Chapter 144

Two months of time, like the flowing sand between fingers, flew by in the time Jie Ming was addicted to research.

In the underground laboratory of the mansion, various strange energy fluctuations never stopped, and every success in the experiment made Jie Ming's theoretical system more perfect.

And during this period, the subsequent modification work of the "Golden Garden," transformed from the Golden Port ruins, also proceeded in an orderly manner, already taking shape, and even exceeding Jie Ming's expectations.

Those residents after modification, under the incentive of money, worked day and night, collecting early morning Hundred Flower Dew for Jie Ming and maintaining the vitality of the garden.

Their social form, as Jie Ming wished, preliminarily formed a prototype centered on labor and transactions.

Those daily joys, angers, sorrows, and happiness, the pursuit of material things, and the longing for life, like trickling streams, gathered into wisps of sparse yet pure red dust energy.

It was absorbed by the special rune array Jie Ming arranged in the depths of the garden, continuously flowing into the runes in his dantian.

This day, just as Jie Ming was inspecting the garden and planning the next modification plan.

In the wizard camp, the arrival of Amy and Victor broke his relatively calm scientific research life.

"Jie Ming! You guy, you hid here!" Amy's voice was as crisp and lively as ever.

She wore a light apprentice robe; I don't know when it started, but her brown hair had quietly turned golden, and the golden hair strands shone in the sunlight.

Victor appeared much steadier; he stood tall, a hint of imperceptible fatigue in his eyes.

"You're back?" Jie Ming revealed a smile; for his long-unseen companions, he was still very happy.

"Yeah, busy for a few months, finally able to catch my breath." Amy complained, "I feel like Father and Mother always have endless things to do; it was hard to gather for long even after finally returning home once. It's the same in school, a bunch of assessments and courses to make up... Ah!!! Why can you avoid make-up exams!!!"

"Because I'm the first place." Jie Ming answered with a smile, "Besides, the assessments you mentioned were all taken by me years ago."

Amy's face immediately revealed a twisted expression: "Tsk! It's really hard to talk to geniuses like you."

Victor nodded: "However, everything is finally settled. The Plane Nuolun Workshop side has also basically completed the preliminary integration of the Aelossia plane cluster; we should all be staying here for a long time next."

"That's great; if you're not used to living in the camp, you can come to my side." Jie Ming smiled and showed off his garden, "Although I'm raising quite a few people, there are still many empty places; you can choose at will."

"No, thanks to you, the two of us also obtained quite a bit of contribution; it shouldn't be a problem to exchange for a piece of territory in the main plane of this plane." Victor shook his head with a smile.

Jie Ming touched his chin thoughtfully: "You are... planning to open a new family here."

"A new family is not quite it, it's just establishing a branch." Victor laughed and looked at Amy, "This one should be the one planning to open a new family."

Amy pouted helplessly: "My family has a total of three wizards; what new family to open. Even if I have a territory here, at most it's finally being independent from my parents."

Halfway through her words, she looked at the elves and dark elves passing by because they were organizing the garden, and suddenly revealed a malicious smile:

"Oh? Didn't expect you to be into this too? That's right, that's right, although you're a genius, you're still a young person after all; understandable, understandable..."

"What the hell?" Jie Ming was blank after hearing her words.

Amy had a teasing smile: "Hate it, I'm a girl, you're actually making me say that kind of thing myself?"

"What?" Jie Ming's head couldn't help but tilt.

Victor coughed: "Amy, I think you might have misunderstood; look at so many people here, it's highly likely not what you imagined. After all, this is that Jie Ming!"

"That's right, after all, it's that research maniac Jie Ming!" Amy crossed her arms and nodded in agreement.

Jie Ming's eye corner twitched, and he directly mobilized elements to condense a fireball in his hand: "Regardless of what that weird title is, if you two keep talking in riddles, believe it or not, I'll beat you up?!"

"Oh my, oh my, don't be anxious!"

Amy leaned close to Jie Ming, lowered her voice, her eyes carrying a hint of gossipy excitement: "Do you know? Now in the academy, the elves of the Aelossia plane are so popular! Many people were so excited they couldn't stop after going back."

Victor coughed, reminding Amy to pay attention to her words, but his eyes also couldn't help but carry a hint of a smile.

