A Fifteen-Year-Old Seventh-Rank Magician, Potential of the Saint Realm (Part 1)

However, Lei Lin's current strength, background (Wild Thunder Guard), and talent are all top-tier within the Fenlai Kingdom. To avoid any gaps in his cultivation resources, he naturally utilizes whatever he has to help the family develop.

Because the development was so rapid and wealth accumulated so quickly, he even specifically created some money-burning late-game projects to avoid attracting unwanted attention.

Examples include funding deep education for the children of commoners within the family territory, allowing those who show excellence in the Qi-Nurturing Method to enter the family guard to learn more advanced combat techniques and even battle qi.

He established various family vocational academies, allowing children who did not perform well in the Qi-Nurturing Method to learn skills such as blacksmithing, weaving, and animal husbandry.

Those with good modeling skills or talent were even given the opportunity to learn high-end arts such as music, fine arts, dance, and stone carving.

He also reduced agricultural taxes within the territory and abolished various complex and trivial taxes such as head taxes and hearth taxes.

He would also hold various activities and skill competitions from time to time to enrich the spiritual world of the commoners, promote commercial activities in the territory, and screen for various talents, giving the commoners a chance to get ahead and rise.

He even contacted the Pharmacist Guild to attempt experiments in optimizing the planting and cultivation of high-value medicinal herbs within the territory, as well as summarizing common illnesses among the commoners and simplifying the production materials for related potions to reduce costs, so that more commoners could afford them.

In just a few short years, the five territories under the jurisdiction of the Zi'ao Family underwent tremendous changes, with the population growing significantly, presenting a scene of vitality and flourishing growth.

And all these changes stemmed from Lei Lin, this young family head!

Well, Lei Lin was already the head of the Zi'ao Family.

Although he basically didn't manage affairs, only providing the direction for the family's development and the manufacturing processes for items like soap and spicy strips, the specific implementation was the responsibility of Jinli'an and the Family Elder Council.

But because he spent most of his time on cultivation and training, he was the family head!

Because only he, as the disciple of Sa'er, could best uphold the family's reputation!

Watching Lei Lin return from his training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, the family members who had been waiting for a long time greeted him with warmth and enthusiasm.

However, Lei Lin only exchanged a few pleasantries with them. After telling his parents about his training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, he went to the training ground specially built for him by the family.

At this moment, a burly man was already waiting for Lei Lin in the arena.

This person was none other than Sa'er, Lei Lin's master. He frowned as he looked at the magic items and alchemical tools on Lei Lin's body and said, "Lei Lin, you are still wasting your talent!"

"Average elemental affinity won't get you far on the path of magic. Although you might achieve something in alchemy thanks to your talent in spiritual energy."

"But so what?"

"On this continent, strength is respected. Only strength is the foundation of one's existence!"

"Your warrior talent is very strong; you shouldn't waste it!"

Lei Lin smiled apologetically upon hearing this: "Master, haven't I always kept up with my warrior cultivation?"

Lei Lin still respected Sa'er quite a bit. After all, Sa'er was indeed very serious and responsible in his teaching, and Sa'er was also the protective umbrella for his Zi'ao Family.

If it weren't for Sa'er's existence, who knows how many nobles jealous of the Zi'ao Family would have made a move? The Zi'ao Family's development would not have been so smooth, and his own path of cultivation would have encountered countless more setbacks.

Sa'er showed a look of helplessness on his face: "Yes, yes, your warrior cultivation hasn't fallen behind, but if you had spent the time and energy you used on magic cultivation on your warrior training, you would probably have broken through to the seventh rank by now!"

"The seventh rank! A fifteen-year-old seventh-rank warrior would be considered a significant figure in the kingdom, and it would even be possible to join the Radiant Church and become a Holy Knight."

"But you, sigh~"

Lei Lin's mouth twitched slightly at these words. Relying on the sliver of the Law of Lightning he had comprehended through the Telecommunication Gu, he was already at the seventh rank.

And not just as a warrior, but also in terms of magic, he had already broken through to the seventh rank.

Although he had only comprehended a sliver of the law, this meant that the various prerequisites such as the 'momentum' and 'unity of man and nature' required to become a Saint Realm expert had long been met.

After all, comprehending 'momentum' and 'unity of man and nature' was meant to lay the foundation for comprehending the laws. If one couldn't even achieve this step, one could forget about comprehending the laws.

Lei Lin had cheated; he had comprehended the law first, and by relying on his understanding of the law, he worked backward to study these foundational things, so naturally, there was nothing difficult about it.

The only thing he lacked was the time for accumulation!

Accumulating battle qi, accumulating magic power—once he had accumulated enough, he would naturally break through to the Saint Realm!

In fact, he had broken through to the seventh rank for some time now, but he was worried that breaking through to the seventh rank ahead of time would disrupt the plot, so he had always been training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range to avoid affecting the story.

After all, in the original work, Linley becoming a seventh-rank mage at seventeen was undoubtedly a very important plot node. If he announced his breakthrough to the seventh rank before Linley, who knew what kind of butterfly effect it would cause?

But things were different now. His small probes all this time hadn't caused any impact on Linley's growth, so he planned to do something big.

This big probe was to announce his breakthrough to the seventh rank!

After all, he already intended to make deep contact with Linley and Beibei. If he didn't figure some things out now, he was afraid that once Linley's strength grew stronger later and he was surrounded by high-level monsters, any attempt to probe him might result in him getting himself killed.

As for wanting to probe in the early stages, and wanting it to be a probe with enough influence, Lei Lin felt that only intercepting Alice and breaking through to the seventh rank ahead of time to snatch the title of the second in the history of the Magnolia Continent...

No, it should be the first in history! After all, the current number one mage in history broke through to the seventh rank at sixteen, and Lei Lin was only fifteen!

Of course, there was also the method of randomly picking a lucky person with a good relationship with Linley (like Reynolds or Hillman) and killing them directly to test it.

However, the consequences of such a testing method were too serious and irreversible. He was afraid of being slapped to death by a giant hand reaching across time and space from the future, so he gave up on it.

Anyway, Alice didn't end up with Linley in the end, and he was confident he could handle the gap in benefits caused by the second-ranked talent in the history of the Magnolia Continent becoming the third.

After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to use his breakthrough to the seventh rank as the probe.

Looking at Lei Lin, who seemed to be distracted, Sa'er's face turned stern, and he snorted coldly: "It seems your wings have hardened, you dare to be distracted while talking to your teacher."

"Come, spar with me, let me see your progress from your training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range during this time!"

Lei Lin immediately recovered from the melancholy of the unknown consequences that might be triggered by probing Linley, and smiled slightly: "Then this disciple will make a fool of himself!"