Talent level increased by one, a transcendent Star Wizard

"There's been progress so quickly?"

Xia Jian looked surprised.

After all, not everyone has a cheat code, and Westin's progress seems a bit too fast.

"Really, this is a test subject."

As he spoke, Westin was about to pull off the cloth covering his hands, but Natsumi stopped him.

Xia Jian looked at the wizards and apprentices opposite him and said to Westin, "Let's go inside and talk."

People are afraid of becoming famous, just as pigs are afraid of getting fat. What I fear most is that some people will cause trouble after they find out about this, such as coming here to poach talent or presumptuously trying to give advice.

When Westin arrived at the laboratory, he was immediately drawn to the innermost culture chamber.

The fleshy ball continued to float slowly in the nutrient solution, its tiny mouths on its tentacles opening and closing as if it were feeding on the nutrient solution.

"Teacher, maybe we should just forget about it."

Westin unconsciously tightened his grip on the iron cage.

He hadn't expected that he had only just made some progress, while Xia Jian had already created a stable organism without any rejection reaction.

In comparison, he relied on some power that did not belong to him, and the superiority of the latter is obvious.

Hearing this, Xia Jian smiled and then explained.

"This thing is pretty useless; it's missing a crucial step. Maybe we can get some inspiration by verifying it with each other."

Unlike Westin, he was created by accumulating a large amount of resources.

Moreover, he didn't expect the meatball to be so resilient; in fact, he had already prepared to give up half a month ago.

Since its creation, the fleshy ball has not changed at all, nor has it continued to exhibit the extraordinary adaptability that a slime should have; it has been in a half-dead state every day.

Furthermore, the fleshy ball lacks the soul and spiritual fluctuations that a living being should possess; in essence, it is just a moving piece of flesh.

"But……"

Westin hesitated for a moment.

Compared to Xia Jian's experimental products, mine is indeed a bit lacking.

"There's no 'but' about it. Do you really want to live like this forever? Don't you want to go down in history?"

Seeing this, Xia Jian began to patiently guide him.

For someone who has wasted half their life, being able to leave a mark on wizarding history would be enough to make them die without regrets.

Upon hearing this, a different look appeared in Westin's eyes.

"All right."

Westin placed the cage on the lab table and then removed the cloth covering it.

If Xia Jian's experimental subjects still retained the basic appearance of slimes, then Westin's experimental subjects were nothing more than a writhing mass of rotten flesh.

Furthermore, as soon as the cloth was lifted, the rotten flesh immediately showed a strong desire to attack, lunging towards where Xia Jian was.

Xia Jian's gaze swept over the glass cage, and he immediately frowned.

Despite its paralyzed, fleshy body being on the verge of collapse, it still managed to exhibit biological activity, which clearly violated the fundamental laws of life.

Furthermore, Xia Jian sensed a strange spiritual force and energy fluctuation, as if some invisible force was interfering with this mass of flesh and blood.

In just a short while, Xia Jian's eyesight allowed him to see that the mass of flesh was growing larger.

What about the law of conservation of energy?

Where does the energy come from to make this mass of flesh and blood grow?

"Strange, didn't you notice anything wrong with this thing when you made it?"

Xia Jian looked at the writhing flesh in the cage and asked with a frown.

"The teacher was referring to flesh and blood on the verge of collapse, wasn't she...?"

Westin hesitated, looking as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Just as Xia Jian had suspected, he had indeed used a power that did not belong to him.

Actually, it was because of Xia Jian's previous efforts to improve the students' welfare. He originally thought Xia Jian was just talking, but unexpectedly, the students' welfare was significantly increased just a few days later.

So, in order to demonstrate his research results as soon as possible, he tampered with the test subjects.

"It's okay to fail. After all, failure is the mother of success. No one succeeds from the start. Everyone achieves their final result through continuous experimentation, so don't put any pressure on yourself."

Xia Jian smiled and offered words of comfort.

"Actually, this test subject was a failure. The reason it didn't die was because runic power was added to it."

As he spoke, Westin lifted the glass cage, revealing a small rune array in one spot.

Seeing this, Xia Jian sighed inwardly.

I thought Westin had made some amazing achievement, but it turns out it was just a defective product maintained by a rune array.

As a wizard, it is normal to use the power of runes, after all, this is the power of wizards, but a successful experiment must demonstrate independence.

In other words, even without the power of runes, creatures can still perform normal activities.

Just like the succulents that Xia Jian raises himself, although they are not very useful, they do not need to use rune power to maintain this illusion.

Although Westin's minced flesh was still alive, it would inevitably collapse without the help of the rune array, and might not even last a minute.

Genes are so fragile, let alone organisms that barely survive.

…………

Looking at the wriggling meat in the glass cage, Xia Jian suddenly frowned.

Something's not right. Although we already know the survival rules of flesh and blood, the minced meat is emitting an alien aura.

"Where did you get this rune array from?"

Xia Jian picked up the glass cage again, looked at the rune array below, and asked.

As his mental energy covered the rune array, an inexplicable force began to interfere with Xia Jian's mental energy, making it impossible for him to read the 'rune' characters on it normally.

What was initially thought to be a standard wood-based life-sustaining formation now seems to be somewhat different from what Xia Jian had imagined.

Moreover, for some reason, Xia Jian always felt that this formation seemed very strange.

"this……"

Westin hesitated, but seeing Xia Jian's expression, he finally seemed to have made up his mind and took out a black book from his spatial bag.

The black book was wrinkled and covered in gray hairs, as if it were made from the leather of some kind of creature.

The moment Xia Jian took the book out, he had a strange, bad feeling.

Xia Jian beckoned with his finger, and the black book flew to him.

But when Xia Jian tried to open it with telekinesis, the black book was welded shut like an iron box.

Seeing this, Xia Jian raised an eyebrow and then looked at Westin.

"I found this book in a swamp a little over a month ago when I was catching herbivorous frogs. It can only be opened by hand, and mental energy cannot affect it."

Westin thought for a moment and then explained.

Upon hearing this, Xia Jian returned the black book to Westin and then gestured for him to open it.

Westin had no doubts about this, after all, this wasn't the first time he had opened the book, so he opened it without any hesitation.

The moment the black book was opened, Natsumi's bad premonition grew stronger.

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