My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Xia Zuo had seen such magical images at the Two Palaces Conference and had also obtained a magical book from Christo, so he had already mastered this spell completely.

He nodded to Selena and said, "Okay, I'll take care of it."

He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and focused intently on controlling his blood element servants as they floated through the energy pipes.

Over the next three hours, Xia Zuo drew more than 20 dynamic images in his notebook, based on what the Blood Element servants had seen, showcasing the incubation room from all angles.

This is not over yet.

At Selena's request, his blood element servants spent over an hour drilling into the energy pipes inside the walls, meticulously recording the entire energy network of the incubation chamber.

Based on the animated images drawn by Xia Zuo, Selena used exquisite illusion magic to construct a miniature model of the fourth floor of the church headquarters on her desk.

Selena looked at their masterpiece and said, "There are a total of 320 incubation rooms. Each room can incubate 10 to 15 alien demons at the same time. The power supply method is conventional energy supply, that is, using life force as the main energy source, and other energy sources as auxiliary energy sources."

She paused and asked, "Are you sure you want to check the entire fourth floor of the church headquarters?"

Xia Zuo nodded.

Selena then asked, "Are there only this many incubators?"

“Yes.” Xia Zuo nodded again.

“Then we’re in big trouble…” Selena frowned slightly. “The energy pipelines in these incubation chambers are fixed and cannot be modified. They can only use conventional energy functions, which means that their incubation cycle is at least one month. In other words, even if the demons work around the clock, they can only hatch 3200 to 4800 demons at most within a month.”

Xia Zuo looked at the spell model on the table and suddenly realized, "You mean, the Church of the Otherworldly Demons has set up more incubation chambers in other places?"

“That’s right.” Selena bent her arms, resting her elbows on the edge of the desk, her hands supporting her chin. “Clearly, the Church of the Otherworldly Demons not only secretly built many, many incubation chambers, but also prepared the necessary supporting infrastructure. For example, a massive and stable power supply system. If they wanted to hatch 112 million Otherworldly Demons in just five or six months, the energy required would be approximately…”

Selena frowned, mentally calculating for a few seconds before finally uttering a startling figure, "Approximately 15 billion units of life force, and 50 million units of other energy. If all 15 billion units of life force were converted from dried-up blood vessels, the required other energy would reach 5 billion or even more… Where could we get so much energy? Even in the Desolate Hammer Kingdom, the Thermal Leylines only produce about 10 billion units of energy annually…"

What is the Fiery Leyline of the Desolate Hammer Kingdom? ... Xia Zuo blinked, controlling himself not to interrupt... Now is not the time to be curious about other things.

Selena fell into deep thought.

Xia Zuo didn't make a sound to disturb them, but instead pondered the characteristics of the shriveled blood vessels: [Wide-area vitality recovery].

This feature is clearly designed for large-scale energy recovery.

Once fully charged, its energy recovery range will expand to a radius of 1000 kilometers.

In other words, within a perfect circle with a diameter of 2000 kilometers, the vitality in any corner will be reclaimed by the shriveled blood vessels.

So how big is this perfect circle with a diameter of 2000 kilometers?

Xia Zuo rummaged through his alchemy pouch and pulled out a map of the temple territory.

This item is a secret item within the temple; only those with secret access rights can carry this map with them.

Xia Zuo spread out the map of the temple territory and, referring to the legend and scale on the map, used a perfect circle with a diameter of 20 centimeters to represent the range of vitality recovery of the shriveled blood vessels.

Hmm? ...Xia Zuo noticed something and sat up straight.

As is well known, the Silvermoon Federation has the highest population density in the Temple Territory.

The architecture there is predominantly tall buildings, and the permanent population is three to ten times that of other areas.

The Tambus State massacre many years ago claimed the lives of approximately 1500 million people.

Assuming each person has a vitality attribute value of 3 points, and 1 point of vitality attribute value equals 1 unit of life force.

Theoretically speaking, if the Church of the Otherworldly Demons creates four disasters in the Silvermoon Federation that are on the same scale as the Tambus State massacre, it can recover 15 billion units of life force using its shriveled blood vessels.

