Chapter 180

Jie Ming did not act rashly.

The power of alchemy was quietly activated under his feet, the scorching ground opened its mouth silently under the invisible power, and the gravel and scorched earth flowed to both sides like water.

In the blink of an eye, a narrow underground cave large enough to accommodate his figure was dug out.

His figure flashed, and he drilled in, then used alchemy to close the cave entrance, completely hiding himself.

During the lurking process, Jie Ming's left wrist turned slightly, and a defensive Tier 4 defensive rune wizardry tool emitted a faint light.

With a short delay, a nearly transparent elemental shield silently shrouded his body surface.

This shield was not just for defense, its surface runes also possessed the effect of subtly isolating breath and energy fluctuations, enough for him to hide his existence perfectly in this scorching underground space.

According to the intelligence obtained from the soul searching of that Tier 2 lava giant before, Jie Ming knew the approximate troop distribution of this lava giant gathering point like the back of his hand.

There were a total of more than ten Tier 2 lava giants in the inner circle, guarding the center of the core stronghold.

The outer circle was densely distributed with thousands of Tier 1 lava giants, they were either patrolling or carrying rocks, busily maintaining this stronghold.

"More than ten Tier 2, thousands of Tier 1, and the strongest leader has reached the peak of Tier 2... with the combat power of lava giants, if it were a head-on battle, even if it were me, I would have to suffer some injuries." Jie Ming thought in the narrow underground cave.

"However, since I have the first move now, there is no problem under the premise of being fully prepared."

But this was not his main goal for this trip.

His primary purpose for coming here was to collect Red Dust Energy.

Thinking of this, Jie Ming was no longer in a hurry, he shrank in the underground cave he dug, while adjusting his breathing to meditate and absorb the fire elements in the surrounding space, while thinking about his next action plan leisurely and quietly.

Thoughts naturally drifted to those lava giants who were captured by him and were about to accept "soul searching," and—if he made magic potions with the Red Dust Energy of these lava giants, what would it feel like?

The characteristic of Red Dust Magic Potion was that it could allow the user to personally experience the personal experience of the producer of Red Dust Energy.

In the past, most of the Red Dust Energy Jie Ming used came from ordinary humans or humanoid creatures in the Eluosia Plane.

These groups had more or less similar body structures and social compositions, so the gap in experience was not large, more of a feeling at the emotional level.

But now, if the object was an elemental creature like a lava giant, the uncertainty of this experience increased geometrically.

"Don't tell me I'm going to make an 'exotic flavor' Red Dust Magic Potion?" Jie Ming couldn't help but laugh.

He imagined how he would truly experience the primitive and scorching emotions of lava giants, or perceive their closeness to magma and exclusion of ice and snow.

"If it really becomes like this, the training effect of these things on the mind might be unexpectedly easy to use."

He was not worried that the effect of the magic potion would be so obvious that it would reveal any flaws when circulating within the wizard civilization.

When Jie Ming chose Red Dust Magic Potion as the main sales product, he had of course considered it carefully.

Not only because the effect of Red Dust Magic Potion itself was easier to sell.

More importantly, the nature of Red Dust Magic Potion itself made it easy for other wizards to associate it with things related to faith power.

In fact, in Jie Ming's view, the so-called faith power was closer to the "incense power" of the Cultivation World, which was a powerful spiritual energy gathered by thousands of mortal thoughts.

And the Red Dust Energy he was collecting now was similar to the "impurities" of faith power in the eyes of other wizards—faith power was pure and directional, Red Dust Energy was complex and disorderly, but it could not be denied that the two had quite a large connection purely from the effect of performance.

It just so happened that after coming to the Eluosia Plane, one of the main directions Jie Ming studied was the research on the "Divine Power Faith Network."

He also had quite a lot of involvement in the essence and classification of faith power.

Therefore, when he took out Red Dust Magic Potion, in the eyes of many wizards, this thing looked very much like a by-product of his research on the "Divine Power Faith Network," or a research product of some kind of accompanying phenomenon.

Wizards were all very smart, they were very good at analyzing various contexts from clues, and building reasonable logical explanations in their hearts for them.

Jie Ming was using this point.

He didn't need to fabricate any seamless reasons, nor did he need to deliberately explain the source of the magic potion raw materials.

As long as he didn't expose Red Dust Energy directly, other wizards would "rationalize" Red Dust Magic Potion perfectly in their hearts according to the knowledge system and research direction he showed, attributing it to the accidental product of one of his in-depth studies.

It was precisely because of this that Jie Ming didn't worry at all that the magic potion made with the Red Dust Energy of lava giants would be found wrong by Master Clark or other high-tier wizards.

