best among the rudimentary bloodline breathing techniques, which can be cultivated to the sixth level limit.

This is a power-type breathing technique, at the sixth level limit, which can be converted into 3 points of breakthrough progress.

And his progress in breaking the limit of his Giant Rhinoceros Breathing Technique was exactly 3 points short.

"Perfect, the Giant Rhinoceros Breathing Technique is about to break through its limits."

Li Wei was secretly delighted. At his current cultivation speed, it should only take him three months at most to master the Mountain Monster Breathing Technique to its limit.

Li Wei was very satisfied with his progress in breathing techniques.

Finally, a clue has been found regarding the blood of the Ice Ape needed for practicing the Giant Breathing Technique.

The clue came from a wandering knight from the Kingdom of Eternal Night, who went there as a mercenary to fight the Snow Demon.

He heard that in one region of the Eternal Night Kingdom, the natives worshipped a totem called the "Great Ice Ape King".

Li Wei readily paid the bounty to the wandering knight and inquired about the region where the indigenous tribe was located.

"The Kingdom of Eternal Night, the Ice Pillar Islands." Li Wei memorized this place name deeply.

"Now there's another reason to go to the Kingdom of Eternal Night."

"Both the Undead Core and the Ice Ape Blood can only be obtained in the Eternal Night Kingdom."

In the end, only the Dust of the Dead and the Egg of the Planarian remained, and there was still no news.

Planarian eggs, in particular, are incredibly hard to find. Li Wei has been searching for them for so many years without success.

"If all else fails, we'll just have to prepare for a tough time," Li Wei said helplessly.

As for clues about the four major families, there was no progress.

These days, Li Wei found a place to stay in Icewind City.

In just two days, they mastered both the Flying Fish Breathing Technique and the Mountain Monster Breathing Technique.

Li Wei————

Flying Fish Breathing Technique: Level 1 (1/1000)

Mountain Monster Breathing Technique: Level 1 (1/1000)

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The secret medicine needed for the Flying Fish Breathing Technique is a local specialty from the seaside called "Rainy Swallow's Nest".

It is said that these rain swifts like to prey on bigfin fish in the sea, which are small fish that can ride the waves and glide for hundreds of meters. After swallowing them, the rain swifts will digest them in their stomachs and then spit them out, using the digestive matter to make the "rain swift nest".

This is a delicious food, but it is expensive. However, it is not a problem for Li Wei. Some herbal medicine shops in Icewind City sell dried Rain Swallow's Nest.

Therefore, practicing cultivation is easy.

The secret medicine needed for the Mountain Monster Breathing Technique is powder made from the shell of a stone turtle, which is also a common material.

In general, any breathing technique that is not of excellent quality or above is acceptable.

These basic-level remedies are relatively easy to find.

With the secret medicine, once you've mastered the basics, your path to mastering the game will be much faster.

With nothing much going on in his territory for the time being, Li Wei wasn't in a hurry to return and instead stayed in Icewind City.

Every afternoon and evening, Li Wei would set aside some time to go to the Shining Tavern and eavesdrop on the conversations of the patrons.

Hopefully, I can glean useful information from these conversations, such as information about the four major families.

Of course, most of the time, it's all useless stuff.

The topics are always the same: the war in the south, rumors of evil spirits haunting certain areas, and the Wilderness Brotherhood causing trouble again.

This went on for many days.

Li Wei never missed his daily lessons.

Flame Stream, Hellfire, Black Serpent, Blood Whale, Flying Fish, Mountain Monster, Cross Slash...

If you have some spare time, then grind Planarians and Giants for a while.

A month later, Li Wei's flying fish and mountain monster were both at the fourth tier.

After completing his deal with Yinshan today, he went to the tavern to eavesdrop, as usual.

With his advanced vibrational perception, he can hear a lot of useful things.

He has already used this method during this period.

He accidentally "found" a little money in the wilderness, accidentally punished several robbers and "confiscated" their illegal gains, and accidentally learned how many mistresses a certain nobleman kept, including some of the Silver Mountain Earl's scandals.

"Yinshan actually has a thing for handsome men. I knew it, such a handsome guy..." Li Wei said in a gossipy tone.

"Luckily, I was wearing a mask the whole time." Li Wei was also very relieved.

He came to eavesdrop again today.

"I can't stay in Icewind City anytime soon."

"What's wrong?"

"I heard... I heard, but don't tell anyone, I heard that an evil spirit broke into Icewind City and attacked a priest in Icewind Cathedral. That priest... died a horrific death, it looked like he was strangled, his eyeballs popped out."

"How do you know it's an evil spirit? Could it be that a thug is deliberately creating the illusion of an evil spirit committing a crime? This has happened several times recently."

"Impossible. What kind of thug could get into a heavily guarded church? Moreover, the archbishop of Icewind Church is said to have personally taken action. That evil spirit actually tried to possess the archbishop but was severely injured by him. Now that evil spirit has escaped and we don't know who it has possessed. Damn it, that's the most terrifying thing, because once the evil spirit has successfully possessed someone, you can't tell the difference at all if it doesn't act up."

"Is that so? Then I really will have to leave for a while."

Li Wei, who was drinking alone in the other private room, suddenly frowned.

"An evil spirit?"

"They've actually appeared in Icewind City."

With that thought in mind, Li Wei immediately returned to the hotel, packed his luggage, and prepared to leave.

(End of this chapter)