Translator: AnubisTL
While satisfied, Jieming was once again reminded of the need to further strengthen his body.
The Flame Lord could no longer provide sufficient training, and while the Purgatory Sulfur Plane was home to other powerful beings, searching for suitable training partners across such a vast plane proved to be an inefficient endeavor.
He required a more efficient and controllable training environment.
If it's difficult to find externally, why not create it internally?
The thought struck Jieming, and he immediately approached the leader of the wizard construction team about the matter.
The team leader readily accepted the additional business.
Jieming paid the low-tier wizards an exorbitant amount of merit points, enough to make them ecstatic, and instructed them to install a fully functional gravity training room deep within his underground laboratory in the Golden Garden.
Several days later, a massive spherical chamber forged from special alloys materialized at the deepest level of Jieming's underground laboratory.
The chamber's interior was spacious, its walls densely covered with intricate rune circuits.
Eager to test it, Jieming stepped inside and began his initial trials.
"Activate: tenfold gravity!" Jieming commanded the control system in the training room.
A low hum filled the chamber as an invisible, crushing pressure descended.
Jieming felt his body sink, as if burdened by an immense weight.
He flexed his limbs, savoring the tremors in his muscles under the pressure, a satisfied smile spreading across his face.
"Excellent. Adjust to one thousandfold gravity!" he continued.
The gravity surged again. Jieming immediately struggled to breathe, his bones creaking and his knees threatening to buckle.
Gritting his teeth, he tensed every muscle, relying on the formidable physique granted by the body tempering method to endure the crushing force.
Sweat drenched his clothes, dripping onto the floor.
Impressive. One thousandfold gravity yields such remarkable results. With maximum fields of tens of thousands of times... this will suffice until the nascent soul stage, Jieming marveled inwardly.
This extreme gravity would not only continue to temper his muscles and bones but also force him to refine his control over his physical strength to an exquisite degree.
In addition to the gravity field, the training room was equipped with a sophisticated multi-elemental assault formation.
After a brief period of exercise, Jieming concluded his session in the gravity field and turned to test the Elemental Assault Formation.
These formations didn't unleash destructive attacks. Instead, they could be programmed to release streams of elemental energy of varying intensities and attributes, or to simulate the attack patterns of various elemental creatures.
"Activate: Fire Element Simulation!"
Instantly, the air in the chamber grew scorching hot.
Visible streams of fire element energy surged from the runes on the walls, lashing at Jieming's body like fiery whips—gentle yet persistent.
He could feel every strand of fiery energy penetrating his skin, stimulating his body's deep-seated resistance mechanisms against fire.
"Water Element Erosion, Lightning Paralysis, Wind Blade Slicing, Earth Element Impact..." Jieming cycled through the elemental modes.
Each elemental attack acted like a microscopic chisel, meticulously carving at his body. This process slowly adapted his physique to the various elemental assaults, while the characteristics of the Body Tempering Method enhanced his resistance.
He could precisely adjust the training intensity and elemental types according to his needs, working towards his long-term goal of achieving resistance to all forms of elemental damage.
From then on, Jieming's life became more structured and fulfilling.
For the next period, he was almost entirely immersed in a rhythm of research and self-improvement.
Each day, he would undergo high-intensity body refinement in the gravity training room, constantly pushing the limits of his physical potential.
Then he would return to the laboratory and dive into various research projects.
Occasionally, he would visit the dead volcano, activate the formation arts, and collect the newly generated malevolent qi.
Protected by the magic formation, the dead volcano had become a stable source of malevolent qi.
When fatigue from research became overwhelming, he would ride his flight rune-imbued magical artifact to search other regions of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, looking for new sources of malevolent qi or discovering peculiar species and mineral deposits.
One day, after collecting malevolent qi from the dead volcano, Jieming checked his inventory.
To his surprise, after months of continuous collection, he had accumulated a substantial amount of malevolent qi from the dead volcano.
Combined with the flower fiend he had been collecting in the Golden Garden, the amount of malevolent qi he now possessed was considerable.
Jieming stroked his chin, knowing it was time to begin a new round of refining.
Returning to his underground laboratory, he meticulously studied the vast collection of texts provided by the Great Dao Library Pavilion. After careful deliberation, he selected a refining method for a special body-protecting treasure that he believed best suited his current needs.
This treasure was named the "Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier," a peculiar defensive technique within the cultivator system.
According to the records of the Great Dao Library Pavilion, this treasure was semi-permanent.
It had no physical form. Once refined, it would transform into an invisible barrier that constantly enveloped and protected the user's body.
The treasure possessed no other abilities beyond a single function: resisting all curses and divination techniques.
The primary refining materials for this treasure were various chaotic Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi.
