[World Progress: 100%]
Su Luo tossed the machine back into the Laboratory and turned to look at the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land].
The once enormous floating island of the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land], which was as large as a small continent, is no longer there. In its place is a blazing white sphere of light that floats in the Void, slowly shrinking inward and emitting a heart-palpitating energy fluctuation.
Its core temperature and pressure have reached an extremely terrifying level; the heat radiation emanating from the periphery alone is enough to vaporize ordinary metals instantly.
"It's all because of the environmental damage caused by the experiments. This huge island is now completely gone."
Looking at the "spectacle" he had created, Su Luo couldn't help but sigh. He recalled the "little Sun" he had tried to create in Zone 76 to provide experimental conditions, and compared to the "result" before him, which had been continuously infused and compressed with energy, it was nothing.
Yuncang No. 29, standing nearby, nodded in agreement. "Development and scientific exploration are always the most destructive activities to the original environment! In just one thousand years, the orbits of all the planets in the Yuncang Star System have become filled with man-made objects and debris, to the point that deep space signals are blocked, necessitating cleanup."
Su Luo took a bunch of instruments from the platform and glanced at it. "Actually, the ecological extinction caused by war is no less destructive."
"You little thing, you're ignorant and shouldn't speak if you can't even do that. In my experience, exploration only damages the environment more!" The next moment, Yuncang No. 29 directly denied it.
"How old are you?" Su Luo raised an eyebrow.
"Just eight days old."
Nearby, Nanmen Shi and two other Yuncang prisoners, who were allowed to move freely within a certain area but still had Spell enchantments on them, listened to the conversation between the human and the AI. Their lips twitched slightly, and they didn't even have the energy to complain anymore.
Su Luo threw Yuncang No. 29 aside and walked alone towards the fireball with a temperature exceeding 100 million degrees.
"I can tell you're looking for the next breakthrough. In my database, many of the crazy, high-energy experiments by civilizations across the [Ten Thousand Worlds] were caused by obstacles in their paths."
"Um."
"So I think you still need to apply your knowledge to other areas. I have a large number of technologies and pathways from various worlds in the [Ten Thousand Worlds] stored here. You can exchange them with me using your technology. How about it? Think about it again?"
"Let's talk about it when we meet your true form."
Away from the incessant chatter of Yuncang No. 29, Su Luo adjusted the equipment while simultaneously tweaking the "Calculation Zone" managed by Xiao Luo.
The Dream Experiment Log, originally a reward from the [Great Being], contained far too much content.
It's called a log, and its contents are a massive amount of data generated from some kind of Dreamscape experiment. The data volume is so large that it's difficult to process, and Su Luo was almost overwhelmed when she received it. To understand it, she had to process the data first.
This task was assigned to Xiao Luo, who has been relatively free lately.
[Enhanced Perception (Purple)] is activated silently, and the world "shatters" once again in his eyes, revealing the true flow of energy and structural patterns.
He began to meticulously record and analyze the state before him, a mixture of massive amounts of Fire Element, Mana, and some unknown energy undergoing a violent transformation under extreme conditions.
This is undoubtedly an excellent sample for studying the mechanism of interconversion Fire Element and Mana under unconventional conditions.
Su Luo is currently focusing on researching the mutual conversion between Fire Element and Mana, in preparation for later purple Attribute skills.
This is a very old topic; Su Luo even studied it during the Trial Instance.
Elements can be slowly reverse-converted into Mana under certain conditions. This process is Essence the decay and recombination of energy forms, and usually requires a specific environment to accelerate it, but efficiency is always the bottleneck.
His previous solution relied on a large Laboratory scale and Optimization energy circuits, winning by sheer volume.
However, as his understanding of high-energy physics and the microscopic structure of elements deepened, he discovered a key point.
Once energy density and activity reach a certain threshold, the rate of this reverse conversion increases exponentially. This discovery has been partially applied to the Laboratory's Mana supply system, which is one of the reasons why his Laboratory can provide such abundant Mana support.
Now, Su Luo ambitiously wants to directly integrate this "rapid reversal" mechanism into his own energy Cycle system, achieving effects such as "constructed Spells being transformed into pure Mana in an instant," "directly absorbing elements in the environment to recover," and "not dying if there are elements in the environment," thus becoming a mechanism monster.
This means simplifying the high-energy environment required for reversal and storing it within one's own body.
Although the ideas were vague and the path unclear, the result was achieved.
Su Luo gently stroked the [Dawn Moon Robe] she was wearing, which had withstood many battles and was slightly damaged at the edges, yet still shimmered with a moonlit glow. She then opened the Title System and selected a Title.
[Fire Purgatory]!
The result is the effect that comes with this Title: [Afterburn].
[Title Effect: Fire Elemental Affinity +10%, Fire Spell Damage +5%, Gain Effect: "Afterburn"]
Afterburn: When in a Fire Element terrain of your own making, Mana regeneration is accelerated, and all Attributes receive a slight boost.]
Among them, the "faster Mana recovery speed" was not an extra buff that appeared out of thin air. After Su Luo used it many times, he discovered that the principle was a highly efficient "Fire Element to Mana high-speed conversion auxiliary mechanism" that could operate stably in normal environments. It was a rule power derived from the Survival System that helped him complete this process.
We can find some insights from the transformation of Fire Element and Mana, but I never expected to learn something from Titles.
While sensing and observing how [Afterburn] operated, Su Luo conducted experiments directly on the terrifyingly hot fireball.
[World Progress: 99.9%]
The string of unknown numbers displayed on the panel of every Yuncang player, like the last heartbeat of a countdown, gently leaped at a certain moment.
[World Progress: 100%]
It's over. Or rather, it's truly begun.
Prior to this, over 37.5 billion individuals of the 38 billion intelligent life forms scattered throughout the Fixed Star system of the Yuncang Civilization had connected to a server called [Yuncang World] with unimaginable efficiency in their organization.
Even the last few billion people who had not registered for various reasons were "suggested" or "assisted" in completing the forced access within just a few days. This is the organizational capability of interstellar civilization.
In deep space, on the boundless curtain of darkness, the cold light of distant Fixed Stars is scattered, while in the shadows of near-Earth orbit, interplanetary space, and even the asteroid belt, a torrent of steel is silently surging.
The massive fleet, blotting out the sky, slowly adjusted its formation. The cold, metallic hulls of the ships reflected the Fixed Star, outlining awe-inspiring silhouettes.
On the planet's surface, beneath the earth's surface, and above geosynchronous orbit, countless defensive fortifications, either already built or temporarily activated, protrude the fangs of cannons and missile silos.
The entire Yuncang Star System resembled a constipated person sitting on a toilet, clenching their teeth and tensing all their muscles.