Chapter 238

Unknowingly, fifty years of time passed quietly.

For mortals, this is already half a lifetime of vicissitudes.

But for wizards immersed in the ocean of knowledge, it is just a snap of the fingers.

Jie Ming was standing in his huge underground laboratory as usual.

His gaze was focused on the two light clusters that were being maintained by countless precision instruments and floating in mid-air, slowly merging.

Under the interweaving of various complex energy fields, two cores, one blue and one red, emanating the aura of origin, were merging, permeating, and entangling with each other at an extremely slow yet incomparably firm speed.

Confirming that the stability of the core had finally stabilized, Jie Ming's face finally revealed an expression mixed with exhaustion and anticipation.

These two cores, the red one of which is the core of the "Lava Giant," and the blue one is the core of the "Yeti."

Strictly speaking, these two pure elemental life forms don't actually have anything like a "core" in the traditional elemental biology sense.

In the case of a living "Lava Giant," their so-called core is actually countless tiny crystal fragments the size of rice grains scattered all over their body.

These crystal fragments not only contain their most fundamental life information but also store massive fire element energy.

Because their quantity is extremely large and they are spread all over the body, even if a large portion is lost during intense fighting, it won't cause any fatal impact on them.

When a Lava Giant needs to reproduce offspring, they will separate a most plump small crystal from their body and throw it into a hatching pool or a lava pool rich in energy.

And this so-called "Lava Giant core" in front of Jie Ming is actually formed after the Lava Giant dies, through artificial means,

Carefully selecting all the tiny crystal fragments remaining in their body and forcibly gathering them together using special technology to form an energy aggregate.

The Yeti's core is also a similar situation, but the form of expression is more extreme.

In the body of a living Yeti, there isn't even a fixed crystal.

It's just that this kind of elemental life has a very strange biological instinct—after encountering high temperatures that cause the body to melt, those melted bodies will instinctively tend to gather together to ensure that they can recover their combat power faster.

And such physiological characteristics will continue to be maintained after they die.

After a Yeti dies, the parts of their body with the strongest life force and highest energy intensity will automatically aggregate together under the action of this special physiological characteristic.

Forming an irregular ice-blue crystal body, which is the so-called "Yeti core."

When Jie Ming first set up this research plan to "strengthen the Lava Giant race," he set the target of the "strengthening material" on the "Yeti," which was from the same plane as the Lava Giant but had completely opposite attributes.

It's just that before, when he was on the Flame Frost Plane, his research on elemental life forms like Yetis was not sufficient.

Moreover, he was not good at genetic modification knowledge related to "water elements."

So the entire project had been full of difficulties and progress was slow.

And ever since Jie Ming obtained that wisp of "water element origin" rewarded to him by Dean Avery Knight, Jie Ming's entire research speed was like having wings added, much faster!

Now, seeing that it was about to bear the final result!

Jie Ming operated the instrument control terminal on the side for a while, looked at the data on the light screen, and calculated silently in his heart.

Judging from the data, the fusion progress of those two cores had entered a stable period, and it was estimated that it would take at most another year or so for them to be completely fused.

By then, it would be possible to confirm whether the final result of this research plan, which had lasted for a hundred years, was a success or a failure.

Hum.

Just then, the communicator on the side rang, prompting him that he had received a space transmission request sent through the laboratory's internal permissions. Jie Ming raised his eyebrows, clicked on the source information of the request, and discovered that the visitor was actually Viola.

"Research finished?" Jie Ming muttered in his heart and confirmed the request casually.

The next second, the light of the teleportation array in the center of the laboratory shone brightly.

Accompanied by a violent space fluctuation, a figure fell out of it.

The two met again after decades.

Even Jie Ming couldn't help but be stunned after seeing Viola's appearance at this moment.

At this time, Viola's appearance could be said to be quite miserable.

Her originally smooth and silky silver long hair, which was like moonlight, had now become withered and frizzy, messy, and no different from the "frizzy" state of being struck by lightning.

Her silver-gray eyes, which always flickered with cunning and wisdom, also became dim and full of exhaustion.

Even thick dark circles had formed on her two eye sockets.

To be able to become so miserable with the physique of a Tier 6 wizard, and even have such conspicuous dark circles...