When the treasure took shape, the Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi would intertwine like two chains, forming an impenetrable protective net around the user's body.
The principle behind the Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier's resistance to curses and divination techniques was quite simple.
For any curse or divination spell to affect the wielder of a treasure, it must first establish a connection with the target.
The Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier, a formless and intangible conceptual material, surrounds the wielder. For any spell to take effect, it must first breach this layer of Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi.
However, during the breach, the Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi within the barrier will reverse their flow along the connection, corroding the caster instead.
...It's like creating a latrine around yourself.
Of course, this protection comes at a cost.
As the barrier resists and repels spells, the Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi within the treasure are continuously consumed.
If too much is consumed, the treasure itself will disintegrate due to energy depletion.
But its advantage lies in its ability to restore its state by continuously replenishing the Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi, allowing for semi-permanent protection.
After half a month of preparation, Jieming began refining this body-protecting treasure.
First, he threw various collected malevolent qi into the custom-made cauldron, where it underwent initial refinement and fusion, transforming it into the Gangsha required for refining the Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier.
This process demanded an exceptionally high level of control over one's mental power; even the slightest misstep could result in the impure malevolent qi backlashing against oneself.
Fortunately, Jieming was wealthy and directly molded a thick, full-body armor from adamantium to protect himself.
Though occasional leaks occurred during refining, the adamantium prevented any serious harm.
Next, he extracted the most chaotic portion of the Mortal Dust Qi remaining in his internal space and infused it into the already refined Gangsha.
At this stage, the body-protecting treasure was nearly eighty percent complete. Only a few more restrictions needed to be added to finalize its form.
After all, this wasn't a magic artifact, but a consumable item akin to talismans, making its refinement relatively simple.
This ease, however, sparked new ideas in Jieming's mind.
According to the refining methods in the Great Dao Library Pavilion, the completed body-protecting treasure drew its energy from external spiritual energy to sustain the operation of the Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi.
But the wizard world lacked spiritual energy, possessing only elemental power. Jieming wondered if he could replace the energy source with elemental power.
Drawing on techniques he had developed while modifying the Body Tempering Method and his research into rune-imbued magical artifacts, Jieming quickly identified the talisman seals responsible for the restriction's energy supply.
Replacing them with runes that absorbed external elements wasn't enough. He also needed to transform the elemental power absorbed by the restriction into a form that Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi could "recognize" and "drive."
Jieming took a deep breath to calm himself, knowing this was the true crux of the matter.
Now he needed to rely on his recent research—or rather, his ideas.
Carefully extending his mental power, Jieming guided the elemental power absorbed by the restriction to flow along a special trajectory.
Then, he cautiously guided the purified Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi, weaving them between the restriction's runes like threads.
Elemental power surged in like flowing water, creating a peculiar resonance with the Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi.
At first, the two fundamentally different energy systems repelled each other, emitting faint tremors.
Sweat beaded on Jieming's forehead as he continuously adjusted the rune frequencies and altered the patterns of energy injection.
At a certain moment, all resistance vanished.
The sharpness of Gangsha and the flexibility of Mortal Dust Qi fused perfectly, driven by the wizard's elemental power—or, more precisely, elemental power transformed into spiritual energy!
This unique operational pattern was none other than the trajectory of his own internal qi refining technique, which Jieming had meticulously imitated!
The greatest feature of this body-protecting treasure was its intimate symbiosis with the user. And the prerequisite for such symbiosis was a sufficient degree of similarity between the two.
This meant that using the power of Gangsha, Mortal Dust Qi, and the restriction, he could, to some extent, simulate a human-like environment.
With a simulated "body," he could naturally simulate the operation of a cultivation technique!
The entire restriction emitted a dazzling radiance, then the light receded inward, and the restriction itself began to slowly disintegrate, transforming into fine streams of energy that merged into the core of Gangsha and Mortal Dust Qi.
When all the light and fluctuations had subsided, there was nothing left in Jieming's hand.
The Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier, the moment it was successfully refined, transformed into an invisible protective shield, like a second skin, constantly enveloping Jieming's body.
He could feel it perfectly harmonizing with his soul, as if it were a part of himself.
Closing his eyes, he sensed the treasure. It existed in a state between reality and illusion, occupying no space and taking no form.
The barrier's greatest feature was its ability to freely absorb external power once activated, sustaining itself automatically. This allowed the user to maintain its presence indefinitely without fear of energy depletion.
But for Jieming, the most important thing was that he had validated his own ideas during the refining process!
In simple terms, as long as he could simulate the human body's environment and mimic the operation of a cultivation technique, he could blindly copy the outward process and transform external elemental power into spiritual energy, even without understanding the technique's inner logic or technical principles!
This meant that from now on, he could unlock many more ideas!
(End of the Chapter)
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