Chapter 156

"A powerful battle probably happened here," Gao Jie Ming had a guess in his heart. Such terrifying destructive power, even able to destroy the earth vein and cause an active volcano to die completely, was by no means something ordinary living beings could do.

This should be the relic of the fierce battle that occurred when the wizards of Plane Nuolun Workshop cleared the plane and captured the high-level demon.

The powerful attack even destroyed the energy core of this volcano, making it silent forever.

Looking at this dead silent volcano in front of him, Gao Jie Ming's eyes lit up, and a burst of excitement surged in his heart.

Because for this special situation where the earth vein was cut off, a large number of living beings died, and it contained various complex energy residues, according to the concept of the cultivation world, some special evil spirits would be born inside!

Evil spirits themselves were also a kind of conceptual material; that was an extremely insidious and complex energy in the cultivator system, often mixed with resentment, blood energy, destructive power, and specific environmental factors.

It was not purely negative energy, but it itself had extremely strong erosive power; if it was not refined, it would backfire on itself.

However, if it could be correctly collected and refined, it could become excellent food for some special cultivation methods in the cultivator system.

Like the Golden Garden, it was specially manufactured by Gao Jie Ming to manufacture and collect Flower Hua Shen Sha Spirits.

And like this volcano, it could also serve as the source of some "evil spirits" because of its special "experience."

Gao Jie Ming immediately took out a large amount of materials, set up a complex array around the entire volcano,

He formed seals with both hands, operated the true essence in his body, and activated the array.

With the operation of the magic formula, invisible fluctuations spread from the center of the array, permeating every inch of land and every corpse of the volcano.

Gray mist invisible to the naked eye, carrying the aura of death, resentment, and complex energy, slowly emerged from the broken earth vein in the depths of the volcano and those magical beast corpses.

They were pulled by the power of the magic array, like all rivers returning to the sea, constantly surging toward the center of the volcano.

Collected by Gao Jie Ming with the Evil Spirit Collection formula, they finally turned into a thin stream and disappeared into the Evil Spirit Collection Gourd he held in his hand.

"Such rich evil spirits!" Gao Jie Ming was ecstatic in his heart.

Without any intention of stopping, Gao Jie Ming looked at the evil spirits constantly gathering under the action of the array, while operating the Evil Spirit Collection formula to gather them into the Evil Spirit Collection Gourd, while operating the Evil Spirit Refining formula to classify the evil spirits in the Evil Spirit Collection Gourd.

The whole process lasted for several days, and Gao Jie Ming was collecting and refining evil spirits in this dead silent volcano without sleep or rest.

As evil spirits and death energy were constantly extracted, the air around the volcano seemed to become clearer, and that oppressive and gloomy feeling also weakened a lot.

Finally, when the evil spirits and death energy inside the volcano were extracted to a certain extent, and their concentration was not enough to continue to be efficiently captured by the Evil Spirit Collection formula, Gao Jie Ming then put away the cultivation method.

He raised his hand to catch the slowly falling Evil Spirit Collection Gourd, shook it slowly, feeling the agitation of the evil spirits inside, and a satisfied look appeared on his face.

Just the amount of evil spirits collected in this round was already comparable to the Flower Hua Shen Sha Spirits he collected in the Golden Garden for a month.

"Sure enough, although the environment created by humans can also collect evil spirits, in terms of the amount from the 'concept', it is still not as good as these natural desperate lands formed by accidents."

Put the Evil Spirit Collection Gourd, which seemed to have become heavier, back into his internal space.

After initially collecting the evil spirits and death energy inside the volcano, Gao Jie Ming didn't stop there.

From the "concept," this special area only needed to maintain the status quo, and in the passage of time, it would constantly give birth to new evil spirits.

It was not easy to have an extra "area that regularly produces evil spirits." For this, Gao Jie Ming spent a few days carefully setting up various complex magic arrays around this dead volcano.

These magic arrays were not for attack or defense, but for protection and stability.

He first set up several concealment magic arrays on the periphery of the volcano; this Tier 5 magic array bought from the Magic Network was already enough to ensure that the special energy fluctuations here would not be easily detected by the creatures of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

Subsequently, he carved dozens of Evil Spirit Gathering Runes and Soul Guiding Arrays at the key nodes inside the volcano.

They could slowly guide the negative energy wandering between heaven and earth, attract new evil spirits that might be born nearby, make them gather in the depths of the volcano, and refine them into a higher purity form.

At the same time, these magic arrays could also stabilize the residual energy of the earth vein to a certain extent, ensuring that the "dead silent" state of the volcano could be maintained for a long time, becoming his unique evil spirit cultivation hotbed. In principle, it was actually that these arrays could slowly gather relevant concepts according to the local topography and special conditions.

But the disadvantage was that all these things had to rely on spiritual energy to run, and there was no way to leave them here alone.

Fortunately, Gao Jie Ming didn't have to guard here every day.

