Chapter 2575: Plane Crystal Production Process

Xia Duo compared the technical list provided by the Seven Towers and reviewed all the data, ultimately confirming that the plane exploration technology provided by the Seven Towers focuses more on hardware improvements rather than software.

According to the parameters mentioned in the technical list, the new Exploration Array is significantly superior to the one currently used by the Tower of Time in both detection precision and detection range.

However, regarding the supporting detection data analysis, the Seven Towers only provided a ready-made Material Plane feature model; although it is better than what the Tower of Time used in the past, if combined with more advanced hardware conditions, the efficiency of discovering new planes could certainly see a significant increase.

Yet, there is only this one feature model without the specific process used to derive it, and that portion of detection data was merely used to demonstrate the application of the model; whether it is truly effective remains a question mark!

This left Xia Duo feeling greatly disappointed!

Fortunately, however, he had already begun data analysis from scratch at the Tower of Time; the model provided by the Seven Towers itself is not fictional, and although the process is missing, the conclusion itself can provide guidance on research direction.

Furthermore, it can also save him a great deal of time in actual operations.

Of course, if he only wanted to save effort and be more convenient, he could simply use this model, but that would easily lead to path dependency; if he needed to upgrade in the future, he would still have to go to the Seven Towers.

Perhaps the Seven Towers only provided this finished model with exactly that intention in mind.

"If that is truly what you think, then you have really underestimated me!"

Even if it were just a first-generation product not yet iterated by the Red Heart Alliance, it is still a new type of Mythallar that is completely different from the Traditional Elven Myth, and it perfectly adapts to the Netheril Magic System; how could such a bad thing be exchanged for just one piece of plane exploration technology?

The Plane Crystals obtained one after another did not come in yellow Gemstone forms, nor in White Crystal forms; those forms have nothing to do with the plane attributes after their birth.

And another way to refer to plane attributes is the Plane Root.

In other words, this is actually a continuation of the previous cooperation, and it is even more in-depth; otherwise, how could a single item of plane exploration technology possibly trade away the Adaptive Mythallar that Xia Shao painstakingly researched?

Naturally formed planes are not like sand in the desert that you can grab by the handful, but are very rare; destroying them to produce Plane Crystals is simply a waste of natural resources. Although the Exploration Array does not use the energy of the Plane Crystal itself, it still causes energy loss to it; once the loss reaches a certain degree, the Plane Crystal becomes useless.

This is actually quite easy to understand: if the plane's volume is insufficient, even if a Plane Crystal is formed, how long could it support the use of the Exploration Array?

It seems there is a production method that uses the destruction of a Semi-plane as a substitute.

This is mainly because for artificial Semi-planes, the creator can only control a very short period at the beginning of Plane Creation, and thereafter, they exist more as energy providers.

Compared to naturally existing Semi-planes, artificial Semi-planes are more than an order of magnitude inferior in terms of both volume and the complexity of the Plane Root.

A Sub-plane is the term used by Netherese Mages of the Main Plane for Material Planes within a plane; it has nothing to do with size, nor with the environment.

The more complex the designed Plane Root, the more evolutionary variables there are, and the volume may become larger as energy is input; conversely, the simpler the initial state of the Plane Root, the fewer evolutionary variables there will be later, and while the volume will certainly become larger with energy input, it is more likely to die out during the evolution process.

Xia Shao has never liked taking the evil path from the very beginning; even if he took a shortcut, he would make up for it as soon as possible, not to mention the painful lessons from his hometown where core technology was not in his own hands, and the so-called "making is not as good as buying, buying is not as good as renting" resulted in a great loss.

If a plane loses its growth potential during the growth process, it becomes a Semi-plane, which has nothing to do with size or environment.

Although he could also use Normal Planes for experiments, Normal Planes are truly too few and too precious, and Xia Shao doubts that even the Seven Towers could destroy Normal Planes without limit.

Therefore, the volume and the complexity of the Plane Root of a Semi-plane are almost impossible to achieve simultaneously in an artificial Semi-plane.

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If the complexity is too low, in extreme cases, it might directly turn into Element Turbulence.

In other words, the Plane Crystals that the Seven Towers can regularly sell can only come from the more common, more easily obtainable, and cheaper Semi-planes, rather than the rarer, harder to obtain, and more precious Normal Planes.

A plane that is too small, even if it forms a Plane Crystal, is actually of no great use.

The evolutionary process here, to put it another way, is actually the process of the Plane Barrier forming, or the process of the plane truly taking shape.

Semi-planes have no growth potential and are in a state of collapse and disintegration at every moment; it is only because the "lifespan" of a plane is so long that even the death process is stretched beyond the level of human Perception.

If the initial state is designed to be too complex, it is very likely that it will collapse and disintegrate before the Semi-plane can take shape.

Therefore, in addition to the Bloodline Sequencing results, Xia Shao also exchanged for the crucial Plane Crystal production process, or rather, a unique method of destroying planes.

And the total energy of a Plane Crystal surely cannot be higher than the plane itself, right?

An Elemental Plane is, of course, the type of Normal Plane that is distinct from a Material Plane; strictly speaking, it should be an intermediate state between element and matter, or a special Material Plane where the elemental tendency is very extreme and singular.

And after many experiments, Xia Shao speculates that the complexity of the Plane Root and the plane volume are likely the key factors in the formation of Plane Crystals after a plane is destroyed.

Ever since the World Incubator was built, Semi-planes have been nothing more than industrial mass-produced goods to Xia Shao; apart from the maintenance costs of the machines, the greatest cost is actually time.

Of course, if one of these two attributes is relatively prominent, the other will generally be worse; basically, it is very difficult for an artificial Semi-plane to possess both attributes.

As for the complexity of the Plane Root, it might be related to the formation process of the Plane Crystal, because Plane Crystals are not all the same and have different attributes; for example, the first one the Tower of Time obtained was a transparent Gemstone with a large number of purple star spots inside.

Therefore, Xia Shao has always been curious about how the Seven Towers manages to regularly harvest a certain amount of Plane Crystals; Normal Planes are obviously not very realistic, or rather, obtaining them by destroying naturally formed planes is obviously not realistic.

Before trading with the Seven Towers, he had already conducted several experiments on destroying Semi-planes, but he did not know if it was because they were not Normal Planes, but each time after destruction, all he obtained were the residual materials within the plane and a large amount of Element Turbulence.

The so-called Normal Plane does not refer to a Habitable Plane similar to the Main Plane, but refers to a plane that has growth potential and is complete in a certain sense.

Looking closely at this part of the list, besides the plane exploration technology, there are also some Bloodline Sequencing results provided by the Jilan High Tower; of course, this part only has a list for now, and Xia Shao will need to send people to the Jilan High Tower later to obtain the complete data.