Chapter 172

In the tense and short research gap, Jie Ming did not slack off for a moment.

This day, he uploaded the lava giant research report he had just completed, then draped his wizard robe over himself, his figure flickered, and he disappeared from the temporary laboratory in the center of the camp.

He did not go to rest, nor did he go to communicate with other wizards, but went directly to the battlefield where flesh and blood had flown everywhere a few days ago.

At this moment, the violent aftermath of the landing battle had dissipated, and only silence remained in the air.

But for a wizard's keen perception, this vast land was not without ripples.

In the landing battle of the past few days, the wizard cannon fodder, lava giants, and snow monsters collided in this area, flesh and blood flew, energy raged, and the number of slaughtered creatures was at least over a million.

Various energy particles were chaotically intertwined, becoming a huge chaotic energy vortex in the perception of wizards.

However, what Jie Ming needed was not those things, but the "concepts" left behind after this tragic battle!

In Jie Ming's field of vision, this area was permeated with lingering battlefield evil spirits and death energy.

Jie Ming walked lightly on the scorched land, and the air was filled with a nauseating smell of blood and the decay of death.

Under his feet were dried bloodstains, broken weapons, twisted biochemical beast remains, as well as scorched rocks and frozen corpses.

Every inch of land seemed to have endured thousands of tears and destruction.

After all, on this battlefield, besides him, there were also quite a few low-tier wizards performing "cleanup" work.

Some wizards wore rune gloves, carefully taking out residual energy cores from the scorched lava giants.

Others were driving golems, classifying and stacking the broken bodies on the battlefield, preparing for recycling and processing.

There were even some wizards who studied soul wizardry, holding various strange containers, carefully collecting the soul remnants permeated here.

Just as souls and blood energy in the Cultivation World could be converted into spiritual power, souls and flesh in the Wizarding World were also good materials for many wizards.

Jie Ming ignored the busy figures around him; he just chanted a spell, and the evil-gathering gourd on his right hand was gently untied from his waist.

That gourd was dark and simple; under the faint light of the runes, the mouth of the gourd slowly opened, forming a vortex that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

The invisible evil spirits and death energy permeated in the air, carrying sorrow, anger, and the will of destruction, flowed slowly toward the gourd mouth as if receiving an invisible pull, and were all sucked into it.

On the surface of the gourd, those originally dim imprints were now beating at an extremely subtle frequency, slowly but firmly absorbing these negative energies.

He did not deliberately avoid others during the collection process.

After all, Jie Ming's way of collecting "raw materials" was not even considered conspicuous on this battlefield filled with various wizard tricks.

He even saw a wizard not far away take out a huge black flag!

That flag fluttered in the wind, with countless twisted fierce ghost patterns drawn on it, and every pattern seemed to have countless wronged souls struggling within it.

Following the wizard's spell, the flag rustled, whipping up bursts of hair-raising yin wind.

Within a radius of several hundred meters, all wandering soul fragments and death energy were swept into the flag, emitting silent wails, the scene was eerie and grand.

That strong visual effect almost made Jie Ming wonder if he had traveled to the Cultivation World again and seen the legendary Ten Thousand Soul Banner!

"Really..." Jie Ming shook his head secretly, he withdrew his gaze and focused on absorbing the evil spirits.

Just as Jie Ming was immersed in the ocean of evil spirits, he met several low-tier wizards on the road.

They seemed to be cleaning up the results of the battle on the outskirts of the battlefield, preparing to find new hunting targets.

When they saw Jie Ming, a trace of respect could not help but appear in their eyes, followed by skilled flattery.

"Ah, isn't this Master Jie Ming? Are you also working hard to collect?" A Tier 1 wizard with a tired face took the initiative to step forward, his tone filled with closeness, "You are truly diligent, to actually do such boring work yourself!"

"It's just adding bricks and tiles to my own learning," Jie Ming smiled slightly, his tone gentle and calm, responding like an ordinary scholar, "You have also worked hard, continue collecting."

"Where, where, compared to you, what is our little bit of hard work!" Another Tier 2 wizard immediately interjected, his tone even more respectful, "If it weren't for the reports you published earlier, my team and I would probably still be worrying about how to deal with those lava giants! I didn't expect that using sound wave strikes and isolating breathing methods could be so effective!"

"Yes, yes, I don't know if Lord Jie Ming has any new tactical analysis now, a group of us are waiting to see..."

Jie Ming skillfully dealt with them, with a just-right smile on his face, having already become accustomed to this.

In these few days, he had encountered such things more and more, and their flattery and thanks were all concentrated on one point—the few analysis reports he had published earlier on the physiological characteristics of lava giants.

Among them was a turn that Jie Ming found unexpected.

What he emphasized in the report was what he considered the most effective way to kill lava giants in a short time: first perform low-temperature strikes to stiffen their surface skin, then destroy their weakened bodies through dense physical attacks.

This "low temperature plus physical strike" killing method was not valued by those low-tier wizards.

