Crack~

Large amounts of memory fragments entered his mind.

At the same time, Locke also gained deeper understanding from these memories about the Second Circle wizard's domain, the construction methods of Grand Magic, as well as bloodline studies and bloodline toxin studies.

"The mysterious toxin in the air isn't its full power. If it were truly Second Circle level bloodline toxin, then the instant I was infected, I would be severely injured. That mysterious toxin seems to have a certain amount of antidote added simultaneously." Locke began thinking.

"From Wizard Basil's memories, his Grand Magic seems to be a poisonous liquid. That poisonous liquid transformed into a poison pool, transforming races, flowing through all his vassal races' bodies, becoming bloodline."

"Essentially, these vassal races are all part of the Second Circle wizard's Grand Magic. In Wizard Basil's memory fragments, he told me that he believed toxins were an important means to accelerate and regulate biological evolution, so he strongly advocated using various deadly poisons to strengthen his bloodline power."

"Using deadly poison to attack was merely a byproduct under this concept."

"Unfortunately, Wizard Basil has already died, and I also can't see his complete Grand Magic and his power at full strength."

Locke felt it was regrettable. "Hmm? This is..."

From the memory fragments obtained from killing that massive poisonous snake, there was one piece of knowledge relatively complete that caught Locke's attention.

"The poison wells of this wizard secret realm, Poisonous Valley, are themselves bloodline tempering locations." Locke's eyes stared intently at that dark green poison lake. "The larger the poison well, the more powerful the bloodline tempering ability it represents. And as long as one has a Poison Pearl, one can neutralize the terrifying toxin inside this poison well."

"In the process of detoxification, poisoning, and detoxification, the bloodline power within my body will be strengthened and sublimated. In the process of resisting toxins, my bloodline power will spontaneously grow, and there are originally many tonic-type toxins inside the poison well."

Locke said, "This is Wizard Basil's core concept as a Second Circle bloodline wizard."

"Poisonous Valley as his echo also implements this concept. Of course, this itself also has enormous danger."

Locke fell into hesitation. He frowned and suddenly placed that dark green Poison Pearl under his tongue. "Anyway, in wizard secret realms, even death will only result in soul damage. I have Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion. Even if I die here and am forcibly expelled from the secret realm, at most I'll just drink a few more bottles of Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion."

"This secret realm's opportunity was obtained for free to begin with. But if I can use this poison lake to temper all the potential of the bloodlines in my body, then I'll have made a huge profit. Where in magical research is there no risk?"

After weighing the pros and cons and judging the cost-effectiveness, Locke directly walked into the poison lake. Immediately, the churning poisonous liquid inside the poison lake, as if sensing something, frantically coiled toward Locke's feet.

Whirlpools appeared one after another on the poison lake's surface, and more than a hundred dry riverbeds around the poison lake, at this moment as if sensing a wizard entering the poison lake, actually refilled with dark green deadly poisonous rivers. Like ten thousand streams returning to the sea, they all poured the poisonous liquid into the poison lake.

At the same time, suddenly the lake surface exploded. A poisonous water tide transformed into a massive water spider that leaped into the air from the lake surface. Then, like hunting, it bit toward Locke.

Bang~

Locke was swept into this poisonous water. At the same time, he gritted his teeth internally, took the risk of removing his permanent defensive force field, and put away the Hydra. Simultaneously, large amounts of poisonous liquid directly corroded away all the clothing on his body.

Then it began drilling into his body from all the skin on his body.

"Ah!" In an instant, Locke felt countless toxins drilling into his body, wanting to kill him completely. The terrifying toxins completely suppressed all the bloodline power and mana in his body. In just a moment, his bloodline power and mana were corroded full of holes.

And this trend actually didn't stop.

In less than half a minute, Locke felt he was about to die.

He opened his eyes. His eyes contained abyssal energy, so they could temporarily resist this deadly poison. But he saw that all his skin had already been eroded away by the toxin. His muscles and tendons also began breaking. He had almost turned into a skeleton.

What stunned Locke was that there was a bloodline power at his heart, firmly protecting his heart.

'The origin of my true dragon bloodline power is at my heart?'

