In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 299: New Talent: Chosen One of Heavenly Artifacts! (3K views, please subscribe!)

The flames burned fiercely, and the eerie, cult-like atmosphere grew stronger.

If Su Yuan hadn't heard the guy who was burned shout "Divine Body Sacrifice Artifact! Activate!", he would have definitely run away.

After the person on the cross had been burned for a while, an indescribable, mysterious, invisible light descended from the sky.

This spiritual light was formless and intangible, yet Su Yuan could clearly sense it.

He watched as the spiritual light entered the Niwan Palace of the person on the cross, and then all the laboratory assistants around him rushed forward with fire extinguishers to put out the flames.

thump--

The man on the cross was covered in soot and collapsed to the ground like a piece of burnt-out charcoal.

When he fell, even charcoal ash fell from his body.

The lab assistants seemed to have long been accustomed to this bizarre scene.

One of the assistants pried open the charcoal-black figure's mouth and stuffed in a healing pill, while the others stood aside and began to discuss it.

"This time the heat was a bit too high."

"Brother Wei's key areas are a bit too smeared. Will it really not affect the length after it heals?"

"The Divine Body Sacrifice Artifact is powerful, but the price is far too high."

"This time Brother Wei went himself, who's next?"

The charcoal-black figure known as Brother Wei is none other than Wei Yuxiu.

As the lab assistants were talking, new skin and flesh rapidly grew on his body, leaving him lying naked on the ground.

However, although Wei Yuxiu's burns had mostly healed, he was completely bald.

Unless one actively consumes spiritual energy to accelerate hair growth, the hair growth rate of a cultivator is no different from that of an ordinary person.

Another lab assistant rushed forward, draped a coat over Wei Yuxiu's shoulders, and asked anxiously:

"Brother Wei, did you gain anything from using the Divine Body Sacrifice Technique this time?"

With the help of those around him, Wei Yuxiu forced himself to stand up.

Although his physical pain had not subsided, his eyes were bright and alert.

"Inspiration struck. The technical problem that had been troubling us for more than 20 hours has been solved by me."

"The Blazing Sun Sword Armor has taken another solid step closer to being fully forged."

"There's no time to lose, let's go verify it right away..."

As they were talking, Wei Yuxiu noticed the figure standing at the door.

He paused for a moment, then suddenly realized:
"You must be Su Yuan from the Exorcism Department, come in."

"You can observe, but you can't interfere in any laboratory affairs without our permission."

Wei Yuxiu's tone was normal, but it carried a faint sense of detachment.

Su Yuan could clearly sense that the other party was planning to leave him hanging for a month before sending him away.

Su Yuan was not surprised at all by this.

No one would be happy to see a student who was brought into their department through connections and who knows nothing about their major.

He nodded without getting angry and walked into the laboratory.

Putting aside the blackened cross, the laboratory was quite in line with Su Yuan's imagination.

As soon as he entered, he saw Wei Yuxiu leading his experimental assistants to an experimental area full of sophisticated instruments.

A futuristic, split-type suit of armor hangs in the center of a group of sophisticated instruments.

Every now and then, probes and drills would penetrate deep into the armor, engraving beautiful runes.

However, it is obvious that this armor is still in a semi-finished state. Even Su Yuan, a layman, can clearly see that some parts are completely unrefined.

"Gentlemen, although the Flaming Sun Sword Armor is based on the standard version of the sword armor, every modification we've made to it embodies the hard work of all of us!"

"December 1st is the deadline for submitting entries to the battle armor design competition. We'll have to work overtime for the next month to make the Blazing Sun Sword Armor as perfect as possible!"

Wei Yuxiu, with his bald head and eyebrows, spoke with great enthusiasm.

The group of experimental assistants were immediately encouraged:
"Brother Wei is right!"

Let's work overtime like crazy!

"We absolutely must place in next month's battle armor design competition!"

After some mobilization, everyone in the lab divided up their tasks: washing materials and operating instruments.

The progress of the Blazing Sun Armor project began to advance rapidly.

Su Yuan remained seemingly invisible, observing the bustling activity in the laboratory.

Based on his observations, Su Yuan had already understood the purpose behind putting Wei Yuxiu in such a precarious position.

This is how the Divine Body Sacrifice Artifact Technique is used.

Simply put, it means that by sacrificing oneself, one can connect with the Heavenly Dao, receive a bit of spiritual light, and solve the current problem related to weapon crafting.

Based on Su Yuan's experience with frequent blood sacrifices, the more sacrifices made, the better the effect of the Divine Body Sacrifice Artifact Technique.

A fake sacrifice like Wei Yuxiu's, which only involved sacrificing a portion of his flesh and then immediately stopping after gaining inspiration, cannot truly unleash the full power of the Divine Body Sacrifice Technique.

But there's nothing we can do about it. We live in a civilized society now; if someone were actually burned to death, they would definitely be arrested and imprisoned. As for using spirit beasts for sacrifice?

Su Yuan felt that the geniuses of the weapon crafting department were not fools. If sacrificing spirit beasts were effective, they would have already reached a strategic cooperation agreement with the Myriad Beasts Demon Sect.

It seems that only self-sacrifice or other living people besides oneself can be used.

