Chapter 737
Chapter 737 - 723: Custom-Made
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Life is neither noble nor lowly.
It doesn’t need to be praised by sacred hymns, nor can it be scorned by the powerful... Life is just life. All those so-called meanings, concepts, and histories are superfluous add-ons by humans.
Since it is neither sacred nor worthless, then life, like other goods, can be traded...
No, it can do more than just being traded. It’s meaningless to merely buy and sell; life can gain greater profits through operations, adjustments, distribution, and trading...
"...This is the foundation of my Life Courtyard, as well as the basic ’rules’ on which the Life Bank operates."
From the beginning, Lu Ping’an’s Life Bank was not meant to be a base for solitary evolution.
He needs more "traders". He needs more "resources" to circulate in the market. Then he... and his companions, will naturally become stronger.
Everything now is merely a further refinement of these foundational "rules". It’s higher-level coding based on root logic, a service-oriented software that runs on its own hardware.
"...This, perhaps, you will find useful."
The lazy cat, who had skived off previously, was once again dragged back to work overtime, for if they were only servicing those who "buy books" and "sell books", Fang Wen would have been adequate as a substitute (human) tool.
But if they were to "customize" professions, picking modules from that massive material library for reorganization, Fang Wen’s mere fourth-tier scholar level is clearly insufficient.
At this moment, around Chris, numerous forbidden books float in mid-air.
They are all potential "materials" to be chosen, and only a big shot with the cat’s level has the capacity to integrate and select them according to Lu Ping’an’s requirements.
At this time, the big cat picked out a few books for Lu Ping’an to check.
"The Supporting Role of the Skeleton on the Flesh", "Twelve CurseSkills for Manipulating Skeletons", "Bone? The Root of Flesh, the Origin of Blood", "Bone combat art, the strongest weapon hidden within the body".
These seemingly odd items befuddled Lu Ping’an, neither of the two requests he made were related to these things.
"This doesn’t seem like a normal path, geez, I really didn’t expect, those guys..."
Lu Ping’an’s gaze landed on those teachers who were still fervently composing text. He genuinely didn’t expect that they would possess such conspicuous paths of Evil Gods.
"It has nothing to do with them, this is mine ... it’s material for the path of Corpse Controlling Practitioners. I picked some parts that you might find useful from several professions of Corpse Controlling Practitioners."
Alright, these books separately belong to different paths of Corpse Controlling Practitioners. In some aspects, the big cat is indeed very professional.
"Path of Corpse Controlling Practitioners? Seems like I’ve heard of it, but also seems like I haven’t..." Lu Ping’an recalled that he seemed to have heard of this path somewhere, but he had never actually encountered it in reality.
"It’s a banned profession like Mechanical Spiritualist, one that you wouldn’t usually come across, but it was released a while ago."
With this reminder, Lu Ping’an remembered. It was part of the Nirvana Plan.
[...Including Corpse Controlling Practitioners, Insect-manipulating Master, and Mechanical Spiritualists, some super dangerous forbidden paths are unsealed and officially controllable cultivation is conducted, but the number and scale of Mechanical Spiritualists must be strictly controlled...]
"What’s its use?" Although he could roughly guess what it was from the name, what Lu Ping’an was asking was how it could be of assistance to him.
"Firstly, it belongs to the medical field. It can help you perfect the life rules... well, that’s not the point. The point is this."
As she spoke, the big cat pointed to the illustrations of bones in the book.
"Yep, single bones are just dead objects, they fit the tamer’s control requirements. But if you put them inside a living creature, they become live objects."
As she spoke, the big cat began to operate.
Under her control, book after book opened up. The pages symbolizing "rules" naturally deconstructed and then tried to bind together.
While she controlled, the big cat also "browsed", occasionally tearing off some parts, sometimes writing in some other parts, often pausing, then summoning another book.
"...My outrageous request seems really possible to be fulfilled?"
Lu Ping’an put forward two professional requirements, one of which is the path of Fire Controller, which is still in the process of collecting materials (teachers copying books).
The other one is the request for customized tamer profession that "bypasses the path of beast tamer to achieve the ability to tame beasts".
If it’s just this, then it’s easy to say.
