My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Selena picked up two red blocks and one brown block and rubbed them in her hands, turning them into a small, radiant sun. "Different colored eco-blocks can be used to create specific magical structures, and you can design the appearance of the structure yourself. Like this one in my hand, it's an artificial sun constructed using illusion and evocation spells. Of course... it only has the function of shining; it won't rise in the east and set in the west like a real sun."

Selena placed the artificial sun on top of the holographic map, then took out a manual and placed it on the control panel. "This manual records the crafting recipes for the blocks. Common plants, animals, and natural landscapes can all be crafted using specific recipes. Like this artificial sun, they are merely products of illusion and evocation magic, not real objects."

"Interesting... I didn't know you could play like this." Xia Zuo flipped through the manual with great interest and found that the contents were very detailed. From ants to elephants and giraffes, everything could be simulated with blocks.

“Your tower has more energy fields, so it will have more bio-blocks than other mages, and thus be able to simulate more items,” Selena added.

She took out a magic circle disc and shook it. "This is the last magic circle disc that I need to install."

Xia Zuo put down the manual and looked over.

Selena inserted the magic circle disc into the slot and pressed the start button next to the slot.

The holographic map refreshes, revealing a more expansive environmental map.

The tower of Chazo is marked on the map as a vertically upward cone.

The cone was completely empty, with no other living beings or flying machines present.

Selena reached out and manipulated the holographic map, turning its view towards the sky above the tower.

A layer of hazy smoke appeared above the tower.

Selena explained:

"This magic array is a real-time holographic map of the starry sky boundary. This smoke layer is the primordial smoke. The real-time holographic map has a built-in detection function, which will monitor the situation within a 150-kilometer radius around the tower in real time."

"If any Star Demons appear in the Creation Smoke, they will be marked with red dots on the map. Your elemental body will also receive an alert from the control panel. At this time, you need to keep a close eye on the situation in the Creation Smoke."

Xia Zuo leaned closer to take a look. Apart from the billowing smoke, he saw no signs of invasion on the image of the Creation Smoke. He then asked, "Selena, when was the last time the Starry Sky Demons invaded?"

“It was noon the day before yesterday local time in the Western Continent. The next one should appear after noon the day after tomorrow.” Selena pointed to the cylinder on the map, and a timetable appeared on the cylinder. “The real-time holographic map will also record the time of each detection of the Starry Sky Demon invasion. It is blank now, but the record will appear on it when there is a Starry Sky Demon invasion.”

“It’s very convenient.” Xia Zuo nodded.

“However… I doubt you’ll ever get to use this feature,” Selena said.

"Why is that?" Xia Zuo was slightly taken aback.

Selena explained, "The defensive pressure over the Western Continent has always been light. The number of Star Demons is small, and they rarely manage to break through the middle layer of the Creation Smoke. More than three hundred years have passed since the Temple deployed its defenses over the Western Continent, and no Star Demon team has yet emerged that can penetrate the middle layer of the smoke."

"So this is a cushy job?" Xia Zuo scratched his head. He thought that after arriving at the Starry Sky Border, he would be able to regularly farm Starry Sky Demons and harvest vitality attribute points. Who would have thought that the defense pressure here would be so light, it's like coming here to retire.

“That’s one way to put it…” Selena smiled, then said with a slightly serious expression, “But don’t let your guard down. There’s no guarantee that the next invasion won’t be larger than expected. If that happens, be sure to contact the Temple immediately using the wartime communication array.”

"Okay. I've got it." Xia Zuo nodded.

"Well... that concludes the matter of taking off." Selena thought for a moment and said, "I was originally going to take you to see the Star Demons, but the situation here in the Western Continent is special, and there are very few Star Demons. You'll hardly have any opportunities for real combat, so you must practice tower casting as much as possible. The practice targets can also be simulated using ecological blocks; you'll know how to do it once you study the manual."

When it comes to using towers to cast spells, Xia Zuo already has a lot of ingenious ideas in his mind.

Upon hearing Selena bring up the matter, he asked, "Selena, is it unnecessary to report when casting spells in border areas?"