He calculated slightly; the true essence required for the operation of these Evil Spirit Gathering Arrays was not much.

He only needed to fill these arrays with true essence, which could be used for about one or two months.

Anyway, he originally had to come over once a month to collect evil spirits, so it wasn't too troublesome.

As all the arrays and magic arrays were completed, the entire dead volcano was wrapped by these faint rune chains.

Looking from a distance, it was still that pitch-black and silent mountain peak, but in Gao Jie Ming's perception, it had become a concept material conversion factory operating efficiently.

After completing the layout of the dead volcano, just as Gao Jie Ming was about to continue searching to see if he could find a few more locations that could know evil spirits, the communication wizarding tool he carried suddenly rang.

Looking at the unfamiliar contact person above, Gao Jie Ming was slightly stunned, and for a moment, he didn't even react.

Later, he remembered that the other party seemed to be the leader of the construction team he invited.

Connecting the communication, Gao Jie Ming then knew that it turned out that the project he had contracted to the other party before had been completed, and now they were waiting for him to come and accept it. "I'll be there soon!"

Hanging up the communication, Gao Jie Ming decisively turned around and flew at full speed toward the location where the wizard squad he hired earlier was conducting the preliminary transformation project.

When Gao Jie Ming arrived, he couldn't help but be shocked by the scene in front of him.

In more than a year, that engineering squad composed of low-tier wizards had completed an astonishing transformation of this area.

The locations originally covered with active volcanoes and various rugged mountain ridges were cut into a flat land, but there were not many buildings on it.

Looking around, on the surface, there was just a large piece of completely flat metal ground.

This piece of metal ground was cast from refined special metal, and under the sky filled with sulfur smoke, it shone with a cold metal luster like obsidian.

The entire ground was as flat as a huge mirror, reflecting the dark red clouds in the sky.

Its surface was polished extremely smooth, without a trace of bumps, forming a sharp contrast with the rugged scorched earth in other places of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

The area of this flat metal region was wide enough to accommodate a large city.

Looking at this ground, Gao Jie Ming couldn't help but recall the black ground he often saw in Plane Nuolun Academy; it turned out that this was a commonly used technology for plane transformation.

And Gao Jie Ming knew that this was far more than a flat ground.

He walked to the center of the metal ground, stretched out his palm to touch it, and with the activation of alchemy and analysis, a trace of weak energy fluctuation came from under the ground, delicate and orderly.

His spiritual sense permeated in, like probing into a huge spider web, "seeing" the complex structure crisscrossing inside the metal ground.

In fact, inside this huge metal foundation, many permanent magic arrays were solidified.

These magic arrays were not directly exposed, but were exquisitely embedded in the metal layer, distributed at various depths of the entire foundation like blood vessels.

They were connected by countless energy conduits and rune links, constituting a huge and precise energy network.

However, because it was preliminary construction, the effects of most of these magic arrays were not strong.

Besides the most basic protective ability, they existed more as a kind of "amplifier" and "basic skeleton."

Gao Jie Ming walked to the center of the foundation, closed his eyes, and felt the pulse of the array network under his feet.

These magic arrays solidified inside could mainly amplify the effects of the magic arrays that Gao Jie Ming would construct himself in the future and embed in the blank spaces,

and then could let them affect the entire plane.

They were like giant amplifiers buried underground.

No matter if it was the elemental pool, alchemy workshop, or various plane-level protective arrays he would construct here in the future.

As long as their core magic arrays were embedded into this basic network, their effects would be amplified by this network, and the scope of action and power would also increase by geometric multiples, ultimately being able to affect the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane!

This was precisely the foundation Gao Jie Ming laid for transforming the plane and constructing huge magic arrays for himself in the future.

During the inspection process, Gao Jie Ming also noticed some reserved interfaces and energy nodes.

According to the introduction of the leader wizard of the "construction team," this preliminary construction actually had some more advanced functions that could be realized, such as magic arrays that could amplify and communicate with the plane origin.

This kind of magic array could allow wizards to perceive and influence the plane origin at a deeper level, extract the power of the plane origin more efficiently, and even perform some preliminary plane rule modifications.

However, this level of magic array required the wizard to possess stronger spiritual power, capable of reaching the Tier 6 wizard level, to truly control and use it safely.

"Anyway, I haven't reached Tier 6 wizard yet, so I don't need to use it for the time being, and I'm not in a hurry to construct it," Gao Jie Ming calculated silently in his heart.

Constructing this kind of magic array required investing huge resources; if he couldn't fully control it, it might instead lead to energy backfire, and even cause the rejection of the plane origin.

When he communicated with the engineering squad at the beginning, he excluded these complex magic arrays that exceeded the current stage's needs, prioritizing the investment of resources into the most basic and practical parts.

He looked at the results in front of him with satisfaction.

Although it was just a preliminary project, it had already taken shape.

(There is an added update, there is one more chapter.)