chsdbacks Chapter 579 Harvest
Chapter 579 Harvest
The light from the teleportation array gradually faded.
Jemin opened his eyes to a familiar sight.
The perpetually gray-red sky of the Sulfur Plane of Purgatory, the thick smoke rising from distant volcanoes, and the pervasive smell of sulfur in the air.
"I'm back."
He took a deep breath, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up.
It's been more than ten years.
Although a dozen years is nothing compared to a wizard's lifespan, the gains from this trip are equivalent to hundreds of years' worth of gains in normal times. As soon as Jemin stepped out of the teleportation array, a black giant priest immediately came to greet him.
"My lord, you're back."
Jemin nodded, and as he walked out, he asked, "How have things been these past few years?"
The black giant priest followed behind him, quickly reporting: "The incense offerings and religious practices are running smoothly, with the number of believers increasing by approximately three percent. The level seven large elemental pool is outputting steadily without any anomalies. The automated factory is operating normally and has stockpiled sufficient materials as you requested..."
After listening to the report, Jemin felt much more at ease.
The Purgatory Sulfur Plane is his foundation; as long as things don't go wrong here, there's always a way out for everything outside.
He spent three days processing all the backlogged tasks.
The operational data of the incense-burning shrine, the maintenance records of the element pool, the production capacity reports of the automated factory...
He reviewed and signed off on every single matter.
Three days later, Jemin finally had time to sit down and properly take stock of what he had gained this time.
He sat in the center of the laboratory, with rows of pale blue crystals in front of him.
Entropy brain.
There are 523 pieces in total, of various sizes.
Looking at the crystals, Jemin couldn't help but laugh.
He earned considerable military merits in the information dimension, but he didn't take any with him when he left. Instead, he converted them all into Entropy Brains. Even the high-level military merits promised by Martin were converted into Entropy Brains by him.
As it turned out, Jemin's choice was correct.
As the Information Dimension was conquered, more and more wizards left the Information Dimension and returned.
News about entropy brain has spread more and more widely, and the price of entropy brain has soared.
By the time he left, an entropy brain, depending on its size, had been sold for anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 high-level military merits.
"More than five hundred..."
Jemin muttered to himself, a satisfied glint in his eyes.
Based on current market prices, these entropy brains are worth at least 100 million high-level military merits.
However, whether one continues to hold onto the Entropy Brain and wait for its value to appreciate, or uses the Entropy Brain to improve oneself, its value is better than simply high-level military merits. But for Jemin, the Entropy Brain is only the most insignificant part of this harvest.
He closed his eyes and organized the vast amount of knowledge he had acquired in the information dimension.
The most important knowledge came from his enlightenment within the data space at that time—a sudden realization under the pressure of the highest consensus algorithm on the brink of life and death. Over the past decade, he has repeatedly experienced the workings of the entropy reduction cycle by helping others break free from silence time and time again.
All these accumulations eventually converge into one point...
That is, his understanding of "mobilizing external forces" in the cultivation system has reached a completely new level.
Jemin opened his eyes and pointed forward.
Without chanting any incantations or forming any hand seals, the surrounding elements instantly erupted into chaos.
A massive amount of fire, wind, water, and earth elements surged in from all directions, condensing into a dazzling ball of energy at his fingertips. The power of that energy ball was comparable to a level five spell.
The mental energy that Jemin consumed was negligible.
"If my current level of mobilizing external forces were converted into the cultivation level, I'm afraid I've already reached the Void Refining Realm..." he murmured.
In the cultivation system, after the Nascent Soul stage comes the Void Refinement stage.
Now, having been tempered by the information plane, his control over the power of heaven and earth has reached the standard of a Void Refinement cultivator. What does this mean?
This means he can now create level four rune artifacts!
The talismanic artifact was an important early invention of Jemin, which combined the techniques of immortal cultivation talismans with the wizard's rune system. It could use weak spiritual power as a key to draw elemental energy from the environment to release magic.
