Chapter 402

The light in the laboratory was adjusted to a soft cool white, focusing on the floating three-dimensional model in the center of the workbench.

Jie Ming stood in front of the platform, his eyes reflecting countless flowing runes and energy trajectories.

His fingertips traced in the air, each touch causing fine-tuning of the model's internal structure, not the geometric stacking customary to wizard runes, but a natural evolution closer to the "vein growth" style of Cultivation Realm spells.

There was still one year left before departing for the Reincarnation Plane, and he had finally completed this research project that had taken nearly a hundred years.

Strictly speaking, the three-dimensional framework in front of him, which was dazzlingly complex, could not simply be called a "wizardry model."

Its core came from a Soul Transformation stage killing spell recorded in the "Great Dao Book Pavilion": Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light.

"Based on the essence of Li Huo, melting the meaning of extinction, transforming into light and traveling, everything it passes through returns to ruins."

These were the original words in the jade slip.

In the Cultivation Realm, this spell was known for its concentrated power and extremely fast speed; when cultivated to a deep level, it could even burn through space barriers.

But it had a fatal limitation: it must be driven by pure fire-attribute spiritual power, and it had extremely high requirements for the cultivator's realm and spiritual power reserves.

The transformation process was more difficult than imagined.

First was the replacement of the driving source.

The Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light originally relied on the unique "endless" attribute in spiritual power to maintain the light flame, but the elemental energy of the Wizarding World was more inclined toward "explosive release."

Jie Ming had to sacrifice the spell's "continuous burning" and "Dao rhyme erosion" effects, retaining only the purest "high temperature" and "annihilation" attributes.

Then was the structural adaptation.

Cultivator spells emphasized "thought moving with the law," and the model itself had extremely high flexibility.

Wizardry models pursued "stability and reproducibility," and the position and connection angle of each rune could not have the slightest deviation.

Jie Ming spent a full ten years finding a scheme that allowed the two systems to be compatible at the energy flow level.

Finally, the most critical step: output multiplier enhancement.

The reason why wizards could crush most supernatural systems at the same level was that the core lay in their enhancement of "elemental multipliers."

The same mass of fire elements could only light a small flame in the hands of an apprentice, could turn into a wall of fire in the hands of a formal wizard, and could even trigger a chain reaction in the hands of a high-tier wizard, creating a firestorm covering a city.

"—Completed."

He stopped his fingers and exhaled a long breath.

The model in front of him had stabilized.

The overall structure was a spiral forward light cone, with 3,600 main energy nodes densely distributed inside, and more than 100,000 secondary patterns, two-thirds of which were wizard runes and one-third were Cultivation Realm runic seals.

The patterns of the two different systems intertwined, actually forming a strange sense of harmony.

Jie Ming nodded with satisfaction, but then shook his head with regret.

"Elemental amplification multiplier—still not high enough."

His speed of advancing to a Tier 4 wizard was too fast.

The price was that his knowledge accumulation was far from reaching the average level of a Tier 4 wizard.

"The current multiplier enhancement only touches the lower limit of a Tier 4 wizard." Jie Ming estimated. "If I could settle down for a few hundred more years and thoroughly understand the 'Elemental Multiplier Superposition Theory' and 'High-Tier Energy Compression Geometry,' I could at least raise it another level—"

However, even so, under the dual superposition of "environmental energy invocation of the cultivator system" and "multiplier enhancement of the wizard system," the theoretical destructive power of this improved version of Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light had already surpassed the lower limit of conventional Tier 6 wizardry.

More importantly, cultivator spells had an advantage that wizard wizardry found difficult to compare with: flexibility.

The basic attack speed of Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light was the speed of light—this point was completely retained in the transformation.

And as the caster's intention changed, it could be a "point-kill mode" that condensed all energy to the size of a needle tip, pursuing extreme penetration, or a "carpet-bombing mode" that spread evenly, covering tens of millions of square kilometers.

It could even dynamically adjust between the two modes.

"Go try it."

Jie Ming waved his hand to put away the model and turned to walk toward the test field deep in the laboratory.

Jie Ming activated the control runes, and the space of the venue began to unfold layer by layer—5,000 kilometers, 10,000 kilometers, finally settling at 50,000 kilometers.

He stood at the edge of the venue and raised his right hand.

No chanting, no complex spellcasting movements, just a thought.

The Ring of Truth in his body resonated instantly, and a massive amount of mental power operated at high speed along the transformed spell model.

Half a second.

Just half a second of charging, and Jie Ming felt the environmental elements around him begin to riot.

Fire elements were forcibly extracted from the walls, from deep in the earth's veins, and even from space itself, gathering in front of his palm.

Then, light appeared.

It was a white-gold beam of light so pure it was heart-stopping, no thicker than a thumb in diameter, yet it caused the temperature of the entire test field to soar instantly.

The moment it left Jie Ming's palm, it reached its limit speed—the true speed of light; within the expanded 50,000-kilometer test field, it took less than 0.17 seconds to go from one end to the other.

Jie Ming adjusted the target, and the beam suddenly expanded during flight, turning into a fan-shaped light curtain, evenly covering all target areas within a diameter of 3,000 kilometers in front.

High temperature.

Annihilation.

All matter was directly decomposed into basic particles the moment it made contact.

"Range and speed test—passed." He recorded the data and switched modes.

This time it was six pre-arranged Tier 6 protective targets—simulating the standard defensive force field of a Tier 6 wizard.

The surface of each target flowed with multi-layered composite shields, enough to withstand continuous bombardment of conventional Tier 6 wizardry.

Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light re-condensed into a beam.

