Mia Guan's eyes were fixed on every detail of the stone carving 'Dream Awakening', as if she had entered a state of trance.

  "Yale's been gone for two whole hours." Reno said, taking out his pocket watch and glancing at it.

  Yale shook his head and said in a low voice, "Don't rush, let Master Maiya take a closer look. Since Master Maiya is the president of the Pruxes Guild, he must be a descendant of the great Pruxes master, so I believe his connoisseurship standards are extremely high. I wonder what level this piece of work by Old Three has reached."

  Renault nodded slightly.

  It wasn't until nearly three hours had passed that Maya finally straightened up and let out a long sigh.

  "I heard this stone carving is called 'Dream Awakening'?" asked Director Maya.

  Yale nodded and said, "Yes, Old Three named it himself."

  Mia nodded slightly, then took another good look at the stone carving "Dream Awakening" and exclaimed: "I have to say, your brother 'Lin Lei' is absolutely a genius in the field of stone carving, can be said to be comparable to the great master Prucks."

  "Although his work is slightly inferior to Master Prucks in terms of brushwork and carving, it is absolutely on par with him in terms of the soul of the work." Director Maya exclaimed.

  "Carved strokes?" Yale wondered.

  Mia nodded and said: "Right, but this work has a slight flaw, but it also has an amazing advantage."

  "The only flaw is that some of the concave and convex surfaces as well as the smooth curves are slightly lacking in processing.But overall, your Lin Lei brother's work is very coherent, with a visual effect that can rival several works by Master Prucks. Most importantly, this piece is huge."

  Maia Gallery Director sighed: "A masterpiece that will be passed down through the ages, every place requires an astonishing amount of heart and soul. One careless mistake could lead to the failure of the entire work. It's already difficult to carve a single human-shaped stone statue, but Lin Lei carved five. What's even more admirable is that each of the five works has its own unique spirit, yet they are all connected in meaning. If I'm not mistaken, your brother Lin Lei must have gone through a heartbreak."

  With Maiya's gaze, it was natural to see what these five stone carvings meant.

  "Waking up from a dream, being able to carve out such a work, it's really astonishing." Maya couldn't help but praise again.

  "Director Maya, you said that my brother Lin Lei's work, what level is it? Can it compare to Master Prucks' works?" Leno asked aloud.

  Mia frowned: "Actually, I'm also a bit uncertain. Let me tell you this, the carving level of this piece can only be considered high-level, but in terms of coherence, it's comparable to Master Prucks. But there is one special point -"

  "The carving strokes of this piece are very concise and neat. From head to toe, the five stone carvings can be said to be a perfect whole. The style of carving is unique and I have never seen or heard of it before." Director Maya praised.

  Yale asked hastily: "Master Maya, what level is this piece of work?"

  "I'm also unable to determine, from traditional evaluation methods, this piece of work should be considered a masterpiece. At least that unique aura and soul are without a doubt, his carving technique has already expressed that kind of aura."

  "What's with the traditional evaluation method?" Yale and Reno looked at Maya in confusion.

  Maia nodded and said, "The traditional method of appreciation is a universally recognized evaluation method that has been passed down for countless years. However, I feel... Lin Lei's work, when viewed, the entire piece is extremely perfect. Not feeling any lack at all."

  "The existence of stone carvings is originally for people to appreciate. The appreciation effect determines everything. It can be said that Lin Lei may not be a master of stone carving, but the price of this work will probably be very high, enough to catch up with the top ten stone carvings." Director Maya smiled and said.

  Not a master of stone carving, but his works can be included in the 'Top Ten Stone Carvings', which is indeed an unprecedented strange thing.

  But Maya had to admit that this thing was likely to happen.

  "Oh." Yale nodded slightly.

  This is actually a shortcoming of the flat knife carving school, after all, using only a flat knife to carve some concave and convex surfaces with smooth curves is not as good as some specialized tools. Lin Lei's use of 'flat knives' may produce results that are comparable to those of ordinary stone carving masters.

  But compared with Shi Kou's work, it is somewhat lacking in brushwork treatment.

