adbindia Chapter 711: New Spell and Departure
Chapter 711: New Spell and Departure
**Chapter 711 New Spell and Departure**
Jie Ming’s consciousness slowly materialized into a physical form in front of the Great Dao Book Pavilion.
He raised his hand and pushed open the white jade doors.
Behind the doors lay an almost endless sea of books. Layer upon layer of bookshelves extended upward like mountain ranges, disappearing into the dark depths where the dome could not be seen. The existence form of Reflection Dimension creatures had already surpassed the coverage of conventional perception methods. Even the All-Purpose Eye could not truly capture their traces.
In the previous encounter, he had survived by forcibly enduring the attacks with his body-forging method. The final monster had only been killed with the help of simulated life-force absorption signals combined with Viola’s Pain Law.
That level of response was far from enough.
Moreover, the plane war he was about to face was also related to the Reflection Dimension. Although theoretically it only involved a group of affiliated races that had luckily obtained relevant knowledge, any unexpected development could be disastrous.
Jie Ming understood very clearly that he needed a method capable of truly perceiving the Reflection Dimension.
His consciousness quickly organized the screening criteria he required: usable by those at or above the Dao Integration Realm, perception-type spells, preferably capable of crossing dimensional barriers, and at minimum able to analyze unconventional forms of existence.
Countless jade slips flew out from the Great Dao Book Pavilion. One after another, they lit up under his conscious touch before quickly dimming again. “Heavenly Eye Penetration”… biased toward farsight and penetrating obstacles.
“Void-Piercing Dharma Eye”… excelled at spatial structure analysis.
“Causal Tracking Technique”… as the name suggested, specialized in tracing karma lines.
“Nine Nether Barrier-Breaking Gaze”… could break barriers and pierce the nether, but still not quite on target.
Introductions to one perception-type spell after another flowed through his mind, only to be ruthlessly filtered out by him.
They were all excellent, even powerful, but none truly hit the exact point he wanted.
Until his consciousness touched a new jade slip.
Five ancient seal characters were engraved on its surface: True-False Void-Piercing Pupil.
Jie Ming’s mind stirred. He sank his consciousness into it.
In the next instant, the complete spell description unfolded within his spiritual sea.
The more he read, the brighter the light in his eyes became.
The core of the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil was not simple “seeing through,” but forcibly stripping away the concepts of “falsehood” and “reality” to directly reveal the fundamental appearance of things.
Disguises, illusions, invisibility, transformations… any method built upon “obscuring” and “misleading” lost all meaning before this pupil technique.
Of course, according to the jade slip’s records, this ability was merely a supplementary effect of the pupil technique.
Because the true essence of this pupil technique was “interpretation.” Once activated, the world within his field of vision would be reconstructed.
Originally invisible spiritual power meridians, Dao rhyme traces, causal echoes, and law patterns would all be transformed into clear, visible images, even directly comprehensible symbols.
The jade slip described it as: it would extract the underlying information of the target and attach a readable manual to all things in the world.
This technique was divided into three realms: Breaking Falsehood, Penetrating Subtlety, and Tracing Origin.
Breaking Falsehood: see through disguises and illusions.
Penetrating Subtlety: analyze energy flows and law structures.
Tracing Origin: trace back to the most fundamental form of existence.
Jie Ming’s hand gripping the jade slip tightened slightly.
His true body possessed two faces and three eyes. The golden vertical eye at the center of his forehead was naturally an ideal carrier for all kinds of pupil techniques.
Furthermore, he already possessed the dual enhancements of the All-Purpose Eye and the Fate Subsystem, giving him information processing capabilities far surpassing wizards of the same rank. The core ability of the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil was precisely information interpretation.
With all three combined, it was enough to elevate his already extremely strong information processing ability another level.
More importantly, this pupil technique could transform the invisible into visible images or symbols.
For something like the Reflection Dimension—“unseen, untouchable, yet undeniably existent”—even a little extra visual cue could completely change the situation in actual combat.
Against conventional enemies, the Breaking Falsehood realm’s ability to see through illusions and invisibility was also an extremely powerful supportive capability.
This was the one!
He no longer hesitated. He exited the Great Dao Book Pavilion, and his consciousness returned to his physical body.
Inside the quiet chamber, Jie Ming slowly opened his eyes.
The golden vertical eye at his forehead closed for a moment, then began reconstructing the spiritual power meridians deep within the pupil according to the methods of the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil. It was an extremely precise transformation; the slightest deviation could destabilize the entire spiritual structure of the vertical eye.
However, for Jie Ming, who was in the Dao Integration Realm, the cultivation process was exceptionally simple.
Time flowed quietly during cultivation. In the blink of an eye, several months had passed.
Until one day, the door of the quiet chamber was pushed open from within.
