Chapter 611

Over a dozen years later.

Jie Ming stood in the center of the laboratory, in front of a swimming-pool-sized gelatinous creature.

It was entirely translucent, shimmering with a faint blue light, its surface constantly wriggling like a puddle of living jelly.

It was Jie Ming's cannon fodder unit for naval warfare, the "Nest."

Clearly, Jie Ming was no longer satisfied with the temporary modifications he had previously made to the Nest, so he was performing another modification surgery.

The surgery had been going on for seven days and was at the most critical juncture.

Jie Ming's hands hovered above the mass of gel, his spiritual power turning into countless fine threads, probing into its body, weaving new energy circuits bit by bit. At this moment, the laboratory door was suddenly pushed open.

But facing the door that had been suddenly pushed open, Jie Ming did not even look up.

"Sister? You're here? Wait a moment, it'll be done soon."

His tone was as calm as if he were saying the weather was nice today; his hands did not pause, and his spiritual power remained steadily in control of the translucent gelatinous creature.

Wei Aola stood at the doorway, her expression somewhat subtle.

She had already prepared what she was going to say to greet him, but Jie Ming's attitude of "I knew you were coming" blocked all the words she had prepared in her throat. She walked into the laboratory, her gaze sweeping over the creature being modified, then over the neatly stacked data in the corner, and finally landing on Jie Ming.

"You don't seem surprised at all."

Jie Ming just said casually, "After all, you just submitted an application for spatial teleportation."

Wei Aola did not answer, her expression somewhat strange.

Jie Ming did not notice her expression either; his entire focus was concentrated on the surgery in his hands.

Time passed second by second, and when the last energy circuit was successfully connected, the gelatinous creature shuddered violently, the blue light on its surface stabilized, and it began to beat rhythmically like a sleeping heart.

Jie Ming let out a long breath, withdrew his hands, and turned to look at Wei Aola.

"So... Sister, what wind blew you here?"

Wei Aola's expression remained strange.

She walked up to Jie Ming, looking him up and down as if looking at something rare. "I arrived a bit too smoothly."

Jie Ming was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"The application for spatial teleportation was approved as soon as I submitted it." Wei Aola's tone carried a trace of unreality, "It was as if they had been waiting for me there. After teleporting over, as soon as I walked out of the teleportation room, a Black Giant walked in and told me you were here. It didn't even ask who I was looking for." Jie Ming blinked, the corners of his mouth curling into an imperceptible arc. "Isn't that great? Saves you from looking everywhere." Wei Aola stared at him for a few seconds without responding.

Jie Ming shifted the topic with a somewhat distant gaze: "You still haven't said why you came over? Is the matter with the mentor finished?" "Not yet... The living plane of Star Fall, you remember, right?" Wei Aola shook her head upon hearing this.

Jie Ming nodded: "I remember. What's wrong?"

"It has completed the wizard apprentice curriculum and has already been promoted to a formal wizard." Wei Aola's tone carried a trace of complexity, "It is currently participating in a plane war according to the contract, and the mentor went with Star Fall to record relevant data."

Jie Ming nodded in realization, and then his expression became somewhat strange.

Star Fall... that female wizard who used his spiritual energy as inspiration to create the Enlightenment Technique and activate the plane she controlled.

Counting the time, it had been almost a thousand years since her living plane was successfully activated.

Having spent such a long time, the consciousness of that plane had finally developed from ignorance to full maturity.

However, by the standards of a living plane, this speed was already quite fast.

But that was not the crux of the problem.

A living plane was a powerful creature that could naturally suppress a conventional level-seven wizard.

Even if the wizard level was only level one, relying on the output multiplier brought by knowledge, it was probably a very capable existence among level-seven wizards. For an existence of this level to participate in a plane war specifically for new wizards...

"I hope the people on the other side are okay," Jie Ming said sincerely.

Wei Aola rolled her eyes and didn't take the bait.

Jie Ming understood: "So you're considered liberated for the time being?"

Wei Aola spread her hands: "Yes, came out to play."

She paced a few steps in the laboratory, looking here and there, looking bored.

Jie Ming watched her pacing back and forth in front of him and couldn't help but say: "There's nothing here for you to play with."

Wei Aola did not answer.

She was still pacing, her steps getting faster and faster, her brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

Jie Ming noticed her abnormality and was about to ask when Wei Aola suddenly stopped, her face changing drastically.

"My fate line has been touched."

Jie Ming raised an eyebrow.

Wei Aola turned her head sharply, her gaze shooting at him like a knife, the shock in her eyes almost overflowing. "Was it you?!"

Jie Ming looked at her expression as if she had seen a ghost and couldn't help but feel a bit smug.

He tried to keep his expression calm and nodded reservedly.

"That's right. A few years ago, my knowledge of the Fate System finally entered the introductory stage."

The laboratory was quiet for a moment.

Wei Aola's mouth hung open like a fish slapped onto the shore, unable to say a single word.