  The Hei Tou Dao school also has its advantages. For example, in terms of 'continuity', and... others carve by constantly changing tools, but the Hei Tou Dao school's carving requires the 'earthly magic master' to merge his mind with heaven and earth, and then carve. This kind of carving can actually increase spiritual power.

  "What about Lin Lei himself?" asked Director Maya.

  Yale shook his head, "Lao San is a magician after all, he spends most of his time cultivating, and now he should still be in the Magic Beast Mountain Range for seclusion. I'm not sure when he'll come back."

  "Well then, Yale, would you be so kind as to act on behalf of Lin Lei and sell this piece at the Prudential Gallery?" suggested Director Maiya.

  "No way," Yale said bluntly. "I won't make a decision without Old Three's consent."

  Mia frowned and continued, "What about the exhibition? I don't think there should be a big problem with holding an exhibition at our Prucks Hall. After all, Lin Lei's past stone carving works were all exhibited and sold at our Prucks Hall."

  Yale is very clear about the significance of this work for Lin Lei.

  This represents Lin Lei's past painful emotions. Whether Lin Lei agrees to take it out for exhibition is still hard to say, he doesn't want Lin Lei to be in a difficult position.

  "No way, I'm only in charge of keeping it. As for exhibiting or selling it, let's wait until Old Three returns." Yale said with a loud voice.

  In the midst of the Demon Beast Mountains.

  For a whole two months, Lin Lei had been devoted to the 'Purple Blood' soft sword. The 'Purple Blood' soft sword was the best weapon Lin Lei had ever seen. Its sharpness alone could withstand ordinary sixth-level magical beasts. But its sharpness was just one small characteristic of the 'Purple Blood' soft sword.

  The Purple Blood Soft Sword has a bit of softness and hardness at will, extremely fast speed, and contains killing energy.

  It's just killing energy.

  This was discovered by Lin Lei when he used this 'Purple Blood' soft sword to kill some magical beasts. The special material of this Purple Blood soft sword should contain a strange power, and when the sword is swung out, it will naturally have a strange murderous aura.

  This killing aura is quite similar to Dragon Might. Of course, it's not as terrifying as Dragon Might, but in battle, this bit of killing aura can have a very good effect.

  In the dark of night, among hundreds of Wind Wolves in the Magic Beast Mountains, each and every one of their green eyes stared fixedly at Lin Lei, crazily howling as they charged towards him one after another. Meanwhile, Lin Lei was like a floating wind, swiftly and nimbly darting through the wolf pack, with a long sword on his hand that shone with a blue light.

  The Purple Blood Divine Sword was imbued with wind system magic, making the sword's speed even faster. At the same time, the trajectory of the sword became more elusive when swung, and the wind posed no resistance at all.

  "Ah!"

  In the dark night, a purple light with a cyan glow flashed quickly, its trajectory was erratic and strange. Every time it flashed, one or two wind wolves were split in half. The wind wolf was only a fourth-level demon beast, and among the hundreds of wind wolves, the slightly stronger ones were only fifth-level, and the two leaders of the wind wolves were only sixth-level.

  Lin Lei is currently in human form and possesses sixth-level warrior strength.

  In fact, it's not just the sixth-level warrior, even if a seventh-level warrior were to fight with hundreds of wind wolves, they probably wouldn't dare. After all, a good man can't withstand a large number of people. Those wind wolf claws are very sharp. If Lin Lei's body was scratched by one claw, he would likely bleed. Unless he enters the 'Dragon Transformation' state.

  "Roar!" A gust of wind wolf leapt over at high speed, opening its bloody huge mouth.

  "Whoosh!"

  The purple blood divine sword flashed by, and the wind wolf was directly split in two from its forehead to its tail.

  "My Purple Blood Divine Sword can easily slash through the Swift Dragon, but as for you..." Lin Lei's Purple Blood Divine Sword became even faster and more agile.

  The reason why the Wind Wolf Pack is feared is because they are fast and numerous. If ten Wind Wolves were to attack from all sides at once, even a 7th-level warrior would find it difficult to fend off all ten of them, and could only rely on brute force to resist.

  Kolin is different.

  "Hiss!" The Purple Blood Divine Sword flashed by in an instant, and the eight Wind Wolves that pounced on it were all split in two.

