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Chapter 734: Creation System
Chapter 734 Creation System
Jie Ming reviewed this segment of the future in his mind, then withdrew from his reverie. He lowered his head and opened the light screen, calling up the complete data from this recent refinement session and beginning to verify the consumption item by item.
Strings of numbers flickered rapidly, ultimately summarizing into a single result.
Jie Ming stared at that result for several seconds before finally letting out a sigh.
Previously, he had been worrying about how to use those five hundred billion stars. There were simply too many; just planning their applications would take considerable time.
Now he had a new headache: five hundred billion stars didn’t seem enough anymore.
He quickly performed a mental calculation.
According to his design, the Star Power extractable from one standard-sized star was roughly enough for one-billionth of a main array eye. Factoring in energy losses and the additional materials consumed during refinement, several billion stars were needed on average to gather the materials for a single main array eye. With three hundred and sixty-five main array eyes, plus refinement failure rates and calibration losses, at least six hundred billion stars would be required as raw materials. And this was only for the main array eyes.
If the one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred auxiliary stars also needed to be refined with Star Power, even though their material standards were far lower than those of the main array eyes, the number of stars consumed would still multiply several times over.
Five hundred billion stars sounded like an enormous amount. Yet when applied to this grand array, it suddenly felt woefully insufficient.
He recalculated once more, this time incorporating variables such as “adding more high-value auxiliary materials and improving Star Power utilization rate.” After several rounds of computation, the results showed he could barely scrape together enough for the three hundred and sixty-five main array eyes.
The auxiliary stars could be left empty for the time being.
After all, with just the main array eyes, the All-Heavens Star Grand Array could still be deployed; it would simply be a bit weaker in power.
Once he conquered other planes in the future, he could use the stars from those planes as raw materials to refine the remaining auxiliary stars. There was no rush.
Yet these were ultimately only issues concerning the main array eyes and auxiliary stars.
Even if every array eye and auxiliary star were fully refined, this formation would still only be a downgraded version.
According to the materials provided by the Great Dao Book Pavilion, the true top-tier All-Heavens Star Grand Array existed only in theory.
For a complete All-Heavens Star Grand Array, even the core of the formation was something Jie Ming could not produce at present.
In the highest-grade All-Heavens Star Grand Array, the array eyes should use Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang conceptual materials as the primary components, supplemented by Star Power for casting. Supreme Yin could be set aside for now, as he had yet to find suitable raw materials capable of refining it.
As for Supreme Yang, although Supreme Yang True Fire could be used to further refine the conceptual material “Supreme Yang,” the amount of Supreme Yang True Fire required to produce even a single strand far exceeded what the star before him could provide.
The planet-sized mass of Supreme Yang True Fire before him was already the complete yield obtained from refining an entire star.
If he truly tried to use it to refine Supreme Yang, he probably couldn’t even produce half a strand.
Jie Ming silently flipped through his asset assessment report from beginning to end.
After reviewing it, he reached a very realistic conclusion.
“I suddenly feel so poor,” he muttered to himself.
The black giant priest beside him had somehow already finished collecting all the data. The vertical mouth on his chest opened slightly as he respectfully reported, “Master, all refinement data has been collected.”
“Good.”
Jie Ming pulled back his thoughts and nodded.
“Recycle the refinement rings. Once we return to the Infernal Sulfur Continent, gather the personnel and prepare to construct the new subsystem for the Incense Fire Divine Dao.”
The black giant priest accepted the order and withdrew.
Under his command, the fine rings in the starry sky began operating in reverse. Dark golden light reignited across their surfaces.
The mass of Supreme Yang True Fire was absorbed section by section into the rings and stored in specially prepared containers.
The Star Power on the other side was likewise drawn in and stored, silvery-white radiance slowly circulating within the containers.
Afterward, the fine rings themselves were disassembled section by section by the black giants, packed into dedicated transport crates, and loaded onto the teleportation array.
Jie Ming took one final look at the now starless void, then turned and stepped onto the teleportation array.
Upon returning to the main laboratory on the Infernal Sulfur Continent, he sat down before beginning work.
The Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror flew out from his spiritual sea and automatically hovered at his side.
He called up the design blueprints on the light screen and began confirming the parameters for every rune node one by one.
The Incense Fire Divine Dao subsystem to be built this time was named the Creation System.
This subsystem primarily governed spirituality and transformation power, excelling at maturing spiritual materials and amplifying refinement processes.
Specifically, it could combine Incense Divine Power with Spiritual Qi to accelerate the birth or maturation of various organic and inorganic spiritual materials within the Incense Fire Divine Dao system. When actively activated, it could also rapidly refine spiritual materials.
Setting aside its ability to generate spiritual materials, this subsystem could be considered a high-end automated factory.
The reason Jie Ming had dared to propose refining five hundred billion stars was precisely because he had thought of this system.
Within the Creation System’s definitions, stars could also be classified as “inorganic spiritual materials.”
They were themselves vast energy aggregates. After preliminary refinement, they could be brought into the processing range.
Previously, manually refining a single star with the refinement rings required dozens of black giant priests and a complete set of specialized fine ring formations, with each star taking considerable time.
Once the Creation System was completed, however, the situation would change completely after loading the internal data from the refinement rings.
At that point, the refinement rings could directly perform batch refinement on stars.
After gathering enough materials for one main array eye, Jie Ming only needed to personally refine a single main array eye as a template. He would then upload the refinement data and any subsequent required adjustments to the Creation System, allowing it to automatically refine all remaining main array eyes according to the template.
Jie Ming simulated the Creation System’s design from start to finish, repeatedly running each module as three-dimensional rune models on the light screen.
The final simulation results showed everything was normal.
Jie Ming was not particularly surprised. Constructing a simple Creation System was not especially difficult.
The Incense Fire Divine Dao framework was already mature enough; adding a new subsystem only required incremental development on the existing foundation.
What truly gave him a headache was another issue.
His finger paused on the “Refinement Materials List” column of the light screen, then slowly scrolled downward.
The basic material required for the main array eyes—Star Power—would be supplied by star refinement, and the costs had already been calculated.
But the auxiliary materials column was what truly made his eyelids twitch.
Stellar core essence, void crystals, law stabilizers, high-purity elemental catalysts, and various metals serving as the stellar main body. Individually, each item was expensive but not outrageous.
Yet when considering the scale Jie Ming intended to refine—each array eye planet-sized in scale—the numbers attached to these materials became staggeringly large.
“Feeling… short on money again.”
Jie Ming murmured to the light screen.
The Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror beside him flashed gently, as if nodding in agreement.