Chapter 172: Paralyzing ring, seven generals take shape, legendary black whale! (
"Your Excellency Mutter, you will use your summoned object to restrain Li Wei later, and I will kill him with lightning speed with my burning spell. Yes, you have to go all out, and a lion needs all your strength to fight a rabbit, don\'t you think so?" Turrell said with a smile.
Mutter heard this, and said with a cold face: "Terrell, don\'t worry, I have heard about this Li Wei in the ship of the dead, he is not only a one-ring wizard, but also a legendary knight. Ordinary first-ring wizards are very difficult to deal with. We have to treat him as the enemy of first-ring senior wizards. My unworthy cousin Green Ghost Carter was escaped by this kid repeatedly because he underestimated the enemy. I will not repeat the same mistakes of."
"Let me just say, this Li Wei looks a bit burly and rude, and he is a legendary knight, so we can\'t hold back, and besides...before the two of us kill Le Wei, it is best not to have any small things. Thoughts." Turrell looked at Mutter meaningfully and smiled.
"Don\'t worry, although I, Mutter, is a dark wizard, I still have no problem in terms of credit, but you, don\'t paddle when fighting." Mutter sneered.
The two one-ring wizards were chatting and laughing, and they all headed towards Black Fire Island confidently. In their hearts, they didn\'t know what kind of wishful thinking they were planning.
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On Black Fire Island, Li Wei successfully refined another swordsman mantis.
He hastily recited the activation spell, and Saber Mantis began to move staggeringly, and then its movements became faster and faster, until it was almost no less than the speed-type top knight, and it turned into a black afterimage, mysteriously The silver sickle shone with cold light and crackled, and the rocks along the way were cut by the sickle of Dao Kemanting and turned into pieces of rubble. After finishing all this, Dao Ke Mantis returned to Li Wei\'s side, put away its sickle, and lay there quietly.
"Not bad."
Li Wei was satisfied.
Such a swordsman mantis, if it is in a non-combat situation, one taishi is enough to run for a week, if it is fighting with full power consumption, it may need a dozen taishi for a battle. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Li Wei would not let the Swordsman Mantis fight, but mainly let them do the chores of plowing the medicine garden, weeding, and expelling wild animals and seabirds. And a swordsman mantis can\'t form much combat power. If there are ten or eight, even official wizards, if they are not careful, they may be seriously injured by these alchemy assassins, but in a short time, Li Wei can\'t refine so many.
According to Li Wei\'s knowledge, some relatively advanced alchemy creatures can help their masters do some very complicated things, complete highly sophisticated and complex instructions like humans, and can almost be used as a cyberpunk-style smart housekeeper, but this The blueprints for alchemy creatures are not even available to the tower owner, perhaps only in the remains of some ancient wizards or a small number of wizards of the alchemy school. Li Wei can only think about it now.
No matter what, Li Wei\'s first alchemy creature was finally successfully refined.
After so many refinements, Li Wei\'s alchemy skills have also improved by leaps and bounds, reaching the third level.
Levy——
Alchemy: Tier 3 (101/10000)
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Being able to successfully refine Swordsman Mantis, Li Wei\'s alchemy level should also be second to none among alchemy apprentices.
"From now on, you will be Swordsman No. 1." Li Wei said to himself to Swordsman Mantis who was standing there motionless.
"No. 1, now let\'s meet the two guests who are about to land on the island." Li Wei suddenly smiled. Came to the coast in stride. Sitting on the reef by the sea, photo slates are hidden everywhere to record.
On the surface of the sea, the figures of Mutt and Turrell appeared there.
"One of them is Turrell, and the other... seems to have slipped through the net of the ship of the dead." Levi murmured inwardly.
The two people couldn\'t help being a little stunned when they saw Li Wei sitting on the reef in a leisurely manner with a calm look.
"How is it possible? How did he know we would come?" Turrell\'s face changed and he returned to normal, and Mutter\'s face was also dignified, not knowing what to think.
"Mutter, don\'t be intimidated by him. He pretends to be profound when he is about to die. If we two senior wizards of the first ring fight, he will never survive! Come on, let your summoned creatures come out!" Turrell said .
The summoning circle that Mutter had prepared a long time ago took shape quickly, and a giant bone snake exuding green will-o\'-the-wisp came crashing down, and opened its mouth to spit out a thick green poisonous mist, overwhelming and sweeping towards it.
