chsdbacks Chapter 725 Unexpected Gains
Chapter 725 Unexpected Gains
Just as he was about to immerse his mental energy into the theoretical framework of the reflected dimensions projected by the Five Elements Rainbow Mirror, Jieming suddenly paused. He shifted his attention from the pale blue light screen in front of him and slowly turned it into his inner sanctum.
After so many years of natural growth, the cave space has expanded to a considerable size.
Mountains and rivers stretch out in all directions, mineral veins and spiritual plants stand in separate areas, and several automated factories and the backup production lines of the Black Giant Incubation Pool are also located in different areas. The entire cave is well-ordered and has become a small world of its own.
In the most secluded corner of the cave, he saw the group of dragon people that he had casually thrown in earlier.
It was indeed "tossed in casually".
At that time, the old dragonman activated his ultimate technique, and red light surged from the ground. He casually used spatial teleportation to take all the dragonmen in the town with him. Later, after the battle ended, he was in a hurry to analyze the structure of the laws of the source, so he completely forgot about these dragonmen in his inner world.
They are now huddled behind a makeshift windbreak made of rubble.
The adult dragonmen surrounded the cubs, their wings overlapping to create a rough shelter.
Hundreds of vertical pupils stared blankly into the dim light at the incomprehensible light source above the cave, their eyes filled with bewilderment and fear. They had no idea where they were.
I don't know what happened.
All they knew was that the ground beneath their feet suddenly disappeared, and then they found themselves here.
Seeing this, Jemin fell silent.
"Uh... what's this? An unexpected bonus?"
After only a moment's thought, Jemin decisively decided to provoke these dragonmen.
The number of dragon people is not small. Although it cannot be compared with the scale of the Tentacle Tree Civilization, which has hundreds of billions of people, dragon people have long lifespans and strong individual strength. Adult dragon people can generally reach level three or four, and those with high bloodline concentration can even touch the threshold of level six.
Moreover, they had lived under the rule of the Broadleaf Wizards for hundreds of years and had at least adapted to the most basic rules of civilized races.
It would be a real shame not to use it.
Jemin casually activated the sound transmission array in the laboratory, summoning the nearest black giant priest.
Soon, several black giant priests who were specifically responsible for coordinating internal affairs within the plane arrived hastily.
The black giant's chest was slightly open, with dark gold patterns evenly distributed on both sides of its body. It walked with much lighter steps than ordinary black giants, clearly more skilled in administration and command than in pure combat.
"Go find an area to settle a group of new dragon people." Jemin raised his hand and drew a light screen in the void, synchronizing the number of dragon people in his inner world with their approximate physiological parameters. "The environmental modification should be done according to the standards of the dragon people's plane. The atmospheric composition, gravity, and light cycle all need to be adjusted. They are currently in my inner world. I will teleport them directly to the settlement area you designate in a moment."
Several black giant priests bowed to receive the order, their chests slightly open, and a deep vibration sound followed.
What is the administrative affiliation and level of authority of the resettlement area?
"Tentatively, they are classified as the second tier of servant races, on par with the Tentacle Trees." After a slight pause, Jemin added, "The specific long-term management will be handled by the android administrative network. You should first set up the infrastructure."
At this point, Jemin considered the current situation and continued:
"Their previous living quarters were destroyed, so they may be a little panicked. The first batch of supplies will be distributed according to the new containment standards."
The priest nodded in agreement and turned to make the arrangements with the others.
After settling the matter of where the dragonmen went, Jemin looked at the only black giant priest who remained.
He stayed here at Jemin's request.
In the corner, the activated test tube sat on the black giant priest's shoulder.
Its quartz tube has several decorative patterns carved with alchemy, which were probably added by the priest.
Seeing Jemin enter, it immediately jumped off the priest's shoulder, trotted to the edge of the work area, and waved at him with its tube raised. This time, it didn't hit him.
Jemin glanced down at it, then looked at the black giant priest.
The priest's chest opened slightly, and a deep, vibrating sound followed:
"After you left, it came looking for me on its own. After waiting for a few days and not seeing me, it started dismantling the lab door. After dismantling the door, it started dismantling the culture tanks. I had no choice but to take it with me."
Under Jemin's interested gaze, the black giant priest thought for a moment, then continued to describe the changes that had occurred during this period:
"It has learned to operate the printer. It can print food and test tube racks."
"However, it can't print test tubes... It tried, and even practiced on itself for a long time, but finally gave up."
The activated test tube seemed to understand the words "printer" and "test tube" from the priest's vibration frequency. It immediately straightened its quartz tube, crossed its arms in front of its chest, and struck a rather smug pose.
As Jieming looked at it, he quickly retrieved the previously prepared improvement plan for the temporary initiation technique from his mental sea.
The observations over this period have yielded a considerable amount of new data.
He took the test tube from the priest and put it on his work.
