Successfully advancing to the Golden Core Realm brought not only a leap in strength but also an expansion of vision and ambition.
Jie Ming clearly realized that the list of matters he needed to address had suddenly grown several times longer.
The primary issue was the energy core problem of the Infernal Sulfur Plane—installing a seventh-grade large-scale elemental pool.
The operation manuals and usage guides for this thing could stack up like a small mountain, with principles so complex they made one’s head spin.
Jie Ming roughly estimated that, with his current knowledge reserves and comprehension speed, fully grasping these materials would likely take over a thousand years of dedicated study.
“Forget it, haste makes waste,” Jie Ming quickly adjusted his mindset.
He decided not to treat it as an urgent task but as a long-term research project, to be tackled in the gaps between other studies, treating it as “leisure reading” to refresh his mind.
After all, the accumulation of knowledge itself was a form of joy.
However, distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.
The current energy shortage on the plane, particularly the near-stagnation of the Black Giant incubation pool, needed to be resolved urgently.Wealth played a critical role at this moment.
Jie Ming accessed the military merits he had earned over the years through self-stabilizing field adjustment protocols, decisively allocating nearly thirty billion from his total savings of over thirty billion.
With this massive sum, Jie Ming, through Noren Workshop’s internal network, formally hired an experienced plane transformation engineering team dispatched by Noren Workshop.
Their task was to carry out the second and third phases of the comprehensive transformation planned for the Infernal Sulfur Plane.
The second phase focused on upgrading infrastructure and optimizing the energy transmission network.
The critical third phase centered on constructing an efficient energy collection and distribution system covering the entire plane.
Every material plane continuously received “energy projections” from the Fire Elemental Plane (or other fundamental elemental planes), much like a planet receiving sunlight from a star.
Previously, most of this “projected energy” on the Infernal Sulfur Plane had naturally dissipated or been inefficiently converted.
Once the third phase was complete, the plane would be able to capture and channel this otherwise wasted energy through specialized arrays spread across the plane, like vast solar panel arrays, directing it into a controllable central energy network.
While the total “energy received” by the plane wouldn’t increase, the usable and controllable effective energy would see a multiple-fold boost!
By then, the energy supply issue for the Black Giant incubation pool would be resolved, and the pressure on other energy-intensive research would be greatly alleviated.
On another front, Jie Ming began systematically reviewing the Black Giants’ performance in the recent plane war.
The exposed issues were indeed numerous: while they had high resistance to pure physical cutting, their defense against certain special attacks was lacking.
They appeared cumbersome against highly agile, mobile air units and suffered significant combat penalties in aquatic environments.
And most critically… their attack power was severely insufficient!
Though the Black Giants seemed overwhelmingly formidable in battle, they appeared somewhat powerless against particularly “resilient” targets.
Despite these issues, Jie Ming was quite satisfied with their overall performance.
The Black Giants perfectly fulfilled his expectations—serving as ground-based heavy fortresses, efficient energy absorbers, and core team support units.
“Cannon fodder must have the resolve of cannon fodder,” Jie Ming thought clearly.
He decided to optimize only the issues directly affecting their core combat strength, such as adding specialized burst capabilities or improving the stability of their energy core output.
As for their weaknesses in air or water combat, he had no intention of expending vast resources to forcibly compensate.
“Being all-capable often means being incapable in everything, especially with limited resources,” Jie Ming understood well.
For his personal cultivation, pursuing balance and versatility was necessary to handle various complex situations.
But for war constructs, especially those designated as “cannon fodder” or “specialized units,” extreme specialization offered the highest cost-effectiveness.
Rather than forcing the “land warfare king” Black Giants to fly or swim, resulting in mediocre performance in air and water combat, it would be better to design and create two entirely new cannon fodder units tailored specifically for air and water combat!
By chance, he had an abundance of perfect materials at hand.
As he was planning the blueprint, the teleportation array on the Infernal Sulfur Plane sent an access request.
Jie Ming confirmed the authorization and granted access.
A young wizard in Noren Workshop’s standard uniform arrived via the teleportation array. His demeanor was respectful, his actions efficient, clearly a professional in logistics and transportation.
“Lord Jie Ming, the biological samples you entrusted us to store and transport from the ‘Void Plane—Sacred Continent’ plane war have all been delivered. Please inspect them.”
Jie Ming briefly exchanged words with him, confirming the inventory and handover process.
Then, he personally took action, swiftly clearing and leveling a vast area on the plane’s expansive wasteland.
Before long, under Jie Ming’s expectant gaze, massive environmental simulation chambers, gleaming with cold metallic sheen and maintaining specific environmental parameters, were carefully transported through the teleportation array and neatly arranged on the open ground.
The chambers varied in size, some as small as houses, others as large as small mountains.
Through reinforced observation windows, various frozen or dormant creatures could be seen inside.
Some had streamlined bodies and massive membrane wings, suited for gliding in zero-gravity environments.
Others had lightweight structures with energy-ejection organs, capable of high-speed maneuvers.
Some resembled deep-sea beasts, covered in scales or equipped with structures adapted to fluid dynamics…
Looking at this endless stream of “treasures” being delivered, Jie Ming’s face finally broke into an irrepressible smile of happiness and satisfaction.
Over the past eighty years of conquest, he had amassed a staggering number of biological samples, particularly those from the Void Plane.
Due to the lack of gravity in that plane, nearly all its creatures had evolved for air combat and, by extension, water combat adaptability due to similar environmental conditions.
Their flight techniques, spatial awareness, and energy utilization methods were all highly valuable for research.
“Excellent…” Jie Ming rubbed his chin, his eyes gleaming with the unique excitement of a researcher. “The next main task is to dissect, analyze, extract superior genes and structures, and then… create my own air and water combat units!”