Nidhogg said, "This is because magic plants lack complex thoughts and powerful mobility. As a result, even the prophetic abilities of higher-level magic plants suffer from this flaw."
The thirty-one bloodlines within Nidhogg began to stir. Bloodline School wizards had a method for dealing with prophetic magic plants against Botany wizards: using a great number of bloodlines to forcibly simulate a state of chaos. The spiritual natures of more than thirty bloodlines were enough to plunge even a Divination School wizard into confusion, let alone a magic plant that merely possessed prophetic abilities.
Unless that outsider wizard had mastered some profound First-Ring Botany magic capable of overcoming this problem, doing this would completely block the other party's ability to interfere with his spider intuition.
After finishing all this, Nidhogg quickly moved his eight legs and headed toward the direction from which another tremor had come.
At the same time, on the other side of Toxic Valley, Locke remained in Poison Lake. The third bloodline within him—the True Dragon Bloodline—had also reached the Vaporization Stage of the First Ring.
However, after reaching the First-Ring Vaporization Stage, it seemed that the toxins accumulated in Toxic Valley over decades were no longer sufficient. The process of tempering his body with poison suddenly came to a halt.
Locke's body had completely recovered. With a slight movement of his mind, a golden dragon scale appeared on the back of his left hand. Profound runes covered the golden scale.
They were the runes of Dragon-Language Magic.
"The gains from entering the secret realm this time have been enormous," Locke said. "Toxic Valley completely raised the levels of three bloodlines within me. Although it seemed that raising the True Dragon Bloodline required tremendous energy for every bit of progress, and the process was stopped halfway, accomplishing this