Chapter 2588: The Dawn of Offspring Birth

Xia Duo highly doubted whether the Seven Towers had already mastered such means; after all, the Seven Towers had existed for several hundred years, and even if they had only begun laying the groundwork a hundred years in advance, they could have collected an amount of Plane Crystal almost unimaginable to outsiders.

The only uncertain factor now was how long it would take for a Plane Crystal to enter the Main Plane, and how to control the landing point. As long as these two problems were solved, mass-producing Plane Crystal might be less troublesome than the crystallization method.

Xia Duo had indeed left some experimental equipment in the Semi-plane previously, but that was to obtain experimental data; if he had simply wanted to destroy the Semi-plane through such a method, he could have completely evacuated in advance.

Or he wouldn't even need to go to the Semi-plane at all, but instead constrain the Semi-plane from the Main Plane to "impact" it over.

Even some useless small Planes could be slowly pulled to "impact" the Main Plane in this way; this might be the only feasible method to produce Plane Crystal using normal Planes!

Otherwise, to obtain Plane Crystal born from the destruction of a normal Plane, one could only rely on luck—that a Plane just happened to be destroyed near the Main Plane, that it just happened to produce a Plane Crystal, and that the Plane Crystal just happened to drift into the Main Plane.

This situation was not entirely impossible, but the probability was too low, and the time span was also very large; this was the main reason why Xia Duo believed the quantity of non-man-made Plane Crystal in the Main Plane was limited.

The past history of the Main Plane was limited; while there might have been quite a few Plane Crystals that drifted into the Main Plane during this time, that was all an accumulation of time.

Starting from the current time node, it was unknown how long it would take to wait for a new non-man-made Plane Crystal!

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If the Seven Towers truly mastered such a Plane Impact Method, then they had more than one trick up their sleeve; it must involve how to constrain the Plane Barrier, otherwise, it would be difficult to break through the repulsion limit between Planes.

And this also meant that the Seven Towers had deep research in the Plane Domain, completely exceeding the understanding Xia Duo had before discovering the Arctic Magic Trace.

If it weren't for searching for the Dragon Madness Mythallar Control Center, Xia Duo likely would not have specifically gone to the Arctic to explore; the last time he went to the Arctic was also just a casual look during his travels.

Who would inexplicably run to a godforsaken place, go hundreds of meters deep into the Surface to look for something, yet Xia Duo just went like that.

Perhaps this was the reward he deserved for his concern for the safety of the Main Plane!

Of course, how much he could harvest would still require him to explore it bit by bit himself.

If not for this Arctic exploration, Xia Duo would not have discovered the magic traces there, would not have discovered the existence of the suspected Folded Space, would not have discovered the method to constrain the Plane Barrier, and even less would he have discovered that Plane Crystal could actually be manufactured this way.

Even the various speculations regarding navigation in the Ether Interlayer would not exist!

Such speculation was not a fantasy conjured out of thin air, but a rational inference based on facts; in fact, it was precisely because of this Arctic discovery that Xia Duo realized many of his previous conjectures were wrong.

Either factual errors or directional errors.

Once such errors were allowed to continue, wasting resources in the future was a minor matter, but if it slowed down the development speed of the Territory and the Tower of Time, that would be truly regrettable.

Of course, the development of Magic itself was a process of constant trial and error, and Xia Duo was willing to bear the cost of trial and error, but if he could discover errors in advance, wouldn't that be better?

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Afterward, Xia Duo continued to organize and analyze the space-time state data collected during the experiment, and soon reached a conclusion almost identical to the previous one—

There indeed existed a Folded Space behind that magic trace in the Arctic, and he had also achieved a certain degree of Positioning for its spatial location.

Next, he could conduct precise Scrying on that space; as long as he confirmed there was no special Protection, he could use an avatar to go inside and explore.

"Without realizing it, it's been almost a month!"

Xia Duo came to the Detection Laboratory, and while debugging the equipment, he sighed; if he were to use Niya's words, he had been living in a daze during this period.

Of course, this was all an appearance; it was mainly because he had retained enough consciousness for Spellcasting even within his avatar, and in the past half-month or so, he had already established a relatively large range of concealment and Protection Magic on the periphery of that magic trace.

This was to avoid any sudden changes during the subsequent process of exploring the Folded Space, although his exploration would not go through the Node at the Arctic Magic Trace, but rather sneak over directly.

But being careful and cautious could never be wrong.

In addition to the Arctic exploration and the Semi-plane experiment, Xia Duo had also made some progress in his research on his own bloodline over the past half-month.

The portion of bloodline essence he had preserved and placed in the Blue Crystal Plane through special means showed a relatively obvious decrease in activity, and it was a decrease in activity at the consciousness level, not the physiological level.

The latter was a necessary condition for combining with female bloodline essence, while the former was the main factor preventing the combination.

After multiple Bloodline Awakening sessions, Xia Duo's current body was closer to the legendary "Drop of Blood Rebirth" state; any tissue contained a certain amount of consciousness information, and this, of course, included the bloodline essence.

If he and Niya had married early and shared a bed early, perhaps they would have had children long ago.

It was a pity that before his Bloodline Awakening, Aipusi wouldn't have looked at him at all, and in that state, it was impossible for him to accept Niya, unless Niya used force, but how could that be possible?

According to the current rate of consciousness activity decay, it would take about two or three years to fade away that residual peak consciousness information, but unfortunately—

As long as Xia Duo approached that portion of bloodline essence, the progress of the consciousness activity decay would rapidly recover, which was something he only discovered when he checked it.

In other words, the month of accumulation that portion of bloodline essence had previously undergone was wasted, and he had to start all over again.

What was more troublesome was that the consciousness information in the bloodline essence could only be checked when Xia Duo himself approached it, but checking it meant starting over again.

He could only wait for enough time to check it; if he found the consciousness activity was extremely low, low to almost zero, then he could derive a relatively accurate consciousness activity decay time.

Then do it again, leave it for a longer time, and perhaps it would work.

In this way, another trouble arose: until Niya was confirmed to be pregnant and the fetus was stable, Xia Duo could not appear near Niya; otherwise, not being able to conceive was a small matter, but if what was born was his clone, that would be ridiculous.

Fortunately, there were many Magic means in this world, so even if he didn't get close for a period of time, it didn't mean there was no contact or interaction at all.

However, Xia Duo did not plan to tell Niya this news for the time being, but was prepared to wait until he determined the time for the consciousness activity in the bloodline essence to completely decay before telling her, giving her a definite result.

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Soon, the equipment in the Laboratory was debugged, and Xia Duo, with a slightly excited mood, locked onto the approximate location of the Folded Space and then activated the Detection Array.