However, the other two methods attached to the report were regarded as a standard by low-tier wizards and were widely sought after.

That was about using suffocation-type wizardry (or elemental suppression of similar principles) to limit the lava giant's actions, and the method published later of using high-frequency sound waves to specifically cause damage to the lava giant's auditory tissue.

Both of these methods were unexpectedly effective.

Regarding "suffocation-type wizardry," Jie Ming explained in the report that although the lava giant was an elemental creature, it possessed the need for breathing.

This was not breathing oxygen in the traditional sense, but performing "heat pump and elemental conversion" through body surface cracks and internal special circulation systems to maintain the stability of the core furnace.

Therefore, as long as one could disrupt the lava giant's heat balance and elemental flow through isolation, elemental suppression, or directly blocking these "breathing" cracks, one could force it into stiffness or coma.

Wizards did not need to work hard to find weaknesses; they only needed to use specific wizardry to make this behemoth "suffocate" and temporarily lose its ability to act.

Under normal circumstances, it was not easy to make elemental creatures "suffocate," but Jie Ming did not expect these wizards to find suitable wizardry almost that very day.

The reason lay in one of the nine Tier 9 wizards in the wizard civilization.

This person's name could not be known; once one reached a Tier 9 wizard, all relevant personal information would be shielded, and even if one knew their life story, there was only a code name.

This person's code name was "Breathing."

This code name originated from the law research direction this wizard chose when they were at Tier 3.

The laws chosen by normal wizards were as high-end as possible, while the law research direction chosen by this person was simply "Breathing."

However, later this person played with the "Breathing" law until it blossomed; basically, by the time they reached a Tier 4 wizard, the "Breathing" law in their hands could already cut off the target's energy exchange with the outside world.

And they did not hesitate to publish the relevant wizardry models, and there were even simplified versions that low-tier wizards could construct, so the difficulty of finding a solution to suffocate lava giants was much smaller than Jie Ming imagined.

And the principle of "high-frequency sound waves" was even more ingenious.

Jie Ming speculated in the report that the auditory system composed of those special mineral crystals inside the lava giant.

Although it could perceive earthquake waves, its internal structure might be extremely fragile to high-frequency sound waves of a specific frequency, which could cause resonance and disintegration of its internal crystal structure.

The frontline combat wizards, based on this speculation, quickly tried to add specific high-frequency oscillations to high-intensity explosions or continuous wind-type wizardry.

The result was that this high-frequency sound wave could directly penetrate the lava giant's "rock skin," triggering violent oscillations inside its body, destroying the lava flow that maintained its internal balance, making it extremely painful, and even temporarily losing its ability to act.

The reason why these two methods were so famous, besides being unexpectedly effective, was most importantly that both methods allowed wizards to easily capture lava giants without taking their lives!

This point was the core reason why these two research results were popular among the low-tier wizard group.

At the time of the landing battle, the battle results of the two powerful monster kings (Kalamosi and Agelong) and Master Aierwen were quickly known to the wizards.

Facing the powerful combat potential of the Flame-Frost Plane, wizards naturally spied the huge value of the plane's indigenous people.

For low-tier wizards, the biggest harvest of the Flame-Frost Plane at the current stage was not those visible resources, but the two indigenous races themselves!

Living lava giants or snow monsters were simply walking treasures to these low-tier wizards.

Whether it was capturing them as slaves, experimental subjects for various wizardry research, or transforming them into biochemical beasts, golems, or even wizard servants, they all had immeasurable value.

A living lava giant could provide alchemists with the purest lava plasma samples, provide biological wizards with unique body structures for research, and could even be directly used to manufacture more powerful biological weapons.

And low-tier wizards could even sell them to large wizard forces in exchange for astonishing military merit and resources.

But before this, the powerful strength of lava giants made it difficult for low-tier wizards to capture them smoothly.

Killing them directly was easy, but to capture them completely and preserve their abilities intact during the capture process was a problem of another dimension.

And Jie Ming happened to provide an effective method. His two unintentional research results opened Pandora's box for low-tier wizards, allowing them to capture lava giants at a very low cost and safely and efficiently.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Jie Ming became famous in the camp and became a highly respected "Master of Biology."

Of course, Jie Ming also knew that he was able to become famous this time purely because he took advantage of the simplicity of the research topic.

Although the lava giant's physiological structure was unique, compared to the laws of the entire plane and more complex biological types, it was still a relatively primary research direction.

He knew that now the camp had gathered many logistics wizards from the Nuolun Workshop, and even the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Secret Sect, who were higher in level and more experienced.

Among these people, there was no lack of masters with a deeper understanding of biology and plane laws.

Once they completed deeper research topics, they would definitely be able to analyze more effective and precise strategies and methods against the indigenous people of this plane.

By then, his little "achievement" would soon be submerged by the tide of history.

But none of these were what he cared about now.

But no matter what, being able to help more wizards and gain their recognition, Jie Ming did not dislike this feeling.

(End of chapter)