However, due to technological limitations, he had previously only been able to manufacture talismanic artifacts of level three or lower.
Now, although his knowledge level is still far from that of a normal level 5 wizard, his ability to mobilize the power of heaven and earth has reached the level of Void Refinement, and this bottleneck has finally been broken.
With a thought, Jieming took out a half-finished talisman artifact from the cave.
It was a palm-sized metal disc, its surface covered with densely packed runes.
Jemin focused his mind slightly and slowly channeled his spiritual energy into the device.
The metal disc lit up.
One by one, the runes lit up, and the surrounding elements began to converge towards them.
In just a few seconds, the metal disc was fully charged and floated silently in the air, ready to unleash an attack at any moment.
This is a level four talismanic artifact, a product that Jemin created to test his skills.
The released magic is more powerful than a regular level 5 magic. Although it is not as powerful as level 6 magic, it can be released continuously.
Jemin withdrew his mental energy, and the smile on his lips deepened.
But that wasn't the biggest gain.
He stood up and took a deep breath.
Then, his body began to change.
Grayish-white flames surged from his body, instantly engulfing his entire being.
His form twisted, disintegrated, and reformed, eventually transforming into a humanoid figure of blazing, grayish-white flames.
Light Godhood - Annihilation Form.
The temperature in the laboratory didn't change drastically, but the metal floor beneath Jemin's feet began to "disappear" the moment he stood up. Jemin glanced down and quickly dispelled his form.
The grayish-white flames dissipated, and he transformed back into human form.
A clear footprint-shaped indentation remained on the ground, its edges smooth as a mirror, as if something had erased a piece of it out of thin air. "Phew..."
Jemin gasped for breath, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
This move was still too difficult for him to use.
But the key point is that he learned... Ashfire!
Although it was just a rather insignificant fragment.
But that is still the core law of Martin, the eighth-level wizard "Heart of Ash," the result of tens of thousands of years of research.
Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't even be qualified to glance at it, let alone learn from it.
Even spending hundreds of billions of high-level military merits wouldn't buy this level of knowledge.
However, due to his special experience in the information plane, Jemin obtained Martin's data model for controlling the Ashfire, personally experienced the feeling of being oppressed by entropy reduction, and repeatedly came into contact with the entropy reduction cycle in the following ten years.
He finally managed to master this subject through sheer hard work.
Although he can only use this power rigidly in the "Annihilation Form" now, and is still far from Martin's effortless mastery, it is already quite outrageous.
You should know that this is core knowledge for an eighth-level wizard.
Jemin sat back in his chair and began to calmly analyze the practical value of this move.
First, the casting animation is too long.
Because it contains a large amount of advanced knowledge far beyond his current level, even with the assistance of the Destiny System, he still needs at least ten seconds of preparation time to activate the Annihilation Form.
ten seconds.
In a real battle, ten seconds is enough for the enemy to kill him thousands of times.
Secondly, the duration was too short.
With his current mental strength and the capacity of his destiny system, he can only maintain it for three to five seconds at most.
If this time is exceeded, he will collapse on his own without the enemy even having to lift a finger.
Therefore, from a practical standpoint, this move is rarely used in most situations.
but……
What if we could find an opportunity to use it?
Jemin squinted, and a figure appeared in his mind.
"Illusory" wizard.
That was an opponent he had encountered in the Wizarding Wars, an absolutely elite level six wizard.
He had put in a tremendous amount of effort, and in the end, he only managed to defeat his opponent by relying on the power of light.
If he had possessed the Annihilation Form back then...
Jemin mentally simulated the scene.
If that "illusory" wizard hadn't escaped immediately when he unleashed his Annihilation form, he would have been instantly killed.
This is the value of the state of annihilation.
The absolute ultimate trump card.
Once it can be used, it will be enough to change the course of the battle.
Jemin took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement, and began to plan his next move.