Chapter 383

Plane Nuolun 13, the faint light of space teleportation stabilized in the personal laboratory.

Jie Ming breathed a sigh of relief, as if the strange fragrance of the delicious food at that grand banquet was still lingering in his nasal cavity.

That was by no means an ordinary banquet.

The dazzling array of delicacies on the table, although all created out of thin air by alchemy, were real in terms of taste, energy contained, and even the various effects unique to certain extinct species, bringing the ultimate enjoyment to both the taste buds and the soul.

Jie Ming even tasted a cup of nectar said to be brewed from the essence of the brain marrow of the "Star Rainbow Whale," which had long since vanished in the long river of history; the taste was as if a miniature brilliant galaxy had been drunk into his belly.

"Alchemy... is truly a miracle art that turns the impossible into the possible." Jie Ming couldn't help but sigh again.

Theoretically, as long as one's alchemy attainments are profound enough and one's understanding of the material composition, energy flow, and information imprinting of the target object is thorough enough, one can ignore the obstacles of time and space and perfectly reproduce it.

He can now barely synthesize some simple organic compounds, and he is still separated by countless knowledge gaps and technical barriers from the realm of reproducing all things.

Beside him, Wei Aola, Mentor Clark, and Junior Brother Ange also returned to the Plane Nuolun 13 Academy together.

After Private Secretary Andong Buchanan finished his promotion, there were clearly other things to talk about, but that had nothing to do with them.

Only those above Tier 7 remained, and after the banquet, Jie Ming and the others honestly followed their mentor away.

Since the matter was over, after returning to the Plane Nuolun 13 Academy, several people also planned to go home.

Jie Ming was the same as before; after establishing a connection with the Death-Substituting Doll, he placed his "spare body" in Mentor Clark's laboratory.

Before parting, Mentor Clark specifically exhorted: "Recently, pay more attention to the notifications inside the academy and the workshop; there may be relatively important changes."

Jie Ming and the others nodded knowingly.

The birth of a Tier 8 wizard is nothing to wizard civilization, but it is by no means a small matter for the Nuolun workshop and its surrounding forces.

This not only means the leap of the top combat power of the Nuolun workshop, but will also directly affect the surrounding wizard power landscape with the Nuolun workshop as the core, including the "Tower of Silence" and the "Chaos Secret Sect."

Redistribution of resources, increase or decrease in the right to speak, subtle adjustments in cooperation and competition relations...

But Jie Ming also knew that wizard civilization is currently in the expansion stage, with massive external resources, so even if there are changes, there will not be too much change, and he can still stay in the Purgatory Sulfur plane to do research and live a peaceful life.

After saying goodbye to his mentor and fellow disciples, Jie Ming did not delay, directly activated the plane authority, and returned to his base camp—the Purgatory Sulfur plane.

The familiar sulfur aura mixed with the faint sense of order brought by the operation of the incense god path rushed toward him, making his heart settle.

Returning to the laboratory, Jie Ming immediately set about dealing with the backlog of affairs.

The primary task is to fulfill the large amount of Spiritual Energy purchased by Mentor Clark earlier.

He came to the specially made "Spiritual Energy Extraction Room" in the laboratory and started the magic array.

Suddenly, the incense god path network covering the entire plane fluctuated slightly, and the pure Spiritual Energy that had undergone preliminary conversion gathered from all over the plane as if summoned.

Through complex rune arrays, it was purified and compressed, and finally injected into special energy storage crystals engraved with powerful stabilization and isolation runes.

Because Mentor Clark needed too much, Jie Ming spent half a day preparing the concentrated Spiritual Energy worth 10,000 high-level military merits.

After careful packaging, it was sent to Mentor Clark's laboratory through the cross-plane teleportation array.

Checking the Spiritual Energy reserves of the plane through the monitoring instrument next to him, Jie Ming's mouth couldn't help but curl up wildly.

If he could sell all this pile of Spiritual Energy, maybe he could save enough money for another Death-Substituting Doll.

Of course, Jie Ming also knew that this was purely his own fantasy.

At least before he makes a name for himself among high-tier wizards, his biggest Spiritual Energy purchasing customer should only be those fellow disciples of the Nuolun workshop.

Then, he opened the magic network terminal that was almost squeezed by information.

The first thing to deal with was Black's chain "urging" messages.

Jie Ming didn't know where Black found so many customers; this guy's demand for "liquid refined gold" seemed endless.

Clearly, before going out this time, he had prepared enough liquid refined gold according to the previous consumption rate, but Black had already started sending messages to urge for goods since last month.

Looking at the information about the goods on it, Jie Ming smiled helplessly.

According to this growth rate, it is estimated that it won't be long before the income from selling liquid refined gold alone will be on par with the annual income of the "Self-Stabilizing Field Adjustment Protocol" technology.

