Demonic Demoness Training Project

After saying that, Lu Li couldn't help but yawn. He had stayed up all night and all he wanted to do was sleep. However, after the fitter's assessment, the welder's assessment would follow immediately, and there were less than two hours left before the assessment began. He needed to make the most of his time to get some sleep.

Given his current state, he's worried that once the assessment starts, he'll doze off, stick the welding torch up his nostril, and be unable to concentrate, let alone control the welding torch with his mind.

Just as I was thinking this, Old Duan reminded me:

"Actually, you can sleep during the assessment. There's a whole day and night to go. You can sleep for six hours first, and then get up to take the exam."

"Makes sense."

After a short rest, the bell, symbolizing the start of the assessment, slowly rang. Lu Li looked up and found that there were very few people in the examination room.

After excluding the members who were seriously injured yesterday, a total of fourteen people from the Fan and Yan families arrived. The Zou family, on the other hand, did not send any members because all of their members were seriously injured. Including Lu Li, there were a total of fifteen participants.

Some of the test subjects who were originally downstream also stood outside the field after seeing the terrible scene yesterday, hesitant to come in.

There are a total of twenty spots available. Once they get in, they are almost guaranteed to pass. Such an opportunity is rare. Promotion is good, but it is not worth risking one's life for it.

But reason tells them that, given the current situation, there aren't enough applicants for promotion, and since there's no conflict of interest, the chances of a fight are slim. However, it also seems unlikely that they won't fight at all.

Finally, just before the assessment officially began, a few people rushed in and joined the examination room.

Half a day passed in the blink of an eye, and unsurprisingly, Lu Li passed the test. The process was so smooth that it was hard to believe, but Lu Li only got fifth place.

The topic of this assessment was the design of a reconnaissance array. Lu Li originally planned to use his professional expertise from his previous life to design a reconnaissance array based on the principle of phased array radar.

In reality, there were fewer than twenty people, so winning the championship wouldn't bring any benefits. Lu Li simply decided not to be the center of attention and just did a casual welding job.

After all, this was his most treasured possession, and he wanted to keep it hidden as much as possible. He planned to properly replicate the radar from his previous life once he had the resources to make up for his shortcomings in reconnaissance.

Everyone present could see that Lu Li had gone easy on them; his welding skills, as demonstrated in the fitter assessment, were far beyond that level.

Although one of the young ladies from the Fan family won the top prize, she couldn't be happy at all. This was because Lu Li clearly had the ability to win, but he slept for three whole hours after the exam started before he began working, which made her feel extremely insulted.

These young masters and ladies from the middle reaches of the river originally intended to fish downstream with explosives, but they ended up failing miserably. Because of this, they were destined to become the laughingstock of their entire clan when they returned.

Of course, the Yan and Fan families were alright, but the Zou family suffered the most.

……

In an inn, Zou Bufan was soaking in a medicinal bath, his face ashen. The maids serving him were all trembling with fear, afraid of incurring their master's wrath.

At this moment, someone pushed the door open and entered. Zou Bufan was about to lash out, but when he saw the red beard and hair on the person's face, he suppressed his anger.

"Uncle Hong..."

How is your injury healing?

"The external wounds are mostly healed, but my arm... sigh—"

At this point, Zou Bufan looked at the bald section of his left shoulder. He had long lost his initial high spirits and was now soaking in the medicinal bath like a stray dog.

"It's alright, we'll install a new one for you when we get back to the family."

"Uncle Hong, I just can't figure it out."

"What's there to be confused about? A cultivator's mind must be clear. You were born in the middle class. One day, when you become the head of a branch of the Zou family, you will find that the one named Lu Li is nothing but a mere ant."

“Uncle Hong, I often can’t help but think, how glorious would such a genius be if she were born in the middle class? If she had resources like mine, she might be able to compete with the main family’s top members, while I would be nothing in her eyes.”

As he spoke, Zou Bufan's expression darkened. After hearing about Lu Li's subsequent performance, he felt even more ashamed of himself, and his Dao heart was almost tarnished because of it... His former arrogance and his former self-esteem were completely shattered by Lu Li yesterday.

"There are no 'ifs.' The fact that you can obtain these resources is due to your ability. You've just seen too little of them. There are far more geniuses downstream than you imagine, but you rarely hear about them. Do you know why?"

"why?"

