chsdbacks Chapter 711 New Spells and Departure
Chapter 711 New Spells and Departure
Jemin’s consciousness slowly solidified into a physical form in front of the Great Dao Library.
He raised his hand and pushed open the white jade door.
Behind the door lay an almost endless sea of books, with shelves stretching upwards like mountains, disappearing into a dark depths where the ceiling was invisible. The existence of the creatures in the Reflection Dimension was beyond the reach of conventional perception; even the All-Seeing Eye could not truly detect their presence.
He survived the previous encounter by enduring the physical damage through his body tempering technique; and he barely managed to kill the final monster by absorbing signals using simulated life force and combining it with Viola's Law of Pain.
That level of response is far from sufficient.
Furthermore, the interdimensional war he is about to face is also related to the Reflection Dimension. Although theoretically only a group of lucky subordinate races who have obtained relevant knowledge are participating, it may be too late if something happens.
Therefore, Jemin knew very well that he needed a way to truly perceive the dimension of reflections.
Jemin's consciousness quickly organized the selection criteria he needed: usable at the Dao Integration Realm or above, perception-type spells, preferably able to cross dimensional barriers, or at least able to analyze unconventional forms of existence.
A large number of jade slips flew out from the Great Dao Library. Each jade slip lit up one after another when touched by his consciousness, and then quickly went out.
"The Eye of Heaven"... is biased towards farsightedness and the ability to penetrate obstacles.
"The Eye of the Void"...excels in spatial structure analysis.
The Art of Tracing Cause and Effect... As the name suggests, it excels at tracing causal lines.
"Breaking Through the Nine Netherworlds"... It can break through barriers and traverse the netherworld, but it is still not the right path.
The descriptions of various perception-based spells flowed through his mind, only to be sifted out without hesitation.
They were all good, even powerful, but none of them truly hit the mark he wanted.
Until his consciousness touched a new jade slip.
The jade slip was engraved with five seal characters: Truth and Delusion Shatter the Illusion.
With a slight thought, Jemin immersed his consciousness into it.
The next instant, a complete explanation of the spell unfolded in his mental sea.
The more he looked, the brighter the light in his eyes became.
The core of the "True Deception Breaks Through Illusion" technique is not simply "seeing through" things, but rather forcibly separating the concepts of "false" and "real" to directly reveal the true nature of things.
Disguise, illusion, invisibility, shapeshifting... all techniques based on "concealment" and "misleading" are rendered meaningless in the face of this eye technique.
Of course, according to the information on the jade slip, this ability is only a side effect of this pupil technique.
Because the essence of this eye technique is "interpretation," once it is used, the world in one's field of vision will be reconstructed.
The spiritual energy channels, traces of Dao rhythm, echoes of cause and effect, and patterns of laws that were originally invisible to the naked eye will be transformed into clearly visible images, or even symbols that can be directly understood.
The jade slip states that it extracts the underlying information of the target object, providing a readable instruction manual for everything in the world. This technique is divided into three realms: Dispelling Illusion, Penetrating the Subtle, and Tracing the Source.
To see through illusions and deceptions.
Insight into the subtle, analyzing the flow of energy and the structure of its laws.
To trace the origins means to go back to the most fundamental form of existence of things.
Jemin tightened his grip on the jade slip slightly.
His true form has two faces and three eyes; the golden vertical eye between his eyebrows is a natural and perfect vessel for various pupil techniques.
Furthermore, given his prior dual advantages of the Omnipotent Eye and the Fate System, his information processing ability already far surpassed that of wizards of the same level. And the core ability of the True Illusion-Breaking Eye is precisely information interpretation.
The combination of these three factors is enough to elevate his already exceptional information processing abilities to another level.
More importantly, this eye technique can transform invisible objects into visible images or symbols.
For something like the reflection dimension, which is "invisible and intangible, yet undeniably existent," even a slight increase in visual cues can be enough to change the course of a battle.
As for facing regular enemies, the ability of the Breaking Illusion Realm to see through illusions and invisibility is also an extremely strong support ability.
This is the one I've decided on!
Without further hesitation, he left the Great Dao Library, and his consciousness immediately returned to his physical body.
In the quiet room, Jemin slowly opened his eyes.
The golden vertical eye between its brows closed for a moment, then began to reconstruct the spiritual energy channels deep within its pupil according to the method of breaking through illusion with truth. It was an extremely precise modification; the slightest deviation could cause the spiritual structure of the entire vertical eye to become unbalanced.
However, for Jieming, who was in a state of Dao Integration, cultivation was exceptionally simple.
Time slipped away quietly during the cultivation, and several months passed in the blink of an eye.
