Chapter 461: Chapter 397: Celebration and Incense Fire Divine Power (Part 2)

From high above, the sea of Black Giants is dotted with countless sculptures made of lava, energy towers adorned with luminous runes, and gently rotating energy vortices.

At the center of the venue, the 500-meter-diameter "Eternal Furnace" has burned to its peak, with a column of golden-red energy shooting up into the sky, resonating with the twin suns above.

There are no lengthy speeches, no complex procedures.

At the moment when the light of the twin suns completely aligns with the furnace’s energy column...

"Roar!!!"

Three billion Black Giants simultaneously roar to the sky!

It is not a sound, but rather a spiritual resonance of three billion Elemental Lives, energy vibration, and a torrent of will!

The entire plain trembles, the air instantly heated to a temperature capable of melting steel, only to be rapidly cooled by the innate "heat absorption" talent of the Black Giants.

Visible energy ripples spread from each Black Giant, intertwining, colliding, and fusing in the air above the venue, ultimately flowing into the central Eternal Furnace.

The furnace’s energy column intensifies once more, its color shifting from golden-red to pure gold, resembling a bridge of light connecting heaven and earth.

The celebration reaches its climax.

The Black Giants begin to perform a battle dance in phalanx formations.

Their movements are synchronized, each step, each punch, each burst of energy precisely aligning with a rhythm rooted deep within their bloodline.

Elite Black Giant squads perform real combat demonstrations around the furnace, showcasing various talent abilities under control, eliciting waves of spiritual cheers from onlooking tribesmen.

Meanwhile, around the venue and throughout the entire plane, the newly completed Incense Fire Divine Dao "Thought Resonance Array" nodes begin to glow faintly.

In the central control room.

Jeming did not attend the celebration, knowing his presence might make the Black Giants feel constrained.

Standing at the main control panel, Jeming intently observes the rapidly updating data on dozens of light screens. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

The left screen shows the energy intensity of the Eternal Furnace exceeding the conventional measurement limit.

The right screen displays various data on faith and thought fluctuations.

On the largest central screen, a curve is soaring almost vertically.

It represents the real-time reserve of "Incense Fire Divine Power."

The essence of Incense Fire Divine Power is the collection, purification, and integration of "thought fragments" and "spiritual mechanisms" that are not effectively utilized during the "walking, sitting, and lying" and "thinking and perceiving" processes of sentient beings, forming a special conceptual power.

Unlike direct emotional energy or Power of Faith, it is closer to a "potential brilliance of wisdom," a "condensed core of thought."

Usually, scattered across the plane for work and training, the Black Giants have limited thought fragment collection efficiency.

But now, the high concentration of 3 billion individuals, spiritual resonance, and extreme emotional intensity have reached an unprecedented peak of "thought activity."

And the newly optimized "Thought Resonance Array" is operating at maximum efficiency.

"Thought Fragment Capture Rate: 89.7%... 91.2%... 93.5%..."

"Spiritual Mechanism Purity: Extraordinary... still rising..."

"Incense Fire Divine Power Synthesis Rate: Currently equalling 132 years of production under regular conditions per second..."

The numbers continue to climb crazily.

As the celebration enters its most fervent phase—when the spiritual fluctuation of 3 billion Black Giants chanting an ancient war song synchronizes with the energy torrent of the Eternal Furnace—the curve on the central screen suddenly breaks through a "theoretical peak threshold" preset by Jeming, rushing into a red zone representing "unknown high value."

"Warning: Reserve rate exceeds safe buffer capacity, initiate emergency diversion?"

The synthesized voice prompt sounds.

"No, maintain current state, prioritize ensuring data collection completeness." Jeming orders decisively, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the still-rising curve.

The corner of his mouth involuntarily lifts.

After more than an hour, the first wave of the celebration gradually subsides.

The Black Giants begin to engage in free and dispersed exchanges and demonstrations.

The energy intensity of the Eternal Furnace slowly declines, and the peak period of thought resonance passes.