"The path to advancement is strictly controlled by the various sects downstream. Without sufficient background, it would be difficult for her to even enter the inner sect. Those self-proclaimed geniuses who think they are exceptionally talented will eventually fade into obscurity at the bottom."

"what about me?"

"You are the young master of the Zou family branch. You are destined to become the future head of the branch. One day when you stand at the top, you will find that those opponents who defeated you in the past and seemed unapproachable were nothing but a joke."

"What if she also comes to the middle of the pack?"

"impossible."

"What if?"

"What a joke! By the time she gets a chance to reach the middle level, your cultivation will have already far surpassed hers. At that point, would you still be afraid of her? Besides, she probably won't even live to see that day."

"why?"

“She’s just a mere puppeteer; if she dares to leave Fengxiang City, she’s doomed.”

After saying that, the old man got up, pushed open the door and went out, a sinister light flashing in his eyes. In order to eliminate his young master's inner demons, he had already made thorough preparations outside the city.

At that time, he will personally take action to eliminate the threat completely. As a cultivator in the Open Source Realm, crushing the opponent will be as easy as crushing an ant.

Chapter 56 A Uranium Pill Swallowed

In a guesthouse in Fengxiang City, in a lower-class room.

Lu Li looked at the green fox on the ground with slight surprise. The fox's waist was as thick as a water bucket, its limbs were extremely short, and its mouth was not as long and narrow as that of an ordinary fox. Instead, its head and the fox's mouth were almost as fat as a ball.

This fox spirit had very small eyes, and even in its final moments before death, it maintained a dazed and confused look. Its final image after death was that of someone who didn't seem very intelligent.

If Lu Li hadn't checked the spiritual material chart and confirmed repeatedly that it was a Azure Nether Fox, he would have thought that Mo Shuhan was cheating and had grabbed a pig in fox skin to fool him.

No wonder they use the skin glue of the Azure Fox Demon. Only a fox this fat can be used to make fox skin jelly.

The most peculiar thing is that this Azure Nether Fox has two tails, but the chart says that the Azure Nether Fox only has one tail, no matter what level it advances to.

"To believe everything in books is worse than having no books at all. Perhaps this Azure Fox has mutated."

"Really? Is it still usable?"

"It's not a big problem."

Lu Li immediately got to work, spending half an hour skinning the fox and another half day scraping the fur off the fox's skin.

The white fox meat was exposed to the air. Even after being skinned, it was still round and plump, looking more like a pig. Lu Li knew that this thing was not just bloated, but really fat.

Then, Lu Li took the processed fox pelts and went to the city center. Holding the Heavenly Grade Double Seals, he easily rented a Fire Cauldron, set up a pot on it, and cut the thick fox pelts into cubes, throwing them all into the pot.

Then, while watching the furnace fire, Lu Li also studied the newly acquired Puppet Master Jade Slip. Although he was now a Puppet Master, he could not slack off in his cultivation.

In this world, alchemy is also classified as a branch of alchemy. Many rare and precious materials are the result of processing and refining raw materials through alchemy.

For example, what he is doing right now, making fox fur jelly, contains the basic theories of Taoist alchemy in its process.

The simmering process is quite long and tedious. After half a day, a layer of golden oil floats to the surface of the pot.

Lu Li used a special steel spoon to filter out the grease, but at that moment, his chest suddenly trembled, as if the gas cauldron had reacted.

"Is there a mine?"

Lu Li channeled a wisp of his inner energy into the pot, and under the protection and support of the energy, a wisp of silvery-white liquid emerged from it.

There was only a tiny drop of this liquid, but since Lu Li could manipulate it with his internal energy, he could be certain that it was a kind of spiritual ore—more precisely, a liquid spiritual ore that had melted under the scorching heat of the earth fire.

"This is……"

Old Master Duan suddenly exclaimed in surprise. Lu Li had never seen the other party become so emotional.

"【Uranium from the Ruins】! It's actually the legendary Uranium from the Ruins."

"Uranium from the Ruins? What level of spiritual material is this?"

"Fourth turn".

"How many?"

Upon hearing this number, Lu Li's mind trembled, and he almost lost control of the wisp of Qi supporting the Guixu uranium, causing it to fall to the ground.

From childhood to adulthood, he had seen very few second-rank spiritual materials, never heard of third-rank or higher spiritual materials, and dared not even dream of fourth-rank spiritual materials.

