Chapter 329

Dozens of years of time passed quietly in busy research and preparations for plane transformation.

In the laboratory, the light was adjusted to be slightly dim, only a huge cylindrical reinforced glass tank in the center emitted a faint red light.

Jie Ming stood in front of the tank, his brows slightly frowned, his fingers unconsciously grabbing his somewhat messy hair, and a hint of irritability unique to research falling into inertia and bottleneck period in his eyes.

The tank is filled with crystal clear and viscous liquid like melted rubies, and energy phantoms that seem to possess life shuttle and circle in it like swimming fish.

These energy phantoms emit pure and active elemental fluctuations.

And in the center of the liquid, a male wizard apprentice who looks a bit thin and has his eyes closed is floating quietly.

His body is like a black hole, greedily absorbing the energy and those swimming "fish" in the surrounding liquid.

"How is the situation?" Accompanied by light footsteps and spatial fluctuations, Wei Aola's figure appeared through the teleportation array in the corner of the laboratory.

She walked to the tank in a few steps, observing the scene inside with great interest.

Jie Ming didn't look back, his gaze swept across several precision instruments connected to the tank, and complex data streams were jumping on them.

He nodded, his tone plain and waveless: "Very good, the process of qualification enhancement is very smooth, no rejection reaction occurred, and the energy absorption efficiency meets expectations. It is expected that after the enhancement is completed, his elemental affinity talent can be directly increased by ten levels."

"Wow!" Wei Aola clapped her hands lightly, looking at the apprentice in the tank, her eyes flashing with exclamation and undisguised interest, "Little Junior Brother, your technology is getting more and more scary! How many years has it been? Even alchemy that improves qualifications has been developed? And the effect is so strong!"

Jie Ming finally turned his head, but there was no pride on his face, but a kind of regret.

He shook his head expressionlessly: "The effect is okay, but at the current stage, this technology has no practical significance."

"How can it be meaningless?" Wei Aola obviously disagreed. She hugged her chest and retorted, "I bet that no matter how expensive the materials consumed by this technology are, for those wizard families with long traditions, at the critical moment of cultivating core descendants, they will definitely be willing to pay a price that makes you dumbfounded! And those old wizards who are trapped at a low level by their own qualifications and can't break through even though their lifespan is about to end, will beg at your door even if they go bankrupt!"

She paused and lowered her voice a little: "You don't know, among high-level alchemy wizards, those who can involve the field of qualification enhancement are rare, but every one who masters similar technology, even if the effect is not as exaggerated as yours, is rich and is treated as a guest of honor by major forces!"

Jie Ming shook his head again and did not continue to argue.

He knew in his heart that the key was not just the cost issue mentioned by Wei Aola.

The core of this qualification enhancement technology does not originate from the alchemy of the wizard system, but a cultivation secret method he modified from the "Great Dao Book Pavilion" that uses "Nature's Spirit" to wash the bones and improve qualifications.

Its core raw material is exactly those strange "crystal fish" he discovered and captured in the Purgatory Sulfur plane back then (Chapter 154).

After in-depth research, he confirmed that these crystal fish are not ordinary elemental creatures, but a manifestation of an extremely rare "Nature's Spirit."

After that, Jie Ming modified the secret method of the cultivation world and successfully applied it to individuals in the Wizarding World.

From the effect point of view, it is indeed world-shaking—it can unconditionally pull up a creature's elemental affinity qualification by ten levels!

It is "increase" by ten levels, not "increase to" ten levels.

This means that an apprentice whose qualification was originally only five levels can jump to fifteen levels after use!

However, the limitations of this technology are also huge.

In addition to technical problems, in terms of practical application, this technology also has great limitations.

First, it is basically meaningless to middle and high-level wizards.

The fact that the wizard level is not limited by qualifications after improvement is not just a joke.

On the wizard's path, every promotion of a major realm will be accompanied by the leap of life level and the qualitative change of spiritual power. This leap itself will bring a natural and substantial improvement in qualifications in all aspects.

If you quantify it with data, when a wizard apprentice advances to an official wizard, the qualification will be added by 10 levels on the previous basis.

Tier 2 wizard, add another 20 levels, Tier 3 wizard, add another 30 levels... and so on.

Therefore, even for the initial ten-level super genius, their qualification advantage can often only be maintained until the Tier 3 or Tier 4 wizard stage.

Further on, the advantage brought by innate qualifications will become negligible, and effort, opportunity, and depth of understanding of knowledge are far more important than initial qualifications.

What's more, Jie Ming's technology improves the elemental affinity qualification, and besides that, there are more than a dozen other related qualifications.

So for middle and high-level wizards, this technology is actually not as important as imagined.

