Above the Forbidden Spell, Sky Burning Sea Boiling!

[Available Skill Points: 1,016,334]

Lin Yi opened his skill panel.

He selected the Fire Element.

He paused on the Tier 8 skill [Supreme Ascension, Fire Spirit Incarnation].

Add points!

He had to add points!

He opened the point allocation interface.

The One-Click Enhancement button, which he had seen before, had also turned from gray to bright.

Lin Yi took a deep breath.

A forbidden spell was right within reach.

[Are you sure you want to spend 1,000,000 Skill Points to upgrade your Skill Tier to Tier 9?]

Yes!

One-Click Enhancement, activate!

The next moment, a pleasant chime rang in Lin Yi's ears.

[Ding! 1,000,000 Skill Points consumed. Your Supreme Ascension, Fire Spirit Incarnation has advanced to: Tier 9 Forbidden Spell: Eight Desolations Heavenly Meteor!]

The instant this notification sounded.

Lin Yi's vision suddenly blurred.

All the surrounding scenery vanished.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a vision!

It was a vision like the end of the world.

Lin Yi floated high in the sky.

As if he had activated a god's perspective.

Below him stretched an endless ocean and an equally vast expanse of land.

Everything seemed normal.

Until—

The sky was dyed crimson by raging flames.

As if it, too, had been completely Ignited!

Countless terrifying, enormous meteors of fire and stone crashed down from outer space.

The next moment, the solid land was split and shattered by the meteor fire rain, instantly turning into a pool of molten, glowing red magma.

It merged into the ocean!

And the once calm sea.

Was now heated to a boil, billowing with thick steam, visibly evaporating vast amounts of water vapor that surged into outer space!

In the next instant.

The ocean dried up.

The land melted.

Everything seemed to return to a time over four billion years ago.

When Blue Star was first born.

All things returned to their most primal beginning.

A searing, molten chaos of indistinguishable matter!

The vision vanished.

Lin Yi returned to reality.

Only then did he realize he was drenched in sweat.

He couldn't fathom what he had just witnessed.

It was a power on the level of creation and destruction.

It was—

A God-Tier Forbidden Spell!

That term surfaced in his mind!

He opened the skill interface again.

Lin Yi found that, as he had guessed.

A Tier 9 Forbidden Spell was not the end.

Far from the end!

Lin Yi could already preview the skill he would gain upon advancing to the next tier.

Code
[Ancient Forbidden Spell: Pure World Flame Prison]

[Skill Points Required for Advancement: 10,000,000]

[Subsequent Evolution Path: Ancient Forbidden Spell: Great Sun Golden Crow]

[Currency Required for Evolution: 100,000,000]

[Skill Points Required for Evolution: 20,000,000]

[Note: The Mutated version of the Ancient Forbidden Spell: Great Sun Golden Crow can further evolve into an Ultimate Forbidden Spell.]

"Beyond the Ancient Forbidden Spell lies the Ultimate Forbidden Spell..."

"And the Ultimate Forbidden Spell isn't the end either. The spell truly capable of destroying an entire planet, returning Blue Star to the primordial sea of fire from over four billion years ago, is called the God-Tier Forbidden Spell!"

Lin Yi understood now. The vision he had seen earlier must have been a scene of the God-Tier Forbidden Spell in use.

That was a true world-ending magic!

Capable of melting continents and boiling oceans!

So this was the pinnacle of fire-element magic!

A flip of the hand to annihilate a star!

Lin Yi took a deep breath, calming his restless heart once more.

He had thought he had already glimpsed the true form of this world's top-tier combat power.

Now he realized with a start.

He had merely been a frog at the bottom of a well before.

But this only made Lin Yi clench his fists tighter.

Wasn't this even more interesting?

Even if the required skill points eventually broke into the hundreds of millions.

For him, that was just a few years of waiting.

He could afford to wait!

For now, though, Lin Yi's next goal was certainly not to advance his first acquired Forbidden Spell to the Ancient Forbidden Spell tier.

Instead, it was to spread his Forbidden Spells evenly!

At the very least, he needed to bring all the magic systems he currently had up to the Forbidden Spell level first!

Lin Yi looked at the details of the Forbidden Spell he had just obtained.

Code
[Forbidden Spell: Eight Desolations Heavenly Meteor]

[Type: Active Skill]

[Tier: Tier 9]

[Element: Fire Element]

[Cost: 1,000,000 Mana]

[Chant Time: 10 minutes]

[Cooldown Time: 3 days]

[Effect: Summons primordial flames descending from the heavens, igniting all targets within an extremely large area, dealing massive fire damage to all targets.]

[The ignition effect caused by this skill lasts permanently and cannot be dispelled.]

[This skill ignores all damage reduction and damage immunity effects below Tier 9 on the target.]

[Note: This flame has burned since the ancient wilderness, continuing to this day.]

Hiss...

Lin Yi sucked in a sharp breath.

A ten-minute chant.

A mana cost of one million.

It truly lived up to the name of a Forbidden Spell—the casting conditions were already incredibly harsh.

Lin Yi was very grateful that he had obtained a free evolution opportunity earlier when he was allocating skill points to his Tier 8 fire-element skills.

Because in his Ascension State, all fire-element spells he used were instant-cast and cost no mana.

If Lin Yi could solve the issue of skill cooldown times in the future.

He might even be able to achieve the feat of chaining Forbidden Spells back-to-back in his Ascension State!

Regardless, the Forbidden Spell Lin Yi had been longing for was finally in his hands.

Lin Yi took a moment to check what the evolved version of this Tier 9 Forbidden Spell looked like.

[Evolution Version: Forbidden Spell: Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus]

[Evolution Cost: 2,000,000 Great Xia Coins]

[Evolution Required Skill Points: 1,000,000]

Lin Yi: "?"

Bro, why does this skill name sound so familiar!

Lin Yi thought about it for a second. Well, you know what.

Actually, you really do.

Either way, it's all about playing with fire—why couldn't a mutated flame just be a manifestation of mutated fire magic...

Forget it, no use overthinking. The forbidden spell's already in hand. Time to sleep.

One night passed.

The next morning at 5:30, before Lin Yi's alarm even went off, he was woken by a knock on the door.

Pushing it open, he saw his mother, Xu Qingfang, with dark circles under her eyes, wearing an apron, calling him to breakfast.

His father, Lin Guodong, was already up, banging away with a wrench at the front door, fixing the family's old car that hadn't been driven in ages.

On this big day, he planned to personally take his son to the station.

Otherwise, if they took another ride and got delayed, it'd be trouble.

Lin Yi rubbed his sleepy eyes. No way around it—it looked like the couple hadn't slept well all night, probably only dozed off for two or three hours before getting up early to cook and fix the car.

He had no choice but to sacrifice that last half hour of sleep. After washing up, he ate a breakfast even more lavish than last night's, grabbed his Student ID, exam admission ticket, and everything else, then climbed into his dad's car.

Lin Guodong floored it, heading straight for Jiangcheng Station.

Every year, the National Professional College Entrance Examination is held in the capital city of each province.

For Dongjiang Province, that's naturally the capital, Tianhai City.

To regulate the order and discipline of examinees, the authorities arrange special Underground Express trains every year to transport candidates from all over the province to the exam site.

Arriving at Jiangcheng Station, Lin Yi found it was already packed with people.