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Chapter 169 Reconciling Accounts [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

So we have all four symbols, five elements, and eight trigrams?

"Why didn't you say so sooner?" Fang Ge immediately retorted.

—You're not getting revenge for not telling you about Sergeant's abilities right away, are you?
The Four Symbols and the Five Elements were definitely not completed at the same time. Most likely, the Five Elements were deduced first, and then the Four Symbols were deduced based on the Five Elements.

And this progress is too exaggerated... Is Chu Xuan's genius just too outrageous, or are the people of the Primordial Heavenly Court all incompetent?
Fang Ge suspected that Chu Xuan had become too arrogant and needed to be taught a lesson.

"The peach belongs to water, the World Tree and the Yellow Plum belong to wood, and the Bodhi Tree belongs to metal. We already have three of the five elements, and we are abundant in items of the fire element. As for the earth element..."

At this point, Chu Xuan pointed to the ground.

Fang Ge immediately retorted, "Stop trying to fool me! Do you really think I don't know where runes come from?"

"The wisdom of mortals." Chu Xuan turned his head away.

"Zhan Lan, check if anything has been stolen from the spirit plant area recently."

Fang Ge's voice reached Zhan Lan's ears, who was far away, and soon the mental link responded:

"No, the spiritual plants in the plantation have stopped being harvested since the advancement order was issued. Only Chu Xuan said that the reserves of peaches and plums were enough, and since the scions could advance, the mother trees were cut down."

"By the time he mentioned this, he had already led his men to finish the attack. I couldn't really say anything to him... Didn't I already report this to you?"

—Ms. Zhan, please don't give me a work report while I'm "cultivating"... I can easily skip it!
"You cut down the mother tree to set up the formation? What else did you cut down?"

Fang Ge's eyes twitched violently. "I should know everything about the inner world... You didn't tamper with the Bagua runes, did you?"

Only the mother tree is grown from the seed of a spirit root fruit. If you want to continue to advance to the next level, only the mother tree can do it!

Of course... it's really just the loss of two B-level side quests, so being able to obtain the [Five Elements] is a very cost-effective thing.

What really annoyed Fang Ge was that Chu Xuan had become uncontrollable.

“I also cut off a branch of the giant Bodhi tree.”

Chu Xuan took a half step back, seemingly intimidated by Fang Ge's intimidation.

"Don't worry, I did the calculations when I cut it down. It didn't damage the root. Both the mother tree and the Bodhi tree can recover... it's just a matter of energy."

"As for why you didn't discover it... it's just a kind of [concealment array pattern]. It's quite practical, and we can use it in the future."

As soon as Fang Ge had a thought, his inner world started operating like a water pump, and the energy found the stump of the mother tree that had been cut down.

New shoots sprouted from it, confirming what Chu Xuan had said.

However, due to the energy shortage, his anger had dissipated by more than half.

"That's all?" Fang Ge raised an eyebrow. "Then how did you come up with the Four Symbols?"

Chu Xuan answered fluently: "Your inner world seed is a perfect inner world seed. The arrangement of stars in the sky is also a fundamental principle of heaven and earth. Find the four cardinal directions from them and set up a small array. Combined with the reverse deduction of the eight trigrams and five elements, analyzing the runes is not a problem."

Fang Ge knew this approach was feasible. However, the process was far from as simple as Chu Xuan described.

and……

"Chu Xuan, the accounts don't match."

Fang Ge smiled slightly: "If this is the research system... then the time and energy expenditure for the Four Symbols and Five Elements is very large. Only the reward point expenditure is not much." "...I will also make mistakes. Experiments are always accompanied by cost losses."

Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and said, "Moreover, in the process of advancing the Nine Palaces, I encountered an extremely serious failure and wasted a lot of resources."

"However, according to you, the most important thing is to proceed forward through the Nine Palaces and reverse the Yin-Yang chaos."

—How come I never noticed how slick you were before? And you're doing Nine Palaces... I really don't believe you would do Nine Palaces before doing Four Symbols and Five Elements!
However, Fang Ge had no evidence.

Knowing that this attempt to hold someone accountable would be fruitless, Fang Ge had no choice but to turn her attention to Chu Xuan's other achievements.

"Show us all the other achievements. As for your unauthorized actions... we'll see if your merits can offset your demerits."

"The first thing is definitely through the Four Symbols and Five Elements. I can continue to inscribe runes and formations in my inner world, thereby enhancing its foundation."

Chu Xuan began to present the facts and reason:
"Secondly, since I have fully analyzed the runes on the [Spear of Judgment]... we can now mass-produce this type of weapon, as long as we have enough materials."

"Thirdly, I have also conducted a comprehensive analysis of Saiteng energy. I have researched methods to directly convert electrical energy... and even thermal energy into attribute-free energy."

"The fourth thing... is that I acquired a large number of low- to mid-level runes from the formations. Through these runes, I optimized a series of rune sets, which will further enhance our armor."

"Combining this with the achievements in Saiteng's abilities, I have constructed an [energy absorption] model. It can absorb the energy from enemy attacks and then convert it into attribute-free energy for the human body to absorb."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of silvery-white metal with intricate and profound patterns on it, and gestured for Fang Ge to launch an attack.

"boom!"

With a thought, Fang Ge's inner energy transformed into a sharp blade, instantly destroying it.

"Absorption rate for subtle stimuli is 20%, and for non-subtle stimuli it's 80%... not bad. Is there any possibility of optimization?"

Theoretically speaking, even the slightest gap between the armor and the body can be penetrated with microscopic force, resulting in 100% armor penetration. After all, by concentrating power into a single point through microscopic force, it can unleash tremendous pressure through any gap.

The runes connected the metal into a seamless whole... and at the same time, it also had a 20% absorption rate, which was quite impressive.

"There is potential for further optimization... but more funding is needed."

Chu Xuan promised, "Therefore, as long as I capture a live fourth-tier ancient dragon... I am confident that I can create self-repairing, A-grade or even AA-grade rune armor and rune weapons. They will be much more powerful than Demon Possession and the Spear of Judgment."

"Furthermore, if there is a lack of [lethal] means, I can also slightly modify the model of the God Fist Shattering into an attack method that can be activated by energy."

Mass-produced Grade A and Grade AA items!
Sigh, cultivation!

This is not Chu Xuan's limit. As the strongest Foundation Establishment stage cultivator in the Samsara World, as long as he can set up the Ten Great Formations and obtain high-level and top-level runes... Chu Xuan can even create S-grade items by hand.

This is what is known as the "Lingbao".

"Did you do it?" Fang Ge asked hopefully.

"We didn't do it." Chu Xuan shook his head. "Because it's not cost-effective. Putting such a high-end thing on an existing B-grade weapon would be a huge waste."

"So, we have a promising future, but we haven't improved yet?" Fang Ge revealed a dangerous smile.

“Not entirely,” Chu Xuan denied. “Because I changed Zheng Zha’s recipe.”

(End of this chapter)