Chapter 339: Tier 3 Wizard

Sister Wei Ao came in a rush and left in a rush, as if this visit was really just to say goodbye and introduce Xiang Plane Nuolun.

Gao Jie Ming had long been accustomed to this; when Lord Dean "entrusted" him to Sister Wei Ao back then, the process was also so concise that it was almost sloppy.

Between wizards, especially those like them who focused on their own paths, communication often went straight to the core, with little redundant politeness.

Sending the two away, Gao Jie Ming's consciousness sank into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane again, devoting himself entirely to the final construction work of the Incense Divine Dao.

Time passed rapidly in focused research and practice.

Another forty-odd winters and summers alternated.

On this day, Gao Jie Ming carefully engraved the last composite rune array carrying the core rules onto a key node of the plane's energy veins.

When the last stroke of the rune lit up, perfectly resonating with the entire massive network and merging into one, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he quickly returned to the laboratory located at the core of the plane array.

Starting the monitoring array, full-range scanning data was presented instantly.

On the surface of the plane, it was still that eternal scene of a scorching purgatory.

The lava sea surged, and the Black Giant community migrated; there seemed to be no visible changes to the naked eye.

However, on the precision energy sensing instrument in front of Gao Jie Ming, the energy flow lines representing the Incense Divine Dao system were lighting up stably and orderly, beginning to circulate as if injected with life!

Besides that, in more mysterious aspects, Gao Jie Ming could clearly feel the changes in the plane by relying on his own special perception of spiritual energy as a Nascent Soul cultivator.

He clearly "saw" a brand-new circulation system, different from elemental energy, already covering and penetrating the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane like a delicate nervous system.

The Incense Divine Dao, it was done!

At the very moment he confirmed the completion of the Divine Dao construction, it was as if some invisible barrier had been broken.

In Gao Jie Ming's mind, the countless fragments of knowledge regarding the nature of spiritual energy, rune evolution, array mechanisms, and faith condensation—all absorbed from the Dadaoshuge over the past thousand years—collided and combined like attracted stars at an unprecedented speed, merging into a unified whole!

With the help of this sudden integration of knowledge, many obscure and difficult points in the past suddenly became clear at this moment.

A kind of sudden enlightenment of water flowing and a canal forming surged into his heart.

When he came back to his senses from that mysterious state of knowledge integration, a slight sensing revealed that the fluctuations of his mental power had clearly risen by a level.

It was more condensed, vast, and the energy interaction with the surrounding world had become more sensitive and in-depth.

Tier 3 Wizard!

He had successfully promoted!

Moreover, Gao Jie Ming could clearly perceive that he was by no means an ordinary Tier 3 Wizard.

Independently designing and successfully constructing an Incense Divine Dao system that covered the entire plane, even if it was only a preliminary framework now, the understanding and application of the law of "spiritual energy" in this process had reached an astonishing depth.

He roughly estimated that his mastery of the "spiritual energy law" had probably reached over 5%!

This meant that in terms of law comprehension, he even surpassed many Tier 4 Wizards.

It was just limited by the total amount and degree of qualitative change of his current Tier 3 Wizard mental power, he could at most stably exert power corresponding to a 1% law mastery.

But this undoubtedly indicated that Gao Jie Ming's choice back then was not wrong; once he completely constructed the entire Incense Divine Dao, even if his mastery of the spiritual energy rules was not 100%, it was estimated to be about the same.

Amidst the joy, Gao Jie Ming's gaze swept over the energy consumption monitoring array connected to the Tier 7 large-scale elemental pool, and the readings on it made him gasp.

"No wonder... the classics of the Dadaoshuge emphasized that constructing the Incense Divine Dao requires at least a star-level energy source as support..."

This energy consumption was simply too exaggerated!

Over the past years, maintaining the full-power operation of ten incubation pools, catalyzing the birth of nearly six hundred million Black Giants, conducting various alchemy experiments, and supporting the internal space and automatic factories... all these consumptions combined accounted for less than one ten-thousandth of the total output power of the Tier 7 large-scale elemental pool.

And at this moment, just by having the Incense Divine Dao preliminarily constructed and maintaining basic operation, its energy consumption soared directly to one-tenth of the total power of the elemental pool!

Gao Jie Ming calculated according to the design drawings that when the Incense Divine Dao was completely built and all functional modules were online and running stably, its energy consumption would likely occupy over 80% of the output power of the Tier 7 large-scale elemental pool!

"Fortunately... fortunately I gritted my teeth and chose the Tier 7 elemental pool back then..." Gao Jie Ming felt a burst of lingering fear and luck.

If he had chosen Tier 6 to save military merits back then, he probably wouldn't even be able to start it now, and the entire grand plan would have died prematurely due to insufficient energy.

This step of "extravagance and waste" was crucial.

Now, the main framework of the Incense Divine Dao had been built and was running stably.

The next task was to add various specific functional modules to it.

For example, collecting and automatically refining incense power, perfecting cross-space energy transmission protocols, and refining the guidance and feedback on the "social" attributes of the Black Giant community.

These belonged to the "fine decoration" category and could be done slowly, without the need to race against time like before.

Calculating the time, there was only a dozen years left until his next mandatory military service deadline.

Gao Jie Ming felt it was time to temporarily shift his focus from plane construction to preparing for the upcoming plane battlefield.

He carefully felt his own state.

Promoting to a Tier 3 Wizard did not bring the kind of qualitative change that felt like a rebirth during each major realm breakthrough in the cultivation system.

On the wizard's path, except for the first two tiers which were key leaps in life form and mental power, subsequent promotions were more like the expansion and refinement of mental power after knowledge accumulation reached a certain level.

Unless crossing multiple tiers at once, the improvement in immediate combat power would not be immediate; it was more of an improvement in potential and the liberation of the power ceiling.

"Then, where should the main attack direction be set for the next dozen years?" Gao Jie Ming began to design and plan.

Knowledge is a wizard's combat power.

With a mastery of the "spiritual energy law" far exceeding his current tier, ordinary Tier 3 Wizard knowledge was not very challenging for him; the key lay in how to convert this law comprehension into actual combat power.

He quickly clarified his thoughts: "The primary task is to research and manufacture Tier 3 rune wizarding tools."

This was the most effective way to directly improve immediate combat power.

With his current understanding of spiritual energy laws and elements, he was fully capable of designing Tier 3 rune wizarding tools with greater power and stranger functions, ensuring sufficient self-protection and breakthrough capabilities on the battlefield.

"Secondly... perhaps I can start trying to contact space-related knowledge." This thought had been lingering in his heart for a long time.

Whether it was the spatial ability of the mutated snake spider, the further development of the internal space, or even higher-level applications that might be involved in the future, spatial knowledge was crucial.

Although the difficulty was extremely high, in fact, since advancing to the Nascent Soul realm, Gao Jie Ming had already had the qualifications to preliminarily observe and influence spatial power.

However, because there was no spare time, he had been procrastinating, and now, perhaps he could start some basic involvement and attempts.

Having clarified his goals, Gao Jie Ming did not delay.

His consciousness sank into the laboratory's database, and he began to retrieve relevant information about elemental architecture, energy compression technology, and introductory spatial theory.

After all, a dozen years was not generous for research, and he had to use it efficiently.

(End of chapter)