ryethenovel Chapter 76 Teaching Lin Ziling
Chapter 76 Teaching Lin Ziling
In the "God-Making Project," besides Lu Yuan and the mysterious "Zero," she was the most "scholarly" person. She wasn't as violent as Gu Tianye, nor as pure as Ye Cang. Her fighting style was more like that of a precise magic engineer, constructing various powerful composite spells by arranging and combining different elements.
"Come here." Lu Yuan beckoned to her.
Lin Ziling took a deep breath and walked up to Lu Yuan. She knew that her "test" had arrived.
"Unleash your three strongest single-target attack spells on me," Lu Yuan said calmly.
"Right...right to you?" Lin Ziling was stunned. Her strongest single-target spell, while not as earth-shattering as Xiang Batian's axe strike, was enough to instantly kill a level 70 defensive Star Envoy. Lu Yuan, a level 0 blacksmith...was he sure he wasn't joking?
"Stop talking nonsense, use all your strength." Lu Yuan frowned.
"yes!"
Without further hesitation, Lin Ziling raised her hand, her fair fingertips tracing mysterious paths in the air. The three elements of wind, fire, and thunder rapidly converged before her.
"First move, Wind Strangulation!"
A cyan tornado composed of countless tiny wind blades instantly took shape and roared towards Lu Yuan. Wherever the tornado passed, even the space itself creaked under the strain.
However, Lu Yuan didn't move an inch. He simply extended a finger and gently touched the very center of the blue tornado.
"Buzz—"
With a soft sound, the terrifying tornado that was powerful enough to tear through armor vanished inch by inch at Lu Yuan's fingertips, turning into the most primal wind element and dissipating into the air.
"This...how is this possible?!" Lin Ziling's eyes widened instantly; she couldn't understand what had just happened.
"The structure is too loose." Lu Yuan withdrew his finger and commented calmly, "You just crudely compressed the wind elements together, but the connections between them are incredibly fragile. You should use a spiral motion—three turns clockwise and one turn counterclockwise—to construct its core. Only then can a stable energy loop be formed. Next."
Lu Yuan's words exploded in Lin Ziling's mind like a thunderbolt! Three circles clockwise, one circle counterclockwise? What... what kind of theory is this? She had never heard of it before! However, her scholarly intuition was frantically telling her that Lu Yuan was right!
She suppressed her shock and raised her hand again.
"Second move, Wrath of the Fiery Dragon!"
A roaring dragon made of blazing flames appeared out of thin air, baring its fangs and claws as it lunged at Lu Yuan.
"The temperature is not high enough."
This time, Lu Yuan didn't even bother to extend a finger. He simply blew a breath, and the majestic fire dragon, as if doused with a bucket of cold water, went out with a "poof," leaving only a wisp of smoke.
"When you were condensing the flame, you mixed in too much air, causing the flame's purity to drop by at least thirty percent. You should first use your mental energy to create a vacuum environment around you before igniting the fire element. Only in this way can the purest 'Vacuum Flame' be born. One last thing."
Lin Ziling was completely numb. She felt that the magical theory system she had painstakingly built up over the past ten years was being ruthlessly overturned and then rebuilt by Lu Yuan, word by word.
She mechanically executed her third move.
"Thunder... Thunder God's Spear!"
A lightning spear crackling with blinding electric light tore through the air and shot toward Lu Yuan at supersonic speed.
"Too slow."
Lu Yuan sidestepped, effortlessly dodging the Thunder God's Spear that was powerful enough to pierce through mountains. Then, with a backhand grab, he actually caught the raging lightning spear in his bare hands!
"Sizzle—"
Countless violent electric snakes writhed wildly on his arm, but they couldn't even harm a single hair on his head.
"The essence of lightning is the violent collision of positive and negative charges. You only used positive charges, so your lightning only has destructive power, but lacks the characteristics of 'penetration' and 'paralysis'. You should concentrate negative charges at the tip of the spear and positive charges on the shaft. In this way, when it hits the target, the annihilation energy generated by the collision of positive and negative charges can unleash its full power."