  The Purple Blood Divine Sword was too fast, so fast that all the Wind Wolves could only see its afterimage. When Lin Lei killed over a hundred Wind Wolves without suffering any injuries himself, this large pack of Wind Wolves finally felt fear.

  They are fierce and fearless of death, but it's a meaningless death, they won't do it either.

  "Ah~~~" The two wolf leaders, who had been hiding in the back, suddenly raised their heads and let out a furious howl. All the wolves let out low, mournful wails and immediately retreated at top speed. The sorrowful cries of the wolf pack could be heard from afar, clearly this time they had suffered too many casualties and gained nothing.

  Lin Lei's hand grasped a building, a purple shadow flashed by, and the Purple Blood Divine Sword wrapped itself around Lin Lei's waist.

  "To deal with them, it's not necessary to exert the true combat power of 'Purple Blood'." Lin Lei's long robe had a faint bloodstain on it, which was the blood of Feng Lang.

  In the midst of the slaughter with the Wind Wolf Pack, from start to finish, Lin Lei's Purple Blood Divine Sword was always straight. To deal with the Wind Wolf Pack, relying solely on 'speed' and 'sharpness' would be enough. But once the Purple Blood Divine Sword became sometimes straight and sometimes curved, its attacking power would increase by several times.

  "Boss, you're getting more and more awesome!" Beibei excitedly jumped onto Lin Lei's shoulder.

  Lin Lei smiled: "You're not weak either."

  Taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly, Lin Lei looked around at the surrounding mountains of magical beasts, then glanced at the three packages on his shoulders. Over the past two months, Lin Lei's research into the 'Purple Blood' divine sword had yielded another effect: he now possessed three packages filled with crystal nuclei.

  "It's been two months now, and I've temporarily reached a bottleneck in the attacking power of 'Purple Blood'. If I want to increase it further, I can only increase my arm strength and wrist strength."

  Lin Lei spent the past two months researching and practicing various sword techniques, including drawing, thrusting, slashing, chopping, and parrying. His goal was to become faster, to reach the fastest speed possible. With his understanding of wind element, Lin Lei was able to better comprehend the intricacies of swordsmanship.

  Just now hundreds of wind wolves attacked, but Lin Lei was not injured at all, this is the achievement.

  In the past, Lin Lei didn't even dare to think that he could achieve this level.

  "We've reached a bottleneck, and staying in the Monster Mountains won't be of much use either. Let's head back first."

  In the morning, the sunshine shone on the earth. Lin Lei, wearing a long blue gown with a hint of bloodstain, had three magic crystal packages on his back and a soft sword wrapped around his waist, walked to the entrance of Enster Academy, with Bebe standing on his shoulder.

  "Finally back." Lin Lei felt a sense of peace in his heart when he saw Ernst Magic Academy.

  Ernst Magic Academy and the Beast Mountain Range are two extremes, where no one dares to kill wantonly, the atmosphere is very good. But in the Beast Mountain Range, it's a world of magic beasts, the strong are respected, the weak will be eliminated, killing can happen at any moment.

  "It's Lin Lei." The gatekeeper of Ernst Magic Academy naturally recognized Lin Lei, a celebrity in the academy, and wouldn't block him.

  Lin Lei nodded slightly to the guard and then stepped into the Ernst Magic Academy. As he walked along the academy's streets, many Ernst students who had already gone to class whispered to each other upon seeing Lin Lei.

  "That's Lin Lei, look, there are still bloodstains on his body, he should have just returned from the Beast Mountain Range. I heard he went to the Beast Mountain Range last year and didn't even attend the year-end assessment, that's already four months ago, staying in the Beast Mountain Range for four months is really impressive."

  "Dixie reached level 6 magician by the end of last year, but Lin Lei didn't take the test."

  Listening to those whispers, Lin Lei just smiled and walked towards his dormitory. At this time, Yale, Reno, and George were coming out to prepare for breakfast.

  "Ah, Old Three, you're back!" Reno exclaimed excitedly.

  Yale, George and Reno rushed over excitedly, while Lin Lei smiled at his three brothers.

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