<h4>Chapter 406: An Immortal Being</h4>


    “So, you’re responsible for the whole fuss in the capital?”


    Nichs II’s spirit body frowned, “You justmitted mass murder in the capital to get the wizard’s marrow?


    “I’m starting to regret it now.”


    “Regret what?”


    “I regret giving you the technology of the Sage’s Stone.”


    Nichs II gave Bernardino a dissatisfied nce.


    He had no idea that Bernardino would do such an outrageous thing.


    To put it crudely, there are so many ck Wizards in the capital. Can’t you just kill one of them?


    Even if you want a spine of better quality, there is no shortage of Silver Rank Transcenders in the capital.


    The Sage’s Stone, made with a Silver Rank Transcender, can be used seven to eight times. The length of each use reaches the standardbat duration of five minutes. Do you have to resort to an extreme method of entering the pce and directly extracting the spine?


    “I don’t even know what you’re going to do with Sage’s Stone.”


    The white-haired young spirit body frowned, took a few steps forward, and reprimanded unceremoniously, “Even if you have a grudge against that wizard, don’t you know how to keep it a low profile?


    “Deal with the corpse, man! If it’s inconvenient, can’t you take the whole corpse away? Why do you leave a corpse without a spine?”


    This time, I’m afraid I’m going to get into trouble.


    I don’t know if I will be imprisoned or probably have Father Stone executing me.


    After all, strictly speaking, I can even be regarded as “prisonbor”.


    When Nichs II came to this ce, he was forbidden to contact anyone.


    After he taught Bernardino how to make “Hermes Sage’s Stone”, the old man immediately backstabbed him.


    After taking the opponent’s spine, he did not destroy the dead body!


    Isn’t this intentional to lead the clues to me?


    Bernardino just smiled.


    The old man in the wheelchair said unhurriedly, “I just need to use it to continue my life. That’s all.”


    “Sage’s Stone is the perfect element essence and the greatest thing in the world. Even if we can’t craft it perfectly, it can stillpletely change a person’s destiny.”


    Nichs II emphasized, “Don’t just treat it as a tool or a reagent.”


    “No, no, Nichs.” The old manughed in a low voice and whispered happily and contentedly, “Of course, I wouldn’t just treat it as a tool.


    “It will be my blood, my fuel, my heart, my life, everything I hold dear, and the beginning of my destiny.” Bernardino spoke slowly, looking up from the wheelchair.


    Hearing this, Nichs II frowned slightly.


    For some reason, he suddenly had a bad hunch in his heart watching this scene.


    At his level, a “hunch” was not just a simple “premonition”.


    Fortunately, he had also mastered some Prophet magic.


    A faint yellow halo suddenly shed in the pupil of Nichs II’s spirit body. A hollow, metal clock pattern was imprinted in his pupil.


    This was the Prophet School’s spell, [Limited Foreknowledge], which the Time Stopper Eye taught Nichs previously.


    The spell inventor was “Time Stopper Eye” himself. Although it was only a Silver Rank Instant Spell, it could be used to peek into the short future.


    The process only happened in a short moment.


    At the next moment, just as Bernardino raised his head…


    “[Truce]!” Nichs II suddenly shouted.


    There was an indescribable sense of majesty in his Edict Spell.


    The moment the words were uttered, they turned into substantial power.


    Between Bernardino and Nichs II, a transparent, crystal-like wall suddenly rose. The invisible repulsive force roared and pushed to both sides simultaneously.


    But only Bernardino’s wheelchair was ejected, while Nichs II’s spirit was still floating in the air.


    “—The lion’s crown.” Nichs II’s previously anxious voice instantly calmed down.


    The wooden floor in front of him copsed in an instant. It turned into scorching quicksand surging continuously, shining with golden brilliance.


    In an instant, the room became arid. It was like a desert on a hot summer day and even more cruel than that.


    If ordinary people were here, he would dehydrate after only three seconds; if it were a demon, they would suffer seven times the damage. Contacting the sand would ignite them in the blink of an eye.


    These quicksands refined by Nichs II were actually from the east of the Yasn Continent, the living desert that almost engulfed the elves and centaurs.


