Chapter 279

Successfully advancing to the Golden Core Realm brought not only a leap in strength but also an expansion of vision and ambition.

Jie Ming clearly realized that the length of the list of matters he needed to deal with had suddenly increased several times.

The primary problem was the energy core issue of the Purgatory Sulfur plane—installing a Tier 7 large elemental pool.

The operation manual and user guide for this thing piled up like a small mountain, and the principles involved were complex to the point of making one dizzy.

Jie Ming roughly estimated that with his current knowledge reserve and understanding speed, if he wanted to fully digest these materials, it would be difficult to do so without a thousand years of dedicated study.

"Forget it, forget it, haste makes waste." Jie Ming quickly adjusted his mentality.

He decided not to treat it as an urgent task, but as a long-term research project, interspersed in the gaps of other research, just as "leisure reading" to change his train of thought.

After all, the accumulation of knowledge itself is a kind of pleasure.

However, distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.

Right now, the plane's energy is tight, especially the problem that the black giant incubation pool is almost stagnant, which must be solved as soon as possible.

Financial resources played a key role at this moment.

Jie Ming called up his military merit reserves earned over the years by relying on the self-stabilizing field regulation agreement, and without hesitation, allocated a huge sum of nearly 30 billion from the total deposit of over 30 billion. Relying on this huge sum, Jie Ming officially hired an experienced plane transformation engineering team sent by the Nolen Workshop through the internal network of the Nolen Workshop.

Their mission was to carry out the comprehensive transformation of the Purgatory Sulfur plane in the planned second and third stages.

The second stage was mainly the upgrade of infrastructure and the optimization of the energy transmission network.

And the crucial third stage, its core lay in building an efficient energy beam and scheduling system covering the entire plane.

Every material plane continuously receives "energy projections" from the fire elemental plane (or other basic elemental planes), just like a planet receiving sunlight from a star.

Previously, in the Purgatory Sulfur plane, most of this "projected energy" was naturally dissipated or inefficiently converted.

After the transformation of the third stage is completed, the plane will be able to capture and gather these energies that would have been wasted, like a giant solar panel array, through special magic arrays spread everywhere, and introduce them into a controllable central energy network.

From the perspective of the "total energy" received by the entire plane, it did not increase, but the usable and controllable effective energy would be increased by multiples!

By then, the energy supply problem of the black giant incubation pool would be solved, and the pressure of other energy-consuming research would also be greatly relieved.

On the other hand, Jie Ming began to systematically review the performance of the black giants in this plane war.

The problems exposed were indeed quite a few: although the resistance to pure physical cutting was high, the defense against some special attacks was insufficient.

Facing extremely flexible, high-mobility aerial units, they appeared clumsy, and their combat effectiveness in water environments was even greatly reduced.

And the most important one—the attack power was seriously insufficient!

Although the black giants looked invincible when fighting, they appeared somewhat powerless when facing some relatively "hard" targets.

However, apart from these problems, Jie Ming was quite satisfied with their overall performance.

The black giants perfectly exerted what he expected—ground heavy fortress, efficient energy absorption, and the core role of team assistance.

"Cannon fodder must have the consciousness of cannon fodder." Jie Ming's thinking was clear.

He decided to only optimize the problems that directly affected their core combat effectiveness, such as adding special explosive means or improving the stability of the energy core output.

As for the "big direction" problems like not being good at air combat or water combat, he did not intend to spend a lot of resources to forcibly make up for them.

"Omnipotence often means omni-incompetence, especially when resources are limited." Jie Ming knew this well.

For one's own cultivation, pursuing comprehensiveness and balance is necessary to cope with various complex situations.

But for war weapons, especially existences positioned as "cannon fodder" or "specialized units," extreme and specialization are the choices with the highest cost-performance ratio.

Instead of letting the black giant, this "land warfare king," reluctantly fly or swim, resulting in neither air combat nor water combat being decent.

It is better to directly design and manufacture two brand-new cannon fodder units born specifically for air combat and water combat!

Coincidentally, he happened to have extremely rich materials at hand.

Just as he was planning the blueprint, the teleportation array of the Purgatory Sulfur plane sent an access request.

Jie Ming confirmed through authority and agreed to the visit.

A young wizard wearing the standard uniform of the Nolen Workshop arrived through the teleportation array; he was respectful in attitude and capable in action, clearly a professional logistics transportation personnel.

"Lord Jie Ming, the biological samples you entrusted us to store and transport in the previous 'Airspace-Sacred Continent' plane war have all been delivered. Please verify."

Jie Ming communicated with him briefly, confirmed the list and handover process, and then he took action himself, quickly clearing and leveling a huge area on a vast wilderness of the plane.

Not long after, under Jie Ming's expectant gaze, environmental simulation warehouses, each massive and exuding cold metallic luster and maintaining specific environmental parameters, were carefully transferred through the teleportation array and arranged neatly on the open space.

These simulation warehouses varied in size, with small ones like houses and large ones comparable to small mountains.

Through the reinforced observation windows, one could see creatures of various forms frozen or sleeping inside.

Some possessed streamlined bodies and huge membrane wings, suitable for gliding in zero-gravity environments.

Some had light body structures, covered in energy jet organs, capable of high-speed maneuvering.

Others had forms like deep-sea alien beasts, covered in scales or possessing special structures adapted to fluid mechanics. Looking at these "treasures" being transported continuously, Jie Ming's face finally couldn't help but reveal a smile full of happiness and satisfaction.

In these eighty-plus years of warfare, the biological samples he collected were massive, especially the collection from the airspace plane.

Because that plane lacked gravity, almost all creatures had put their evolutionary points into air combat and water combat adaptation incidental to similar environments.

Their flying skills, spatial perception, and energy application methods all had great research value.

"Very good—" Jie Ming rubbed his chin, his eyes flashing with the excitement unique to a researcher, "The next main task is to dissect, analyze, extract excellent genes and structures, and then create my own air combat and water combat units!"