After a few excited attempts, Jie Ming felt that the Law-Crystallization Domain was still not stable enough.
He sat back down, closed his eyes, and began to fine-tune and stabilize his Law-Crystallization Domain.
A few hours later, the dark gold Law-Crystallization Domain in the quiet room had stabilized.
The light membrane spread out from his seated position, just covering the entire room.
Although the boundary was still not wide, he could clearly feel that it was expanding outward at a slow but exceptionally steady rate. It felt like a newly sprouted seedling.
It looked fragile, but given time, it would eventually grow into a towering tree.
However, Jie Ming did not stop there.
He still sat cross-legged in place, his consciousness sinking into his spiritual sea.
On the Ring of Truth, the golden line representing the Spiritual Qi Law hung in the very center, radiating dark golden law fluctuations that stabilized the domain's foundation.
But the existing Spiritual Qi Law had only just reached the basics needed to condense a Law-Crystallization Domain. Relying solely on the Spiritual Qi Law, the domain's structure was still not stable enough. So, Jie Ming began to add some “supplements.”
He incorporated the other dozen or so golden law lines entwined around the Ring of Truth into the domain framework one by one.
However, these golden law lines were not fully integrated by Jie Ming.
The foundation of the Law-Crystallization Domain was ultimately the Spiritual Qi Law.
If he forcibly poured in all the other laws, whose mastery had long exceeded 100%, they would only overwhelm the main axis and disrupt the domain. Therefore, for each golden law line, he only extracted the portion below 100% law mastery, embedding them into the domain as “auxiliary structures.”
In this way, they would not compete for dominance.
Soon, these golden law lines slowly revolved around the main axis of the Spiritual Qi Law, supplementing the domain's details, strengthening its boundaries, and optimizing its operational efficiency.
As these lines embedded bit by bit, the originally somewhat thin dark gold light membrane began to contract and compact, and the ripples at the edges gradually subsided.
The flow of elements within the domain began to exhibit a layered sense of order, as if a loose river had been forcibly channeled into a proper course, finally achieving a truly controllable flow.
Feeling all this, Jie Ming's heart gradually settled.
In this way, his Law-Crystallization Domain had finally firmly established its foundation.
Stretching his muscles, Jie Ming stood up and pushed open the door of the quiet room.
In the main laboratory, the cold blue illumination light fell quietly as always.
The indicator light of the magical net terminal was blinking, signaling a new message.
Jie Ming casually tapped it open, and a light screen popped up with a transfer notification.
It was from Viola.
From the remarks, it was the payment for the intelligence from the Multiracial Alliance outpost.
“Huh? I didn't spend that much time breaking through.”
Jie Ming sensed his biological clock and confirmed that this breakthrough, including the subsequent stabilization, had taken less than a day.
“So fast? It seems this thing really sells well.”
Jie Ming glanced at the number and raised an eyebrow slightly.
Fifty billion low-level military merits.
Considering that, according to the previous agreement, he only got half of the total.
That meant this intelligence had ultimately sold for a full one trillion low-level military merits!
“Whew...” Jie Ming couldn't help but inhale sharply.
Even for someone of his wealth, this price was quite astonishing.
This number was much higher than he had anticipated.
But thinking about it carefully, it was understandable that it could sell for this price.
When he and Viola had discussed it earlier, they had finally confirmed that this intelligence would be settled in low-level military merits.
In fact, intelligence of this level could also be exchanged for high-level military merits.
But if they exchanged it for high-level military merits, Viola estimated she could only sell it for about two or three billion.
Although not a small amount, it wasn't suitable for their current situation.
Judging from the high-level resources that could be exchanged, the value difference between high-level military merits and low-level military merits was only ten times, but the actual gap was certainly not that small.
Because they couldn't be exchanged for each other, and high-level military merits were more valuable and harder to obtain, in actual transactions, when intelligence or information that could be traded for high-level military merits was traded for low-level military merits, the premium was quite significant.
Compared to each person getting only a dozen billion high-level military merits after splitting, the larger amount of low-level military merits was more suitable for him and Viola. They were not short of high-level military merits at the moment; what they lacked were low-level military merits that could be directly used to purchase basic materials, repay debts, remodel planets, and pay the army's wages.
A light thought flashed through Jie Ming's mind: It seems I underestimated the premium gap between high-level and low-level military merits.
But Viola was quick; she found a buyer so fast.
