Chapter 2578: Seven Towers Keeps an Ace Up Its Sleeve

Inside the Laboratory.

Xia Duo held his breath, staring quietly at the central experimental area. He had previously conducted space-folding experiments for a Semi-plane here, and now he was going to destroy a Semi-plane; in fact, the end result of the Semi-plane used in the former was also destruction.

Looking at it this way, this Laboratory could be considered a graveyard for Semi-planes.

The temporarily moved 【World Incubator】 had a very fixed operating mode. In order to stably obtain Semi-planes, the Plane Root Xia Duo designed was relatively simple, but since it was an experiment, Xia Duo did not redesign it, but instead used this version.

After all, the more complex the Plane Root, the smaller the probability that the Semi-plane could evolve into a complete form. Xia Duo's goal was to realize the mass production of Plane Crystals using the simplest possible conditions.

Soon, the first Semi-plane began to evolve from the root. With the continuous injection of Elemental Energy, the Plane Root began to change from the initial faint elemental aura flowing along a specific trajectory into a constantly changing torrent of elements.

This was the initial form of a Plane. Afterward, as long as Elemental Energy was continuously injected, this portion of the elemental torrent would evolve according to the design of the initial blueprint until a Plane Barrier was formed.

Of course, if one waited for the Plane Barrier to be completely formed, then according to the craftsmanship of the Seven Towers, this Semi-plane could no longer be used to manufacture Plane Crystals.

Therefore, after waiting for several hours, at the moment when the Plane Barrier was about to form but had not yet done so, Xia Duo decisively took action to compress it inward. However, for the first experiment, he did not add a "Condensation Nucleus." He wanted to see if a Plane Crystal could be compressed without a Condensation Nucleus. The answer was obvious—

It failed!

The 【Annihilation Plane】 mastered by the Seven Towers had a natural time flow slower than the Main Plane. Although there was a small amount of Negative Energy inside, even so, the cost of maintaining such a Time Acceleration Zone was higher.

Thinking this way, Xia Duo took out a Plane Crystal that looked like a White Crystal. The Condensation Nucleus was not limited in size. From the perspective of the goal, of course, the smaller the better; ideally, not needing a Condensation Nucleus at all would be the most perfect state!

By holding back on this key step, it could just happen to restrict the Tower of Time from selling Plane Crystals externally. It was no problem for the Tower of Time to use them itself; when an existing Plane Crystal was used up, it could just be "recharged" to continue being used.

However, the price at which the Seven Towers sold Plane Crystals was relatively uniform, related only to size and not to attributes. This might be an illusion deliberately created, simply wanting to cover up the artificial craftsmanship by demonstrating the cost differences between different attributes.

If one only sought a storage space, then the most easily obtained Semi-plane with balanced attributes could certainly satisfy that requirement.

Thinking that if the compression method remained the same as before, the result should not have any changes.

For example, the David String was not easy to preserve and usually needed to be stored in a Normal Plane, which required more maintenance costs. But what if the attributes of the storage space itself happened to satisfy its storage conditions?

Next, Xia Duo tried two more times to manufacture Plane Crystals without a Condensation Nucleus. The results were no different from the first time; the moment the embryonic Semi-plane received even a little external force, it instantly collapsed.

This was, of course, not because the Plane Root Xia Duo designed was so ingenious, but because the Plane Crystal that looked like a White Crystal itself was born from the destruction of a plane with very balanced attributes.

If the influence of Negative Energy could be excluded to create a Time Acceleration Semi-plane that could directly accommodate human survival, it would be extremely attractive, even to Xia Duo, who had mastered Time Acceleration methods.

If one forced a split, it might be like the splitting of Spirit Material—it would directly dissipate or trigger an explosion.

The process of Xia Duo personally manufacturing Plane Crystals now could also be considered a verification of this hypothesis.

But because the Plane Crystal could not be split, the Tower of Time's Plane Crystals were limited to their own use. Selling them to others meant they would have none left, which was not worth the loss.

