Chapter 767: Plane Search Principles, Organizing Data

After continuing to observe for a while, upon noticing that the Arcane Energy remaining in his Arcane Fire had fallen to the warning line, Xia Duo timely disconnected from the Semi-plane Magic Net.

If he continued to consume it like this, his Arcane Fire would soon be unable to sustain itself, even though Xia Duo always kept a few Arcane Crystals on him to handle special situations.

But clearly, using them here was not worth it.

There is one drawback to being an Arcanist: before becoming a Great Arcanist, unless the Arcane Fire is linked to the Magic Net to obtain energy directly, it must use Arcane Energy to maintain its existence.

Once it loses the energy that sustains it, the structure of the Arcane Fire itself will collapse.

Fortunately, maintaining the existence of the Arcane Fire does not require much energy, but in this structurally deficient Semi-plane, Xia Duo did not want to risk obtaining energy from the Magic Net, and his own Arcane Energy had been mostly consumed by observing the plane structure.

Now, he could only exit early.

……

Passing through the Semi-plane portal again, Xia Duo returned to the Preparation Teleportation Hall of the Tower of Time's Plane Exploration Layer, linked his Arcane Fire to the Magic Net, and seeing Arcane Energy continuously generating from the Arcane Fire, he nodded in satisfaction.

The feeling of "freeloading" off the Magic Net at such moments is truly great!

Next, Xia Duo turned off the Portal and walked over to the Operation Room not far from the Preparation Teleportation Hall; this place was specifically for Plane Scholars to conduct plane searches.

The Operation Room is somewhat similar to an office, and in reality, it is indeed very similar, containing four sets of desks and chairs for Plane Scholars to use.

Of course, these four sets of desks and chairs have no direct effect on Plane Exploration; they are just very ordinary desks and chairs.

Once a Plane Scholar enters the Operation Room, they can directly summon the Tower Spirit to project search results, subsequently analyze the results, and reset search parameters to conduct active searches.

As for the use of the desks and chairs, it is merely to facilitate the Plane Scholar sitting down and recording some necessary information; even if they were all removed, it would have little impact on the Operation Room.

Xia Duo casually found a seat and sat down, first letting the Tower Spirit project the results of the signals detected passively recently.

Almost the instant he issued the command, the interior of the Operation Room seemed to suddenly enter a sci-fi scene, as a large number of projected images marked with simplified Arcane Geometry Diagrams began to scroll continuously.

Some of the symbols converged into clusters, forming very clear boundaries with other clusters; these were the different signal results.

Xia Duo had just experienced the initial construction of a knowledge system related to plane signals in the Semi-plane, and now, looking at these symbol clusters again, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Of course, interpreting them is still not very easy.

After all, Xia Duo only understood a portion of the Arcane Geometry symbols transformed from "certain characteristics projected in space-time by planes determined by plane structure."

But conversely, trying to analyze what characteristics they represent from the symbols is very difficult.

This is like analyzing the sound waves of a specific target from a large amount of noise.

It requires both theoretical support (that is, the big data of the aforementioned characteristics corresponding to symbols) and a large amount of practical experience; Xia Duo currently lacks both.

However, he believes he will be able to catch up soon!

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This time, Xia Duo did not directly start an active search; after all, this is a very energy-consuming operation, and he had already had his fill of it some time ago—once the novelty wore off, it was just like that.

It is nothing more than using the Plane Exploration Array to actively project a Perception Field into a specific interval of the Ether Interlayer, importing the results into the Exploration Array, and converting them into visual graphics.

If one has deep attainments in the Plane Domain, then projecting one's own Perception directly might be more effective.

Xia Duo had previously tried projecting his own Perception out, but the problem is that the Ether Interlayer is different from normal space; there are only concepts of space-time and elements there, with absolutely nothing he is familiar with.

Just as a two-dimensional being cannot understand three dimensions, living in normal space, it is also very difficult for him to understand what the Ether Interlayer looks like.

As for analysis, that is even less feasible; he is basically in a state of being completely bewildered.

Only by converting the detection results into Arcane Geometry Diagrams that he can understand through the Tower of Time's Plane Exploration Array can there be subsequent analysis and research.

And so-called passive searching is actually just projecting a Perception Field into the Ether Interlayer at a fixed point, similar to casting a net into the sea at random; it is best if one can catch fish, but usually, there is not even a hair to be found.

Active searching is similar to first analyzing where the fish are and then casting the net in a targeted manner; although it cannot guarantee there are definitely fish, at least the probability of catching fish is higher than casting a net at random.

Of course, the actual situation is even more complex; because the Ether Plane is different from normal space-time, searching for a plane signal does not mean a new plane has been found.

The plane signal searched for the first time is just a signal, and it must undergo secondary processing to resolve a possible Plane Coordinate.

Afterward, a second (active) search must be conducted to confirm that it is a real plane.

(If the Exploration Array passively detects a signal that matches plane characteristics, the Exploration Array will automatically resolve it and automatically perform a secondary search; only if it is confirmed to be a new plane will it provide feedback to the Tower Spirit.)

This is like sky surveys on Earth—

Like a probe on Mars, the Proxima Centauri signal it detects is actually an expired signal; if one simply assumes that Proxima Centauri is at the position shown by that signal, there will be some error.

Because signal transmission requires time, one needs to extrapolate forward by about 4 years to find Proxima Centauri's true position at this moment.

Plane exploration in the magic world also has a similar phenomenon of expired signals, only it is not an expiration in terms of time, but an expiration at the space-time level, which makes the situation even more complex.

In fact, Xia Duo has already discovered many signals with suspected plane characteristics, but they were all eventually excluded by the Plane Exploration Array.

However, there is a problem here: could the Plane Exploration Array itself be wrong?

Or, due to problems like backward technology, could valid plane signals have been missed?

While thinking about this question, Xia Duo did not forget to organize all the results searched, or rather detected, since the Plane Exploration Array was activated.

From the moment the Plane Exploration Array was completed, it was fixed; it only analyzes and processes according to fixed settings, but people are different.

A person's memory and cognition are constantly updating, and the most critical thing is that people have initiative, which is the source of inspiration and innovation.

Xia Duo prepared to analyze all these detection results, find the signals suspected to be planes, and then conduct a re-examination through active searching.

This work seems tedious, but as long as one new plane can be found, it is all worth it!

Since he has already chosen to make the Plane Domain his main research direction for the future, he will start with this basic work!

Of course, as a man with the ability of Memory Retrospection, Xia Duo can have more room for choice outside of the Plane Domain.