A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 404 Ascending to the Saint Realm

As Jiang Shuzhou used the mage tower to draw countless intricate runes, the burning ritual progressed little by little.

Unlike the simple magic circle drawn on a broken wooden board during the apprenticeship, this ceremony was much grander, and the carrier and runes required were naturally completely different.

Jiang Shuzhou used countless amounts of highly conductive mithril to draw runes, as if it were free, and the base plate, mixed with refined gold, ensured that the magic power within would not diffuse to the maximum extent.

Adamantite has good resistance to magic, making it difficult for magic to flow within it, making it perfect for use as a base.

After seven full days, Jiang Shuzhou finally completed the setup for the burning ceremony.

"here we go."

Jiang Shuzhou took a few deep breaths, waved his hand, and threw out the fragments of the plane's will, then ignited them.

At the same time, Jiang Shuzhou also threw out a large number of the divine crystals of the Magic Network Goddess, almost half of them.

Finally, there's the crystal ball containing hundreds of millions of souls; this is purely an add-on.

Then, with a buzzing sound, the ceremony officially began.

A wisp of silver flame appeared in Jiang Shuzhou's hand. It was the fire of a mage, the fire that burned eternally deep within Jiang Shuzhou's soul, the fire of his thirst for knowledge.

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Shuzhou split the flames into several parts, which flew toward the plane's will, the divine crystal, and the soul.

The sound of burning filled the air, signifying the start of the burning ceremony.

Jiang Shuzhou sat cross-legged in the center of the ceremony, concentrating his mind and calming his spirit.

The will of the plane was ignited, and streams of pure soul power and a large amount of elemental energy were generated, including some of the aura of laws.

The divine crystal was burned, and the aura of endless elements and various laws flowed out.

Jiang Shuzhou calmly felt these things, breathing with his soul and sensing the laws with his soul.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Shuzhou felt the power within his body begin to slowly increase, and at the same time, his soul began to sublimate once again.

Jiang Shuzhou could sense that the so-called world was the condensation of countless laws, and with just a slight change, everything would be different.

Jiang Shuzhou tried to move it, but he found that he was powerless to do so.

He cannot dispel any of the laws.

But after a short while, Jiang Shuzhou understood.

He wasn't even at the Saintly Realm, so naturally he couldn't manipulate the laws.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shuzhou began to use countless rules, rules under the same law, as a foundation to shake the law.

He succeeded very quickly.

Along with the fluctuations of the laws, something exploded in the distant star realm; that was a manifestation of the power of the laws.

But this is far from enough.

To become a Saint, one must etch one's mark upon the laws.

As Jiang Shuzhou manipulated the laws, his information was gradually imprinted into them.

However, no matter what, the final step of promotion could not be completed.

After a moment's thought, Jiang Shuzhou found the key to the problem: this plane could only accommodate those of high rank and below, and for Jiang Shuzhou, who was about to become a Saint, the pond was too small.

Now that the problem has been identified, Jiang Shuzhou naturally wants to solve it. His solution is quite simple: just establish a sacred domain in the Star Boundary.

Jiang Shuzhou flashed and arrived directly in the Star Realm.

In an instant, he felt a sense of relief.

Perhaps this is the free astral plane, with no restrictions on strength, no up or down, front or back, and countless spatial turbulence and spatial layers.

This is the Astral Plane.

As Jiang Shuzhou slowly manipulated the laws using the rules, strange melodies were produced.

Jiang Shuzhou could sense that he was about to be promoted.

But this is not enough.

Jiang Shuzhou took out the Order Cube and the Abyss Cube, and then extracted the power from them.

This is undoubtedly insane. The Order Cube might be okay, but the Abyss Cube is just ridiculous.

Controlling the laws of chaos is virtually impossible.

But Jiang Shuzhou was determined to turn the impossible into the possible.

Order will balance chaos.

With the addition of these two forces, more laws were activated, and Jiang Shuzhou's power grew stronger.

Finally, his power reached its limit.

As his soul resonated with countless laws, Jiang Shuzhou could sense that everything had changed completely.

A strange feeling arose spontaneously.

It was a mysterious and profound feeling, like the refreshing clarity of seeing through the fog.

In the void of the astral plane, an elemental storm was gathering.

This is because Jiang Shuzhou absorbed a large number of elements, which converged to form a storm.

At the same time, all the Holy Realms and Legends vaguely know that a Holy Realm being was born today in the endless Star Realm.

However, they were not surprised by this.

It is not surprising that a sacred realm is born in the astral plane almost every week.

Besides, they can only know about the birth, but not the place of birth, so what does it matter?

After all, the astral plane is so vast that no one has dared to claim that they have reached its boundaries.

This makes recruitment impossible.

They can't recruit them, and predicting such an existence is suicidal. Regardless of its accuracy, the price they have to pay will be enough to make them suffer.

Since that's the case, we can only remain indifferent and at most make a note of the birth of another being in the astral realm.

"It's definitely different now."

With a thought, Jiang Shuzhou caused countless floating pebbles in the void not far away to be shattered in an instant and then immediately restored to their original state, which was quite interesting.

For Saint-level powerhouses who can use the laws, their strength naturally reaches a new level.

Jiang Shuzhou was already a powerful figure when he was at the high level. After reaching the Holy Domain and mastering the two laws of order and chaos, he was naturally even stronger. In theory, his current strength is enough to contend with some weaker legendary figures.

Of course, it refers to those dubious legends, such as priests or paladins who were forcibly brought to life by the gods.

If someone achieves success through their own hard work, Jiang Shuzhou still can't beat them.

Even soldiers.

At this stage, the difference between warriors and mages is almost negligible. The competition is about how many laws they can control and how proficient they are at them; nothing else matters.

However, mages do have a certain advantage, namely their love of research. Therefore, mages generally have more laws under their control than warriors.

But this is not absolute.

Of course, this is without considering the floating cities. If the floating cities are included, then the warriors have no chance of winning.

After all, this kind of weapon is extremely expensive and extremely difficult to manufacture.

Building a floating city would take hundreds of years, even for a mage with his wealth.

Many of the materials used in this product are valuable but unavailable; no one would buy or sell them casually.

The ten million magic stones that Jiang Shuzhou just acquired are probably not even enough to buy a single square meter of land in the Floating City.

Having just conquered a world and amassed a vast fortune, Jiang Shuzhou had expected to become incredibly rich, but now he was poor again.