Chapter 327

After the meeting ended and returning to the laboratory in the Golden Garden, Jie Ming soon threw the wind and rain about the elite combat unit outside behind him.

This strategic change of the Star Ring Alliance sounded grand, but when implemented in Jie Ming's personal daily life, the changes were minimal.

It was nothing more than changing from needing to go to the academy to "check in" occasionally to now being able to enjoy the long vacation benefits of a mentor level without holding a position.

The terminal used to receive war missions in his hand was changed from the general model at the junction point to a magic network terminal issued directly by the Federation, with higher authority and more integrated functions.

According to Dean Avery Knight, elite members like them will not need to rush to the junction point to sign up for screening when participating in plane wars in the future.

Just apply directly through this magic network terminal and wait for the system to assign tasks.

After receiving the mission call-up order and teleportation coordinates, set off directly using the special teleportation array established by the academy or the Federation, saving time and effort.

Besides that, for Jie Ming himself, there were basically no other changes in this change.

Stripped of these trivial administrative processes, Jie Ming plunged back into his focused research life.

No longer caring about the changing situation outside, he devoted his main energy to the analysis of the newly acquired core knowledge of the five divine power belief networks.

Time flies, and the self-circulating timer in the laboratory has passed fifty years silently.

At this moment, Jie Ming is standing in front of a specially made reinforced observation tank, his brows locked, and a sense of irritability in his eyes.

Inside the tank, a group of seemingly ordinary white mist flows slowly, like the scene seen on any foggy morning in memory.

This is the mysterious mist he painstakingly collected from the Airspace plane back then.

Over these fifty years, he has used almost all the non-destructive analysis methods he can think of: elemental spectrum scanning, energy field resonance detection, high-dimensional structure mapping, and even used several treasure appraisal secret techniques from the 【Great Dao Book Pavilion】... the results are all the same.

The data shows that it is just an ordinary water vapor condensate, and both its physical properties and energy reactions conform to basic natural laws.

"Still... can't understand it..." Jie Ming couldn't help but grab his hair hard, making his originally neat hair a bit messy.

This "can't understand" stems not only from the lack of knowledge but also from the gap in dimensions.

Just like two-dimensional creatures cannot understand the concept of height, there is an insurmountable gap between his existing knowledge system and the mysteries that may be contained behind this white mist.

Knowing that it is so, but not knowing why it is so, and even unable to touch the edge of "that it is so."

He exhaled a long breath of turbid air, forcibly suppressing the irritability caused by the stagnation of research.

He turned and left this frustrating analysis room and walked into the biological cultivation area next to it.

Inside the huge ecological simulation cabin, several mutated snake spiders with ferocious forms and unstable space ripples flashing on their limbs were crawling anxiously.

Their existence confirmed Jie Ming's initial conjecture—the mutated snake spiders were indeed mutated from the leader individuals of the ordinary snake spider population under the induction of some unknown factors.

Not all leaders can successfully mutate, but after the accumulation of long years, and Jie Ming's conscious collection and "catalysis," he has also accumulated quite a few samples on hand.

However, the problem remains.

Space ability involves higher-order elemental essence and is one of the most profound and unpredictable fields on the wizard's path.

Without reaching Tier 3 Wizard, and without the qualitative change in spiritual power and perception of world rules, wanting to study this power directly and deeply is simply a daydream.

The current Jie Ming cannot even get close to these mutated snake spiders without relying on heavy protection and space stabilizers—the space ripples naturally dissipated around them are enough to tear his body that has not been fully protected.

"Sigh..." Another helpless sigh.

Both research directions have fallen into bottlenecks, and this feeling is not good.

He returned to the lounge somewhat listlessly and threw himself into that soft recliner.

Jie Ming casually activated the large screen embedded in the wall in front of him.

If an ordinary person looked at it, the screen would only be flashing black and white garbled codes that were dazzling.

But under Jie Ming's nerve reflex and information processing ability as a Tier 2 Wizard peak and Jin Dan stage cultivator, what "slowly" slid past were the massive knowledge data he collected while wandering through various battlefields when he was dealing with the triangular plane community before.

Reading and learning this knowledge is his unique way of relaxing.

The reason why it is called "leisure" is that with his increasingly profound knowledge reserve, Jie Ming's learning speed for this knowledge is getting faster and faster.

By analogy, for many technical and applied knowledge, he almost only needs to glance at the core principles and structure diagrams to instantly understand its operating mechanism, and can even instantly deduce several optimization or improvement schemes in his mind.

This ease, as if solving a simple puzzle, can bring a kind of intellectual pleasure and relaxation.

But today, this pleasure seems to be covered with a shadow.

Jie Ming couldn't help but sigh again, his eyes becoming a bit complex.

He clearly realized that he had almost touched the "knowledge barrier" at the current level.

This does not mean that there is no more knowledge to learn, but that the learning difficulty of the remaining profound knowledge he has not yet mastered will climb exponentially.

But some knowledge that is not high enough seems to be getting simpler and simpler for him, and even cannot continue to improve his level.