    The reason why the demons did note to Yasn was not that they were kind but because the demons could not cross that desert.


    That was the Epoch Disaster.


    Having swallowed and sank by the sea of ??sand with his bandages began to turn yellow and ignite spontaneously, Bernardino did not look flustered at all.


    Seeing this, Nichs II’s expression turned gloomy.


    He raised his right hand again and began to chant quickly.


    “Kubler’s Left Eye. Skip. Lily Wreath. Skip. The wolf that eats the moon should look up—” But, his chant had not yet finished.


    Nichs’s spirit suddenly froze under the stare of Bernardino’s brilliance’s right eye.


    How?!


    Even if the Spiritual Monk has absolute suppression power over spirit bodies, it shouldn’t be so effortless.


    “Nichs mel. I have something that I need to exin to you: Sage’s Stone. I’ve seeded.”


    Bernardino said with a smile, “That’s because of the spirit body I carry. He is your teacher, adoptive father, and the former Jade Tower Master, Isaac mel.”


    Hearing this, Nichs II’s expression suddenly froze.


    At the next moment, a ck cyclops rose silently behind Bernardino.


    Then, like dripping oil, countless ck liquid feathers emerged out of thin air from Nichs II’s side. It quickly gathered towards the center, sticking to Nichs II’s spiritual body piece by piece.


    Nichs II suddenly felt immense powerlessness when the first feather touched him.


    He turned into a ck stone sculpture in just three seconds, unable to move.


    When Bernardino was about to be entirely engulfed by the sea of ??sand, the cyclops behind him reached out its hand and lifted him out of it quickly.


    The skin was burned to the point where the bones were visible, but Bernardino did not panic.


    Under Nichs II’s astonished gaze, his skin quickly healed under a whiff of white smoke.


    The exposed skin was soft and smooth, not as old as before, but with dense tattoos on it.


    Nichs II could see at a nce that it was covered with alchemical symbols of the Jade Tower’s lineage.


    “This is the miracle you have created, Nichs.” Bernardinoughed out loud.


    He pulled the bandage off his face and stood up from the wheelchair.


    The iparably aged face had recovered to the age of less than 30.


    His tan curls fell to his shoulders, and his deep jeweled eyes sparkled with confidence. It was just that his face, neck, and every part of his skin was engraved with transmutation circles.


    Nichs II instantly realized the truth after seeing the transmutation circle on his face.


    Did he refine himself into a Sage’s Stone?!


    It wasn’t the Sage’s Stone of the Hermetic School at all. It was more of a half-finished product.


    It was to inject the liquid Sage’s Stone, whosepletion reached no more than 70%, into the blood vessels. That would contain its power through the rune on the skin and continuously activate it.


    “Immortality, the power of infinite elements, and the ‘herd’ gather around me. Now, I have reached the limit of mortals!”


    Bernardinoughed and looked at Nichs II, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, “Thank you for this, Nichs!”


    Nichs II suddenly found himself able to speak again.


    He said solemnly, “So, do you want to take away my spinal cord too?


    “—as a token of appreciation to me?”


    “No, I just want you to live a little more clear-headed.”


    Bernardino had a mysterious smile, “When you go back, remember to cut your wrists in the sun and read out an ult knowledge about Mr. Ray.”


    “What?!”


    “Let me tell you a secret, Nichs.”


    Bernardino interrupted Nichs II.


    He opened his mouth with the majesty of a divine judgment.


    “—[You once killed innocent people indiscriminately in the capital];


    “—[You once founded the Nichs School];


    “—[You once created numerous demons].”


    After hearing these three sentences, the Younger Bernardino smiled and waved his hand.


    Nichs II’s spirit body slowly sank into the ck mud.


    But at the next moment, he suddenly woke up.


    When Nichs opened his eyes from the chair, he suddenly felt ticklish in his throat.


    “Where did you go?” Father Stone’s voice came from behind him, as always.


    “I—” But Nichs opened his mouth but said nothing.


    He had indeed opened his mouth, but no words escaped from his throat.


    In this instant, Nichs realized all the truth.