Free Web NovelChapter 524: Chapter 452: Changes and Testing at the Boundary Point
After receiving this heavy gift of knowledge, Jeming did not linger.
"Then, Mentor, Senior Sister, Senior Sister Starfall, let me take my leave. I wish you success in your research." Jeming bowed one last time, turned, and walked towards the teleportation array area of the spaceship.
"I should be going too..."
Just as Viola was about to stand up, Clark grabbed her head and pressed her back down: "Where do you think you’re going? This is your ship."
With a blank expression, Clark lifted Viola up like a little chick and brought her in front of him: "Besides, I want to have a good talk with you about calling me an old man earlier..."
"Gulp!"
Viola swallowed her saliva and managed a difficult smile: "Can... can we make peace?"
Clark gave a "gentle" smile and dragged the struggling Viola out of the lounge.
After wiping nonexistent cold sweat from his forehead and silently mourning for his senior sister for a moment, Jeming resolutely stepped onto the teleportation array.
Upon returning to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, the scorching sulfur breath mixed with the unique spiritual mechanism fluctuations from the operation of the Incense Fire Divine Dao made the slightly tense string in Jeming’s heart, due to external changes, relax a bit.
He did not rush to handle other matters nor immediately delve into the research of the newly acquired "Starfall Awakening Technique," but flew directly to the Sixth Energy Convergence Point.
There lay the final core node of the Interdimensional Energy Transmission System.
The thrilling episode on the Starfall Wizard’s side, although not taking much time, reminded Jeming of the preciousness and urgency of time.
Whether it’s for the unavoidable Wizard War in eighty years, or for advancing his own cultivation path, or for the complete perfection of the Incense Fire Divine Dao, especially realizing the functionality of a "Mobile Mage Tower" through the Interdimensional Energy Transmission System, these foundational projects must be completed as quickly as possible.
He reconvened the Black Giant Priest team in charge of the project, putting all his focus into the final wrap-up, debugging, and integration work.
The runes of the array needed to be engraved and calibrated one by one, and the energy diversion network required a full-domain pressure test.
The interface with the main body of the Incense Fire Divine Dao and the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool needed repeated optimization to ensure stability and efficiency, and each redundant module and safety mechanism needed activation and verification one by one...
This was an enormous project, allowing no room for carelessness.
Time flowed especially swiftly when one was focused.
In the blink of an eye, nearly a decade passed.
When the last group of compound calibration runes lit up with a stable emerald green light at the core’s eye, the 360 secondary nodes scattered across the plane simultaneously sent a "ready" signal to the central console.
When the energy flow of the Incense Fire Divine Dao perfectly interfaced with the main network of the transmission system, cycling smoothly, Jeming let out a long breath.
The main construction of the Interdimensional Energy Transmission System was finally complete.
Next came the most crucial phase of real-world testing.
To test the effect, Jeming chose not to conduct it within the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
The energy environment here was single-dimensional, and the domain was completely under his control, making the test results perhaps not comprehensive.
Especially since it could not verify stability and penetration in a complex, unfamiliar, or even disruptive environment.
Within the academy was a good choice.
But both Nolun Academy and even the core areas of Nolun Workshop were laid out with extremely tight and advanced spatial shielding, energy isolation, and information filtering arrays.
These arrays were designed to protect the privacy, research achievements, and safety of the wizards.
Jeming reckoned that his still "semi-completed" system, with functions mainly centered on energy transmission rather than violent breakthrough, didn’t yet have the capability to forcibly penetrate such deliberate shielding.
Thinking it over, a familiar place came to mind—the Boundary Point.
There, joint transit hubs constructed by the three major forces, had arrays with strict protection but were more focused on maintaining spatial stability, handling massive logistics and information flows.
For small-scale, non-malicious energy transmission tests, it was less sensitive.
Moreover, the Boundary Point had a constant influx of massive amounts of wizards, materials, and energy, with a complex and ever-changing energy environment making it the perfect place to test the system’s adaptability.
The commotion from his tests would blend into the vast background noise and wouldn’t attract much attention.
Resigned to this decision, Jeming directly teleported to the Boundary Point.
However, just stepping out from the glow of the teleportation array onto the street made of some high-strength alloy of the Boundary Point, Jeming keenly sensed that something was amiss.
The atmosphere had changed.
In his memory, the Boundary Point, although somewhat chaotic due to the mix of people, was overall vibrant and full of vitality.
The streets were constantly bustling with wizards from the three major forces, merchants of various alien races, mechanical bodies on different tasks, and even some tamed or collaborating strange creatures...
But now, the scene before his eyes was desolate.
The number of wizards on the streets and squares had sharply dropped by more than half, leaving them feeling empty.
