What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 567 Half-Dharma Remains: Luxury (Thanks to '壬午丁未庚辰丙子' for the 1.5 Alliance Leaders)
The magical artifact designed by Ye Xingli is called the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument.

After conducting research on a large number of junior college students, Ye Xingli realized one thing: junior college students are into eating dirt and stones.

Like many college students at Wanfa University, while taking medication to meet their basic bodily needs, they swallow blocks of cement to suppress their digestive power, so as to avoid harming their bodies with excessive digestive capacity, or weakening their digestive system due to prolonged food shortages.

College students in various places would do this by swallowing stones and soil.

Unlike a university town with a large number of colleges and universities, soil and stone are easier to obtain than cement and edible cement due to the lack of environment, technology and funding.

Compared to the more scientifically sound and healthy edible cement, eating soil and stones obviously has many side effects. For example, it puts a burden on the gastrointestinal motility, requiring college students in the Qi Refining stage to expend a lot of energy on gastrointestinal peristalsis, which increases the burden on the body and sometimes reduces work efficiency.

So Ye Xingli designed a soil-eating artifact, which allows her to process soil and stones before consuming them, effectively reducing the burden on her digestive system and adding different flavors.

At this very moment, as Zhang Yu activated the Heavenly Creation Technique, a vast amount of knowledge and technology surged into his mind, and with each burst of inspiration, a brand-new blueprint gradually took shape in his heart, according to his requirement to reduce costs.

However, Zhang Yu naturally didn't directly draw the design for Ye Xingli. Instead, he replied: "Senior Sister, I have an idea."
Zhang Yu: Do you think we can reduce the cost by making these changes?

Although Zhang Yu only gave a rough direction and did not tell her the details, Ye Xingli was still greatly inspired after reading it.

In particular, Zhang Yu's optimization direction is to reduce costs, which will not change Ye Xingli's design ideas too much. Moreover, Ye Xingli knows the importance of cost in the college student market.

Ye Xingli: Junior brother, your suggestion was very helpful. [Clenched fist] [1 Spirit Coin]
Over the next few days, Ye Xingli would occasionally discuss with Zhang Yu, working together to improve the design of the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument.

Finally, with the finalization of the design drawings, Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli completed the design drawings of the Chaos Food Earth Instrument. He then saw the Dao Seed called Spiritual Essence Vessel Heart appear on the Yu Book.

Upon seeing the newly copied Dao Seed, Zhang Yu was overjoyed and immediately began to quietly sense the power contained within it.

"Hmm? So Senior Sister is a master of stitching? No wonder I felt that some parts of the design drawings for the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument looked familiar."

In Zhang Yu's view, the so-called "spiritual essence of the weapon" is a kind of blueprint fusion ability, which can fuse any two weapon-refining blueprints to create a new weapon-refining blueprint.

However, the result of fusion is not necessarily good; it may yield the best aspects or the worst. Therefore, choosing which drawings to fuse is very important.

For example, combining two flying sword blueprints makes it easier to achieve good results.

However, fusing the flying sword blueprint with the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument would easily result in a useless blueprint that doesn't fit into either category.

At the same time, this kind of fusion obviously has its limits. It doesn't mean that by taking all the blueprints for magical artifacts on the market and fusing them together, you can have all the functions of magical artifacts.

If new blueprints are continuously incorporated, the elements that were originally incorporated will gradually be lost.

Just like a hard drive, it can only hold so much. Once it reaches its capacity limit, you need to delete the previously installed data before you can add more.

For example, by fusing two speed-type flying swords, a flying sword that combines the advantages of both and becomes even faster was designed.

However, if a blueprint for an offensive flying sword is then incorporated at this time, the newly incorporated blueprint may have enhanced offensive capabilities, but its speed will actually decrease.

In short, the fusion of spiritual essence and weapon essence is not a panacea; it depends on the specific blueprints chosen, as well as the immortal and physical limits of the weapon itself.

This fusion process requires the expenditure of one's own inspiration.

Once inspiration is exhausted multiple times, it will not only be impossible to integrate it again for a period of time, but the brain will also be devoid of any innovative thinking, becoming stagnant.

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "There's no problem with performing fusions a few times a month."

Zhang Yu sensed the advancement requirements of the Spirit Essence Artifact Core again and wondered, "Does a level 2 Spirit Essence Artifact Core require the design of 10 Foundation Establishment level refining products?"

"I don't have time for that right now, let's talk about it later."

With the Lingyun Qixin in hand, Zhang Yu felt more confident about competing in the upcoming design competition and immediately began a new round of design work.

A glint flashed in his eyes, and design drawings appeared one after another.

In addition to the Chaos Soil-Eating Device designed by Ye Xingli, there are also design drawings for items such as an external digestive system, wear-resistant power boots, and disposable artificial leather.

These design drawings were all modified by Zhang Yu over the past month while he was researching college students, using the Tiangong Kaiwu (a system of inventions).

After all, each activation of the Creation of the Heavenly Crafts requires burning one's Dao Heart, and it is not suitable to perform a large number of operations at once, so Zhang Yu spread them out over the past month.