Secondly, it is the most fundamental problem—raw materials.

"Nature's Spirit" is a treasure naturally bred by the plane, almost non-renewable.

The number that can be born in each plane is extremely limited, and most of them are hidden and difficult to find.

Its value is even higher than the plane origin in some aspects.

Forces or individuals who can afford to use this kind of thing to enhance qualifications often have more mature, stable, and less side-effect alternative technologies.

Although the range of qualification improvement may not be so exaggerated, they can use a variety of technologies together to improve.

Therefore, in Jie Ming's view, his technology is somewhat "chicken ribs" for the customer group that can truly afford it.

It is completely tasteless to eat, and a pity to discard.

"The enhancement is over." Jie Ming didn't think much and turned his attention back to the experiment.

He operated the control panel, and the red liquid in the glass tank was quickly absorbed by the recovery system on the tank wall and bottom like a living thing.

Losing the buoyancy of the liquid, the wizard apprentice inside softened and fell downward.

Jie Ming raised his hand and pointed, an invisible force supported the apprentice whose eyes were still a bit confused and seemed to be immersed in some wonderful feeling, letting him float steadily.

Immediately, the faint light of alchemy flashed at his fingertips, and the slight red mucus remaining on the apprentice's body was instantly reorganized and deformed, turning into a clean and tidy grey wizard robe covering his body.

Without paying attention to the apprentice who was looking at his hands in surprise and feeling the surging elemental affinity in his body, Jie Ming turned to Wei Aola:

"For the sake of you providing this qualified experimental body and helping me collect key data, this 'self-service' enhancement service will only charge you 200 million military achievements."

There was no pain on Wei Aola's face, but she smiled even more happily.

She immediately took out her magic network terminal and operated it: "No problem! Military achievements transferred! Thanks, Little Junior Brother!"

She lifted the wizard apprentice who was still savoring his own changes like a novel toy she had just got, smiled at Jie Ming, and left the laboratory through the teleportation array.

Jie Ming looked at the two disappearing in the light beam, especially the joy that could not be suppressed on the apprentice's face, and couldn't help but shake his head with pity.

Judging from the expression of Senior Sister Wei Aola as if she had found a treasure, this lucky (or should I say unlucky?) apprentice is probably already tied with a huge debt that will make him struggle for hundreds of years in the future.

Of course, the premise is that he can live to the day he pays off the debt on the dangerous plane battlefield.

The battlefield is ruthless, no matter how high the expected return is, if people die, everything can only return to zero.

However, these have nothing to do with Jie Ming.

He took out this technology, and his original intention was not to benefit the public or earn military achievements—although military achievements are indeed a good by-product.

His real goal is to further strengthen his Black Giant Legion!

Building Incense Divine Dao, in addition to technology, energy, and plane foundation, there is another indispensable element—believers, or intelligent beings that form the basis of "society."

His Purgatory Sulfur plane is harsh, filled with sulfur poison gas and violent fire elements, and is fundamentally unsuitable for ordinary carbon-based life to survive.

Certainly, he can make it suitable for living through large-scale environmental transformation projects, but that is huge and the cycle is long.

Jie Ming has a better idea—let his "cannon fodder units," those Black Giants, settle in the plane directly as a servant race.

Become the first, and most important, "residents" of Incense Divine Dao!

With the characteristics of the Black Giants themselves, they are indeed quite suitable as "believers" of Incense Divine Dao.

First, the Black Giants themselves can adapt to the cruel environment of the Purgatory Sulfur plane while having high intelligence, which fully meets the standards of believers.

Secondly, as creatures created by Jie Ming himself, Jie Ming naturally has extremely high divinity in their beliefs, so there is no need to work hard to create any miracles.

And in Jie Ming's plan, if the Incense Divine Dao is built in the future, with the powerful strength and racial quality of the Black Giants, they can easily be transformed into Dao soldiers.

But to achieve this, the key lies in reversing their attributes as purely "war weapons" and "consumables" from the "concept" and endowing them with "sociality."

And a core foundation of sociality is the ability to reproduce naturally—continuing to reproduce and continue the race without continuous intervention from the creator.

Therefore, Jie Ming set his sights on the core of cultivating Black Giants—the incubation pool.

The predecessor of this incubation pool originated from the reproduction system of Lava Giants.

Although it has undergone many transformations by Jie Ming, incorporating Yeti talent, energy absorption characteristics, "Five Viscera Sacrificial God Technique" technology, and self-detonation modules, its most underlying foundation concerning "life creation and continuation" still retains the core framework of the Lava Giant incubation pool.

What Jie Ming needs to do now is to absorb the core technology of the incubation pool and then create new incubation pool technology.

(End of chapter)