A-grade Ice and Fire Magic! S-grade Talent: Spirit Manipulation! The Possibility of Combining Magic!

In the depths of a forest filled with towering trees, a field of demonic stone mines lay exposed.

A bizarre black mountain stood in the middle of the forest. It was the Demonic Stone Mine.

But at that moment, the area was filled with the hissing of snakes.

Wherever Jiang Yu looked, whether at the towering trees or the deep ravines, he saw countless fiery-red snakes.

The most astonishing thing was that the snakes emerging from the demonic stone mines were dozens of meters long. Some were so huge they could knock over small trees just by brushing past them!

The five A-grade fire-element magic snakes fought among themselves, their roars like thunder.

Jiang Yu didn't care about these savage beasts. He opened a Star Chart!

"Flames of Heaven! Raging Fire Dragon!"

That was an A-grade fire-element spell!

The air around him instantly grew scorching hot. Flames coiled around Jiang Yu, illuminating his five-star insignia.

Forty-nine stars in the Star Chart lit up once more. The spell was complete!

The forest hundreds of meters ahead was engulfed in flames, forming a vast sea of fire.

The flames gathered in midair, slowly taking shape as a gigantic, dark-red fire dragon!

It inhaled, then crashed forward!

Anything beneath that terrifyingly high temperature would be reduced to ashes.

Even the fire-element magic snakes, naturally resistant to flames, were no exception!

The snakes didn't just sit back and wait for death, either.

All the fire-element magic snakes gathered together. The flames around Jiang Yu condensed into a scorching torrent, surging toward them.

The five giant snakes opened their mouths and spat out streams of terrifying flames.

As the streams merged, they formed a blast containing the combined power of every fire-element magic snake!

The fire dragon and the torrent of flames collided violently in midair!

In an instant, a blinding white light engulfed the surroundings.

It was like an earth-shattering explosion!

"Screee!"

Jiang Yu felt the magic he had unleashed drain away.

"Quite a lot of power!"

With the support of a high-grade Spirit Core, his power had tripled. The magic robe increased his talent, and his innate ability gave him another fourfold boost.

He estimated that the fire dragon's magical power was already close to that of a high-grade spell.

The five magic snakes, whose strength was close to the peak of their rank, had been burned to blackened corpses.

Little Tan spread its wings and swooped down, biting into the giant charred remains of the five snakes.

"Gulp, gulp!"

Ash drifted through the sky as the giant blackened corpses crumbled in an instant.

Little Tan quickly moved away, avoiding the gray ash it had stirred up.

It seemed a little disappointed. It had been hoping to eat some roasted snake meat...

Jiang Yu smiled at Little Tan's innocent look and took a small pile of roasted snake meat out of his spatial artifact.

"Hey, I'm not going to eat something roasted with such high-level fire."

He tried to comfort it.

Little Tan immediately accepted the beef ribs. Holding one in its claws, it happily tore into the meat.

[Magic Beasts Killed: 5; Initial Magic Beasts: 96]

"Enough. Let's keep going."

Jiang Yu glanced at the magic beasts on the panel, then continued without hesitation.

[Magic Beasts Killed: Fire Snake, 5... A-grade Talent: Magic Control]

[Magic Beasts Killed: Ten Fire Wolves... C-grade Talent: Minor Poison Resistance...]

"Unless they're magic beasts, even A-grade talent won't appear?"

Jiang Yu shook his head. So the trash mobs didn't give him anything worthwhile.

[A-grade Talent: Elemental Control. Magic Control is also called Fusion.]

[Would you like to spend 1,000 points to fuse the talent?]

"Another chance to fuse? I hope it'll be a better A-grade talent."

Jiang Yu prayed silently.

After all, fusing magic talents didn't necessarily raise their grade. Sometimes, only a small portion of them would improve...

But Jiang Yu had acquired a large number of talents, and there were quite a few trash C-grade talents that could be fused.

