Recalling Blake’s face on the communication light screen, which was somewhat twisted from excessive excitement before hurriedly disconnecting, Jeming smirked.

"This guy... what exactly did he experience on that plane? Like he stumbled upon a mountain of gold." He muttered under his breath.

Blake’s frenzied procurement behavior after his return indeed drew attention.

He came rushing in, almost emptying his entire savings, sweeping clean all the Liquid Refined Gold in Jeming’s inventory, and then placed orders for a dozen "Mental Barrier Bracelets."

Judging by his demeanor, it seemed he was pawning off everything he owned.

When it came time for payment, he found he was still short, so he simply used some of the precious biological samples and unknown materials he had seized in that plane war as compensatory trade with Jeming.

"Could he be thinking of becoming a middleman?" Jeming mused, stroking his chin as he guessed Blake’s motivations, then shrugged indifferently, "Whatever, let him be, I’m making enough profit anyway."

After mastering the core "Elemental Qi Transformation Technology," Jeming finally broke free from the manpower limitations during the refinement of Refined Gold, enabling automated refining using various arrays from the Cultivation Realm.

With the automated refinement process, the cost of Liquid Refined Gold was astonishingly low.

Its primary material was just ordinary gold, subjected to conceptual purification and form transformation through complex arrays, with the only hard cost being the military merits spent on purchasing gold.

Even accounting for the significant material loss during refinement, the comprehensive cost to prepare an amount of Liquid Refined Gold for a standard one-year consumption of a bracelet didn’t exceed five military merits!

And what was the price he sold to Blake?

A hundred thousand military merits per year!

The profit in this is beyond wild; it’s practically alchemy!

Therefore, Jeming didn’t care how high a price Blake could resell it for.

In fact, if Blake could truly promote the "Mental Barrier Bracelet" and create a stable sales channel, Jeming felt he would probably be in full support.

After all, this would save him the trouble of market expansion.

Not focusing on these matters anymore, his attention was quickly drawn to the two things Blake provided: a detailed combat data record, and a giant beast tissue sample sealed using spatial compression technology, which emitted strange spiritual fluctuations.

"Able to create illusions that affect reality... does it involve phenomena in the law of reality transformation? Interesting, an excellent research specimen indeed." Jeming gazed at the massive sample, his eyes sparkling with intrigued light.

Thus, in the following decades, Jeming’s research schedule became even fuller.

In addition to continuously delving into the Incense Fire Divine Dao, analyzing the Divine Power Faith Network, and tackling the stack of "Seventh Level Large Element Pool User Manuals," his worklist grew by two new items: analyzing the actual combat data provided by Blake, and deeply researching the unique illusion techniques contained within that giant beast sample.

The research progressed steadily, and another surprise came from Blake.

Over the decades, somehow, Blake indeed managed to promote the "Mental Barrier Bracelet" and its consumable Liquid Refined Gold.

Moreover, the business thrived, growing larger in scale.

He not only regularly came for large-scale procurement but also, with astounding commercial acumen, helped Jeming gather the once scarcely sufficient hundreds of billions in military merit materials needed for constructing the Incense Fire Divine Dao within those few decades!

This "windfall" greatly accelerated Jeming’s plans.

Seeing that all aspects of knowledge reserve, technical verification, and resource conditions were almost ready, and only less than two hundred years of enforced rest time displayed on the Magic Network Terminal remained, time became pressing.

Jeming no longer hesitated, deciding to officially launch the grand scheme he had long planned—constructing the Incense Fire Divine Dao on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane!

The first step, and also the most crucial step, of the entire project was to install the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool.

This was an exceedingly massive and precise undertaking, especially for Jeming now.

Fortunately, his years of uninterrupted study of the user manual had made him well-versed with the countless technical details, energy flow solutions, and safety protocols involved.

Furthermore, the construction team he had previously hired already reserved all connections and foundations according to his blueprints during the fourth phase of foundational reconstruction.

Nevertheless, Jeming still spent a full decade, cautiously completing the docking of the Elemental Pool body, preliminary connections of the energy circuits, and the etching and activation of the core control runes.

When the last interface was perfectly closed, Jeming stood in the control hub located at the plane’s core energy node, took a deep breath, and initiated the activation sequence.

Bzzzz!!!

It was as if a heart, dormant for eons, suddenly started beating again; an indescribably vast energy fluctuation emanated from the Elemental Pool, instantaneously sweeping over the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane!

Even with the massive energy flow network built during earlier construction phases to buffer and divert, the entire plane still experienced a visibly perceived tremor.

The earth roared, and the sulfur clouds in the sky were stirred by invisible forces, forming gigantic whirlpools.

The most apparent changes occurred on the ground.

Countless dormant volcanoes, as if injected with stimulants, suddenly awakened, spewing towering columns of smoke and scorching lava.

Some cooled and solidified black surfaces were rapidly covered anew by the crimson magma surging from below, transforming into a churning magma lake.

More originally stable areas split open with giant cracks, and terrestrial flames erupted!

The concentration and activity of Fire Elements across the plane surged by several magnitudes in an instant!

The air was filled with the scent of heat and sulfur, as if the plane itself trembled with thrill from this sudden influx of enormous energy.

The many habitats of Fire Elemental Beasts echoed with howls and screeches, mixed with fear and excitement.

However, the area most profoundly affected was the Black Giant Incubation Pool, which Jeming valued the most!

Previously, even with three phases of basic plane engineering gathering the plane’s dispersed energy, the incubation pool’s operational efficiency was still low, taking a full year to nurture a Black Giant.

Especially after Jeming performed fundamental modifications to the incubation pool, enhancing the potential and granting reproductive ability to the Black Giants, the incubation speed further slowed.

But when Jeming came to the Incubation Pool afterward, he witnessed a scene that could only be described as exaggerated:

At the center of the Incubation Pool, the Black Giant Life Core, which originally required slow energy absorption and form condensation, seemed to be injected with surging life energy by an invisible giant hand the moment the Seventh Level Elemental Pool’s energy connected!

It rapidly expanded at a visible pace, with its internal structure swiftly reconstructing and forming.

Dark liquid metal skin covered it, sketching out a fierce and robust silhouette on the massive body...

After just one minute, a fully formed Black Giant, exuding Third Level energy fluctuations, abruptly opened its eyes that burned with dark flames.

Letting out a low growl, it agilely crawled out from the incubation pool roiling with energy liquid, respectfully prostrating before Jeming!

One minute, a Third Level Black Giant!

Compared to the year-long incubation period before, the efficiency had increased by over fifty-two thousand times!

Jeming gazed at the newly born, powerful Black Giant before him, then felt the seemingly limitless power pulsating beneath his feet from the plane, a smile of uncontrollable joy finally appearing on his face.

The Energy Core is in place!