Chapter 449

"Fine your head!"

Wei Wei Aola's anger burns like substantial flames in her eyes.

She rushes to the Star Fall Wizard instantly, completely ignoring the other party's translucent and drifting soul state, raises her hand, and slaps Star Fall's head fiercely.

Although the palm passes through the illusory hair, the strong mental impact and angry intent attached to it are transmitted solidly.

"How can you be fine?! Where is your body?! Where did it go?! What stupid thing did you do?!!" Wei Wei Aola's roar echoes in the empty and messy laboratory, shaking the surrounding remaining instruments until they hum.

"Ouch!"

The Star Fall Wizard lets out an exaggerated cry of pain; although she is already a soul body, she is actually knocked off balance by this slap, and the whole "person" sways and actually "plops" onto a relatively intact experimental table below from a floating state.

The original ethereal, otherworldly soul temperament instantly collapses into pieces.

She "drifts" up from the ground in a sorry state, rubs the back of her head that doesn't exist, and shows an expression mixed with embarrassment and guilt on her face.

"This... cough cough, accidentally, played too much." Star Fall's voice is still crisp, but lacks that ethereal echo, and has a bit more of the fawning of human fireworks.

"In the final stage of vitalizing the plane, the intensity of the spiritual backlash exceeded my most optimistic estimate... the physical body couldn't hold on and was 'digested' as starting fuel and basic framework."

"Thanks to Wizard Clark arriving in time, forcibly stabilizing my soul core, and helping me sort out the connection with this nascent plane consciousness, otherwise I might have really fallen this time and completely turned into this big fool's 'built-in intelligent management system' or just been assimilated."

She drifts to Clark's side, making a posture of "relying on the big boss to cover."

Then she turns to Wei Wei Aola and Gao Jie Ming, trying hard to make her expression look relaxed: "But it's really no problem now! Although I don't have a body for the time being, my soul core is complete, my consciousness is clear, I didn't dissipate on the spot, and there are plenty of ways to reshape the body or transform the existence form later. And this experience has made my understanding of 'spirituality,' 'material transformation,' and 'plane life form' advance by leaps and bounds! A blessing in disguise, I found a path that is more suitable for the seventh tier..."

"Shut up!" Wei Wei Aola is so angry that she wants to raise her hand again.

"Wei Wei Aola."

Mentor Clark's plain voice sounds, not loud, but like a basin of ice water, instantly extinguishing the anger surging in Wei Wei Aola.

His gaze under the gray robe sweeps over Wei Wei Aola calmly: "Your emotional fluctuation just now stimulated it again."

Gao Jie Ming also notices the anomaly.

The moment Wei Wei Aola was furious and her spiritual power vibrated violently, the entire laboratory and even the outside world produced a clear chain reaction.

The atmosphere sends a restless throb, like a giant stone thrown into a calm lake.

In the distance, through the broken walls and dome of the laboratory, one can see the silhouettes of the rolling mountains shaking slightly but clearly.

The earth underfoot also sends a low and vague hum, as if some huge existence is twitching gently due to restlessness.

The living plane consciousness, which has been silently paying attention to this place and regarding Star Fall as a "mother" or "creator," is clearly scared by Wei Wei Aola's mental eruption full of aggression and anger, feeling threatened and uncomfortable.

Wei Wei Aola's body stiffens, and she immediately realizes the consequences that her anger might bring.

"Enter."

When she opens her eyes again, the anger in her eyes has been forcibly suppressed, leaving only suppressed worry and lingering fear.

"Sorry." She says in a low voice, her voice a bit hoarse.

Clark nods slightly, his gaze turning to the mountains and rivers outside the window that have not yet completely calmed down due to the consciousness fluctuation: "It was just born and is still clumsily learning to control its huge body and power, and is exceptionally sensitive to external stimuli. This place is not suitable for staying long, and even less suitable for intense discussion. Leave here first."

Star Fall, Wei Wei Aola, and Gao Jie Ming have no objections.

Star Fall Wizard drifts to the center of the laboratory, presses her hands lightly in mid-air, as if sensing something, and then nods in a certain direction.

Soon, a channel with soft green light on the edge appears out of thin air from their location, extending straight to outside the plane barrier.

