Part 2
After organizing sixteen massive crates of materials, Yun Yingzhi wasn’t even out of breath. It didn’t seem to affect him at all; he hadn’t even broken a sweat.
He looked at the shelves, feeling a profound sense of satisfaction.
Checking the time, it was already past 1:00 PM.
He stepped out of the studio, grabbed a bite nearby, and as if his feet had a mind of their own, he was back in the studio by 2:00 PM.
Suddenly, he received a private message from Yu Feiwen.
Yu Feiwen was asking if he was ready for the mixer tonight.
Yun Yingzhi froze. He had forgotten theyād agreed to go to the social mixer at 8:00 PM. There were only about six hours left.
Yun Yingzhi did the math in his head. He could look at the materials in the studio until five o’clock sharpāor maybe 5:30. Then heād go home, arrive by 6:00, take an hour to wash up and get ready, and use the final hour to reach the meeting spot.
The schedule was perfectly clear. Great.
He didn’t realize at all that he hadn’t left any time for sleep.
Happy little flowers continued to pop up around him as he opened the design blueprints heād been working on lately. He wondered: under the current circumstances, which source weapon should he try to make?
His gaze swept across the materials on the studio racks.
To his surprise, he found that many of the materials required for his blueprints were right there.
Yun Yingzhi blinked and silently pulled up the blueprint for the source weapon he wanted to make for Wei Yuanqing.
On second thought, the manufacturing difficulty was too high. He needed to warm up his hands first. He closed that one.
There was also the weapon for Yun Yinghui, but the concept wasn’t complete yet and needed more refinement.
The simplest ones were the weapons heād promised to make for his three roommates.
After a moment of hesitation, he decided to make his roommates’ weapons first. Since they were Level 5 ability users, creating Level 5 source weapons wouldn’t be difficultāit would actually be very simple for him.
If all went well, he might even finish them in the next few hours.
The moment he thought of it, he started. He decided to first make a weapon suitable for Yu Feiwen.
Yun Yingzhiās eyes sparkled as he looked at the dazzling array of materials. His mood was joyous, and happy bubbles of bliss floated around him.
Why bother with romance? Wouldn’t it be better to spend a lifetime with these materials?
Thinking this, Yun Yingzhi transformed into his little white rabbit second form. He made a precise leap onto the material rack, happily spinning on one little paw before using his tiny claws to grab a piece of material that was significantly larger than himself. He began to drag it.
Since long ago, Yun Yingzhi had felt something was a bit off.
Generally speaking, rabbits were small and weak. Without awakening an ability, they had almost no offensive power besides their teeth. But…
His second form was surprisingly strong.
He had researched it on the Star Network. Generally, the larger the body, the stronger the second form’s ability user, the more they ate, and the stronger their physical power. Meanwhile, people in the Empire with a little white rabbit second form were usually genuinely frail with no combat power. They could even perfectly disguise themselves as cute pets, living as house rabbits and being pampered for the rest of their lives without ever having to work hard.
Yun Yingzhi: “…”
He suddenly remembered the day Prince Elvis had carried him back to the dormitory.
He shook his head, tossing the dark history out of his mind. Yun Yingzhi silently concluded that even though he was a little white rabbit, he was a very big eater. The perk was that he could easily carry very heavy thingsālike right now.
In this regard, his rabbit form was clearly stronger than his human form.
Yun Yingzhi hopped and skipped in fancy little circles as he moved the necessary materials. In the blink of an eye, a pile of materials was stacked on the floor. His efficiency was incredible, rivaling the combined labor of Alvinās three apprentices.
Partly because he knew exactly where everything was, and partly because of his strength.
After picking out all the materials he needed, Yun Yingzhi thought to himself that perhaps because heād eaten so much since he was a kid, his strength was greater than that of most other rabbits. He was a mutant rabbit.
It was a good thing regardless, so he didn’t dwell on it.
He stopped thinking and began processing the materials.
The weapon he wanted to make for Yu Feiwen was a Wind-Thunder attribute source weapon, so he chose materials that could gather those specific elements.
However, they weren’t pure enough. When processing the materials, he had to decompose the other attributes. This was the most difficult part of the preparation stage.
Alvin once told Yun Yingzhi that the stronger one’s spiritual power, the easier it was to process materials. With his Super 3S-grade spiritual power, he did everything with half the effort.
Alvin had even suggested that Yun Yingzhi might actually possess 4S-grade spiritual power.
In the past, Yun Yingzhi had other ideas, and he had realized them at a very young age.
Source weapons were products derived from ability users. Until now, they were only suitable for ability users.
Because of this, most source weapon manufacturers were set in their ways. They didn’t think about innovation; they only thought about how to make it easier for ability users to use the weapons and unleash greater power.
Compared to them, Yun Yingzhi’s thinking was a bit different.
His ideas in this area were very leap-frog. One moment he might be thinking about the compatibility between source weapons and ability users, and the next, he might be thinking about using source weapons to make better and easier-to-eat foodāso that every ordinary person with a large appetite, who was too embarrassed to let others know they were a big eater, could secretly eat at any time.
Of course, deep down, such thoughts might have just been to ensure he could stay full. However, the reason he gave as a child was…
ā”Dad is a soldier, Mom is a soldier, Brother is a soldier, and Sister will enlist after graduation.”
ā”They protect us!”
ā”Because of my second form, constitution, and other reasons, I probably won’t be able to join the military. But my whole family are soldiers.”
ā”I want to do things better for my family.”
ā”They are on the battlefield, eating tasteless nutritional supplements. If I can complete this research, maybe Brother will be able to eat better food!”
Yun Yingzhi had stated his reasons with a serious face and completed the research before he was even ten years old.
At the time, Alvin had promoted it under the name of his “mysterious apprentice,” and the results were excellent.
In Alvin’s eyes, Yun Yingzhi was not only full of ideas, but he also had the ability to put them into practice. He felt that Yun Yingzhi was the most obedient and good child who always thought of his family.
After receiving Alvinās praise back then, Yun Yingzhi began to gallop down various lines of thought without any inhibitions. Now, in the field of source weapon manufacturing, he was like an unbridled wild horse.
When Yun Yingzhi crafted source weapons, his focus was incredibly high.
He soon finished the initial processing of all materials, followed by the fusion after secondary processing. The third step involved refiningāa step taken to ensure the attributes could merge better.
By this time, an hour and a half had passed.
The most important part was the spiritual power inscription.
Spiritual power inscription was the hardest step for all manufacturers. One mistake and there was no starting over; all previous efforts would be for naught.
Unlike most junior and intermediate manufacturers, Yun Yingzhi would perform repeated inscriptions.
Lower-level manufacturers were afraid of damaging the original structure and wouldn’t repeat inscriptions in the same place. Yun Yingzhi, however, liked to connect the inscription lines, making different patterns interlink to form a new, complete, and highly complex inscription network.
Generally, only high-level manufacturers and above liked to do this.
The advantage of the source weapons Yun Yingzhi made was their versatility and multiple internal skills. The disadvantage was that they were a major test of an ability user’s control skills.
Time flowed slowly. Yun Yingzhi received several communication requests from others.
In his state of extreme focus, he was completely unaware of the notifications from his terminal. His entire mind was on the source weapon in his hands.
Finally, the last large-scale fusion inscription ended. Fine beads of sweat had formed on his forehead.
He wiped the sweat away and looked at the weapon in his hand with great satisfaction.
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