One ring of **** creature, poisonous fire bone snake.
Slightly stronger than Hell Warrior.
As soon as the poisonous fire bone snake appeared, there was a burst of poisonous mist. Its huge size was rampant, as if it wanted to crush Li Wei.
Li Wei\'s complexion remained unchanged. With his current strength, he did not panic at all in the face of two senior wizards of the first ring.
With a wave of the dark blue magic wand, the water shield technique that came with the wand directly protected Li Wei in it, and then Li Wei quickly chanted the water prison technique, and a water prison enveloped the poisonous fire bone snake, temporarily imprisoning it, and Li Wei shot In the fireball technique, a fireball with a diameter of two meters suddenly appeared and shot out. Looking at the direction of the attack, it was Turrell on the other side.
Today\'s Li Wei has already used the fireball technique to the limit, and the power is naturally not covered.
Turrell saw that Li Wei used the fireball technique, and it was more powerful than himself, which made him a little suspicious of life.
Isn’t this Li Wei from the Pale Tower? This guy is actually from the Shuangxiu Burning faction and the Ocean faction?
Boom!
The fireball blasted in front of Turrell, and he blocked it with a ring of magic, the hood of fire.
At the same time, on the island, five powerful figures who had been hiding on the island for a long time suddenly appeared, and all of them rushed towards Turrell.
"???" Turrell\'s complexion changed drastically.
He had a rough perception of these five figures, all of them were at the level of a ring wizard, and one of them was an eight-legged monster, which even wielded eight bone knives, beheading the fireball that Turrell blasted.
The rock troll couple, the green ghost Carter, Xiao Ba, Kane, and the five living dead greeted Turrell with various attacks. For a moment, spells and spell-like abilities complemented each other, and the light of knives and fire burst into the sky. And rise.
Li Wei is fine if he doesn\'t do it, and it will be a ground-breaking method.
After a period of indiscriminate bombardment, Turrell\'s spell defense was completely torn apart. He was surrounded by the army of undead who had been ambushing for a long time, and he had nowhere to escape. Xiaoba, the strongest among the undead, was like death Similarly, destroying all of Turrell\'s magic attacks, the invincible eight-sword style once again showed its power!
Not long after, Xiao Ba\'s bone knife pierced Turrell\'s heart. If Li Wei didn\'t want them to leave a whole body, this Turrell would have been chopped up by Xiao Ba long ago.
Although Turrell has just advanced to a first-ring senior wizard and his strength has greatly increased, how can he be the opponent of the five first-ring level living dead.
The final result is that Turrell got on, and Terrell was second...
Mutter on the other side was dumbfounded, and agreed to join forces to kill, you f*cked dead as soon as you came up, and I still hit with a hammer?
Quickly dealt with Turrell, and Li Wei saw that the enemies were all black wizards, and no one would come to investigate if they were killed. He is no longer hiding it, his whole body is full of momentum, the legendary four-dimensional state explodes, black scales, flaming body and other twelve inhuman and terrifying features emerge on Li Wei\'s body. In front of a demon king like Li Wei, Mutter shivered like a pitiful little one.
"What a fast speed!" Mutter was shocked. The defensive spells around him flickered wildly, and that kind of creepy feeling came.
Almost instantaneously, Li Wei\'s undead fire claws directly pierced into Mutter\'s magic defense, and then Li Wei smiled grimly, stabbing, the magic force field was directly torn apart by Li Wei, and slowly dissipated in front of Li Wei .
At this moment, the poisonous fire bone snake also broke through Li Wei\'s water prison technique, and rushed towards Li Wei\'s back. Li Wei directly leaned against the invincible whale mountain, coupled with the shock force of the hump! The poisonous fire bone snake\'s tens of meters body was directly blown away, and it slammed into the black fire island fiercely.
At the same time, a blast of soul flame hit Li Wei\'s head, and the green flame enveloped Li Wei\'s head.
"Hahaha, die!"
Mutter instantly opened the distance from Li Wei, and then he was about to turn into a green smoke escape and quickly escape from this place.
