I Arrived At Wizard World While Cultivating Immortality Chapter 726: Emerging from Seclusion and Emerging from Seclusion

**Chapter 726: Emerging from Seclusion and Emerging from Seclusion**

Jie Ming emerged from his immersion in knowledge. The pale golden runes in the depths of his pupils slowly receded like a layer of morning mist that had just dissipated. After confirming that he had fully learned and understood the current knowledge, he blinked, subconsciously raising a hand to rub his stiff neck. Just as he was about to close the light screen, the automatic door of the laboratory slid open silently.

Viola walked in slowly from the entrance with her hands behind her back.

She wasn’t wearing her usual deep blue robe today. Instead, she had changed into a loose, more casual home-style robe. Her silver-gray long hair was tied back casually, making her seem less imposing than usual and more relaxed and languid.

When she reached the doorway, her gaze swept inside nonchalantly and met Jie Ming’s eyes as he looked up.

Her steps paused. She raised an eyebrow, and an expression mixing surprise and amusement appeared on her face.

“Oh?” She drawled. “You’re alive?”

“…?”

Jie Ming remained silent for two seconds, looking at her with an expressionless face.

“What do you think?” Viola leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed over her chest, her tone light and airy. “After you came back from Broadleaf, you ignored everything else and dove straight into the sea of knowledge. You didn’t respond when called, didn’t move when shouted at, and didn’t even react when that activated test tube jumped onto your workbench and bounced around you.”

She tilted her head, the amusement in her eyes growing stronger. “Everyone’s been saying you already died.”

Jie Ming immediately saw through the fabricated rumor in her words. “Clearly it was only you spreading the rumor that I died?!”

“Aiya, you caught me.” Viola showed no embarrassment at having her lie exposed. “But you can’t blame me. Just think about how much time has passed.”

Jie Ming blinked, then subconsciously checked his biological clock.

In the next instant, he paused imperceptibly.

According to his biological clock’s feedback… more than ten years had actually passed?!

After returning from Wizard Broadleaf, he had opened the Reflection Dimension knowledge modules and begun immersive learning.

In his subjective perception, it had only felt like a few continuous days, yet in reality, more than ten years had gone by.

“What… what kind of situation is this?!” For a moment, Jie Ming felt genuinely alarmed.

He had immersed himself in knowledge oceans for study before, but never to the point of losing all perception of the outside world. Frankly, even someone thinking about studying every single moment shouldn’t be completely unaware of external conditions.

So… his current situation was definitely abnormal!

Fortunately, Viola quickly provided an explanation. “Relax, it’s not a big problem. This is a special phenomenon that occurs when studying Reflection Dimension-related knowledge.”

Jie Ming looked over in confusion.

Viola waved her hand. “Dean Avery told me before he left. Because of the Reflection Dimension’s own special nature, studying its knowledge causes people to unconsciously ignore reactions from the main world. But this isn’t a major issue for wizards.”

“Wizard Broadleaf probably didn’t expect that you had never learned any Reflection Dimension knowledge before, so he gave you too much of it all at once. Next time you encounter Reflection Dimension knowledge, just prepare in advance.”

“Alright… so that’s how it is… These years, Senior Sister has been helping take care of things. Thank you.” Jie Ming immediately understood why Viola had stayed here the whole time.

“Hehehehehe! That’s right, that’s right!” Viola lifted her head proudly.

Jie Ming rubbed his brow, finally stood up, and stretched his shoulders that had grown stiff from sitting for over ten years.

As he walked out, he opened his magic network terminal and quickly browsed through the unread messages that had accumulated over these ten-plus years. Fortunately, the important ones weren’t too numerous.

The first was a message left by Dean Avery Knight.

The dean had already left with those several seventh-ring wizards.

After completing a fourth thorough search of the tentacle tree plane and confirming no Reflection Dimension creatures had been missed, they took the sealed samples each had been allocated and returned to Noren Academy No. 147.

Dean Avery’s message was brief: The cooperation this time was very pleasant. If there were similar tasks in the future, he could be contacted directly. Additionally, if possible, the two sides could exchange Reflection Dimension knowledge they had researched in the future.

Jie Ming skimmed it without much emotional reaction and simply noted it down.

The second was the fusion progress between the Infernal Sulfur plane and the tentacle tree plane.

Over the past ten-plus years, the project had advanced quite steadily.

However, problems had also emerged.

Compared to the tentacle tree plane, the Infernal Sulfur plane’s scale was simply too small.

The tentacle tree plane was a super-large universe-type plane with five hundred billion stars, while the Infernal Sulfur plane, though it had already fused with ten small planes and successfully advanced to a medium plane, was still essentially a continent-type plane.

Currently, although the spatial structures of the two planes had been connected through fusion arrays, the material level had not yet fully merged. The present state was somewhat like forcibly embedding a massive floating continent into a certain star region of the tentacle tree plane, with vast interstellar space surrounding the continent.

The plane fusion array was currently operating normally. The law systems of both sides were slowly permeating each other, and the state was very stable. The first round of fusion was expected to complete in another hundred years or so.

As for whether to continue pushing for complete fusion afterward or maintain this semi-fused state, that would depend on his choice.

The third was the settlement situation of the dragonmen.

The black giant priests had already designated an entire region in the southeast of the Infernal Sulfur plane and performed environmental transformation according to dragonman plane standards. The dragonmen’s adaptation speed was much faster than expected.

This batch of dragonmen were ordinary civilians who had lived under Wizard Broadleaf’s rule for several centuries. To them, it was simply moving to another place to continue surviving.

Several young dragonmen with relatively high bloodline concentration had even taken the initiative to participate in the black giant legion’s recruitment tests.

It was clear they were adapting quite well.

The fourth was the development situation of the tentacle tree civilization.

Over these ten-plus years, the new generation of tentacle trees had completed basic education within the public education system established by the administrative network. Many of them, after multiple rounds of screening, had joined the black giant priests’ research teams to assist in the reverse analysis of Divine Armaments.

Although their combat power couldn’t compare to the black giants, their talent in theoretical research and data analysis was indeed not bad.

More importantly, this provided an additional source of research personnel, further elevating the overall foundation under Jie Ming’s command.

By the time he had finished browsing the messages, Viola spoke up unhurriedly.

“Oh right, there’s one more thing. A few days ago we received news that Mentor Clark has finished his closed-door cultivation.”

Jie Ming’s hand paused while scrolling through the terminal. His eyes brightened.

He directly closed the magic network terminal and turned to look at Viola.

“Let’s go. We’ll pay Mentor a visit.” Jie Ming said.