Dimensional rock

After returning to his dorm Nie Li visited his friends. They all were diligently cultivating. Even Lu Piao was working hard. If everything will continue like this he will be left behind. But he didn't have a choice. Money was more important right now. And he had some ideas to help him to catch up to his friends.

After talking with them some more, he returned to his room. He emptied his interspatial ring and activated the Starlight Crafting Plate. Nie Li planned to study the ring with it.

He put the ring over the plate and transferred it inside the pocket workspace. He then began analyzing the materials it was made from, its inscription pattern, and other parameters. As he expected dimensional rocks were used in its creation. Dimensional rocks were rare resources that had space-time affinity. Space-time affinity demon beasts love them and build their homes near them. It's considered that the Space-time Realm has an abundance of it, but it was never confirmed. Some people even speculated that the presence of space-time affinity beasts that causes those rocks to form.

It was this speculation that allowed Nie Li to hope that he will be able to produce storage devices because he didn't have access to any dimensional rock mines. So he is going to try to grow it inside the Starlight Crafting Plate. Even though he didn't have any space-time demon beast. He had bought many demon crystals with a space-time affinity. Very minor space-time affinity because catching a demon beast with a major space-time affinity is almost impossible. They are also very rare. So the demon crystals Nie Li bought came from demon beasts with minor bloodlines of those beasts.

And what's a demon beast? In the past, he wouldn't have thought about it. But after inheriting Robert's memories, he could see demon beasts are just animals with demon crystals and demon spirits. In another word, all of the supernatural abilities of the demon beasts came from them. So Nie Li is going to imitate a space-time demon beast inside the crafting zone. It's impossible outside because energy will quickly dissipate, but inside the crafting plate, nothing would dissipate without Nie Li willing it.

Nie Li memorized the inscriptions pattern of the ring and then extracted dimensional rock fragments. If something happens and he can't restore the ring he will just buy a new one. Because learning how to make such devices was very important. He was able to extract 3 grams of it.

He added over twenty demon crystals and began drawing out their space-time essence, then added bronze rank demon spirit to the process. He dissolved the demon spirit and directed the energy towards space-time essence. Now it looked like a glowing dark blue liquid sphere and Nie Li put the dimensional rock inside it. Dimensional rock began to grow while the liquid started to disappear as if swallowed by the rock. In the end, the rock grew in size 10 times by the time the process finished.

He was right. The space-time demon beasts could cause dimensional rocks to grow. This was a great breakthrough. Now he could produce them on his own, as long as he had demon crystals with space-time affinity and demon spirits. He inspected the dimensional rock. It was almost ten times bigger now. But that was not the only thing that attracted his attention. There were some specks of darker color on the surface of the rock. They looked like grains of dimensional crystal!

The dimensional crystals were better versions of dimensional rocks and were a thousand times rarer. The difference between them was like the difference between the Spiritual stone and Spiritual Stone essence. Perhaps it's the result of the demon spirit's space-time affinity. So it's possible if he could use space-time demon spirit he could turn the dimensional rock into a dimensional crystal. Possible, but not practical. Because if he had a space-time affinity demon spirit he would have better uses for it than to dissolve it into energy.

He extracted those grains. It was an extremely small amount, barely half a gram. But with time he can gather enough grains to form a large enough crystal to create an impressive storage device. He created a glass container around the small crystal and took it out of the Starlight Crafting Plate. Its time would come in the future. Right now he must concentrate on creating interspatial rings.

He began to analyze the Inscription pattern and immediately could see where he could improve it. These ordinary six cubic meter interspatial rings were very common in ancient times. They were cheap, negligently designed, and had many unnecessary redundancies. Only by improving those, he could expand the internal space to 15 cubic meters, and if he uses 5 grams of dimensional rock instead of 3, then the internal space can reach 30 cubic meters. That was an optimal size. Because after that, raising the amount of dimensional rock has diminishing returns.

He didn't know how those 200 cubic meter rings were made. More likely, a different design. Though he doubted it used dimensional crystals because in that case, it would have had an internal space of thousands of cubic meters, not hundreds. Well, no matter. He will study them when he gets one of those. Right now the current design is enough.

He could create only three rings with energy left from the dissolved demon spirit. He will make more later when he had more materials.

He must also make a reusable soul crystal. It's getting annoying to buy a new soul crystal every time he wants to examine the soul realm of someone. He could even make it multipurpose.

But that's a matter for another day. It was already late for cultivation, so he went to sleep.

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Today's lessons were as boring as usual. Only Shen Xiu, after embarrassment inflicted by Nie Li, came back with a vengeance. She only talked about how red soul realm owners would never reach higher than 5 star Bronze rank. And that they would never amount to anything. And every 5 minutes, she reminded everyone that Nie Li had a soul force of 5. That it would be a great accomplishment if he reaches a bronze rank in two years, or he would be expelled from Holy Orchid Institute.

It was annoying, but he didn't try to refute her. It didn't matter anyway. After two months he is not returning to school. The school can't teach him anything. The only valuable thing to him in the school is the Heavenly Sacred Border and Thunder Gods Meteorite Sword within it. He is here to build connections and create his team.