Decades passed quietly in the busy research and preparation for dimension modification.

In the laboratory, the light was adjusted to a slightly dim state, with only a giant cylindrical reinforced glass tank in the center emitting a faint red glow.

Jeming stood in front of the tank, frowning slightly, unconsciously running his fingers through his somewhat messy hair, his eyes carrying a tinge of frustration typical of a research inertia and bottleneck period.

Inside the tank was filled with a glistening, viscous liquid resembling melted rubies, with energy phantoms, seemingly alive, swimming and spiraling leisurely within, like fish.

These energy phantoms emitted pure and active elemental fluctuations.

And in the center of the liquid, a slightly thin and lean male Wizard Apprentice was quietly floating with eyes closed.

His body, like a black hole, was greedily absorbing the energy from the surrounding liquid and those swimming "fish."

"How’s it going?" Along with light footsteps and spatial fluctuations, Viola’s figure appeared through the Teleportation Array in a corner of the laboratory.

She took a few steps to the tankside, observing the scene inside with interest.

Jeming didn’t turn his head, his gaze swept over the several precise instruments connected to the tank, complex data streams flickering on them.

He nodded, his tone calm and undisturbed: "Very good, the process of talent enhancement is going smoothly, no rejection reaction has occurred, and the energy absorption efficiency meets expectations. It is estimated that after the enhancement is complete, his Elemental Affinity Talent can directly increase by ten levels."

"Wow!" Viola clapped her hands lightly, looking at the apprentice inside the tank, her eyes sparkling with amazement and unabashed interest, "Junior Brother, your technology is becoming more terrifying! In how many years? You even developed a talent enhancement alchemy technique? And with such strong effects!"

Jeming finally turned his head, but there was no sign of pride on his face, instead, it bore a hint of regret.

He shook his head expressionlessly: "The effect is acceptable, but at this stage, this technology has no practical significance."

"How can it be meaningless?" Viola clearly disagreed. She folded her arms and argued, "I bet regardless of how costly this technology is, for those long-heritage Wizard Clans, at crucial moments when cultivating core descendants, they’d definitely be willing to pay a jaw-dropping price for it! And those senior wizards trapped in Low Tier due to their own talent, seeing their lifespan nearing its end yet unable to breakthrough, would bankrupt themselves to seek your help!"

She paused, lowering her voice a bit: "You don’t know, among High Tier Alchemy Wizards, those involved in the field of talent enhancement are few and far between, yet every one of them with similar technology, even if their effects aren’t as exaggerated as yours, are all wealthy beyond measure and revered as honored guests by major forces!"

Jeming shook his head again, choosing not to continue the argument.

He knew clearly in his heart that the key was not just the cost issue Viola mentioned.

The core of this talent enhancement technology did not originate from the Wizard System’s alchemy, but was a modification from a Cultivation Immortality Secret Technique in the Great Dao Book Pavilion that used the "Spirit of Nature" to wash the root bones and enhance talent.

Its core raw material was precisely the peculiar "Crystal Fish" he found and captured back then in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane (Chapter 154).

After in-depth research, he confirmed these Crystal Fish were not ordinary Elemental Creatures, but a rare manifestation of "Spirits of Nature."

What followed was Jeming adapting the Cultivation Immortality Realm’s secret technique to successfully apply it to individuals in the Wizard World.

In terms of effect, it was indeed astonishing— it could unconditionally raise a creature’s Elemental Affinity Talent by ten levels!

It’s an increase of ten levels, not "increase to" ten levels.

This means that an apprentice with originally only Level Five talent could jump to Fifteenth Level!

However, the limitations of this technology were equally enormous.

Aside from the pure technical issues, in terms of practical application, this technology also has great limitations.

Firstly, it is basically meaningless for Middle-High Tier Wizards.

The statement "Wizards at higher levels are not restricted by their talents" is no mere joke.

Every promotion to a great realm in the wizard’s path is accompanied by a leap in life level and a qualitative change in Spiritual Power, this very leap itself brings about a natural substantial increase in various talents.

Quantifying with data, when a Wizard Apprentice advances to Official Wizard, their talents increase by an additional 10 levels on top of the previous level.

For a Second Level Wizard, add another 20 levels, Third Level Wizard, another 30 levels... and so forth.

Therefore, even the initially Level Ten super genius would often see their talent advantage only maintain up to the Third or Fourth Level Wizard stage.

Beyond that, the advantage brought by innate talent becomes negligible, where effort, opportunities, and the depth of understanding of knowledge become far more important than initial talent.

Moreover, Jeming’s technology improves only the Elemental Affinity Talent, but aside from that, there are over a dozen other relevant talents.

So for Middle-High Tier Wizards, this technology isn’t as crucial as imagined.

Secondly, and most fundamentally—the raw materials.

