novelraw Chapter 586: Daily Routine
Chapter 586: Daily Routine
Chapter 586: Daily Routine
On this day, Jie Ming was performing his regular body forging.
Inside the smelting furnace, the temperature had already climbed to the level found in the depths of a star.
Jie Ming sat cross-legged at the furnace’s core, completely naked.
The surroundings were filled with glaring cyan light—high temperatures capable of instantly vaporizing any substance—yet his skin only showed a faint redness, without a single drop of sweat.
This was his daily cultivation of the body-forging method.
Without relying on any protective spells or activating any energy shields, he purely used his physical body to resist this extreme environment.
Jie Ming closed his eyes, sensing the reaction of every inch of skin, every muscle, and every bone in his body under the high temperature.
Those cells were being scorched while rapidly regenerating. The regenerated cells were tougher than before and more resistant to high temperatures.
This was the core of the body-forging method: adaptive evolution. Endure damage, adapt to damage, and ultimately become immune to damage.
Suddenly, the environment inside the furnace changed.
The high temperature vanished in an instant, replaced by extreme cold.
This cold was not ordinary cold, but absolute zero capable of freezing the soul.
A layer of white frost instantly formed on Jie Ming’s body surface, and even his exhaled breath turned into ice crystals.
Yet he remained completely motionless.
Immediately afterward, countless bolts of lightning appeared out of thin air and struck him wildly.
Each bolt was powerful enough to shatter the protective barrier of a fifth-ring wizard, but when they landed on Jie Ming, they only caused his muscles to twitch slightly.
After the lightning came acid.
This acid, created through transcendent power, could corrode the vast majority of substances. When it dripped onto the ground, it would burn out bottomless pits. Yet when it landed on Jie Ming, it only produced faint sizzling sounds, leaving behind shallow white marks that healed at a visible speed.
After the acid came wind blades, after the wind blades came gravitational crushing, and after gravitational crushing came high temperature again…
Round after round, cycling endlessly.
Jie Ming felt it for a while and frowned slightly.
“This intensity is a bit weak for me now.”
He raised his hand and tapped lightly in the air. The formations on the furnace walls immediately adjusted, and the attack intensity instantly increased by thirty percent.
Boom!
A lightning bolt twice as thick as before struck Jie Ming’s shoulder, causing his body to tremble.
A charred wound appeared on his shoulder, but it was quickly filled by newly grown muscle tissue.
Just as Jie Ming was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt a strange surge of heat within his body.
He looked down at his hands.
His hands were expanding.
It was not swelling caused by blood congestion or injury, but actual “growth.”
The muscles beneath his skin proliferated madly, his bones visibly thickening and lengthening. In just a few seconds, his entire body expanded from less than 1.9 meters to over ten meters tall.
Golden light radiated from within him, turning the entire smelting furnace bright gold.
His originally slender figure became majestic. The lines of his muscles turned exceptionally ferocious, each one like it was cast from refined steel and filled with explosive power.
At the center of his brow, a strand of golden light shone with exceptional brilliance, like a third eye.
Jie Ming looked down at his massive palms and sighed habitually.
Here it came again.
This form was his true body.
After the body-forging method reached a certain realm, in order to support stronger muscles and bones, the body would continuously grow taller and the muscles would enlarge. Therefore, this massive and oppressive posture was his true original form.
The slender figure under 1.9 meters he usually maintained was actually a compressed state.
This situation was very common among wizards.
Many wizards had already modified themselves to the point where they no longer resembled humans at all.
Some had implanted organs from other races, some had undergone mechanization, and some had simply replaced their bodies with elemental condensates.
In daily life they looked human, but once they entered combat, they had no human form to speak of.
Some wizards even maintained non-human forms in daily life as well—such as those who had transformed themselves into half-human, half-snake beings, or those who had replaced their heads with tentacled monsters.
However, such cases were in the minority.
After all, most facilities—including teleportation arrays, laboratories, and medical pods—were built according to human proportions.
Maintaining a human body size in daily life was simply more convenient.
Jie Ming endured the continuously intensifying attacks around him while operating his body-forging method, allowing his body to slowly adapt to this level of damage.
A few minutes later, he finally adapted.
Control was regained, and his massive body began to slowly contract.
Ten meters, nine meters, eight meters… until he returned once more to the slender figure under 1.9 meters.
Jie Ming stood up, moved his limbs to confirm everything was normal, then raised his hand and shut down the smelting furnace.
The furnace door opened, and he stepped out.
Outside was a massive formation connected to various detection instruments.
Jie Ming walked to the center of the formation and stood still. His spiritual power probed inward as he began examining his body’s condition.
On the light screen, rows of data scrolled rapidly.
【Physical Strength Assessment: Peak Sixth-Ring】
【High-Temperature Resistance: Increased by 7%】
【Low-Temperature Resistance: Increased by 5%】
【Lightning Resistance: Increased by 6%】
【Acid Corrosion Resistance: Increased by 4%】
【Gravity Resistance: Increased by 3%】
【Physical Impact Resistance: Increased by 8%】
【Overall Resistance: 5.2% higher than yesterday】
Jie Ming looked at the data and nodded in satisfaction.
Physical strength could be assisted by special formations like “Time Afterimage,” so his physical strength progressed extremely quickly.
But resistance required real damage to “feed” it.
Every type of damage needed to be adapted to individually, and every type of resistance required dedicated training.
It was quite troublesome, with no shortcuts at all.