How many alien demons would be needed to create four disasters?

Xia Zuo conservatively estimates that at least 2 alien demons will be needed, and all of them must be at the Blood Demon level. This is because the defense level of the Silver Moon Federation has increased significantly since the tragedy in Tambus State.

Unless the Otherworldly Demons can find a large number of bombs to destroy the buildings of the Silvermoon Federation in large numbers, the requirement of 2 Otherworldly Demons is absolutely unavoidable.

Another question popped into Xia Zuo's mind:

How many Otherworlders does the Church of Otherworlders have now?

Xia Zuo scratched his head; he really didn't know the answer to this question... because a large portion of the Otherworldly Demons did not live in the natural world; their home was a dark chamber completely controlled by the Otherworldly Demon Church.

and many more!

darkroom!

Xia Zuo sat up straight, rummaged through his alchemy pouch, and took out the anti-magic field map that Rexor had given him.

Upon seeing the map again, Xia Zuo realized the problem.

The Church of the Otherworldly Demons had absolutely no need to go to such lengths, traveling all the way to the Silver Moon Federation on the other side of the Eastern Continent to commit atrocities.

There is plenty of life in their own territory!

The map provided by Rexor is incomplete, only recording about one-third of the entire anti-magic field, which are locations already explored by the Temple.

The total population of these areas alone is around 1200 million…

If the Church of the Otherworld went mad and sacrificed all the creatures in the entire anti-magic field, how much life force would they gain?

Xia Zuo was shocked by his own thoughts.

He subconsciously thought that a ruler of a place would not treat the creatures in his territory in this way, but he suddenly realized that the demons were not human and could not be judged by human notions of right and wrong.

Otherworldly beings are fully capable of committing horrific acts of slaughter, even within their own territory.

Moreover, with Vasaksat about to arrive, the Church of the Otherworldly Demons will undoubtedly take the most extreme measures under immense pressure.

Xia Zuo slowly exhaled, feeling that his guess was very close to the truth.

If that's the case, what if they infiltrate the team?

Selena noticed Xia Zuo's actions. She snapped out of her reverie and asked Xia Zuo, who looked anxious, "What are you thinking about?"

“Selena, I have a hypothesis that seems absurd to humans but makes sense to the Otherworldly.”

Xia Zuo scratched his hair and said:

"The Church of the Otherworldly Demons may carry out massacres within the anti-magic field in order to obtain enough life force."

Selena tilted her head slightly and said, "That is indeed possible. But slaughtering living beings while harvesting life force is a long process. If the Church of the Otherworldly Demons adopts this method, the Temple will have plenty of ways to deal with it."

Xia Zuo asked, "But what if the Church of the Otherworldly Demons had a way to kill all living things in a very short time and completely extract all their life force without missing a single drop?"

Selena's eyes narrowed. "Why would you say that? What else do you know?"

“A darkroom,” Xia Zuo said in a deep voice, “both Rexol and I have confirmed that the darkroom is rapidly merging with nature…”

Xia Zuo explained the dimensional projection, remote time container, and other matters to Selena, and continued under her astonished gaze:

"We previously speculated that the Church of the Otherworldly Demons built a large number of incubation chambers and an even larger energy system there... I think that place is the Dark Chamber."

“My research on planes is not in-depth, but I do know that dramatic changes occur when two planes merge. I have reason to believe that the Church of the Otherworldly Demons may take advantage of some kind of dramatic change brought about by the merging of planes to kill all living beings in a short period of time and trap their life force in the Dark Chamber plane, and put them into the pre-prepared incubation chamber and energy system.”

In this passage, Xia Zuo deliberately concealed the role of the shriveled blood vessels and did not reveal that they had the characteristic of "wide-area vitality recovery". Instead, he placed the blame for trapping life force on the Dark Chamber dimension.

As a seasoned tower mage, Selena quickly regained her composure after a brief moment of surprise and began to consider what Xia Zuo had said.