In this way, the amount of liquid refined gold required has also greatly increased, but fortunately, preparing liquid refined gold is already familiar to him.

He came to the automated alchemy factory area, adjusted the parameters, invested resources, and soon, a batch of liquid metal shimmering with flowing golden light was produced, carefully packaged, and sent to Black for the first time.

Then, he saw the cautious inquiry information sent by Dean Avery Knight.

It seems that the news that Private Secretary Andong Buchanan is preparing to promote is not top secret in the high-level circle.

Jie Ming had no need to hide it, and directly replied with a concise message: "Dean Knight, Private Secretary Andong Buchanan successfully promoted to a Tier 8 wizard a few days ago."

After the message was sent, Jie Ming stopped worrying about Dean Avery Knight's information and continued to deal with various letters on the terminal.

After dealing with these trivial but necessary outreach affairs, Jie Ming breathed a long sigh of relief.

He didn't rest, but after checking the daily research reports submitted by the Black Giant Priests, he walked straight to the area deep in the laboratory specially used for spatial wizardry research and testing.

The previous exchanges in the Plane Nuolun 1, the observation of the law rhythm during the mentor's promotion, and the reflection after fighting with Lei Ke and others, all made a lot of new inspiration sparks burst out in his mind.

Especially regarding the collaborative application of 【Phase Shifting】 and 【Spatial Stabilization】, and how to more deeply integrate the "spatial stability" characteristics of the mutant spider-snake crystal carapace into his own combat system, he had some vague but highly potential ideas.

"First... buy some more core knowledge..."

Thinking this way, Jie Ming opened the high-level military merit shopping catalog of the magic network terminal.

Decades of time passed quietly.

In the Purgatory Sulfur plane, inside the core laboratory, Jie Ming was standing in front of an experimental table full of precise runes and energy conduits, focusing on a biological structure surgery.

Several Black Giant Priests acted as assistants, silently and efficiently delivering tools and recording data.

Just as he carefully embedded a miniaturized energy core into the strange creature on the operating table, his movements suddenly paused slightly, and a momentary trance appeared in his eyes.

"Dominator?" A Black Giant Priest beside him keenly noticed his abnormality and transmitted an inquiry with low mental fluctuations.

Jie Ming returned to his senses instantly and waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

But his heart was far from as calm as the surface.

Because just at that moment, it was as if some invisible barrier in his mental sea had been silently pierced.

A more condensed mental power, like a bursting river, flowed naturally and smoothly to fill his soul.

There was no earth-shattering energy explosion, no vision of triggering external laws, and even the energy monitoring instruments in the laboratory did not capture too much abnormal fluctuation.

He just like this, in the gap of completing a precise surgical operation, naturally promoted to a Tier 4 wizard.

'This is... Tier 4?' Jie Ming himself was a little surprised at this calmness.

Unlike cultivators who often need to retreat and break through when breaking through a major realm, the promotion of wizards, especially in the low and middle stages, is more like a natural change after the accumulation of knowledge and the quantitative change of life level reaches a qualitative change.

Mental power reaches the standard, understanding of laws reaches the corresponding threshold, and promotion is a matter of course.

Although the speed of promotion was much faster than expected, Jie Ming also knew that this promotion did not bring an immediate surge in strength.

The core of wizard power lies in knowledge; the identity of a Tier 4 wizard only means that he has the "container" and "authority" to carry more powerful knowledge and build more complex wizardry models, equivalent to unlocking a higher power limit.

But to convert this limit into real combat power, he still needs to invest a lot of time to learn and study the deeper wizardry knowledge and techniques that only Tier 4 wizards can master.

In terms of individual actual combat ability, he still remains at the Tier 3 wizard level.

Of course, promoting to a Tier 4 wizard is not without benefits.

Almost at the same time as the mental power completed the leap, Jie Ming keenly noticed that the Nascent Soul in his dantian suddenly opened its eyes, and the light emitted suddenly became intense!

The "Qi Refining Method" he mainly practices is a mysterious method that takes "Qi" as the core to promote the cycle of the three treasures of "Essence," "Qi," and "Spirit," and grow together.

At this moment, his "Spirit" (mental power and soul strength) far exceeds the level of "Essence" (body blood) and "Qi" (spiritual power cultivation) due to the promotion of wizard level.

This huge gap, under the operation of the "Qi Refining Method," formed a powerful traction force!

The overly powerful "Spirit," like a high-speed rotating core, frantically pulled and drove the relatively lagging "Essence" and "Qi" to improve rapidly!

Hundreds of years have passed since promoting to the Nascent Soul stage; his original Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivation cultivation broke through the late-stage barrier like a broken bamboo in just a few breaths.

And the speed of growth showed no signs of slowing down, rushing all the way toward the peak of Nascent Soul!

If cultivators of the same level in the cultivation world knew about this rocket-like cultivation improvement, they would probably be shocked.

