I'm Actually a Mage

When Liu Yi saw the hundred-meter blood saber slash down with terrifying force, his expression changed instantly.

He knew full well how powerful the blow was. His hands flew, rapidly forming profound seals with his fingertips.

An earthy yellow halo enveloped him as he activated the Earth Escape Technique. His figure dissolved like shifting sand, deftly escaping the blood saber's target range.

The next moment, he suddenly appeared behind Xie Shi and unleashed the Immobilization Technique.

Xie Shi's movements abruptly froze.

Though the Immobilization Technique could restrain him for only a few breaths, in a duel between experts, a few breaths were enough to decide life or death.

Liu Yi didn't hesitate. His hands swiftly formed a seal, and he shouted, "Fire Dragon Technique!"

In an instant, a crimson fire dragon fifty meters long materialized out of thin air.

Wreathed in towering flames, it roared toward the immobilized Xie Shi, bearing the force to burn everything to ashes.

Blazing light shot into the sky as the fifty-meter fire dragon, wrapped in heaven-scorching flames, completely swallowed Xie Shi in an instant.

The violent collision of energy erupted in a deafening boom. Shockwaves rippled outward, shattering the buildings inside the stronghold.

Liu Yi didn't dare relax for an instant. He repeatedly used the Immobilization Technique, holding Xie Shi firmly in place.

At the same time, his hands formed seals as swiftly as butterflies flitting among flowers, unleashing Fire Dragon Techniques in rapid succession.

Fire dragon after fire dragon roared toward Xie Shi, their flames dyeing the entire sky crimson.

Twenty fire dragons slammed down one after another with deafening booms. The violent trembling of the ground could be felt for several miles around.

When the smoke and dust cleared, a vast, deep crater two hundred meters across had appeared where Xie Shi had stood.

Its walls were scorched black, thin wisps of smoke rising from them, and a pungent smell filled the air.

Liu Yi let out a long breath, privately pleased with himself. He should be dead this time, right? No matter how strong his recovery is, getting hit by that many Fire Dragon Techniques has to finish him off for good.

You'd never have guessed that, on the surface, I'm a martial artist, but I'm actually an immortal cultivator-a mage skilled in Law Techniques.

I learned quite a few Law Techniques on the second floor of the Heavenly Revelation Sect's Scripture Repository, and sure enough, they've come in handy.

But this fight exposed quite a few problems too. Once I break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and have more years to live, I should start creating my own cultivation system and Cultivation Method.

My aptitude for immortal cultivation is too poor, and I can't find a Cultivation Method for after the Golden Core Realm. I have no future in immortal cultivation, so I might as well create a cultivation system and Cultivation Method suited to me myself.

I read so many novels in my last life, and they had plenty of imaginative ideas and internally consistent cultivation systems. With my current ability to deduce things, I might just be able to turn them into reality.

Besides, my martial arts aptitude is so good that I'm well suited to creating a martial cultivation system.

After all, who doesn't dream of founding a sect, becoming an ancestor, and surpassing their predecessors? This time, I'll be the Dao Ancestor who creates a whole new school!

He gathered his thoughts and hurried to the edge of the crater to look.

Xie Shi had vanished from the crater without a trace. All that remained was a book at the bottom, radiating a scarlet bloodlight.

His expression grew grave as he warily examined the eerie book, which hadn't been damaged even by his strongest attack.

After thinking for a moment, he used the Dragon-Capturing and Crane-Controlling Technique to draw the book to him from a distance.

Looking closely, he saw three large characters written prominently on the cover: "Blood Devil Cultivation Method."

His expression changed drastically. The records concerning the Blood Devil Cultivation Method in the Heavenly Revelation Sect's Scripture Repository flooded into his mind.

Cultivating the Blood Devil Cultivation Method required the blood of living people as a resource. Its methods were cruel beyond measure and utterly inhumane.

No wonder a strange force had kept interfering with his Qi and Blood during the fight. Now that he thought about it, this Devil Cultivation Method was to blame.

