Viola came and went in a whirlwind, as if this visit was truly just to say goodbye and introduce Anger.

Jeming was already accustomed to this; when Professor Clark "entrusted" him to Viola back then, the process was just as brief and almost perfunctory.

Between wizards, especially those like them focused on their own path, communication often goes straight to the core, with little redundant pleasantries.

After sending off the two people, Jeming’s consciousness once again immersed into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, fully dedicating himself to the final construction work of the Incense Fire Divine Dao.

Time flew by swiftly in focused research and practice.

Forty more years passed.

On this day, Jeming carefully engraved the last composite rune array carrying the core rules onto a crucial node in the plane’s energy veins.

When the final stroke of the rune lit up and perfectly resonated with the entire massive network, merging into one, he let out a long breath.

Suppressing his inner excitement, he quickly returned to the laboratory located at the core of the plane’s array.

Activating the surveillance array, comprehensive scan data instantly appeared.

The surface of the plane was still that eternal blazing purgatory scene.

Seas of lava surged, the Black Giant colonies migrated, seemingly with no visible changes to the naked eye.

However, in Jeming’s precise energy perception instruments, the energy flow lines representing the Incense Fire Divine Dao system were lighting up steadily and orderly, beginning to operate in a cycle as if injected with life!

Moreover, in a more mysterious aspect, Jeming could clearly feel the changes in the plane relying on his Nascent Soul Cultivator’s special perception of the spiritual mechanism.

He clearly "saw" a brand new cycle system, distinct from elemental energy, quietly cover and permeate the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane like a delicate neural network.

Incense Fire Divine Dao, accomplished!

At the moment of confirming the completion of the Divine Dao construction, it was as if some invisible barrier was broken.

In Jeming’s mind, countless fragments of knowledge gathered over nearly a thousand years from the Great Dao Book Pavilion about the essence of Spiritual Qi, the derivation of runes, the hub of arrays, and the condensation of faith collided and integrated at an unprecedented speed like attracted stars!

With the help of this sudden sorting of knowledge, many previously obscure areas suddenly became clear.

A realization naturally flowed into his heart.

When he came back to his senses from that profound state of knowledge integration, he slightly sensed and discovered that the fluctuations of his spiritual power had clearly risen a level.

More condensed, vast, with energy interactions with the surrounding world becoming more acute and deep.

Third Level Wizard!

He had successfully advanced!

Moreover, Jeming could clearly sense that he was by no means an ordinary Third Level Wizard.

Designing and successfully constructing an Incense Fire Divine Dao system that covers an entire plane independently, even though it’s just an initial framework now, his understanding and application of the Law of Spiritual Qi have reached an astonishing depth in this process.

He roughly estimated that his mastery of the Spiritual Qi Law might have reached over 5%!

This means that in terms of law comprehension, he even surpassed many Fourth Level Wizards.

However, due to the limitations of the current Third Level Wizard’s spiritual power amount and quality, he can at most steadily exert the power corresponding to nearly 1% law mastery level.

But this undoubtedly shows that Jeming’s choice back then was not wrong. When he completely constructs the Incense Fire Divine Dao, even though his grasp of the Spiritual Qi rule may not reach 100%, it would not be far off.

In his joy, Jeming’s gaze scanned the energy consumption monitoring array connected to the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool, and the readings made him gasp.

"No wonder... the literature from the Great Dao Book Pavilion emphasized that at least a star-level energy source is needed to support the construction of the Incense Fire Divine Dao..."

This energy consumption is truly overwhelming!

Over the past years, maintaining ten incubation pools at full power, nurturing nearly six hundred million Black Giants, conducting various alchemy experiments, sustaining the inner space and the automatic factory... all these combined added up to less than one-tenth of the total output power of the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool.

And now, just constructing the Incense Fire Divine Dao and maintaining basic operation alone, its energy consumption directly soared to one-tenth of the total power of the Elemental Pool!

Jeming estimated from the design blueprint that when the Incense Fire Divine Dao is fully built, with all functional modules online and running stably, its energy consumption might take up over eighty percent of the output power of the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool!

"Thankfully... thankfully I gritted my teeth and opted for the Seventh Level Elemental Pool," Jeming felt a chill of fright and relief.

If back then I had chosen the Sixth Level to save military merits, he probably wouldn’t even be able to start now, and the entire grand plan would end due to insufficient energy.

This "extravagant waste" step was crucial.

Now, the main framework of the Incense Fire Divine Dao has been constructed and is running stably.

The next task is to add various specific functional modules to it.

For example, collecting and automatically refining the Power of Incense, perfecting cross-space energy transmission protocols, and refining the guidance and feedback on the "societal" attributes of the Black Giant group.

These belong to the "fine decoration" category and can be done slowly, no longer needing to race against time like before.

Calculating the time, there are only a dozen years left until his next mandatory military service.

Jeming felt it was time to temporarily shift his focus from plane construction to preparing for the upcoming Plane Battlefield.

He carefully felt his own state.

Advancing to Third Level Wizard didn’t bring about the qualitative change similar to each Great Realm breakthrough in the Cultivation Immortality system.

On the wizard’s path, besides the key transitions of life form and spiritual power in the first two levels, the subsequent advancements are more akin to an expansion and refinement of spiritual power when knowledge accumulates to a certain extent.

Unless multiple levels are crossed at once, the immediate improvement of combat power won’t be obvious; rather, it’s more a boost in potential and the liberation of power upper limits.

"So, in the next dozen years, where should the focus be?" Jeming began to design and plan.

Knowledge is the wizard’s combat power.

With his mastery of the Law of Spiritual Qi far exceeding the current level, the usual Third Level Wizard knowledge poses little challenge for him. The key lies in how to transform this law comprehension into actual combat power.

He quickly clarified his thoughts: "The primary task is to research and manufacture Third Level Talisman Witchcraft."

This is the most effective way to directly enhance immediate combat power.

With his understanding of the Spiritual Qi Law and elements now, he is fully capable of designing Third Level Talisman Witchcraft with greater power and stranger functions, ensuring sufficient self-preservation and breakthrough abilities on the battlefield.

"Secondly... perhaps it’s time to start exploring spatial knowledge." This thought had lingered in his mind for a long time.

Whether it’s the Spatial Ability of the mutant snake-spider, further development of inner space, or more advanced applications possibly involved in the future, spatial knowledge is critical.

Although extremely difficult, actually since advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm, Jeming has already had the preliminary qualification to observe and affect spatial power.

But since he hadn’t had spare time, it’s always been delayed, and now, perhaps he can start attempting some foundational exploration and trials.

Having clarified his goals, Jeming didn’t delay further.

His consciousness delved into the laboratory’s database, starting to consult relevant materials on elemental structure, energy compression technology, and introductory theories on space.

After all, a dozen years is not a leisurely period for research, he must utilize it efficiently.