Lord of Mysterious Wizard

Chapter 96: Chapter 96: The Gift from the Master of the Crucible

Phew!

The haze once again condensed into Tang Qi’s figure, lightly landing on the ground.

Along with his landing, there was also half of a man’s body—oh no, after his head had been blown up, he could hardly be counted as half a body anymore, only a robust torso and a white mask fell down together.

After confirming the man’s death, those terrible, disgusting vines-turned-intestines instantly lost their power source and limply sagged, gradually turning black, turning into powder, and piling up on the hallway floor like a small hill, while the tormented police officers, doctors, and nurses began to wake from their paralyzed state.

Stanna, after relaxing, directly flung herself back onto the bed.

Tang Qi glanced around and seemed to see no one in particular in need of urgent medical attention, so he bent down, intending to pick up that white mask. Upon seeing the masked man for the first time, Tang Qi discovered specks of ghost light on the mask—this was a Curio.

But just as he bent down, a seemingly insignificant sound suddenly penetrated his ears.

“Thud thud~”

The sound of a heartbeat, not strong, rather muffled.

If one were careless, they might assume it was their own heartbeat.

However, Tang Qi’s mind instantly recalled the phrase that the masked man roared before: “I need what you got from that damn Amber Merchant…”

“Bang bang bang”

This time, Tang Qi’s heart truly began to beat frantically, a sense of crisis violently surging.

Amber Merchant… Heartbeat… Evil God…

As these words popped up one after another, a familiar scene suddenly emerged in Tang Qi’s mind.

It was inside the Amber Merchant’s villa, after resolving the Magic-beast that the merchant had transformed into, a heart suddenly appeared inside his body, and within that heart was…

“Evil God Seed!”

“Phew”

Tang Qi suddenly twisted his head and looked towards the remaining torso of the man.

There, a Resentful Soul was slowly drifting out.

It was the masked man, but in his soul state, he wasn’t wearing the mask, showing a normal human form. He looked like a muscular, fierce-faced white middle-aged man, initially bewildered in expression, trying to leave the body and then dissipate.

But just as he was about to leave the body, a terrifying sucking force tried to drag him back into the torso, this turn of events made a happy expression unconsciously surface on the man’s face, seemingly believing he had a chance at Resurrection.

Until that moment, a pair of hands that terrified him immensely reached over.

On both hands were wrapped faint Golden Light Flames.

However, different from each other, one hand directly grabbed his soul, while the other, bringing a gust of wind, “sizzled” straight into his chest area, as if grasping his already motionless heart, and then two different sounds emerged.

His soul was utterly consumed by the Golden Light Flames, yet he didn’t feel much Pain. Instead, there was a sense of relief.

But inside his chest, there suddenly came horrible screams, as if what lay within was not his heart, but some kind of Evil that could pollute everything, similarly “enjoying” the scorching of the Golden Light Flames.

The similarity between the two was that faced with the Golden Light Flames, they both had no power to resist.

Soon, everything ended.

The man’s Resentful Soul dissipated into Nihility, and the bout of malevolence about to erupt inside his chest was likewise eradicated.

But at this moment, Tang Qi felt a strange sensation.

His body at this time felt as though it had been suddenly thrown into a fire, a series of unbearable burning sensations suddenly began to rise within, starting with the blood, then circulating throughout his body—skin, muscles, bones, organs… and even down to the marrow.

“Drink~”

“Phew”

Tang Qi let out a pained groan, feeling that each breath he exhaled was like the hot air gushing from the depths of a volcano, burning intensely.

Struggling to get up, Tang Qi quickly looked at himself.

In his gaze, a special interface was slowly taking shape.

One Information Fragment immediately appeared.

“Golden Furnace Meditation…Progress…”

Tang Qi watched as the progress that was initially only 9% entered the threshold of 10%.

In an instant, Tang Qi understood the source of the change.

Almost in a flash, Tang Qi grabbed the white mask, not even having the time to say goodbye to Stanna, and with a “whoosh,” turned into smoke and quickly departed.

The gray mist detached from the hospital area, and Tang Qi didn’t bother to carefully cover his tracks.

Transformed into a gray arrow, he merged into the night sky and then shot towards Thorns Campus.

Ten seconds later, his figure suddenly appeared in an alley outside the campus.

At this moment, Tang Qi looked as if he had just been taken out of a steamer, covered in sweat profusely, light golden flames constantly seeping out from his body, his head also had to hang down because he simply couldn’t retract the golden light emanating from his eyes.

The Meditation Method was running out of control.

If Tang Qi wasn’t suppressing it with all his might, at this moment, he would likely resemble a human-shaped sun, which in the deep of night, would be unimaginably dazzling.

Upon entering the campus, Tang Qi risked the exposure and burst forth with his fastest speed, fearing that if he didn’t return to his small building, he really wouldn’t be able to control it anymore.

A few seconds later, with a “bang,” Tang Qi closed his door and directly sat down.

Without hesitation, he entered the Meditation State.

Boom!

A world completely unlike any other appeared before him.

The golden sun that usually required gradual outlining was now directly suspended above the endless nihility.

No, not just endless nihility.

That golden sun seemed to be hanging above the infinite universe, Tang Qi felt a force, existing only in the unknown, dragging him through layers of dark space, past numerous bizarre scenes; floods of information, before invading his mind, were turned into nothingness by the endless golden light.

Until the end, Tang Qi saw that infinitely huge, majestic golden sun.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

A whisper suddenly echoed in Tang Qi’s mind.

“The Sun…is the golden melter…the only fuel is…soul.”

“Boom~”

Tang Qi’s thoughts suddenly cleared up, he seemed to have realized something.

He was receiving a bestowal, from the Master of the Crucible.

Everyone who had practiced the “Golden Furnace Meditation” and entered a certain Realm, would receive His bestowal.

But Tang Qi was completely different from the other cultivators.

The Meditation Method was just a meditation method, but the orthodox inheritance from the Master of the Crucible, besides the meditation, also had other Skills that could be paired with it, and after the meditation progressed to today’s realm, it would receive the Master’s bestowal, making other skills progress together.

Even obtaining higher-level skills.

However, aside from the meditation method, Tang Qi didn’t have any other inheritance.

So now, he was faced with a difficult multiple-choice question.