Chapter 501

Obtaining the relevant credentials by passing the military certification exam is clearly the most conventional and common approach in the vast majority of majors at Wanfa University.

However, in the Refining Department, which is a flagship major, the number and channels for issuing military credentials are evidently greater than in the Civil Engineering Department.

At this moment, True Monarch Ciji is explaining the intricacies of this to Zhang Yu.

"The Military Refining Engineering Certificate is divided into two types: Category A and Category B."

"Category A covers various refining products such as magical artifacts, magical remains, armor, flying swords, puppets, and so on."

"Besides passing the exam, there are other channels for obtaining a Category A Military Refining Engineering Certificate. For instance, if you create a prototype of a military-grade refining product yourself, then pass the refining skill test and evaluation, you can be granted the military certificate early."

"Category B, on the other hand, focuses primarily on refining techniques and methods."

"To obtain a Category B Military Refining Engineering Certificate, apart from passing the relevant exams, there are also some early-grant methods, such as the annual Magical Artifact Design Competition, Magical Remains Design Competition, Flying Sword Design Competition..."

"These design competitions emphasize innovation and design capability, rather than specific refining proficiency."

"Take your senior sister Ye Xingli, for example. She placed in the top five of the hundred-school Magical Remains Design Competition, patented her entry, and was directly granted a Category B Military Refining Engineering Certificate, allowing her to cultivate the 'Taihu Divine Artifact Strategy.'"

"Then she independently completed the prototype refining of the Vacuum Tribulation Transformation Diagram, passed the refining skill test and evaluation, and obtained the Category A Military Refining Engineering Certificate. She has now completed the Vacuum Tribulation Transformation Diagram in full."

True Monarch Ciji smiled slightly, flicked his fingertip, and a beam of light appeared before him, listing Ye Xingli's dense and detailed résumé.

It was filled with the rankings she had achieved in various competitions, products from her magical remains designs, along with her academic records and comprehensive scores for each school year—leaving Zhang Yu utterly dazzled.

True Monarch Ciji said, "After you enter the Refining Department, you can also follow this path and obtain both types of military certificates as early as possible. Whether it's techniques or magical remains, the sooner you start using military-grade resources, the sooner you begin accumulating the spiritual resources for your future cultivation."

"Currently, in the undergraduate stage, Foundation Establishment is the peak. To obtain a Golden Core qualification certificate, you must take the graduate entrance exam."

"But that doesn't mean the undergraduate stage is idle. After all, breaking through to the Golden Core realm is simple, but the gap between one Golden Core and another... can be as vast as heaven and earth. Many top students, even after completing all their credits, don't rush to graduate early precisely because they are seizing the time to prepare for their future Golden Core breakthrough."

True Monarch Ciji: "In past eras, Golden Cores were divided into nine grades. A third-grade Golden Core was already a peerless genius, and a first-grade Golden Core could directly enter a sect."

Hearing this, Zhang Yu asked with concern, "And now?"

True Monarch Ciji said, "The nine-grade division of Golden Cores was considered too crude. Nowadays, after connecting to the Spirit Realm, scores are directly tallied. A Golden Core with a score of 10,000 is barely passable, a score of 100,000 is excellent, a score of 300,000 is outstanding among all schools, and a score of over 500,000 is a Golden Core among Golden Cores."

Zhang Yu quickly asked again, "What kind of Golden Core yields a high score?"

True Monarch Ciji said, "This is divided into two steps: pre-Golden Core and post-Golden Core."

"How to increase the score after forming the Golden Core is still far off for you, so I won't discuss it today."

"Let's talk about the preparations before forming the Golden Core."

"To forge a high-quality Golden Core, you first need to purchase an Inner Core. The higher the quality of the Inner Core, the more expensive it is. In short, to break through to the Golden Core realm, you can't do without money."

"Secondly, during the core-forging period, the quality of the cultivator's own spirit root, technique, and magical remains all significantly affect the Golden Core score. The higher the quality, the higher the forged Golden Core's score."

"If there are other high-quality magical artifacts, elixirs, or formation diagrams as aids, that's even better."

True Monarch Ciji said, "Simply put, the more and stronger military-grade techniques, military-grade magical remains, and military-grade magical artifacts you master, the higher your forged Golden Core score will be."

"Therefore, during your university years, you must seize the time to accumulate spiritual resources for your immortal path. The more military-grade power you master, the faster and better you will be able to forge your Golden Core in the future."

Zhang Yu nodded. This was not in conflict with his own plan of accumulating strength to win the Grand Slam in the Top Ten League.

However, he was somewhat worried about the path proposed by True Monarch Ciji.

Zhang Yu asked, "Teacher, you said I could obtain a Category B military certificate by ranking in various design competitions? Wouldn't that be very difficult?"

True Monarch Ciji said, "Design competitions rely heavily on inspiration and talent. They are already the path that least depends on wealth and background."

"Following this path, first obtain a Category B military certificate, cultivate a military-grade refining technique, and then your refining level will increase day by day. At that point, when you go to create a prototype of a military-grade refining product, obtaining a Category A military certificate will be within easy reach."

Hearing this from True Monarch Ciji, Zhang Yu felt increasingly uneasy.

It wasn't that he lacked inspiration or talent in refining, but that the Plume Book currently seemed to lack them.

If the Plume Book had no bonus in inspiration or design, then how could Zhang Yu, even with his unparalleled talent, make use of it?

Zhang Yu intuitively felt, "Restricted by the Plume Book, it's highly likely I'm not suited to the path of design competitions."

So he asked again, "What if I directly create a prototype of a military-grade refining product and obtain a Category A military certificate first?"

True Monarch Ciji smiled at this and said, "Let's take the example of the Sun Heaven Radiance God."