Translator: AnubisTL
One of the most immediate and reassuring benefits of the Nascent Soul Realm was that his lifespan had, theoretically, become infinite!
For any cultivator, this was a milestone enough to spark wild joy and shake one's Dao Heart.
But in Jieming's heart, this joy was swiftly replaced by an even more urgent goal—advancement to a Third-Tier Wizard!
The breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm was not just a leap on the immortal cultivation path; it had also completed the final and most critical piece of his puzzle.
A knowing smile played on his lips as he left the secret chamber, where the lingering spiritual qi had not yet fully dissipated, and returned to his core laboratory, a place filled with the shimmering light of runes and precision instruments.
It's time to assess the current situation and plan the path forward.
The core requirements for advancement to a Third-Tier Wizard were twofold: first, one's mental power had to meet the standard; second, one had to achieve a 0.1% mastery of a specific "Law."
As for mental power, Jieming had long since tempered his to be smooth and solid, far surpassing those of his peers. That was no problem.
The true key lay in the choice and mastery of a "Law."
Choosing which Law to use as the foundation for one's Ring of Truth was a decision that almost every wizard aspiring to high tiers had to make with utmost caution.
It determined the breadth and potential of their future path.
Jieming had pondered this question countless times back in his days as a wizard apprentice, but his limited knowledge and narrow horizons had always left him without a clear answer.
As he gained access to higher-level information, the importance of his initial choice became even more apparent. He learned that advancing from the sixth to the seventh tier required "deepening" or "expanding" one's law, while the leap from the seventh to the eighth tier demanded "fixing" that law—a process that would warp the corresponding laws of the plane he inhabited.
The "fixing" at the eighth tier was fundamentally different from the "law solidification" at the sixth.
At the sixth tier, law solidification merely ensured that a wizard's mastered law remained stable across different planes, unaffected by local subtleties.
At the eighth tier, however, a wizard would forcibly warp the relevant laws of their current plane, compelling the entire plane's laws to conform to the "shape" of their own!
This was a power so immense it bordered on rewriting the underlying rules of existence.
This also explained why advancing from the seventh to the eighth tier was so excruciatingly difficult. The "deepening" and "expanding" of a law at the sixth tier made it increasingly complex and infused with the wizard's own unique essence. Consequently, "fixing" such a law at the eighth tier became exponentially more challenging.
Theoretically, the ideal law should possess both "uniqueness" and "expandability."
It sounded contradictory, but Jieming had found the perfect answer.
The Law he had chosen to research and rely on for his advancement was—Spiritual Qi!
Spiritual Qi was the fundamental rule of the cultivation civilization's system, one of the primordial sources that formed the foundation of all magic. Its inherent potential for change and derivation was nearly infinite, making its extensibility unquestionable.
At the same time, in the wizard world, Spiritual Qi was not a naturally occurring constant. This gave the "Spiritual Qi Law" absolute uniqueness in this realm!
As for the issue that the wizard world itself lacked a Spiritual Qi Law...
What wizards called a "Law" was not a specific type of energy, but rather a highly summarized and knowledge-based application of the internal rules of a certain object or phenomenon in the universe. As long as he could understand and master its rules, he could make any Law his own, regardless of its origin.
With the goal set, the method became the key.
Researching a Law that "did not exist" locally was naturally not like studying the fire element or gravity. He couldn't directly collect data from the natural environment or use the plane origin to accelerate the process.
He could only rely on the most primitive method—constructing his own research environment, collecting data, and summarizing the rules.
Therefore, a high-quality research apparatus or environment was crucial.
Initially, Jieming only planned to build a private laboratory, where he would conduct small-scale research on converting elements into spiritual power.
But after passing the Elite Trial and claiming the entire "Purgatory Sulfur Plane" for himself, a far more ambitious blueprint unfolded in his mind.
He would use this entire plane as the foundation for his path to Dao!
Through continuous refinement, a mad and daring plan gradually took shape and perfected itself in his mind.
What was the point of a small laboratory?
He would turn the entire plane into his own laboratory!
The core of the entire plan could be summarized as: constructing the "Incense Divine Path" within the Purgatory Sulfur Plane!
He would use the Purgatory Sulfur Plane as the material foundation, the Incense Divine Path technology from the Great Dao Library Pavilion as the core framework, and the "element-to-spiritual power transformation technology" he had already mastered and continuously optimized as a supplement.
Now, all the fragmented pieces had been gathered.
The Purgatory Sulfur Plane, the Divine Power Faith Network, the Incense Divine Path technology, the element-to-spiritual power transformation technology obtained through refining the Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier and modifying the body tempering method, as well as his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation and a vast amount of military merits as resources.
Jieming confirmed that he was fully capable of gradually and completely transforming the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's originally violent fire element into pure spiritual energy!
When the time came, he would possess a world-scale law laboratory!
He could observe the generation, flow, and interaction of spiritual energy with the plane itself on a macroscopic scale to collect massive amounts of data, thereby rapidly advancing his mastery of the "Spiritual Qi Law."
The Purgatory Sulfur Plane belonged to the Noren Plane Cluster No. 147. Within this cluster, a naturally formed "Divine Power Faith Network" already existed.
Jieming's years of dedicated research into the Divine Power Faith Network were fundamentally aimed at analyzing its operational mechanism and modifying it, grafting it into the "Incense Divine Path" system that conformed to the standards of a cultivation civilization!
Now, having attained the Nascent Soul Realm, he possessed the preliminary power to construct and guide the Incense Divine Path.
With the detailed technical knowledge from the Great Dao Library Pavilion, he was already capable of establishing an initial Incense Divine Path in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
Of course, completing the entire plane's transformation project independently was nearly an impossible dream.
But Jieming had never intended to fight this battle alone.
Just as he had done with the third phase of the plane's basic infrastructure project, he could outsource all non-core, standardized construction tasks to the professional plane construction teams under the Noren Workshop. He himself would focus on the construction and debugging of the most core and critical components.
He accessed his Military Merit Account and checked the balance.
Although he had spent a fortune over the years expanding his internal space, purchasing plane origins, and sustaining various money-draining research projects, he had quietly accumulated over ten billion military merits thanks to the continuous patent royalties from the [Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol]!
This massive sum was enough to hire a top-rank construction team for the fourth phase of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's transformation.
What he needed to do now was to leverage his deep understanding of the Divine Power Faith Network and the Incense Divine Path to precisely plan the areas, nodes, and energy conduits that required modification, and then draft a detailed engineering blueprint.
Technically, he had studied this for centuries and felt confident.
The true difficulty, however, lay elsewhere.
Jieming's gaze fell on the nearby Seventh-Tier Large Elemental Pool User Manual, which was as thick as a city wall brick. He sighed helplessly.
(End of the Chapter)
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