Chapter 114: Learning the Dimensional Gate

Unsurprisingly, Tiancheng Guang once again became the top student in this exam.

Although the absence of alchemy classes narrowed the score gap between Tiancheng Guang and his classmates, his score still firmly surpassed Sanze Sanze Dadi's, thanks to his duel against him in the practical exam.

"Hehehe, see that, Er Yang? As long as you're still in this academy, the top student is always me!"

"Where did you pick up that tone?" After the exam ended, a group of friends gathered in the classroom to check their scores. Seeing Tiancheng Guang's perfect evaluation, Sanze Sanze Dadi felt his blood boil.

"Hey, Ghost God, don't take it to heart—you'll win next time!" Shi Dai slapped him on the shoulder, trying to comfort him.

"I don't need your consolation from the bottom of the class!" Sanze Sanze Dadi clenched his fists. "And why are you starting to call me by that stupid nickname like Ah Guang?"

"Don't you think 'Ghost God' sounds cool?" Shi Dai laughed. "Just like lightning is lightning—"

"No, please don't. That's ridiculous."

"Sanze Sanze Dadi!"

The two began wrestling, while the others burst into laughter.

Although in the late story arc they drifted away from the main plot for various reasons, outside the narrative, their personalities were actually quite likable—they could joke around and shared the same goals, making attending class together genuinely enjoyable.

Beyond that, Tiancheng Guang had many personal matters to attend to.

On one hand, Wan Rong the Alchemist had recently developed a new product—he had finally succeeded in creating a card representing his own normal state—but unfortunately, the card was unusable in most worlds.

Pendulum Monsters cannot be used in this world.

So this card could only be kept for display.

In addition, Tiancheng Guang also needed to set aside time to study Master Professor Dadesi's "Book of Emerald," the most essential "textbook" for his alchemy studies, which also concealed some of the worlds Master Professor Dadesi had traveled to. If Tiancheng Guang wished to meet Master Professor Dadesi again, he would need to solve the book's riddles and find the "Realm of the Magician."

Of course, the most fundamental thing remained.

That was "building a dimensional transmission channel."

Relying solely on the academy's dimensional gate to accomplish things was far too slow, and next time he might not find the destination he wanted. From any perspective, building his own portal to travel to a desired dimension was highly cost-effective.

Therefore, Tiancheng Guang's recent focus had been on constructing a portal.

Today was the day he planned to unlock his first "Key Gate" and uncover its secrets.

"Hmm…"

Tierra floated in midair, holding a cup of instant noodles, eating quietly so as not to disturb Tiancheng Guang's experiment.

At this moment, Tiancheng Guang was assembling a specific shape from metals, then attempting to ignite it and place it into a container.

"Boom—"

As before, his attempt exploded without surprise—luckily, Bai Jing, the squad leader, was nearby to assist, preventing fire and ash from engulfing Tiancheng Guang.

"Strange, my movements match the book exactly?" Tiancheng pulled out his personal manual, flipped through a few pages, and frowned in confusion.

Tierra didn't understand those "mortal" techniques. Seeing Tiancheng Guang fail again, she said nothing and didn't interfere, simply eating her noodles as a form of relaxation.

"Could it be insufficient spirit power?" Bai Jing suggested.

"There's a possibility, but I specifically asked Tierra to assist me—logically, the energy built upon her should be more than sufficient. Why would it still fail?"

Tiancheng Guang's own spirit power might be weak, but Tierra's was certainly adequate.

Even without resurrection, given Tierra's abilities and her high status among the Divine Yingyi clan in this spirit world, her spirit level should not be low.

But alchemy is like this.

Even if your movements perfectly match the book, all kinds of unexpected failures can occur.

After all, this is still "mysticism."

"Could it be energy conflict?" After Tiancheng Guang tried twice more, Tierra tossed the empty noodle cup into the trash and offered a possibility: "Your own energy is clashing with the alchemy workshop's power source."

"Conflict? That's impossible—the Philosopher's Stone and… don't conflict at all, right?"

The Philosopher's Stone was an omnipotent energy source and universal remedy; Superfusion was a transcendent force capable of fusing everything. From any angle, both were "same-type" or "same-origin" powers.

"Then perhaps it's not conflict—but suppression?"

Suppression?

That was possible.

Tiancheng Guang followed this line of thought, grabbed a calculator, and rapidly pressed buttons while calling out to Wan Rong: "Wan Rong, fetch new materials again—use 1.5 times the previous amount, but only 1.2 times for iron and silver."

"Got it."

The man and the spirit began anew, placing the materials into the container and slowly igniting them.

This time, no explosion occurred.

Tiancheng Guang's face lit up with excitement; Wan Rong also looked thrilled.

They had learned alchemy from another world!

After a flash of green light ended, Tiancheng Guang carefully used tweezers to remove from the container a strange, incomplete ring with a gap.

A broken, ouroboros-like ring, its interior floating a peculiar point—this was the special alchemical symbol Master Professor Dadesi often used!

"Looks like the first step is complete."

"Thank you, Tierra." Tiancheng Guang wiped sweat from his brow. Though Tierra didn't understand alchemy, as a deity, her insights across all areas far surpassed his own—she could pinpoint and awaken him at critical moments.

"Hehehe, this is divine favor—just accept it with proper reverence. I don't need your thanks~" Tierra spread her arms before her, radiant divine light emanating from her body as she closed her eyes, receiving a divine oracle.

Unfortunately, this rare display of her divinity went unnoticed by Tiancheng Guang—he was already busy following the book's instructions to construct a "foolproof dimensional portal usable by ordinary people."

Seeing Tiancheng Guang remain silent, Tierra quietly opened her left eye. Seeing the man and spirit resume their alchemy experiment, she felt bored, lowered her arms, and idly poured freshly boiled water into another cup of instant noodles.

Whatever. There's plenty of time.

Today I saw the new card of the Gem Knight—based on the card art, it depicts the scene when Bai Jing and Xiao Liu were just transformed by Divine Yingyi. The Divine Yingyi version of Bai Jing is terrifyingly strong; this also seems to be the first time the Gem Knight has a card with a "Kang" monster—it looks incredibly powerful—this is the creation of our Creator God Tierra, truly round and mighty—Tierra is truly the number one dream-weaver of DT.

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