At the same time, his innate magic eye on his forehead was also forced open under the persecution of this deadly poison, automatically firing geomagnetic force to protect itself.

Locke discovered that what could protect him in this poison pool was basically all bloodline energy. Even abyssal energy, because it was closely connected to his eyes, could play a little role.

Only mana and magical pressure had no effect at all.

Unless he deployed his permanent defensive force field.

"If this continues, in less than half a minute, I'll definitely die and then be forcibly expelled from this First Circle level wizard secret realm. Although I've already gained some harvest, should I drink some antidote potions?" Locke thought. "Although I've been severely injured now, I still have a chance to survive."

"Forget it." Locke thought again. "I'd better completely follow Wizard Basil's concept and this poison lake. If I do it halfway and suddenly use potions to interrupt, who knows what consequences will occur."

"I'd better not improvise. This is still in a wizard secret realm. I don't have much death pressure. If this were the outside world, I truly wouldn't dare directly enter this poison lake."

Locke gritted his teeth and decided to persist a bit longer.

At worst, he'd just leave the secret realm.

Just as his bodily functions declined to the limit, suddenly the Poison Pearl under his tongue emitted a strange energy. His body, ravaged by toxins beyond recognition, was detoxified under this strange energy. Immediately after, all the bloodlines in his body, in order to protect his survival, began frantically taking advantage of this detoxification opportunity to grow.

At the same time, this neutralized toxin actually transformed into tonic medicine and began pouring back into all of Locke's bloodlines, developing the potential of all bloodlines in his body.

At this moment, crystal-clear dark green magical radiance flickered above the entire poison lake. The poison lake was like an embryo gestating Locke. Its surface continuously churned with poisonous liquid foam.

At the same time, Wizard Nidhogg walked out of a poison well. He changed into a new set of wizard robes, then suddenly his expression became grave. He crouched down and placed his palm on the ground, sensing the tremors in the ground.

"Hmm? Has he discovered the secret of Basil's poison pool? Such fast speed. This wizard from the outside world is truly too perceptive. It's only been this long, yet he discovered that one can strengthen one's bloodline through the poison pool. It seems he killed the guardian and obtained a Poison Pearl."

"However, even if he can detect the poison pool's secret, whether he has the courage to actively enter the Pool of Ten Thousand Poisons still depends on this wizard's courage. If he can enter the Pool of Ten Thousand Poisons, it means his courage is astonishing."

A gloomy emotion flashed through Nidhogg's eyes.

As an absolute hawk of the Basil family, a white wizard who even had human lives on his hands, he didn't want to see a wizard from the outside world actually obtain one of the Land of Six Towers' most profound secrets.

"Damn Alicia Plutarch. I said we should let Eric take charge, or hand over governing power to our Basil family early."

"To actually hand over our Land of Six Towers' important resources to wizards from the outside world. Wouldn't it be better to keep these resources for our Land of Six Towers' descendants?"

"Even if those descendants don't live up to expectations and can't use those resources and waste them, it's still better than benefiting outsiders."

Nidhogg's body began undergoing severe transformation. He completely turned into an eight-legged spider. His upper body was human, while his lower body was a massive eight-legged spider.

At the same time, he relied on the spider's powerful tactile sense to detect the direction from which the subtle tremors in the ground came.

Wizards entering the poison pool, while stimulating bloodline potential, were also at their physically weakest. At this time, teaching that wizard from the outside world a lesson would be effortless.

"Finding you won't take ten minutes. Hmm?" Nidhogg frowned. "How is this possible? Why are there two tremor sensations?"

"And the direction and distance are completely different?"

Nidhogg's expression changed slightly. He swung a spider leg. That spider leg was like the sharpest blade, completely cutting a rock in half. At the same time, deadly poison was injected into the rock.

That rock was actually also corroded by the deadly poison, turning to dust in the wind.

"Two tremor sources?"

Nidhogg was silent for a long time. "Could that wizard from the outside world have discovered me? That shouldn't be. The Plutarch family knows nothing about my operation this time. I even arranged people to make difficulties and question that yellow-haired girl at today's Land of Six Towers family council meeting, just waiting for me to severely injure Locke Augustine."

