Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 72 The Four Great Seals (Please read on, please vote, please recommend)

So far, Li Xiuwei has practiced so many bloodline breathing techniques and has not experienced any so-called qi deviation or demonic possession.

If there were any signs of him going astray in his cultivation, he would immediately stop practicing. Everything is normal now, which should be a hidden function of the proficiency panel.

Li Wei plans to master all the seals on this book, "The Exorcism Manual," before giving it to a descendant of the Winchester or Constantine family.

Of the four seals, the Constantine family possesses the "Seal of Flame Stream" and the "Seal of Hell".

The Flame Stream Seal allows a stream of scorching flames to erupt from the palm. The power of this flame stream depends on two factors. One is the concentration of one's bloodline; the denser the bloodline, the stronger the flame. However, the Constantine family's bloodline has gradually diluted with each generation, resulting in a decline in its power. They attempted to mitigate this through inbreeding until a batch of deformed children were born, at which point the family accepted this unchangeable reality.

Another factor that determines the strength of the flames is the depth of one's cultivation. The higher the level of cultivation, the more "etheric power" that can be mobilized between heaven and earth through the Dharma seals, and the stronger the flames will be.

Essentially, signs are just a stripped-down version of spells.

"Sign of Flame" is actually a low-cost version of the first-circle spell "Burning Hand".

"Hellmark" is a lower-powered version of the first-circle spell "Summon Undead". The latter can directly summon powerful undead from another dimension to serve one's own purposes, while the former can only revive corpses on existing bodies for one's own use. Such summoned creatures are also known as "living dead". Their combat power depends on the strength of the corpse in life, but their strength is definitely lower than in life. However, they are very good as cannon fodder.

The Winchester family's "Guardian Mark" is a watered-down version of the first-circle spell "Shield," which can create a protective force field around the body, providing strong resistance to physical attacks and also blocking attacks from creatures like evil spirits.

The last one, the "Dragon's Might Seal," is the Winchester family's offensive seal. It is said that it requires the blood of dragons as a casting material to be used, whether they are pure-blooded dragons, sub-dragons, or even hybrids. The purer the bloodline, the greater the power. However, the Winchester family usually uses the blood of earth dragons, which are not even considered hybrids, and to Levi's astonishment, this stuff can actually be used with difficulty.

Based on this, the Winchester family concluded that the Earth Dragon might be a descendant of some hybrid dragons and mortal creatures born a long, long time ago.

Earth dragon blood itself isn't particularly precious, and its production volume is much greater than that of ambergris, so Li Wei isn't worried about not having it.

The Dragon's Mark is a mental attack that can intimidate the enemy's mind and even directly attack the physical form of illusory creatures like evil spirits! It is the Winchester family's trump card, which is why their family is also known as the "Exorcist Family".

Of the four major families, apart from the Constantine family, each has its own specialty: evil spirits, monsters, vampires. The Constantine family is more versatile and can get involved in everything.

"Flame Stream, Hell, Guardian, Dragon's Might."

"Which one should I learn first?" Li Wei muttered to himself.

"Forget it, I'll learn them all, and then focus on whichever spellcasting material is easiest to collect."

Li Wei immediately began to study the hand seals and techniques of practice of the Dharma Mudra.

"It's a pity that there's no meditation method in the Exorcism Handbook. If there were, I might be able to try practicing meditation to prepare for becoming a wizard."

Although Li Wei hasn't become a wizard yet, based on the various intelligence he's gathered and the indirect descriptions in the *Exorcism Handbook*, the three cornerstones of wizarding practice are: first, "meditation," which cultivates a wizard's mental strength; second, "ethereal power," the source of a wizard's spellcasting power, while spellcasting materials are the medium for casting spells—not all spells require spellcasting materials; and third, "spell models," the foundation for mastering spells, acting as the "CPU" processor that transforms ethereal power into various spells.

However, Li Wei was already quite satisfied with obtaining the Dharma Seal.

He immediately began to study the hand seals of the Four Great Seals.

From initial awkwardness to eventual slight proficiency, Li Wei gradually came to understand everything.

As time went by, knowledge about the cultivation of the Four Great Seals was constantly imprinted in Li Wei's mind, and he cultivated diligently, neglecting sleep and meals.

It wasn't until hunger roused him that he realized he had unknowingly been engrossed in the practice of Dharma seals for an entire day.

He opened the proficiency panel, and there wasn't a single sign he had yet mastered.

"It seems that's not enough. Perhaps, if I want it to be included in the proficiency panel, I need to use the spellcasting materials to complete a successful spellcasting. Otherwise, no matter how proficient I am in hand seals, it won't be a successful spellcasting."

Li Wei muttered to himself as he stood up and stretched. He planned to have his men collect the necessary materials for casting spells. Of the four major seals, Li Wei believed he could only collect all the materials for the "Flame Flow Seal," which required: sulfur stone powder, charcoal powder made from black dragon wood, and bone ash powder from a century-old tomb.

"Gunpowder in another world with magical properties?" Li Wei found it somewhat amusing. Gunpowder technology had not yet been developed in this world, perhaps because saltpeter had not yet been discovered and refined. For Li Wei to invent explosives as an essential skill for transmigrators was truly a disgrace to transmigrators.

As for the "Dragon's Might Seal," besides the blood of the Earth Dragon Beast, it also requires a substance called "Evil Spirit Dust," which is the powder left behind by evil spirits after their deaths. The problem is that Li Wei has never seen an evil spirit except for the Water Fairy, and even if he did encounter one, whether he could defeat it is another question, making it impossible for him to obtain "Evil Spirit Dust."

"If I can kill evil spirits with my bare hands, what would I need your Dragon's Might Seal for?" Li Wei said, both amused and exasperated.

The "Mark of Hell" requires the "Core of the Dead," something that can only be born from undead creatures. Li Wei had never heard of it before. As for undead creatures, Li Wei did have an idea: the "Snow Demons" that appeared in the Eternal Night Kingdom in the far north. Judging from the descriptions of those wandering knights who managed to return by chance, the Snow Demons were very likely undead creatures.

The "Guardian Seal" that Li Wei, a fan of the armor-stacking style, desires most requires a material called "Radiant Stone." This material, like "Mithril" and "Obsidian," is a product of extraterrestrial meteorites, but it is much rarer than the former two, to the point that Li Wei has never heard of it.

Without the necessary materials for casting spells, Li Wei had to temporarily set aside the hand seals and continue practicing the breathing technique.

Several days later, the materials for the Flame Stream Seal were finally ready, and Li Wei was finally able to attempt to cast the spell.

Thank you for the 100-point reward in 2019...

(End of this chapter)