Chapter 80: Nadixa: How come you're here again?

Luo De was blasted out of the dream world by Nadixa.

After the comparison with the Great Merciful Tree King and the disparaging remarks about the Little Auspicious Grass King were made, Nadixa's face changed drastically; without a word, she kicked him out on the spot.

Moreover, no matter how Luo De called, he could no longer enter the dream world.

"Tsk, why are you getting angry from embarrassment?"

"It's just stating the truth, that's all."

"It's simply not as good."

Luo De pursed his lips and casually threw the leaf Nadixa had given him into the trash.

Anyway, Nadixa no longer allows him to enter the dream world, so this thing is useless now.

"What a pity."

"He still said he wanted to squeeze some knowledge about elemental energy from her."

Luo De muttered to himself.

However.

His expression wasn't as disappointed as his words suggested; instead, he continued his daytime research, beginning to manipulate the elemental energy at hand for fine carving.

Through Nilou's inspiration.

Luo De has roughly figured out some new usage techniques.

"Create an extremely cold environment that completely obeys me."

"No."

"It should be said to be an environment completely belonging to me."

If testing abilities, it's naturally impossible to do so in an inn.

Now that the dream world is inaccessible again, Luo De simply jumped out the window and headed straight for outside Xu Mi Cheng.

Soon.

He found a suitable place just outside the city.

A secluded forest with a small waterfall is just right for him to study the power of the Vision.

Just as when he killed the missionary gang in A Ru Cun before, Luo De took a deep breath and stomped his foot down.

Cold air sufficient to freeze nearby objects surged up from the ground, instantly transforming into a snow-flurrying chill domain.

Luo De did not move.

He closed his eyes, focused, and carefully sensed the consumption and power of the chill domain.

He used to be too reckless.

Relying on his abundant reserves of elemental energy.

Whenever he used the Vision, he habitually output at maximum power.

Just like now.

The low temperature within this chill domain is the lowest he can control.

"The limit is roughly around minus thirty to forty degrees,"

Luo De can roughly judge his current limit of power.

At this temperature, if someone inside is unprepared, they will suffer hypothermia in a very short time; if they cannot escape in time, they will be frozen to death within the domain.

But this is for ordinary people.

For those experts whose physiques far exceed the norm, they have means to resist this cold's erosion; especially for Vision-wielding experts, dealing with it is at most a bit troublesome, hardly a problem hard to solve.

"It consumes a huge amount of elemental energy, cannot quickly kill enemies, only slows their movement or gives them some effect; against experts, most of the time it's just wasting elemental energy."

Recalling Dixiya's technique of using molten purgatory to create distance from enemies, Luo De frowned slightly.

He is different from Dixiya.

Although Dixiya is a mercenary from the desert, she has the qualification to use the Void Terminal and can obtain knowledge from the Void at any time.

But Luo De cannot.

His understanding of elemental energy comes entirely from that pile of old books.

Moreover, most of the books at his home are works of the Vitalist School; there are no books on the elemental knowledge theories of the Materialist School, not because he doesn't want to buy them, but because they are unobtainable.

Lacking understanding of elemental energy also leads to Luo De's difficult progress in developing the limits of elemental energy.

This is specifically shown when he and Dixiya manipulate the same amount of fire elemental energy together; the maximum heat he can produce is far inferior to Dixiya's.

Fortunately.

In the use of fire elemental energy, Dixiya can find common ground to help Luo De.

However, regarding how to break through the bottleneck of ice elemental energy,

she has no way.

This also causes Luo De's currently operable fire elemental energy to be much stronger than his ice elemental energy.

"If we can't break the bottleneck, we'll make up for it with technique."

Recalling again the scene of Nilou using water elemental energy during the day, Luo De let his thoughts wander, no longer solely pursuing low temperature; instead, he retracted the ice domain, keeping only a sky-full of flying snow environment, while forcibly condensing a thick, smooth, even layer of ice under his feet.