After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he flicked his wrist slightly, and the Thor's Spear, which had been as docile as a small snake in his hand, instantly turned into a sky full of lightning and disappeared.
The entire workshop fell into a deathly silence. Everyone stared at Lu Yuan as if he were a ghost. They finally understood that Lu Yuan was not just a blacksmith who could forge weapons; he was a monster who understood the essence of all powers! He was a walking "encyclopedia of truth"!
Lin Ziling stood there, stunned, Lu Yuan's words echoing in her mind. Each word was like a key, unlocking a new world she had never imagined before! So, magic could be used like this? So, elements could be combined like this? She felt like a beggar with a golden bowl, begging for food!
With a "plop".
To everyone's astonishment, this usually arrogant SSS-level genius, the owner of the [Heart of Elements], actually knelt down before Lu Yuan, performing a student's deepest salute to his teacher.
"Teacher Lu... please teach me!"
Her voice trembled slightly, filled with an unprecedented fervor! She knew that this young man before her would be the greatest opportunity of her life!
Lin Ziling's kneeling stunned everyone present. That was Lin Ziling! The renowned scholar-genius of the "God-Making Project," with incredibly high standards, usually aloof and indifferent to everyone, even ignoring someone with a powerful background like Gu Tianye. Now, she was actually willingly kneeling before Lu Yuan? And calling him "teacher"? Had the world gone mad?
Gu Tianye and Xiang Batian exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of regret in each other's eyes. If only they had known! If only they had known Lu Yuan not only knew blacksmithing but also possessed so much theoretical knowledge, they should have been the first to rush up and ask for "tutoring"! Now, that scheming Lin Ziling beat them to it!
Lu Yuan didn't seem to mind at all; he accepted Lin Ziling's bow without hesitation. In his view, it was simply an equal exchange—he imparted knowledge, and she reciprocated with loyalty and future combat power; it was perfectly fair.
"Get up," Lu Yuan said calmly. "If you want to learn, write down all your combat data, spell models, and understanding of the Elemental Heart from the past few years, and hand them to me tomorrow morning."
"Yes, teacher!" Lin Ziling stood up excitedly, her beautiful face flushed with an unusual blush, as if she had received some great reward.
After that, Lu Yuan didn't provide any more one-on-one "tutoring." He simply threw a thick stack of training plans, which he didn't know when they were written, at Zhao Qingxuan.
"Make them train according to this. Train them until they die."
Zhao Qingxuan took the stack of papers, glanced at them, and his eyelids started twitching. The papers were densely packed with extreme training programs, each tailored to a self-torture-like approach, for each individual.
For example, Xiang Batian was required to hammer a 100,000-jin piece of Titan Iron ore into a sheet of iron as thin as a cicada's wing using only his physical strength without using any energy; Gu Tianye was required to enter a simulated space filled with hundreds of berserk beast souls and "devour" and fuse all the beast souls with his bare hands without the aid of weapons; Ye Cang was locked in an absolutely dark and silent space to feel the purest "killing intent".
As for Mu Bingli, her task was the most bizarre. Lu Yuan gave her a drop of his own blood and asked her to use her [Ice Soul Divine Soul] to completely "freeze" the drop of blood without harming it.
This is simply an impossible task! Lu Yuan's blood contains the power of the [Blessing of All Things] rule, possessing extremely strong vitality and resistance; while Mu Bingli's [Ice Soul Divine Soul] is a conceptual-level power that freezes the soul. These two diametrically opposed powers, once they collide, will only result in annihilation. This isn't training; this is practically playing with fire!
However, not a single person raised any objection. Holding their own "death notices," their eyes showed not fear, but rather a fanatical fighting spirit! Because they knew that Lu Yuan was using the most extreme method to force them to break through their limits and truly control the power that belonged to them!
Soon, deafening noises filled the empty workshop. Xiang Batian, shirtless, pounded the divine iron, which was taller than him, like an ancient Titan; Gu Tianye roared like a wild beast in the virtual space. The entire East China Sea base was thrown into chaos by this group of madmen who were on steroids.