“No need.” Selena shook her head. “As long as it doesn’t interfere with the defense, you can practice your spells as much as you like. However, the environment here is different from the ground, so be careful when you practice to avoid spell backlash.”

"Okay, okay." Xia Zuo rubbed his hands together excitedly.

He hadn't forgotten his special skill: [Spell Training].

As long as you cast a spell, you will receive experience and spirit attribute rewards based on the spell's power and casting time.

Since there are too few Starry Sky Demons in the border area, let's use spell training to quickly gain experience!

Chapter 41 Star Bomb

In the afternoon, as the sun began to set and the Starry Night Kingdom was about to welcome the last rays of sunset, Xia Zuo's physical body awoke on the test flight platform.

After a short while, Selena fell straight down from the sky and stopped in front of him.

"Do you have any further questions about the boundary between the stars and the tower?" Selena asked.

“No more.” Xia Zuo shook his head.

“Well, let me tell you about the meeting between the two palaces.” Selena took out a flat wooden box from her pocket. “This is the base for the Surveillance Orb. It can project your Surveillance Orb onto the meeting site. The specific instructions for use are all in the box. I will only tell you the precautions here.”

Selena took out a badge and handed it to Shazo along with the wooden box. "From the moment you successfully controlled your elemental body and piloted the tower to the edge of the starry sky, your status changed from an outer temple member to an inner temple member. Keep the badge safe for now. When you go to the Hall of Creation to receive the light element next time, Christor will introduce you to the other inner temple mages."

Selena continued:

"The Inner Temple monks will not directly participate in the daily affairs of the two temples. Our main task is to guard the boundary between the satellite and the airspace. From today onwards, you will develop the habit of keeping a guard log..."

Selena spent more than half an hour explaining everything that Xia Zuo needed to pay attention to.

In general, the Inner Court members are more like observers at the meetings between the two courts, responsible for offering opinions and voting. The main participants in the meetings are the various departments of the Outer Court. The Outer Court departments will report on their work progress and the problems they have encountered at the meetings.

There's no need to worry about endless wrangling during the meeting.

Because everyone present was a high-level mage or above, they deeply understood the preciousness of time.

If the parties have serious disagreements on a certain issue and reach a stalemate, the Two Palaces Conference will collect the proposals from all parties on the spot, package them up, and hand them over to a device called "Myriad Star Orbits" for simulation to ultimately arrive at the optimal solution.

Xia Zuo paused for a moment when he heard this, "Selena, what is this 'All-Encompassing Star Trail'? It sounds like it's related to the starry sky."

Selena thought for a few seconds and then said:

"Hmm... this thing is hard for me to describe clearly to you. It's not a product of space, but a complex instrument jointly created by the alchemists and the scholars of the Tower."

"The characters '万, 象, 星, 轨' can be broken down to understand the principles and functions of this thing."

“‘Wan’ is used to describe the large number of ‘Xiang’. ‘Xiang’ refers to phenomena, processes and results. ‘Xing’ refers to the various departments that hold different opinions. ‘Gui’ refers to the rules and regulations of each department.”

"The 'All-Encompassing Star Tracks' can be interpreted as: the process and results of all the solutions derived from the established principles and regulations of each part, taking the solutions of different departments as the starting point."

Selena paused for a moment before continuing, "The Two Temples Council will select the option that maximizes the Temple's interests from among many possible outcomes. However, this is not absolute. Some optimal options are clearly short-sighted and do not take into account long-term interests. Therefore, each department will draft a new plan and then use the All-Encompassing Star Orbit to deduce it again. Ultimately, the Two Temples Council will choose the optimal option that takes into account both current interests and long-term future interests."

It sounds like a supercomputer… Xia Zuo nodded. “Interesting.”

"I estimate you'll see it the day after tomorrow. The outer palace has been incredibly busy with the Black Flag issue lately." Selena glanced at the sky; evening had arrived. "Alright, everything's finished for today. If you have any questions, you can contact me using the communication array on the tower."