The embryonic Semi-plane had just received external interference when its internal evolution instantly lost balance and then exploded entirely. Moreover, because the evolution time was too short, it had not even been able to form matter inside, just a torrent of elements scattering in all directions.

Of course, this was also because Xia Duo had no way to split the Plane Crystal. Plane Crystals were not easy to split; born from the destruction of a plane, one could imagine how high their resistance to energy and material impact could be.

But Xia Duo believed that the Seven Towers must have mastered the method of splitting Plane Crystals; otherwise, they had to sell a batch every month—where would they get so many "residues" of used Plane Crystals to give us!

It was just a pity that the Seven Towers most likely mastered the means to split Plane Crystals; in other words, the types of Plane Crystals should be very limited. However, in the process of multiple compressions, Xia Duo was not completely without gains; at least he had a little more understanding of the state outside the Plane.

At the same time, he had some ideas on how to unravel space folding from the inside, which might be helpful for him to quietly enter the space fold in the Arctic that was suspected to be Feres Fortress.

These were just two on-site cases. Besides that, special plane attributes could also be used to manufacture new materials, cultivate new crops, etc. The application scenarios were extremely rich.

Especially for the Seven Towers, who had not mastered Time Acceleration methods, it was even more irreplaceable.

Actually, it was also because of this White Crystal that Xia Duo thought it was very likely that the Seven Towers had mastered a more mature artificial Plane Crystal technology, because Semi-planes with balanced attributes were the easiest to manufacture.

This time, because the degree of attention was different, Xia Duo did not go to do other things during the evolution process of the Semi-plane, but stared at it the whole time. For several hours in a row, no accidents occurred.

From this perspective, acquiring Plane Crystals would become a fixed plan for the Tower of Time now and in the future. Of course, after acquiring and analyzing them, they could be sold again.

"Still have to try using a Condensation Nucleus!"

Could that maximum storage cost be ignored as zero?

Besides that, each Plane Crystal could actually be regarded as a relatively mature Plane Root scheme! By analyzing the Plane Crystal, one could derive their corresponding original Plane Root state. Afterward, even without using the Plane Crystal, one could manufacture corresponding Semi-planes or even Planes.

The probability of a Plane forming might be much higher than designing a Plane Root by oneself!

Xia Duo, who previously had a large amount of experience with Semi-plane experiments, knew very well the difficulty of a Semi-plane forming. If it were not for manufacturing Plane Crystals, perhaps one could manufacture Semi-planes, or even Normal Planes, by burying Plane Crystals in advance!

"How cunning, how cunning! No wonder they handed over the craftsmanship for manufacturing Plane Crystals so readily!"

According to the Plane Root specifically designed for this Plane Crystal that looked like a White Crystal, after the World Incubator was started, the initial stage of evolution perfectly met expectations.

But for the moment, he was still more interested in Plane Crystals. Continuing to try a few more times might yield more inspiration on how to quietly enter Feres Fortress.

He could accept the Principles, but in actual operation, it was obviously more convenient not to use a Condensation Nucleus. This was also the technology he hoped to obtain more.

The Plane Root corresponding to the White Crystal-style Plane Crystal was simply easier to manufacture into a Semi-plane than the Plane Roots corresponding to other Plane Crystals!

If one used it as a Condensation Nucleus in this process, made it bigger, and then sold it, perhaps one could even make a small profit!

Relatively speaking, the cost of this kind of Plane Crystal that looked like a White Crystal would also be lower.

"Must I use a Condensation Nucleus?" Xia Duo could not help but ponder deeply.

But in reality, those engaged in plane research had requirements for plane attributes that were by no means limited to balanced items. Besides that, extreme-attribute planes could also be used for some scenarios that were difficult to achieve with conventional means.

While starting the 【World Incubator】, Xia Duo was frantically complaining in his heart. Actually, if it were him, he would also make such restrictions, but when such a thing was encountered by him, he would still feel unhappy.

This was truly surprising!