Chapter 392

Just as Jie Ming was evaluating the situation and thinking about whether the "interruption" mission should continue under these circumstances, a familiar voice rang directly in his mind, carrying irrepressible excitement and pride:

"Hahahaha! Did you see it? It's been less than a year! These little guys, relying solely on their own awakened intelligence and collective cooperation, can actually create such a level of powerhouse! Amazing! Too amazing! Worthy of being the life I animated!"

It was the voice of Wizard Star Fall.

Jie Ming was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

Since it had been confirmed that the "big plan" underground was not a super bomb that would instantly destroy the plane, Wizard Star Fall naturally no longer needed to lock all her mind with the plane's origin.

She was obviously using her authority as the Plane Lord at this moment, directly transmitting her thoughts to Jie Ming through the plane's energy veins.

No, it wasn't just transmitting to him, it should be directly connecting the four wizards together.

Looking around, those ordinary light clusters were still immersed in the ecstasy of the "birth of the King".

Having no reaction to this "oracle"-like thought confirmed Jie Ming's guess.

Immediately following, Sister Wei Ao's calm voice carrying a trace of playfulness also intervened, also through this special plane communication channel:

"Star Fall, I suggest you don't be happy too early. Look carefully at the cave rock wall and the ground, those residual energy guidance patterns and rune structures... don't they look familiar?"

Jie Ming heard this and subconsciously scanned the walls and ground of the huge cave carefully.

Sure enough, under the cover of dazzling light and rough rock walls, he found many carvings.

Although the patterns and rune arrays composed of these carvings looked incomplete and the layout was quite rough, and the energy flow efficiency was low.

But judging from the core architecture and the arrangement of energy nodes, the complete form of this magic array should be quite exquisite.

"This is...!" Wizard Star Fall's voice revealed obvious astonishment, "A simplified variant of the 'Karls Seven-Fold Amplification Array'? And the basic module of the 'Energy Focusing Resonance Rune'? Isn't this the underlying architecture of the auxiliary magic array that you and I designed together when we studied high-energy light beam cannons before? How could it be here?!"

Sister Wei Ao's voice carried a trace of realization: "It seems my guess was right. Star Fall, when you performed the 'Ignition of Intelligence', although you didn't deliberately instill knowledge subjectively, you were immersed in the research of these magic array models at that time, and the relevant knowledge, ideas, and even the 'feeling' when constructing them, were very likely imprinted on the bottom layer of the souls of these newborn intelligences along with your thoughts through the 'imaginary elements' that served as the medium."

"Considering that the 'Ignition of Intelligence' process itself will be deeply influenced by the creator's emotions and intentions, then this unconscious knowledge 'contagion' is entirely possible."

Jie Ming, huddled in his camouflage light ball, nodded silently.

He actually knew more clearly.

After all, the "animation" technique of the Cultivation Realm is essentially a similar process.

Immortals animate stubborn rocks, vegetation, and spirits, besides endowing intelligence, they usually also instill some basic survival common sense, understanding of heaven and earth, and even simple moral concepts.

Otherwise, if there was no knowledge at all, just simply endowing power and intelligence, then what was animated would not be boy warriors who could help sweep the courtyard and guard the cave, but "super babies" who had intelligence but were ignorant and needed to be taught from scratch.

Wizards are originally existences focused on chasing knowledge, especially high-level wizards like Star Fall, how huge is the density of knowledge flowing in her soul?

Even if she was not clear about the key points of knowledge transmission during the animation process, just a little bit leaked unconsciously was enough to become the cornerstone for these newly born blank intelligences to build cognition and technology.

"So... is that so?"

Wizard Star Fall's voice revealed a little disappointment, and the pure joy of "witnessing a miracle of creation" was diluted a bit.

Sensing that the atmosphere was a bit stiff, Jie Ming just wanted to say something through the communication channel to ease it, but the situation in front of him changed drastically again!

Boom!

The huge light cluster in the center suddenly shrank inward, and then erupted with dazzling light and majestic pressure ten times stronger than before!

It was no longer an unstable energy aggregate, but emitted a solid, stable, and vast aura like the sea—the promotion was completely completed in a short time, and it had stabilized at the level of Tier 6 life!

Just at the moment when the light was brightest and the pressure swept the whole field, a sudden change occurred!

Jie Ming only felt a scorching white in front of his eyes, and the strong light even made his enhanced vision produce a momentary trance.

And just at the moment when the light was most dazzling and even perception was interfered with, several dozen of the light-cluster elemental creatures that were originally withered beside Jie Ming suddenly rose up simultaneously!

They no longer emitted soft or chaotic light, but suddenly lit up with aggressive, piercing radiance.

Like weapons controlled uniformly, from various tricky angles, they shot energy rays concentrated to the extreme toward the position where Jie Ming was disguised!

At the same time, a scorching white light pillar, incomparably thick and containing terrifying destructive aura, burst out from the newborn Tier 6 light cluster in the center.

With the momentum of tearing the earth, it bombarded the place where Jie Ming stood with extreme precision!

Danger perception screamed like an alarm in Jie Ming's mind!

