Chapter 580: Testing

Looking at this ball of moonlight in front of him, Jie Ming's heart moved slightly.

A moment later, the door of the laboratory was pushed open.

A Black Giant priest walked in quickly, bowing respectfully.

"My lord."

It was followed by two ordinary Black Giants, who together lifted a semi-transparent culture container.

Inside the container, a lump of metal the size of a fist was quietly floating in a high-concentration energy liquid, and one could vaguely see a faint pulse inside. "According to your order, we have brought an unhatched embryo."

Jie Ming nodded with satisfaction.

Not only satisfied with the efficiency of the Black Giant priest, but even more satisfied with the convenience of the Fate System.

Just now, he only had a thought, and the order was transmitted to all Black Giant priests through the Incense Divine Path.

The nearest Black Giant priest received the order and executed it immediately.

Of course, in Jie Ming's place, it was just an order transmitter; if it were in the cultivation world, some mortals' name for this thing was "Oracle." As a divine-path system, the Incense Divine Path naturally had the most basic function of being able to communicate with believers.

If Jie Ming were willing, he could even pay attention to the state of every Black Giant at any time.

What they were doing, what they were thinking, even everything they perceived, he could receive in real-time through the Fate System.

But the price of doing so was the continuous consumption of massive computing power.

He wasn't one of those "deities" who needed to rely on faith to survive.

He was a wizard; rather than wasting computing power on constantly paying attention to believers, it was better to spend more energy learning new knowledge.

So usually, he only issued orders through the Fate System and did not receive feedback.

"Put it there."

Jie Ming pointed to the experiment.

The Black Giant priest commanded its two subordinates to put the culture container down, and then led them out of the door.

Jie Ming walked to the experiment and stared at the embryo in the container for a few seconds.

This was a 3rd-tier Black Giant embryo, not yet at the hatching time, just right for an experiment.

He took out that ball of moonlight power, separated about half, and carefully injected it into the culture container.

The silver light merged into the nutrient solution and slowly permeated toward the embryo.

The pulse on the surface of the embryo seemed to speed up a bit, but the change was not obvious.

Jie Ming put the container into a hatching simulation array he had prepared long ago.

That was a hatching simulation array he specially designed, capable of precisely controlling energy supply and environmental stimulation, completely simulating the state of the incubation pool. "Maintain stable hatching."

He set the parameters and turned back to the experimental table.

Looking at the remaining half of the moonlight power in his hand, Jie Ming thought for a moment and simply swallowed it directly.

The moonlight power entered his throat; there was no taste, only a cool feeling spreading from his throat to his whole body.

He closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and began to perceive the changes in his body.

That cool feeling traveled upward, finally converging near his spiritual sea.

Then, it began to permeate toward his soul.

Very slow, very soft, just as gentle as the moonlight itself.

Jie Ming carefully sensed it.

The moonlight power didn't improve his cultivation—after all, that amount wasn't enough at all.

But it was indeed touching his soul, letting the fine impurities on the edge of his soul that were usually difficult to detect have a trace of being "washed." A moment later, Jie Ming opened his eyes.

"The effect is average."

He made an objective evaluation.

From a purely effective perspective, the enhancement of the soul by moonlight power couldn't compare to those magic potions specially designed to improve soul purity.

Even if it were just a 1st-tier soul-type magic potion, the effect would be at least ten times that of this experience.

But moonlight power had an incomparable advantage...

It didn't cost money.

Or rather, its cost was close to zero.

One only needed to arrange an array, consume a little starting energy, and could continuously collect it from the moonlight.

And compared to taking magic potions, this thing had no drug resistance.

As long as the soul could digest it, one could use as much as one wanted.

Jie Ming stood up, a thoughtful light flashing in his eyes.

Just for this effect alone, moonlight power was worth collecting on a large scale.

He strode to the experimental table and pulled up the detailed map of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

On the light screen, the terrain, resource distribution, and Black Giant settlement areas of the entire plane were all clearly marked.

"According to the optimal collection efficiency, arrange an array every certain distance..."

Jie Ming's fingers pointed and drew on the map.