This is a "safe channel" actively opened for them by the living plane consciousness under Star Fall's guidance.

Before leaving, the Star Fall Wizard drifts to a damaged gap at the edge of the laboratory, bends down, stretches out her translucent palm, and presses it gently on the exposed rock ground below.

Her expression is gentle and carries apology, whispering a few words that cannot be heard clearly.

As if able to understand her whisper, a dull but thick roar comes from deep within the earth underfoot.

That roar is not violent, but carries a kind of attachment and soothing meaning, like a giant beast making a purring sound in its throat indicating "understood."

The slight shaking of the entire plane caused by Wei Wei Aola's anger also gradually subsides in this roar.

"Be good, we'll be back soon." Star Fall finally says a sentence softly, then turns around, follows Clark, Wei Wei Aola, and Gao Jie Ming, and flies into the green channel together.

Each item of data was accompanied by detailed measurement methods and comparison benchmarks.

The plane barrier separates gently to both sides like a water film with life when they approach, forming a regular circular exit, and "sends" them out.

Returning to the chaotic void of chaotic colors, looking back, that green plane is still floating quietly.

But the "fur-exploding" wriggling on the surface of its barrier has calmed down a lot, only occasionally with fine energy ripples swinging out, like a giant baby who has just finished crying and is still sobbing.

Wei Wei Aola opens the protective cover, includes Star Fall in the soul state, and floats in the void with Gao Jie Ming.

Soon, the four return to the warship.

The warship restores a stable ecological circulation system, the air in the cabin is fresh, the light is soft, forming a sharp contrast with the chaotic void outside.

Clark, Wei Wei Aola, Gao Jie Ming, and Star Fall in the soul state sit around in a simple lounge, and the atmosphere is no longer as tense as before.

The Star Fall Wizard's experience has been briefly summarized before: the vitalization experiment was successful, but the physical body was "digested" by the plane, and the soul was stabilized and rescued in time by Clark.

The focus naturally turned to Mentor Clark.

Clark is still in that plain look with no expression, picks up the hot drink sent by the construct, and says simply: "I didn't do anything special. Locate the laboratory, perceive the internal energy anomaly and the sharp decline of Star Fall's soul signal, break through the barrier to enter, cut off the connection at the critical point where she was about to be assimilated, and bring her out. That's all."

He says it lightly, as if he just went to a neighbor's house to retrieve an item placed by mistake.

But the three of them understand that in that environment of plane vitalization and chaotic nascent intent, precise positioning, violent breakthrough, and safe rescue, every step requires unimaginable strength, judgment, and absolute control over risks.

Clark pauses, his gaze sweeping over Wei Wei Aola and Gao Jie Ming, and continues: "After rescuing Star Fall and understanding the specific situation of this plane vitalization, I realized that although my intrusion was necessary, the timing and method were the worst stimuli for that nascent consciousness—like a powerful stranger suddenly breaking into a nursery and taking away the 'mother' it vaguely identified."

He looks at Wei Wei Aola and gives a rare clear affirmation: "Fortunately, you maintained sufficient calmness and restraint on the outside, and did not rashly launch a destructive attack because of the plane's stress response, and the adjustment of the restraint strategy was also quite timely."

"Otherwise, under internal and external troubles, even if I could bring out Star Fall, this nascent plane consciousness might have completely collapsed or gone toward uncontrollable madness, and the result would be unpredictable."

Hearing her mentor's praise, Wei Wei Aola is stunned for a moment, then a trace of unnatural redness appears on her face, her gaze begins to wander, and her fingers are twisted together unconsciously.

What kind of person is Clark? He sees through her guilty performance at a glance.

His eyebrows under the gray robe twitch imperceptibly, a flash of understanding in his eyes, and then he turns his gaze to Gao Jie Ming who is sitting beside Wei Wei Aola and always steady.

"So that's how it is." Clark's voice is still plain, but it carries a trace of clear appreciation, "It was Gao Jie Ming who insisted, judged that the plane consciousness had no malice but was just scared, and persuaded you to change the strategy, right?"

Gao Jie Ming bows slightly: "The student just provided an observation angle; the final decision and fine operation all depended on Senior Sister."