[Fusion successful. Acquired S-grade Talent: Magic Spirit Control.]

[S-grade Talent, Magic Spirit Control: Minor mastery of magic control; greatly increases control over stars.]

Jiang Yu was a little confused by the simple description.

"Can the effect really be S-grade? Or do I just not understand it?"

He decided to test it.

Jiang Yu raised his left hand and released a burning ball of flame.

Then he looked toward the spiritual world within him.

A strange realization suddenly dawned on him.

"So that's what it means!"

He released a ray of ice from his right hand, but it didn't dissipate.

The two differently colored stars floated before Jiang Yu's eyes as he considered what he was seeing.

The two stars had actually fused! Fire-element stars and ice-element stars had blended together, forming an entirely new star!

"Magic fusion! So this is what it means to fuse magic! The power is much greater than either original spell!"

Jiang Yu stared at the new star, fascinated.

The star vanished in an instant, leaving no trace.

"There's still a lot to study."

Jiang Yu gave the S-grade talent one last look, then put away the things he had prepared earlier.

This talent had enormous potential!

After finishing his exploration, Jiang Yu headed toward the enormous Demonic Stone Mine.

He had Little Tan transform into its dragon form and used its dragon might to subdue some weaker monsters.

Most of them were rock giants, along with some mountain-crossing rats.

As for the rest...

Of course he had killed them. Otherwise, would Jiang Yu have come all this way for nothing?

Little Tan's dragon might was extremely effective. Even the more intelligent monsters understood what it meant.

Countless flames blazed up into the sky.

Little Tan was the main force.

Although it wasn't the leader of the monsters, its aura alone was enough to kill them all.

Jiang Yu made his way toward the mine and found a place to rest.

The sun slowly set.

He went over to check on the area.

By then, the uneven piles of demonic stones had already been gathered into a small mountain.

The monsters mined much faster than ordinary people.

"Looks like we've got nearly a thousand units."

Jiang Yu estimated the amount.

He couldn't help feeling that demonic stone mining was incredibly profitable!

He had gone through the trouble of wiping them all out, but after killing a thousand, all he had to do now was sit back and collect the stones!

He stored another pile of demonic stones in his spatial artifact.

Of course, it had been a bit of a waste of Jiang Yu's time, but not much effort was required to deal with those monsters.

The monsters who had been mining were ecstatic. They never expected that a powerful master would give them something in return for their work!

The better they worked, the more they could earn.

Several months later.

Jiang Yu looked at a crystal in his hand, its surface shining like a galaxy.

"Each one is worth a few hundred units. This is terrifying."

Sure enough, he had successfully obtained a Star River Crystal.

However, Jiang Yu turned his gaze toward the spiritual world within him.

"The fire- and ice-element stars have already begun to fuse. It won't be long before I can break through to a higher rank."

At that thought, he came out of his meditation.

He pushed open the door and walked outside.

Jiang Yu's room was on the second floor. At that moment, several exceptionally beautiful women were in the guest room.

One wore a purple silk nightgown, with her face framed by flowing hair. Her skin was fair and smooth, and her clothes revealed the elegant curve of her shoulders.

Another woman was tall and slender, with a pair of long legs. She was strikingly beautiful.

Their different styles and temperaments left Jiang Yu dazzled. At the same time, they all looked at him with admiration.

The two women had noticed Jiang Yu's gaze long ago. They didn't seem to mind. Instead, their cheeks flushed faintly...

A delicate-looking girl, towering in height, was also there, speaking excitedly with a girl whose name Jiang Yu didn't recognize.

She had a dazzling, snow-white flag that left Jiang Yu a little stunned.

It was Aitutu.

Sure enough, at this point, he was basically living with Tang Yue, Mu Nujiao, Aitutu, and that unfamiliar girl.

The more he thought about it, the stranger Jiang Yu found it.

He had actually become a playboy...