Chapter 226: Miscellaneous Matters

Deep within the Golden Garden of the Elosia plane, outside Gao Jie Ming's underground laboratory, the air was filled with a faint fragrance of plants.

Gao Jie Ming was engaging in face-to-face communication with a young wizard dispatched by the Noren Academy, whose appearance was somewhat immature and who radiated the aura of a Level Three Wizard Apprentice.

"Lord Gao Jie Ming, please confirm once again. Do you intend to sell all your territories on the Elosia Prime Plane, except for this area with the Golden Garden at its core and a diameter of less than ten kilometers, to the Noren Academy?"

Although this young Level Three Wizard Apprentice had already learned the content of his mission through the briefing before arriving,

when he truly heard the decision spoken personally by this Level Two Wizard, who appeared even younger than himself, he could not help but feel profound surprise.

He could not help but repeatedly seek confirmation from Gao Jie Ming.

Only after receiving Gao Jie Ming's affirmative response did he, with a feeling difficult to comprehend, begin processing the tedious land ownership transfer procedures on the light screen.

Gao Jie Ming merely stood calmly aside, watching what appeared to him as the "sluggish" movements of this Level Three Wizard Apprentice, and could not help but ponder quietly in his heart.

It seemed that the advantages brought by the extreme activation of soul and body were even greater than he had imagined.

In his current perception, every action of this wizard apprentice seemed to be proceeding in a state of "slow motion."

The motion of raising a hand, the sliding of fingertips manipulating the light screen, even the frequency of blinking, all appeared slow and dull.

It was not that the other party was truly moving slowly, but rather because his current "speed" was simply too fast.

This "swiftness" referred not only to explosive speed in combat but also to improvements in all aspects such as dynamic vision under normal conditions, neural reflex speed, and thought processing efficiency.

In Gao Jie Ming's previous self-tests, he discovered that one second of his subjective experience was now equivalent to only about one-fifth of a second in the normal flow of external time.

This meant that one second subjectively experienced by the wizard apprentice and Level One Wizards was stretched into a long five seconds for Gao Jie Ming!

Although numerically, a Level Two Wizard possessed only three to four times the biological lifespan of a Level One Wizard,

if viewed through the lens of a Level Two Wizard's "subjective time," the world they could experience and perceive amounted to a "subjective lifespan" fifteen to twenty times greater than that of a Level One Wizard!

This was an essential chasm in the hierarchy of life.

Gao Jie Ming waited patiently; after what felt to him like an hour-long few minutes, the wizard apprentice before him finally completed all procedures in a "leisurely" manner.

Subsequently, the wizard apprentice slowly raised his head and said to Gao Jie Ming in a respectful tone: "Lord Gao Jie Ming, the redivision of your territory has been completed. All points obtained from the sale of the territory have also been deposited into your personal account."

"You have worked hard."

After politely bidding farewell, Gao Jie Ming could not wait to transform into a streak of light and return to his underground laboratory.

He immediately opened the Magic Net terminal, and upon seeing the account balance column return to a massive sum of several million points, he could not help but sigh deeply.

Indeed, the reason Gao Jie Ming had sold his territory was simply that he had run out of money.

Although Gao Jie Ming had earned a substantial fortune through military merits and various spoils while in the Yan Shuang plane, along with the little-known valuable income source of "Red Dust Qi,"

after deducting the huge debts he still needed to repay to Mentor Clark and the Tower of Nirvana, and further subtracting the consumption required for his promotion to Level Two Wizard and the subsequent purchase of various supplies,

once everything had settled, he truly did not have many freely disposable points remaining.

Yet his next plan—to fundamentally and thoroughly transform the "Lava Giant" race—required a vast amount of high-level biochemical modification knowledge involving the source of life.

Although Gao Jie Ming had previously touched upon some similar knowledge, it was obvious that the two were not on the same level at all.

Moreover, ever since discovering that his body-refining method could continuously improve his learning ability and aptitude under extremely high learning pressure, Gao Jie Ming had begun to look down on those basic knowledges of lower difficulty.

What he craved was knowledge that could truly touch the core, knowledge that was difficult.

And if one wished to purchase some relatively core knowledge from the Noren Academy's database, even those of not-so-high levels or those considered somewhat "chicken ribs" due to excessive difficulty or narrow application scope, it would still require a considerable cost.

In fact, immediately after promoting to Level Two Wizard, Gao Jie Ming had non-stop begun manufacturing "Adamantite," attempting to gain more points by selling this high-value "raw material."

However, as the quantity he sold increased, the problem Gao Jie Ming had once worried about finally emerged—the material markets of several wizard forces near the Noren Workshop began to gradually saturate.

It was not that his "Adamantite" could not be sold at all.

