Chapter 480: He Is Different

On the second day after Zhang Yu returned to the dormitory, he still hadn't received permission to leave school, so he decided to continue his cultivation in artifact refinement.

Zhang Yu entered the artifact refinement lab, first grabbed a mass of twisting, unsteady bright yellow flame, then inhaled it into his body, letting it circulate repeatedly through his meridians while continuously infusing it with his spiritual power, refining them together.

Next, he struck the bright yellow flame together with his own spiritual power onto a second-hand magic treasure on the lab table, forming special restrictions that gradually altered the nature of the entire treasure.

As Zhang Yu continuously cycled his energy, each time he sent out his spiritual power, a faint dragon roar seemed to echo from within the treasure, and even scales-like rippling marks appeared on the treasure's surface, as if the whole treasure had come alive.

The artifact refining technique Zhang Yu was currently practicing was called the "Dragon Vein Treasure Casting Art."

And this bright yellow flame was the so-called dragon vein power.

Zhang Yu sighed, "Alas, it's impure and mixed—obviously from an artificial dragon vein."

Fuji said, "Nonsense, where can ordinary people find a real dragon vein these days? Having an artificial dragon vein to use is already good enough."

Hearing this, Zhang Yu shook his head and continued focusing on his technique cultivation.

The technique he was now practicing was different from the various artifact refining skills he had practiced before.

Those artifact refining skills were used to create different magic treasures according to different design blueprints.

But the "Dragon Vein Treasure Casting Art" he was now cultivating granted the ability to infuse dragon vein power into various magic treasures, enhancing their performance.

There were many such techniques that amplified one's artifact refining ability, such as various methods for controlling true fire—like the Dao Art "Imperial Fire Divine Mirror"—which could improve a cultivator's material refining ability.

There were also restriction-related Dao Arts, such as the "Twelve Cloud Character Restriction Method," which enhanced the cultivator's ability to stack restrictions on treasures, making future treasures more powerful and providing more auxiliary functions.

And there were various hard-to-classify artifact refining techniques, such as the Five Thunder Refining Method, the Red Dust Weapon Refinement Art, the Sword Nurturing Art...

Besides these techniques that improved artifact refining ability, there were also techniques for using treasures, such as the Art of Controlling Treasures, the Sleeve Green Dragon, the Treasure Stealing Art, etc.—techniques that could amplify a treasure's power during use or affect an opponent's treasure in battle.

It could be said that in the field of artifact refinement, aside from various treasure blueprints, the artifact refining techniques were equally profound and varied, spanning almost every industry and field.

The reason Zhang Yu chose to cultivate the "Dragon Vein Treasure Casting Art" was that this artifact refining technique could be used to complete a set in his Chain Diagram—the "Artifact Refining Genius."

Back when Zhang Yu was granted the "Treasure Appraisal Art" by the Magnetic Pole True Lord, he had speculated that the set effect of "Artifact Refining Genius" should enhance his artifact refining ability—a set effect that was more profitable the earlier it was completed.

Only, at that time, he had already spent too many spirit coins learning various treasure blueprints and the manufacturing methods of various treasures.

And cultivating artifact refining techniques was not cheap, so Zhang Yu couldn't afford both simultaneously; he had to first learn treasure blueprints to pass exams and increase his earning ability.

But now Zhang Yu's income had been skyrocketing, giving him the financial foundation to cultivate artifact refining techniques.

"Dragon Vein Treasure Casting Art" Level 7 (0/70)

After finishing another round of infusing dragon vein power, Zhang Yu looked at the second-hand treasure before him and thought, "Seems like it's almost saturated."

"Sigh, this kind of technique cultivation is expensive—you need to buy cheap old treasures to practice on, and also purchase materials like dragon vein power."

Zhang Yu mused, "If they keep me from going out to work on the construction site, relying only on the lab allowance and some miscellaneous income, I'm afraid it's really hard to afford."

Just then, the specific arrangements for going out to work and participating in competitions were sent over.

"First, there's a magic treasure called the Sun Moon Heaven-Piercing Bracelet, lent to me temporarily with funding from the project group."

Zhang Yu opened the introduction for this treasure and thought, "This Sun Moon Heaven-Piercing Bracelet is a bit like the Green Silk Flying Sword—both are treasures that can connect to the spirit realm network."

"Only, the Green Silk Flying Sword relies on the eighty-four thousand Patrol Flying Swords arranged by the Heavenly Sword University on the second layer."

"As for the Sun Moon Heaven-Piercing Bracelet, it relies on the sun and moon in the sky."

Although he had long heard that the sun and moon in the sky of Kunxu's second layer were both crafted by the Ten Thousand Methods University—extremely huge treasures radiating a spirit realm network covering the entire second layer of Kunxu.

But after reading the manual for the Sun Moon Heaven-Piercing Bracelet today, Zhang Yu learned that the treasure resembling the sun was called "Patrol Sun Golden Crow," and the treasure resembling the moon was called "Long Night Jade Palace."

"The Sun Moon Heaven-Piercing Bracelet can directly connect to these two treasures—the Sun and the Moon—at any time, which means I can call for the school's support at any moment."

"This is perfect; otherwise, contacting through the Patrol Flying Swords would mean going through the Heavenly Sword University's side first."

Thinking this, Zhang Yu nodded in satisfaction.

Besides the Sun Moon Heaven-Piercing Bracelet, the school also approved an increase in Zhang Yu's security clearance, making it harder for outsiders to track his whereabouts.

Additionally, there was a set of authorization permissions for a series of treasures and talismans, allowing him to immediately summon these treasures and talismans when the Magnetic Pole True Lord provided support to Zhang Yu.

"If that's the case, then it's relatively safe."

Seeing this, Zhang Yu let out a light sigh of relief—now he could finally go out to work without worrying about living beyond his means.

In the company group, Zhang Yu directly sent a message: "Start work! Get ready to work!"

Zhao Tianxing: Roger!

Mo Tianyi: Roger!

Che Yufei: Roger!

With this message from Zhang Yu, the entire company group immediately became active.

Zhao Tianxing and the others, who had already been off work for two days because of Zhang Yu's matter, also breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Tianxing thought to himself: "Finally I can go to the worksite again. These two days I've been doing a bunch of odd jobs on the side; the conditions are far worse than the worksite."

As his soul cultivation career continued to enrich, Zhao Tianxing increasingly understood a principle: the so-called "if you don't do it, there are plenty of soul cultivators who will." For him, with only a college diploma, work opportunities are rare, and good work opportunities are even rarer.

Just as Zhang Yu was out working.