In the raging green flames, a ferocious black-scaled head emerged from the green flames. The blood vessels on Li Wei\'s face seemed to have turned into magma channels. His whole body was filled with scorching energy under the beating of the heart of the furnace. , and then Li Wei opened his mouth, and the thick red lotus breath wrapped in a long flame, instantly evaporating the sea water along the way into a void channel.
Boom!
Terrible heat is sweeping!
"What?"
At the critical moment, Mutter did not hesitate to use the life-saving trump card of the ghost-fire body. Although the ghost-fire body can be immune to most physical attacks, it can only be immune to a part of Li Wei\'s magic breath ability.
Breathing out the will-o\'-the-wisps and scattered them into scattered flames.
These flames just condensed into Mutter\'s figure not far away.
Li Wei fell from the sky, and the ostrich feet wrapped in endless black air crushed Mutter\'s shoulders and stepped him into the bottom of the sea!
Gu Dong Dong!
Mutter took a sip of sea water.
The next moment, the **** tentacle pierced Mutter\'s heart directly.
"You... what kind of monster are you..."
Before he died, Mutter\'s eyes were lax, but those eyes were full of incomprehension and doubt.
Mutter had been in contact with the blood transformation wizard of the Life School.
Those eccentrics who are proficient in mutation, organ transplantation and hematology transplant the powerful organs of other extraordinary creatures into themselves and make "biological prosthetics" similar to "alchemy prosthetics", which are used to transform the weak body of human beings. , to obtain extraordinary power.
However, no wizard from the School of Life can use these monster-like organs and abilities as freely and casually as Li Wei. It seems that this Levi is not a person, but really a...monster!
Among fear and doubt, Carter\'s cousin Mutter also died under Li Wei\'s clutches.
"In front of me, Li Wei, any evil will be brought to justice." Li Wei, the black wizard terminator, put away Mutter\'s body. The poisonous fire bone snake was dead because of the summoner, and its connection with the human world was cut short. When it was disconnected, the summoning gate from **** emerged to take back the poisonous fire bone snake.
Seeing this, Li Wei burst out with **** tentacles, entangled the poisonous fire bone snake\'s tail.
"Lee Wei still wants to leave after offending me? Leave the energy core behind!"
Boom!
The poisonous fire bone snake was pulled by Li Wei\'s touch of blood.
The legendary power from Li Wei erupted, the heart of the furnace was burning like a nuclear reactor, and the flaming body of the red lotus suddenly exerted force!
The Poisonous Fire Bone Snake was in disbelief, and the body that had already penetrated half of **** was pulled back abruptly by Li Wei.
Seeing this, the **** creature had will-o\'-the-wisps in its eyes. It seemed to have thought a lot in a short period of time and possessed considerable wisdom.
Just before Li Wei wanted to take the energy core of the poisonous fire bone snake, the poisonous fire bone snake actually begged for mercy and nodded frantically.
"??"
Now it was Li Wei\'s turn to be dumbfounded, he had never encountered such a situation before.
Most **** creatures were either killed by Li Wei, or returned to **** by themselves after Li Wei killed their summoner.
It was the first time for him to kowtow to himself suddenly.
In Li Wei\'s impression, **** creatures are generally the kind with a lot of backbone, who would rather die than surrender. This bone snake looks a little special, it has no spine...
In this case, Li Wei knew that the opportunity had come. He speculated that it might be due to his affinity for **** or the blood of the black snake holding candle, coupled with the different personality of this poisonous bone snake, let him use his own force to completely conquer this **** creature.
Thinking of this, Li Wei said: "I heard that if **** creatures want to stay in other planes for a long time, they need to sign a contract with the existence of other planes and recognize them as masters. Can you make such a contract?"
Li Wei heard from the tower owner that the devil Harant\'s second-ring **** three-headed lizard was brought out of **** by Harante. So the **** three-headed lizard is different from ordinary summons like **** warriors, and can stay in the world forever. And all of this needs to be based on the signing of a contract between the Hell Three-Headed Lizard and Harant.
The Poisonous Fire Bone Snake nodded frantically. Its intelligence was much higher than other single-minded **** creatures, and it knew how to assess the situation. Now that there was no hope of escape, it simply made a conscientious choice that violated its ancestors and damaged the dignity of **** creatures.
On its forehead, a green circle like the gate of **** emerged.
Then, a wave of mental power appeared in Li Wei\'s mind.
The moment he sensed this fluctuation, Li Wei recited the mantra: "Almo, Xituo, Rector..."
