It only took Feng Chou a little more than a month in the real world, which was equivalent to a year in the Universe Tower, to master and master all the intermediate necromancy spells.
However, his spiritual power was still far from the standard of a ninth-level sorcerer who could master fifth-level spells.
Even though the training of Mental Strength would be several times faster after the increase in Intelligence, it was still impossible to raise Mental Strength from the level of a fifth-rank mage to the level of a ninth-rank mage in a little over a year. An increase of 40 points in Mental Strength was undoubtedly a pipe dream.
Feng Chou let the Universe Tower consume the power of the soul to create a good meditation environment for him to train his spiritual power. At the same time, he began to study all kinds of rituals in the necromancy materials.
Rituals were indeed the real test of a sorcerer. Feng Chou only spent a little more than a year to master the intermediate necromancy spells, but it took him more than two months in the real world and two years in the Universe Tower to master a dozen rituals.
After systematically learning and mastering all the bloodline rituals through experiments, Feng Chou also made a decision about his choice of bloodline.
He spent ten merit points to buy a thousand milliliters of blood essence of an adult golden dragon.
It went without saying that he would choose the intermediate golden dragon bloodline ceremony.
He did not choose the dragon bloodline sorcerer because compared to the sorcerers who relied on knowledge, the bloodline sorcerers only had a few more spell slots. For Feng Chou who had the Qiankun Pagoda, it was no doubt a little useless.
In fact, with the rise of the alchemy civilization in the post-arcane era and the abundance of magic items, the status of the sorcerers had plummeted.
On the contrary, if he chose the dragon bloodline, although the types of spells and spell slots were far less than that of the sorcerers, he could choose to obtain the powerful physical potential of the dragons.
As for why he chose the golden dragon bloodline, it was even simpler. It was because the golden dragon was the most powerful existence among the known dragons. Choosing the golden dragon bloodline meant that he had greater potential in the future.
In fact, when Feng Chou first saw the various bloodline rituals in the Universe Tower, he fell in love with the golden dragon bloodline.
At that time, he was worried that the golden dragon bloodline would conflict with becoming a necromancer.
It wasn't until he truly understood necromancy that he realized there was no conflict between the two.
True Necromancy Spells studied the mysteries of the body and the soul, not the negative energy and the undead as outsiders thought. Otherwise, the Necromancers of the Arcane Era wouldn't have been able to master healing spells.
In fact, according to the information in the broken Arcane Tower, the complete set of healing spells in the Churches of the Gods was the result of the research of the ancient necromancers. The Gods were the real thieves.
After choosing the golden dragon bloodline ceremony and exchanging one thousand milliliters of mature golden dragon blood, Feng Chou left Chapman Castle and returned to Casaranca City.
After returning to Casablanca, Feng Chou stayed in a hotel near Soth's Eye Mystic Street.
After that, he spent more than ten days to sell a portion of the thousands of beginner magic items that Qiankun Pagoda had accumulated during this period of time in exchange for more than three million crowns.
This time, Feng Chou found that the market in Casaranca wasn't a bottomless pit. When Feng Chou sold thousands of low-level magical equipment and items in a few days, it immediately caused a stir in the mystic market. Naturally, it attracted the attention of the mystic merchants.
This situation made Feng Chou a little worried. Qiankun Pagoda's production capacity was too strong. These thousands of low-level magical equipment and items were not the output of Qiankun Pagoda for two to three years.
Qiankun Pagoda used less than half a month to convert all the low-level alchemy materials that Feng Chou had stored in Qiankun Pagoda into thousands of low-level magical equipment and items.
When Qiankun Pagoda started production, Feng Chou found that he didn't have the ability to sell at all.
After discovering the danger in time, Feng Chou stopped selling the low-level magical equipment and items. Instead, he began to purchase the various magic materials needed for the secondary golden dragon bloodline ceremony.
The most expensive material for the golden dragon bloodline ceremony was the blood essence of the golden dragon.
If one wanted to purchase one thousand milliliters of mature golden dragon blood essence with money, it would cost at least ten million crowns. Moreover, even if one had the money, it was basically impossible to buy the blood of a golden dragon. After the torment of the Arcane Empire, it was very rare to see dragons in the Northern Continent, let alone the rarest golden dragons.
The soul crystals needed for the ceremony were also priceless.
Soul crystals were hard currency in the lower planes. The lords of the lower planes liked to make them into coins, calling them calamity coins. A standard calamity coin contained about ten units of soul force, which was the total amount of soul force that could be extracted from the soul of an ordinary mortal.
However, the soul crystals used to make calamity coins were said to be impure and of the worst quality. According to the magic information in the broken arcane tower, the soul crystals in Feng Chou's hands were almost completely pure. Only high-ranked devils and demons could make them, and their value was five times that of calamity coins with the same amount of soul force.
Each of the soul crystals in Feng Chou's hands was worth about fifty calamity coins.
To hold the intermediate golden dragon bloodline ceremony, twenty-three of these pure soul crystals were needed.
Soul crystals were more common in the Abyss, and rarer in the prime material plane. After all, the persecution of souls in the prime material plane was a blasphemous act that the gods hated the most.
This led to the rarity of soul crystals in the prime material plane. Even a calamity coin made of inferior soul crystals was worth a thousand crowns. The soul crystals in Feng Chou's hands were worth fifty thousand crowns!
Moreover, many of the rituals of wizards required soul crystals, and the demand for them was rather high. Hence, some merchants who had close relations with the lower planes would specialise in selling soul crystals in pursuit of huge profits.
Holding a ceremony for the intermediate golden dragon bloodline required more than a million crowns worth of soul crystals. Moreover, these were extremely prohibited items, and ordinary wizards would not be able to buy them.
Apart from these two treasures, the ceremony also required tens of high-grade supplementary magic materials, which cost more than a million crowns.
Even though Feng Chou had already obtained a large portion of the materials from the broken arcane tower, he still spent nearly a million crowns to purchase them.
After purchasing the materials he needed, Feng Chou hurriedly returned to Chapman Castle.
The intermediate golden dragon bloodline ceremony required the preparation of ten types of alchemy mixtures using the blood essence of a golden dragon as the main ingredient, setting up five extremely complicated ritual arrays, creating tens of mid-grade magic items, and copying hundreds of magic scrolls.
These preparations were extremely difficult for an intermediate wizard, and almost reached the limit of a wizard of his rank. However, Feng Chou did not find it difficult with Qiankun Pagoda's help. No matter how complicated the arrays were, he succeeded on his first try.
There was nothing much to say about the rest of the ceremony. With Qiankun Pagoda's help, Feng Chou completed the ceremony without missing a beat.