Chapter 1308
Chapter 1308 - 1294: War Group
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A normal Life system involves defeating opponents with research outcomes.
Lu Ping’an’s Life system involved adding BUFFs to himself and personally going up to beat down the opposition.
"Growing too fast, catching up on lessons is a bit too late."
Represented by Gardeners, Beast Tamers, and Healers, a normal Life system often starts with low-level logistics and craftsman roles, earnestly accumulating technology. Once they reach high-level tiers, their past accumulations and academic achievements naturally turn into products, which then grants them combat power.
Some Beast Tamers specialize in taming wolf packs, while others excel in controlling fierce dragons. In their specialized domains, despite potential leaks of their ’knowledge,’ they maintain the confidence to lead the era, an advantage deriving from their career abilities, knowledge systems, and years of accumulated experience.
Notable Beast Tamers, Gardeners, and Healers all have their own titles, such as "Deadly Rose Garden," "Wolf Den," "Puppet Modification Master," and so on.
This is not only an honor but also represents their profession, a "master’s confidence" merged from countless experiences, knowledge, and failures throughout their lengthy academic careers... In their field, they possess an extremely terrifying strength. There are no all-rounders in the Life domain, nor could there be, just as there are nearly incalculable totals of life forms in the infinite universe.
Lu Ping’an grew too quickly, and it was clear he had significant deficiencies in this area, which he had tried his best to compensate for.
He had acquired a vast amount of knowledge from the headquarters of Lin Nu’s Church as well as its branches, and during the period his courtyard was open, he also purchased knowledge and ability systems from many Life system experts.
However, that was after all just "knowledge," a "primordial stone of ability" that requires learning and training to master. To turn it into an accumulation of "academic knowledge" is probably not something that can be achieved in a short time.
How useful a "Unique Weapon" is in actual combat is an indisputable reality; many times, battles within the Life system are like a "game of cards," where the winner is the one with more and stronger cards, or whose trump card is lethal enough.
After all, "regular weapons" are well understood by each other and can be countered, no matter how strong they are. However, those unique and exclusive traits often enable easy fatalities... An opponent would not possibly spend years training a counter biological weapon dedicated to just one person.
"I need my own signature, I need to cultivate my own killer move..."
Lu Ping’an had the ability and traits to create a "signature" but lacked the time to cultivate his own signature move.
In the past, his low-level explosives and Bloodsucking Vines could be considered a trump card, but now that his battleground had escalated to Rule-level and above, those gimmicks might not even be able to break defenses.
"Sun Holy Fire and Sunflower..."
The materials that Lu Ping’an had were capable of producing top-tier biological weapons, and his abilities were indeed suited to the task... in fact, he had been trying.
"...Failed again, huh?"
The "autonomous aggressive Lamp Flowers" programmed biologically, began to self-destruct at the moment they bloomed.
Lu Ping’an possessed the privilege to rewrite life, but making artificial life forms adapt to the harsh natural environment required more intricate adjustments... It needed organs and abilities to absorb nutrients, weapons to compete with other life forms. Sometimes, "Lamp Flowers" can be a weapon to destroy themselves and the forest, making coordination extremely difficult.
"Maybe, I should change my approach and not consider its long-term survival capabilities, just preserve it well and use it as a one-time ’weapon’..."
What seemed like an absurd idea was, in reality, a luxurious style of treating unique creations as disposable weapons, but Lu Ping’an could not only afford this consumption but also had the corresponding technological accumulation.
"Sealing Scrolls... quite useful. Although they might self-destruct a second after leaving the sealed state, the idea of letting them bloom as brilliantly as possible in a limited time is also a viable approach."
Lu Ping’an pondered, calculated, and experimented as a myriad of Magic Plants were born, programmed, corrected, and then died. Fireworks were set off again and again, yet he was still not satisfied.
This was a long-term endeavor, and it was difficult to see effects in a short time. Even though Lu Ping’an’s abilities had significantly shortened the process and reduced the time consumption, it was still an overly laborious and time-consuming task.
"Jing’s thinking was not wrong, in the past, Liu Zibei’s practice of always carrying the forest with him, was a favorite approach among high-level Gardeners. What he carried was not only his own Magic Plants but also his own ecological environment. Under that specific environment, his Magic Plants could exert their highest combat power..."
The past experiences and lessons became the guide for Lu Ping’an’s forward journey, as he too emulated the practices of the old Liu Zibei, creating his most suitable "Sunflower Garden."
𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
What troubled Lu Ping’an was not simply about obtaining results...
"The power is insufficient, Lu Ping’an..."
The experimentally successful outcomes when taken out were easily crushed by Rule-level warriors; the reality of not being able to breach their defense most of the time meant that each of Lu Ping’an’s "achievements" had to be sent back for further refinement.
"Insufficient power" was always the critical flaw. Lu Ping’an’s upcoming battlefields would inevitably be very high-end, and he had to produce Magic Plants matching the needed tiers. Currently, his only Rule-level Lamp Flower was the Sun Tree, which was clearly not suitable for charging into battle... If it really exploded, all the resources invested in it would go to waste, and he would be crying without tears.
The most significant indicator of the team’s progress was the improvement at the "High level."
Now, Lu’s regular Rule-level included Fang Wen, Hua Xueyi, Fei’er, Mei Yuge, Miss Rou... and Xia Qin, six in total.
Indeed, Xia Qin had also stepped into the Rule-level. In fact, if one considered it, her holding and successfully merging with the World Fragment most suitable for her, and yet still failing to cross that line as a Quasi-rule level, would truly be outrageous.
Not counting Miss Rou, who was embarrassingly weak in combat power, the other ladies were bona fide Rule-level warriors. These days, they had not sparred sparingly with Lu Ping’an in ranking battles.
Looking at the results, Lu Ping’an was at the bottom of the ranking... It wasn’t that he really couldn’t win, but that he basically went into the field to test new toys, which were quickly smashed to pieces, naturally leading to his continuous bottom ranking.
As for the internal fighting order among the others, it went Fei’er, Xia Qin, Hua Xueyi, Mei Yuge, Fang Wen... Fang Wen’s reason for being at the bottom was consistent yet slightly different from that of Lu Ping’an. She mainly did not want to waste too many "Pets" and "Materials" in these training fights that she had been dragged into, so she just tried to get by.
The gym’s Revival Ability was very friendly to Battle-professions but not so much for Life system professions that rely on "babies."
Eve, who was still at the Quasi-rule level, did not participate in the ranking battles because she "couldn’t get full" from this kind of fight. The more she fought, the hungrier she became, which was a pure loss, but if a real battle did break out and she deployed her Legion, she probably wouldn’t lose to anyone.
Among the others, whether Fei’er or Xia Qin was truly number one depended on luck and condition.
Fei’er’s "fighting time" was limited, and her actual energy level had not reached Rule-level—it was a kind of combat power that transcended a common seventh-tier yet was Quasi-rule level. Xia Qin, on the other hand, had a weapon that was too much of a cheat, seemingly chopping down whoever she faced with a single stroke.
Mei Yuge lost a lot also because of the "Fighting Arena" environment, which was unfriendly to a "Caster" who was still somewhat "psychologically crippled."
And watching the gym bustling every day, Lu Ping’an himself felt somewhat reflective.
Just looking at the present group, there were actually more than seven individuals with Rule-level combat power. If one added the possible High-level combat power from the Redemption...
"Perhaps, a two-digit number of resident Rule-level combat power? Uh, have I really become a super Big Shot?"
— End of Chapter 1308 —