When Jie Ming walked out, his outward appearance showed no difference from several months ago.
But when the vertical eye at his forehead slowly opened, a slowly rotating pale silver ring of light emerged deep within the pupil, resembling a stellar vortex. That ring was like an invisible whirlpool, continuously drawing in the surrounding light and information, as if it wanted to pull the entire world into the depths of the pupil to be dismantled and analyzed one by one.
Jie Ming did not linger. He turned and returned to the laboratory.
He casually picked up a high-purity energy crystal from the workbench, raised his eyes, and aimed the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil at it.
The pale silver stellar vortex rotated slightly.
In the next moment, lines of information appeared out of thin air beside the crystal.
It was not any text he recognized, but a stream of information that mapped directly into the depths of his consciousness.
It was the “annotation” generated in his field of vision after the pupil technique extracted the crystal’s underlying information.
The annotation was detailed to an almost ridiculous degree.
Component purity, energy reserves, crystallization temperature, environmental pressure during formation, rough estimates of mining time and current storage duration… even which mineral vein the crystal originally came from and how many transfers it had undergone before arriving at the laboratory were clearly marked.
The pupil within Jie Ming’s forehead vertical eye contracted imperceptibly.
This felt exactly like opening an item in a game and having a full page of attribute panels pop up.
Or rather, more like a reconnaissance spell.
“Attaching a readable manual to all things in the world…”
He murmured the description from the jade slip, his expression subtle, his tone carrying a rare trace of astonishment.
“…This isn’t a metaphor?!”
He placed the crystal back in its original position and instead took out a fist-sized sealed orb from the nearby sealing cabinet.
On the surface of the orb, dark green and gray-white light patterns flowed slowly. Inside, a wisp of shadow floated quietly, like some living creature sleeping in the abyss. This was the Reflection Dimension creature he had received. It was relatively small in size and had been stored in his laboratory ever since Serlas had processed it with standard dimensional sealing techniques.
Previously, Jie Ming had scanned it dozens of times with the All-Purpose Eye.
Each time, he had only received information related to the sealed orb itself. There had been no progress whatsoever regarding the thing inside. If he couldn’t see it directly with his eyes, Jie Ming would have even suspected the thing didn’t exist.
This time, he raised his hand and aimed the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil at the sealed orb.
The pale silver stellar vortex rotated gently. After two full turns, the annotations finally appeared.
Compared to the crystal, the information that appeared this time was at least eighty percent less.
There was no name, no species classification, and no explanations that could be called “detailed.”
But there was indeed a line of information that no previous detection method had been able to obtain, now clearly displayed in his field of vision.
It was a status annotation:
Life Signs: Dormant State.
Dimensional Ripple Intensity: 0.003 level.
Current Dimensional Pressure Differential: Stable.
Dimensional Coordinates: … (garbled).
In addition, there were some scattered fragments of information.
Looking at this information, Jie Ming slowly curled the corners of his mouth.
No matter how little there was, the fact that it could be read represented the difference between zero and one.
This proved that the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil could indeed penetrate dimensional barriers and access information from the Reflection Dimension.
Although the Tracing Origin realm was still far away, as long as he could advance to the Penetrating Subtlety realm, his dimensional perception ability might not be unable to approach the level of specialized wizards like Serlas.
The dimensional coordinates were currently garbled, but once the pupil technique’s level increased and he could decipher them in the future, it would mean he could reverse-engineer dimensional positioning technology from them.
Overall, Jie Ming was very satisfied with the spell he had chosen.
Jie Ming closed the sealing cabinet, casually picked up the magic network terminal, sent a short message to Viola, and then pushed open the door and left the laboratory.
In the main control room, Viola was sitting on a high edge, her legs dangling and swinging gently, holding a cup of steaming beverage.
Her Law Solidification Domain spread out a circle of gray-white halo around her, as if maintaining some kind of perceptual training with the Pain Law at an extremely light intensity.
“Senior Sister, help me look after the Infernal Sulfur plane.” Jie Ming went straight to the point.
Viola raised her cup slightly. Her tone was lazy, but her eyes were serious.
“No problem. Leave it to me and you can rest easy. But rather than worrying about the Infernal Sulfur plane, you should worry about yourself. Although you do seem capable of enduring it, you still need to be careful on this mission.”
“Understood.” Jie Ming said calmly, “Before I return, Avery Knight and the others should have finished the final round of searches. After that, an engineering team will begin the fusion project between the Tentacle Tree plane and the Infernal Sulfur plane. I’ve already entered all the relevant permissions and procedures into the main control array. Just follow the steps.”
“Got it, got it.” Viola waved at him as if shooing away a reluctant pet. “Hurry up and go.”
