[Available Skill Points: 1016334]
Lin Yi opened the skill panel.
He selected the Fire Element.
He paused on the skill page for the Tier 8 [Supreme Ascension, Fire Spirit Incarnation].
Enhance it!
He had to enhance it!
He opened the enhancement interface.
The One-Click Enhancement button Lin Yi had seen before also lit up from gray.
Lin Yi took a deep breath.
The Forbidden Spell was within reach.
[Spend 1 million Skill Points to raise your skill tier to Tier 9?]
Yes!
One-Click Enhancement, activate!
The next moment, a pleasant notification sounded in Lin Yi's ear.
[Ding! 1 million Skill Points consumed. Your Supreme Ascension, Fire Spirit Incarnation has advanced into: Tier 9 Forbidden Spell: Eight Desolations Heavenly Meteor!]
The instant the notification rang out.
Lin Yi's vision suddenly blurred.
All the scenery around him vanished.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself within an illusion!
It was an apocalyptic illusion.
Lin Yi floated high in the sky.
As though he had activated a god's-eye view.
Below him stretched a boundless ocean and an equally vast continent.
Everything looked perfectly normal.
Until—
The sky was dyed crimson by blazing flames.
As if it, too, had been completely ignited!
Countless terrifying, enormous meteor firestorms crashed down from outer space.
The next moment, the hard land was split apart and shattered by the meteor firestorms, turning into a pool of molten crimson lava in the blink of an eye.
It merged into the ocean!
The once-calm sea.
Was now heated to boiling, billowing with steam as enormous quantities of water vapor evaporated at a visible rate and surged into outer space!
The next instant.
The ocean dried up.
The land melted.
Everything seemed to return to more than four billion years ago.
To the moment Blue Star had just been born.
All things returned to their original starting point.
A mass of molten, searing, indistinguishable chaotic matter!
The illusion disappeared.
Lin Yi returned to reality.
Only then did he realize that he was drenched in sweat.
He could not imagine what exactly he had witnessed.
That was power on the level of creation and destruction.
That was—
A God-Tier Forbidden Spell!
The term surfaced in his mind!
He opened the skill interface again.
Only then did Lin Yi discover that, just as he had guessed.
A Tier 9 Forbidden Spell was not the end.
It was not even close to the end!
Lin Yi could already preview the skill he would gain after advancing to the next tier.
[Ancient Forbidden Spell: Pure World Flame Prison] [Skill Points Required for Advancement: 10 million] [Subsequent Evolution Path: Ancient Forbidden Spell: Great Sun Golden Crow] [Currency Required for Evolution: 100 million] [Skill Points Required for Evolution: 20 million] [Hint: The mutated version of Ancient Forbidden Spell: Great Sun Golden Crow can be further evolved into an Ultimate Forbidden Spell.]
"Above Ancient Forbidden Spells, there are Ultimate Forbidden Spells..."
"And Ultimate Forbidden Spells are not the end either. The Forbidden Spell that can truly destroy an entire planet and return Blue Star to the primordial sea of fire from more than four billion years ago is called a God-Tier Forbidden Spell!"
Lin Yi understood. The illusion he had just seen was likely the scene of a God-Tier Forbidden Spell being cast.
That was a true world-destroying spell!
It could melt continents and boil oceans!
So that was the pinnacle of fire magic!
With a flip of his hand, destroy a planet!
Lin Yi took a deep breath, calming his restless emotions once more.
Lin Yi had thought he had already witnessed what the world's top combat power looked like.
Only now did he realize.
His former self had merely been a frog at the bottom of a well.
But that only made Lin Yi clench his fists tighter.
Wasn't that even more interesting?
Even if the required Skill Points eventually exceeded a hundred million.
For him, it would only mean waiting a few years.
He could afford to wait!
But at this stage, Lin Yi's next goal definitely was not to advance his first Forbidden Spell into an Ancient Forbidden Spell.
Instead, he would spread out his Forbidden Spells!
At the very least, he needed to raise every magic element he currently possessed to Forbidden Spell level first!
Lin Yi looked at the details of the Forbidden Spell magic he had just obtained.
[Forbidden Spell: Eight Desolations Heavenly Meteor] [Type: Active Skill] [Tier: Tier 9] [Element: Fire Element] [Cost: 1 million Mana] [Chant time: 10 minutes] [Cooldown time: 3 days] [Effect: Summons primordial flames to descend from the heavens, igniting all targets within an extremely vast area and dealing massive fire damage to all targets.] [The ignited effect caused by this skill lasts permanently and cannot be dispelled.] [This skill ignores all damage reduction and damage immunity effects below Tier 9.] [Note: This flame has burned from the ancient primordial age to this day.]
Hiss...
Lin Yi sucked in a cold breath.
A ten-minute chant.
A Mana cost of one million.
As expected of a Forbidden Spell. Its casting conditions were incredibly harsh.
Lin Yi was glad that when he had enhanced his Tier 8 Fire Element skill before, he had received one free evolution opportunity.
Because in the Ascension State, every fire spell he used was instant-cast and cost nothing.
If Lin Yi could solve the problem of skill cooldowns in the future.
He could even achieve the feat of casting Forbidden Spells consecutively while in the Ascension State!
No matter what, the Forbidden Spell Lin Yi had longed for was finally his.
Lin Yi took a moment to check what the evolved version of this Tier 9 Forbidden Spell looked like.
[Evolved Version: Forbidden Spell: Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus] [Currency Required for Evolution: 2 million Great Xia Coins] [Skill Points Required for Evolution: 1 million]
Lin Yi: "?"
Come on, why did this skill name sound so familiar?!
Lin Yi gave it another thought. Well.
Come to think of it.
Since they were both about playing with fire, wasn't a strange flame also a manifestation of mutated fire magic...?
Forget it. No point thinking so much. He had the Forbidden Spell now, so it was time to sleep.
A night passed.
At five-thirty the next morning, Lin Yi's alarm had yet to ring when knocking on his door woke him up.
When he opened the door, he saw his mother, Xu Qingfang, wearing an apron and dark circles under her eyes as she called him to breakfast.
His father, Lin Guodong, was up as well. He was outside the house, banging away with a wrench as he repaired the old car that had not been driven in a long time.
On such an important day, he planned to personally drive his son to the station.
Otherwise, taking another car and arriving late would be troublesome.
Lin Yi rubbed his sleepy eyes. He had no choice. It looked like the couple had not slept well all night; they had probably only dozed for two or three hours before getting up early to cook for him and repair the car.
He could only give up his final half hour of sleep. After washing up, he ate a breakfast even more lavish than last night's dinner, packed his Student ID, exam admission ticket, and everything else, then got into his father's car.
Lin Guodong floored it and headed straight for Jiangcheng Station.
Every year, the National Professional College Entrance Examination was held in the provincial capital of each province.
For Dongjiang Province, that was naturally its capital, Tianhai City.
To regulate the order and discipline of examinees attending the examination, the authorities specially arranged dedicated Underground Express trains every year to transport candidates from all over the province to the examination site.
When they arrived at Jiangcheng Station.
Lin Yi found that the place was already packed with people.
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