The first beam hit the bullseye, the shield flickered violently, and the outermost layer instantly overloaded and collapsed.

The second beam followed, piercing the second layer of the shield and making the third layer of the shield fluctuate endlessly.

"Pierced two layers of Tier 6 shields, the third layer is severely damaged." Jie Ming analyzed calmly. "The destructive power is not top-tier among Tier 6 wizardry, but it wins in being extremely condensed, and the attack frequency can be very high."

"To deal with non-wizard indigenous civilizations, this move should be enough."

In the final round of testing, Jie Ming adjusted the coverage of the spell to the maximum.

After the beam left his palm, it expanded rapidly, finally forming an ocean of light with a diameter of over 8,000 kilometers.

Although the destructive power per unit area decreased, the momentum that seemed to want to destroy the entire continent made even Jie Ming secretly startled.

"Much stronger than using cultivator means to enhance wizardry before." He looked at the various data flashing on the instrument beside him, constantly comparing. "At that time, it could destroy the ecosystem of a continent at most; now—it can really sink a continent."

The test ended, and Jie Ming returned to the workbench, calling up all the data recorded just now.

Overall, his transformation of this spell was a great success.

The advantages of the transformed spell model were very obvious:

Light-speed attack, almost impossible to dodge.

Flexible and adjustable, suitable for both point-killing and carpet-bombing.

The destructive power was also acceptable.

And it was powered by the environment, with relatively low consumption for himself.

But the disadvantages were equally prominent.

Jie Ming thought for a while and began to record on the instrument beside him:

First, the release mechanism could not achieve "continuous firing."

The fundamental difference between cultivator spells and wizard wizardry lies in the "driving logic."

Wizardry is a "encapsulation-trigger" mode; as long as the model is stable and the energy is sufficient, theoretically, more than a dozen can be released in one second.

But spells rely more on the caster's "real-time regulation" of energy flow, and each release requires complete spiritual power guidance and environmental resonance.

Even if Jie Ming optimized the model to the extreme, there was at least a 0.3-second interval between his own releases of Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light—this was still based on the premise that he possessed both the Ring of Truth and Soul Transformation stage spiritual sense.

Second, the charging time could not be avoided.

The amount of external energy mobilized by Soul Transformation stage spells was too large.

Even with the Tier 5 large elemental pool in the internal cave heaven as a backer, it took at least half a second of charging to complete the series of processes of "extracting environmental elements → compression and conversion → injection into the model → maintaining stability."

This half-second might not count for much in low-intensity combat, but in confrontations at the same level or even higher levels, it was enough for the enemy to make more than a dozen responses.

"And this disadvantage cannot be solved even if the spell model is recorded into a runic wizard tool." Jie Ming frowned. "Runic wizard tools only lower the release threshold, but the physical process of energy filling cannot be shortened—"

He fell into deep thought.

A means was needed that could pre-store a "fully charged" spell, trigger it instantly when needed, and ideally be rechargeable for repeated use—

Sigh—wait.

Jie Ming was suddenly stunned.

This demand—why did it sound so familiar?

He slowly raised his head and looked at the display rack on the other side of the laboratory.

There were several high-tier wizard tools he had purchased during his low-tier wizard period—a staff that could store "Flame Explosion," a ring that could trigger "Ice Explosion" three times, and a pair of boots that could automatically release "Void Transfer."

All were traditional wizard tools.

Wasn't the operating principle of traditional wizard tools to pre-store a complete wizardry model inside the wizard tool and use solidified runes to maintain its stable state?

The user only needed to inject a tiny amount of mental power to trigger it, and the wizardry would be released according to the preset trajectory. After the release was completed, the wizard tool would automatically absorb energy from the environment or charging crystals to prepare for the next release.

"I—" Jie Ming opened his mouth and suddenly laughed out loud.

The laughter surged from deep in his throat, starting with a bit of self-mockery and later turning into a truly hearty laugh.

He, Jie Ming, from the Alchemy Department of the Nolen Academy, started with runic wizard tools, and was a genius wizard with "dual-system fusion" as his research direction—

After tossing and turning in research for nearly a thousand years and spending countless efforts to transform a cross-system spell, the solution he thought of to overcome its shortcomings was actually to return to the most basic traditional wizard tool production thinking.

"Haha—truly, interesting."

He wiped away the physiological tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Yes, why not?

The core advantage of runic wizard tools is "low threshold" and "environmental power supply," suitable for protracted warfare.

But traditional wizard tools still have irreplaceable value in "instant burst" and "specific functions."

If the model of Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light was encapsulated into a specially made wizard tool like encapsulated wizardry—

No, it didn't even need to be "like."

It could just be made into a "Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light Launcher."

Each wizard tool pre-stored a complete beam of light, powered by a Tier 5 elemental pool.

Usually placed in the internal cave heaven for automatic charging, and when instant firepower was needed in wartime, taking it out would be a Tier 6 power light-speed strike.

If it was more extravagant, using the high-purity "incense power" produced from the Incense Divine Dao as a catalytic medium, it might even be possible to restore the "Dao rhyme erosion" effect of the original spell—

The more Jie Ming thought about it, the more feasible he felt it was.

He turned back to the workbench, waved his hand to clear the previous model projection, and called up a brand-new design interface.

This time, on the left side of the interface was the complete spell structure of Li Huo Mie Jue Divine Light, and on the right side was the classic encapsulation array of traditional wizard tools.

What he had to do was to stuff the things on the left into the framework on the right seamlessly.

"There is still one year left, enough to make a prototype." Jie Ming muttered to himself, his fingers already starting a new round of outlining. "Before going to the Reincarnation Plane, I must bring some new toys."