"Well done." Clark nods, three simple words, but representing his extremely high evaluation.

"Exactly, exactly!" Star Fall Wizard also drifts to Gao Jie Ming's side immediately, her translucent hand patting Gao Jie Ming's shoulder virtually, with an expression of "sharing the honor."

"Little Gao Jie Ming is reliable at critical moments! Calm and keen, much stronger than some reckless guy who only knows how to get hot-headed and almost blew up my 'child' and us all together!"

"Who are you calling a reckless guy?! Star Fall, you soul egg that only has a soul left!" Wei Wei Aola explodes instantly.

The bit of guilt and embarrassment just now is thrown to the back of her mind, she rushes toward Star Fall's soul with claws and teeth:

"Do you know how many military merits I spent for your mess this time?! Do you know how desperate I was when I saw the restraint array about to collapse?! I spent all my efforts, worried and scared, and in your mouth, it became a reckless guy?!"

Star Fall dodges flexibly while laughing and retorting: "Ouch, can't tell the truth? If it weren't for Little Gao Jie Ming stopping it, someone's annihilation beam would have bombed over! Reckless! Just reckless!"

The two (or rather one person and one soul) actually chase and fight in the lounge.

Gao Jie Ming sits still, turns a blind eye to the farce of the two senior sisters, accepts Mentor Clark's praise calmly, and takes a sip of his drink.

Gao Jie Ming also feels that the praise he received is well-deserved, after all, these are all results he achieved through sweat and effort.

"Enough."

Clark's plain voice sounds, not high, but carrying undeniable majesty.

Wei Wei Aola and Star Fall, who are "fighting," freeze at the same time, quickly separate, Wei Wei Aola tidies up her mage robe, Star Fall adjusts her soul light effect and pretends she also tidied up, and then the two sit back in their seats obediently.

Wei Wei Aola takes a few deep breaths, tries hard to calm her emotions, and pulls the topic back to the right track; she looks at Star Fall, her expression becoming serious again: "Okay, stop messing around. Star Fall, what is your situation exactly? What specific plans do you have next?"

Talking about business, Star Fall also puts away her joking look, and an excited luster appears on her soul-body face: "My theory has been perfectly verified! The vitalized plane, the path of pushing the laws of spirituality to the level of creating life is feasible! Although I lost my body this time, my soul was not damaged under the help of Wizard Clark, and instead, because I experienced a complete 'fusion—separation' process, I have a deeper understanding of the essence of spirituality and material transformation! This is definitely the key opportunity for me to advance to the seventh tier!"

She gets more excited as she talks: "As long as I wait for the new body to be cultivated, I can be resurrected at full state! By then, I have the confidence to try to impact the seventh-tier barrier in at most one or two thousand years!"

Advancing to the seventh tier is a leap that countless sixth-tier wizards dream of.

Star Fall being able to see a clearer path after encountering such an "accident" and giving a relatively optimistic time estimate of "one or two thousand years" is enough to show how great her harvest is this time.

However, what Wei Wei Aola asked was not this.

"I'm not asking about your path of advancement." Wei Wei Aola shakes her head, her gaze looking sharply at Star Fall, and also as if through the warship's wall, looking at the green plane outside, "I'm asking about... 'it.' This living plane, how do you plan to deal with it? Is it considered your creation? Your possession? Or an... independent nascent intelligent life?"

The question points directly to the core.

Star Fall Wizard's excitement subsides slightly, she is silent for a moment, and the light of her soul body fluctuates slightly, showing inner thinking and struggle.

After millions of years of accumulation, they could often ascend to immortality directly, skipping the intermediate realms.

A few seconds later, she seems to have made up her mind, looks up, her eyes becoming exceptionally firm, and says word by word:

"I plan to let 'it'... also become a wizard."

"What?!"

Even Gao Jie Ming, who is steady in heart, can't help but gasp at this moment, looking at Star Fall in shock.

Wei Wei Aola widens her eyes even more, as if she didn't hear clearly.

Let a living plane... become a wizard?!

This idea is too shocking, so much so that both lose their words for a time.

The strength of a wizard lies in knowledge.