Then, a green pattern appeared in Li Wei\'s ocean of consciousness. This pattern was faintly visible as a dark green bone snake, which seemed to be a miniature version of the poisonous fire bone snake.
"Interesting, sacrifice a bit of your soul to me to form a soul mark. From then on, I will be the master of this poisonous fire bone snake, similar to the relationship between Harant and the **** three-headed lizard."
Li Wei muttered to himself with a joyful expression on his face.
This kind of situation is relatively rare, and both parties need to reach an agreement. The most important thing is that the **** creature needs to completely surrender to Li Wei, and is willing to dedicate his soul imprint to Li Wei. Li Wei also encountered many **** creatures before, but none of them were as sincere as the poisonous fire bone snake, so they were all killed by Li Wei.
"Very good, you are a snake who understands the general situation. From now on, as your master, as long as you are loyal to me, I will naturally not treat you badly." Li Wei was in a good mood.
Poisonous Fire Bone Snake nodded.
"Do you have a name?" Levi asked.
It shook its head.
"Then I\'ll call you Egg." Li Wei chose a random name.
Originally, he just wanted to be black and white, and by the way, he made these two people into living dead, but unexpectedly, he got a second-five-year-old snake by accident.
With the imprint of the soul, Li Wei can easily communicate with the poisonous fire bone snake. Even if the other party can\'t speak, Li Wei can perceive its thoughts.
"Hell is such a good place, I have to go to **** if I have a chance in the future."
Although he said so, Li Wei didn\'t want to set foot in **** before he had strong strength. The plane of **** is an extremely powerful plane, and it is also among the best among the multiple planes. In its heyday, it could wrestle with the gods of the astral world. Although it was suppressed by the gods, it has declined to this day. But a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the powerhouse in the **** plane is still far superior to most multi-dimensional planes.
The reason why Harant can enter the **** plane in the second environment is because he has transformed himself into a **** creature to a certain extent, so he will not be rejected by the plane, and ordinary wizards do not have intermediate level or above. Without the strength, stepping into the plane of **** at will is basically asking for death. Moreover, Harlant has only stepped into the shallowest layer of the **** plane. According to the research of the wizards of the death school, the entire **** plane may have a full nine layers, basically corresponding to the nine-ring system of the wizard, and there is no corresponding number of rings. If you don\'t have the strength, you will venture into the deeper **** plane, and you will die.
After subduing the poisonous fire bone snake, Li Wei didn\'t care about this guy. He found an underground cave for it and let it stay there. Li Wei also put away Turrell\'s body.
"No wonder it took me so long to bother me. It seems that after I advanced, I called a helper to deal with me." Li Wei recalled the long wait of the past six months and couldn\'t help talking to himself.
The mental power fluctuations emanating from Turrell\'s body are obviously much stronger than those half a year ago. That guy wanted to kill himself half a year ago, but it may be for safety, so he endured it for half a year, and finally waited for the advanced level of senior The wizard came later, and also found another dark wizard.
"These days, robbers are becoming more and more cautious." Li Wei couldn\'t help laughing.
He counted the storage bags of Turrell and Mutter. The two together only cost more than 3,000 taishi. As a senior black wizard who robs houses every day, Li Wei can\'t help but curse secretly. Poor ghost.
The rest are some spell-casting materials and spell books, all of which Li Wei had before, and there is no spell worth learning for Li Wei.
In addition, Li Wei also seized two witch weapons.
One is Turrell\'s flying witchcraft, which is something like a shield, with the spell runes of the burning faction solidified on it.
A ring of witchcraft, the Fire Shield, can be used for defense or flight, similar to Li Wei\'s Ring of Wind Spirit, but the effect of both defense and flight is mediocre. And for Li Wei, who also has blood wings, this witch weapon is not very useful.
Li Wei plans to find an underground black market, and sell this useless witchcraft to exchange for Taishi. He has bought a lot of things recently, even with the seized Taishi, the price is less than 10,000 pieces. According to Li Wei\'s character, he doesn\'t have a sense of security without a Taishi worth more than 10,000.
The other is a ring of Mutter\'s witchcraft, the Trembling Lord of Rings.
This is a one-ring space ring. The size of the storage space is comparable to that of the Wind Spirit Ring and Siren Ring. In addition, it also solidifies a one-ring spell, paralysis.
