Chapter 156: Evil Spirit and Engineering

"There is a high probability that a powerful battle took place here." Benjamin guessed in his mind.

Such terrifying destructive power can even destroy the earth veins and cause an active volcano to die completely. It is absolutely impossible for ordinary creatures to do it.

This should be the remains of the fierce battle that took place when the wizards of the Norn Workshop were clearing the plane and capturing the upper demon.

The powerful attack even destroyed the volcano's energy core, rendering it dormant forever.

Looking at the dead volcano in front of him, Benjamin's eyes lit up and a surge of excitement suddenly surged in his heart.

Because of the special situation of a volcano like this where the earth veins are cut off, a large number of lives have died, and it contains all kinds of mixed energy residues, according to the concept of the world of immortal cultivation, some special evil spirits will be born inside!

Evil spirit itself is also a kind of conceptual material. It is an extremely insidious and complex energy in the system of cultivators, often a mixture of resentment, blood, destructive power and specific environmental factors.

It is not purely negative energy, but it is extremely corrosive. If it is not refined, it will backfire on itself.

However, if it can be properly collected and refined, it can become an excellent resource for certain special techniques in the cultivation system.

For example, the Golden Garden was specially created by Jemin to create and collect flower spirits.

And a volcano like this one, because of its special "experience", can be the source of some "evil spirits".

Benjamin immediately took out a large amount of materials and set up a complex formation around the entire volcano.

He formed seals with his hands, circulated the true energy in his body, and activated the formation.

As the spell was put into operation, invisible waves spread out from the center of the formation, penetrating into every inch of land and every corpse in the volcano.

Gray mist invisible to the naked eye, carrying the breath of death, resentment and mixed energy, slowly emerged from the broken veins deep in the volcano and from the corpses of the monsters.

They were drawn by the power of the magic circle, and like rivers flowing into the sea, they continuously flowed towards the center of the volcano.

It was gathered by Jieming using the Caisha magic technique, and finally turned into a thin stream and sank into the Caisha gourd in his hand.

"Such a strong evil spirit!" Benjamin was ecstatic.

Without any intention of stopping, Jieming looked at the evil energy that was continuously gathering under the effect of the formation. He used the evil energy collection technique to gather it into the evil energy gourd, and at the same time used the evil energy refining technique to classify the evil energy in the evil energy gourd.

The whole process lasted for several days, and Benjamin worked tirelessly in this dead volcano to collect and refine evil spirits.

As the evil spirits and dead air were continuously drawn out, the air around the volcano seemed to become clearer, and the oppressive and eerie feeling also weakened a lot.

Finally, when the evil energy and dead energy inside the volcano were extracted to a certain extent and the concentration was not high enough to be effectively captured by the evil energy collection technique, Jieming put away his skills.

He raised his hand to catch the slowly falling Caisha Gourd, shook it slowly, feeling the surge of evil spirit in it, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

The amount of evil energy collected in this round alone was equivalent to the evil energy from the flower gods that he collected in the Golden Garden for a month.

"Sure enough, although man-made environments can also absorb evil spirits, in terms of the 'concept' of quantity, it is still not as great as these natural Jedi formed by accidents."

He retracted the Caisha Gourd, which seemed to have become heavier, into the space inside his body.

After initially suppressing the evil and deadly energy inside the volcano, Benjamin did not stop there.

From a "conceptual" point of view, as long as this special area maintains its status quo, new evil spirits will continue to be born as time goes by.

After much difficulty, an "area that regularly produces evil spirits" was found. To this end, Benjamin spent several days carefully setting up various complex magic arrays around this extinct volcano.

These arrays are not for attack or defense, but for maintaining stability.

He first set up several concealment arrays around the volcano. This fifth-level array purchased from the Magic Network was enough to ensure that the special energy fluctuations here would not be easily detected by the creatures of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

Afterwards, he carved dozens of evil-gathering runes and soul-guiding formations at key nodes inside the volcano.

They can slowly guide the negative energy floating between heaven and earth, attract new evil spirits that may be born nearby, make them gather deep in the volcano, and be refined into a form of higher purity.

At the same time, these magic arrays can also stabilize the residual energy of the earth veins to a certain extent, ensuring that the "dead silence" state of the volcano can be maintained for a long time, becoming a breeding ground for his unique evil spirit.

In principle, these formations can slowly gather related concepts based on local topography and special circumstances.

However, the disadvantage is that all these things rely on spiritual energy to operate, and there is no way to just leave them here.

Fortunately, Benjamin doesn't have to stay here every day.

