Chapter 584

In the dark secret room, only a crystal ball emits a faint light.

In the image of the crystal ball, the image of a young wizard is reflected.

He looks seventeen or eighteen years old, with a delicate face, wearing a standard apprentice robe.

At this moment, this wizard apprentice is sitting in the library, focusing on flipping through a thick ancient book.

That is the genius apprentice of this year's Nolen Academy No. 147, a student of the logistics department's rune studies, named Yarlin.

Around the secret room, a dozen figures sit quietly.

Their faces are hidden in the darkness, and only the occasionally flickering gaze indicates that there are living people here.

The leading Tier 6 wizard clears his throat and says in a deep voice: "Start reporting."

In the darkness, one voice after another sounds.

"Soul-level detection completed. Soul origin is pure, no traces of modification or replacement."

"Mental-level detection completed. Mental sea state is normal, no external mental imprint."

"Thought fluctuation detection completed. No abnormal fluctuations seen, consistent with normal human thought characteristics."

"Birth plane verification completed. The other party was born in the third plane under the jurisdiction of Nolen Plane No. 147, direct relatives within thirty generations are all recorded, no possibility of outsider infiltration."

"Public video data analysis completed. Five years since enrollment, no abnormalities in daily behavior. Regular schedule, normal social life, learning progress matches the test results." Reports are settled one by one.

The leading Tier 6 wizard nods with satisfaction.

"Very good. Since all parties have confirmed that there are no errors, I propose to initiate the Tier 2 cultivation agreement for this wizard apprentice."

He pauses, his gaze sweeping over everyone in the darkness: "Does anyone have any questions?"

This inquiry was originally just a formality.

After all, according to convention, since all tests have been passed, it confirms that this wizard apprentice is a true genius.

Next is just going through the motions, everyone agrees one after another, and then the meeting is adjourned.

But just at this moment...

In the darkness, a hand is slowly raised.

"I have a question."

Everyone is stunned.

The leading Tier 6 wizard is also stunned for a moment, asking subconsciously: "What question?"

The owner of that hand sighs.

"My question is..."

Jie Ming sits in the corner with a helpless face, "Can we turn on the lights? It's not that I can't see clearly... but do we have to make it so mysterious?" The atmosphere in the secret room freezes for a moment.

Then someone can't help but laugh out loud.

A Tier 5 wizard sitting next to Jie Ming immediately retorts: "This is tradition!"

"Yes, tradition!"

"The Nolen Workshop has always been like this every time it makes major decisions!"

Jie Ming has black lines all over his face.

Serafina's voice drifts over from another corner, with a hint of a smile: "This is a tradition that has been followed since the establishment of the Nolen Workshop, don't you think this is very sacred?"

"Sacred my thunder." Jie Ming rolls his eyes, "It's not like the academy is short of energy or anything else, is it necessary to make it so dark?"

Everyone falls silent.

Then, the leading Tier 6 wizard coughs, raises his hand, and snaps his fingers.

The runes on the top of the secret room light up instantly, the glaring light dispels all the darkness, revealing the many wizards sitting around the conference table. However, there are still many wizards who are not sitting at the table at all, but are surrounding it in various postures, showing the crowded appearance from before.

After the lights are on, these wizards appear the most embarrassed.

"It would be better if we did this earlier." Jie Ming mutters.

Others also stand up one after another and sit honestly around the conference table.

The leading Tier 6 wizard sits in the main seat, looking at Jie Ming helplessly.

"Alright, no problems now, right?"

Jie Ming shakes his head.

Everyone expresses agreement one after another.

"Then it's settled." The Tier 6 wizard nods, "I will apply to the higher-ups for the Tier 2 cultivation agreement now, that... rune department instructor, remember to go and notify this apprentice about the relevant matters, that's it, meeting adjourned."

Everyone stands up and leaves one after another.

Jie Ming also stands up, preparing to walk out, Serafina appears beside him at some point.

"You've ruined that mysterious atmosphere."

Jie Ming can't help but hold his forehead: "It should have been lit from the beginning, but you had to pretend to be mysterious. I'm starting to wonder if you guys are even wizards..."

Serafina smiles, says nothing more, and turns to disappear into the corridor.

Jie Ming shakes his head, steps onto the teleportation array, and returns to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

The moment he lands, the relaxed expression on his face disappears completely.

Replacing it is a serious focus.

He walks quickly through the corridor, passes those busy Black Giant priests, and enters the laboratory directly.

Deep in the laboratory, there is a specially built magic array.

In the center of the magic array, a ball of silver light the size of a fist is floating.

That light is soft and cold, like the materialization of moonlight, slowly flowing in the dim room.