With these military merits, the financial problems Jie Ming was facing could be alleviated to a large extent.
The first thing, naturally, was to repay debts.
He opened the transfer confirmation interface and cleared the remaining debt of over two hundred billion owed to his mentor Clark in one go.
As the confirmation button was pressed, the successful transfer notification popped up on the magical net terminal, lightening his mood.
With the debt cleared, the remaining military merits were all transferred into the procurement budget.
Jie Ming directly opened the Star Ring Federation's military supplies trading platform and began placing orders in bulk.
Stellar Core Fusion Metal, Life Crystals, Law Stabilizers, High-Purity Element Catalyst, Time-Sequence Interference Crystals...
The materials needed for the latter half of the Creation System's construction were all consumed in units of tons.
The shopping list on the light screen scrolled down, and the terminal balance dropped visibly.
But Jie Ming wasn't distressed; these were necessary expenses.
There were two main methods to improve the Law-Crystallization Domain: one was slow growth over time, and the other was naturally to increase one's mastery of laws.
After perfecting the Creation System, his mastery of the Spiritual Qi Law would increase by a notch, and his entire Law-Crystallization Domain would expand significantly. It would take some time for the materials to arrive; this gap could be used to do something else.
He leaned back in his chair, thought for a moment, and soon had an idea.
Having just broken through to Level 6, his Law-Crystallization Domain was still too weak. Whether using it to fuse planar origins or to resist the elemental turbulence in the Endless Chaotic Void, the danger was too great.
But besides these two general effects, Jie Ming also knew another use of the Law-Crystallization Domain: empowering wizard artifacts.
Allowing wizard artifacts to obtain effects similar to the Law-Crystallization Domain.
This was a technique that wizards skilled in alchemy would study.
The wizard artifacts of the Wizard Civilization were products screened through countless wars and long periods of time.
The vast majority of combat wizard artifacts pursued one word: stability.
Cheap, durable, and adaptable to any environment.
No matter which law-based plane they were in, they could at least play the most basic role.
But there were also some highly precise wizard artifacts that could fail due to differences in laws between different planes.
For example, spatial-type wizard artifacts.
These items were extremely sensitive to spatial parameters and would lose effect when moved to another plane.
Once empowered by the Law-Crystallization Domain, these precise wizard artifacts would acquire characteristics similar to the domain itself, allowing them to maintain stable operation regardless of differences in planar laws.
The most typical example was the spatial ring.
Jie Ming himself had the Inner World, which had long replaced the function of a spatial ring, so he didn't feel much about this aspect.
But many wizards below Level 6 found the problem of “how to carry enough supplies during cross-plane combat” extremely troublesome. Conventional spatial expansion bags could only be used in planes with specific spatial parameters; they couldn't be opened in another plane.
To carry more items, many wizards even specially cultivated sealing arts, just to compress and seal supplies for easy transport.
Although Jie Ming had no storage worries, his self-developed Talisman Imprint Rune Artifacts had always had an unavoidable problem.
The core principle of Talisman Imprint Rune Artifacts was to use the energy control techniques of the immortal cultivation system to enhance wizardry, requiring extremely high precision in external elemental fluctuation data. Changing planes meant having to recollect the elemental fluctuation data of the new plane and then use the automated factory in the Inner World to rewrite the core runes before they could be used normally.
For a long time, when fighting in new planes, he couldn't exert his full strength immediately.
The main reason Jie Ming later used a large number of special wizard artifacts that stored modified spells—aside from the fact that the modified Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light and Return to Ruins Armor were indeed strong—was that Talisman Imprint Rune Artifacts had poor adaptability and were inconvenient on the plane battlefield.
Now, with the Law-Crystallization Domain, this problem could finally be solved.
Talisman Imprint Rune Artifacts could finally be taken up again.
Thinking of this, Jie Ming almost didn't hesitate and immediately purchased a batch of relevant alchemy technical materials from the magical net terminal.
These techniques were not difficult to begin with; with his current learning ability, a few hours were enough to complete initial mastery.
However, Jie Ming didn't start modifying complex Talisman Imprint Rune Artifacts right away. Instead, he decided to practice with a few simple artifacts first.
He took out several standard-specification superalloy substrates from the material library, turned on the elemental furnace, raised the required elemental fluctuations to the specified range, and then began his first formal refining.
The light of alchemy rose from his fingertips.
That light, like a gentle stream, slowly spread across the substrate's surface.