"If they had detected it, these plans of mine wouldn't have succeeded so smoothly..."

Nidhogg hesitated, not knowing which tremor source to go to first, because both tremor sources were quite far from his current location, and their directions were completely opposite. Going to one meant he couldn't go to the second.

And once he chose wrong, he would miss the best opportunity to suppress that civilian wizard from the outside world.

Nidhogg was helpless and could only close his eyes and use a Divination School ability innate to the magic spider bloodline called [Spider Intuition].

This was a capability modified using bloodline essence master methods of the Conjuration School, considered a universal ability of modified magic spider bloodlines.

[Spider Intuition] possessed certain sensing capabilities and could sense things dangerous to oneself, or the development direction of things beneficial to oneself.

At this moment, Nidhogg was preparing to use spider intuition to judge which tremor source was where that wizard was located in the poison well.

However, Nidhogg opened his eyes and revealed a puzzled expression. "Something has obscured my spider sensing. Does that wizard from the outside world also have research in divination magic?"

Essentially, researching Divination School magic had advantages and disadvantages. Divination magic was indeed very useful, but using divination magic required bearing enormous side effects.

Every wizard who peeked at fate and manipulated fate would suffer fate's backlash.

Moreover, each wizard's backlash was different.

Plus, Divination School magic was profound, mysterious, difficult to study and master, and divination magic itself wasn't completely reliable. Therefore, most wizards actually didn't like researching Divination School magic.

Anyway, even if they temporarily had needs, they could seek out diviners and astrologers to divine fortune and misfortune for them and inquire about the future.

Nidhogg said in a low voice, "Before I came, I inquired about this wizard's past history. He's called the Eye Demon Wizard in the southeastern quadrant, but I haven't heard that he had any research in Divination School spell models."

"It doesn't matter. We bloodline wizards have advantages that ordinary diviners don't have." A cruel emotion flashed through Nidhogg's eyes. At the same time, he directly activated several true blood in his body. First Berserk, second Berserk, third Berserk.

Three times excavating the magic spider bloodline potential in his body to strengthen the spider intuition innate to the magic spider bloodline.

Immediately, Nidhogg felt that the obscured feeling that had persisted all along began disappearing. He seemed to grasp some clue. That intuition began sensing future fortune and misfortune. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

At the same time, the bloodline throughout Nidhogg's body boiled. First boiling, second boiling!

Complex bloodline spell models appeared under his eight spider legs. At the same time, his body began growing larger because he used the sixth bloodline universal spell, the superior spell of Beast Body—Vajra Body.

Nidhogg was three hundred years old this year. Under the accumulation of years, the quantity of his spell pool far exceeded Locke's.

At this moment, Nidhogg's body size had already become like a small mountain spider-man. At the same time, his spider intuition was strengthened to the limit.

"Found you!"

Relying on intuition sensing, Nidhogg locked onto a direction. "The tremor source on the left is you. And the tremor source on the right was actually created by those spider woman races, vassal races of my ancestor Wizard Basil."

"Is this a coincidence?"

A cold light flashed through Nidhogg's eyes. "According to reason, these races inside wizard secret realms couldn't possibly help any wizard. They have natural opposition with all wizards. Killing them can also obtain memory fragments from my ancestor's echo."

"Forget it. I'll settle accounts with them later."

Nidhogg raised his eight spider legs and headed in the direction his spider intuition sensed.

...

In the poison lake, Locke's Orcni Ancient Giant Bear bloodline was actually also forming toward the First Circle stage. At the same time, his Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline was rapidly growing, from ordinary First Circle to vaporization First Circle, then to liquefaction stage First Circle, and even continuing to advance forward.

Moreover, the mysterious true dragon bloodline in Locke's body was also accelerating its formation, forming from the apprentice stage toward the First Circle stage. A golden dragon scale that couldn't possibly appear on a human body actually appeared on the back of Locke's left hand.

Immediately after, that golden glazed dragon scale rapidly faded and completely disappeared.

Three major ancient creature bloodlines rapidly grew and evolved at high speed under Wizard Basil's poison pool concept!