"Huh? It\'s actually this spell..." Li Wei couldn\'t laugh or cry.
One-ring spell · paralysis.
A well-known one-ring spell, whose creator is a very interesting ancient wizard Zuma, this is a lost spell, because this spell is extremely tasteless, that is, after casting, there is a 1% probability that the The enemy enters a so-called "paralyzed" state.
After entering the paralyzed state, the enemy will not be able to perform any spell-casting actions and spell chanting for the next second.
As a control type of spell, this effect can be said to be awesome, but the weak point is that in battle, no matter how good you practice this spell, no matter how high your level is, it is only 1% Probability takes effect. In contrast, paralysis requires a lot of magic power, and it takes up the wizard\'s mental power memory space, that is, the spell slot, and the cooling time of the spell takes a full day.
For most wizards, the cost performance of this spell is too low. Not to mention one percent, even one tenth, in actual combat, it is difficult to be effective, it is better to learn a normal one-link control spell honestly.
Of course, the reason why paralysis is an interesting spell is that the paralysis effect can not only affect first-level wizards, but also second-level wizards, and even middle-level wizards. Ascension and continuous attenuation, it is said that only high-level wizards can be completely exempt from this paralyzing effect.
Some people call it "the art of luck", while others call it "the art of bad luck".
In short, in the long course of history, this spell has gradually been lost, and only a very small number of witchcraft that have been handed down from ancient times can solidify this spell.
Obviously, Mutter\'s ring is an ancient witchcraft.
Li Wei shook his head: "I\'ve always been a non-chief when I play games. Such spells are probably useless to me, but this ring itself is a space ring, so I can keep it."
Li Wei wore the Lord of Tremors on his left middle finger, and he had already worn the Wind Spirit Ring and Siren Ring on his left thumb and index finger.
"The Knight of the Ten Commandments has reached three-tenths of the progress."
Li Wei smiled and said that his goal was ten fingers, all of which were equipped with ring-type witchcraft.
Finally, Li Wei made Turrell and Mutter, the two first-ring senior wizards, all into living dead, and the lineup of seven generals of the Demon Family formed by relying on the seal of **** was fully formed! Playing Summoning Stream means that there are many people bullying the few people, so who is singled out?
The Rock Troll couple, the Catmut brothers, Kane and Turrell, and the little eighth from the Shanghai clan.
Seven generals unite, under the second ring, who can stop it!
You know, even in the Pale Tower, one of the best organizations in this sea area, including Li Wei, there are only four one-ring wizards.
To a certain extent, Levi\'s own Seven Generals of the Demon Family can already sweep away many second-ring wizard organizations, not to mention the combat power above the second ring.
In addition, Li Wei also has the newly contracted Poisonous Fire Bone Snake, and the two non-staff members of the mount Leviathan, a total of nine first ring subordinates, all of whom are under Li Wei\'s orders.
"However, the current potential of the Seal of Hell is just like this. Unless there is a chance to break the limit in the future, otherwise, it is the upper limit to be able to control seven undead at the first-level level. After all, the Seal of Hell is just a ring based on Constantine\'s ancestors. A seal created by the spell Undead Summoning, and the strongest Undead Summoning can only summon creatures of the first ring. To summon creatures of the second ring or above, corresponding special advanced spells are required.
Of course, as the seal of a mortal and extraordinary family, it can be used by Li Wei to the present level, even if the ancestor of Constantine\'s mortal family is alive, it may be no more than that.
After solving Turrell\'s problem, Li Wei continued to practice while refining his swordsman mantis.
In the year 1028 of the Holy Glory Calendar, at the end of the winter month, when the new year is approaching.
Li Wei spent a total of several thousand taishi to refine the eight-headed swordsman mantis.
Together, the eight-headed swordsman mantis can even fight against a powerful creature like the poisonous fire bone snake, which surprised Li Wei very much.
"It\'s almost enough, eight-headed swordsman mantis, whether it\'s patrolling my territory or doing some simple chores for me, it\'s completely enough. I can\'t afford any more. I still have to get it from the tower owner in the future." A blueprint of a one-ring alchemy creature to refine, but that requires my furnace meditation method and alchemy level four to try, and now my alchemy school is not enough to refine a more sophisticated one-ring alchemy creature."
