In the poison pool, large amounts of poisonous liquid frantically converged toward Locke. The number of streams flowing into the poison lake kept increasing. After half a day, they went from over a hundred to nearly a thousand.

In the center of the poison lake, water tornadoes appeared, one after another. Dozens of water columns rose up. The poisonous liquid in those water columns transformed into small spiders one after another, then gathered and dispersed, splitting apart and falling into the lake.

At that time, the lake surface suddenly exploded. A twisted gravity descended, making the poison lake water burst apart.

On the poison lake shore, several spider women saw this scene and their expressions changed slightly. The spider woman who had earliest shown goodwill toward Locke said, "How can the reaction be this large? According to our spider people clan's records, even if a wizard enters the poison lake, the scale of the anomaly caused shouldn't be this large."

Another spider woman said, "This... the clan also has records. It seems to also be related to the wizard's own potential. The greater the bloodline potential inside a wizard's body, the larger the disturbance caused in the poison body pool. The five great poison body pools are interconnected, and each poison well also has corresponding underground waterways connecting them."

"The entire valley is a huge toxin furnace. Ten thousand deadly poisons gather together to strengthen the bloodlines inside a wizard's body."

"Once a wizard's internal bloodline potential is extremely great, it's possible to trigger a very large-scale anomaly."

A trace of caution appeared on this spider woman's face. "We didn't misjudge the wizard. He is indeed very powerful. We just hope the transaction we negotiate with him can succeed. We don't have many bargaining chips..."

...

At that time, beneath the poison lake, Locke's entire body was wrapped in an eggshell formed by toxins. The Orcni Ancient Giant Bear bloodline in his body had already completed its sublimation and obtained awakening. A memory hidden in the bloodline essence appeared in Locke's mind.

Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King.

The ancient creature Orcni Ancient Giant Bear population would have kings, and the Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King was a First Circle stage creature. Only one Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King might mutate and appear among ten thousand Orcni Ancient Giant Bears.

The Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King's soul naturally mutated, thus through innate racial mutation, it crossed the first transcendence and became a first transcender.

The first transcendence of ancient Orcni Ancient Giant Bear Kings relied entirely on luck, on bloodline power bestowed by heaven. But Locke as a wizard, at this time with the Orcni Ancient Giant Bear bloodline in his body mutating and sublimating into a First Circle creature, relied on the special power left behind by the Second Circle bloodline wizard, Wizard Basil, inside this wizard secret realm.

At this time, Locke opened his eyes beneath the poison lake. His body had recovered again. His skin completely restored, smooth as jade.

He looked at his hands. His thoughts stirred slightly. His palm and fingers rapidly thickened. Then a gravitational force condensed in his palm.

The Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King was naturally born with the power to manipulate earth's gravity.

At this moment, under gravity's manipulation, the entire poison lake exploded.

Locke felt the Orcni Ancient Giant Bear bloodline surging with power in his body. His physique and soul were simultaneously strengthened. Of course, since he himself was already a First Circle liquefaction stage wizard, Locke's physique and soul didn't strengthen too much.

"Theoretically speaking, many methods for the first transcendence exist. Wizards' methods are just one of them. In the natural world, there was originally a method that could complete the first transcendence—mutation."

"Among ten thousand Orcni Ancient Giant Bear Chiefs, one Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King might appear. Bear Chiefs themselves were mutants among bear populations, and Bear Kings were mutants among mutants."

"After two mutations, ancient Orcni Ancient Giant Bear Kings possessed ordinary First Circle stage magical pressure." Locke understood. "But the bloodline limit for the entire Orcni Ancient Giant Bear line is only ordinary First Circle level, so the poison pool left by Wizard Basil can at most help me strengthen the Orcni Ancient Giant Bear to this degree."

"This counts as excavating all the potential stored in this entire bloodline. That's good. My mysterious dragon bloodline naturally has the ability to assimilate and devour bloodline energy. According to archaeological knowledge records, I need to have the mysterious dragon bloodline devour some high-level ancient creature bloodlines. This way I can accelerate the true dragon bloodline's growth while also retaining all of the Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King's abilities and characteristics."

After obtaining the Orcni Ancient Giant Bear King, although Locke's soul didn't strengthen very much, his physical body indeed received enormous strengthening.

At least it increased by one-third.

But at this time, in the poison lake, large amounts of poisonous liquid surged in again. This time the quantity was even greater, the level even higher.

His body was rapidly being eroded.

Once again, Locke's body was corroded to tatters, because in the poison pool's view, the bloodline potential limit inside Locke's body hadn't been completely developed yet.

So the poison pool left by Wizard Basil continued gathering all types of poisonous liquid throughout the entire Poisonous Valley to come erode Locke's body, to force his body to further excavate the hidden potential within.

"This wizard secret realm trip was really worth it." Locke gritted his teeth. Each time his body was completely destroyed by toxins, his entire body would be destroyed into an empty shell. This experience was very uncomfortable and actually quite dangerous.

If he couldn't hold on, that would actually mean he really died.

Fortunately, this was a wizard secret realm. Even if he truly died, it would only result in soul damage. There was still a chance to start over.

Otherwise, he truly might have interrupted this poison liquid body tempering process, because conducting it a second time in a short period was truly too dangerous.

"This time it's... the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline..." Locke sensed that under the devastation of various toxins of all types, the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline was also retreating step by step. That poisonous liquid contaminated his innate magic eye on his forehead, just like a solar eclipse, gradually about to erode his entire forehead's innate magic eye.

Just as the magical radiance released by the innate magic eye gradually disappeared and turned into a mass of darkness, the Poison Pearl under Locke's tongue activated again, releasing the antidote for all the bloodline toxins that had invaded Locke's body.

In an instant, the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline power that had been completely suppressed obtained nourishment from the neutralized toxins, began rapidly growing vigorously, and started counterattacking those residual toxins.

An hour later, Locke's Three-Eyed Tiger Cat was strengthened to the First Circle crystallization stage. Locke breathed a sigh of relief and looked at his completely restored palm. "I didn't expect the first to enter the First Circle crystallization stage would actually be the ancient creature bloodline in my body."

"This place is worthy of being a bloodline wizard's sacred ground."

"Hmm? It's still coming!" Locke gasped slightly. Twice consecutively going from almost complete destruction to recovering to peak condition had already severely consumed his energy. Yet now a third wave of toxins continued pouring toward him, and the momentum was even fiercer, the toxins even stronger.

Locke's expression changed slightly. "Twice consecutively has already consumed large amounts of my mental power."

"A third time? Let's gamble. This is precisely the significance of wizard secret realms. Precisely because one can start over in wizard secret realms, one can do things in wizard secret realms that one would completely not dare to do in reality."

"The third deadly poison convergence should be because of the mysterious true dragon bloodline in my body. The poison pool wants to continue excavating the potential of the last bloodline in my body and completely develop it. I just don't know whether the poison pool left in this secret realm can accomplish this."

At this moment, large amounts of various types of toxins mixed into the lake water. Various colors completely wrapped him up, like a toxin eggshell.

Even Locke let out a muffled groan at the fierce momentum of this wave of toxins.

An eight-legged, entirely pitch-black wolf spider emerged from the poisonous liquid, then bit down on his neck.

Locke saw this spider and his eyes widened. "Eight-Legged Death God?"