Chapter 522

Recently, an economic crisis had descended, making conditions difficult across all industries. Zhang Yu had originally thought that experiments related to the Divine Transformation Dharma Vessel would also be hindered.

"Calculating the days… my master's progress on refining magical treasures hasn't been delayed at all, as if unaffected by the outside world."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yu couldn't help but admire Magnetic Pole True Lord's focus, as well as the school's emphasis on the Divine Transformation Dharma Vessel project.

"After all, this matter is probably valued by the school's Divine Transformation Divine Lord, right?"

"To remain unaffected while Divine Transformation conflicts are ongoing—I suppose only this kind of project representing Divine Transformation interests can manage that."

As thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning, Zhang Yu eagerly began to explore the effects of Celestial Works Opening All Things.

Through his active perception, he gradually gained an understanding of what Celestial Works Opening All Things could actually do.

He closed his eyes slightly, and the design blueprint for the Fortune Relic appeared in his mind.

"I want… to reduce the manufacturing cost of the Fortune Relic."

Instantly, it seemed as though sparks of thought flickered in Zhang Yu's mind, and his entire consciousness began operating at an unprecedented speed.

Countless pieces of knowledge he had learned, treasures he had seen, blueprints he had studied—all surfaced before him, vanishing like ten thousand streaks of lightning.

In the next moment, a brand-new design blueprint for the Fortune Relic emerged in Zhang Yu's mind.

It was the result of his thoughts, instinctually linking, connecting, and applying the vast knowledge accumulated in his mind in an instant.

According to this new design blueprint, it could reduce the cost of the old version of the Fortune Relic by about 32%.

Although this old version of the Fortune Relic had long been eliminated from the market, this improvement still allowed Zhang Yu to perceive the potential of Celestial Works Opening All Things.

"Celestial Works Opening All Things is an ability that can continuously enhance one's refinement design level through learning."

"It stores the knowledge learned, treasures observed, and blueprints studied… all as accumulated insight."

"When needed, it instantly connects all of this, completing the design of an improved blueprint for a treasure, optimizing basic attributes like weight, manufacturing cost, material strength, mana storage, and so on."

"As the knowledge and blueprints I master increase, the optimizations I can design become stronger."

"The effects are especially good among treasures of the same type."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "This is an ability that can be continuously strengthened through constant learning and constant copying."

At this moment, Zhang Yu seemed to feel an endless thirst for knowledge.

He also thought, "The stronger through copying—if my teacher has this ability… then when he improves his own treasures, he probably studies many similar types of treasures beforehand."

He then thought of the Yang Artifact Dharma Vessel his teacher had recently been refining with him, and mused, "I'm afraid my teacher's recent collection folder now contains a pile of Yang Artifact design drawings from different brands and schools."

But in the next moment, Zhang Yu felt a wave of dizziness in his mind, and his spirit became somewhat dazed.

"The side effects are here?"

Zhang Yu opened his Feather Book and saw that his Dao Heart data had changed, dropping from its original level 20 to level 19 (86%).

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Using Celestial Works Opening All Things to complete a treasure's modification design in an instant, as if by instinct, burns rationality, causing mental turbulence and unstable thoughts."

"The result is a drop in Dao Heart level."

"The higher the demands of the modification design, the greater the impact on the Dao Heart."

"But this slight drop in Dao Heart level won't take me long to recover—probably within a week."

Although the Dao Heart level would quickly recover, Zhang Yu understood that this ability of Celestial Works Opening All Things could not be used recklessly without restraint.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yu had already begun recording the design blueprint in his mind.

Although he himself had no use for the Fortune Relic, and this old version could not compete with the new version of the Fortune Relic on the market,

just as no matter how much you optimized an Eye Relic from ten years ago, it could never compare to a new version of an Eye Relic today.

Still, since this was a product that had consumed his Dao Heart, Zhang Yu planned to save it.

But as he recorded this new design blueprint, he noticed something unusual.

"Hmm?"

"How come I can't quite understand it?"

"Logically speaking, I've already pushed this Fortune Relic to level 20, and I should have a deep grasp of all the knowledge and techniques it contains, like inter-realm transmission technology and in-body sensing technology."

Zhang Yu's mind echoed, and all sorts of things about the Fortune Relic immediately surfaced in his mind, as if after countless refinements and many trials, he had thoroughly integrated them into his mind.

But Zhang Yu looked at the new blueprint before him again and found that there were some parts he truly could not understand.

This lack of understanding was not that he did not know how to refine the Fortune Relic according to this new design, but that he could not understand why such changes were made.

"Why is it like this?"

"Clearly, it's based on my thinking, on the foundation in my mind…"