Until one day, the door to the quiet room was pushed open from the inside.
When Jemin came out, he looked no different from he had a few months ago.
But as his vertical eye between his brows slowly opened, a pale silver halo, resembling a star vortex, appeared deep within his pupil. The halo, like an invisible vortex, continuously absorbed the surrounding light and information, as if trying to draw the entire world into the depths of his pupil, dissecting and analyzing it piece by piece.
Without lingering, Jemin turned and went back to the lab.
He casually picked up a high-purity energy crystal from his work, raised his eyes, and aimed his True Delusion-Piercing Eyes at it.
The pale silver star vortex turned slightly.
The next moment, lines of information appeared out of thin air next to the crystal.
It wasn't any kind of writing he recognized, but rather a stream of information that was directly projected into the depths of his consciousness.
That was a "comment" generated directly in his field of vision after the pupil technique extracted the underlying information of the crystal.
The annotations are so detailed they're almost absurd.
The purity of the components, energy reserves, crystallization temperature, environmental pressure during formation, estimated mining time and current storage time... even the original mine vein from which this crystal came and how many transfers it underwent before being sent to the laboratory were clearly marked.
The pupil in the vertical eye between Jemin's eyebrows contracted almost imperceptibly.
It feels like clicking on an item in a game and having a whole page of attribute panels pop up.
Or rather, it's more like a reconnaissance technique.
"It adds a readable instruction manual to everything in the world..."
He read the description on the jade slip aloud in a low voice, his expression subtle, and his tone even carrying a rare hint of astonishment.
"...This isn't a metaphor?!"
He put the crystal back in its original place and then took out a fist-sized sealing sphere from the sealing cabinet next to him.
On the surface of the sphere, pale green and grayish-white light patterns flowed slowly, while a dark shadow floated quietly inside, like some kind of living creature sleeping in the abyss. This was the reflection dimension creature he had been assigned, small in size, and had been stored in his laboratory ever since it was dealt with by Cellas using a standard dimensional sealing technique.
Previously, Jemin had scanned it repeatedly with his all-seeing eye dozens of times.
Each time, all they got was information about the sealed sphere itself; there was absolutely no progress regarding the thing inside. If he couldn't see it with his own eyes, Jemin would have thought it didn't exist at all.
This time, he raised his hand and aimed the True Illusion-Breaking Eye at the sealing sphere.
The pale silver vortex spun gently, and after two rotations, the annotation finally appeared.
Compared to that crystal, the information that appeared this time was at least 80% less.
There is no name, no species classification, and no description that can be described as "detailed".
But there was indeed a piece of information that no previous detection method could obtain, which was now firmly in his field of vision.
That was a status label:
Vital signs: Dormant state.
Dimensional ripple intensity: Level 0.003.
Current dimensional pressure difference: stable.
Dimension coordinates: ... (garbled text).
In addition, there are some other bits and pieces of information.
Looking at this information, Jemin slowly curled the corners of his mouth into a smile.
Even a small amount of information can be read; that's the difference between zero and one.
This demonstrates that the "True Delusion Breaks Through Illusion" technique can indeed penetrate dimensional barriers and access information in the reflected dimension.
Although the Origin Realm is still far away, as long as he can continue to improve to the Mind Realm, his ability in dimensional perception may not be able to approach that of a specialized wizard like Cellas.
The dimensional coordinates are currently just a bunch of gibberish, but once his pupil technique level improves and he can decipher them, it means he can use them to deduce dimensional positioning technology.
Overall, Jemin was very satisfied with the spell he had chosen.
Jemin closed the sealing cabinet, picked up the magic network terminal, sent a short message to Viola, and then walked out of the laboratory. In the control room, Viola was sitting on the high edge, her legs dangling and swinging gently, holding a steaming drink in her hand.
Her solidified domain of laws spread out a grayish-white halo around her, as if maintaining a kind of painful law perception training with extremely light force.
"Senior, could you keep an eye on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for me?" Jemin got straight to the point.
Viola lifted her glass, her tone languid, but her eyes were serious:
"No problem, leave it to me, you can rest assured. But instead of worrying about the Infernal Sulfur Plane, you should worry about yourself. Although you seem capable of handling it, you should still be careful in this mission."
"Understood," Jemin said calmly. "Before I return, Dean Avery and the others should have completed the final round of searching. At that time, an engineering team will begin the fusion project between the Tentacle Tree Plane and the Purgatory Sulfur Plane. I have already entered the relevant permissions and procedures into the main control array; just follow the steps."
"Okay, okay." Viola waved at him, as if shooing away a dawdling pet that refused to leave. "Hurry up and go." Jemin nodded slightly and said nothing more.