The few figures seen occasionally were hurried in their steps, with an unmistakable look of gravity and alertness on their faces.
When the gazes of Mages from different factions happened to meet, Jeming could clearly see that what flickered in their eyes was no longer the tacit understanding or blandness of past collaborators, but deep vigilance, and even fleeting scrutiny and hostility.
More than seventy percent of the shops on both sides of the street were closed.
Those once brightly lit display windows, filled with an array of goods, were now either dim and dull or had heavy metal shutters drawn down completely.
The few stores that remained open had alien clerks or owners inside, all appearing extremely cautious, as if they had clammed up in fear.
They huddled behind counters as much as possible, even lowering their voices when greeting customers.
As if they were afraid that a single misstep might irritate some ill-humored Mage, bringing disaster upon themselves.
The air was permeated with an intangible oppression and tension, replacing the previous hustle and vitality.
"Seems like the news of war... has already spread all over." Jeming understood in his heart.
The rumor of the impending war among the three major powers was clearly no longer a secret among the higher-ups.
The news swept like a cold tide, silently seeping into every corner, completely transforming the atmosphere of this place once symbolic of collaboration.
The foundation of trust had already crumbled, the tacit understanding of cooperation vanished without a trace, leaving only the unique suspicion and alienation of the pre-war period.
Jeming walked silently down the somewhat deserted street, not particularly surprised by this change, just feeling an added heaviness about the future.
He didn’t linger long, heading straight to a hotel he remembered to have a good reputation, offering private rooms with good privacy.
The hotel lobby was similarly deserted, attended by a humanoid alien with a shell and numerous legs.
Upon seeing Jeming enter, it hurriedly approached with respect, its movements evidently cautious.
Jeming said little, directly asking for a private room equipped with basic protection and a soundproof Barrier, ordering some simple dishes.
Soon, he was led to a quiet small room.
After the alien waiter exited, he activated the room’s protections, and only then did Jeming lay down several layers of his own alert arrays before sitting down at the table.
He didn’t immediately touch the delivered food but first retrieved an item from his Inner Grotto Heaven.
It was a rectangular metal talisman about the size of a palm and a finger thick.
Made from highly refined and Talisman-imbued Refined Gold, it had a weighty golden sheen.
The surface of the talisman was engraved with patterns so intricate and dense that they couldn’t be fully discerned by the naked eye.
These patterns were not merely decorative but constituted the core of a miniaturized receiving and conversion array.
This was the "Coordinate Receiver Talisman" crafted by Jeming, one of the terminal receiving devices in the cross-space energy transmission system of the Incense Fire Divine Dao system.
By resonating with the core of the transmission system deep in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, it could, under suitable conditions, achieve ultra-long-distance stable energy transmission.
Jeming placed the talisman flat in his palm, closed his eyes, and immersed his mind within, activating the pre-set receiving protocol inside.
At first, the talisman just faintly heated up, the patterns on its surface emitting a very weak, almost imperceptible stream of light.
But soon, a gentle elemental power emerged from the talisman core seemingly out of nowhere, like a trickling stream.
Following the patterns, it slowly flowed, eventually gathering in the space above the talisman, forming a fist-sized pale golden halo.
Success!
A joyful thrill rushed through Jeming, who immediately widened his eyes, the Spirit Light in the depths of his pupils flickering slightly — the "All-Purpose Eye" was activated.
In his special field of vision, the essence of that pale golden halo was dissected layer by layer.
The purity of the energy, stability of transmission, rate of loss during the process, interaction with the surrounding environmental energy, presence of delays or fluctuations... countless data flowed through his consciousness like a waterfall.
The transmission was stable, the loss rate was 3.7% lower than the expected model, the energy purity met the standards, showed good resistance to environmental interference, and response speed was within an acceptable range...
The feedback of each test result returned one by one.
Finally, a faint smile of satisfaction appeared at the corner of Jeming’s mouth.
Decades of painstaking effort had not been in vain.
The cross-space energy transmission system of the Incense Fire Divine Dao system had preliminarily succeeded in its tests!
This meant that from now on, unless he was in some absolute forbidden area specifically set with top-level Isolation Arrays, he could receive near-infinite energy support from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane in most battlefields or task environments at any time!
This would undoubtedly greatly enhance his sustained combat capability, burst limit, and survival assurance.
Putting away the talisman, allowing the energy halo used for testing to naturally dissipate within the room’s protective barrier, Jeming then turned his attention to the now somewhat cold food on the table.
As he leisurely enjoyed his meal, his gaze drifted to the decorative mural on the wall of the private room depicting scenes of cordial exchanges among the three great powers’ Mages at the Boundary Point, his eyes deep and distant.
The eighty-year war preparation period had already passed by nearly a decade.
And he, must become stronger before this imminent war arrives.