According to the knowledge of the Great Dao Book Pavilion, there was a limit to the moonlight that could be collected in a unit area.

It wasn't that the more arrays, the better; laying them out densely was a waste of resources instead.

The most reasonable plan was to arrange one every certain distance, letting each array cover its own area. He marked the locations of the first batch of arrays on the map, mainly distributed around the Black Giant settlement areas, while taking into account remote but open areas. Then, he issued an oracle through the Fate System again.

This time the content was more detailed:

"All Black Giant priests, hear my order. From today on, arrange a Moonlight Collection Array around every small Black Giant group. The array specifications and arrangement methods are as follows..."

He transmitted the detailed array diagram, rune structure, and energy node requirements to every Black Giant priest through the Fate System. "After the arrangement is completed, combine moonlight collection with your sacrificial rituals. Every time you sacrifice, look up at the moon collectively to strengthen the conceptual identification of the moon."

This was a very important step.

Moonlight power was essentially a product of "concept." The stronger the concept, the more moonlight collected.

The stronger the Black Giants' identification with the moon, the more powerful this concept would be, and the more moonlight would be collected.

Binding the collection array with the ritual was killing two birds with one stone.

After arranging everything, Jie Ming turned to look at the culture container.

The embryo inside was undergoing obvious changes.

The metal lump that was originally the size of a fist had now expanded to the size of an adult's head.

The pulse on the surface was more powerful, and one could vaguely see the embryonic form of limbs taking shape.

Jie Ming narrowed his eyes, and the Eye of Universality was activated.

In his field of vision, the information inside the embryo was evolving frantically, every step faster than a normal Black Giant embryo.

"Did moonlight power accelerate the hatching?"

He quickly recorded this phenomenon.

After a while, the embryo had expanded to the point of bursting the original container, and the development was finally completed.

That metal lump contracted violently, then expanded, contracted, then expanded...

Accompanied by the last violent pulse, the shell cracked, and a black creature crawled out from inside.

A 3rd-tier Black Giant.

It was over 10 meters tall as soon as it was born, with its body surface covered by the iconic black liquid metal layer.

It looked up blankly at Jie Ming, its eyes carrying the ignorance unique to newborns.

"Lie down."

Jie Ming pointed to the metal flat he had just manufactured with alchemy.

That Black Giant was stunned for a moment, then crawled up obediently and lay flat.

Jie Ming waved his hand, and a large number of arrays unfolded, beginning to test it.

Activating the Eye of Universality and alchemy, spiritual power probed in, from the torso to the limbs, from the energy core to the soul fluctuation, not letting go of any detail. The test lasted for a few minutes.

The result surprised him a bit.

From various data, this Black Giant belonged to the "normal category."

From the external performance, it seemed slightly more agile than ordinary Black Giants: the eyes were more flexible, the reaction was faster, and the perception of the surrounding environment was sharper.

But this difference was very small, not exceeding the fluctuation range of normal Black Giants.

"Sample size too small."

Jie Ming withdrew his spiritual power and wrote in his logbook:

【Test of Moonlight Power's Influence on Black Giant Embryos (First Time)】

【Injection amount: half a unit of moonlight power (approximately equivalent to 1/2 of the total energy of a 1st-tier wizard spell)】

【Result: Hatching speed increased by about 30%; no obvious abnormalities in individual characteristics; spirituality slightly enhanced but not significant】

【Conclusion: More sample tests needed】

He closed the logbook and looked at that Black Giant.

That guy was lying on the flat, looking at him with eager eyes, not knowing what to do next.

"Go down, find the priest of your tribe."

Jie Ming waved his hand.

The Black Giant climbed up and ran out of the door.

Jie Ming watched its back, lost in thought.

Moonlight power shouldn't have any harm to creatures with weak soul power like Black Giants.

Next, he still had to test it a few more times, at least to confirm the specific effect.

He turned to look out the window.

In the distance, in the settlement area of the Black Giants, one Moonlight Collection Array after another was rising from the ground. ===== CHAPTER 581 =====

In the distance, within the settlement of the Black Giants, moon-essence collection arrays are rising from the ground one after another.