It lies in being able to explode a portion of energy, a kind of element, into dozens of times, thousands of times, or even billions of times the destructive power or utility by understanding the laws.

This is a leap in "quality," the crushing of brute force by wisdom.

And the terror of a living plane lies in its unparalleled "quantity."

The total energy, material foundation, and breadth of laws controlled by a living plane are difficult for individuals below the ninth tier to reach.

Even if wizards can multiply the power of the energy they master, when facing the volume of an entire plane, they often feel powerless.

Therefore, living planes can often challenge high-tier wizards across tiers.

Then, if an existence that already possesses "plane-level" volume also masters the knowledge of wizards to "multiply" power...

Gao Jie Ming only outlines that possibility in his mind, and he feels a tingle in his scalp, and can't help but gasp again!

What kind of concept would that be?

An existence that can efficiently convert, compress, explode, and combine the power of the "entire plane" it controls, just like a wizard manipulating wizardry?

To be honest, Gao Jie Ming feels that his system matching is already cheating enough.

But the power of heaven and earth that ordinary cultivators can mobilize is... too weak compared to "heaven and earth" itself.

Wei Wei Aola clearly thinks of the same terrifying scene, she looks at Gao Jie Ming, and both see shock and a trace of... indescribable palpitation in each other's eyes.

"Can this kind of thing... really be done?" Gao Jie Ming suppresses the stormy waves in his heart and asks the most critical question.

This is not just a technical problem, but also involves the essence of plane consciousness, learning ability, and compatibility with the wizard knowledge system.

The one who answers him this time is Mentor Clark.

"It can be done." Clark's voice is still steady, as if stating a theorem that has long been verified, "This nascent plane consciousness, its intelligence level, logical understanding ability, and processing capacity for complex information have all reached the prerequisite standards for systematically learning wizard knowledge."

"Even in some aspects, such as intuitive perception of its own constituent laws and macroscopic energy scheduling, it has natural advantages."

He pauses, his gaze under the gray robe deep: "The point now is not technical feasibility, but rule permissibility. It is necessary to confirm whether the Star Ring Federation, or even the higher-level Star Track Tribunal, allows a special existence like a 'living plane' to sign a 'Contract'."

Gao Jie Ming understands Clark's meaning immediately.

That contract that every wizard needs to sign before embarking on the path of formal learning.

The core content of the contract is actually not harsh: it is mainly to keep the secret knowledge of the wizard civilization and not betray the overall interests of the civilization.

Apart from that, there are not many mandatory constraints, giving wizards great freedom for exploration.

In fact, the wizard civilization is not exclusive.

In history, there is no lack of outstanding foreign races who were absorbed as members of the wizard civilization after passing strict reviews and signing contracts.

These foreign races often undergo certain body modifications to learn and use wizard knowledge more effectively, making themselves closer to the human form of the wizard civilization.

Occasionally, there are also peerless geniuses among races who are accepted in their native forms.

From the perspective of rule articles and spiritual core, as long as the conditions of "high intelligence," "voluntary signing of contract," and "abiding by basic terms" are met, theoretically, intelligent lives of any form have the possibility of becoming wizards.

Then, a living plane, it seems... has not been explicitly excluded?

Mentor Clark's affirmation injects a shot in the arm for Star Fall Wizard's idea.

Excited light burns in the eyes of the three of Gao Jie Ming.

Star Fall is especially excited, as if she sees the incomparably bright future of her "child."

"Since it is theoretically feasible, then take action!" Star Fall Wizard stands up decisively, her soul body emitting light of eagerness, "I will now formally submit an application to the relevant civilization acceptance management department of the Star Ring Federation through the Magic Net!"

Her action is as vigorous and resolute as ever.

Looking at her departing back, Clark drinks his hot drink plainly, while Wei Wei Aola and Gao Jie Ming look at each other in silence.

(Two-in-one, just this chapter today.)

After checking various materials, it can basically be confirmed that the author's mobile phone has hardware problems and can only wait for repair.

The problem is that I am studying abroad now and cannot repair it.

So I can only wait until I return to China to take out the materials inside.

As for why I don't return to China... flights are reduced, tickets have long been sold out, and I can't buy them at all.

I can only wait to see if flights can be increased after the New Year.

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