"Ideally, being able to demonstrate the specialty of Active Weapon, and being able to use tamed beasts as weapons."
"Ideally, it could harmonize with my abilities — I mean resonating with my Gardener series and Life illustration to jointly elevate my upper limit when breaking through to the fourth-tier."
"Right, ideally make good use of existing resources. Look, I’m about to take on the Fire Controller profession. Can it provide mutual enhancement?"
These demands from the official party made Fang Wen, the onlooker, quickly retreat in fear of accidentally becoming Chris’s venting tool..... That would be the better outcome, if Chris were to place this burden onto Fang Wen herself, she probably would never be able to free herself in this lifetime.
"... Okay, I’ll try."
In response to the rude and excessive requests which even Lu Ping’an himself felt, the big cat gave her answer after a moment of consideration.
"The Creation, Usage, and Control Techniques of Cursed Bone Nails", "How to Choose the Insertion Position of Bone Nails, What Kind of Effects Each Position Can Achieve", "The Essentials of Bone Nail Transformation..... Keeping your Bone Nails Running Normally Inside a Living Organism."
Lu Ping’an knew, that these titles, in a way, were type of summaries.
Having come into contact with these books, Lu Ping’an had a good understanding of what kind of profession this was about.
In essence, it is a profession of a Tamer, a Tamer who controls bones.
But if the bones are within, humans... or beasts, becoming parts of their body, could the creatures be manipulated by operating their bones?
This profession is a fusion of Corpse Controlling Practitioners and Tamer’s Path, acting based on this operation logic.
Having considered this, Ping’an thought, surprisingly, this profession satisfied most of his initial requirements...
"... You were prepared in advance?"
"Yes, you asked many times. In fact, I had the answer long ago, it was justthat I could not do it before."
Looking at the newly revised "pile of books" in front of her, the big cat was also very satisfied.
Even when she was at the peak of Quasi-god in the past, trying to create a second or third-tier path was a heavy task, and the products eventually produced were often filled with flaws that required constant corrections and adjustments for them to barely function.
But now, with the mighty power of the library, even the big cat herself felt that the product formed before her eyes was most likely the best career module she had ever come up with in her lifetime.
After pondering a little longer, Lu Ping’an affirmed it with a nod.
Manipulating the flesh indirectly by controlling bones -- this concept holds up theoretically, and as long as "it holds up", it might just work in the professionals’ world.
And when controlling bones, it naturally becomes a weapon... Perhaps, it is also possible to augment one’s control ability by integrating bones into the weapon.
The first few requirements are met, it should be able to become a key piece of Ping’an’s life system, but the last requirement of complementing the Fire Controller path...
"... Hmm, it seems, I shouldn’t set expectations too high. Even Big Cat has its limits."
Nevertheless, the big cat didn’t think so.
The big cat pointed outside, and Lu Ping’an suddenly got it.
Controlling Divine Bones... that’s the source of the "heat" to "kinetic" energy conversion rule, if you could control it then naturally you may significantly improve your career’s limit, it’s just that...
"Isn’t that a bit beyond my scope? I don’t think a low-level corpse controller can control such divine bones, otherwise the Aus people would have figured it out by now."
Chris shook her head, pointed to something on the table beside her.
"Stop kidding, these are just some vortex stones... huh, it actually seems possible?"
These vortex stones displayed on the table are the "diluted version" of the bone cells extracted from the Valley of God, perhaps, these could also be considered as bones?
"... Really? It worked?!"
Yet when Lu Ping’an pulled out a bunch of orange "bone pins" from his hand, he was startled.
Then, he placed them on his fingers one by one, three on each hand, intersected his hands, and shouted:
"Diamond Wolf!"
Unfortunately, no one responded in the empty library, and Lu Ping’an’s old jokes remained unanswered.
Only pairs of eyes looked over, some with surprise, some with sympathy...
The big cat was startled, and then hesitantly asked.
"You mean, prioritizing the addition of metal-changing professions to the career options for the wolves... hmm, it can overlap with Hua Xueyi’s abnormal abilities, this is not a bad combo."
Lu Ping’an quickly nodded, giving himself, who had accidentally made a mistake again, a stage to embarrassingly brush it off!
— End of Chapter 737 —