It was merely that the sales speed of Adamantite began to inevitably drop significantly, shifting from initial supply failing to meet demand to requiring long-term listing on the exchange before finding a buyer.

Because he possessed the "Level Two Cultivation Agreement," Gao Jie Ming could indeed list the Adamantite he refined onto the vast sales network of the entire Star Ring Federation for sale.

But the effect was truly not very good.

After all, the reason "Adamantite" had caused a sales frenzy within the Noren Workshop and surrounding forces was that this item possessed characteristics of some Level Six materials while still being priced as a Level Five material.

Within the internal markets of the three major forces led by the Noren Workshop, it was considered a high-quality commodity that was "good quality and cheap."

But if placed within the vast and boundless Star Ring Federation, the attributes of "Adamantite" were truly too ordinary.

It had neither a resounding reputation nor any irreplaceable characteristics.

Gao Jie Ming's "Adamantite" was almost immediately submerged among the countless rare materials numerous as the sands of the Ganges the moment it was listed, attracting no interest.

Under compelled circumstances, Gao Jie Ming could only choose to sell his territory.

In any case, the main base he had designated for the future was that Purgatory Sulfur Plane, where resources were purer and more suitable for his experiments.

This territory on the Elosia Prime Plane was not too important to him.

If it were not for the desire to study the unique "Divine Power Faith Network" of the Elosia Prime Plane up close, he might have even sold the Golden Garden together with the rest.

With this massive injection of funds, Gao Jie Ming hesitated no longer.

He could not wait to purchase from the Noren Academy's online knowledge library a large quantity of relatively advanced biochemical modification knowledge that he had long coveted.

Among them, many pieces of knowledge carried negative labels such as "learning difficulty too high," "application prerequisites stringent," or "modification effect average."

Precisely because of these flaws, their prices fell within the range Gao Jie Ming could afford.

However, for the current Gao Jie Ming, "learning difficulty too high" was actually a good thing.

In the days that followed, Gao Jie Ming's life once again entered that simple yet fulfilling rhythm.

On one hand, using the core of the newly cultivated Level Two Lava Giant as a new "parent specimen," he continuously cultivated more Level One and Level Two Lava Giants to serve as research materials for his experiments.

On the other hand, he immersed his entire mind and spirit in studying those newly purchased high-difficulty biochemical knowledges.

Deep within his consciousness, before that magnificent and ancient Grand Dao Library, Gao Jie Ming hovered in mid-air, his fingertips lightly touching the book before him.

As usual today, he had just finished reading a book detailing the origins and characteristics of the "Fire Spirit," a born deity.

That knowledge regarding the evolution of elemental life and innate characteristics interwove like bolts of lightning deep within his highly active soul.

Soon, Gao Jie Ming withdrew from the depths of his consciousness.

"As expected, performing 'beneficial' and 'positive' modifications on a life form with a relatively complex essence, such as a Lava Giant, is too difficult relying solely on my current knowledge system as a Level Two Wizard," Gao Jie Ming thought inwardly as he opened his eyes. "But if I can combine this with the exquisite knowledge regarding life evolution from the cultivation world, it becomes possible."

The Great Dao Library had allowed him to grasp the essence of various powerful elemental beings, while the knowledge from the Plane Nuolun Workshop provided concrete pathways for modifying life.

Combining the two made it feel as though Gao Jie Ming had opened up an entirely new world.

Having completed today's study tasks, Gao Jie Ming, inspired by the vast knowledge systems from both worlds, hurried to the core area of the laboratory.

There, upon an operating table composed of rune chains and energy beams, a newly cultivated Level One Lava Giant lay disemboweled, firmly bound in place.

The crimson rocks covering its body were temporarily immobilized by the continuous effect of the binding energy beams, revealing the core within where molten magma pulsed with heat.

Gao Jie Ming first conducted a careful examination of the Lava Giant before him, focusing his research on its "digestive system," which was complex and highly efficient, differing from that of other elemental beings.

The digestive system of the Lava Giant was extremely special.

It could not only absorb elemental energy from molten rock but could even directly digest the flesh and blood essence of creatures possessing flesh and blood.

By means of this, Lava Giants could accelerate their own maturation speed, even promote breakthroughs during bottleneck periods, thereby increasing their rate of advancement!

Among pure elemental beings, this was extremely rare.

Through deep and careful research, Gao Jie Ming discovered that the strange digestive system of the Lava Giant possessed excellent energy absorption, conversion efficiency, and adaptability.

He believed this might serve as the breakthrough point for improving the entire Lava Giant race, enhancing both their potential and combat power!

Currently, the progress of this research was very gratifying, even exceeding his expectations!

At the current rate of efficiency, Gao Jie Ming estimated it would not be long before he achieved phased results!

(End of Chapter)