Chapter 581: Daily Life

On this day, Jie Ming was performing his routine body-refining.

Inside the smelting furnace, the temperature had already climbed to the level of the deep interior of a star.

Jie Ming sat cross-legged in the heart of the furnace, naked.

The surroundings were full of blinding green light, a high temperature sufficient to instantly vaporize any matter, but his skin was only slightly flushed, not even a drop of sweat appearing.

This was his daily practice of the body-refining method.

Relying on no protective wizard spells, mobilizing no energy shields, purely resisting this extreme environment with his physical body.

Jie Ming closed his eyes, sensing the reaction of every inch of his skin, every muscle, every bone to the high temperature.

Those cells were being scorched while regenerating rapidly, and the regenerated cells were tougher than before, more capable of resisting high temperatures.

This was the core of the body-refining method: adaptive evolution.

Bear the damage, adapt to the damage, and ultimately become immune to the damage.

Suddenly, the environment inside the furnace changed.

The high temperature faded instantly, replaced by extreme cold.

That kind of cold was not ordinary cold, but an absolute low temperature sufficient to freeze the soul.

A layer of white frost instantly formed on Jie Ming's body surface, and even the breath he exhaled turned into ice crystals.

But he still remained motionless.

Immediately following, countless lightning bolts appeared out of thin air, frantically striking him.

Every lightning bolt was sufficient to shatter the protective shield of a 5th-tier wizard, but when it landed on Jie Ming, it only made his muscles twitch slightly. After the lightning came acid.

This kind of acid made from supernatural power could corrode the vast majority of matter; dripping on the ground would burn out bottomless pits. But when it landed on Jie Ming, it only made a slight "hissing" sound, leaving shallow white marks, and then those white marks healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After the acid came wind blades, after wind blades came gravity crushing, and after gravity crushing came high temperature again...

Round after round, repeating in a cycle.

Jie Ming sensed it for a while and frowned slightly.

"This intensity is a bit weak for me now."

He raised his hand to point in the air, and the array on the furnace wall adjusted immediately, the attack intensity instantly increasing by 30%.

Boom!

A lightning bolt twice as thick as before struck Jie Ming's shoulder, directly making his body tremble.

A charred wound appeared on his shoulder, but it was quickly filled by newly born muscle tissue.

Jie Ming was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when a strange heat flow suddenly surged within his body.

He looked down at his hands.

His hands were expanding.

Not because of swelling caused by congestion or damage, but "growth."

The muscles under the skin were proliferating frantically, the bones were thickening and lengthening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his entire body size expanded from less than 1.9 meters to over 10 meters in just a few seconds.

Golden light shone from within his body, illuminating the entire smelting furnace in a golden color.

The originally slender body also became robust, the muscle lines became abnormally ferocious, each one like it was cast from refined steel, full of explosive power.

Between his brows, a strand of golden light was abnormally dazzling, like a third eye.

Jie Ming looked at his own huge palms and sighed helplessly out of habit.

It happened again.

This form was his "true body."

After the body-refining method was cultivated to a certain realm, in order to load stronger muscles and bones, the body would continuously grow taller, and the muscles would also increase. So this huge and oppressive posture was his true body.

And the slender figure of less than 1.9 meters usually was actually a compressed state.

This situation was very common among wizards.

Many wizards had long since modified themselves to be completely unlike humans.

Some had implanted alien organs, some had undergone mechanical modifications, and some had simply replaced their bodies with elemental or even mechanical forms.

In daily life, they looked like people, but once they entered a combat state, there was no human form to speak of.

Even some wizards simply maintained a non-human posture in daily life, such as those who modified themselves into half-human half-snake, or those who replaced their heads with tentacle monsters.

But those were the minority.

After all, most facilities, including teleportation arrays, laboratories, and medical pods, were built according to the human form.

Maintaining a human body size in daily life could be more convenient.

Jie Ming endured the continuously increasing attacks around him, while operating the body-refining method, letting his body slowly adapt to the damage of this intensity.

A few minutes later, he finally adapted.

Control was regained, and the huge body began to slowly shrink.

10 meters, 9 meters, 8 meters... finally turning back into that slender figure of less than 1.9 meters.

Jie Ming stood up, stretched his limbs, confirmed that everything was normal, and then raised his hand to close the smelting furnace.

The furnace door opened, and he stepped out.

Outside was a huge array, connected to various detection instruments.

Jie Ming walked to the center of the array and stood still, spiritual power probing in to start detecting his body state.

On the light screen, lines of data jumped rapidly.

【Physical Strength Assessment: 6th-tier Peak】

【High-Temperature Resistance: Increased by 7%】

【Low-Temperature Resistance: Increased by 5%】

【Lightning Resistance: Increased by 6%】

【Acid Corrosion Resistance: Increased by 4%】

【Gravity Resistance: Increased by 3%】

【Physical Impact Resistance: Increased by 8%】

【Comprehensive Resistance: Increased by 5.2% compared to yesterday】

Jie Ming looked at this data and nodded with satisfaction.

Physical strength could be assisted by special arrays like "Time Afterimage" for training, so his physical strength progressed extremely fast.

But resistance was something that had to be "fed" with real damage.

Every kind of damage needed to be adapted to separately, and every kind of resistance needed to be trained specifically.

Troublesome, with absolutely no shortcuts.

However, the effect after completion was quite good; now, even without any protection, Jie Ming wouldn't be injured by the attacks of ordinary 5th-tier wizards. Jie Ming turned off the light screen and turned to walk toward the bath.