The test tube moved two steps on the surface and looked up at him.
Jemin reached out and pressed down on its slightly swaying tube, then activated his True Illusion-Breaking Eyes to scan it.
The information annotation has two more lines than before: an assessment of the stability of the activated state and a curve of consciousness complexity.
The effect decay rate of the Initiation Technique is zero.
The effect of the enchantment didn't decrease, but it also didn't seem to increase?
But their intelligence visibly improved...
Jemin quickly finished writing in his lab log and then put the test tube back into the priest's hand.
The test tube immediately climbed up the priest's arm and onto his shoulder, finding a comfortable spot to sit, its two slender legs dangling in the air. After letting the black giant priest leave and continuing to record the test tube's condition, Jemin finally returned his attention to his mental sea.
The jumbled knowledge passively injected from the collision with the Dragon's Head of the Source had now been automatically organized by the Entropy Brain's talent. The fragmented information from the Source had been divided into several clear categories.
The largest portion of this knowledge concerns dragon bloodline runes.
This is the underlying technology used when the Dragon People were created, and it is also the fundamental principle behind a series of physiological characteristics of the Dragon People, such as bloodline concentration, wing shape, scale color, and bloodline inheritance memory.
These runes are essentially a system inscribed with laws carried by biological carriers.
Through this, Shuoyuan passed on a portion of his abilities to his descendants via bloodline, allowing them to activate corresponding abilities when certain conditions are met. Jieming extracted this knowledge and labeled it within his mental sea.
Once the dragon people are settled, we can try using these runes to optimize their bloodline stability and fertility rate.
Kuoye once said that the birth rate of the dragon people was worrying.
The complete set of dragon bloodline runes that he currently possesses can theoretically solve this problem at the level of laws.
Of course, that happened later.
He pulled himself out of his thoughts and focused his attention on the reflected dimensional knowledge screen projected by the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror.
The amber-colored recording crystal that Kuoye gave him had been fully read, its contents neatly divided into three modules, arranged on the light screen. This was part of the standardized construction and closure technology of dimensional channels.
The basic principles of dimensional sealing techniques.
The basic theoretical framework of reflection dimension.
Jemin first laid out the basic theoretical framework.
The reflection dimension is not a separate world, but rather a co-existing dimension of the main world.
The relationship between the two is like that of light and shadow.
Every conscious being in the main world has a corresponding projection of its mental activity in the reflection dimension.
These projections intertwine, collide, and merge, forming an extremely complex dynamic structure.
Under certain extreme conditions… such as when a vast number of beings experience the same extreme emotion at the same time, or when an extremely powerful individual projects all of their will, these projected structures acquire a form of autonomous consciousness, ultimately forming true reflection-dimensional beings. Ordinary mental activities, such as daily joys and sorrows, and scattered fragments of thought, are merely basic nourishment for them.
The will to survive contained within vitality is a kind of purer spiritual energy.
For them, it was both a tonic and a poison.
Supplements are effective because of their high concentration.
Poison, on the other hand, is used because when the life forces from different sources are mixed together, they create extremely chaotic interference, causing immense suffering to their sensory systems.
This is why, back in the Tentacle Tree dimension, the chaotic life force he simulated to absorb signals caused the creature in the reflection dimension to react defensively.
Jieming spent several days thoroughly reviewing the basic theoretical framework before moving on to the techniques for constructing and closing dimensional channels. This part is the most practical content in the knowledge module provided by Kuoye.
Standardized construction technology allows him to no longer rely on the crude judgment techniques extracted from the memories of the iron-gray dragon people, but instead directly use the standardized methods optimized and iterated by the wizard civilization over thousands of years to construct dimensional channels.
The stability of the channel, the opening duration, the opening size, and the energy supply—each parameter has a precise control formula.
The shut-down technology, on the other hand, is a countermeasure specifically designed to target enemy dimensional channels.
By injecting modulated law interference frequencies into the channel, the pressure balance between the two dimensions is disrupted, causing the channel to collapse from the inside. The basic principles of dimensional sealing techniques are more complex than he had anticipated.
The technique Silas demonstrated in the Tentacle Tree plane, sealing dimensional ripples into spheres, is merely the most basic single-point sealing technique within dimensional sealing magic. Above that, there is area sealing, which can reinforce all the weak points in a space's dimensions; and dimensional stripping, which can directly sever a small piece of space that has been contaminated by the reflected dimension from the main world.
Of course, given that Jemin has not yet obtained the Law Solidification Domain that meets the standards of a Level 6 Wizard, he can probably only truly master the first half of the Single Point Seal.
But the underlying principles are there.
Once he completes the solidification of the laws, the subsequent content can be directly connected.
After an unknown amount of time, as he closed the last knowledge module, a learning progress report automatically generated by Entropy Brain popped into his mind. The completion rate of all three modules had reached the upper limit of the expected value.