It is exactly a ball of moon essence power.

Over the past few months, the collection arrays laid out by the Black Giants across the entire plane, combined with the strengthening of the moon concept during daily sacrifices, have finally accumulated such a ball.

Jie Ming walks to the magic array, stares at that ball of silver light, and takes a deep breath: "Not bad, the pre-sedimentation preparation has been completed, and the next step can be carried out..."

Today, he intends to extract Di Liu Jiang from this.

According to the records of the Great Dao Library, the ideal situation is to let the power of moon essence directly transform into Di Liu Jiang during the collection process.

But that requires a sufficiently strong "moon concept" to support it.

The moon of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has only appeared for a few months, the concept is too weak, and it cannot achieve that level of transformation at all.

So he can only use a clumsy method: first collect the power of moon essence, and then use a special magic array for secondary refining.

Jie Ming lifts his right hand, spreads his five fingers, and presses them virtually above the magic array.

Spiritual power probes out.

The magic array lights up instantly, three hundred and sixty small rune pillars glow simultaneously, wrapping the ball of moon essence power in the center layer by layer.

Step one, purification.

The power of moon essence is considered a lower-tier product of Di Liu Jiang. To refine it into Di Liu Jiang, one must refine the relevant concepts within it to be more pure. Jie Ming's spiritual power turns into countless fine threads, probing into that ball of silver light.

Activating the surrounding magic array, a steady stream of "impurities" is squeezed out.

The moment those impurities are stripped away, they are annihilated by the surrounding rune pillars.

The silver light becomes purer and purer.

Step two, compression.

The volume of the purified moon essence power shrinks by a large circle, leaving only the size of an infant's fist.

But this is not enough, it needs to be compressed further, and more spiritual energy needs to be mixed in to compress together.

Jie Ming forms seals with both hands, and the runes in the magic array begin to change.

The light that was originally radiating outward now begins to converge inward, forming a huge pressure field, and at the same time, surging spiritual energy is continuously poured into it.

That ball of silver light slowly shrinks under the pressure.

From an infant's fist, it becomes a pigeon egg, and then the size of a soybean.

Step three, condensation.

This is the most critical step.

Jie Ming takes a deep breath, and then exhales toward that soybean-sized ball of energy.

Accompanying the breath is a ball of pure soul energy that Jie Ming has already prepared.

The moment the soul energy merges, that ball of silver light trembles violently.

It begins to rotate, faster and faster, and in the rotation, countless fine golden threads begin to emerge.

Those golden threads are like living things, wandering and interweaving in the silver light.

Every thread is absorbing the surrounding power of moon essence, and then transforming it into some kind of higher-level existence.

Jie Ming's spiritual power dares not slacken in the slightest.

He controls those golden threads, letting them weave according to specific rules.

That is the "Di Liu Jiang Formation Technique" recorded in the Great Dao Library, every path of weaving has its own requirements, and one wrong step will lead to failure. Time passes second by second.

Fine beads of sweat seep out on Jie Ming's forehead.

Fortunately, with the Fate System helping him share the computing power, although it consumes a lot of effort, everything is under control.

Jie Ming also can't help but sigh in his heart, now it seems that building the Fate subsystem in advance was a quite wise choice.

I don't know how long it has been...

That ball of silver light shrinks violently, then expands, then shrinks, then expands.

Accompanied by the last violent pulsation, everything returns to calm.

Jie Ming slowly withdraws his hand, staring at the center of the magic array.

There, a drop of liquid is floating quietly.

It is very small, only the size of an ordinary raindrop.

But its presence is countless times stronger than the previous fist-sized ball of moon essence power.

The whole body is pale gold, flowing slightly, and countless fine patterns can be vaguely seen on the surface, those patterns are constantly changing, as if life is flowing within them.

The most magical thing is that it is surrounded by countless tiny golden threads.

Those threads extend from the droplet, spread in all directions, and then retract, cycling back and forth, like breathing.

This is Di Liu Jiang.

Jie Ming stares at it, activates the Universal Eye, and carefully tests it.

A moment later, Jie Ming reveals a smile.

"Done."

He reaches out and beckons gently, and that drop of Di Liu Jiang slowly falls into his palm.

The touch is warm, with an indescribable feeling of being "alive."

This is Di Liu Jiang, which can enlighten plants, open wisdom, and make mortal things transform.

Jie Ming takes out a specially made crystal bottle and carefully puts it inside.

The pale golden droplet floats quietly in the crystal bottle, those golden threads are still visible through the bottle wall, beautiful and breathtaking.

Jie Ming puts on the bottle cap and lets out a long breath.