Chapter 337 Upgrading the Profound罡 Red Dust Barrier

Jemin did a quick calculation of the Black Giant's current proliferation efficiency.

Including the main pool and its offspring, he now owns ten heavily modified hatching pools.

With the near-infinite energy supply of the level 7 elemental pool, each incubation pool can "produce" at a terrifying rate of one level 3 black giant per minute.

However, even with such astonishing efficiency, it would still take a considerable amount of time to accumulate the Black Giants' population to the desired level of tens of billions.

The Purgatory Sulfur Plane is a typical small matter plane, with a surface area roughly equivalent to that of Earth in Jemin's previous life.

The difference is that there is no azure ocean or clearly defined continental plates here.

Looking around, most of the area consists of rolling seas of lava, erupting volcanoes, and scorched earth shrouded in sulfurous fumes.

This environment, which would be a dead end for ordinary creatures, is a perfect paradise for the black giants who feed on lava and energy.

Therefore, this plane can support an exceptionally large number of biological species.

Even though the Black Giants are generally tens of meters tall, Jemin roughly estimates that under extreme conditions, the Infernal Sulfur Plane could even accommodate nearly a hundred billion Black Giants!

Of course, those are just theoretical figures.

If that density were to be reached, not only would the survival quality of the Black Giants drop drastically, but the energy and resources available to each individual would also be diluted, which would be detrimental to the early devouring and evolution of the Black Giants.

After careful consideration, Jemin concluded that maintaining a population size of tens of billions is the most ideal state at this stage.

"A hundred billion black giants..." Jemin imagined the overwhelming legion, like a black tide, and couldn't help but feel a sense of longing. "At that scale, even an ordinary level six wizard would probably feel a chill down his spine when faced with the number of my reserve legion."

However, those are all distant prospects for the future.

Currently, the initial linking of the level 7 large elemental pool has been completed.

The subsequent in-depth debugging and complete integration with the dimensional context is a gradual process that can be left to time.

Jemin devoted his main energy to the most crucial transformation of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane—completely transforming the original divine power and faith network into an incense and deity system!

He did not simply follow the instructions in the Great Dao Book Pavilion, but instead constructed the traditional incense and deity building method applicable to the cultivation world.

Instead, it combined its understanding of the operating mechanism of the "divine power faith network" in the wizarding world with the core principles of incense and deity worship, and carried out highly customized adaptive modifications.

The entire process also requires the perfect integration of the already mature "Elemental Spiritual Energy Conversion System" to make it the energy foundation of the incense and deity system.

Jemin knew clearly that the religious and spiritual functions he truly needed mainly focused on four points:

The power to produce incense.

The Black Giants are endowed with "social" attributes, enabling them to stably generate worldly energy and support the operation of the divine path.

To achieve energy transmission across space and over ultra-long distances.

It efficiently converts elemental power and maintains the spiritual environment within the plane.

As for the traditional functions of incense and deity worship, such as the blessing of "deities" or the regulation of favorable weather and resource regeneration within the jurisdiction, he regarded them as unnecessary and could be simplified or even abandoned.

Even if there is such a need in the future, it can be added on the spot.

This highly targeted design greatly reduces the overall difficulty of constructing the incense and shrine.

Even so, its complexity is still beyond imagination.

This is equivalent to modifying the underlying rules of a plane, and every step must be taken with utmost care.

The construction process was not without its challenges.

Jemin often encounters problems such as energy circuit conflicts, rule rejection, and unstable rune arrays.

This forced him to suspend the project and immerse himself in the vast amount of information in the Daoda Library and his own past research notes to find solutions and reorganize his design ideas.

Fortunately, the process of constantly encountering and solving problems is itself an excellent form of tempering.

Jemin could clearly feel that his understanding of the essence of "spirit" was becoming more comprehensive and profound.

Many seemingly unrelated pieces of knowledge learned in the past have been integrated and mastered through this intensive application, making me more and more proficient.

Fifty years have passed quietly in the midst of busy construction and research.

The level 7 large-scale elemental pool has been completely integrated with the plane core, stably outputting vast energy.

The overall construction of the incense and sacred path is about one-third complete, which is not fast, but the foundation is extremely solid.

During this time, Jemin also received an unexpected surprise.

In the laboratory, he looked with satisfaction at the soft light before him, which flickered like breathing.

This is a protective treasure that he has refined anew—the Mysterious Red Dust Barrier!

The previous Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier was made from various evil energies and mortal energy.

The ability to form an invisible barrier around Jemin, effectively resisting curses and prophetic detection, is an important means of his defense and concealment.

However, after studying in depth the combat data and behemoth samples provided by Blake about that strange dimension, Jemin's skill in resisting illusions and mental interference improved by leaps and bounds.

Looking back at the "mental barrier wristband" I made for Blake, I feel it was somewhat crude and outdated.

So, in between building the incense and shrine, he took the time to upgrade his protective treasure.

He incorporated a large amount of high-purity liquid gold that he had refined himself, as well as several other rare materials that enhance mental stability and conceptual "anchoring" effects into the Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier.

Subsequently, he used the profound refining techniques recorded in the Great Dao Book Pavilion to refine these tangible materials from "tangible" to "intangible".

This allows these refined metals to resist illusions while seamlessly integrating them into the malevolent energy and foundation of the Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier, making them indistinguishable from each other.

With a wave of his hand, the soft light spread out like flowing water, enveloping his entire body and forming an almost imperceptible thin film.

Then the light subsided and disappeared completely.

The Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier, after being refined, has achieved a qualitative leap in its protective capabilities.

It can now not only resist curses and prophecies, but also has a powerful ability to resist illusions and mental interference.

Its protective mechanism is similar to the previous one, relying on materials such as refined gold, which are incorporated into it and refined into intangible concepts, as "consumables". Before the reserves are exhausted, it can effectively isolate most mental attacks.

Moreover, it is a magical artifact that connects the mind and spirit.

If an attack exceeds the protective limit and the barrier is on the verge of collapse, Jemin will immediately be alerted and clearly realize that he may have been hit, thus gaining valuable reaction time.

As he carefully savored the feeling brought by the upgraded magic weapon, Jieming nodded slightly, but a hint of barely perceptible regret still flashed in his eyes.

"I guess it's a half-finished product..." he thought to himself.

In his vision, the most perfect mental protection should not rely solely on the "eternal" properties of adamantite to forcibly counteract it.

The power of incense, containing the beliefs and aspirations of all beings, has a natural restraining and purifying effect on forces such as falsehood and delusion.

This is the ideal "material" for building a mental defense line.

"Once the incense and sacred path is completed and enough incense power has been gathered, it will be refined into this Xuan Gang Red Dust Barrier. Only then will this treasure be truly perfect."

(End of this chapter)