Unable to contain his curiosity, he held his breath and focused, carefully opening the "Blood Devil Cultivation Method," which shone with an eerie bloodlight.

A faint smell of blood drifted from its pages. The writing at the beginning was as dark red as congealed blood:

"Blood is the essence and spirit of all things made manifest. Use heart's blood as the guide and blood as the resource, condensing ten thousand bloods into a Dao foundation. Only when every blood vessel in the body becomes a Nine Nether Blood River can one glimpse the Longevity Blood Devil True Intention..."

An invisible force seemed to tug at his mind from between the lines, as though a seductive voice were whispering in his ear, urging him to begin cultivating immediately.

His whole body jolted, and he drew a sharp breath. This Cultivation Method possessed such a terrifying power to beguile the mind!

If the Spacetime Realm on his person hadn't been able to block the intrusion of external mind-beguiling forces, he might have fallen prey to it without even realizing it.

When he saw that the Cultivation Method's upper limit was only equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm, he frowned inwardly in puzzlement.

But as he continued reading, he discovered that its methods of using Qi and Blood were extraordinarily ingenious.

His eyes lit up. These unique methods of using Qi and Blood could easily be incorporated into the cultivation system I'm about to create.

I could even use them as a foundation to create an entirely new Qi and Blood Martial Dao System!

Qi and Blood Martial Dao focused on cultivating the physical body, developing it to its utmost limits. Its potential was immense.

But compared with the entirely new martial cultivation system he had envisioned, it still fell somewhat short.

If he could create the cultivation system he had conceived, attaining Longevity and becoming an immortal would be a simple matter.

Once combined with the system he created, it could even overturn the rules governing the entire world.

It could pull all those lofty immortal cultivators and the privileged class from their high perches and send them tumbling into the mud.

Even the long-established Immortal Cultivation System might be completely supplanted as a result.

But he also understood that such a world-shaking, convention-defying undertaking would inevitably provoke a tremendous backlash.

The Immortal Cultivation System had been passed down for millions of years and possessed deep foundations. Those with vested interests would never admit defeat easily.

A brutal struggle that turned heaven and earth upside down would likely be needed before a victor could be decided.

At the thought, his blood boiled instead. As a great man had said:

"To struggle with heaven is endless joy; to struggle with earth is endless joy; to struggle with people is endless joy."

Opening up a new world required the courage to trample the old shackles to pieces.

And now he would take on those lofty fellows and show them that even ants could shake the heavens.

With that thought, he gathered his thoughts, clutched the "Blood Devil Cultivation Method" in his hand, and sped into the distance, his figure becoming an afterimage.

Before long, he stopped in an open stretch of wasteland and used his spiritual power to quickly dig a deep pit.

He looked down at the "Blood Devil Cultivation Method" in his hand, its eerie bloodlight shining, and tossed it into the pit. Then he waved his arm and buried it completely in earth.

"Since I can't destroy you, I'll seal you here forever. I can't let you come out and harm anyone again!"

After confirming that the "Blood Devil Cultivation Method" was properly buried, he immediately returned to Black Wind Stronghold.

He dealt with the remaining bandits' corpses one by one, then carefully searched the stronghold, packing up all the valuables that hadn't been destroyed.

Once he had done all that, he pushed off with the tip of his foot and sped down the mountain like an arrow loosed from a bow.

Before long, he spotted Little Yellow hiding in the grass, cautiously peering up the mountain.

"Hahaha, Little Yellow, were you worried about me? They were just a bunch of bandits. Wiping them out was as easy as lifting a finger!"

"Hiss!" He drew a sharp breath. His laughter had aggravated the injuries inside his body, and the pain turned his face pale.

It seemed he needed to find somewhere to recuperate first. Then, once he had successfully cultivated the Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 4.0, he could prepare to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

He scooped up Little Yellow, pushed off, and used his Movement Method to leap away toward Green Mountain Town.