Chapter 515
Chapter 515 - 495 1 Project
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During the week of their return, Lu Ping’an’s team had fallen into an eerie calm.
They didn’t rush to set off, as everyone was still digesting the harvest they had reaped this time... Just these few days of hard battle had brought many people average gains that probably far exceeded what they achieved in the past few years.
The first batch of "furniture" was produced in Lu Ping’an’s courtyard "workshop", mainly consisting of two types of wooden shields: a large tower shield and a smaller hand-held round shield.
These items were made from century-old ancient wood from the Ashen Forest, nurtured by the Land of Life. Their quality was likely much higher than that of regular "knight products".
The tower shield was named "Tower First Generation," while the small round shield was called "Beetle No.1"... Apparently, these were both experimental products, and the most basic Turtle Spirit was sealed within them.
Compared to ordinary metal heavy shields, their advantage was their near-weightlessness... For a professional warrior, this was a huge advantage.
Everyone knew that heavy helmets, heavy armor, and heavy shields represented powerful defense and battlefield survival abilities. However, their high cost and heavy weight were destined to be exclusive to a select few elites... The most troublesome aspect was the consumption of wearing them, which made them only suitable for battlefield use.
But now, these two types of equipment could be easily carried and used with a professional’s physique, as their weight could be ignored.
"The wood is from the forest, the craftsmanship is from the idle labor in the workshop, and even the most important ’Turtle Spirit’ was given by the knights... The cost is zero, but if sold, the starting price would be 100,000 per piece, and it would probably be snatched up like crazy."
This was the judgment of the Grand Craftsman. Theoretically, these items were only borderline contaminated products, but they didn’t have the inherent weakness of gradually weakening with time, as other borderline contaminated products do.
On the contrary, they would continuously grow stronger with use. Even if damaged, all they needed was a new "shell," making them excellent growing equipment.
Lu Ping’an had already acquired the secret art to cultivate Turtle Spirits. However, if he were to start cultivating a mature Turtle Spirit from scratch, he might not even succeed by the time the World Apocalypse came.
But fortunately, the knights here were quite "friendly." When they found out that Lu Ping’an’s side had a demand for such items, they directly offered some of their scrapped facilities.
The number wasn’t large, but they could still manage to gather about twenty to thirty mature "Turtle Spirits."
Thus, each person in the scouting team could carry two or three pieces of armor with them, ensuring a certain level of safety.
In a sense, this was also a form of "fostering"... While using these devices, they were also learning to master the local sealing techniques. The Sealing Knights who served as guards would also become their tutors.
The number of people leaving was even more than expected.
The compatriots of Hua senior sister, who were originally ordinary people, also joined in this time.
Perhaps they could only serve as assistants and work in logistics, but since they had the idea, Lu Ping’an did not refuse, after all...
"Beastification Men with a set of Sealing Armor should not have any major problems as long as they stay steady and don’t overextend themselves."
The miracle of Beastification had become standard. A mere -10 Life-points was something most courtyard residents could afford.
Beastification Soldiers combined with Sealing Knights as a foundation, and also the secret techniques inherited from the Chapel, formed an excellent starting point.
Lu Ping’an hadn’t expected to establish a complementary low-level combat system so quickly, even though he himself hadn’t even broken through to the third-tier yet...
"Is it still impossible to lower the tier of this thing? Then, we can’t use it."
"Yeah, we’ve blown up two more, to be honest, it’s quite difficult. Perhaps, we should change the project."
With the free time he had, Lu Ping’an naturally invested in improving himself.
And as a Gardener, cultivating new Magic Plants was essentially the most stable way to grow, especially when he had treasures in his hands.
However, development wasn’t going smoothly...
"...Let’s try again. If there’s still no harvest after investing another 200 points, I’ll have to give up..."
In front of the "Life Research Team" formed by Guan Xinxian, Miss Rou, Marian, Chris, Lu Ping’an, and others, was their first major project: "Lamplight Spark"... However, after investing 100 points and supporting materials, all they had gained was a burned piece of charcoal.
"Lamplight Spark," or Sunflower, was now the most important research subject.
