Chapter 370

According to the rune guidance on the room card, Jie Ming soon found the residence assigned to him.

Pushing open the metal door engraved with soundproofing and protective runes, the scene that came into view made him raise his eyebrows slightly.

According to the information on the room card, every room is equipped with a laboratory, but looking at it in reality, it is not so much that the room is equipped with a laboratory, but rather that a small area in the laboratory is barely partitioned as a lounge.

More than ninety percent of the space is occupied by various basic but complete experimental equipment—energy sensing matrix, material analyzer, rune engraving table, all available.

The simple bed in the corner and a small washroom are more like appendages that have to exist to satisfy physiological needs.

"Very wizard-like, very practical." Jie Ming nodded in agreement, not only not dissatisfied with this.

This is the lifestyle that most wizards, including himself, are truly accustomed to.

In his Golden Garden and the core laboratory in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, most of his time is spent like this, and rest is just a necessary adjustment between research.

If it weren't for the fact that long-term tense spirit would reduce learning and research efficiency, many wizards would probably even choose to take potions to avoid the process of rest.

He simply checked the standard equipment of the laboratory, the accuracy and functions reached above the standard line, enough to conduct most non-cutting-edge frontier experiments.

Of course, for him, these are just icing on the cake, and the set of private equipment maintained and upgraded by Black Giant priests carried in his internal cave is the main force.

Knowing that there is still a period of time before the grand-mentor officially summons or the promotion ceremony, Jie Ming completely gave up the idea of going out for a stroll.

Although the various research in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane is handled by that group of efficient Black Giant priests, Jie Ming feels that he still feels more at ease by remotely overseeing key data and progress through soul contracts every day.

Besides that, the core task of his rest period this time is to digest and absorb the massive amount of knowledge purchased, and it is the same to learn anywhere.

So, he directly started "closed-door practice" in this "guest room."

This closure lasted for three months.

Until a slightly urgent knock on the door with a specific frequency, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, broke the absolute silence in the laboratory and woke Jie Ming from the vast ocean of spatial theory.

He frowned, somewhat reluctantly put down a complex rune structure he was deducing, got up, and opened the door.

Outside the door was Wei Aola.

She squeezed in unceremoniously, and didn't rush to speak, but used those eyes that were flickering with strange light to look at Jie Ming up and down, carefully, as if observing some rare specimen.

Jie Ming was a bit confused by her look, and took the initiative to open his mouth: "What's wrong, Senior Sister?"

Wei Aola sighed in wonder: "You guy is really a monster! Three whole months! I asked around, you actually didn't go out once, and just stayed here learning?"

She pointed to the surrounding instruments that were obviously used frequently: "It's not easy to come to the headquarters once, there are so many novel things outside, so many wizards of the same level to communicate with, you actually don't feel moved at all?"

Jie Ming shook his head, his tone flat: "There is a lot of knowledge I want to learn during this rest period, and I have no interest for the time being."

"No interest?" Wei Aola narrowed her eyes suspiciously, leaned forward a step, her nostrils moved, as if smelling something.

Then an expression of "sure enough" appeared on her face: "I see you are not uninterested, but your biggest interest is learning knowledge itself, right?!"

Jie Ming was stunned when he heard this, and then suddenly realized.

He remembered Wei Aola's unique "pain law."

After she came in, she must have subconsciously probed the emotional fluctuations on him.

Mental fatigue caused by high-intensity learning for a long time, frustration caused by understanding difficulties, these usually come with different degrees of "pain."

However, judging from Jie Ming's own physical feeling, he shouldn't have any feeling of pain: "Strictly speaking, my biggest interest is not learning knowledge, but improving strength."

Seeing Jie Ming understand her probing, Wei Aola didn't hide it, rolled her eyes: "I have never seen a guy as perverted as you! Is learning as natural as breathing to you, without even a little 'pain' produced?"

Jie Ming smiled, didn't explain his particularity, just changed the subject: "Senior Sister came to find me specially, it shouldn't just be to confirm whether I am 'perverted', right?"

Reminded by him, Wei Aola slapped her forehead: "Almost forgot the business! Mentor Clark just sent news that the grand-mentor's final preparations have been completed, and he plans to officially meet us, these disciples and grandchildren, tomorrow."

Jie Ming felt a chill in his heart and immediately grasped the key: "Grand-mentor is ready to advance?"

Wei Aola thought for a while and shook her head: "It shouldn't be the final moment yet. According to the mentor, this meeting is more like the final adjustment and preparation before the promotion, and by the way, let the people of our lineage get to know each other and get familiar."

"After all, the opportunity to observe the seventh-tier advancing to the eighth-tier is once in a lifetime, and the grand-mentor also hopes that his juniors can have more preparations, so that they can understand one more point when the time comes."

Jie Ming nodded, indicating understanding.

This is like a pledge before a big battle, both to boost morale and to clarify the rules.

After explaining the business, Wei Aola looked at Jie Ming who had sat back in front of the experimental table and picked up a knowledge crystal to continue research, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch a few times.

She felt that the temperament of Jie Ming's indifference to surrounding things and only immersed in the ocean of knowledge was becoming more and more like Mentor Clark, and even worse.

She was not reconciled, and quietly used the law to probe again.

It was still a "pure land," without any negative emotional fluctuations caused by learning profound knowledge, only a state of near "peace."

"Really a monster..." Wei Aola muttered in a low voice, but this time there were a few less jokes and a few more complex emotions and a trace of imperceptible admiration.

Only those who have truly climbed the peak of knowledge understand how heavy the "pain" brought by the continuous mental consumption and frustration when trekking on the rugged and steep theoretical mountain road is.

She... or rather, most wizards can force themselves to practice hard like Jie Ming by willpower, but it is absolutely impossible to be so "sweet as candy."

"Maybe, it won't be long before this guy can surpass me." Wei Aola looked at Jie Ming's focused side profile.

Then she shook her head, didn't disturb him anymore, and gently closed the door and left.

(End of this chapter)