After thinking for a moment, he then connected the magic network terminal to the main control network and started remote communication with Dean Avery.
The light screen unfolded in the air, and Dean Avery appeared in the projection.
"Dean Avery, how's it going on your end?" Jemin asked.
Dean Avery nodded slightly, his tone as steady as ever: "It's the same as before, not much to show for it." He paused, his gaze shifting slightly, as if observing the real-time data at the dimensional boundary.
"Also, it seems you're planning to participate in the recruitment mission, so I have an additional proposal."
Jemin nodded without interrupting, and simply listened quietly.
Dean Avery continued, "Before we leave, we can help you set up a portion of the plane-level magic arrays in the Tentacle Tree plane ahead of time. This can be considered a small compensation for the resource allocation you received for this mission."
His tone was calm, but the content was anything but light.
"After all, we did gain a lot from this dimensional structure during the search operation. In that case, completing part of the high-order array deployment ahead of schedule is a reasonable way to give back."
"Of course, the more important reason is that your plane has been invaded by the reflection dimension. Although there's probably no major problem, it's still better to carry out several rounds of reinforcement just to be safe... After all, you wouldn't want your plane to suddenly have a portal to the reflection dimension open up at some point, would you?"
Jemin imagined the scene, his face darkened, and he couldn't help but nod.
Over such a long period of time, he has basically gained some understanding of the reflection dimension.
The opening of a channel in the Reflection Dimension does not necessarily mean that a Reflection Creature will appear. In fact, due to the characteristics of the Reflection Dimension itself, the existence of the channel may not even be detected.
However, there will definitely be enormous destruction caused by the dimensional difference between the two dimensions!
He raised his hand and made a light swipe, and a complex dimensional structure diagram appeared in the projection.
After the Tentacle Tree Plane merges into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, the original cosmic plane will definitely change to a continental structure similar to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane. Without enough open space in the universe as a buffer, any opening of a passage will be a tremendous loss.
"Therefore, we can prefabricate the core connection array and space bridging structure in advance. This not only increases security, but also means that when the engineering team enters, they only need to perform low-level splicing and stabilization, improving overall efficiency by at least three times," Dean Avery Knight continued. Jemin looked grateful: "Thank you for your help. I will grant node access."
"That's enough." Dean Avery nodded. "Don't worry, with me watching over them, they won't overstep their bounds and will only deal with the structural layer."
The light curtain went out.
The control room returned to silence.
Viola peeked out from her vantage point at the chat window that had just ended and clicked her tongue.
"This treatment you're receiving is really outrageous."
"A dimensional array is laid out for you directly, or even prefabricated by an academy-level wizard... When I was doing missions back then, I had to build a stable foothold myself."
Her tone clearly carried a hint of resentment.
Jemin didn't respond immediately, but suddenly seemed to remember something and tilted his head slightly: "You don't have a dimension?"
Viola paused for a moment, and the air was silent for half a second.
Sensing that something was off, Jemin suddenly realized he might have said the wrong thing.
Viola then gave a cold laugh: "Of course not."
"I have drifted through the endless chaotic void for thousands of years, seen many planes, and fought many battles—but none of them have been able to 'fall under my control'."
She paused for a moment, and her tone suddenly turned dangerous.
"What, are you mocking me?"
Jemin saw Viola jump down from the height and immediately waved his hands in denial, startled.
"Wait! You've misunderstood..."
"I'll bite you to death!!!"
"ah!!"
Having finally managed to pull his head out of Viola's mouth, Jemin gave the quest link on the magic network terminal one last check. The coordinates and information sent by Dean Avery had all been loaded; the quest's official name was just a string of cold numbers. The initiator was a level seven wizard named "Broadleaf" under the command of Noren Workshop.
Jemin was somewhat surprised to see this title: "Huh! A true name wizard without any title...?"
The brief background information accompanying the link is quite straightforward: In a mid-level plane under the command of the Broadleaf Wizard, a small-scale resistance force capable of connecting to the Reflection Dimension has emerged, requiring the assistance of wizards who can directly withstand attacks from dimensional portals to eliminate them.
The compensation section clearly states the following sentence:
All technical data and physical equipment related to the reflection dimension captured during the mission belong to the executor.
After confirming that there were no problems, Jemin turned off the terminal and stepped onto the spatial teleportation array.
As Jieming entered the coordinates provided in the mission, silvery-white light began to shine from the edge of the magic circle, and beams of light were activated layer by layer along the rune patterns.
His figure gradually blurred and eventually disappeared in that ever-rising sea of light.
(That's all for today. Also, I have something to do tomorrow, so I'm asking for leave in advance.)