Chapter 626: Chapter 565: Light-Luxury Pseudo Magic Remains
Ye Xingli designed a magic treasure called the Chaos Soil Eating Device.
After conducting extensive research on college students, Ye Xingli deeply understood one point, that college students have a trend of eating soil and stones.
Just as many students at Wanfa University suppress their digestive power by swallowing cement blocks while taking medication to meet basic physical needs, to avoid overly strong digestive ability harming their bodies, or due to long-term food scarcity leading to the weakening of the digestive system.
College students everywhere achieve this by swallowing stones and soil.
After all, unlike Wanfa University City, in the numerous colleges, due to environmental and technological and financial constraints, compared to cement and edible cement, soil and stones seem easier to obtain.
And compared to more scientifically and healthily edible cement, eating soil and stones obviously has various side effects, such as burden on the digestive tract’s motility, requiring Qi Refining realm college students to expend considerable energy on gastrointestinal motility, adding to the physical burden, and sometimes even reducing efficiency at work.
Thus Ye Xingli designed a soil-eating magic treasure, which processes soil and stones before consumption, effectively reducing digestive tract burden, and can add different flavors.
At this moment, as Zhang Yu activates his Heavenly Creation power, a large amount of knowledge and technology surge crazily in his mind, and along with bursts of inspiration, a new blueprint gradually forms in his mind, according to his cost-reduction requirements.
However, Zhang Yu did not directly draw the design and give it to Ye Xingli, instead, he replied: Senior sister, I have an idea.
Zhang Yu: Look, if we modify it this way, can we reduce the cost a bit?
Although Zhang Yu only expressed a rough direction without providing all the details, Ye Xingli still found it greatly inspiring after seeing it.
Especially because Zhang Yu’s optimization direction was cost reduction, which did not change Ye Xingli’s design approach too much, and Ye Xingli knew well the importance of cost in the college student market.
Ye Xingli: Junior brother, your suggestion is very useful [clasping fists][1 spirit coin]
In the following days, Ye Xingli occasionally discussed with Zhang Yu, jointly refining the design of the Chaos Soil Eating Device.
Finally, as the design blueprint was finalized, Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli completed the design drawings of the Chaos Soil Eating Device together, and he saw a Dao Seed named Spiritual Rhythm Heart emerge above Yu Shu.
Seeing this newly replicated Dao Seed, Zhang Yu felt joy within and immediately sensed the abilities contained within it.
“Hmm? So senior sister is a Master of Sewing? No wonder I find some places in the Chaos Soil Eating Device’s design blueprint familiar.”
The so-called Spiritual Rhythm Heart, in Zhang Yu’s view, is a blueprint fusion ability, capable of merging any two artifact refining blueprints to produce new artifact refining blueprints.
But the result of the fusion is not necessarily good, it might extract the essence, or it might take the dregs, so choosing which blueprints to fuse is very important.
For instance, fusing a flying sword blueprint with another flying sword blueprint more likely leads to a good result.
However, if the flying sword blueprint and the Chaos Soil Eating Device blueprint are fused, it is easy to produce a blueprint that is useless on both ends.
Meanwhile, this type of fusion clearly also has its limits, it’s not that you can fuse all the market’s magic treasure blueprints together and gain the functions of all magic treasures.
If you continually fuse new blueprints into it, the elements initially fused in will be gradually lost.
It’s like a hard drive, it can only store so much stuff, when reaching the storage limit, adding more items means having to delete previously stored things.
For example, fusing two speed-oriented flying swords to design a new flying sword with the advantages of both, making it faster.
But if you then fuse in a siege-type flying sword blueprint, the newly merged blueprint may have enhanced siege power but reduced speed.
In short, the fusion by the Spiritual Rhythm Heart is not universally effective, it depends on the specific blueprint selection, as well as the refining product’s own Immortal Path limit and physical limit.
During the fusion process, it requires consuming one’s own inspiration.
Once inspiration is repeatedly consumed, not only is fusion impossible for a while, but the brain may be devoid of any innovative thinking, leading to stagnation.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Performing a few fusions each month is not a problem.”
Zhang Yu sensed the upgrade requirements for the Spiritual Rhythm Heart and thought, “Level 2 requires designing 10 Foundation Establishment-level artifact refining products together?”
“For now, there’s no time for that, will deal with it later.”
With the Spiritual Rhythm Heart, Zhang Yu becomes increasingly confident in the upcoming design competition, and immediately begins a new round of design work.
Only to see a flash of light in his skeletal eyes revealing sheets of design blueprints.
Among them are Ye Xingli’s Chaos Soil Eating Device and other designs, such as external digestive systems, anti-wear propulsion boots, and disposable artificial skin.
These design blueprints are ones Zhang Yu gradually optimized using Heavenly Creation while researching college students over the past month.
Every activation of Heavenly Creation burns Dao Heart, not suitable for large-scale operations at once, so Zhang Yu spread it out over the past month.
