Chapter 74

On the contrary, exploring a new plane has too much uncertainty.

If you accidentally encounter a plane with unique rules, the vanguard might even disappear inside without being able to send a message.

Of course, the probability of encountering such an outrageous plane is very small, but most planes still suffer significant losses when first contacted.

Watching those young faces, either excited or uneasy, walk into the teleportation array, the light lit up, and the figures disappeared, Jie Ming also felt a trace of emotion in his heart.

Ten years of time, the academy is like a huge furnace, screening and forging batches of talents, and then sending them to a broader and crueler world.

After the farewell ceremony ended, the square fell into a brief silence.

Then, the teleportation array on the other side began to light up.

That was the wizards returning from the front-line battlefield.

Jie Ming and the other two mixed behind the crowd, watching the batch of returning wizards walk out of the teleportation array.

They were completely different from the old apprentices who had just left; most of these people carried the traces of time, their eyes were sharp and vicissitudinous, and they faintly exuded the aura of blood and fire.

Most of the robes on their bodies carried traces of wear and tear left by fighting, looking a bit embarrassed.

But they themselves were like polished blades, flamboyant and dangerous.

Several high-tier wizards of the academy stood in front of the teleportation array, welcoming them with serious and solemn expressions.

After being polished on the battlefield, these people are now the backbone of the academy.

Amy and Victor discussed the strength and plane experiences of those returning wizards in low voices, with awe in their eyes.

Jie Ming didn't speak, silently sensing the power fluctuations of these returning wizards.

Most of them were Tier 3 formal wizards, and there were even a few Tier 4 wizards, whose strength far exceeded those returning wizards seen when they first enrolled.

"It seems... the benefits in the Shadow Plane are indeed very large; so many wizards above Tier 3 were born in a short time, at least it shows that the resources of this plane are rich enough; no wonder the academy would pay such a high price." Jie Ming pondered silently in his heart.

Suddenly, Jie Ming paused abruptly.

In a position toward the back of the crowd, there was a figure.

He looked unremarkable, wearing a simple wizard robe, without any flashy decorations.

There were no obvious scars on his face, nor that kind of fierce aura. He just stood there quietly, like an ordinary stone.

However, in Jie Ming's perception, there were no perceptible energy fluctuations in that person's body!

In Jie Ming's perception, it was as if that place was a vacuum independent of this world!

Jie Ming was very familiar with this feeling, because he had felt it in many instructors—it was a sense of presence that was completely integrated into the rules, and the self had become a part of the rules.

This represents that the other party has absolute suppression over himself in terms of realm, and it is a huge gap in the level of life!

He took a deep breath, almost unable to suppress the shock in his heart.

This is... a Tier 5 wizard?!

Even in the wizard civilization where experts are like clouds, a Tier 5 wizard is enough to serve as the backbone of the attack.

If Tier 3 and Tier 4 wizards are the elites of the entire wizard civilization, then Tier 5 wizards are the high-level personnel who can grasp power.

In this Nuolun Academy, except for Instructor Clark, who is a Tier 6 wizard, all the remaining wizard instructors are only Tier 5.

Most importantly, judging from the badge on this wizard, the other party is also one of the old apprentices who returned in this batch.

To be able to advance from a Tier 1 formal wizard to Tier 5 in just five years...

"Damn, did they cheat..." Jie Ming couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

With this upgrade speed, even if he had a cheat himself, he wouldn't dare to play like this.

Just then, the Tier 5 wizard who was focused on by Jie Ming suddenly turned his head to look at him, and the power carried in his gaze made Jie Ming's hair stand on end.

"What's wrong with you?" Amy noticed that his emotions seemed a bit wrong and turned to ask.

"Nothing, maybe I'm a bit tired."

Seeing that the wizard took back his gaze after looking at himself, Jie Ming breathed a sigh of relief and casually found a reason to muddle through.

Amy and Victor looked at each other, both seeing the strange look in each other's eyes, but neither of them said anything.

Jie Ming didn't continue to pay attention to the newly arrived Tier 5 wizard, but after this incident, he lost the interest to continue visiting for a while.

Unable to help looking up at the sky, his gaze wandered.

By now, he finally understood why the other party's tone was a bit strange when talking about the third solution when talking to Instructor Clark before.

Returning to the laboratory, Jie Ming sat cross-legged and sank his mind into introspection.

The preliminarily completed Five-Element Rainbow-Transforming Mirror floated quietly in Jie Ming's dantian qi sea; it was no longer an illusory light and shadow in the spiritual sea, but a tangible and substantial existence, warm and translucent, with five-colored conceptual light flowing inside.

Refining success is only the first step; the next is the long nourishing stage.

Jie Ming would divide a portion of pure true essence and spiritual sense every day, like the most meticulous craftsman, nourishing this Heart Mirror over and over again.

True essence washed the mirror surface like a warm spring, while spiritual sense went deep into the magic treasure, carefully combing the veins of the five light concepts, trying to make them connect more closely, gradually tending to be integrated.

This is a slow and delicate process, not to be rushed.

It must be persistent; even if he was tired like a dead dog for the past half month, Jie Ming did not give up nourishing the magic treasure.

He could feel that with day-by-day nourishing, the light inside the Heart Mirror became softer, and the conflict between concepts was gradually calming down, replaced by a wonderful resonance and fusion.

The magic treasure seemed to have life, growing slowly under his nourishing, waiting for the moment of transformation.

"Phew... I've been busy for half a month in a row; cultivation pays attention to relaxation, next... it's time to have a good rest for a while."

Being too exhausted these few days, Jie Ming also noticed that his energy and spirit had appeared slightly uncoordinated.

He didn't rush to the next step of cultivation or research, but rarely slowed down the pace.

He didn't even attend the orientation ceremony for new students, but stayed in his laboratory to empty his mind, and even had a long-lost sleep.

Occasionally opening the Magic Network terminal, looking at his point balance, and then sitting by the window, watching the busy figures of the new apprentices below.

Just living decadently for a period of time, until one day, Jie Ming suddenly opened his eyes on the recliner.

He looked up at the ceiling of the laboratory, and it took a long while before he got off the recliner, looking at his palms with slight curiosity.

Just at that moment, he suddenly felt clear-headed, his body comfortable, and there was an indescribable sense of smoothness all over his body.

It was not that his cultivation had broken through, but simply that his energy and spirit had been reconciled again, and it was also because his magic treasure had finally entered the first stage of taking shape.

"It seems that the vacation is over."