That was a circular water pool about 10 meters in diameter, filled with dark green medicinal liquid.

Jie Ming stepped into the pool, his entire body sinking into the liquid, leaving only his head exposed.

The warm feeling wrapped around his whole body, and the fatigue and damage accumulated in the smelting furnace were being repaired bit by bit by the medicinal liquid.

"Phew..."

He sighed comfortably, closed his eyes, and enjoyed this rare moment of relaxation.

Before long, the sound of light footsteps came from the side of the pool.

Jie Ming opened his eyes and saw a Black Giant priest standing respectfully by the pool, holding a crystal board in its hand.

"My lord, the experimental data is out."

Jie Ming took the crystal board and scanned the content on it.

This was a series of test reports on moonlight power.

Ever since he did the preliminary test with moonlight power, the Black Giant priests had begun large-scale systematic experiments.

Over the past few months, they had used the moonlight power collected by the arrays to make various attempts: using it on Black Giants, using it on ordinary animals and plants, and even using it on some special plants transplanted from other planes.

Jie Ming read line by line.

【Test 1: Influence of Moonlight Power on Black Giant Souls】

【Sample Quantity: 12,757 (3rd-tier to 5th-tier)】

【Usage Method: Inject one unit of moonlight power daily, lasting for 30 days】

【Result: Soul strength increased by an average of 0.3%; spiritual reaction increased by an average of 0.7%; no obvious side effects】

【Conclusion: Effective, but the effect is limited. Suggest long-term use as a conventional strengthening means.】

Jie Ming nodded.

It was consistent with the results of his last test.

Moonlight power could only be said to be "satisfactory" in terms of soul amplification.

Effective, but the effect was not obvious, not comparable to specialized magic potions, but the advantage lay in the fact that it was simple to obtain and had no cost.

Continue reading.

【Test 2: Influence of Moonlight Power on the Growth of Ordinary Animals and Plants】

【Sample: 137 types of native plants of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, 67 types of ordinary animals】

【Usage Method: Infiltrate with moonlight power daily, lasting for 30 days】

【Result: Plant growth speed increased by an average of 35%; animal development speed increased by an average of 22%; no obvious malformation】

【Conclusion: Has a significant promoting effect on the growth of ordinary living beings. Can be applied to agriculture and animal husbandry.】

This also matched Jie Ming's previous inference, which could indeed be applied to the planting of supernatural plants.

Jie Ming continued to flip down.

【Test 3: Influence of Moonlight Power on the Quality of Plant-type Materials】

【Sample: 1,350 types of low-tier plant materials such as Fire-Pattern Grass, Sulfur Flower, Lava Fruit, etc.】

【Usage Method: Infiltrate with moonlight power while the materials are still in a living state, lasting from 30 to 60 days】

【Result: See attached table for details】

Jie Ming flipped directly to the attached table.

On the attached table, the quality changes of each material were recorded clearly.

For example, Fire-Pattern Grass, a material originally only usable for refining 1st-tier magic potions, had its quality improved to the standard usable for the same type of 2nd-tier magic potions after 50 days of moonlight infiltration.

And the original pill-making rate of Sulfur Flower was only 60%, but after moonlight infiltration, the pill-making rate increased to over 80%, and the concentration of effective ingredients increased by 40%. The most exaggerated one was the thing called "Cold-Light Grass," which was a plant Jie Ming had transplanted from the Ice Plane.

But even though he built a specially designed environmental simulation culture room, this plant had always failed to grow well in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

Jie Ming had originally planned to give up, but judging from the experimental results, after infiltrating with moonlight power for two months, it actually began to grow wildly, and the quality was even better than in the place of origin.

Jie Ming looked at

The power of moon essence can only be described as average when it comes to soul amplification, but it is simply a divine artifact for improving the quality of plant materials.

Many plant materials that were originally considered low-grade among the same type can become high-grade materials after being soaked in the power of moon essence. Although the "quality" of the material itself has not had a qualitative breakthrough, merely reaching the level of high quality among the same type of material, this is enough. Of course, the premise is that these plants are still alive.

If it is medicinal material that has already been processed or withered vegetation, the power of moon essence has no effect.

Jie Ming calculates rapidly in his mind.

He now has more and more research projects, and the materials he needs are becoming increasingly expensive.

Those high-tier materials are worth tens of thousands of low-level military merits each, and the quantity of high-tier materials consumed in every research or experiment is staggering. Even though he has deep pockets, his heart aches when he spends them.

But if he can use the power of moon essence to "upgrade" low-quality materials into high-quality ones, it means that when he buys experimental materials later, he only needs to buy the secondary materials of the same type.

How much money would that save?

Jie Ming lifts his hand from the medicinal bath, picks up a fruit from the fruit plate beside him, and takes a bite.

It is a fruit native to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, originally sour and astringent, which only some low-level creatures would eat.

But this one is an "experimental product" that has been soaked in the power of moon essence for three months.

The fruit flesh enters the mouth, sweet and sour, with a faint, delicate fragrance.

Jie Ming savors that trace of change and nods with satisfaction.

Just at this moment, another Black Giant priest walks over quickly and bows respectfully.

"My lord, the experiment is ready."

Jie Ming's eyes light up.

He stands up, and the medicinal liquid on his body twists and changes under the light of alchemy into a form-fitting wizard robe.

"Let's go."