"Spirits of Nature" are treasures naturally nurtured by the plane, nearly non-renewable.

The number that each plane can produce is extremely limited, and most are hidden and difficult to find.

Its value, on certain levels, can even surpass that of a plane’s origin.

For forces or individuals who can afford to use such things to enhance talent, they often already possess more mature, stable, and less side-effect-prone alternative technologies.

Although the range of talent enhancement might not be as dramatic, they can use a combination of various technologies to achieve improvements.

Therefore, in Jeming’s opinion, this technology of his is somewhat "unnecessary" for the clientele who can genuinely afford it.

It’s completely tasteless to consume, yet a pity to discard.

"The enhancement is over." Jeming stopped thinking about it further and refocused his attention back on the experiment.

He manipulated the control panel, and the red liquid inside the glass jar was quickly absorbed by the recovery system on the inside walls and bottom, as if it was alive.

Having lost the buoyancy of the liquid, the body of the wizard apprentice inside went limp and fell downward.

Jeming raised his hand and pointed vaguely, a formless power held the apprentice, who still had a somewhat confused look in their eyes and seemed to be immersed in some wonderful sensation, allowing them to float stably.

Then, with a flash of alchemy light between his fingers, the traces of red viscous liquid remaining on the apprentice’s body instantly restructured and transformed into a clean, neat gray wizard robe that draped over them.

Without paying attention to the apprentice, who was excitedly looking at their own hands and feeling the surging elemental affinity within, Jeming turned to Viola:

"Considering you provided this qualified experimental subject and collected the crucial data for me, this ’self-service’ enhancement service will only cost you two hundred million military merits."

Viola’s face showed no signs of distress, but instead, she smiled even more joyously.

She immediately pulled out her Magic Network Terminal and started operating it: "No problem! The military merits have been transferred! Thanks, junior brother!"

With a swift motion, she picked up the wizard apprentice who was still savoring their own transformation like holding a novel toy that had just arrived, waved to Jeming, and left the laboratory through the teleportation array.

Jeming watched the two disappear in the beam of light, especially noting the apprentice’s face, incapable of containing their joy, and couldn’t help but shake his head with a look of pity.

Judging from Viola’s senior sister expression, as if she had found treasure, this lucky (or perhaps unfortunate?) apprentice was likely already burdened with a debt so massive it might take them hundreds of years to pay off.

Of course, that’s assuming they could survive the perilous plane battlefield long enough to see the day that debt was cleared.

The battlefield is merciless, and no matter how high the expected benefits might be, if a person dies, everything is reset to zero.

However, none of this concerned Jeming anymore.

The release of this technology was never meant to benefit the masses or to earn military merits for him—though the military merits were indeed a nice byproduct.

His true goal was to further enhance his Black Giant Legion!

Constructing the Incense Fire Divine Dao requires more than just technology, energy, and plane foundations; an indispensable element is believers, or rather, intelligent life forms that constitute the foundation of "society."

His Purgatory Sulfur Plane, with its harsh environment filled with sulphuric toxic gases and raging fire elements, is inherently unsuitable for ordinary carbon-based life.

Indeed, he could make it habitable through massive environmental modification projects, but that would be costly and time-consuming.

Jeming had a better idea—to have his "cannon fodder units," the Black Giants, settle directly as a servant race within the plane.

Being the first, and most important "residents" of the Incense Fire Divine Dao!

Given the characteristics of the Black Giants themselves, they are indeed quite suitable as "believers" of the Incense Fire Divine Dao.

Firstly, the Black Giants can adapt to the harsh environment of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane while possessing high intellect, fully meeting the standards of believers.

Secondly, as creatures created by Jeming himself, he inherently holds a high divinity within their beliefs, eliminating the need to fabricate any miracles.

Moreover, in Jeming’s plans, if the construction of the Incense Fire Divine Dao is completed in the future, the powerful strength and tribal culture of the Black Giants can be easily converted into Daoist Soldiers.

However, to achieve this, the key lies in conceptually transforming them from purely "war machines" and "consumables" into entities with "social attributes."

And a core foundation of sociality is the natural reproductive capability—allowing them to breed independently beyond the continuing intervention of their creator, thereby perpetuating the species.

Thus, Jeming turned his focus toward the core of Black Giant cultivation—the Incubation Pool.

This Incubation Pool’s origin came from the reproductive system of the Magma Giant.

Even though it underwent numerous modifications by Jeming, incorporating Yeti talents, energy absorption features, the Five Viscera Sacrificial God Skill technology, and even a self-destruct module, its fundamental basis concerning "life creation and perpetuation" still retained the core framework of the Magma Giant’s Incubation Pool.

What Jeming needed to do now was to absorb the core technology of the Incubation Pool and then create a new incubation pool technology.