Chapter 1148: Millennial Modification, Catalytic Acceleration

Introducing a large amount of material water into a closed Semi-plane, in the absence of a Water Element foundation within the Semi-plane, 【Water】 will generally exhibit a trend of unidirectionally transforming into other substances.

The laws of this transformation do not differ based on the Plane; this is determined by the essence of the elements. In this process, Wind and Fire elements are the most active and have the highest participation.

Consequently, Xia Duo will clearly feel the air flowing. As for the temperature, it is largely related to the activity level of the Fire element, and naturally, it is also rising.

If the space of this Semi-plane is extremely large, then this slight change, when diffused throughout the entire space, will become very inconspicuous.

But if this Semi-plane possesses a relatively complete elemental foundation, then the elemental transformation within the space will not exhibit a trend in any single direction, but will instead form a cycle.

This makes the material appearance within the Plane match the elemental root attributes, and the overall environment will not undergo significant changes.

Of course, any process of elemental transformation will affect the change in the elemental affinity of the Plane Root, such as: when there is more transformation regarding 【Water】, the Plane Root will also develop a tendency toward 【Water】.

This is also the principle behind 【Elemental Infection】 for modifying a Plane.

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The elemental transformation in the Yellow Sand Semi-Plane has been ongoing for four or five hours, and it still has not finished completely.

Although the water in this Semi-plane will eventually all transform into other substances, this process does not always move in one direction.

Instead, forward and reverse reactions are happening at all times; it is just that there is more transformation into other substances, and this process will last for a considerable amount of time.

Naturally, it is impossible for Xia Duo to wait until the water here has completely transformed before starting to act; in fact, from the moment he discovered the elemental transformation, he began to act.

He is observing the intense transformation phenomenon caused by the lack of an elemental foundation in the Semi-plane, while simultaneously recording the changes in the elemental affinity of the Plane Root caused by this intense elemental transformation phenomenon.

The elemental transformation lasted for four or five hours, and he observed and recorded for four or five hours.

At the same time, although this elemental transformation phenomenon can be called intense, it is actually relative to elemental transformation in a normal Plane; it still follows the basic laws of material change.

For example, water cannot turn into other substances out of thin air.

Similar to elemental decay on Earth, the seemingly intense radiation phenomenon actually takes a very long time to truly transform into other substances.

By the same token, the water in this Yellow Sand Semi-Plane, if it wants to completely transform into other substances, although it will not be as endless as the "total decay" of radioactive elements on Earth, is actually also very long.

Having only observed for four or five hours, Xia Duo still cannot judge how long it will take for the water here to completely transform into other substances.

However, the impact of the elemental transformation during this period on the Plane Root can be easily judged.

According to Xia Duo's judgment, if the current magnitude of elemental transformation is maintained, it would take about a thousand years to "infect" this Semi-plane into a relatively complete Semi-plane with a Water Element root.

As for why it is not a Plane, that is because wanting to become a Plane is not just about having complete elements; there are more conditions, a point that even Kangjienio and Iolum have not yet figured out!

Xia Duo is also not very clear about it now; he only knows that a normal Plane must have complete elements, but having complete elements does not necessarily mean it can become a normal Plane that can grow.

The "Plane Genesis" experimental records he previously obtained from the Inosen Mage Tower ruins clearly contained components that went beyond Semi-plane experiments, which perhaps relate to normal Planes that can grow.

At that time in Netheril, there was no strict distinction between Planes and Semi-planes; the research materials of Inosen only mentioned the word "Plane".

Things like "Semi-plane" were all judgments made by later generations like Xia Duo and Luodite; the experimenters at the time were actually very confused.

They experimented countless times, and not once did they succeed; it is truly regrettable.

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A mere Yellow Sand Semi-plane is already so difficult to transform into a Semi-plane with relatively complete elements; wanting to make it have growth potential is even harder.

Fortunately, Xia Duo is not thinking that he must have some result right now; the process of practice is the most important thing.

Directly injecting water is too slow, and even if the Semi-plane were filled with water, the efficiency would not be much higher, as the transformation phenomenon caused by the lack of an elemental foundation is already intense enough, and it does not have much to do with the quantity.

It is related to the volume of the Plane; if the volume is large, the transformation speed is high, but at the same time, if the volume is large, the difficulty of elemental infection becomes greater.

Overall, the infection efficiency will not have a qualitative improvement.

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Next, Xia Duo reopened the Elemental Channel to introduce water that covered his ankles into the Semi-plane, and even dispersed the condensation and materialization of the Water Element, letting it appear only in the form of an element.

The final transformation and infection efficiency presented was not much higher than the amount of water from the first infiltration.

If the highest efficiency of transformation and infection is maintained throughout, the modification time would still be counted in centuries.

If it were an organization, this method might be feasible; after all, the threshold is low, and if there were more Semi-planes to be modified, perhaps they could even create some economies of scale.

But such an organization capable of possessing multiple incomplete, original-state Semi-planes must certainly possess a certain ability to search for Planes.

According to the current popularity of the Plane Exploration Array, such an organization most likely also possesses a Great Arcanist.

Then why not just directly modify the Plane Root? Why go through all this trouble!

But if this method is truly so inferior, why would Kangjienio and Iolum tell him about it? Why not just talk about Root Modification?

After a moment of thought, Xia Duo understood the key—

It is actually very simple; one can use artificial intervention to intensify elemental transformation, such as in this Yellow Sand Semi-Plane, where one could light a fire to boil water, or use low temperatures to condense water vapor.

In short, by using various means to accelerate the speed of material change, the elemental transformation efficiency will also increase.

The reason the two Masters did not say so is probably because they were not sure what kind of Semi-plane Xia Duo wanted to modify; different Planes have different methods of artificial intervention and need to be adapted to local conditions.

Of course, Xia Duo feels it is more likely that the two Masters simply did not consider this a problem, so naturally, there was nothing to talk about!

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Although he knew there were ways to increase the efficiency of elemental transformation, Xia Duo did not attempt them next.

His goal is not to modify the Yellow Sand Semi-Plane; increasing the efficiency of elemental transformation is merely an optimization of the 【Elemental Infection】 method of modification, and for the sake of modification, there is no qualitative change.

More importantly, for Xia Duo, 【Elemental Infection】 no longer has any new ideas, and it cannot play a greater role in his further understanding of the essence of Planes.

By comparison, the appeal of 【Root Modification】 is far stronger!