Jie Ming watched her appearance, feeling even more smug inside, but he maintained a calm smile on his face—he had practiced for several years just for this moment!

Since purchasing the knowledge of the Fate System, he had studied it for several hundred years.

After returning from the information plane, he still hadn't given up on chewing on this hard bone.

Knowledge of the Fate System, data on parallel worlds, occasional pointers from Mentor Kemeili...

In order to enter the introductory stage of Fate System knowledge, he learned everything and tried everything.

But knowledge like fate required aptitude; without it, one simply couldn't enter.

For a period of time, Jie Ming almost gave up.

Then he was promoted to the Void Refinement Stage.

The essence of the Void Refinement Stage was the transformation of the life form toward the direction of an information creature.

In this realm, Jie Ming hadn't yet experienced the other pros and cons, but there was one point he felt quite clearly: his understanding of information-based knowledge had risen in a straight line.

Information was the underlying language of fate; understanding information meant touching the threshold of fate.

A few years ago on an ordinary night, he was browsing through the data of the Fate System as usual, and as he read, he suddenly understood.

Those things he had known for a long time but didn't understand suddenly made sense.

It was like looking at the world through a layer of frosted glass, and suddenly someone took that glass away.

"You're only level five!" Wei Aola's voice changed pitch.

Jie Ming said unhurriedly: "It's not exactly 'only'; I've been level five for seven or eight hundred years."

Wei Aola grabbed her own silver-grey long hair, pulling it without regard for her image, her eyes wide as saucers: "The old man didn't enter the introductory stage until he was promoted to level six! How did you enter at level five?!"

Jie Ming watched her frantic appearance, and the corners of his mouth finally couldn't help but curl up.

He tried to press them down, but he couldn't.

That trace of smugness grew from the corners of his mouth to the corners of his eyes, and from the corners of his eyes to his entire face.

Wei Aola saw his "smug yet trying to act reserved" expression and was so angry she trembled all over.

"You..."

She pounced on him.

Before Jie Ming could react, he felt his head being tightly hugged by two hands, and then... she bit down!

The seemingly ordinary bite made Jie Ming feel pain explode from the top of his head, shooting through his entire body like an electric current.

Jie Ming screamed, his body-refining technique automatically activating, trying to resist the pain, but it was useless.

That kind of pain pierced through all defenses and acted directly on his nerve endings.

"Waaaaah... it hurts! It hurts! Let go!" Jie Ming ran around the laboratory dragging Wei Aola, who was hanging onto his head. Wei Aola was like a crazed cat, biting his head tightly, her legs kicking wildly in the air.

The "Nest" that had just finished surgery was scared into a ball by their commotion, and the data stacked in the corner collapsed all over the floor. "Let go!"

"Woooo!" (No!)

"Sister, I was wrong!"

"Woooo!" (Too late!)

Jie Ming ran a dozen laps before finally finding an opportunity to reach out and grab Wei Aola's waist, pulling with force.

With a pop, his head was pulled out of Wei Aola's mouth.

He touched the top of his head, his hand covered in saliva, and there was a deep ring of tooth marks on his head.

With the physical strength he had cultivated for over a thousand years through his body-refining technique, he had actually been bitten and left with marks.

Jie Ming touched the ring of tooth marks and gasped.

He had experienced this feeling of "feeling pain no matter what."

Not long ago, when participating in a wizard gathering in a parallel world, he had this feeling when he was beaten up by Mentor Kemeili.

He didn't expect Wei Aola to learn it so quickly.

As expected of a genius specializing in the Law of Pain.

Jie Ming rubbed the top of his head and looked at Wei Aola.

She had already calmed down from her rage and was leaning against the laboratory table panting, her silver-grey hair a mess, as if she had just been swept by a tornado. There was still a trace of lingering anger in the corners of her eyes, but the corners of her mouth were already starting to curl up.

"You're pretty good." Wei Aola hummed.

Jie Ming smiled and didn't respond.

He looked at Wei Aola's face, which was slightly flushed from excitement, and suddenly thought of something.

He had barely touched the threshold of the Fate System by relying on the understanding bonus of information-based knowledge from the Void Refinement Stage.

So Jie Ming knew very well that he was able to achieve what he had today by cheating.

And Wei Aola...

The Law of Pain was a field even more obscure than the Fate System.

She had no cheats and had chewed through it entirely by her own aptitude.

Mentor Kemeili said every day that she was too stupid, too slow, and couldn't even learn this little bit.

But Jie Ming knew that was just Mentor Kemeili's standards being too high.

In reality, Wei Aola's research on the Law of Pain had already reached the top level among wizards of the same rank.

Not only that, she had only taken a little over a thousand years to make up for the knowledge gap caused by jumping three levels from level three to level six. If this isn't a genius, what is?

Jie Ming suddenly felt a bit emotional.

He had transmigrated here and relied on the cultivation system provided by the Great Dao Book Pavilion to reach where he was today.

And Wei Aola had nothing and relied entirely on herself.

She was the one who truly deserved the word "genius."