Chapter 336 The Beginning

Recalling Black’s face on the communication screen—twisted with excessive excitement before abruptly disconnecting—Jie Ming smacked his lips in amusement.

“This guy… what exactly did he experience in that plane? Like he struck gold.” He muttered lowly.

Black’s frenzied post-return purchases indeed turned heads.

He rushed over relentlessly, nearly bankrupting himself to sweep Jie Ming’s entire fluid Aging Gold stock, then placed over a dozen “Mind Barrier Bracer” body orders.

As if liquidating all assets.

Later, payment short, he even offset with precious biological samples and unknown materials seized in that plane war.

“Could he be planning resale?” Jie Ming stroked his chin, guessing Black’s motive, then shrugged indifferently. “Whatever, I’ve profited enough.”

Mastering core “elemental spiritual qi conversion technology,” Jie Ming escaped manual refinement limits, automating via cultivation arrays.

With automation, fluid Aging Gold costs were laughably low.

Main raw: ordinary gold, conceptually purified and form-converted via complex arrays—sole hard cost: gold purchase merits.

Even with massive refinement mass loss, preparing one bracer-standard “year-portion” fluid Aging Gold cost under five merits total!

His sale price to Black?

One hundred thousand merits per year-portion!

Profit beyond exorbitant—pure Midas touch!

Thus, Jie Ming cared not how much Black resold for.

If Black truly promoted “Mind Barrier Bracer” and consumables into stable channels, Jie Ming would applaud.

It spared him market development hassle.

Shifting focus, his attention hooked on Black’s two offerings: detailed combat data records, and a space-compressed sealed giant beast tissue sample radiating eerie mental fluctuations.

“Illusions affecting reality… involving laws of virtual-real conversion… fascinating, perfect research specimen.” Jie Ming eyed the massive sample, interest gleaming.

Thus, over following decades, Jie Ming’s research schedule grew fuller.

Beyond Incense Fire Divine Dao studies, divine faith network analysis, and gnawing the Seventh-Level Large Elemental Pool Usage Manual pile, his list added two: analyzing Black’s combat data, deeply researching the beast sample’s unique illusion laws.

Research advanced steadily; another surprise from Black.

In decades, somehow, he truly promoted “Mind Barrier Bracer” and fluid Aging Gold.

Business boomed, scaling ever larger.

Not only regular bulk purchases, but with astounding commercial acumen, in mere decades, he amassed Jie Ming’s previously tight hundreds of billions merits for Incense Fire Divine Dao materials!

This windfall vastly accelerated Jie Ming’s plans.

With knowledge reserves, tech validations, resources near mature—and magic network terminal showing under two centuries left in mandatory rest—time pressed.

Jie Ming hesitated no more, formally launching his long-planned grand design—construct Incense Fire Divine Dao in the Infernal Sulfur plane!

Project’s first, most critical step: install the seventh-level large elemental pool.

An immensely vast, precise engineering feat—especially for current Jie Ming.

Fortunately, centuries uninterrupted manual study left countless technical details, energy conduction schemes, safety norms at his fingertips.

Prior hired architecture team, in fourth-phase base transformations, pre-reserved all interfaces and foundations per blueprints.

Even so, Jie Ming spent a full decade cautiously completing pool body docking, preliminary energy circuit connections, core control rune inscriptions and activations.

When the final interface perfectly sealed, Jie Ming stood in the plane core energy node control hub, inhaling deeply, initiating activation sequence.

Hum!!!!!

Like a heart restarting after eons dormant, an indescribable vast energy fluctuation centered on the elemental pool instantly swept the entire Infernal Sulfur plane!

Despite prior multi-phase massive energy conduction networks buffering and diverting, the plane visibly quaked.

Ground rumbled; sky sulfur clouds stirred by invisible force into massive vortices.

Most intuitive changes surfaced.

Countless dormant volcanoes injected with stimulants abruptly awakened, erupting skyward smoke pillars and scorching lava.

Some cooled black ground rapidly overlaid by surging crimson lava below, forming roiling lava lakes.

More stable regions cracked vast fissures, earthfire gushing!

Plane fire element concentration and activity leaped orders of magnitude in an instant!

Air thick with heat and sulfur, as if the plane itself trembled excitedly from sudden immense energy infusion.

Fire-affinity magical beasts across habitats roared in waves of fear and exhilaration.

But most impacted: Jie Ming’s prized black giant incubation pools!

Previously, even with three-phase plane foundations gathering stray plane energy, pool efficiency low—one black giant required a full year.

Especially post Jie Ming’s base transformations elevating potential and granting reproduction, incubation slowed further.

But arriving at pools, Jie Ming witnessed exaggeration:

Pool center, the originally slow-absorbing, form-coalescing black giant life core—upon seventh-level pool energy connection—seemed injected with surging vitality by invisible hand!

It visibly ballooned dramatically, internal structures rapidly restructuring.

Dark liquid metal skin enveloped; massive frame swiftly outlined ferocious, robust contours…

Mere one minute later, a complete black giant radiating third-level energy fluctuations abruptly opened eyes burning dim flames.

With a low roar, it nimbly climbed from surging energy liquid pool, prostrating respectfully before Jie Ming!

One minute, one third-level black giant!

Compared to prior year-long cycle—efficiency boosted over five hundred twenty thousand times!

Jie Ming gazed at the newborn mighty black giant, sensing the plane’s pulsing infinite power beneath, finally smiling irrepressibly.

Energy core—in position!