Chapter 454: Chapter 393: Excitement and Departure
Jeming and Anya quickly cleaned up the battlefield.
They took out confinement crystals mixed with spatial stability runes and energy suppression materials, carefully guiding the light elemental creatures that had lost their combat ability but still retained spirituality into being sealed.
For the Sixth Level Lord of Light Beings, tightly controlled by the Black Giant Priest, Jeming was particularly cautious. First, Anya applied multiple layers of life activity suppression and soul soothing witchcraft, then wrapped it layer by layer with a multi-energy restriction array of the highest specification, and finally placed it into a sealing box with a constant faint time-slowing effect inside.
After completing the task, the two Black Giant Priests turned into shadows and returned to Jeming’s Inner Grotto Heaven to await orders.
Just after initially processing all the "spoils of war," without even taking a breath, Lord Starfall’s dimensional communication, with an uncontrollable excitement, directly flooded into their minds again:
"Well done! I saw everything! The integrity of the samples exceeded expectations! Don’t bother tidying up, I’ll bring you back directly!"
As soon as these words fell, before Jeming and Anya could respond, a vast yet gentle power of the plane descended.
The surrounding scene blurred and rotated like a washed oil painting, and the slight weightlessness unique to space transferral hit.
The next moment, as the light faded, they found themselves standing on the floor of Lord Starfall’s silver-white metal hall.
All the light beings that were just sealed were neatly floating around them, including the most important sealing box.
Starfall Wizard stood not far away, but seeing her state, Jeming was slightly taken aback.
This Sixth Level Wizard, who was previously somewhat disheveled, now, although her appearance hadn’t changed much, her entire spiritual aura was like a torch being ignited.
Her eyes burned with almost tangible excitement and her smile extended nearly to her ears, her hands unconsciously rubbing together, emitting the joy of a child receiving their favorite toy.
"Lord Starfall, what is it with you..." Jeming asked with some confusion.
Although successfully capturing that Sixth Level creation that attempted rebellion was indeed a research achievement worthy of celebration, wasn’t this level of excitement a bit excessive?
"Hehe, come with me! I have an even bigger surprise to show you!"
Without directly answering, Starfall Wizard mysteriously waved her hand, and those floating sealed light items automatically lined up and floated behind her towards the deeper part of the laboratory.
She simultaneously waved vigorously to Jeming and Anya, signaling them to follow.
With curiosity, Jeming and Anya followed Starfall through several bright corridors to a larger experimental area.
Upon seeing the scene here, Jeming immediately understood why Starfall was so excited.
The experimental area was brightly lit, with various large-scale analytical instruments and energy restriction devices in operation.
Viola had long been here, directing several automated puppets and energy tendrils, dealing with another batch of "spoils"—not light elemental creatures, but piles and piles of dark brown "demon-eating vines" tightly bound by resilient energy, still slightly writhing!
The scale of these animated plants wasn’t small either, with even one emitting energy fluctuations approaching the Fifth Level, clearly an elite or leader-level unit in its group.
"See?! It’s not just those little light beings!" Starfall Wizard dashed to the side of the captured demon-eating vines, gesticulating wildly, her face flushed, her voice slightly altered due to excitement.
"These vines! My other batch of ’children’! They’re the same! They also planned to bite back at me, their ’creator’! Hahaha!"
She pointed at the bound demon-eating vines, then at the recently brought light sealing items, speaking so excitedly her words came out rapidly:
"What’s even better! According to the fragments of spiritual fluctuations intercepted and analyzed by Viola, and my monitoring review over this period... these two! These two long-standing adversaries have some secret connection! They’ve formed a fragile alliance against us, their ’creators’!"
Starfall Wizard’s eyes shone frighteningly bright: "The big light being underground making such a big commotion partly wanted to foster a high-end force to counter us, but also, it’s bait! Carefully designed bait!"
"They calculated that we would likely take interest or precautions against such abnormal energy gatherings, most likely sending people or going ourselves to investigate! Their real trick is to simultaneously use these vine elites to form a strike team, attempting a surprise attack to destroy their creator’s core laboratory!"
She took a deep breath, as if trying to calm her overly excited mood, but with little effect: "Resistance awareness! Realizing the fate of being ’created’! Conspiracies and alliances between mortal enemies! Tactical planning of diversion and encirclement! This is not just simple ’spirituality’, it’s wisdom with preliminary civilized thinking mode, social negotiation skills, and strategic vision!"
As Jeming listened to Starfall Wizard’s excited explanations, he too gradually felt waves in his heart.
He fully understood why the other party was so thrilled.