Just as Li Wei walked out of the alchemy place, he saw a seagull-like sea bird soaring into the sky, singing and slowly landing on Li Wei\'s Black Fire Island. After the seagull landed, it spit out words and said.
"Pan-plane wizard council number... 9527 member Li Wei, the [Pan-plane Truth] you subscribed to has been delivered."
After the seagull finished speaking, he left a slate and left.
Li Wei took the slate, and the messages on it automatically appeared in Li Wei\'s mind.
This is a special service that Li Wei started after he became a member of the Pan-Plane Wizard Council. With a one-time payment of one thousand taishi, he can enjoy the important news push service from the council within the next hundred years.
Although Li Wei wants to keep practicing, he can\'t completely ignore the news from the outside world. Only by paying attention to some major events at all times can he avoid being involved in some inexplicable disputes.
[The general election of the Pan-Plane Wizards Council has been successfully held. The legendary wizard of the Burning faction, the Blazing Sun God Witch Amon once again defeated the Frost Witch Gullweger of the Ice faction with a small number of votes, and was re-elected for the third time. The position of the [Great Council President] of the Plane Wizard Council. Dear members, in the next millennium, let the Blazing Sun God and Witch once again lead our wizard civilization to greatness! Let Amon\'s blazing sun shine through multiple planes! 】
"Ah? When was the election? I, as a member, don\'t know. Isn\'t my vote a waste? Why is no one paying for my vote... Forget it, anyway, this kind of big shot matter is also related to me. It\'s okay to be a small person."
[A group of black wizards from the darkest and most evil black wizard organization "City of Chaos" in the pan-plane recently created a shocking suicide attack by black wizards in the Scarlet Realm. Multiple wizard organizations were affected, involving nearly a hundred wizards ! In this regard, "Chaos City Lord", "Dark Wizard Emperor", and "Chaos God Son" Astor declared responsibility for this matter: "All things return to chaos, and so do wizards. The existence of the pan-plane wizard council is a blasphemy against chaos. How disloyal is this! I, the Dark Emperor, Astor, the Lord of the End, will definitely bring chaos to the Pan-Plane Wizard Council, so please wait for my arrival!"]
"Are legendary wizards like this? It seems that the dark wizards are going to start messing around again. It\'s better not to go out recently." Li Wei murmured in his heart.
[An unfinished "experiment" from the "Ms. Monster" Luo Lin\'s laboratory of the Life School escaped from the laboratory while the lady\'s assistant was not paying attention, and even erased the tracking mark by herself. Ms. Luo Lin hereby reminds all members , If you encounter this experimental product, please contact the pan-plane wizard council immediately, and Ms. Luo Lin will reward you a lot. (with photos)]
"It\'s a good thing that I\'m in the Azure Realm, and the wizards in the Life Realm are too miserable, and I\'m constantly disturbed by various experimental products." Li Wei sighed.
Since he subscribed to "Pan-Plane Truth", Li Wei would read newspapers for relaxation and entertainment after daily practice. Before he knew it, half a day had passed by the time he finished reading the newspapers.
Li Wei memorized some potentially useful information in his mind, and then continued to practice. After almost the alchemy research, Li Wei borrowed the "Book of Cypher" from the tower master, and prepared to start the research of the magic circle. I plan to learn the magic circle first, and then arrange a set of magic circles around my cave for protection.
In the days of indulging in research, time always flies by.
In addition to the research on the magic circle, Li Wei taught the pharmacist course in the Pale Tower, and at the same time used more one-ring pharmacy formulas to monitor the progress of liver pharmacy. During the Moon of Flowers, Li Wei\'s pharmacy skills also reached the eighth level, reaching the level of a senior pharmacist in the first ring, but the practice of the magic circle is still slow, so far, it has not even appeared on the proficiency panel In fact, this means that after several months of practice, Li Wei did not get started with the magic circle.
Fortunately, Li Wei is patient, and while he is in the realm, he is in the magic circle.
In 1029 of the Shenghui calendar, during the month of flowers, before Li Wei planned to hold a regular team building with Mu Di, Li Wei\'s black whale breathing method reached the limit of the eleventh level naturally.
Levy——
Black whale breathing method: eleventh level (extreme), special effect: whale back (solid state), whale swallows the sea.
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