However, just as he was imagining excitedly, he suddenly discovered an extremely strange situation.

He hadn't collected any Red Dust Energy from the lava giants at all!

Jie Ming's consciousness immediately penetrated into his dantian, and he conducted a detailed and thorough check around the rune seal that collected Red Dust Energy.

The rune seal was still collecting thin Red Dust Energy slowly and sporadically.

But unfortunately, after Jie Ming's detection, he found that these were clearly from wizards, not the thousands of lava giants in front of him!

"What's going on?! Could it be that the rune seal is broken?" Jie Ming couldn't help but frown, a look of confusion appearing in his eyes.

He re-perceived the lava giants around him; their roars, their labor, their collisions with each other... all showed that they possessed wisdom, possessed emotions, this should be able to produce Red Dust Energy, right!

Jie Ming recalled the emotional fluctuations produced when wizards were fighting for spoils on the battlefield before.

That kind of Red Dust Energy was so thin and precious, but it also really existed.

And these lava giants, whether from the number or the situation, should be able to produce Red Dust Energy that could be captured by his rune seal!

"Because it's an alien race... no!" Jie Ming thought of this possibility halfway and shook his head decisively.

The characteristic of concept materials was that as long as the basic conditions were met, they could be obtained.

Undoubtedly, there was no problem related to race in the basic conditions of Red Dust Energy, and even in the records of the Great Dao Book Pavilion, there were specific records of demon race settlements being able to collect Red Dust Energy.

"Could it be because for the biological system of lava giants, this kind of underground stronghold now cannot be counted as a real 'society'?" Jie Ming thought in his heart.

This was possible, after all, other conditions were very consistent.

But Jie Ming was not sure now.

The only way now was to go to a larger lava giant stronghold to see the situation!

If Red Dust Energy could not be collected there either, then he would need to re-examine the situation here.

As for how to find a larger lava giant gathering point...

"According to the ecological intelligence of lava giants, that leader definitely knows the coordinates of a larger gathering point."

Thinking of this, Jie Ming no longer hid himself.

He even actively released energy fluctuations, moved his body, and left the underground bunker.

And his appearance instantly broke the tranquility of the underground cavity.

"Invader discovered!!" A patrolling lava giant first emitted a deafening roar.

Jie Ming did not give them any chance to react, and directly started the killing mode.

With a thought, the six "autonomous floating cannons" that had already been strengthened and transformed behind him started instantly, circling around him in a circle.

At the same time, around his body, hundreds of small crystal-shaped rune wizardry tools flashing with sharp light floated.

These rune wizardry tools prepared in advance formed a "Great Da Guang Xiang" combat posture that was a circle smaller in size around his body!

"Kill!"

Jie Ming shouted coldly.

The Great Da Guang Xiang array composed of hundreds of small rune wizardry tools erupted with dense energy missiles, like scattered flowers, instantly covering a Tier 1 lava giant in an area around him.

At the same time, the six autonomous floating cannons also began to pour firepower under the control of the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror, and precision energy beams shot toward those Tier 2 lava giants trying to organize a counterattack.

Lava giants roared and charged, their bodies became tougher in the high-temperature environment, and viscous lava flowed on their body surfaces, almost turning into a semi-liquid state.

Their affinity for fire elements also reached the extreme, the magma bombs sprayed out were more scorching, and the earth spikes were also harder.

The Tier 4 shield on his body was still in effect, Jie Ming had no intention of defending, and all his energy was invested in the attack-type rune wizardry tools behind him.

Because he was in a hurry to verify, Jie Ming didn't have the intention to capture living captives slowly, rune light rose and fell, and terrifying destructive power instantly blew away the first batch of gathered lava giants.

"High-frequency sound wave suppression!"

Taking advantage of this gap, Jie Ming used high-frequency sound wave wizardry.

Although these lava giants were in a strengthened state, sound waves could still cause discomfort to the crystal structures inside them, briefly stiffening their actions.

"Tsk! Research is too busy, most rune wizardry tools don't have time to be replaced with targeted destruction wizardry!"

Feeling the effect erupted from the rune wizardry tools behind him, Jie Ming couldn't help but frown.

"Great Da Guang Xiang" destructive power was indeed strong, but the disadvantage was that the destructive power was a bit too saturated.

Once activated, all matter in front of him would be blown away, and no spoils could be left at all.

But making new rune wizardry tools was not as simple as changing the core texture, each one required Jie Ming to spend a lot of thought.

"Forget it, now is not the time to consider this."

Jie Ming condensed his mind and manipulated the Great Da Guang Xiang to aim at the second batch of lava giants that had barely gathered.

(End of chapter)