But for Jie Ming, this is just a benign interaction between two different power systems under specific conditions.

However, at this moment, neither the improvement of wizard level nor the surge of cultivation cultivation could fully attract Jie Ming's attention.

His gaze quickly refocused back to the operating table in front of him.

Fixed on the table is a large "insect" with an extremely strange shape.

Or rather, it only retains some basic characteristics of insects.

The most eye-catching thing is the slender "horn" on the head that occupies more than 90% of the body volume.

This horn has a colorless and transparent crystal texture, with distinct edges and corners, and the edges shimmer with heart-palpitating cold light; the shape is more like a carefully polished slender crystal sword blade!

And its true head and torso are extremely atrophied, curled up at the base of the crystal sword blade, occupying only about one-tenth of the overall volume.

A pair of exaggeratedly large compound eyes, like polyhedral gems, are embedded on both sides of the atrophied head, flickering with cold light.

Looking from afar, this is not like a creature at all, but more like a crystal divine weapon with two gorgeous gems embedded in the sword mouth!

This is the—new type of Patroler—that Jie Ming spent decades of hard work, based on the mutant spider-snake, and completely transformed and upgraded!

The old Patroler's function was biased toward reconnaissance and harassment.

Although it also had the function of self-destruction, in front of the increasingly powerful Black Giant army, it indeed appeared too fragile and powerless, gradually becoming a chicken rib.

In order to make up for his disadvantages in air combat, water combat, and reconnaissance, Jie Ming was determined to give them a new life.

"Start performance test, number '01'." Jie Ming issued the command, his voice calm.

The protective force field of the test site on one side of the laboratory rose, and a Black Giant Priest released the "Crystal Blade Patroler" on the operating table.

I saw that the "crystal sword blade"-like body trembled slightly, and the next second, it suddenly blurred in everyone's sight, like ink drops melting into water, disappearing silently.

Even if Jie Ming turned on the "All-Purpose Eye," he could only barely capture a trace of the trajectory moving rapidly in the phase gap.

"Phase concealment activated, energy fluctuation is lower than the threshold, optical invisibility, energy shielding effect is excellent." The Black Giant Priest reported calmly.

"Mark the movement trajectory, release the simulated target—Tier 4 energy shield generator." Jie Ming ordered.

In the center of the test site, a shield force field emitting stable energy light was activated.

Almost at the same moment the shield appeared...

Less than three meters away from the shield, space was torn open like a fine crack by an invisible hand.

That "crystal sword blade" suddenly appeared at a speed exceeding visual capture; its appearance was without warning, as if it were part of space itself!

At the same time as it appeared, the edges of its slender sword-like body suddenly rippled with a layer of visible spatial distortion ripples!

Hiss—la—

A slight but sharp strange sound, as if cloth was forcibly torn, came!

That energy shield capable of resisting the bombardment of conventional Tier 4 wizardry was like butter being cut by a hot knife.

Where the spatial distortion ripples swept, a smooth cutting mark appeared instantly!

The shield structure was forcibly torn from the physical level, the light flickered violently a few times, then shattered with a bang, turning into scattered energy light spots!

And the "Patroler," after completing this thunderous strike, blurred its figure again, re-hiding in the phase space.

The whole process was as fast as lightning; from appearance to attack to concealment, the Patroler's figure was like a phantom passing by.

"Space slash completed, target shield destroyed. The effect reached expectations, and it has extremely strong penetration against energy and material defenses." The Black Giant Priest's record was meticulous.

A look of satisfaction appeared in Jie Ming's eyes; the test results even exceeded his expectations.

This new type of Patroler, in addition to the high-speed movement it had before, Jie Ming also installed a powerful vision capable of increasing reconnaissance capabilities, and perfectly inherited the mutant spider-snake's most core talent—instinctive spatial manipulation ability.

Their spatial ability is almost the same as the mutant spider-snake: they can hide in phase space, greatly improving survival ability and concealment, and can condense the violent spatial shearing force generated during phase switching to form a fatal 【Space Slash】!

This made their lethality undergo a qualitative leap, from tickling harassment to an assassin's blade capable of posing a fatal threat to the defenses of the same level or even one level higher!

Of course, there are limitations.

When moving in phase space, they must suppress their speed below the speed of sound.

Otherwise, even if they can instinctively adjust the phase around them, the overly violent speed is very easy to induce spatial turbulence, tearing themselves into pieces.

But for performing assassination missions of lurking, approaching, and then launching a fatal blow, this speed limit is still within an acceptable range.

"Very good." Jie Ming looked at the space that had returned to calm on the test site, his mouth slightly raised, "From now on, Patrolers are no longer insignificant cannon fodder."

They will be specifically used to clear the enemy's key units, such as commanders, important spellcasters, energy node guardians... this perfectly formed a complement to Jie Ming's own combat system.

(Something came up, just this chapter today)

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