After leaving the Great Dao Book Pavilion, Jie Ming immediately devoted his energy to cultivating the Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm.
Inside the meditation chamber, the formation slowly operated.
From the energy storage crystals scattered around the formation, strands of heaven and earth spiritual energy were continuously drawn in, filtered and refined by the Inner World, and finally transformed into pure spiritual power that circulated endlessly through his meridians.
Jie Ming's eyes were slightly closed, but his consciousness had already sunk into his spiritual sea.
Countless golden law threads interwove in the spiritual sea, like a giant net covering the entire heaven and earth.
Soon, Jie Ming found the Golden Law Thread he sought.
It was the Time Law.
The essence of Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm is to use the Grand Dao of Time as a medium to forcibly rewind the "state" of a target existing between heaven and earth. To achieve this, one must have an extremely deep understanding of the Grand Dao of Time.
In this regard, the Wizard Civilization had a natural advantage.
If it were an ordinary cultivator at the Dao Integration Realm in the cultivation world, just the threshold of comprehending the Grand Dao of Time would be enough to block over ninety percent of them. This is because, in the cultivation world, there is no such convenient thing as planar origin.
In the cultivation world, heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can directly help improve one's comprehension of the Dao are extremely rare, most without fixed acquisition channels, each so precious that it's bordering on absurd.
Moreover, such treasures are often ingredients for various high-grade pills, and no one would be willing to consume them raw. So in the cultivation world, what Dao a cultivator practices mainly depends on their own talent for comprehension.
But the Wizard Civilization does not have such troubles.
Even if one cannot integrate the knowledge, as long as one is willing to spend military merits, with planar origin, a wizard can quickly gain initial mastery of a required Dao. What's more, Jie Ming had long ago consumed planar origins related to the Water Element Law in order to research the Black Giant.
And the Water Element Law is precisely the superior law to the Time Law.
Relying further on the special state of the Dao Integration Realm itself, Jie Ming's mastery of the Time Law was quite good.
In his spiritual sea, the Golden Law Thread representing the Time Law continuously extended, its thickness nearly twice that of the four elemental laws beside it.
If calculated according to the Wizard Civilization's algorithm for law mastery, Jie Ming's mastery of the Time Law had already exceeded one hundred percent, approaching the two hundred percent level.
For any newly promoted sixth-level wizard, this would already be enough to be considered their main law.
However, when Jie Ming began to truly cultivate the Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm, he soon frowned.
The difficulty of the Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm did not exceed Jie Ming's understanding by too much. Although it was not something he could do after just one look, after pondering for some time, he had already grasped the main operational logic.
This indicated that his control over the Time Law should have reached the standard required for cultivation.
But the actual situation was that, although Jie Ming could indeed circulate spiritual power according to the method required by Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm, he was unable to successfully release it. While circulating spiritual power, Jie Ming guided the resonance of the Time Law according to the magic technique in the jade slip.
Yet every time the spell was about to take shape, the temporal fluctuations that had already coalesced would suddenly collapse.
The gray law constantly gathered and constantly dissipated.
He tried several times in a row, but none succeeded.
Jie Ming slowly opened his eyes, thoughtful.
"The spell can take shape, indicating that the problem is not with my deduction or with spiritual power manipulation, but rather that my mastery of the Time Law is still insufficient."
Jie Ming soon realized the reason.
Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm was, after all, a Dao Integration Realm spell.
Cultivators at the Nascent Soul Realm have not truly touched the Dao, so their spells rely more on spiritual power circulation.
But the Dao Integration Realm is different.
The Dao Integration Realm is precisely a process where cultivators continuously integrate with the Dao.
Every spell of the Dao Integration Realm is essentially an application of Dao principles.
Its requirement for Dao comprehension is countless times higher than that of Nascent Soul Realm spells.
Two hundred percent mastery of the Time Law seemed not low, but before the Embers of Nihility - Reversal Palm, it still appeared somewhat inadequate. After all, when those Dao Integration Realm cultivators created the spell, they had already immersed themselves in this realm for who knows how many thousands of years.
Thinking of this, Jie Ming instead smiled. "This problem is actually easy to solve—it's just a matter of spending resources."
As mentioned earlier, in the Wizard Civilization, as long as there are enough resources, law mastery is never a problem!
He took out his Magic Net terminal, opened the Star Ring Federation resource trading platform, and placed a large order for planar origins related to the Time Law. As a popular law among wizards, the Time Law's price was nearly twenty percent higher than conventional laws.
But for Jie Ming, whose Blood Sacrifice Method was currently raking in wealth like crazy, this price difference was hardly noticeable.
A few hours later, the first batch of planar origins was delivered to the laboratory through a teleportation array.
Opening the heavy metal case before him, looking at the neatly arranged sealed crystal test tubes inside, and the radiant planar origins within, Jie Ming did not hesitate and began to refine them directly.
With a casual motion, he unsealed all the test tubes, and streams of silver-white origin flowed continuously into his body.
In his spiritual sea, the Golden Law Thread representing the Grand Dao of Time began to grow at a visible rate.
Within just a few days, by consuming a large amount of planar origins, Jie Ming raised his mastery of the Time Law by another hundred percentage points.
However, this was not the end.
As the Time Law continuously improved, it began to intersect with several laws Jie Ming had already mastered.
Space, Water, Life, Soul, Fate... even Abyss.
The essence of laws is knowledge, and knowledge can form connections among itself.
When one law broke through, other laws also produced a chain resonance.
During this period, the talent evolved by the Entropy Brain through the body refinement method began to show its true terror.
The scattered knowledge brought by the planar origins Jie Ming consumed during this time was automatically reorganized by the Entropy Brain. Those originally unrelated pieces of knowledge quickly established connections under the Entropy Brain's deduction.
Finally, this organized knowledge combined with existing knowledge to deduce new knowledge.
Massive amounts of information, like countless gears, began to operate simultaneously.
One understanding brought about new understanding.
One breakthrough triggered more breakthroughs.
At the same time, after entering the state of Dao Integration, the near-instinctive perception of heaven and earth's laws constantly participated in this deduction. Jie Ming did not even have to deliberately meditate; many originally obscure mysteries of the laws naturally appeared in his mind.
This is the Dao Integration.
The Dao lies between heaven and earth.
And the cultivator is just constantly listening to the sound of the Dao.
One year later.
Jie Ming opened his eyes again. In his spiritual sea, the Golden Law Thread of the Time Law had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The length and thickness of the entire law thread far surpassed all other laws.
If calculated by the Wizard Civilization's standards, his current mastery of the Time Law had skyrocketed to over seven hundred percent, making it the law he had mastered to the highest degree.
"Finally..."
Jie Ming slowly raised his right hand, a look of enlightenment flashing in his eyes.
Without needing to perform any complex magic technique, he simply grasped forward gently.
Buzz...
A pale gray light slowly radiated from his palm.
A specially shaped piece of refined gold on the experimental table suddenly trembled slightly.
The next moment, it actually returned to its shape before being reshaped.
Meanwhile, the nearby mass of refined gold that had been smelted into liquid state gradually reconverged, reverting back to the original intact metal block.
Jie Ming quietly watched this scene, and finally a smile appeared on his face.
"At last... I've made a start."