At his current level, every small step forward requires huge effort, and the ratio of gain to input is getting lower and lower.

Continuing to forcibly dig deep within the existing framework will only get half the result with twice the effort.

"Almost... it's time to prepare for promotion..." Jie Ming couldn't help but mutter to himself.

However, unlike cultivators who mainly focus their energy on the cultivation stage, wizards mainly spend huge energy and resources when advancing.

It is no exaggeration to say that every wizard's promotion method is different, but every wizard exhausts all his current resources before advancing.

Ordinary wizards have to go bankrupt to buy plane origin, and even bear huge debts, but for wizards like Jie Ming, they can easily buy it.

But for wizards of Jie Ming's level, how could they look down on the plan of advancing at will?

For example, when Senior Sister Wei Aola advanced, she also exhausted her family wealth. For capable wizards, if they don't do something when advancing, they will be so uncomfortable that they can't sleep!

His gaze swept across the knowledge flow that was still "slowly" scrolling on the screen. Those technical details that once made him interested now made him feel a kind of invisible childishness.

He frowned, simply using one heart for two purposes, separating a part of his spiritual sense, and at the same time taking out a metal-covered classic from his body space that was as thick as a city wall brick—"Tier 7 Large Elemental Pool: Principles, Architecture, Maintenance, and Advanced Application Guide."

While using spiritual power to "brush" the knowledge on the screen as background sound, he truly immersed himself in that instruction manual that was so complex that it made his scalp tingle.

No matter what the plan is later, he needs to ensure that his largest energy source—the Tier 7 large elemental pool purchased at a huge cost—can perfectly support all his creations and research needs.

Time is like water, passing quietly.

Another ten years of time slipped by in focused research and precipitation.

On this day, Jie Ming had just finished his daily homework of refining his Dao heart with the Qi of the Red Dust, slowly calming the complex thoughts lingering around his body, and exhaled a turbid breath leisurely.

Just at the moment when his mind returned to clarity, his figure paused, and his expression froze.

A mysterious feeling emerged from the depths of his soul, not specific knowledge or power, but a kind of "inspiration" that comes naturally.

No need to flip through any classics in the "Great Dao Book Pavilion," and no need for any outsider's guidance, a clear realization naturally emerged in his heart:

The time has come, and he can advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

No ecstasy, no excitement, only a kind of peace and understanding after long-term cultivation and finally seeing the signs of harvest.

He stood up and walked steadily into the depths of the Purgatory Sulfur plane.

There is a secret room there that has been prepared for a long time and is engraved with several layers of protection and energy-gathering runes.

Stepping into it, the heavy automatic metal door closed silently, isolating everything outside.

Jie Ming's heart moved, and the complex arrays engraved on the inner wall, floor, and ceiling of the secret room lit up one by one, making a low humming sound.

In an instant, the violent fire elements and sulfur aura filled in the plane were frantically extracted and gathered.

However, these gathered energies did not directly pour into Jie Ming's body, but underwent essential changes under the transformation of that precise array.

The elemental colors belonging to the Wizarding World gradually faded and were replaced by a softer, more agile, and vibrant milky white energy—spiritual energy!

This is a power that should not exist under the rules of the Wizarding World, but belongs exclusively to the cultivation system!

This transformation array is exactly the "Elemental-Spiritual Power Conversion Technology" that Jie Ming reverse-derived when he was refining the "Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier" back then, deeply studying the operating mechanism of his own Qi refining method.

Although it looks rough compared to the subtle operation of the internal cultivation method, it is enough to create a spiritual realm suitable for cultivators to break through in this square inch of land.

Feeling the concentration of spiritual energy in the secret room rising step by step, every breath is full of refreshing spiritual opportunity.

Jie Ming can clearly feel the Jin Dan that has been silent in his body for a long time trembling slightly, the cultivation method accelerates its operation by itself, and a joy like meeting sweet rain after a long drought comes.

He didn't delay any longer, sat cross-legged on the futon in the center of the secret room, with his five hearts facing the sky.

His spirit was introverted, adjusting his state—essence, energy, and spirit—to an unprecedented perfection.

Then, a thought arose, and the promotion began.

The whole process was unexpectedly smooth, and could even be called plain.

No earth-shattering visions, no dangerous heart demon tribulations, only the endless, increasingly pure and vast spiritual power flowing in his body.

And that Jin Dan located in the center of the dantian, which was already round and flawless, and golden, was undergoing essential transformation.

His accumulation was too thick.

The polishing of the Jin Dan stage had reached its limit, and the understanding of the cultivation method and the investment of massive resources had already leveled the threshold for promotion.

The breakthrough at this moment was just water overflowing, a matter of course.

Jie Ming only felt his spirit trance for a moment, not knowing how long had passed, maybe an instant, maybe eternity.

When he came back to his senses, under the gaze of spiritual power, in the center of the dantian qi sea, the core of the endless spiritual power vortex, a point of light purely made of soul origin and highly condensed spirituality began to shine.