"Okay, Selena, thank you for your help." Shazo waved goodbye to Selena, watching her fly towards the teleportation hall.

He packed up the test flight platform and then flew to the university to have dinner with Anru.

That night, after studying the base of the jewel, Xia Zuo lay down on his bed and entered into deep meditation.

Another advantage of having an elemental body becomes apparent at this moment.

In the past, during deep meditation, he could only face the mottled stone walls and the docile elements that circled around him.

Now, he can use this time to manipulate his elemental body instead of the tedious meditation process.

The perspective shifts to the tower at the edge of the starry sky.

Xia Zuo's elemental body stood up from the driver's seat, first checking the condition of the tower, and then using the ecological simulation array to create a small outdoor pastoral ecosystem.

He drew inspiration from Selena's ecosystem design, creating an ecosphere for himself complete with streams and water-powered windmills.

After pressing the activation button next to the magic circle, the surface of the tower was filled with a bright white light. It melted like an iceberg and then solidified into the shape that Xia Zuo had preset.

When Xia Zuo stepped out of the "tower" and into the outdoors, the outside world had transformed into a pastoral landscape, and the "tower" behind him had become the appearance of a windmill.

Xia Zuo immediately understood the principle behind the magic array.

First, it expanded the interior space of the tower to the size of the ecosphere, and then used illusion and evocation magic to change the appearance of the binding energy field. Shazo appeared to be outdoors, but he was actually still inside the tower. The transparent spherical glass dome of the ecosphere was the wall of the tower, and the windmill was the cockpit area where the control panel was located.

Xia Zuo spent some more time tinkering with the ecological simulation array. Once he had had enough, he turned his attention to using [Spell Training] to gain experience.

He has a great idea!

It's important to understand that using spells solely for gaining experience is a very inefficient approach.

In terms of industrial economics, this means the industrial chain is too short and the added value is low.

To achieve multiple benefits with one effort, a spell that can be used for both gaining experience and other purposes needs to be developed.

Xia Zuo thought of one:

Use magic to create energy bombs, energy mines, energy traps, and other magical creations that can exist for a long time.

Imagine, to gain experience, he concocted hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of energy bombs and placed them near the Creation Smoke. When the Starry Sky Demons pierced through the smoke and launched their massive invasion, wouldn't the explosions be spectacular?

They gained experience and also blocked the Starry Sky Demons, which was a win-win situation.

As for this energy bomb with a long shelf life and the ability to automatically detect and detonate alien demons in the starry sky, Xia Zuo also has a preliminary design idea.

First, the blueprint for the energy bomb was designed using a beam energy field.

Then, use spells to create bombs.

Finally, place the bomb next to the Genesis Smoke.

It's that simple.

The difficulty lies in the blueprint design, but that won't stump Xia Zuo.

He spent an entire night designing an energy bomb that resembled a bubbling pufferfish, with the appearance of a mine, as the golden rays of the sun rose on the horizon.

Each spike on the bomb is a probe that emits a directional signal to detect the wave. The 72 probes on the surface of the sphere can encompass the entire 360-degree space around the bomb within the detection range.

This highly sensitive, long-shelf-life energy bomb has only two drawbacks.

Firstly, their power is very limited, and Xia Zuo estimates that they are unlikely to pose a real threat to the Starry Sky Demons.

Secondly, it will occupy a certain number of mental slots. Approximately every 100 ability bombs will occupy one mental slot for a long period of time.

For each ability bomb he crafts, Xia Zuo gains over 500 experience points, all within half a night.

He seemed to have already foreseen the day when all eight of his attributes would break through 1000 points.

Let's start by laying bombs all around our outposts!

Chapter 42 Glass Bead Meeting

There is a time difference between the Western and Eastern Continents. While it is evening in the Starry Night Kingdom, it is roughly noon in other parts of the Eastern Continent.

The timing of the Two Palaces Conference is based on the Eastern Continent.

One day after Xia Zuo took off.

In the evening, after having lunch with Anruer, he locked himself in his study to prepare for the meeting.