Lu Yuan, the instigator, strolled leisurely to a corner of the workshop as if nothing had happened. There, various "seafood" parts dismantled from the Atlantis warship were piled up. He picked up a strange metal that shimmered with a blue halo—this was the hull of the Atlantis bio-warship, a peculiar substance somewhere between metal and biological matter.
"Hmm, good toughness, high energy conductivity, but the structure is a bit unstable..." Lu Yuan muttered to himself as he analyzed, picking up a high-frequency vibrating cutter from the workbench beside him. He was preparing to start tonight's "food preparation" work.
Time passed by, and the workshop was bustling with activity. Lu Yuan was immersed in his own world of forging, seemingly oblivious to everything around him.
He didn't know how much time had passed when he finished processing the last piece of material, and suddenly realized that there seemed to be someone behind him. He didn't even notice when the other person had arrived.
Lu Yuan felt a slight chill. In the entire "God-Making Project," there was only one person who could get this close to him without him noticing.
He turned around slowly.
Sure enough, the mysterious girl "Zero," with long silver hair and a white dress, stood quietly behind him, less than three meters away. She was like a ghost, devoid of any aura, her presence so faint it was almost imperceptible. Unless you saw her with your own eyes, you would never notice her.
Her blue eyes, which seemed to hold the stars and the sea, were fixed on Lu Yuan and the pile of processed materials in front of him.
"What are you doing here?" Lu Yuan asked. He was the only one who dared to speak to "Zero" in such a calm tone.
Zero didn't answer immediately. She extended a slender, jade-like finger and gently pointed to a piece of bio-armor that Lu Yuan had just processed, peeled off from the Kraken tentacles. The piece of armor still retained the violent aura of the deep-sea monster.
However, the moment Zero's fingertip touched it, the violent aura vanished instantly, as if it had never existed.
Lu Yuan's pupils contracted slightly. He "saw" it: the instant "Zero's" fingertip touched the armor, an invisible gray thread extended from her fingertip and burrowed into the armor's interior. Then, with a gentle tug, the thread instantly collapsed and disintegrated the incredibly complex energy structure and rule imprints within the armor, turning it into a pile of meaningless information fragments.
This...this is..."rule deletion"?
A tidal wave of shock surged through Lu Yuan's heart! His [Blessing of All Things] was about "weaving" and "endowing" rules upon objects; but this "Zero" had the opposite ability—to "erase" and "delete" rules! These two abilities were practically natural nemesis!
"You are creating." Zero finally spoke. Her voice was ethereal and beautiful, but devoid of any emotion, like a cold machine reciting pre-programmed lines, "You are giving these 'inanimate objects' new 'rules,' granting them powers they shouldn't have."
She raised her head, her deep blue eyes staring directly at Lu Yuan: "Then, let me ask you. When you imbue a sword with the rule of 'sharpness,' is it still the same sword? When you imbue a piece of armor with the rule of 'sturdiness,' does it possess its own 'will'? When you weave countless rules together to create a so-called 'divine artifact,' are you creating a tool? Or... are you creating life?"
The questions about "zero" were increasingly acute and touched upon the essence of things. For the first time, these questions caused Lu Yuan to feel a sense of bewilderment about the power he possessed.
Creating life? He had never thought about it. He always thought he was just blacksmithing, only blacksmithing in a more advanced way.
Seeing Lu Yuan fall silent, Zero's face remained expressionless. She slowly withdrew her finger and then took something out of her dress pocket—a small gray stone, no bigger than a fingernail, which looked ordinary and no different from any other pebble on the roadside.
"Here, take this." She handed the small stone to Lu Yuan.
"What is this?" Lu Yuan asked instinctively.
"A stone that's 'reset to zero'," Zero said calmly. "Perhaps, one day, you'll need it."
After saying that, she turned around and, with light steps, slowly disappeared into the shadows of the workshop. She came without a trace and went without a trace, leaving Lu Yuan alone, holding the small gray stone, standing there in a daze.