Then Luo De reached out and grabbed; amidst the surging ice elemental energy, a holy bone beast entirely made of ice and snow suddenly condensed into form, and upon appearing, it opened its mouth and roared silently.

Immediately after.

It was the holy bone red eagle encountered earlier in the sandstorm; as soon as it formed, it flapped its wings, flew up to the sky to circle, but it couldn't fly high enough, only able to low-altitude flight, still vastly different from a true holy bone beast.

Then after that.

The holy bone poison scorpion from the Vitalist School's compendium, after appearing, immediately burrowed underground according to Luo De's will, and a few seconds later fell silent; besides Luo De, no one knows where it hides.

Elemental constructs.

Creating dead things is easy, but creating moving dead things is still quite difficult.

If Luo De hadn't read so much, I really wouldn't have thought of that.

This pioneering elemental energy usage technique is not written in the works of the Essentialist school studying elemental energy, but rather in a book of the Vitalist school.

When Luo De saw it, he was greatly shocked; after successfully trying it as described in the book, he immediately ran to ask A De Ba Yi about it.

The answer he received.

It is that the Vitalist school itself deals with life; let alone using elemental energy to create moving dead things, even living life, they can

A De Ba Yi's words stopped here, and he did not continue.

But Luo De already knew what he wanted to say.

Life forging.

This is a forbidden research strictly prohibited in the Academy.

After shaping three Holy Bone Beasts, Luo De's hands did not stop; he continued to shape the monsters he had seen.

With his current control over elemental energy.

Just a moment.

Amid the ice and snow, beast shadows appeared continuously; above, below, underfoot, under the leadership of the three Holy Bone Beasts, scattered about were no fewer than twenty-plus ice elemental energy constructs.

"Too bad, I can't use wind elemental energy."

"Otherwise, with wind and snow obscuring vision, the traces of these elemental constructs would be even more concealed."

Luo De waved his hand, increased the production of ice and snow, and continued to reshape this small space occupied by his constructs.

"About a third of the elemental energy remains."

After estimating the elemental energy stored in his Vision, Luo De roughly had a figure in mind.

This is a new combat method he devised after observing Nilou's use of elemental energy.

He gave up the extreme cold attack, switched to a relatively lower temperature, condensed the elemental energy saved from the ice field into various movable creatures to help him block enemies in front, then he would seize the opportunity to attack.

"Hah, he's playing like a summoner."

Muttering to himself, Luo De snapped his fingers; the elemental constructs he had just made instantly burst with a bang into icy mist, spreading a piercing chill through the air.

Seeing the ice mist thoroughly blocking the view, Luo De nodded in satisfaction.

If he couldn't win, he would directly let the elemental constructs self‑explode, which both blocks the view and creates a low‑temperature zone that is hard to break through.

"The elemental energy output consumes too much; I still need to study how to reduce its consumption, otherwise I'll easily exhaust myself."

He shook his slightly dizzy head, and Luo De muttered dissatisfiedly: "It's also a bit taxing on the brain; I need to think of a less mentally demanding method."

After summarizing the pros and cons of this new combat style, Luo De, whose fatigue was growing worse, hurried back to the inn.

A completely new way of using elemental energy cannot be perfected in just a short while.

When and how much elemental energy to use, where and how much mental effort to devote to controlling the elemental constructs—these all need to be calculated in advance, so as not to waste too much elemental energy and limited mental power.

These require long‑term repeated practice.

"Ha—ah."

"Let's practice again tomorrow, and by the way figure out what tricks we can pull with fire elemental energy."

This was the last sentence that flashed through Luo De's mind before sleep.

But when he opened his eyes again.

It was that familiar green world again; Nadixa, who had just chased him away, was now holding a mushroom chicken, eyes brimming with tears as she crouched before him.

Nadixa: "."

Luo De: "."

(End of chapter)