Chapter 557

Ye Xingli designed a magical artifact called the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument.

After conducting extensive research on a large number of junior college students, Ye Xingli deeply realized one thing: that junior college students were fond of eating dirt and stones.

Just like many university students at Wanfa University, who, while taking pills to meet their basic bodily needs, would also swallow chunks of cement to suppress their digestive power, preventing their overly strong digestive ability from harming their bodies, or to avoid weakening their digestive systems due to prolonged lack of food.

Junior college students from various regions would achieve this by swallowing stones and soil.

After all, unlike the university city of Wanfa University, in the numerous junior colleges, due to the environment and the lack of technology and funding, soil and stones were far easier to obtain compared to cement and edible cement.

And compared to the more scientifically healthy edible cement, eating soil and stones obviously had many side effects, such as putting a burden on gastrointestinal motility. This forced junior college students at the Qi Refining stage to expend considerable energy on peristalsis, increasing their physical burden and sometimes reducing work efficiency.

So Ye Xingli designed a soil-eating artifact that processes soil and stones before consumption, effectively reducing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract while also adding different flavors.

At this very moment, as Zhang Yu activated Heaven's Work Creation, a vast amount of knowledge and technology surged wildly in his mind. With sparks of inspiration exploding one after another, a brand-new blueprint gradually took shape in his heart, following his requirement to lower costs.

However, Zhang Yu naturally did not directly draw the design for Ye Xingli. Instead, he replied, "Senior Sister, I have an idea."

Zhang Yu: "Look, if we modify it like this, can we reduce the cost a bit?"

Although Zhang Yu only mentioned a rough direction and did not share any details, Ye Xingli was still greatly inspired after reading it.

In particular, Zhang Yu’s optimization direction was to reduce costs, which did not change Ye Xingli’s design approach much. Moreover, Ye Xingli understood the importance of cost in the junior college market.

Ye Xingli: "Junior Brother, your suggestion is very useful." [fist bump emoji] [1 Spirit Coin]

Over the next few days, Ye Xingli occasionally discussed with Zhang Yu, jointly refining the design of the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument.

Finally, when the design blueprint was finalized and Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli completed the design drawing of the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument, he saw a Dao Seed called the Artifact Heart of Spiritual Resonance appear on the Winged Book.

Seeing this newly copied Dao Seed, Zhang Yu felt overjoyed and immediately began quietly sensing the abilities contained within it.

"Hmm? So Senior Sister is a stitching master? No wonder I felt some parts of the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument design were familiar."

The so-called Artifact Heart of Spiritual Resonance, in Zhang Yu’s view, was a blueprint fusion ability that could merge any two artifact-refining blueprints to produce a new artifact-refining blueprint.

But the result of the fusion was not necessarily good. It could take the essence or the dregs, so choosing which blueprints to fuse was very important.

For example, fusing a flying sword blueprint with another flying sword blueprint was more likely to yield good results.

On the other hand, fusing a flying sword blueprint with a Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument blueprint would easily produce a useless blueprint that excelled at neither.

At the same time, this fusion clearly had its limits. It was not about fusing all the artifact blueprints on the market to gain the functions of all artifacts.

If new blueprints were continuously fused in, the elements from previous fusions would gradually be lost.

It was like a hard drive—it could only hold so much. Once the capacity limit was reached, adding new content required deleting what was already there.

For instance, after fusing two speed-type flying swords, a flying sword was designed that combined the advantages of both and became even faster.

But if at that point a fortress-breaking flying sword blueprint was fused in, the newly fused blueprint might gain fortress-breaking ability, but its speed would decrease.

In short, the fusion of the Artifact Heart of Spiritual Resonance was not universally effective. It depended on the specific blueprint choices and the immortal path and physical limits of the artifact itself.

In this fusion process, one’s own inspiration was consumed.

Once inspiration was depleted multiple times, not only could fusion not be performed for a while, but the brain would become stagnant without any innovative thinking.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "It’s fine to do a few fusions each month."

Zhang Yu then sensed the upgrade requirements of the Artifact Heart of Spiritual Resonance and mused, "Level 2 Artifact Heart of Spiritual Resonance requires jointly designing 10 Foundation Establishment-level artifact products?"

"I don’t have the time for that now; I'll deal with it later."

With the Artifact Heart of Spiritual Resonance, Zhang Yu felt increasingly confident about the upcoming design competition and immediately began a new round of design work.

A flash of light appeared in his eye sockets, and one design blueprint after another emerged.

Among them, besides the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument designed by Ye Xingli, there were design blueprints for external digestive systems, anti-wear power boots, disposable artificial skin, and so on.

These design blueprints were all gradually modified by Zhang Yu using Heaven's Work Creation over the past month while he was conducting research on junior college students.

After all, activating Heaven's Work Creation each time required burning Dao Heart, making it unsuitable for large-scale operations in one go. So Zhang Yu spread these activities out over the past month.

Because the time was spread over a month, although each activation consumed some energy, Zhang Yu was able to gradually recover it after a few days of practicing his mind cultivation technique, keeping his Dao Heart at Level 19 (83%).

The basis of the blueprints came from the Great Library of Wanfa University City. While Zhang Yu was conducting research on junior college students, he used Heaven's Work Creation to optimize the blueprints.

In his view, the artifact products in these blueprints were quite suitable for junior college students, but they were still insufficient to win a place in the design competition.

"To receive a military certificate through the design competition, you must be among the top 10 of a hundred schools. If you miss this year, you'll have to wait until next year. You must be even more outstanding."