Grand Wizard Sulla waved his hand, and immediately a imprisoned demon let out a painful wail.

Then, in a process lasting less than thirty seconds, that demon's body rapidly transformed from a physical state into the appearance of a stone man, and then its body began to crack.

Next, the demon's body shattered, turning into stones that fell and rolled on the ground. A twisted earth energy burst out from its dead body and, ignoring the numerous magical array obstructions, quickly passed through the laboratory's magic alloy metal floor, entered the ley lines, and headed toward some unknown direction.

After seeing their companion's tragic death, the other nine demons, whose intelligence was only similar to that of advanced mammals, immediately let out roars of sorrow and fury. But they couldn't break free from the magical chains bound to their body surfaces and fully integrated with their body parts.

Those magical chains were masterpieces jointly created by Abjuration School wizards and alchemists, a First Circle level sealing magic called [Sealing Chains]. These chains could bind to a person's body and integrate with their body tissue.

They couldn't be forcibly broken free from.

Because once broken free, the act of breaking free would also damage one's own body. This was a common alchemical item used to restrain First Circle level creatures, highly valuable, and generally unavailable for purchase at ordinary places.

Grand Wizard Sulla said, "I specifically captured these demons to use them for experiments. First is to find where the demon qi gathers, and second is to find a method to prevent the demon qi from entering the ley lines and going to unknown places."

"Unfortunately, I'm not a [Constructor] from the Evocation School's earth magic sub-direction, nor am I an earth wizard from the Life School. So, I've never been able to fully grasp the number of ley lines in this world, much less determine where the opponent is gathering the demon qi." Grand Wizard Sulla said with distress. "Moreover, no matter what magical materials I use to restrain the demons, I can't prevent their demon qi from flowing into the ley lines after death."

"Over time, I'm afraid some bad things will happen in this plane's ley lines that even I can't predict."

The Land of Six Towers also had no wizards skilled in these two directions. He also didn't dare to openly send people to find capable constructors and earth wizards like when recruiting potion masters. He could only consult some materials himself and conduct related research.

Locke watched this scene and thought, "That demon qi is originally a variant of earth energy, so no matter what magic alloy or material you use, Grand Wizard Sulla, it's very difficult to block the natural conduction of earth energy."

"The opponent is using the world's underlying principle mechanism. If the world's ley line energy could be cut off so easily, then this world would become very fragile, with energy circulation problems very easily."

Locke applied the formula and mentally calculated the result after modifying the world's underlying principles. "Then this world would become a junction between a lava ocean and an ice ocean. Obviously, this world is not like that, but is instead a life plane, so its ley line energy circulation level is very high. No matter what magical materials you use, Grand Wizard Sulla, it will be very difficult to restrain the ley line energy."

Obviously, this mechanism's design came from the hands of a very mature black wizard.

The entire Mage Plane was a chessboard where Grand Wizard Sulla and that black wizard fought remotely.

And the current game was the war between the Mage Saint Hall city and the demon race.

Locke thought, "But magical plants naturally have the function of absorbing ley line energy and stabilizing a region's ley line energy. If using magical plant methods, perhaps it's possible to prevent demon qi from flowing into the ley line energy."

Grand Wizard Sulla's eyes immediately lit up. He turned to look at Locke and said, "Locke, you have a method? Then, Locke, help me do this second project."

Locke's heart skipped a beat. 'Oh no, this stingy old man wants to exploit me again. I actually fell for his trap. Is this guy treating me like a perpetual motion machine? I have to help him solve the problem of natives using First Circle magic, and also help him block the demon qi from flowing into the earth's ley lines.'

'I still have to manage three projects and organize people to compete in tournaments...'

Locke looked somewhat speechlessly at Grand Wizard Sulla, whose eyes deliberately revealed a delighted expression. 'This old man is really too cunning. He's deliberately trying to see if he can squeeze some more labor out of me.'

'No way, I need to refuse immediately. Even if I actually do have some remaining capacity, I need to spend that time on myself.' Locke shook his head. "No."

As a rich expression of regret appeared on Grand Wizard Sulla's face, Locke calmly stated a fact. "In this Mage Plane, you can only give me a total of five hundred thousand magic stones in funding. With such limited funding, if I can scrimp and save to complete the first project for you, that would already be quite good."

"It's absolutely impossible for me to do another project for you. Grand Wizard Sulla, I can't do this. If you're interested, you can find another excellent breeder."

Locke said modestly, "After all, I'm just an ordinary breeder."

Locke increasingly suspected that Grand Wizard Sulla wanted to take advantage of the situation to have him take on the second project, exploiting his time while also having him use his own money to subsidize the second project.

Although this guess was somewhat absurd, Locke increasingly suspected that this was the true intention of the old fox before him.

In the wizard world, senior wizard instructors exploiting students and junior instructors was very common.

A look of regret appeared on Grand Wizard Sulla's face. "Alright then, forget it. I'll just do the research myself. The more people know about this kind of thing, the less safe it becomes."

For Grand Wizard Sulla, Locke hadn't yet produced any breeding achievements in the Land of Six Towers, especially in the Plutarch family, so Grand Wizard Sulla couldn't gauge Locke's breeding level clearly. He just estimated that based on Locke's past credentials and the level of a normal First Circle wizard-level senior breeder, what Locke said might indeed be true.

Just helping him do the first project would require all his energy. Therefore, Grand Wizard Sulla didn't insist, and was actually somewhat worried that if Locke divided his attention, it might result in neither project being completed properly.

Grand Wizard Sulla said, "I'll send you two away from this plane first. Because planar gravity affects the space-time rate, plus some other complex factors' influence, the time in the Mage Plane and our wizard world is not one-to-one."

"Roughly speaking, six days passing in the Mage Plane equals one day passing in the wizard world."

"So, when you return to the wizard world now, it will probably only have been a small portion of the night."

Locke calculated in his mind. That meant that Grand Wizard Sulla's planning in this Mage Plane, from the wizard world's timeline perspective, only started fifty years ago, not three hundred years ago.

'He obviously used a two-body method to avoid the problem of aging prematurely or wasting lifespan due to the different time flow rates between the two worlds.' Locke thought, 'However, in the end, his soul still needs to run back and forth between the two worlds. By logic, with only his two bodies unaffected by time flow interference, his soul shouldn't be just five hundred years old.'

'In other words, can the body influence the soul in reverse?'

'This would explain why Grand Wizard Sulla's main body in the wizard world has a lifespan of only close to five hundred years, and hasn't reached the lifespan limit of a First Circle wizard?'

Locke glanced at the old fox before him and thought, "Then from Grand Wizard Sulla's experience, the body should be equally important as the soul, rather than what I thought, that my soul is the most important thing."

"After returning, I can look up some materials related to soul studies. This part of knowledge is indeed quite interesting. The relationship between body and soul seems to be an interactive relationship, not a one-way relationship."