Jie Ming nodded slightly and said nothing more.
After thinking for a moment, he connected the magic network terminal to the main control network and initiated a remote communication with Avery Knight.
A light screen expanded in the air, projecting Avery Knight’s figure.
“Avery Knight, how are things progressing on your side?” Jie Ming asked.
Avery Knight nodded slightly, his tone as steady as always. “Same as before. No major gains.” He paused, his gaze shifting slightly as if observing real-time data from the plane’s boundary.
“Also, it looks like you’re planning to take on the conscription mission. In that case, I have an additional proposal.”
Jie Ming nodded without interrupting, listening quietly.
Avery Knight continued, “Before we leave, we can help you pre-install part of the plane-level arrays for the Tentacle Tree plane. Consider it a small compensation for the resource allocation on this mission of yours.”
His tone was calm, but the content was far from light.
“After all, during this search operation, we did obtain quite a few benefits from that plane’s structure. Therefore, completing part of the high-rank array arrangements in advance is a reasonable return.”
“The more important reason, of course, is that your plane has already experienced an invasion from the Reflection Dimension. Although the probability of major issues is low, for safety’s sake, it’s better to reinforce it several more times… After all, you wouldn’t want a Reflection Dimension channel to suddenly open in your plane at some unknown time, would you?”
Jie Ming imagined that scenario and his expression darkened. He couldn’t help but nod.
After such a long time, he had gained a basic understanding of the Reflection Dimension.
The opening of a Reflection Dimension channel did not necessarily mean Reflection creatures would appear. Due to the characteristics of the Reflection Dimension itself, the channel’s existence might not even be detectable.
However, the massive destruction caused by the dimensional differential between the two dimensions would absolutely occur!
He raised his hand and made a gentle swipe. A complex plane structure diagram appeared in the projection.
After the Tentacle Tree plane merged into the Infernal Sulfur plane, the original universe-type plane would definitely change into a continent-type structure like the Infernal Sulfur plane. Without enough vast cosmic space as a buffer, even a single channel opening would be an enormous loss.
“So we can pre-fabricate the core connection arrays and spatial bridge structures in advance. This will not only increase safety, but when the engineering team arrives, they will only need to perform low-rank splicing and stabilization. Overall efficiency should increase by at least three times.” Avery Knight continued.
Jie Ming’s expression showed some gratitude. “Then I’ll trouble you. I will open the node permissions.”
“That’s enough.” Avery Knight nodded. “Don’t worry. With me watching, they won’t overstep and will only handle the structural layer.”
The light screen went out.
The main control room fell quiet again.
Viola leaned over from the high edge to glance at the communication interface that had just ended and clicked her tongue.
“Your treatment is really exaggerated.”
“Plane-level arrays being installed for you directly, and by academy-level wizards personally handling the structural pre-fabrication… When I did missions back then, I had to set up even a stable foothold myself.”
There was a clear note of imbalance in her tone.
Jie Ming did not respond immediately. Instead, something occurred to him and he tilted his head slightly. “You don’t have a plane?”
Viola paused. The air was quiet for half a second.
Sensing the awkward atmosphere, Jie Ming suddenly felt he might have said the wrong thing.
Then Viola let out a cold laugh. “Of course I don’t.”
“I drifted in the Endless Chaotic Void for several thousand years. I’ve seen plenty of planes and conquered quite a few—but not a single one ‘fell under my name.’”
She paused for a moment, and her tone suddenly turned dangerous.
“What, are you mocking me?”
Jie Ming saw Viola jump down from the high edge and immediately panicked, waving his hands in denial.
“Wait! You misunderstood…”
“I’m going to bite you to death!!!”
“Ah!!”
After finally pulling his head out of Viola’s mouth, Jie Ming checked the task link on the magic network terminal one last time. The coordinates and information sent by Avery Knight had all been loaded. The official task name was nothing more than a cold string of numbers.
The issuer was a seventh-ring wizard named “Broadleaf” under the Noren Workshop.
Jie Ming was somewhat surprised when he saw the title. “Hm! A true-name wizard with no title…”
The brief background attached to the link was straightforward: A medium-sized plane under Wizard Broadleaf’s command had a small-scale resistance army capable of connecting to the Reflection Dimension. A wizard capable of directly resisting dimensional channel attacks was needed to assist in the cleanup.
The reward column clearly stated:
All technical materials and physical equipment related to the Reflection Dimension seized during the mission shall belong to the executor.
After confirming there were no issues, Jie Ming closed the terminal and stepped onto the spatial teleportation array.
As Jie Ming input the coordinates provided in the task, silvery-white light lit up sequentially from the edges of the array. Beams of light activated layer by layer along the rune patterns.
His figure gradually blurred within the rising sea of light and finally disappeared.