Relying on the effects of alchemy, the metal molecules were rearranged under the traction of spiritual power, gradually shaping according to the preset rune structure. At the same time, Jie Ming slowly unfolded his just-formed Law-Crystallization Domain.
The dark gold light membrane extended from his palm, like an extremely thin sheet of water, silently covering the surface of the material.
Alchemy was responsible for reshaping the wizard artifact's structure at the physical level, while the Law-Crystallization Domain simultaneously penetrated at a deeper structural level. This was the essence of “empowerment.”
In simple terms, it meant incorporating the Law-Crystallization Domain as part of the material, “mixing” it into the artifact's internal structure.
Alchemy was responsible for shaping.
The Law-Crystallization Domain was responsible for imparting rules.
When the two overlapped, the material elements composing the wizard artifact would form a set of miniature rule operation logic, allowing the artifact to obtain a portion of the domain's characteristics.
In other words, a very small but real “miniature Law-Crystallization Domain” would be born inside the wizard artifact.
For the first practice artifact, Jie Ming deliberately chose a simple type, so it took shape quickly.
Jie Ming held it in his palm and carefully scanned its internal structure with the All-Purpose Eye.
“Hmm... barely half successful,” Jie Ming commented.
Inside that artifact, a very small Law-Crystallization Domain had indeed formed. The operation of elements within this miniature domain was completely unaffected by the external environment.
But the problem was that this miniature domain was not stable.
The aura of the internal Law-Crystallization Domain was decaying at a very slow rate.
He made a rough estimate: if not re-empowered, it would probably only last about half a month.
Obviously, it was still because he wasn't skilled enough.
“The synchronous infiltration operation of alchemy and the Law-Crystallization Domain still has plenty of room for optimization. The circulation logic inside the domain also needs to be readjusted to get as close as possible to the effect of permanent empowerment.” Jie Ming recorded the experience of this failure.
Besides that, Jie Ming also discovered an extremely interesting phenomenon.
According to the technical material's description, empowering a wizard artifact with the Law-Crystallization Domain involved “cutting” a part from the domain and fusing it into the artifact as material.
But he didn't feel any weakening in his Law-Crystallization Domain.
After thinking about it, Jie Ming placed that artifact into the Isolation Array, completely cutting off all external interference.
After moving it far away from the coverage of his Law-Crystallization Domain, Jie Ming carefully inspected his own Law-Crystallization Domain, but found that the domain's range and intensity had not diminished at all.
“Interesting...” Jie Ming quietly sensed for a moment.
Then, he repeatedly simulated this phenomenon in his spiritual sea for several rounds, gradually sorting out the clue.
The Law-Crystallization Domain is essentially the manifestation of thought breaking through the soul's limitations in the material world.
At its root, it is the power of thought.
And thought has one fundamental characteristic: it does not diminish because it is used.
Thinking once does not result in losing the ability to think once.
Recalling a memory does not cause that memory to be forgotten.
Since the Law-Crystallization Domain retains the essential characteristics of thought, then theoretically, it should also not be consumed by being “used.” Moreover, because the Law-Crystallization Domain is itself the materialization of thought, in a sense, it is already a preliminary form of creation from nothing. ...Although, due to the particularity of the Law-Crystallization Domain, no additional energy or matter is created out of thin air in this process.
Jie Ming leaned back in his chair, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the practice artifact he had just refined, the look in his eyes gradually deepening.
The Wizard Civilization's planning for its own development path was more refined than he had imagined.
It turned out that the two core characteristics of Level 9—infinite power and wish fulfillment—already had preliminary traces at Level 6.
The Law-Crystallization Domain is the external manifestation of thought, the earliest prototype of wish fulfillment.
And the fact that empowering an artifact does not consume the domain itself already faintly hints at the beginnings of infinite power.
Starting from Level 6, every level simultaneously approaches these two ultimate goals.
No wonder wizards above Level 6 are called high-level wizards.
No wonder the higher the wizard's level, the stronger their ability to fight above their rank against creatures of other civilizations.
On the surface, it seems like wizards are fighting above their level.
But in reality, every high-level wizard already grasps a part of the Level 9 characteristics.
The higher the level, the more complete the grasp.
In battles below Level 9, it appears that wizards are fighting above their level, but in essence, it is a high-level fighting against a low-level.
It is a reverse out-of-level battle where Level 9 characteristics fight against non-Level 9 ones.