Amy didn't care and continued: "Wizards are all pursuing knowledge and power; toward those worldly physical impulses, although they are not completely repelled, they won't be easily bound like mortals."

"But it can't be helped that the elves captured this time have high looks! The appearance of the elf race is one of the few races that can rival us wizards, and there are many young people in the academy; those young people who can't control their physiological impulses just treat the elves as their favorites."

Jie Ming heard this and laughed dumbly.

He knew what Amy and the others meant before.

Although wizards' pursuit of beauty is more derived from the exploration of life, laws, and art.

But when these research objects themselves have extremely high aesthetic value, some apprentices, especially those who haven't been adults for long, inevitably have a "special impulse."

"So, after the new academy is established, there will be a large number of elves transformed into 'apprentices' or 'servants' of the academy, providing services for wizards. Some with outstanding looks will even be kept by certain families as long-term research objects or... 'collectibles'." Victor's words, although calm, revealed the coldness in the bones of the wizard civilization.

"The new Plane Nuolun Academy?" Jie Ming captured the key information.

"That's right, it's Plane Nuolun Academy No. 147." Amy explained, "The workshop side has already issued a notice; regarding the treatment plan for the Aelossia plane, the final decision is to establish a new Plane Nuolun Academy here as an outpost and talent training base for the workshop's expansion."

"Then we..."

"We should be the first batch of mentors and rulers of this academy and this plane... although we are still only level-1 wizards now." Amy spread her hands.

Victor added on the side: "The establishment of an academy is not that easy; besides modifying the environment of the entire plane, it is also necessary to migrate enough population into the plane; there won't be any major results within at least a hundred years."

"I see..." Jie Ming nodded thoughtfully.

Amy and Victor stayed in Jie Ming's garden for a while, sighing at the strangeness and magnificence of this "city garden."

"Alright, we still have to go see other places, so we won't disturb your research." Amy waved, "Let's gather properly when the academy is established."

"Goodbye, Jie Ming." Victor nodded in greeting, and the two left the Golden Garden through the wizard camp's transmission device.

Not long after Amy and Victor left, Jie Ming received a communication request from Mentor Clark.

"Jie Ming, regarding the contribution reward for your trial, the final distribution plan has been determined." Mentor Clark's voice appeared more solemn than usual.

"The Plane Nuolun Workshop side has already cleared the entire Aelossia plane cluster. Valuable intelligent life, including those gods, have been taken back as servants or experiment subjects. Non-intelligent life, as well as some temporarily useless planes, remain in the original plane and continue to reproduce naturally."

"According to your highest contribution, you can completely obtain any entire plane in the Aelossia plane cluster besides the main plane. And, you have priority choice. At the same time, the ownership of Golden Port can also be retained as your private territory."

Jie Ming's heart jumped sharply!

Although he had already anticipated this, only after the reward was truly issued could he feel that the weight of this reward far exceeded his imagination.

He couldn't help but fall into deep thought, his brain operating at high speed.

Mentor Clark saw his hesitation and gave a suggestion: "Jie Ming, you can choose according to your own needs. If you lack energy, you can choose those small elemental planes in the plane cluster; they possess extremely pure elemental cores and can provide continuous energy. If you lack materials, you can choose the Fairy Plane, which possesses various special biological materials, or choose one of the planes in what the Aelossia plane natives call the Demon Plane."

"Demon Plane?" Jie Ming's heart moved.

"Yes." Mentor Clark explained, "Some planes in the Aelossia plane cluster that are relatively special are called Demon Planes, usually planes with extremely harsh environments. Because the environment is harsh, the born creatures are also extremely violent, so they are excluded by the living beings of other planes in the Aelossia plane cluster."

"There are volcanic eruptions all year round, frequent geological activities, and extremely rich mineral resources. At the same time, due to their unique environment, some creatures or materials with special energy properties will also be born, which is of great help to alchemy and wizardry material science research."

Jie Ming's eyes lit up as he listened.

Looking at it this way, the Demon Plane actually possesses both high energy and many materials.

Moreover, the alchemy and array knowledge he mastered had a natural advantage in mining and utilizing this kind of plane.

And the extreme environment of the Demon Plane might be a minus for others, but for Jie Ming, it was instead a plus.

After all... places with dangerous environments generally satisfy the conditions for the birth of "Sha Qi" concepts more easily.

(End of chapter)