Possessing resistance awareness is not uncommon for life forms.
But from the various situations that have occurred recently, being able to reverse engineer the concept of the "creator" signifies that their cognitive system has surpassed instinct and simple survival needs, touching upon the contemplation of the "existential root."
This requires a fairly high level of abstract thinking and logical reasoning ability.
On this basis, two newly emerged races, both engaged in fierce warfare, managed to temporarily set aside hatred, identify the "creator" as a potentially larger common threat, and attempted secret communication to formulate a joint action plan...
The level of wisdom exhibited, the risk assessment capability, and the potential for executing complex strategies are quite astonishing.
This couldn’t possibly be guided by those fragmented knowledge pieces inadvertently leaked during the "enlightenment" by the Starfall Wizard.
It can only indicate one thing: the work of the Starfall Wizard in "igniting spiritual wisdom" using "imaginary elements" and her study of the "spiritual" law has effects far beyond just imparting basic intelligence.
She successfully implanted "wisdom seeds" in these elemental and plant life forms, which can self-learn, evolve, and develop complex social structures and strategic thinking!
She truly created the prototype of intelligent life with the potential for an independent civilization!
This implies that the path she explored in the "spiritual" law is not only correct but has incredibly vast prospects!
Such a milestone breakthrough is enough to make any researcher ecstatic.
Looking at the Starfall Wizard, rushing to a large analyzer like a child with a new toy, ready to personally operate and conduct a deeper soul scan and memory extraction on the captives, Jeming couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.
Then Viola strolled over from the side, patting Jeming’s shoulder with a hint of pride on her face: "How’s it, Jeming? Isn’t this ’technical exchange’ trip a bit ’more exciting’ than you expected?"
"You witnessed the most successful ’creation’ of our Great Starfall Wizard and participated firsthand in a unique ’anti-creator joint operation’ suppression battle, gaining quite a lot, huh?"
Jeming looked at Viola, nodding sincerely, with excitement and anticipation in his eyes: "Indeed, I’ve ’profited’ greatly. Lord Starfall’s research results are astonishing. I’m now very much looking forward to the upcoming formal ’exchange’ session."
With a sly grin, Viola pointed at the Starfall Wizard immersed in her research, then gestured toward the resting Anya and the "precious samples" scattered throughout the laboratory:
"Don’t worry, with so much ’material’ and ’cases,’ the ensuing exchange will certainly let you ’return fully loaded.’ But for now... let’s allow our ’creator’ to thoroughly enjoy her harvest of joy."
Jeming followed her gaze, only to see the Starfall Wizard making a "hehehehehehe" laugh as she examined the memories of "joint conspiracy" left in the souls of the preliminary scanned captives.
The demeanor strongly resembled that of certain villainous scientists in stories.
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The silver gates of the tower laboratory slowly closed behind, isolating the endlessly flickering observation screens inside and the faint, excited hums from Viola’s immersion in the data ocean.
Standing in the corridor leading to the teleportation array, Jeming gently let out a breath, yet had a look of mixed satisfaction, fatigue, and lingering feelings on his face.
For years.
What was originally intended as a "short-term technical exchange" of potentially several months or even weeks, due to endless new discoveries, new ideas, and the explosive breakthrough in Lord Starfall’s "spiritual" law research, was dragged out to last years.
Now, it was finally time to part ways.
At the platform where the teleportation array was located, the Starfall Wizard surprisingly came personally to bid farewell.
She appeared slightly more disheveled than years ago, but her eyes were brighter and deeper, as if countless stars of wisdom were swirling within.
She forcefully patted Jeming’s shoulder, nearly making the unprepared Jeming stumble, her tone filled with expectation and reluctance:
"Leaving? Really not staying a few more years? I always feel that regarding the subject of ’collective spiritual resonance’s progressive rewrite on the underlying logic of the physical plane,’ we’ve just scratched the surface!"
Jeming steadied himself, sighed helplessly: "Lord Starfall, if I stay any longer, I fear my ’imaginary element’ stock and brain processor will burn out together. The density of knowledge and pace of experiments here are somewhat... overwhelmingly rich."
Upon hearing this, the Starfall Wizard’s eyes shone brighter. She leaned closer, lowered her voice: "Speaking of imaginary elements, Jeming, Viola and I recently developed a new model! If you can steadily supply sufficiently large and pure imaginary elements, coupled with my refined ’spiritual ignition’ and ’law immersion’ techniques... we might attempt..."
She paused, seemingly searching for the most awe-inspiring words, then articulated one by one: "Activating the entire plane!"
