Chapter 492

"No, no." Xu Jingming quickly shook his head.

Actually, there still are some left, but he had already learned the method to repair elemental essences from Eva.

There's no need to trouble Su Laoshi again.

"You scared me half to death— if you pull out another good item."

"I'll start thinking you have the traits of a Treasure-Seeking Beast."

Su Qingli finally let out a breath.

The Treasure-Seeking Beast is a special ferocious beast, not particularly aggressive.

But it's often skilled at locating rare heavenly treasures or special metals.

However, they are exceedingly rare; only a few powerful psychic teams manage to tame even one.

They're used to search for treasures after entering the Wild Zone.

"The weapons master you're looking for—we have one right here at headquarters."

"His name is Ma Hong, an eighth-rank Master Zongshi. Here's his contact number."

Without dwelling further on the topic, Su Qingli pulled out her phone and sent Xu Jingming a string of digits.

"Master Ma really has a lot of weapons needing repair."

"I'll call him for you later and see if he can prioritize your elemental weapon."

"Thank you, Teacher." Xu Jingming's eyes lit up, quickly expressing his gratitude.

Ordinary alloy weapons can be manufactured by factories.

But these weapons, aside from being hard and sharp, have no special properties.

To imbue traits like the Weight-Changing Cloud Gold Blade Spear, you must use a special type of 'Enchanting' psychic ability.

Elemental weapons almost always require Enchanting to gain the ability to amplify psychic power.

Yet psychics with the 'Enchanting' ability are vanishingly rare, and those who reach the eighth-rank Master Zongshi level are even scarcer.

It's easy to imagine how many weapons are piled up on Master Ma's desk.

If Su Laoshi speaks up to help him jump the queue, that would be ideal.

"By the way, these are Soul-Spirit Pills refined from Soul-Spirit Fruit."

"You gave me six sets of S-class cultivation resources, all of which I exchanged for auxiliary spiritual herbs to refine Soul-Energy Pills."

"In the end, I refined six bottles, each containing twenty pills—one pill per cultivation session is sufficient as an aid."

A faint glow from the space ring revealed six small white porcelain bottles, as pure as sheep-fat jade, resting in Su Qingli's slender fingers.

Xu Jingming took only four bottles; the other two had been promised to Su Laoshi and Teacher Ling from the start—he didn't touch them.

"These pills have been with me for over half a month. If you don't take them, neither I nor Teacher Ling can distribute them properly."

"I'll take this one for now; Teacher Ling will be here soon—this one is for her."

With a flick of her right hand, one Soul-Spirit Pill bottle was returned to the space ring, the other placed on the table.

Teacher Ling is coming?

Xu Jingming froze, his heart sinking.

Last night, he had gripped her foot—even if it was in the virtual world.

But thanks to the virtual world's excellent simulation, the sensation was indistinguishable from reality.

Such an impudent act—he had no idea how Teacher Ling would punish him.

"What? Are you feeling unwell?" Su Qingli looked at him in confusion.

"Nothing." Xu Jingming quickly shook his head.

Either way, he'd have to face it—and it was Teacher Ling who had requested it herself.

He was just following orders; she shouldn't blame him, right?

"Also, I've watched the video of you defeating Miao Pu in Myanmar."

"With your current strength, you should be able to defeat Wang Dong."

"How about it? Interested in challenging him to cement your title as the strongest in the Prodigy Training Camp?"

Su Qingli asked with keen interest.

She had assumed Xu Jingming wanted to expand his influence.

At least until Wang Dong left the Prodigy Training Camp a year from now.

But she hadn't expected his progress to be this fast!

When she first saw the video a few days ago, she'd been startled.

"The Global Genius Exchange Competition is about to begin—once they see the rankings, everyone will know who's strong and who's weak. No need to issue a challenge."

Xu Jingming shook his head.

To be fair, Wang Dong is still a decent opponent.

But right now, he's eager to go to Magic University, then return to Myanmar to kill ferocious beasts and harvest psychic points.

He wouldn't waste time on such a fight—there'll be plenty of opponents when the Global Genius Exchange Competition starts.

"By the way, back before I went to Myanmar, I borrowed over a hundred combat technique manuals from the martial arts school's library, right?"

"Should I return these to you or directly to the library?"

Xu Jingming asked.

With the successful development of his self-created Body Strengthening Art, these manuals were no longer useful.

"Just return them to the library."

Su Qingli replied softly, her beautiful eyes holding a faint curiosity:

"How was it? After going through all hundred manuals, did you get any ideas for creating your own Body Strengthening Art?"

Over a hundred secret manuals, including some SS-rank and S-rank ones, would be impossible for an ordinary adept to finish in just over a month.

But with Xu Jingming's extraordinary comprehension, achieving this should not be difficult.

Of course,

understanding does not mean one can necessarily create.

After going through these hundred manuals, it would be impressive if Xu Jingming could create even one B-rank body-strengthening art.

This assumes his comprehension is exceptionally high.

Just as Su Qingli was thinking this, Xu Jingming grinned and said:

"I've already created it myself."

Su Qingli blinked in surprise and asked instinctively: "What rank?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but its power is far stronger than my original S-rank body-strengthening art.

I'd guess… it might be SS-rank…"

Xu Jingming replied, blinking his eyes.

"SS-rank body-strengthening art?"

Su Qingli's almond eyes widened slightly, her face filled with disbelief.

She had imagined Xu Jingming might create a B-rank body-strengthening art, or even an A-rank one at most.

But she never imagined he would create an SS-rank body-strengthening art!

After a long moment, Su Qingli finally reacted, exhaling deeply, her melodious voice tinged with exhaustion:

"I don't even know what to say about your talent.

When I was called the number one prodigy of Daya Nation, I only developed an SS-rank Mind Net after reaching the peak of eighth-rank Master Zongshi.

Yet you, at only mid-fifth rank, have already created an SS-rank one.

I wonder if when you reach ninth-rank adept status, you might even create a technique above SSS-rank."

"With Teacher Yang's optimization concepts for body-strengthening arts, I'm merely standing on the shoulders of giants to achieve this."

Xu Jingming smiled.

Without Teacher Yang's insights, he estimated the adept points required to create "Lei Shen Jiang Shi" would have been far greater.

"Regardless, you've created a technique above S-rank."

Su Qingli waved her hand, "When you have time, go to the headquarters' R&D division for official certification to confirm the technique's rank."

"Understood." Xu Jingming nodded.

With all matters nearly settled, Xu Jingming began, as planned, to study the secret manuals together with Su Laoshi Qingli.

First was the SSS-rank technique "Lei Shen Jiang Shi." Although he learned it by spending system points,

the related knowledge was firmly etched into his mind, making his instruction seamless.

As a ninth-rank Law Saint, Su Qingli was equally brilliant.

She understood most content on her own; even when confused, she grasped everything at once.

Thus, time passed swiftly.

When Hearing Ling Shuang stepped through the spatial gate,

she saw Su Qingli like a student, holding a secret manual, studying intently and occasionally asking questions.

And Xu Jingming, in contrast, acted like the teacher, answering her queries.

"What the hell is going on? Who's the real teacher here?"

Hearing Ling Shuang stepped out of the spatial gate, long legs striding, her face filled with confusion—was she seeing things wrong?