Chapter 605: Transformation

Ten years later.

The sky of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane had changed.

The gray-red tone was still there, but it was no longer that oppressive dullness that made people unable to breathe.

The firmament was rising, and the clouds were thickening.

Although the volcano in the distance was still spewing smoke, those smoke clouds were blown away by the wind as soon as they rose to mid-air, no longer lingering all year round like before. Jie Ming stood outside the laboratory, looked up for a while, and turned into the teleportation array.

The light dissipated, and he appeared on an observation platform at the edge of the plane.

The platform hovered in the void, beneath his feet was the eternally twisted color of the endless chaotic void, and behind him was the boundary of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane that was slowly expanding.

A project administrator wearing a gray wizard robe was already waiting there, holding a data board in his hand. Seeing Jie Ming appear, he hurriedly greeted him. "Lord Jie Ming." The administrator bowed respectfully, "The preliminary engineering for plane fusion has been completely completed."

"Thank you for your trouble."

Jie Ming nodded, walked to the edge of the platform, and overlooked the land growing beneath his feet.

The ten planes he brought back from the parallel world ten years ago, after a full ten years of splicing, anchoring, and fusion by the Star Ring Alliance engineering team, had now completely merged with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

The newborn land extended outward from the original boundary, with gray-black volcanic rock and dark brown sedimentary rock distributed alternately, like an old piece of clothing covered in patches.

It was ugly, but the area had indeed expanded.

"Basically, everything that can be done manually has been completed, and the rest is relying on time to let it fuse completely on its own." The administrator flipped through the data board.

"According to calculations, this time will take about a few hundred years. Now the area of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has expanded more than twenty times, and the resource reserves have increased accordingly. Another thing..." He paused, a hint of emotion in his tone, "According to the latest measurement data, the size of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane is enough to be promoted from a small plane to a medium plane."

Jie Ming nodded with satisfaction upon hearing this: "Thank you, thanks to you all during this time."

The surface area of a medium plane, placed in the previous life, was basically the same as those large gas planets, and the usable living range increased significantly.

It was a pity that the parallel world wizard civilization had lived too miserably, so the slightly larger planes were all remodeled into warships, and Jie Ming had nothing to pick. "You are too polite, Lord; this is our job. If the acceptance is fine, then I will report that the mission is completed." "Naturally..."

Bidding farewell to the entire engineering team, when he returned to the laboratory, a Black Giant priest was already waiting at the door.

It held a crystal disk recording the report in its hands, the silver-white patterns on its body denser than ten years ago, and its eyes more agile. "Lord, the resource exploration report for the ten planes has been completely organized." The Black Giant priest handed the report over, "The situation is not optimistic." Jie Ming took the report and flipped through it, sliding down bit by bit.

Just as he expected, although those planes weren't remodeled into warships, they were squeezed quite hard by the parallel world wizard civilization. Metal veins were less than one in ten, energy crystal layers were mined out, and even the geothermal heat was extracted by more than half.

The more troublesome thing was pollution.

Those planes had a large amount of toxins and radiation left over from the war, and the pollution concentration in some places was so high that even low-tier wizards couldn't stay for long. "Fortunately, the origin is relatively complete." Jie Ming closed the report, his tone calm.

The Black Giant priest nodded: "Yes. Although the parallel world wizards were crazy, they also knew they couldn't touch the plane origin. As long as the origin is still there, resources will eventually recover."

"That's fine, has the habitable area been calculated?"

Hearing this question, the Black Giant priest was a bit excited: "It has also been calculated; the increased habitable area is extremely large; actually, except for water areas, we can live anywhere else."

"Pollution doesn't have much impact on our race; after all, elemental creatures have much higher resistance to toxins and radiation than flesh-and-blood creatures."

Jie Ming said "Hmm," walked to the window, and looked at the gray-red sky outside.

The actual usable area had indeed increased, which was good news.

However, although the plane origin could slowly repair everything, that was a long process measured in millennia.

So later, he would have to specifically mobilize some manpower to clean up the pollution.

After all, for such a large plane, Jie Ming didn't intend to cultivate only the Black Giant race.

But those were things for the future.

Jie Ming withdrew his gaze and turned to face the Black Giant priest: "The usable land area of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has increased twenty-fold; it's about time to continue increasing the population."

The Black Giant priest's eyes lit up.

It had followed Jie Ming for so many years, it knew too well what this sentence meant.

"Because of the plane size limitation before, the Black Giant population could only be maintained at just over ten billion." Jie Ming's voice was calm, but something was flickering in his eyes, "Now that there is more space, we can expand the army."

The Black Giant priest's breathing was noticeably rapid.

Ten billion Black Giants, that was the carrying limit of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

Any more, and living would become overly crowded.

But now the plane had been promoted, there was more land, meaning their population could grow again.

"However, before expanding the army..." Jie Ming changed the subject, the corners of his mouth curling into a smile, "Upgrade the incubation pool first."

He raised his hand, and a silver-white crystal appeared in his palm.

That was one of the most important research results he had achieved over these years.

Through in-depth research on the Black Giant leader, Rong Shan, combined with the radical, near-crazy biological modification technology of the parallel world wizard civilization, he finally made a breakthrough in the Black Giant's gene sequence.

The parallel world wizard civilization was indeed backward in other aspects, but in the radicalness of biological modification, they left the current wizard civilization several streets behind. That kind of madness, forced out on the edge of life and death, not counting the cost, daring to take the entire race as a gamble, was something the current wizard civilization would never learn. And Jie Ming dug out all the core biochemical modification technologies from their core database.

"According to existing technology, the new incubation pool should be able to increase the innate foundation of newborn Black Giants by 30%." Jie Ming handed the silver-white crystal that recorded a large amount of knowledge to the Black Giant priest, "And it is a comprehensive strengthening of physical fitness, energy absorption efficiency, and soul strength." The Black Giant priest held the crystal, its hands trembling.

This meant that the new generation of Black Giants would be 30% stronger than their fathers from the moment they were born.

"The material list is at the end." Jie Ming said, "Go prepare."

The Black Giant priest bowed deeply, held the crystal, and turned to leave, its pace so fast it was like flying.

Jie Ming watched its disappearing back and suddenly felt it was a bit funny.

After so many years, this was the first time he had seen it so excited.

He turned and walked out of the laboratory, flying toward the incubation pool.

The incubation pools were gathered in the deepest part of the plain, covered by a giant building covering tens of square kilometers.

After so many years of modification, the appearance of the incubation pool had undergone huge changes.

The black metal shell was covered with dense runes, and inside were hundreds of giant culture tanks, each capable of incubating ten thousand Black Giants simultaneously.

Jie Ming landed at the entrance of the incubation pool and walked into the incubation pool.

Inside, hundreds of Black Giant priests were busy dismantling old culture tanks and moving new materials.

Seeing Jie Ming come in, they stopped their work and bowed to salute.

Jie Ming waved his hand, signaling them to continue.

He walked through the busy crowd to the deepest part of the incubation pool. ===== CHAPTER 606 =====