Chapter 2730: Divine Water Pearl

After putting away the Sunlight Divine Water, Xia Duo controlled the Floating City to jump to an extremely high altitude. He felt that since the refining of the Dark Treasure Mirror could be done on the surface, it might be even more effective if done at a high altitude.

That was what he thought, and he was prepared to try it out.

Aside from the Three Lights Illumination, refining the treasure mirror was different from the conventional conversion of divine water; it also required placing the mirror into water. Therefore, before leaving the Laboratory, he specifically crafted a glass container.

Compared to a normal container, it just had an extra stand inside to support the treasure mirror facing upward.

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Xia Duo took out a lounge chair and sat down on the balcony. Looking at the completely pure and clear sky above his head, his mood became more relaxed.

Now everything was ready, all that was missing was the timing for the Three Lights Illumination. At the moment, the sunset was gradually sinking, the moon had just risen, and the stars were flickering in and out of view.

But after yesterday's attempt, Xia Duo knew that Three Lights Illumination did not just require the presence of the three lights, but a specific ratio of the three lights. A single experiment could not determine the exact amount, let alone the fact that he hadn't considered this at all yesterday.

Today he considered it, but didn't do it, mainly because he felt that there might not be a very strong correlation between the three lights shining on the mirror's surface from the outside and the three-light parameters the mirror required.

Once the treasure mirror was finished refining, if nothing went wrong, it should be able to directly convert that bead-like divine water. At that time, he could study it specifically just like he studied the Jade Tablet; there was no rush for this moment.

Because he had limited understanding of that Dark Treasure Mirror, Xia Duo was also unsure what today's refining progress was like compared to yesterday's, but if one looked at the quantity of the by-product produced by the refining—the Three-Light Divine Water pearls—today's progress should be three times that of yesterday's.

Similar to by-products in chemical reactions, they do not necessarily accelerate the reaction, and are more likely to lower the reaction rate.

Xia Duo speculated that the Three-Light Divine Water pearls might be a by-product of the Dark Treasure Mirror's refining process. It was just that this kind of by-product had positive effects on the human body, but it might play a negative role in the refining process itself.

When he put the pearl into the reagent bottle, he could clearly hear a sound similar to a metal ball colliding with glass—crisp, forceful, and even vibrating the bottle wall to produce a faint echo!

Besides the influence of the extremely high-altitude environment on the mirror's refining, Xia Duo speculated that the body of water the mirror resided in also had an impact. Yesterday, at the Elemental Fountain, he hadn't had time to collect the Three-Light Divine Water pearls, which led to the pearls dissolving into the water.

"Then why is it three times?"

Within this range, there actually didn't exist any sun, moon, or stars, but people within the Plane could still see the sun and moon in the sky; it could only be explained by projections.

Of course, Xia Duo understood that the so-called "Plane Barrier" was not actually some specific substance or energy, but the boundary between existence and non-existence inside and outside the Plane; it was nothing other than the Ether Interlayer.

"It really is a pearl!"

Following that, the light emanating from the treasure mirror had not yet dissipated, indicating that the refining process had not yet ended. This was different from yesterday; yesterday the mirror's light only lasted for a short while, and more time was actually spent waiting.

The Tower of Time had currently started the moon exploration project, used to find the real moon. At present, this project was in close preparation, and it could officially begin once the training for the Second-stage Quasi-low-level Mage was completed.

But today, the light still existed. However, Xia Duo looked up at the west; the afterglow of the sunset was becoming thinner and thinner. Three Lights Illumination should at least have the three lights!

If Xia Duo's guess was correct, then the true purpose of this Dark Treasure Mirror might not be to convert divine water, but something else, and the Three-Light Divine Water was just produced in the process of doing other things.

Xia Duo speculated that it might be related to the extremely high-altitude environment. Although the three lights came from the projections of the sun, moon, and stars, they did not exist uniformly everywhere inside the Plane.

Afterwards, the mirror's light converged, the Magic Net's vibrations also subsided, and the spatial changes seemed as if they had never appeared.

As for now, he would still stick with the mainstream sun, moon, and star hypothesis.

However, with yesterday's experience, Xia Duo also understood that although this pearl looked like metal, it was actually extremely easily soluble in water. If he had collected it a few seconds later today, he might not have been able to collect it at all.

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However, before the sunlight completely disappeared, two pearls appeared one after another above the treasure mirror. Xia Duo collected them one by one and placed them into separate unused reagent bottles.

During the transfer process, Xia Duo operated using the Transmutation spell 【Mage Hand】. The moment the spell acted on the bead, he realized that this pearl was not a liquid gathered by some force, but a peculiar kind of solid.

Today, during the treasure mirror's refining process, one pearl was produced, and he immediately collected it to ensure the refining environment remained consistent with the initial state, and thus three pearls were produced.

In just a moment, a transparent bead that looked like it was crafted from Mithril appeared about two inches above the mirror's surface. This time was different from yesterday; Xia Duo had been prepared long ago.

Xia Duo believed that in the near future, the Tower of Time would definitely be able to figure out the true secret of the moon, and afterwards, the doors to other stars and even the sun might open to him.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, an anomaly similar to yesterday's appeared around the treasure mirror. Not only was there visible light emanating, but there were also unknown spatial changes caused by the fluctuations of the Magic Net.

The Elemental Fountain side was close to pure water, and Xia Duo also used pure water today.

Although the treasure mirror's refining process was not a chemical experiment, the logic was similar: in most cases, the initial conditions were already the optimal conditions.

For the time being, this was just a hypothesis.

As soon as that pearl appeared, Xia Duo cast a spell to transfer it out of the water. This time, although the refining was not taking place in open water and there was no need to worry about leakage even if the pearl dissolved into the water, the pearl dissolving into water was ultimately not as attractive to Xia Duo as the pearl itself.

This kind of defect might not be discovered through short-term or small-quantity use, but might only manifest after long-term use. If that were the case, then this kind of Three-Light Divine Water might not be worth popularizing.

The lighting conditions at extremely high altitudes were clearly superior to the surface. From past practical experience, the three lights of the sun, moon, and stars were more like light emitted by the Plane Barrier, which then shone onto the surface.

And the initial conditions for the treasure mirror's refining included water. Although it didn't mention specifically what kind of water to use, he thought that if some special water were needed, it would have been specifically mentioned; not mentioning it meant it was likely the most common water.

It was just like a car starting and producing exhaust fumes, only Three-Light Divine Water and car exhaust were different; at least for now, it appeared to be harmless and beneficial to the human body.

Moreover, judging from the output, Three-Light Divine Water was not that easy to obtain. Even if there were ways to produce it outside of the treasure mirror, the threshold was likely not low.

Previously in the Projection Plane, although Nuode did not say whether Three-Light Divine Water was popularized in the Eastern World, since the Dark Treasure Mirror was so precious (a palace treasure), Three-Light Divine Water likely wasn't that popularized either.

However, after having this hypothesis, Xia Duo also wondered whether Three-Light Divine Water possessed some as-yet-undiscovered defects?