Due to spreading out over a month, although every time requires some consumption, Zhang Yu’s mental method operation over a few days also helps recover gradually, allowing Zhang Yu’s Dao Heart to still maintain at the level of 19 (83%) at this moment.
The foundation of the blueprints originates from the grand library of Wanfa University City, as Zhang Yu conducts college student research while using Heavenly Creation to optimize blueprints.
In his opinion, the artifact refining products in these drawings are more suited for college students, but they’re not quite enough to win a spot in the design competition.
“Only those who reach the top 10 of the hundred schools in the design competition can be awarded a military certificate. If you miss this year, you’ll have to wait until next year, so it has to be even more outstanding.”
“Now that there’s the Spiritual Rhythm Heart, we can try merging a few times to see if we can create a design that’s more creative and commercially valuable.”
“If possible, we can further optimize it through the Art of Creation…”
As Zhang Yu activated the ability of the Spiritual Rhythm Heart, he felt the design diagrams of the Chaos Soil Eating Device and the external digestion system rushing into his mind like two torrents, transforming into spirals, and fiercely converging together.
Various magic treasure designs combined with one another, ultimately forming a brand-new design that gleamed brightly in Zhang Yu’s mind.
“This is…”
Feeling the brilliance of the new design in his mind, Zhang Yu slowly read out the name written on it: “Artificial Feces Machine… Eats dirt, excretes feces, the best companion for college students…”
“What the hell!” Zhang Yu cursed under his breath, “How can I enter this in the competition? It reeks of college taste, the judges would never approve.”
Zhang Yu shook his head and chose the designs for integration again, and after a while, a dazzling design appeared in front of him.
“University student skin? The college flavor is too strong.”
Zhang Yu continued to merge, with one design after another appearing.
“Automatic ad-watcher? It has no technical content.”
“Hemorrhoid cultivator… What kind of rubbish is this.”
“University student simulator, lacks novelty.”
With each activation of the Spiritual Rhythm Heart, just before Zhang Yu’s inspiration ran out, he finally saw a design that satisfied him.
“Wind God Semi-Magic Remains Work Power Boots.”
Although the design specified a semi-magic remains type, it actually only borrowed the design of a top-notch foot magic remains for its appearance, such as its streamlined shape, dynamic flowing light, and the disguise of a projection of the Spirit Realm.
After the boots envelop the entire foot and lower leg, their appearance makes them more like a piece of foot magic remains, exuding a sense of affordable luxury that only college students have.
“The name has magic remains, the appearance resembles magic remains, wearing it even more so, but it’s not magic remains at all—rather, a boot-type magic treasure.”
Zhang Yu nodded slightly. He knew that all college students are at the Qi Refining Realm, with a mana cap of up to 100 points. After installing eye remains, if they also need to install other magic remains in daily life, the burden becomes too large for them.
Therefore, the design in front of him with a magic remains exterior, but not actually magic remains, would clearly be a direction that college students, in a world where magic remains are more respected than the human body, would desire.
And besides the appearance, its functional design also meets the needs of college students.
After researching for some time, Zhang Yu understood very well that college students are a marginalized group existing in large numbers on the second level, but have little voice in the Spirit Realm. Many big companies have often ignored their needs.
College students have long relied on physical movement, needing to train in martial arts, run errands, and work. Specialized colleges also lack convenient facilities like magnetic channels or anti-gravity channels, leading to severe wear and tear on their legs, and shoes are easily damaged.
A sturdy, durable, high-value shoe that adapts to complex terrains is something college students very much need.
And if the shoe can reduce leg wear and tear, all the better.
The work power boots designed by Zhang Yu not only meet these requirements but also incorporate the principles of the Nine Heavens Cloud Sky Force, offering better force transmission, enhancing cushioning, boosting leg explosiveness while reducing wear.
Additionally, they feature a jet propulsion function and an overload mode for releasing lightning mana.
They further come with a solar mana charging mode, allowing mana replenishment through sunlight; although the recharge efficiency is very low, it’s still quite useful for college students.
In such circumstances, as Zhang Yu once again activated the Art of Creation to optimize costs, the cost of these work power boots was also further reduced.
“While maintaining the extreme performance of the Qi Refining Realm, the cost has been minimized.”
“Hmm… The only side effect is the risk of overheating and electric leakage during prolonged use.”
Zhang Yu wanted to try optimizing away this side effect, but the Art of Creation also needed to adhere to the limits of the Immortal Path and physics.
Even if he could optimize away this side effect, it would lead to a deterioration in appearance or a reduction in performance.
Zhang Yu simply abandoned optimizing the side effect and directly sent the design to Magnetic Pole True Monarch to see if she had any solutions.
Seeing the design sent by Zhang Yu, Magnetic Pole True Monarch replied: What’s there to optimize?
Magnetic Pole True Monarch: Afraid of heat, afraid of electricity? Just let the college students take some painkillers.
After replying to Zhang Yu, Magnetic Pole True Monarch continued looking at the design, a complex expression on her face.