Because the time is spread out over a month, although there is some consumption each time, Zhang Yu can gradually recover after several days of mental cultivation, so that Zhang Yu's Dao Heart is still maintained at level 19 (83%).

The blueprints were based on the large library in Wanfa University City. While Zhang Yu was conducting research on college students, he also optimized the blueprints using the Tiangong Kaiwu (a book on craftsmanship).

In his opinion, the crafting products in these drawings are more suitable for college students, but they are not enough to win a design competition.

"Only those who rank in the top 10 schools in the design competition will be awarded a military certificate. If you miss this year, you'll have to wait until next year. You have to be even better." "Since we have the Spirit Essence Core, we can try to fuse it a few times and see if we can get a more creative and commercially valuable drawing."

"If possible, further optimization can be achieved through the 'Exploitation of the Works of Nature'..."

As Zhang Yu activated the power of the Spiritual Artifact Heart, he felt the design blueprints of the Chaos Soil-Eating Instrument and the external digestive system rushing into his mind like two torrents, transforming into spirals that converged fiercely.

The various magical artifact designs combined to form a brand-new blueprint, which shone brightly in Zhang Yu's mind.

"This is……"

Feeling the radiant new blueprint in his mind, Zhang Yu slowly read out the name on it: "Artificial Manure Machine... Eats dirt, produces excrement, the best life companion for college students..."

"Damn it!" Zhang Yu cursed under his breath, "How can I submit this for an award? It sounds too much like a college diploma; the judges won't approve it at all."

Zhang Yu shook his head and selected another blueprint to merge. A moment later, another brilliant blueprint appeared in front of him.

"A college student's attitude? Too much of a professional air about him."

Zhang Yu then proceeded with the fusion process, and a series of blueprints appeared.

"Automatic advertising machines? That's not technologically advanced."

"Hemorrhoid breeding device... what a piece of junk."

"The college student simulator lacks originality."

With each activation of the spiritual energy core, just before Zhang Yu's inspiration ran out, a blueprint that satisfied him finally appeared before him.

"Wind God Half-Face Type Working Power Boots"

Although the drawings describe it as a half-demon form, it actually only borrows the design of the top-tier foot demon form in terms of appearance, such as the streamlined shape, dynamic flowing light flashing, and the flashing light disguised as a projection of the spirit world.

After the boots cover the entire foot and calf, the overall look makes them resemble a foot fetish, exuding a sense of understated luxury that only college students can appreciate.

"It has the name 'Fahai' in it, looks like Fahai, and looks even more like Fahai when worn, but it's actually not Fahai at all; it's a pair of boot-shaped magical artifacts."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. He knew that all the college students were at the Qi Refining stage, with a maximum mana limit of 100 points. If they had to install other mana artifacts in their daily lives after installing the eye artifacts, the burden would be too great for them.

Therefore, this design, which has the appearance of a Dharma Body but is not a Dharma Body at all, would obviously be a popular choice for college students in a world where Dharma Bodies are more respected than human bodies.

In addition to its appearance, its functional design also meets the requirements of college students.

After conducting research for some time, Zhang Yu understood very well that college graduates, as a marginalized group that exists in large numbers on the second level but has little voice in the spirit world, have long been ignored by many large companies.

For college students, who have always relied on their physical bodies to move around, they have to train in martial arts and run errands and work. Colleges and universities do not have convenient facilities such as magnetic channels or anti-gravity channels, so their legs are severely worn and their shoes are easily damaged.

A durable, cost-effective shoe that can handle complex road conditions is something college students really need.

And it would be even better if these shoes could reduce wear and tear on their legs.

The work boots designed by Zhang Yu not only meet these requirements, but also incorporate the principles of the Nine Heavens Cloud Force, which can better transmit power, enhance cushioning, improve leg explosiveness, and reduce wear and tear.

In addition, it also features jet acceleration and an overload mode that unleashes lightning magic.

It also features a solar mana charging mode, which allows mana to be replenished through sunlight. Although the replenishment efficiency is extremely low, it is still very useful for college students.

Under these circumstances, as Zhang Yu once again launched the "Ingenious Creation" program to optimize costs, the cost of this work boot was reduced again.

"While maintaining the ultimate performance of the Qi Refining realm, the cost has also been reduced to the minimum."

"Well... the only side effect is that prolonged use may cause overheating and electrical leakage."

Zhang Yu also wanted to try to optimize this side effect, but even the creation of the universe needs to adhere to the limits of immortality and physics.

Even if he could optimize away this side effect, it would result in a deterioration in appearance or a reduction in performance.

Zhang Yu simply gave up on optimizing the side effects and sent the design drawings directly to Magnetism True Lord to see if she had any solutions.

Upon seeing the blueprints sent by Zhang Yu, Magnet True Monarch replied: What else is there to optimize?
Magnet Lord: Afraid of heat and electricity? Why not just give college students some painkillers?
After replying to Zhang Yu, Magnetism True Monarch continued to look at the design drawings, a complex expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)