The True Sight Orb displayed Grand Wizard Sulla's face. Clearly, Grand Wizard Sulla had once pressed his face against the True Sight Orb in the past and issued a soft whisper. "Is it Locke watching this crystal?"

"I've been increasingly fearful and uneasy lately. I keep feeling like I've missed something. As my magical pressure continuously impacts my soul, my advancement can no longer be delayed."

"But the more it's like this, the more uneasy I become. I keep feeling that in corners I can't see, there's a gaze full of hostility toward me watching me."

Grand Wizard Sulla clutched his hair. He was actually enduring tremendous mental suffering. "I suspect my paranoia has further worsened to the point of producing hallucinations."

Through the True Sight Orb, Locke perceived that Grand Wizard Sulla's suffering should have two reasons.

First, that Divination School magic was interfering with Grand Wizard Sulla, trying to weaken his condition and enfeeble his spirit.

But originally, even if this prophecy magic could collect the entire Mage Plane's fortune, it absolutely shouldn't be able to affect a first-time transcender, much less a wizard who had reached the extreme limit state of a first-time transcender, this severely.

The second reason was the main one.

Namely, after Grand Wizard Sulla's soul reached its limit, his magical power continuously impacted his soul. His soul had already been severely weakened.

For those who had reached their limits, power was no longer a byproduct on the path of pursuing truth but a heavy burden.

Like a three-year-old child wearing a heavy crown, with the slightest carelessness they would fall, and that crown would pierce their throat, crush their skull, cut open their skin, and cause their death.

Grand Wizard Sulla's power had already severely exceeded the limit his soul could bear. Under the suppression of that power, his soul became exceptionally fragile with danger of collapse at any moment. Thus, even Grand Wizard Sulla, whose will was quite resilient, began to waver in spirit due to the weakening of his soul itself.

Combined with the influence of that prophecy magic, Grand Wizard Sulla completely began to doubt himself.

Locke furrowed his brow. "This state is very wrong."

"If Grand Wizard Sulla wants to use this state to advance to Second Circle, before he even succeeds, he's already lost more than half the battle."

"After power reaches its limit, if power continues to grow, for oneself it's just a burden? If that's the case, then no matter who it is, their state before advancing to Second Circle won't be very good. After all, people have dual material and spiritual attributes. When soul power is damaged, naturally personality is also damaged. When personality is damaged, all choices will be wrong, and they'll be a step slower than others."

"If this happened at ordinary times, it would be one thing, but it happens to occur at the critical moment of advancing to Second Circle."

"In other words, before advancing to Second Circle wizard, the wizard's power won't increase but will instead decrease, entering a decline period."

Locke immediately realized the enormous difficulty of advancing to Second Circle. It was different from the advancement of the three minor stages within First Circle.

The advancement of those three minor stages was marching forward triumphantly all the way, accumulating power all the way, going upward all the way.

But when advancing to Second Circle, the wizard's condition often wouldn't be very good. Even the wisdom wizards were most proud of would be affected because the soul reached its limit.

Wizards needed to break through the greatest obstacle in their worst condition. This was a completely different situation from all previous breakthrough logic.

From this, one could see just how dangerous the second transcendence was.

It would be the second time transcending one's racial soul limit, reaching a level of individual magical pressure that was impossible to achieve, possessing magical pressure comparable to natural phenomena.

Of course, Grand Wizard Sulla's situation was particularly severe because before advancing, he used the Dark Pit Scorpion Woman to absorb magical tides and gather them into his soul, even more severely intensifying this phenomenon. From the True Sight Orb, his soul was already covered in cracks.

In the True Sight Orb, Grand Wizard Sulla ordered his thirty-two Magic Saints to search for those demon people, and through the thirty-two native Magic Saints who could cast various First Circle Evocation School elemental magic and possessed 'domains', they continuously exterminated the demon people race, shrinking the demonic energy's range, and finally determined the demon people race's location.

It was below a volcano crater. The twisted earth energy was nurturing an egg like magma.

The shell surface of that golden magma egg was covered with lava cracks. Magma dripped drop by drop. As it fell on the rocks above, it immediately burned out waves of thick smoke.

Grand Wizard Sulla directly stabbed a silver dart with bloodline patterns into that eggshell.

In the scene, Grand Wizard Sulla was overjoyed. The ancient well without waves emotion he originally maintained could no longer contain his inner joy with his soul full of cracks. "Uliel, in the end, I won."

"In the end, I still won."

"I won!"

"Your egg nurturing the ultimate demon person has only completed about 99%. What a pity. Just one step away, and you could have nurtured a Second Circle demon person's body. That's your masterpiece as a prosthetic master, right? Twisting earth elements, condensing a fallen earth child, reversing life energy circulation, intercepting life and death, placing the twisted earth between life and death, becoming the underworld land that collects all wronged souls in your mind. This is your true purpose for creating the demon people race of the twisted earth."

Behind that egg, demonic energy appeared and disappeared. The demonic energy formed the appearance of a middle-aged man. "Sulla, you've read my papers published in 'Spiral'?"

Grand Wizard Sulla couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth. "Every article, every word, I've read them all. I was once happy for you forging your own path, then later fearful, then angry, and then all of it transformed into this moment's joy."

"Without the demon people race, finally no one interferes with my attracting the world's power's attention."

"And this ultimate demon person embryo of yours can be used by me." Grand Wizard Sulla swept his right hand over the embryo pierced with the dart. Immediately, streams of bloodline energy essence gathered toward his body.

"Although at this point, no matter how much I strengthen my body, it's very difficult to increase my upper limit. But as long as I can absorb your ultimate demon person's bloodline energy, it should be able to alleviate the symptoms on my body."

"Lucky me."

Uliel let out a light laugh. "It's hard to believe that someone as cunning as you could now be so frank. Don't get too excited, Sulla. Such high emotions don't represent your strength. On the contrary, they're proof of your weakness."

Grand Wizard Sulla looked coldly at his demonic energy. "Uliel, I've already won. Between you and me, no matter what grudges exist, they're no longer important."

"While I still don't want to kill you, voluntarily take your soul and leave this body."

"This is the last mercy I give you."

Uliel looked at Grand Wizard Sulla with ice-cold eyes. "Haven't you forgotten something?"

"Hm?"