Translator: AnubisTL
Recalling Black's face on the communication light screen—twisted with excitement before he abruptly disconnected—Jieming smacked his lips with a faint smile.
"What on earth did he go through in that plane?" he muttered. "He looks like he just stumbled upon a mountain of gold."
Black's frantic shopping spree after his return was indeed alarming.
He had rushed to Jieming's door without a moment's delay and, as if liquidating his entire fortune, swept his stock of liquid adamantine clean. Immediately after, he placed orders for over a dozen Mind Barrier Bracers.
It seemed as though he had sold off everything he owned.
When it came time to pay, Jieming discovered that even Black's entire fortune wasn't enough. In the end, Black simply handed over some precious biological samples and unknown materials captured during the Planar War, offering them as collateral at a discounted price.
"Could he be trying to become a middleman?" Jieming wondered, stroking his chin as he speculated on Black's motives. He then shrugged nonchalantly. "Well, let him be. I've made enough profit anyway."
After mastering the core "Elemental Spiritual Energy Transformation Technology," Jieming finally broke free from the constraints of manual labor when refining adamantine. He could now automate the process using various magical formations from the cultivation world.
With the automated refinement process, the cost of liquid adamantine became ridiculously low.
The primary raw material was ordinary gold. Through complex magical formations, it underwent conceptual purification and morphological transformation. The only hard cost was the small amount of military merits spent to purchase the gold.
Even accounting for the massive mass loss during refinement, the total cost to produce a standard "one-year supply" of fluid adamantine for a bracer was less than five military merits!
And what price did he sell it to Black for?
One hundred thousand military merits for a one-year supply!
The profit margin here couldn't even be described as "exorbitant"—it was practically turning lead into gold!
Therefore, Jieming couldn't care less how much Black resold it for.
In fact, if Black truly had the ability to market the "Mind Barrier Bracers" and establish a stable sales channel, Jieming felt he would probably support it with both hands.
After all, this would save him the trouble of developing the market himself.
No longer dwelling on these matters, Jieming's attention was quickly drawn to the two items Black had provided: a detailed record of actual combat data, and a giant beast tissue sample, preserved with spatial compression technology, that emitted eerie spiritual fluctuations.
"Creating hallucinations that can affect reality... Is it a law phenomenon involving the conversion between virtual and real? Interesting. This is an excellent research specimen," Jieming said, his eyes gleaming with keen interest as he gazed at the massive sample.
Consequently, Jieming's research schedule became even more packed over the next few decades.
In addition to his ongoing study of the Incense Divine Path, his analysis of the Divine Power Faith Network, and his struggle to get through that pile of Seventh-Tier Large Elemental Pool User Manuals, two new tasks were added to his to-do list: analyzing the actual combat data provided by Black and conducting an in-depth study of the unique illusion law contained within the giant beast sample.
His research progressed steadily, and another surprise came from Black.
Over the past few decades, this guy had somehow managed to successfully market the Mind Barrier Bracers and their consumable, liquid adamantine.
Moreover, his business was booming, growing larger and larger.
He not only made regular, large-scale purchases but also, with his astonishing business acumen, helped Jieming raise the previously somewhat tight sum of over ten billion military merits in materials for constructing the Incense Divine Path in just a few decades!
This "windfall" greatly accelerated Jieming's plans.
Seeing that the knowledge reserves, technical verification, and resource conditions in all aspects had basically matured, and the mandatory rest period displayed on the magic net terminal had less than two hundred years left, time became urgent.
Jieming no longer hesitated and decided to formally launch the grand plan he had been scheming for a long time—constructing the Incense Divine Path in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane!
The first and most crucial step of the entire project was to install that seventh-tier large elemental pool.
This was an extremely massive and precise engineering project, especially for the current Jieming.
Fortunately, he had never ceased studying the manual for hundreds of years and had long since committed to heart the countless technical details, energy diversion schemes, and safety regulations involved.
Moreover, the construction team he had hired during the fourth phase of the foundational renovation had already reserved all the interfaces and pedestals according to his blueprints.
Even so, it took Jieming a full decade to cautiously complete the docking of the elemental pool's main body, the preliminary connection of the energy circuits, and the engraving and activation of the core control runes.
When the final interface was perfectly sealed, Jieming stood within the control hub located at the plane core's energy node, took a deep breath, and initiated the activation sequence.
Bzzzz!!!
As if a heart had begun to beat again after lying dormant for a trillion years, an indescribably vast wave of energy swept across the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane, with the elemental pool as its epicenter!
Despite the massive energy diversion network constructed during the earlier phases of the project to buffer and distribute the load, the entire plane still trembled visibly.
The earth roared, and the sulfurous clouds in the sky were churned by an invisible force, forming a colossal vortex.
The most immediate changes occurred on the surface.
Countless volcanoes that had been dormant seemed to have been injected with a stimulant, suddenly awakening to erupt with towering columns of smoke and searing lava.
Areas of cooled, solidified black ground were swiftly engulfed by crimson lava surging from below, transforming into churning lava lakes.
Even more stable regions cracked open with massive fissures, spewing forth gouts of earth fire!
The concentration and activity of fire elements throughout the entire plane surged by several orders of magnitude in an instant!
The air grew thick with the scorching scent of sulfur, as if the plane itself were trembling with excitement from the sudden influx of colossal energy.
Fire-type demonic beasts scattered across the land let out a cacophony of roars and shrieks, a mixture of terror and exhilaration.
However, the most profoundly affected was the Black Giant hatchery, Jieming's most prized asset!
Previously, even with the Third Phase Plane Infrastructure Project gathering the entire plane's free-roaming energy, the hatchery's efficiency remained low, requiring a full year to gestate a single Black Giant.
The incubation speed had slowed even further after Jieming performed a fundamental overhaul of the hatchery to enhance the Black Giants' potential and grant them the ability to reproduce.
But when Jieming arrived at the hatchery, he witnessed an utterly staggering sight:
In the center of the hatchery, the Black Giant life core—which previously needed to slowly absorb energy and condense its form—seemed to be infused with surging vitality by an invisible hand the moment the seventh-tier elemental pool's energy was connected!
It expanded violently at a visible rate, its internal structure rapidly reconstructing and taking shape.
Dark-colored liquid metal skin covered it as the massive body quickly outlined a ferocious and powerful silhouette...
In just one minute, a complete Black Giant, radiating third-tier energy fluctuations, abruptly opened its eyes, which burned with dark flames.
With a low roar, it climbed out of the churning energy liquid in the hatchery and prostrated itself respectfully before Jieming!
One minute, one third-tier Black Giant!
Compared to the previous one-year incubation cycle, the efficiency had improved by over five hundred twenty thousand times!
Jieming looked at the powerful newborn Black Giant before him, then felt the pulse of the plane beneath his feet, which seemed to possess infinite power. A smile he could no longer suppress finally appeared on his face.
The energy core was finally in place!
(End of the Chapter)
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