Chapter 543

Seeing that Wei Yuan still wanted to say something, Yu Yu Zhizhuo immediately said: "You don't need to say anything! Don't delay my research on Daoist techniques!"

Yu Yu Zhizhuo returned to the desk, burying his head in work. At this time, his eyes were bloodshot, his mind was like lightning, and his calculation speed was significantly faster, clearly intending to produce the improved versions of the Melting Gold Technique and Transforming Earth Technique as soon as possible.

Seeing this, Wei Yuan was about to leave, when Yu Yu Zhizhuo suddenly said: "Almost forgot to remind you, Nether Crystal has extremely strong resistance to Daoist techniques, the Transforming Earth Technique should be ineffective. But although the texture of Nether Crystal is hard, it is very brittle itself, so it should be able to be knocked open with your brute force."

A flash of lightning seemed to flash in Wei Yuan's mind, instantly opening up.

Nether Iron and Nether Crystal had always been known for their resistance to Daoist techniques, especially Nether Crystal, almost all Dharma Form level Daoist techniques were ineffective against it, and most Imperial View Daoist techniques were also ineffective. Therefore, it was an important material used for refining defensive spirit treasures, flying boat protective walls, and setting up defensive formations.

Wei Yuan had just used over a hundred Transforming Earth Techniques, but there was no effect at all, so he gave up on Nether Crystal and focused on Nether Iron. Now after Yu Yu Zhizhuo's reminder, Wei Yuan discovered that Nether Crystal was the main attack direction.

Wei Yuan then handed the two pieces of Nether Iron to Yu Yu Zhizhuo, and returned to the Gloomy Cold Realm himself.

In and out, Wei Yuan discovered that the space he had opened up had become smaller again, and in just a short time, it was missing a space the size of a fist. It seemed that when Wei Yuan was not there, without support to resist the pressure, the original space would slowly be compressed.

Fortunately, at this time, the Structural Mechanics Research Institute finally launched its first research result, the arched support structure. And it had already started advanced research: semi-circular dome support.

But looking at that completely hand-drawn style structure diagram without any data and theoretical support, Wei Yuan somewhat suspected that this project was taken to cheat for funds.

But he couldn't care about so much now, Wei Yuan adjusted his body structure, filling part of his body into the Nether Iron space, revealing the Nether Crystal below.

Subsequently, Wei Yuan manifested a steel chisel, exerting force to chisel toward the Nether Crystal.

But he chiseled over a hundred times, only leaving a faint white dot on the Nether Crystal. Wei Yuan then remembered the physical properties of Nether Crystal that Yu Yu Zhizhuo said: hard and brittle.

Wei Yuan added the luck of the Immortal Orchid to himself, and then began to think about how to deal with the Nether Crystal. After the luck was raised, sure enough, it didn't take long before Wei Yuan had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way.

He put away the steel chisel, changing it to a small hammer, with a smooth hammer head, and then knocked it on the smooth-as-a-mirror Nether Crystal. The Nether Crystal emitted a clear and pleasant sound, the lingering sound constant, clearly a piece of area around it was vibrating.

Wei Yuan's spirit was lifted, this method was indeed feasible. Thus, he formed a straight passage in the center of his body, about two feet long, and the small hammer fell along the passage, knocking on the Nether Crystal.

Dang, dang, dang!

Wei Yuan knocked one by one, while constantly adjusting the weight, speed, and internal structure of the hammer head, trying to hit the way that could best trigger the vibration of the Nether Crystal.

After knocking for several hundred times, suddenly the echo of the Nether Crystal became sharp, and then with a pop, several cracks appeared!

Wei Yuan was overjoyed, continuing to knock, the cracks in the Nether Crystal becoming more and more, finally being sucked off a piece by him, collecting it into the Human Ren Jian Yan Huo.

Having a new space to hammer, there was a longer distance, and the speed and force correspondingly increased, knocking faster. Before Wei Yuan couldn't hold on, he knocked down three more pieces.

Returning to Qingming, Wei Yuan manifested the few pieces of Nether Crystal. The weight of the Nether Crystal was very light, and the few pieces the size of a bench that he knocked down were only over ten jin. But if converted into merit points, it was several thousand merit points; when Wei Yuan almost poked out the rock heart's lifespan with one spear, the merit points obtained were only so much.

Wei Yuan sighed, truly feeling that the Gloomy Shaman was not generally fat.

Subsequently, Wei Yuan went to the Merit Hall once, finding Nether Crystal in the rare material contribution column, and sure enough, one tael could get fifty merit points.