However, the final results were quite good. The current Jie Ming could take ordinary fifth-ring wizard attacks head-on without any protection and still remain uninjured.
Jie Ming closed the light screen and turned toward the bathing pool nearby.
It was a circular pool about ten meters in diameter, filled with deep green medicinal liquid.
Jie Ming stepped into the pool, submerging his entire body and leaving only his head above the surface.
A warm sensation enveloped him. The fatigue and damage accumulated in the smelting furnace were being repaired bit by bit by the medicinal liquid.
“Ah…”
He let out a comfortable sigh, closed his eyes, and enjoyed this rare moment of relaxation.
Before long, light footsteps sounded at the edge of the pool.
Jie Ming opened his eyes and saw a Black Giant priest standing respectfully by the pool, holding a crystal tablet in its hands.
“My lord, the experimental data is ready.”
Jie Ming took the crystal tablet and scanned its contents.
It was a series of test reports on the moonlight essence.
Ever since his preliminary test with the moonlight essence last time, the Black Giant priests had begun large-scale systematic experiments.
Over the past few months, they had used the moonlight essence collected through formations for various trials: on Black Giants, on ordinary animals and plants, and even on some special plants transplanted from other planes.
Jie Ming read through the lines one by one.
【Test One: Influence of Moonlight Essence on Black Giant Souls】
【Sample Size: 12,757 individuals (third-grade to fifth-grade)】
【Method: Daily injection of one unit of moonlight essence for thirty consecutive days】
【Results: Average soul strength increase of 0.3%; average spiritual reaction increase of 0.7%; no obvious side effects】
【Conclusion: Effective, but the effect is limited. Recommended for long-term use as a routine strengthening method.】
Jie Ming nodded.
It matched the results of his previous test.
In terms of soul amplification, the moonlight essence could only be described as “passable.”
It worked, but the effect was not obvious—far inferior to specialized magic potions. Its advantage lay in how easily it could be obtained, with virtually no cost.
He continued reading.
【Test Two: Influence of Moonlight Essence on the Growth of Ordinary Animals and Plants】
【Samples: 137 native plant species from the Infernal Sulfur Plane, 67 ordinary animal species】
【Method: Daily immersion with moonlight essence for thirty days】
【Results: Average plant growth speed increased by 35%; average animal development speed increased by 22%; no obvious deformities】
【Conclusion: Clear promotional effect on the growth of ordinary creatures. Can be applied to agriculture and animal husbandry.】
This also aligned with Jie Ming’s earlier deductions and could indeed be applied to the cultivation of transcendent plants.
Jie Ming kept scrolling.
【Test Three: Influence of Moonlight Essence on the Quality of Plant-Based Materials】
【Samples: 1,350 low-grade plant materials such as Fire Pattern Grass, Sulfur Flower, Lava Fruit, etc.】
【Method: While the materials were still alive, immerse them with moonlight essence for thirty to sixty days】
【Results: See attached table for details】
Jie Ming directly flipped to the attached table.
On the table, the quality changes for every material were recorded clearly.
For example, Fire Pattern Grass—originally a material usable only for refining first-ring magic potions—after fifty days of moonlight immersion, its quality had risen to the standard for the same type of second-ring magic potions.
Sulfur Flower originally had a pill-forming rate of only sixty percent. After moonlight immersion, the rate rose to over eighty percent, and the concentration of active ingredients increased by 40%.
The most exaggerated was a plant called “Cold Light Grass,” which Jie Ming had transplanted from an ice plane.
Even with a specially built environmental simulation cultivation chamber, the plant had never grown well on the Infernal Sulfur Plane.
Jie Ming had been about to give up on it, but according to the experimental results, after two months of moonlight immersion, it had begun to grow wildly, with quality even better than in its place of origin.
Looking at this data, the corners of Jie Ming’s mouth slowly curved into a smile.
Moonlight essence was only average when it came to soul amplification, but when it came to improving the quality of plant materials, it was practically a divine artifact.
Many plant materials that were originally considered low-grade within their categories could be turned into high-grade materials after being immersed in moonlight essence.
Although the “quality” of the materials themselves had not undergone a qualitative breakthrough—only reaching the premium level within the same type—it was more than enough.
Of course, the premise was that these plants were still alive.
If they were already processed magic potion materials or dried vegetation, the moonlight essence would have no effect.
Jie Ming quickly calculated in his mind.
His research projects were becoming more and more numerous, and the materials he needed were becoming increasingly expensive.
Any single high-grade material was worth tens of thousands of low-level military merits, and the amount of high-grade materials consumed in each research or experiment was staggering.
Even with his considerable wealth, it pained him to spend so freely.
But if he could use moonlight essence to “upgrade” low-quality materials into high-quality ones, it would mean that in the future he only needed to purchase the lower-grade versions of the same type of experimental materials.
How much money would that save?
Jie Ming raised his hand from the medicinal bath, casually picked up a fruit from the fruit plate beside him, and took a bite.
It was a fruit native to the Infernal Sulfur Plane. Originally sour and unpleasant, only low-grade creatures would eat it.
But this one was an “experimental subject” that had been immersed in moonlight essence for three months.
The flesh was sweet and sour in perfect balance, with a faint refreshing fragrance.
Jie Ming savored the change and nodded in satisfaction.
At that moment, another Black Giant priest hurried over and bowed respectfully.
“My lord, the experiment is ready.”
Jie Ming’s eyes brightened.
He stood up. The medicinal liquid on his body twisted and transformed under the light of Alchemy Technique into a form-fitting wizard robe.
“Let’s go.”