This point of spiritual light absorbed massive spiritual power, constantly growing and shaping, and finally, a villain who was countless times smaller, with clear eyebrows and eyes, exactly the same as Jie Ming's body, slowly condensed and formed!

Nascent Soul, formed!

Just at the moment when the Nascent Soul condensed, the Jin Dan that had been quietly suspended suddenly began to rotate at high speed by itself.

On the surface of the Jin Dan, the originally introverted runes suddenly lit up, emitting light far more dazzling than usual.

The next moment, it turned into a stream of light and plunged directly into the arms of the newborn Nascent Soul.

Hum—!

A light sound that only the soul could perceive rang out.

The moment the Nascent Soul and the Jin Dan touched, the two did not repel each other, but combined closely like water and milk.

When the light gradually subsided and the change stopped, Jie Ming "saw" that the volume of the Jin Dan had shrunk by several circles, but the color was deeper and more introverted, as if it had concentrated all the essence.

At this time, the Jin Dan no longer floated in his dantian, but steadily floated in the dantian position of the Nascent Soul, like stars guarding the core.

A more mysterious connection was established between Jie Ming, the Nascent Soul, and the Jin Dan.

"So that's how it is..." Jie Ming realized in his heart.

He tried a little and found that he could still accumulate spiritual power through the Jin Dan as he did in the Jin Dan stage, and this path was not abandoned.

But if he turned to practice with the Nascent Soul as the lead, the efficiency could be doubled!

Moreover, in the process of Nascent Soul cultivation, the reduced version of the Jin Dan located in its "dantian" would also be tempered and improved synchronously, and the two complemented each other.

At this moment, he had a bone-deep understanding of the obscure descriptions in the "Great Dao Book Pavilion": "No wonder it is said that every major realm is not a simple advancement, but opening up a brand-new path that integrates the wisdom of predecessors and one's own characteristics."

The Nascent Soul stage is not abandoning the Jin Dan, but a brand-new path that is more efficient, closer to the origin, and has the advantages of the Jin Dan on the basis of the Jin Dan Dao!

Before he could savor the mystery brought by this dual cultivation system, a huge suction force came from the lower dantian again!

Jie Ming had expected this, and his face remained unchanged.

Every time a major realm breaks through, the internal space opened up by the "Internal Circulation" method will expand accordingly.

This time, he no longer needed to rely on magic medicine to supplement consumption, just a slight movement of spiritual power, through the control panel next to him, he adjusted the output power of the array connected outside the secret room by several levels!

Boom!!

A more majestic elemental torrent was forcibly extracted, poured into the transformation array, transformed into pure spiritual energy close to liquid, and frantically poured into Jie Ming's body.

The newborn Nascent Soul was like a bottomless pit, greedily absorbing these spiritual energies, refining them into pure spiritual power, and then being ruthlessly sucked away by the huge suction force, injecting them into the internal space that was expanding violently.

Spiritual power was absorbed continuously, and spiritual energy from the outside world supplemented one after another, forming a perfect energy cycle.

I don't know how long it took, the terrifying suction force finally stopped slowly.

Jie Ming sank his spiritual sense into his body space for the first time.

The next moment, even with his current state of mind, he couldn't help but feel a burst of surprise.

The space that was originally only the size of an ancient small village is now exceptionally vast.

Roughly estimated, the scale is comparable to a modern international metropolis in his memory of his previous life.

The rudiments of mountains, rivers, and plains appear and disappear in the rich spiritual mist, and the layout is increasingly clear.

What surprised him even more was that this space, which was theoretically completely closed and should not have natural light sources, was no longer completely dark at this moment.

A soft and uniform light, like the dawn, permeated the space. Although it was not bright, it was enough to see the scene in the distance.

He searched carefully and did not find any existence similar to the sun or light-emitting bodies.

After in-depth research, Jie Ming couldn't help but be moved again—the fluctuation characteristics of the source of this light are actually consistent with the essence of light sources in the normal material plane of the Wizarding World!

It is the "natural light" that is projected on a higher dimension of the elemental plane and penetrates through the space barrier!

This means that the rules and existence form of his internal space have begun to be initially identified by the underlying laws of the Wizarding World and identified as a newborn "plane" rudiment!

Excitement surged into his heart like a tide, but it was quickly suppressed by his strong state of mind.

Jie Ming soon realized that this faint light source had little effect on such a vast space and was far from enough to form a complete ecological cycle.

At the current stage, this place can only be counted as an incomparably huge storage space with potential and a special laboratory, and it is still far from a real "cave heaven and blessed land."

However, such a huge space has already provided more possibilities for his future plans.

Whether it is expanding the station and training ground of the Black Giant Legion, building a larger automated rune wizard tool production line, or planning more complex experimental areas, it is more than enough.

In any case, feeling the vast spiritual power in his body that is ten times more vigorous than in the Jin Dan stage, feeling the mystery brought by the dual cultivation system of Nascent Soul and Jin Dan, feeling the closer connection between the soul and heaven and earth...

Jie Ming knows that he has officially stepped into the Nascent Soul stage!

(Something happened, only one chapter today.)

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