Wei Yuan took two big pieces of Nether Crystal, totaling about ten jin, put them into the formation, and chose to donate them for free, making a contribution to the palace. Subsequently, Wei Yuan browsed through the information about the Gloomy Shaman kingdom, and exchanged for over a thousand merit points of information.

He wasn't in a hurry to go back, reading in the Merit Hall. But in order to speed up the progress, Wei Yuan also manifested two Dao Foundations that had opened their wisdom and one Dharma Form that had opened its wisdom, letting them read the information together.

The information they read would be stored in the Human Ren Jian Yan Huo by itself; ever since discovering this point, the information in the Human Ren Jian Yan Huo increased every day. However, there was a disadvantage to using warriors who had opened their wisdom to read information: what they had seen didn't mean Wei Yuan had seen it. In the future, if Wei Yuan wanted to understand the relevant knowledge, he would have to relearn it in the Human Ren Jian Yan Huo. But at least, Wei Yuan could get rid of most of the unimportant information, as well as information he wasn't interested in.

Wei Yuan wasn't interested, but it didn't mean mortals weren't interested. There were now over 700,000 mortals in the Human Ren Jian Yan Huo, and they had all kinds of hobbies. Even low-quality brainless storybooks and doggerel poems were specially studied by people.

Wei Yuan read while waiting for Dao power to recover, when the Merit Hall transmitted information that a total of 5,000 merit points had been added under Wei Yuan's name.

Seeing this information, Wei Yuan had a short blank in his brain, unable to imagine that merit points were so easy to get. When the first merit points were obtained, it was simply a life of nine deaths.

But with the merit points arriving, Wei Yuan discovered that the exchange price of Nether Crystal in the Merit Hall had changed, from fifty merit points per tael to one merit point per tael.

The price change range was indeed a bit large, but Wei Yuan thought about the boundless Nether Crystal under the Gloomy Cold Realm, feeling that the price of one merit point per tael was completely acceptable. However, Wei Yuan estimated that if he handed in a few dozen more jin, the Nether Crystal submission channel would be closed, just like Nether Soil.

At this time, Wei Yuan's magic power had almost recovered, so he put the remaining two pieces of Nether Crystal, totaling five or six jin, into the formation, choosing to donate them for free, making a contribution to the palace.

After this round of donation, the price of Nether Crystal changed again, becoming five taels per merit point.

Wei Yuan was satisfied, humming a little tune and going to the Gloomy Cold Realm. In this round, he not only earned enough merit points but also made some contributions to the palace, so he was in a good mood.

As soon as he entered the Gloomy Cold Realm, Wei Yuan discovered that the space he had worked so hard to open up had become smaller again, so he manifested a tripod presenting an arched structure, starting to reinforce the space he had opened up. As a result, as soon as he set up two arch frames, the gold mountain above sank slightly, and the newly set up arch frames shattered on the spot!

Wei Yuan was furious, instantly scolding the mortals of the Structural Mechanics Research Institute in the Human Ren Jian Yan Huo, and then sent down hail and heavy rain, soaking these people who hadn't finished building houses into drowned rats, and then continued to dig Nether Crystal.

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After being scolded, the mortals were silent on the spot, but as soon as Wei Yuan left, they began to blame each other, while clearing themselves, while trying to pull the opponents they didn't like down and expel them from the research institute.

After tossing and turning noisily for half a day, finally the mortals changed the sign of the research institute, changing it to: Structural and Material Mechanics Research Institute.

This name exposed the real thoughts in the hearts of the mortals: they didn't think the arched structure didn't work, but that the materials Wei Yuan used were too trashy.

In the Tai Chu Palace main mountain, a pair of young cultivators flew back, heading straight for the Merit Hall. The two were a man and a woman, the man handsome, the woman sweet.

The young male cultivator was full of spring breeze, laughing loudly: "Junior sister, this time senior brother had an extraordinary opportunity, obtaining a full five taels of Nether Crystal! After going to the Merit Hall in a while, I'll give you two taels, so that you can also have over a hundred merit points and be on the list. Soon the North Sea True Lord will select true disciples, maybe you can also enter his old man's eyes."

The young female cultivator was both shocked and happy: "Really?! This, how can I be embarrassed? I... have nothing to repay..."

The male cultivator lowered his voice, saying: "Junior sister, you don't know my heart..."

The young female cultivator instantly blushed, shyly saying: "Oh, you are so bad..."

The male cultivator laughed, and then the two chatted and laughed, entering the Merit Hall.

A moment later, a wail suddenly sounded in the Merit Hall.

The young female cultivator ran out of the Merit Hall with a look of anger, flying away directly. The male cultivator chased after her, calling while flying: "Junior sister, listen to my explanation..."

(End of chapter)