The Incense Fire Divine Power reserve curve finally stabilizes at a height satisfying to Jeming.

Jeming takes a deep breath, looking at the final capped total data.

The Incense Fire Divine Power collected from this celebration is enough for him to complete all planned modules of the Incense Fire Divine Dao.

More importantly, the "purity" and "activity" of this batch of divine power have reached the theoretically optimal value, truly top quality.

"Extract a standard unit and send it to Analysis Room No. 1." He orders.

A few minutes later, Jeming returns to his core laboratory.

On the workbench, within a transparent crystal container, floats a fist-sized cluster of energy radiating warm golden light.

It doesn’t flicker like flames, nor is it as dazzling as a light sphere; instead, it is a slowly flowing "fog of light" between liquid and gaseous states.

Upon closer inspection, countless tiny golden runes seem to appear and disappear in the mist, faintly echoing the subtle resonance of billions of beings whispering.

This is Incense Fire Divine Power.

According to records in the "Great Dao Book Pavilion," it is a top-tier versatile resource on par with "Red Dust Qi."

Whether for assisting cultivation breakthroughs, refining magical treasures or elixirs, tempering the physical body and divine soul, constructing arrays or talismans, or healing Dao wounds and soul damage, it possesses nearly unmatched universality and efficiency.

Its applicability even surpasses Red Dust Qi, as it can be molded into virtually any form of power according to the user’s needs.

However, what Jeming intends to try is a particularly special, even somewhat extravagant use of Incense Fire Divine Power—something he memorized the moment he came across it while perusing related materials in the "Great Dao Book Pavilion."

The "Divine Synesthesia Technique."

The principle of this dharma gate is to utilize the "brilliance of collective thought" contained within Incense Fire Divine Power, transforming it into a "specific cognitive ability" urgently needed by the user for a short period.

In simpler terms, it can temporarily enhance the user’s "insight," "inspiration," "deduction speed," or "intuition acuity."

It’s like injecting a powerful "spiritual catalyst" into the brain.

Jeming carefully enwraps the cluster of Incense Fire Divine Power with his spiritual power and begins guiding its energy according to the complex operational routes recorded in the "Divine Synesthesia Technique."

There’s no imagined body infusion of energy, no spectacular phenomenon.

The golden light fog, seemingly alive, follows the lead of his spiritual power and slowly merges into his brow.

A warm and lucid sensation, as though a revelation, spreads instantaneously from the depths of his brain.

Jeming closes his eyes.

The world... is different now.

Not in sensory perception, but in the elevation of thought.

He feels as if he has exited a narrow tunnel, suddenly standing under an infinitely vast starry sky.

The numerous unsolved problems in his previous research, the stuck thought processes, the vague hypotheses, now clear and present themselves like a polished mirror.

The "processing speed" of his brain seems to have increased a hundredfold, a thousandfold.

Countless ideas, inspirations, and plans gush forth like a fountain, all instantly evaluated, filtered, combined, and optimized.

The complex theoretical issues, which would have taken months to make progress, now present multiple feasible solutions in just a few breaths.

Subconsciously, he focuses this "overclocked" mental capability on the long-troubling problem:

How to resolve the issue of excessive energy dispersion and low killing efficiency when combining two power systems?

Almost at the same instant the problem emerges.

The answer, as if waiting there all along, presents itself clearly, concisely, and completely in his consciousness.

Not one or two scattered ideas, but a complete theoretical framework and execution plan.

From the fundamental energy interaction principles to the specific rune array design... all details come together seamlessly.

Jeming is stunned.

Not because the answer is too complex, but because... it’s so simple.

Simple enough to be like a thin piece of window paper, before he just hadn’t found the right angle to pierce it.

"I see..." he slowly opens his eyes, the golden glow in his pupils retreating as a gleam of enlightened understanding takes its place, his lips curling into a smile, "So simple, why didn’t I think of it before?"

(Today’s two Chapters add up to over eight thousand words, which can be considered an extra update.)