He did a quick calculation and found that the true energy required to operate this evil-attracting magic array was not much.

As long as I fill these formations with true energy, they can be used for about one or two months.

Anyway, I come here once a month to remove the evil spirits, so it’s not too much trouble.

As all the formations and magic arrays were set up, the entire extinct volcano was wrapped in these faintly visible rune chains.

From a distance, it is still that dark and silent mountain, but in Jemin's perception, it has become an efficient conceptual material conversion factory.

After completing the arrangement of the extinct volcano, just as Benjamin was about to continue searching to see if he could find a few more locations where the evil spirits could be detected, the communication magic device he was carrying suddenly rang.

Looking at the unfamiliar contact above, Benjamin was slightly stunned and didn't even react for a moment.

Then he remembered that the other party seemed to be the leader of the construction team he had invited.

After the call was connected, Benjamin realized that the project he had previously contracted had been completed and was now waiting for him to come and inspect it.

"I'll be there soon!"

After hanging up the phone, Jemin turned decisively and flew at full speed towards the location where the wizard team he had hired earlier was carrying out the preliminary renovation work.

When Jie Ming arrived, he couldn't help but be shocked by the scene before him.

In more than a year, the engineering team composed of low-level wizards completed an amazing transformation of the area.

The area that was originally filled with active volcanoes and various rugged mountains has been cut into a flat land, but there are not many buildings on it.

Looking around, on the outside, there is just a large piece of metal ground that looks completely flat.

This metal floor is made of refined special metal. Under the sky filled with sulfur smoke, it emits a cold metallic luster like obsidian.

The entire ground was as flat as a huge mirror, reflecting the dark red clouds in the sky.

Its surface was polished to be extremely smooth, without a single bump, in stark contrast to the rugged, scorched earth elsewhere in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

This flat metal area is large enough to accommodate a large city.

Looking at the ground, Benjamin couldn't help but recall the black ground he often saw in Nolen College. It turned out that this was a commonly used technology for plane transformation.

And Benjamin knew that this was much more than just a flat surface.

He walked to the center of the metal floor and stretched out his palm to touch it lightly.

As alchemy and analysis were activated, a faint energy fluctuation came from under the ground, delicate and orderly.

His mental power penetrated in, like exploring a huge spider web, and he "saw" the complex crisscrossing structure inside the metal ground.

In fact, many permanent magic arrays are solidified inside this huge metal foundation.

These magic arrays are not directly exposed to the outside, but are intricately embedded in the metal layer, distributed like blood vessels at various depths throughout the foundation.

They are connected by countless energy conduits and rune links, forming a huge and sophisticated energy network.

However, because these are early stage modifications, most of the effects of these magic arrays are not very strong.

In addition to the most basic protective capabilities, they exist more as a kind of "amplifier" and "basic skeleton".

Benjamin walked to the center of the foundation again, closed his eyes, and felt the pulsation of the magic circle network under his feet.

The main function of these internally solidified magic arrays is to amplify the effects of the magic arrays that Benjamin himself will construct in the future and embed in the blank spaces, allowing them to affect the entire plane.

They're like giant amplifiers buried underground.

Whether it is the element pool, alchemy workshop, or various plane-level protective arrays that he will build here in the future.

As long as their core magic arrays are embedded in this basic network, their effects will be amplified by this network, and their scope and power will increase exponentially, eventually affecting the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane!

This is exactly the foundation that Jieming laid for his future transformation of the plane and construction of a huge magic circle.

During his inspection, Benjamin also noticed some reserved interfaces and energy nodes.

According to the leading wizard of the "construction team", there are actually some more advanced functions that can be realized in this early stage of construction, such as magic circles that can amplify communication with the origin of the plane.

This kind of magic circle allows wizards to perceive and influence the origin of the plane at a deeper level, extract the power of the plane origin more efficiently, and even make some preliminary modifications to the plane rules.

However, this level of magic array requires the wizard to have stronger mental power and reach the level of a sixth-level wizard in order to truly control and use it safely.

"Anyway, I'm not a level six wizard yet, so I can't use it for the time being and there's no rush to build it." Benjamin thought silently in his mind.

Constructing this kind of magic array requires huge resources. If he cannot fully control it, it may cause energy backlash and even cause rejection from the origin of the plane.

When he was communicating with the engineering team, he excluded these complex arrays that exceeded the current needs and prioritized investing resources in the most basic and practical parts.

He looked at the results with satisfaction.

Although it is only a preliminary project, it has already begun to take shape.

(There is one more chapter to come.)

(End of this chapter)