In short, the Divine Body Sacrifice Artifact Technique is absolutely the most demonic of all demonic arts. In ancient times, cultivators who mastered this technique would have to sacrifice hundreds of thousands, even millions, of living beings to forge an artifact.

In fact, the effects of the Divine Body Sacrifice Technique are quite similar to the "speed-through" effect of the title "Speed-through Demon Cultivation".

But after thinking about it carefully, Su Yuan felt that the two were quite different.

Because if you want to solve a weapon-refining problem by relying on the "speed-through" effect, it will definitely not provide a solution.

Instead, they would directly deal with the person who raised the question, or forcibly bring in a master craftsman and force them to solve the problem.

Having understood the benefits of the Divine Body Sacrifice Technique, Su Yuan naturally developed a desire to possess it.

However, to learn the first stage of the Divine Transformation Inheritance, one must accumulate 100 hidden points during their freshman year.

If the goal is to acquire all three Nascent Soul inheritances, wouldn't that mean earning 300 points within a single academic year?

Can this really be done?
He shook his head, temporarily suppressing the thought, and began to carefully observe the weapon-forging techniques of everyone in the laboratory.

After watching for a while, he had to admit that advanced weapon-refining techniques were indeed not something that laymen could easily master.

For example, those high-end refining machine tools have a precision that is more than a hundred times higher than that of a Foundation Establishment stage refiner operating by hand.

To operate these instruments, what is needed is not some crafting technique, but professional programming skills.

Only in areas that refining machines cannot process do refiners need to operate the equipment themselves.

Under these circumstances, it would be extremely difficult to achieve results on the Blazing Sun Sword Armor project and defeat Wei Yuxiu, the person in charge.

Fortunately, Su Yuan had made ample preparations.

He moved a chair, found a corner of the laboratory, and sat down. He then took out a large pile of weapon-refining textbooks from the Moon-Catching Pearl.

Starting with introductory knowledge of weapon crafting, this course leads directly to the second-year level of the Weapon Crafting Department at the Evil Extermination University.

These teaching materials naturally included the operation and use of various refining machine tools... However, these teaching materials were not for Su Yuan himself to see, but for Zhu Qingqing, the spirit of the Myriad Soul Banner.

Once she and her cyber brothers from the Myriad Soul Banner learn how to operate the machine tools, they can simply hack into the control system to operate them.

This is much faster than manual operation.

After scanning the weapon-refining machine tool operation manual into the Myriad Soul Banner, Su Yuan opened a beginner-level weapon-refining knowledge textbook and began to study.

While learning, he also popped one Ren Dan pill after another like candy.

Limitless, master of all arts and crafts, proficient in weapon crafting, the Thousand-Thread Hand, the Insightful Eye...

After his refining talent filled his entire body, the knowledge of refining in front of Su Yuan quickly became simple and easy to understand.

It's so simple, like one plus one, that you can understand it at a glance.

Even after the effects of the elixir wear off, the knowledge he has acquired will remain permanently ingrained.

In particular, the talent condensed by "Wuji" will become a talent welded to Su Yuan.

After studying diligently for just one hour, Su Yuan suddenly felt a subtle change in his body.

He began to understand the workings of the Flaming Sun Sword Armor, which had previously seemed mysterious to him.

At the same time, a "ding-dong" sound rang in his ears.

[Congratulations, host, on awakening your talent 'Child of the Celestial Artifact (Blue)' after diligent study.]

[Child of the Celestial Weapons: Favored by the Way of Weapon Forging, a darling of the art, the difficulty of any weapon forging knowledge will be greatly reduced in your presence.]

Su Yuan's spirits lifted.

Is it a blue talent right from the start?
How can the Limitless Talent be stronger in me than in Qi Hanyue, the original owner?

After careful consideration, Su Yuan realized that the blue weapon-refining talent must have awakened within an hour because he was a weapon-refining genius.

Of course, this talent does not refer to his own talent, but to the pile of weapon-refining talents he borrowed.

"Wuji" is a dazzling talent that can adapt to all environments and knowledge.

However, the speed at which it adapts is strongly correlated with the user's learning speed.

If this talent were given to Qi Hanyue, who had absolutely no talent for weapon crafting and was just coasting along, she might not be able to develop a blue-level weapon crafting talent even in a year.

But Su Yuan is different; he is now a super genius who has mastered more than twenty refining talents ranging from green to gold.

In addition, he had used the Pure Heart of the Brahma to eliminate all distractions for the previous hour, allowing him to study with maximum efficiency, so the effects of his Limitless Talent would naturally be developed to the fullest extent.

Upon realizing this, Su Yuan was filled with excitement.

The effects of most pills last for 24 hours, and the Wuji Talent is no exception.

Will I be able to get a free golden weapon crafting talent in the next 24 hours?

Given the current pace of learning, it's very possible!
With this in mind, Su Yuan dared not waste a single moment and devoted himself to studying once again.

The people in the lab saw Su Yuan engrossed in studying a pile of textbooks, but none of them had any intention of mocking him.

They were actually satisfied with Su Yuan's pragmatism.

If this kid is willing to diligently study weapon crafting knowledge for a month, they might be willing to offer some guidance.

(End of this chapter)