Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 392 The Astounding Wisdom of Mirror Red Dust
To be honest, when Chen Ping saw Jing Hongchen barge in without warning, his first reaction was one of shock.

That's just how it is when you're doing things on someone else's turf. If you can get ahead by touching someone else's backside, you have to be prepared to get touched in return.

What Chen Ping didn't understand was why, even though Jing Hongchen had clearly seen the final blow of his closing stage, he couldn't suppress the joy in his eyes.

Fortunately, Jing Hongchen's eyes darted around quickly. She looked at him, then at Ji Juechen, whose face was as pale as a sheet of paper from the continuous bleeding, and at the bloodstains on the ground. The look of sudden realization in her eyes fully demonstrated one thing.

Jing Hongchen truly believed that she had secretly discovered some crucial clues.

Chen Ping clicked his tongue. "No, what's so great about that?"

You don't know how I hammered and tidied the internal texture of the metal, nor do you know how I hammered the hundred-times-forged metal to imbue it with spirit. All you see is the final stage of bleeding. What's the use of that?

Don't you know that if someone wants to use spirit-forged metal that wasn't forged by a blacksmith, the user's blood must be continuously injected into it during the forging process?
As a Soul Master refining spirit-forged metal for the first time, Chen Ping naturally had no idea how much blood Ji Juechen would have to shed at each stage to ensure that Ji Juechen's meteorite iron ingot would recognize Ji Juechen as its master after spirit forging.

That's why Chen Ping made Ji Juechen bleed a little at each stage. Although he bleed quite a bit, and it looked like he was about to knock Ji Juechen to the ground, he did manage to successfully recognize Ji Juechen as his master.

Moreover, if Chen Ping wasn't mistaken, the blood mist that condensed on the sword after Ji Juechen's blood was poured onto it definitely created a blood sacrifice effect.

The problem is, your approach with Jinghongchen Optics is useless!

If the rare metals in front of you aren't refined into high-quality metals, don't even think about spilling two liters of blood on them like Ji Juechen did.

Even if you cut open your belly and stuff rare metals into your body, you'll only end up with heavy metal poisoning.

Although he understood the logic behind it, Chen Ping quickly put on an expression that showed a mix of annoyance and helplessness, and spoke with a forced smile.

“Master Jing, although the sound of my hammering was a little loud and affected the students’ experiments, you shouldn’t have just barged in without warning, should you?”

"I've always heard that the Sun Moon Empire is an empire that respects Soul Masters, and that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is the academy within the empire that respects Soul Masters the most. But it seems that's not the case."

"Master Jing, you wouldn't want your exchange students to finally enter a deep meditation session only to be interrupted by someone who doesn't know their place, would you?"

Here it comes, here it comes again.

Jing Hongchen had already learned from Chen Ping's experience and could tell what he wanted to say just by listening to him speak.

But this guy wasn't in a hurry, because he knew very well that what Chen Ping wanted wasn't compensation at all, but to ensure that the method of refining the thousand-forged metal wouldn't be leaked.

"Yes, yes, Director Lin and I were just too worried. Luckily, you were only helping Ji with the rare metals and weren't actually making a core magic array, otherwise Director Lin and I really wouldn't know how to make it up to you." "Hmm, Ji, as the top student in our college's Control Department, why is your face so pale? Haven't you been sleeping well these past few days?"

Seeing Chen Ping nervously move a few steps and step on the bloodstains on the ground, Jing Hongchen immediately pretended that she had not noticed anything and began to care about Ji Juechen.

Seeing this, Chen Ping stopped talking about the students of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy having their deep meditation interrupted and immediately said, "Well, Lao Ji and I stayed up for several nights in a row trying to get me to remove the impurities from that piece of extraterrestrial meteorite. It was indeed quite a lot of work."

“Master Jing, if any other students feel that the noise I’m making in the lab is too loud, please arrange for someone to come and renovate the lab, especially the soundproofing. Adding a few more layers wouldn’t be a problem.”

"I was just helping Lao Ji remove the rust from the meteorite sword this time, so it's no big deal if I was disturbed. But if something like this happens again in the future, we might not be able to say what will happen."

Chen Ping waved his hand, feigning composure, indicating that the matter should end there.

Jing Hongchen then ordered Lin Jiayi to complete the soundproofing renovation of the laboratory in front of Chen Ping, showing him great respect.

It wasn't until he left Mo Fang's laboratory and returned to his office in Mingde Hall that Jing Hongchen's lips curled into a smile, his eyes narrowing slightly, to Lin Jiayi's eyes as if they were shining.

Money, money, you've been on guard day and night, but you never expected that I'd figured out how your thousand-forged metal was made, did you?
A smug look flashed across Jing Hongchen's face, and she looked down on Chen Ping's series of reactions with a condescending gaze.

You've swindled so many treasures from me, now it's your turn, you little fox Chen Ping, to spit something out for me.

Do you think that by stopping halfway through your extortion attempt, you can make me think that everything you did in the final stages was really just an insignificant step?

To prevent me from realizing that you just revealed the true secret formula for refining thousand-fold metal, you're even giving up the compensation that's within your grasp?
Chen, you little rascal, you're such a clever and cunning fox cub!
Unfortunately, no matter how clever you are, you little fox cub, you can't outsmart an old hunter like me.

I would be impolite to refuse the true secret of Shrek Academy's refining of thousand-fold metal!

Jing Hongchen excitedly reviewed his discoveries and previous psychological exchanges with Chen Ping in his mind, and felt a sense of relief.

How long has it been since he had this experience of gaining the upper hand in strategizing?
The last time he was this happy was when he used his connections to step over Mo Fang and successfully become the head of Mingde Hall, right?
If his victory that time was somewhat unfair, as he deliberately chose to win because Mo Fang was not good at underhanded tactics, this time he saw through Chen Ping's thoughts completely.

Now, as long as he reverse-engineers Shrek Academy's thousand-refinement metal forging method, all the oversights he made before can be corrected one by one.

What a 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo, what a stolen experimental subject number one, none of these matters!
His achievement in developing the method for refining thousand-fold metal could even overshadow his mistake of losing sixteen level-nine fixed-mount artillery shells, and it wouldn't be impossible for him to regain his recently stripped dukedom.

"Xiao Lin, quickly go and invite the other three level-nine soul masters from our Mingde Hall. Tell them that I have completely figured out how to make that thousand-refined metal, and I'm just one step away from the final step!"

(End of this chapter)