During the long years of arcane research, Ian has never stopped exploring the essence of life, and this knowledge crystal from the future is like a lighthouse that clears away the fog, guiding him on the road to the deepest part of Truth.
After successfully locking "Soulfire" located at Fourth Layer of the Soul Dimension, he began to deeply analyze the advanced applications and characteristics of this immortal substance left by the future version of himself.
First of all, Ian has successfully developed several core application solutions for Soulfire in the future. One of the most disruptive discoveries is the revolutionary improvement of "Horcrux".
Traditional Horcrux production involves rough cutting of the soul's origin, which often results in the caster's mental damage and distorted personality.
However, in the future Ian discovered that a small cluster of weak flames could be separated from the complete Soulfire by extremely sophisticated means and stored properly.
This kind of Horcrux, manufactured with Soulfire as the core, has reached an outrageous height in terms of stability and resistance to damage.
According to the experimental data in the crystal, Horcrux based on Soulfire is almost indestructible, unless the attacker's energy level can suppress the personality of the Horcrux owner.
Specifically, this type of Horcrux has the characteristics of "level suppression": if it is produced by a Arcanist of Sixth Tier, then destroying the Horcrux requires at least the absolute power of Seventh Tier.
Ian rubbed his chin and deduced quickly in Sea of Consciousness. According to the record, this characteristic still holds true in Eighth Tier, which means that if he makes a flame Horcrux now E, even if it is as powerful as Ōtsutsuki Shibai, if it does not cross the threshold of Ninth Tier, I am afraid there is nothing you can do with his backup flame.
Unfortunately, in the future, Ian has not yet obtained the full authority of Floating City when recording, so it is impossible to test whether Soulfire of Ninth Tier requires the power of Tenth Tier to extinguish it, but this is enough to make Ian invincible.
Subsequently, Ian turned his attention to the "miraculous" defense properties of Soulfire. In the Arcane Empire's currently known energy system, most high-energy reactions are helpless against Soulfire.
Whether it is pure magic, high-level Divine Power, violent solar energy and Cosmic Rays, or full of vitality elemental energy, or even the unique chakra of Naruto Universe, when these energies sweep through Soulfire, they will be like passing through a non-existent phantom, unable to produce any physical or legal interaction.
"The only things that can affect this essential fire are the strength of the soul itself and the negative energy full of decay." Ian said to himself. The influence of soul strength is reasonable, after all, they have the same source; and the erosion of negative energy reminded him of the end of death and exhaustion.
A picture suddenly appeared in his mind: in some ancient planes of death, the eyes of high-level skeleton undead were always dancing with faint cold fire. He used to think that it was a pure condensation of essence Divine Power, but now it seems that it may be the weak projection of Soulfire in the outer dimension.
The data in the crystal confirmed his conjecture. In the future, Ian solemnly suggested that Empire should greatly allocate resources to the Necromancy Ministry and encourage them to transform and research Soulfire. Ian silently included this suggestion in the first implementation list after returning to China.
After tens of millions of simulations on "How to extinguish Soulfire", Future Ian has summarized three practical methods: The first, and most conventional method, is to completely crush the target's manifest soul. Although Soulfire will provide the possibility of reshaping, if the soul origin continues to return to zero, the flame will eventually extinguish itself after a period of time due to the loss of its carrier.
Second, use Void Energy. As the highest sequence energy currently mastered by the Empire, Void has the attribute of assimilating all things.
The third is to use the absolute Authority and law.
However, Soulfire shows extremely strong immunity to Space-Time Law, because it does not have the concept of "lifespan" and will not grow old over time. Only the two major Authoritys [death] and [destruction] can directly cause substantial damage to the flame body.
Not only that, the fourth dimension where Soulfire is located is Infinity and eternal. Even if the first three layers of Soul Dimension are completely wiped out by the enemy through violent means, as long as the flame in the fourth layer does not go out, the caster has hope of rebirth. This "miracle at the essential level" makes Ian feel unprecedentedly optimistic about the progress of Life Code's analysis.
Although Soulfire cannot be used directly in attacks - it has no heat, cannot burn flesh, and has no direct damage to sperm Divine Body - it can radiate a very special energy.
In the future, Ian will define it as "Higher-Dimensional Soul Pressure". He theoretically speculated that if Arcanist can learn to mobilize this energy to control the magic power in the body, then the efficiency of spell casting will increase geometrically.
Unfortunately, this is still in an experimental stage that has not yet been conquered. Even if you try to use "Arcane Truefire" or "Phoenix Truefire", which Ian is most proud of, with Fusion, the result is just like a ghost walking through the wall with no response.
However, the discovery recorded in the crystal that made Ian's heart beat faster the most was the truth about the immortality of gods. In Harry Potter Universe and even in all the worlds, the reason why gods are difficult to deal with is because they have an almost endless lifespan and are extremely difficult to be killed completely.
Even if the divine body is beheaded and the divine soul is sealed, as long as there is one last believer who prays sincerely in this world, the divine spirit can return again in the long years.
"That's it... the believer's Faith Power, in essence, directly acts as fuel for the god's Soulfire." The wonder in Ian's eyes lasted for a long time. As long as the believer is still there, the steady stream of faith will keep the god Soulfire burning, even if his soul has Annihilation turned into dust. This is the underlying logic of the god's resurrection.
"This means that I no longer need to spend a lot of effort to cross planes to hunt down those poor believers hiding in the shadows, nor do I need to bother to delve into immature causal spells or bloodline traceability curses." Ian clenched his fists, with a cold murderous intent in his tone. "I only need to locate and directly extinguish the god's Soulfire to give him 'absolute death' in the true sense." He classified this discovery as Empire's top secret, because once leaked, Arcane Empire would instantly become the mortal enemy of all the gods in the world.
Finally, Ian examined his own Soulfire. He was surprised to find that in the center of his noble purple flame, there was a faint and strange silver light dancing faintly. Future Ian speculates that this silver color may be his unique mark as a time traveler from "Origin Earth", or it may be Source that he has such demonic control over magic.
In addition, during the beating of the flames, Lin An captured several extremely tiny runes that shone with arcane brilliance. "Are these... the origin runes mentioned in Akasha's records?" He held his breath. According to inference, these runes are the key to the substantial attribute bonuses of his special [titles] such as "Arcane Emperor". Unfortunately, due to some unspeakable causal interference, even he in the future will not be able to completely record the structure of these runes.
"Title system... If I can analyze these runes, I may be able to grant temporary 'powerful titles' that last for several years or even longer to the Empire's elite soldiers in batches, greatly improving the physical fitness or magic affinity of the entire army." Ian is full of yearning for this, but he knows that this kind of cross-era plan cannot be rushed.
After completing a comprehensive review of the Soulfire research report, Ian took a deep breath and calmed down his turbulent mood. His layout in the Shinobi World universe was nearing completion, and the harvest he brought back to the Empire was enough to start a new era.
"Then now," Ian opened his eyes and fixed his gaze on the energy gathering point in the center of the laboratory, "It's time to start testing the 'Domain Expansion' I learned from that little magician girl."