The next morning, Zhai Nizi woke up from his sleep. He looked at the White Queen lying beside him, covered her with the blanket, and then left the bedroom.
The White Queen didn't wake up until noon. After she came out of the bedroom, the servants and guards in the manor greeted her one after another.
Most of them were Mutants, and they were Mutants who had difficulty living because they couldn't integrate into human society. They were all very obedient, because those who weren't had already been eliminated.
She came to the dining room, where lunch was already prepared on the table, and it was all her favorite food.
A letter was on the table:
“You performed well last night. As a reward, this is lunch I prepared for you myself (you'll definitely sleep until noon). I'm going for a week-long cultivation. You need to take good care of yourself. If anything happens, you know how to notify me.”
...
Kamar-Taj, one of Sorcerer Ancient One's secret realms. At this moment, Zhai Nizi was sitting inside, drinking tea with Ancient One. This was the place of cultivation he mentioned in his letter.
A year ago, when he first transmigrated to this World, Ancient One, in her duty to protect the Multiverse, went to investigate Zhai Nizi.
She needed to know why the suddenly appearing Zhai Nizi had come, and whether his arrival would put this World in danger.
Ancient One used the power of the Time Stone to look into the future, and the final conclusion she reached was: This person is extremely dangerous!
Ancient One immediately moved to seal Zhai Nizi. Zhai Nizi, who hadn't yet recovered from his transmigration, also went berserk.
Ancient One, realizing the opponent had no magic, first used basic magic to bind Zhai Nizi, and then tried to push his soul out of his body.
But Ancient One struck three times and still couldn't knock his soul out. At the same time, Zhai Nizi broke free from the magic's restraints with only brute physical force.
Ancient One reacted quickly and pulled Zhai Nizi into the Mirror Dimension.
Anything done in the Mirror Dimension would not affect the outside World. Most importantly, the spatial rules of objects were unrestricted, making it one of Ancient One's very powerful weapons.
The twisted buildings were like giant creatures with countless mouths, rolling and trying to devour the target, Zhai Nizi. Zhai Nizi was completely immobilized and was then swept into the rolling buildings.
With a roar, Zhai Nizi broke through the twisted buildings and jumped out. Seeing this, Ancient One immediately waved her hands, and golden magic in her hands transformed into two disc-shaped entities.
Ancient One threw the discs, and as they passed through the buildings, they left scars on them.
But when the discs hit Zhai Nizi's body, they shattered.
The twisted buildings continued to try to devour Zhai Nizi. He pushed off with both feet and leaped towards Ancient One. The buildings beneath his feet, due to this leap, suffered extensive collapse and stopped twisting.
Ancient One saw Zhai Nizi rushing towards her at an extremely fast speed, and immediately leaped upwards. Her nimble movements made her seem as if she had no weight.
She jumped onto the platform above and saw that the spot she had just been in had been shattered by Zhai Nizi's fierce impact.
Ancient One looked at the large-scale collapse and thought, “He is indeed very dangerous. It would have been troublesome if I hadn't pulled him into the Mirror Dimension.”
She raised her hand and waved, the buildings accelerated their twisting, and at the same time, she began to cast spells with both hands, then released the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak at Zhai Nizi.
Ah ah ah!!!
Zhai Nizi was bound and unable to move, and the berserk him roared continuously in place.
But not long after, the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak also began to show cracks, about to give way. So Ancient One decided to use dark magic to fight.
Under the enhancement of dark magic, they fought for a long time. Zhai Nizi finally regained his sanity.
Although Zhai Nizi regained his sanity, Ancient One was not sure if he would lose control again, so she made him stay in Kamar-Taj, which was a disguised form of house arrest and surveillance.
Zhai Nizi had nothing to do every day, and because he was too bored, he started training with Ancient One's disciples.
What shocked Ancient One was that Zhai Nizi, after putting on the Sling Ring, successfully opened a portal on his first try.
After that, he spent another day and was actually able to open a portal without a Sling Ring, which was something even Ancient One couldn't do.
At this time, Ancient One saw another future:
Zhai Nizi would replace Strange and become the Sorcerer Supreme!
...
Time returned to the present. The two of them talked about their first meeting again. Ancient One said, “If you hadn't regained your sanity, I really don't know how much destruction you could have caused.”
Zhai Nizi waved his hand, “I still have to thank you for not killing me. With your strength, killing me at that time would have been as easy as turning over your hand.
It might have been because I had just transmigrated that my brain couldn't accept it all at once and I lost control, but I have adapted to this World now, so you can rest assured.”
“Of course, I'm at ease, otherwise I wouldn't have taught you magic.” Ancient One smiled, took a sip of tea, and continued, “But it seems you haven't used magic much this past year. Do you have any concerns?”
Zhai Nizi poured tea into Ancient One's teacup and said to her, “Against those Mutants and the Military, brute force is enough. Plus, I've made quite a few enemies now. If they knew about magic, they would definitely try every means to learn and research it. Although this isn't a threat to you, you would still have to deal with these troubles.”
This made Ancient One start recalling the past again. It was when Zhai Nizi had been cultivating there for a week. He saw the Sentinel program being launched on the television at Kamar-Taj (later Kamar-Taj even had Wi-Fi; to quote Mordo, they weren't primitives).
Zhai Nizi immediately opened a portal and went to the scene. Ancient One wanted to stop him, but it was too late; he had already disappeared before her.
Fortunately, she saw on television that Zhai Nizi hadn't used magic again, which put her at ease. Otherwise, many troublesome people would certainly have come knocking.
Although Zhai Nizi stopped the Sentinel program, he didn't return to Kamar-Taj until now, after the Military and Mutants dared not act against him anymore. Only then did Zhai Nizi return here.
Ancient One asked, “I know you won't stay here for many days before leaving, so what magic do you want to learn this time?”
“As expected of Sorcerer Ancient One, you know everything. After all, I can't disappear for too long.”
“Speak.” Ancient One put down the teacup in her hand and began to listen attentively to what he had to say.
“Currently, both my power and magic have hit a bottleneck, but I feel that as someone who cultivates both strength and magic, I shouldn't be limited to this. So I want to know my limits. Do you have any methods?”
In this year, Zhai Nizi hadn't encountered a decent opponent, so he still didn't know how strong he truly was.
“There is a method, but it's a forbidden spell.” Ancient One had just finished speaking when she already began casting the spell, because she also wanted to know how strong Zhai Nizi truly was.
“This spell will, based on your power, teleport your soul to someone of comparable strength. The risk of this spell is not knowing whether the person matched with you is good or bad. Although teleporting an invisible soul is the safest approach, if the other party detects you, I will immediately pull you back.”
After Ancient One finished speaking, the magic she was casting with both hands began to take shape, forming a magic circle on the ground.
Zhai Nizi nodded and stepped into the magic circle.