He didn't even have time to think, the instinct tempered by long-term combat and research had already been activated, and the Five Elements Transformation Rainbow Mirror also played a role at the same time, assisting Jie Ming in completing the calculation in an instant.

Phase space!

His figure instantly blurred and virtualized, and his whole person was "peeled off" from the main plane, entering the temporary parallel phase space dangerously and dangerously.

Boom boom!!!

On the main plane, the place where he originally stood, along with everything within a radius of tens of meters around—rocks, air, and the dozens of light-cluster elemental creatures that rose up to attack him—were completely vaporized and annihilated under the intersection of that Tier 6 light pillar and many energy rays.

When the smoke cleared, only a circular crater with smooth edges and bottomless depth remained.

The rocks at the edge of the cave even produced a crystal-like structure because of the excessively high temperature that erupted instantly.

Jie Ming hid in the phase space, looking at the terrifying attack effect on the main plane, a lingering fear arose in his heart, followed by huge confusion.

Was I discovered? When? How was I discovered?

He had great confidence in his camouflage.

That was a perfect camouflage constructed by combining the body shape control of the "Body Forging Method", light elemental simulation witchcraft, and the fine adjustment of energy fluctuations using the Eye of All-Use.

Theoretically, it was enough to deceive a Tier 6 existence that had just been promoted and whose realm was not yet fully stabilized.

Unless the other party possessed targeted detection means, or...

"Jie Ming! Can you hear me? How is your situation now?!"

Wizard Star Fall's eager voice came again through the plane authority, obviously she also monitored the terrifying attack that erupted suddenly in the underground cave.

"No problem, fortunately my reaction was very timely, and I didn't suffer any damage."

Jie Ming responded calmly while quickly stretching his body in the phase space to restore his normal form.

"But I can't understand, my camouflage should be perfect, how did it lock onto me precisely?"

A moment later, Sister Wei Ao's voice also joined the communication:

"According to the image analysis just sent by Star Fall, judging from the attack mode, that Tier 6 individual first released strong light interference targeting your position, and then launched a fatal blow."

"This shows that it didn't lock onto you when you dodged, but knew your precise position from the beginning, and predicted the visual weakness that strong light might cause to you... or rather, it knew the visual weakness of 'flesh-and-blood creatures' under strong light."

Sister Wei Ao didn't finish her words, but the three people in the communication channel almost simultaneously realized the hair-raising possibility.

"This is a trap." Jie Ming's voice sank, "A trap specifically targeting potential 'observers' or 'intruders'. They not only sensed the existence of wizards... or rather 'creators', but even used the information exposed by recent frequent experiments—such as our simulation of 'flesh-and-blood forms', and possible observation behaviors—to set up this ambush. They want to counter-kill the 'creator'!"

Wizard Star Fall was silent for a moment, and then, that disappointed mood was swept away.

Replaced by a more intense, almost boiling research enthusiasm: "Counter-kill the creator?! My god! They can actually deduce the existence concept of 'creator', and it's not awe, but planning to resist! This intelligence... this spirituality... great! This makes me more excited than simply creating a miracle!"

Sister Wei Ao seemed to have a low laugh coming from her side, as well as the slight sound of operating instruments: "Star Fall, don't be happy too early. I monitored some more interesting 'little troubles' here. It seems that these 'children' of yours have prepared more than one surprise."

Wizard Star Fall seemed to have seen something through the plane monitoring, and laughed more heartily: "Hahaha! I saw it! Too interesting! They actually left a backup! Jie Ming!"

Her tone suddenly became solemn and full of expectation:

"Sister Wei Ao needs to deal with some 'little accidents' here and can't get away for the time being. Therefore, that 'big surprise' underground will be left to you and Anya to solve. Remember..."

Wizard Star Fall's voice carried a strong exhortation: "Don't hurt the life of that big guy! It is now our most precious living research sample! I want to study its thinking mode, social structure, resistance motivation... everything!"

Jie Ming: "..."

"... What? Me?"

Let me, a Tier 4 wizard, capture alive that Tier 6 creature that is ambushing with an entire clan outside?!

Oh right, there's also Anya, this Tier 3 wizard.

He still wanted to protest, but the plane communication was cut off cleanly at this moment.

Almost simultaneously, he received a short message sent by Anya through the magic network terminal: "I have cleared the peripheral interference here and am approaching the core area at full speed. This high-energy reaction is really exaggerated, how is your situation there?"

Jie Ming looked outside the phase space at the Tier 6 light cluster floating above the crater, its light flowing, seemingly searching for his traces.

And the countless light cluster armies around that began to move in an orderly manner like an army, setting up various energy interference and blockade runes, and sighed helplessly.

Well, the protest was invalid.

He quickly replied to Anya, briefly explaining the situation he observed now.

Anya's reply was calm and carried a trace of eagerness to try: "I'm almost there. Let's formulate a tactic first, I need to know its energy characteristics and your specific position."

"Tsk! Really troublesome..." Jie Ming took a deep breath, suppressed his distracting thoughts, and his eyes became sharp and focused again.

(End of chapter)