“That’s certainly possible…” Selena said thoughtfully.

"The planar scholars within the Tower of Scholars once conducted an experiment, allowing a small area of ​​nature to deeply merge with the Thunder Sea Plane, fusing them into the same region. The result of that experiment was that the region transformed into a unique ocean space, permanently perpetually shrouded in lightning, thunder, and torrential rain."

"We can conclude that when nature merges with the subplane, the subplane will completely change the ecological environment of the region."

"If the darkroom were to merge with nature... I think the anti-magic field would become a dark area devoid of air, water, light, and heat. Such an environment could kill most living things in just a few minutes."

"So, you agree with my guess?" Xia Zuo asked. "We need to quickly notify Rexor and the others to evacuate immediately, and also cancel the Temple's reinforcement plan."

Selena nodded first, then shook her head. "No, Xia Zuo, I don't completely agree with your guess, but I do agree with your hypothesis that 'the Otherworldly Demons use the fusion of planes to slaughter living beings'."

Selena continued, "I have to conduct an experiment to verify one of my guesses."

"What experiment?" Xia Zuo asked.

Selena said, while rummaging in the pocket of her mage robe:

“I think we’ve all overlooked an important clue. That withered blood vessel, worshipped by so many otherworldly demons, may have more than just the function of converting energy into life force. It may have some more secretive and threatening functions.”

Selena took a miniature culture jar with a hemispherical glass dome out of her pocket.

Inside the miniature culture jar, there is a small golden flower with a bud waiting to bloom.

Selena gently stroked the glass cover of the culture jar, as tenderly as if waking a sleeping baby.

The little golden flower raised its flower bud, its petals slowly opening, and its core "looked" at Selena with a lively posture, as if it could "see" something.

"This is an essential tool for scholars in the Tower of America when studying vitality—a specialty of the Golden Vitex Utopia, a young Golden Vitex."

Chapter 70 Golden Vitex

Selena pushed the culture tank in front of Shazo and said:

"Life force is the most hidden and profound energy in the world. It is invisible and colorless, and cannot be detected by the naked eye or conventional detection spells. You pure-blood mages are the closest to life force, but the energy you use is not actually life force, but blood runes. Blood runes are merely the carriers of life force, used to guide your life force in casting spells. To see the purest true face of life force, you need to use some strange props, and the Golden Vitex is one of them."

"Then what do you want me to do?" Xia Zuo asked, looking at the small golden vitex flowers in the culture jar.

Selena took out a parchment scroll and spread it out on the table. "This is a small spell to link with the Golden Vitex. After you link with this little Golden Vitex, share the vision of your Blood Magic Golem with it and let it observe the shriveled blood vessels. This little Golden Vitex has the intelligence of a 12-year-old human child. It will tell me what it sees."

"Hmm..." Xia Zuo thought for a moment and quickly rehearsed the next steps in his mind.

After confirming that nothing unusual would be revealed, he agreed, "Okay, Selena."

Xia Zuo cast a detection spell on the spellbook.

Just as Selena described, the spell recorded in this book does indeed only have one effect: connecting with the Golden Thorn.

Xia Zuo spent some time learning the minor spell, and then manipulated the Blood Element servants back to the main square of the church headquarters.

The demons remained in a devout prayer posture, their shriveled blood vessels already 83% charged, with only 17 hours remaining to fully recharge them.

Xia Zuo reached out and placed his hand on the glass dome of the little golden chaste tree, closed his eyes, and used attribute-free energy to activate the little spell he had just learned.

A wonderful sensation came from his palm; the glass cover felt like a baby's skin, and Xia Zuo felt as if he were holding a tender little hand.

The Blood Servant adjusted its perspective, placing the shriveled blood vessel in the distance right in the center of the image.

At that moment, the little golden chaste tree inside the glass dome seemed to sense fear, and its delicate branches twitched.

Xia Zuo inexplicably sensed its emotional change.

He gently stroked the glass cover to comfort her, silently encouraging the little golden chaste tree in his heart.