The Purifying Holy Fire of the Sun God has been proven to be extremely effective in practice... In a certain sense, it is the legacy of the "Sun God" and the most valuable treasure in this world.
Originating from the supreme Sun God’s "Holy Fire," its value far exceeds the "Beastification Divine Blessing" derived from the Beast God.
In a way, it is destined to become the core of this plane’s struggle, and even Lu Ping’an himself did not expect to be able to obtain a genuine source of Holy Fire from the divine offspring.
Now, the Holy Fire burning in the chapel is the Rule-level divine offspring Holy Fire, the Upper Gold Holy Flame... In other words, it is the highest-level existence below the deity.
It would be somewhat wasteful to merely use it to create one or two Holy Fire Knights.
Lu Ping’an used his own abilities to attempt to combine it with "plants" to create controllable "Holy Fire Factor" weapons.
"... It seems that it’s not something that can be done in a short time, even if we have the ’Miracle Seed’...."
Before everyone’s eyes was a clump of Bloodvine seeds.
It was the byproduct of the battle, the remains of the Magic Plant Bloodvine after it had "drained the blood" of the Beast God puppet.
When obtained, it was already charred into a clump, but some of the newborn Magic Vine seeds were still alive... Those seeds felt scorching hot to the touch, but one can also sense their vigorous vitality.
"It feels like a subspecies created after bathing in divine blood...."
Lu Ping’an planted the seeds in the Land of Life and used the "Garden" ability to accelerate their growth (the tier was too high for investment to be effective) and quickly propagated several plants.
The Sun Vine was its name, its original blood-red color became slightly softer orange-red, with strong phototropism and thermotropism.
Even the best of them could withstand the Holy Fire’s burning for a period of time!
Lu Ping’an tried to move its flower pot to the interior of the Holy Fire Church so that it could enjoy the baptism of the Holy Fire.
Unexpectedly, this plant could really withstand the Holy Fire’s radiance and blaze, greedily absorbing the sacred light just like sucking fresh blood... This gave Lu Ping’an an idea.
"Can I create a magic plant with the ability to use Holy Fire, or at least, as a bomb."
This idea was quite unconventional, even absurd, but with Lu Ping’an’s investment ability to gain "Life Essence," it didn’t seem entirely impossible.
But there is an obvious problem... the Sun Vine’s tier is too high and investment is ineffective.
Lu Ping’an himself was somewhat unsure, so he asked these life system experts... In fact, the strategy was quite simple, which was the "grafting" technique that Lu Ping’an himself was familiar with, the basic skill for a Gardener.
By grafting two or even multiple Magic Plants, not only can stronger species be produced, but weaker ones can also be produced.
First, the "Sun Vine" would be grafted and bred with ordinary Magical Vines to produce low-tier seeds of two or three levels, then the Life Essence would be drawn by investment and combined with suitable species to create the "Sunflower" required by Lu Ping’an.
Quite a few points have already been spent, mostly on accelerating the growth of the "Bloodvine" and "Sun Vine", and several subspecies have been produced, but none of them are suitable for Lu Ping’an’s investment... He has recently been considering whether to grow these subspecies and continue grafting to produce even more degraded offspring.
Perhaps it would be better to cut one’s losses in time and stop this costly project that has been slow to progress.
For the first time, Lu Ping’an was troubled by his low level, if he were already at the third tier now, many troubles would be avoided.
" Stop thinking about it, even if you are at the third tier, you should only be able to invest in third-tier seeds. The gap between Silver-tier Decrees is not easy to overcome."
However, as he worried about the lack of progress, he was unaware that the other Life professionals were all feeling disillusioned.
"One generation per day? A 100% breeding success rate? This is too over-the-top."
"In our Ancient City University’s best laboratory, it’s a minimum of six months. He drew a conclusion in just two days? That’s outrageous."
"Such an outlandish idea actually shows signs of success... This is too unreasonable. His progress in just one week is equivalent to others’ progress in two or three years, and he still thinks it’s not enough?!"
"Life-points, they really do seem to be omnipotent."
— End of Chapter 515 —