Jie Ming sat cross-legged in the meditation chamber deep within the main laboratory.
The walls were lined with star-core metal plates, each surface densely engraved with runes layered upon layers, completely isolating external interference.
The Five Elements Rainbow Mirror floated beside him, helping coordinate his spiritual energy.
On the side, instrument screens expanded one by one, displaying the elemental concentration, spatial stability, and mental fluctuation amplitude in the chamber. All data remained steadily in the green range.
The promotion preparations were complete.
"Hoo... let's begin."
Jie Ming slowly closed all his eyes, his consciousness sinking into his spiritual sea.
The next moment, within the Truth Ring, the gold thread representing the Law of Spiritual Energy began to unwind from its coiled state at a slow and steady pace. As it peeled away from the ring's surface, the light it released tinged the entire spiritual sea with a soft, dark gold hue.
More than a dozen other law gold threads retreated to the sides, clearing a path toward the very center of the Truth Ring.
Simultaneously, inside the Truth Ring, the already condensed Law-Crystallization Domain prototype began to rotate slowly.
It had originally been only a vague halo, its outline hazy, its boundaries indistinct.
But as the Law of Spiritual Energy's gold thread approached, the edges of that halo began to stabilize, its internal structure unfolding layer by layer, like a flower slowly blooming in the morning light.
Jie Ming watched all this quietly, feeling the changes in between, and gradually came to understand.
The Law-Crystallization Domain, in essence, is a simplified imitation of a plane.
In a wizard's knowledge system, a complete plane consists of two core elements: the planar origin and the plane itself.
The planar origin provides information to form rules, while the plane itself relies on those rules to drive elemental circulation, creating energy, matter, time, and space. The law gold threads condensed in a sixth-level wizard's spiritual sea—especially the core law that has reached 100% mastery—play the role of the planar origin.
They carry all the wizard's understanding and information about that law.
As for the Law-Crystallization Domain, it is driven by that gold thread, projecting and manifesting the wizard's mental will into the material world, thus playing the role of the plane itself.
Therefore, after obtaining the Law-Crystallization Domain, a wizard can forcibly breach a planar barrier even without a wizard tower (plane). Because in essence, it is a miniature plane simulated by the wizard himself, confronting or merging with the real plane.
As long as this simulated plane is stable enough, it can open a gap in the real planar barrier.
This also explains why, once a sixth-level wizard completes the breakthrough, they can manipulate the planar origin.
Because within their spiritual sea, they already have a miniature planar origin that is homologous in essence to the real one, so naturally it can integrate and infiltrate the planar origin, thereby competing for control.
So, how does the prototype of the Law-Crystallization Domain come about?
Jie Ming's consciousness continued to sink.
He passed through the light of the Law of Spiritual Energy's gold thread, through the rune layers of the Truth Ring, through the layered echoes of his spiritual sea, all the way to the very bottom. There, he saw the spiritual fire that had been kindled since his apprentice stage.
That fire had always burned.
From apprentice to formal wizard; from first-level to fifth-level.
It had always been the foundation of all a wizard's power.
And the prototype of the Law-Crystallization Domain was precisely the result of tempering one's will through that spiritual fire, then adjusting and amplifying it via the Truth Ring, ultimately obtaining a special power that could be projected into the material world.
He suddenly understood.
The Law-Crystallization Domain, in essence, is the direct manifestation of one's own thinking breaking through the soul's limitations into the material world.
That is... turning thought into reality.
Jie Ming had previously thought that wizards' exploration of the ninth-level ability of "manifesting one's wishes" only began to take shape with the eighth-level "law fixation."
But now it seemed that the starting point was much earlier than he had imagined.
Sixth-level wizards already possess the most primitive and original prototype of "manifesting one's wishes."
However, at this stage, the external manifestation of thought is very limited.
It can only mimic the structure of a plane, internally using the law gold thread as the information core, while externally this information drives elements to operate according to the rules understood by the wizard.
Any "wishing" beyond this scope cannot be turned into "reality."
One cannot create matter out of nothing, alter established physical laws, or directly erase the existence of an enemy.
But within this scope, the wizard is the legislator in their own domain.
Jie Ming took a deep breath and refocused his consciousness on the Law-Crystallization Domain that was taking shape.
The gold thread of the Law of Spiritual Energy had completely detached from the Truth Ring, suspended at the center of the domain, beginning to radiate dark-gold law fluctuations outward. The domain's boundaries had also shifted from blurred to clear.
It gradually transformed from a halo into a thin, semi-transparent membrane.
That membrane slowly expanded outward, centered on him.
During this expansion, his thinking also extended outward along with the domain.
When the membrane reached the "boundary" of his physical body, Jie Ming could clearly feel resistance.
But with the Truth Ring and spiritual fire continuously supplying power, the membrane finally broke through the limit of his body and truly spread outward.
In that instant, Jie Ming felt a difference.
The information from the entire outside world presented itself in his perception with unprecedented clarity.
It was no longer just scanning or sensing; these things had become part of his body.
This feeling was still faint, and the coverage only extended to the entire meditation chamber, but the experience of merging with the plane was enough to confirm his judgment.
When the Law-Crystallization Domain finally stabilized, the entire chamber was filled with a soft, dark-gold light.
The light was not dazzling; in fact, it seemed quite gentle.
But if someone stood inside this light and focused, they would notice that the operation of all elements had subtly changed. The free four elements no longer moved randomly; they were all smoothed out.
This is the first practical function of the Law-Crystallization Domain: immunity to the erosion of elemental turbulence in the Endless Chaotic Void.
All elements entering the domain, whether from the outside or from the wizard himself, are automatically smoothed upon contact with the domain's boundary, rearranged and operated according to the rules understood by the wizard.
This process not only consumes no energy but, due to the increased efficiency of elemental operation, provides an additional boost.
At the same time, with the Law-Crystallization Domain, even when traveling to planes where the logical operation of laws differs greatly from the native plane, the wizard will not be suppressed by the plane's rules. Instead, they can continue to manipulate elements according to the rules they understand.
At this moment, the promotion to sixth-level wizard was successful!
Jie Ming slowly opened his eyes.
In his vertical brow eye, he saw the dark-gold runes slowly flowing along the boundary of the Law-Crystallization Domain.
He raised his hand, opened his palm, and drew a wisp of the purest element from the domain.
That wisp of element fell into his palm and spontaneously transformed into spiritual energy.
During this process, Jie Ming did not rely on the conversion system of the Incense Faith Path; instead, his domain directly forced the rule of "converting elements into spiritual energy"—which he had studied for thousands of years—onto reality.
Although what he could achieve now was still basic, only converting elements into spiritual energy, and the conversion efficiency was far lower than that of the Incense Fire Divine Dao system, with a very limited coverage range,
As a starting point, it was enough!