Chapter 736
Chapter 736 - 722: Another Path
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"Welcome teachers, this is the core area of the Trading Land, please make sure to keep our secret according to the agreement previously signed..."
After giving it some thought, Lu Ping’an opened up his taboo library.
The reason? He needed materials and the more suppliers at this time, the better.
"Trading Land? This is the Trading Land?!"
"...Yes, it’s the Trading Land! I’ve been here, but only to the building outside, but..."
"How could it be here..."
The teachers from the Ninth Vocational High School were utterly shocked, while the people from Lu Ping’an’s Rebirth Business Group rushed toward the "service area" without hesitation.
"What are the new features?"
"Lu Ping’an said it can directly increase our profession, and directly advance meow? How could it be possible meow?!"
To them, it seemed like opening up new features, but these features were shocking... However, none of the previous outrageous features weren’t paradigm-shattering. The rule buildings within the Land of Rules were like miniature divine powers of the Divine Kingdom with extremely high limits.
Lu Ping’an was mainly focused on the fire-type mentors from the vocational high schools. He needed their "professions" to provide materials for his own "Tamer," "Runner," and "Fire Controller" paths, making them bona fide tools.
At this stage, the secret of the "Trading Land" was destined to gradually become semi-public... When things get desperate, Lu Ping’an was prepared to take some risks.
On one hand, Lu Ping’an’s horizon and strength had increased, especially as he gradually found his own "position," allowing him to cope with threats and accidents confidently.
On the other hand, previous events proved that the "Confidentiality Contract" guaranteed by the Trading Land was reliable, and no one had succeeded in circumventing it yet... The phosphor people who had left were actually the prime targets of Lu Ping’an’s surveillance. He even tried to entrap them in revealing secrets through law enforcement fishing, but none of them were successful.
The courtyard was becoming more and more useful to Lu Ping’an, and the more users this "platform" ability had, the more benefits there were. He didn’t want to hide it and then wait for death to come.
The benefits outweighed the risks, and with safety guaranteed, Lu Ping’an naturally lowered the "secret level."
But since he had opened it up to "outsiders," there was no reason for Lu Ping’an not to give benefits to his companions.
Fang Wen held her breath and took out an instruction manual that Lu Ping’an had just written to prevent others from taking detours and repeating his own mistakes.
If someone gets stuck for ten or more hours, they might be completely done for.
It seemed that there were at least four more days before the security team returned. The sooner they could increase their abilities the better—improving their power at the last minute may not make them the brightest on the battlefield, but it could decide if they lived or died.
"...Everyone’s time is limited. Personally, I suggest setting the speed to four times faster, so that everything can be done in one or two hours..."
Lu Ping’an’s expectations soon became a reality.
When the fire-type mentors discovered that their "professions" and "knowledge" could be sold for life-points, which could then be used to buy professional skills outside or "professions" within, they began selling immediately.
"...Damn, I was just a second late, they don’t take it."
One unlucky guy complained while looking around to see who had grabbed his points.
But he found that everyone had entered writing mode, and it was natural not to guess who it was.
The essential reason for their eagerness was that they all played with fire and followed similar paths, so there was a lot of overlapping knowledge. If you were slow, you missed out.
Meanwhile, Lu Ping’an was managing the inventory and collecting materials provided by these teachers in the background, preparing for his own customization.
He had a good understanding of fire control now.
Common Fire Control fields were actually mainly Awakener series. Moreover, the teachers present were all part of minority groups with a few taking the Tamer, Runner, and Fire Controller paths.
They were the minority of the Ninth Vocational High School’s flame department, not only in quantity but also in the power of their lower levels, which mostly could not match the level of Awakener series.
Among the professionals’, the mainstream and main road were the elements in Awakener series...
"Different directions of paths are equal, each with its advantages and disadvantages."
Lu Ping’an’s words seemed unreal and boastful, but they were the result of his "understanding."
In Lu Ping’an’s view, there must be a reason why Awakener and Runner paths conflict.
"The Awakener path is naturally stronger in the early stage because the cultivation of the ’spirit’ is ’energy’, and turning energy into heat energy—another form of energy—naturally consumes less and has greater power..."
For the fire controllers of the Runner series that Lu Ping’an was most interested in, the first one was "Barefoot."
It was a third-tier profession with a high threshold, but his fire play abilities were probably not as good as those of many traditional 2-tier fire controllers.
What Lu Ping’an was interested in was the way it obtained "flames."
It generated "fire paths" by running and continuously heating its feet, like the Flash, making fire spurt out where it runs—very cool.
If you practice the corresponding martial arts, kicking with flaming feet will look very impressive.
Just being cool wouldn’t impress Lu Ping’an, a practical person, though he was indeed interested in it. What he valued more was...
"Isn’t this a typical conversion from kinetic energy to thermal energy?"
At this moment, Lu Ping’an naturally thought of the Vortex Stone, a typical example of converting thermal energy to kinetic energy.
So, if he followed Lu Ping’an’s "bidirectional transformation" thinking, could he develop further? For example, merging the two "transformations" into one profession.
Barefoot’s flame was weak. It was a three-tier Fire Controller that still relied on kicking, but it contained the "kinetic energy to heat energy" conversion that Lu Ping’an needed.
In a sense, this was also a process of "matter" turning into "energy," which naturally consumes more and has lower efficiency than the Awakener’s path of turning "energy" into "energy."
Some things are really not well-known. After a brief consultation by Lu Ping’an, he felt that these non-Awakener Fire Controllers were truly playing with a lot of tricks.
For example, a Tamer series Fire Controller... Directly controlling the "elements" was impossible because they are consumables and continuously flowing like "water." Marking and controlling them on a single surface is not only too difficult but also not cost-effective.
"Fire Ring Magician, creating ’fire rings’ that can control, store, and release flames—a quasi-pollutant item, indirectly controlling fire... It’s impressive they thought of this."
"Fire Eater... Um, doesn’t playing with this put them at risk of roasting their own organs? Establishing an energy circulatory system inside the body and using Tamer energy to control the metal pipes inside the body? That’s too brutal."
"Locomotive King, a Runner series Tamer advancement..."
Without the "Spirit" to "Energy" conversion, these "minorities" played with all sorts of tricks in their Fire Control abilities.
The minority members of the Ninth Vocational High School were mainly non-mainstream, and now they could earn more life-points eagerly selling their professions.
Now, Lu Ping’an was piecing together the "flame profession" best suited for himself through these "weird professional modules."
— End of Chapter 736 —