One look and you could tell that she had been exhausted by being a "beast of burden" for Mentor Clark in that harsh Flame Frost Plane for so many years. "Yo, Junior Brother Jie Ming." Viola waved at him powerlessly, her voice hoarse, "Sorry, I came uninvited."

"Senior Sister, you are..." Jie Ming walked over and handed her a potion to restore spirit.

Viola took the potion and drank it in one gulp, letting out a long sigh of relief, and the dim eyes finally regained a trace of spirit.

She looked at Jie Ming, a trace of sincere smile appearing on her face: "Speaking of which, I have to thank you for the few strengthening spirit and fatigue-relieving magic potions you sent me back then. If it weren't for them hanging on, I might have really died in that ghost place."

Jie Ming's eyelids jumped as he looked at her powerless appearance, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Looking at your miserable appearance, you must have had a hard time these years."

Viola nodded deeply in agreement upon hearing this.

Immediately, a morbidly fanatical flush suddenly appeared on her face!

She stuck out her tongue, licked her chapped lips, and said in a tone of pleasure that was almost a moan: "That's right! It was really too tiring! That kind of 'painful experience' where both soul and body were squeezed to the limit, and every second was hovering on the edge of collapse!

Ah—it was really, quite rare! And it also made me—feel extremely comfortable in my heart!"

The corners of Jie Ming's eyes twitched violently and uncontrollably.

He silently took back his concern just now in his heart.

He felt that he was simply too stupid to worry about this guy; it was purely redundant!

Looking at Viola like this, Jie Ming felt even more that, as an out-and-out pervert, she was indeed the most suitable user of the "pain" rule!

"Alright, no more joking with you." Viola quickly returned to normal, and she explained her purpose: "I came this time mainly to tell you about Mentor Clark's research situation on the Flame Frost Plane."

"A key research project of his over there has had a major breakthrough. So, it's highly likely that he will have to continue to stay on that plane for a few hundred years before coming back."

"Mentor Clark asked me to tell you that if you have already finished the batch of 'Red Dust Magic Potions' used to pay off the loan, you can contact him later through the mark between us and send the magic potions directly to the Flame Frost Plane."

Jie Ming understood in his heart, knowing that this was his own mentor starting to urge debt repayment in disguise.

After all, quite some time had passed, and he should indeed continue to pay off the debt.

He immediately indicated: "Understood, please tell Mentor Clark that I will make the magic potions as soon as possible and send them over."

After speaking, he looked at Viola and asked: "What about you? What do you plan to do next?"

Viola stretched, revealing her graceful figure: "Me—through decades of high-intensity research and 'experiencing' the laws of that plane, I finally managed to forcibly supplement my own knowledge level to the 'passing line' of a Tier 5 wizard."

"So, Mentor Clark mercifully let me leave temporarily. Let me go back and properly supplement the basic knowledge I missed, and—study how to pay off that astronomical debt I owe."

As she spoke, her silver-gray eyes, which had regained their spirit, rolled around and looked at Jie Ming, asking: "So Junior Brother Jie Ming, do you have any jobs that can make money quickly recently?"

Jie Ming thought for a moment, and the incident from fifty years ago immediately appeared in his mind.

He organized his language slightly and simply told her about Dean Avery Knight discovering a new plane recently.

And indicated: "I heard that the combat power on the opposite side is very strong, the war intensity is quite high, and combat power is very much needed. But also because of this reason, that plane is not only rich in resources, but the exchange ratio of military merit is also quite generous. Senior Sister Viola, if you want to make a fortune quickly, you can go there and take a look."

Jie Ming remembered very clearly that this Senior Sister Viola also held the title of visiting professor at the Nuolun Academy branch newly built on the Aeloxia Plane.

Theoretically, she could also be considered a wizard under Dean Avery Knight.

Going to participate in the war was reasonable and compliant.

"A new plane?!"

Viola's eyes lit up instantly!

That kind of light was the light that a bloodthirsty wolf would reveal when seeing a fat flock of sheep!

War means chaos, means death, means... pain!

Of course, it also means huge, unimaginable opportunities and wealth!

Immediately, she clapped her hands excitedly: "It's settled! I'll go back and prepare for twenty or thirty years, adjust my state to the best,

And upgrade my lovely 'pets,' and then, I'll go immediately!"

Looking at her eager appearance, Jie Ming could only silently mourn for that unknown unlucky world for three seconds in his heart.