"Four-stage spirit ore, Void Uranium. I wondered why this Azure Fox Demon had grown two tails for no reason. It turns out it had accidentally ingested Void Uranium and was affected by the [Immeasurable Calamity]."

Uranium returning to its original state?

Countless eons?

Old Duan blurted out two unfamiliar words in one breath.

"Do you remember the ancient venerable one I mentioned to you, the Boundless Venerable?"

"It's the one with the wrecked ship, I remember him."

"That's right, it's him. He and Fushengjun jointly deduced a six-turn artifact, named [Fusheng Wuliang Guixu Seal]."

"A six-turn mechanical device!"

"Once this weapon is unleashed, it will surely destroy the heavens and the earth, turning tens of thousands of miles around into scorched earth in an instant. Moreover, it will continue to affect the surrounding areas, forming an immeasurable calamity. Humans or demons affected by the immeasurable calamity will only have two outcomes."

Which two?

"First, the skin all over the body is ulcerated, the blood and bones are dissolved, and the organs are rotten. Second, its form is mutated. For example, this Azure Nether Fox grew two tails under the influence of the immeasurable calamity."

Upon hearing this, Lu Li felt an itch on his bottom, as if a little tail was about to grow out. He subconsciously touched it and found that no little tail had grown out, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Legend has it that two Boundless Blessing Return to the Void Seals once fell in the lower reaches of the Spirit Blood River. One fell near the Flowing Treasure River, with the suffix 'Yu Zhe', and the other fell in the Baiyi River basin, with the suffix 'Chi Zi'. The main spiritual material of the Boundless Blessing Return to the Void Seals is the Return to the Void Uranium."

"I don't know how to craft a sixth-rank mechanical artifact, so what use is this thing to me?"

Old Duan chuckled and said:

"This is extremely useful. Once you swallow it, the power it contains will allow you to temporarily transform your entire body into a puppet, gaining power comparable to that of the Spirit Pivot Realm."

However, Duan Lao was actually hiding something in her words. From beginning to end, she never told Lu Li about the existence of the Reversed Heavenly Dipper Instrument.

The reason why the Uranium Pill can work is ultimately due to the Reversal Heavenly Dipper Instrument. If it is activated by ordinary spirit stones or spiritual power, it will be impossible to unleash the true power of the Reversal Heavenly Dipper Instrument.

If it were activated by the Uranium Pill, the Reversal Heavenly Dipper Instrument could fully exert its effect, turning the result into the cause, and using the body of the future to temporarily transform it into a three-turn puppet—the Green Fairy Puppet.

At the same time, countless thoughts flashed through Lu Li's mind.

Not to mention that he would lose Xiaojiujiu after he was completely puppetized, he had only ever heard of the saying "If I swallow a golden pill, my fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of heaven", and this was the first time he had ever heard of "If I swallow a uranium pill, my fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of heaven".

Gathering his thoughts, Lu Li continued his work. He carried over the corpse of the Azure Nether Fox, finely chopped it into minced meat, and threw it into the pot. Using alchemy techniques combined with his internal energy, he refined it for half a month, barely obtaining two uranium pills the size of soybeans.

Lu Li had only intended to refine the Azure Netherworld Skin, but he never expected to have such an unexpected gain.

"Remember this, remember this: these two uranium pills must never be placed together."

Why?

"Because it will explode. Of course, if you are killed by this uranium pill, you will have no regrets in this life. After all, most people don't have the chance to experience this kind of death."

“What a wonderful blessing,” Lu Li frowned, then changed the subject, feeling that things weren’t so simple. “No, you said there are countless calamities, so this Guixu Uranium might be going to kill me.”

"This thing, I only have six words for you to remember—if you're afraid, don't eat it; if you eat it, don't be afraid."

"Well……"

Lu Li pondered. If one day someone really wanted to kill him, and that person's cultivation level was higher than his and their weapon was better, he would not hesitate to consume the uranium pill, even if it meant enduring countless tribulations.

At that time, in order to survive, he would have no choice but to temporarily sacrifice his little brother.

Of course, that's only in cases of extreme necessity.

Lu Li sealed the two uranium pills in a stone box. The stone box was heavy, and what it contained was clearly his trump card, but just holding it in his hand made Lu Li feel uneasy.

Chapter 57 Roast Chicken?

Lu Li put away the uranium pill and continued refining the Azure Nether Painted Skin. Refining this item did not require high proficiency in the art of puppetry, but the process was quite complicated.

From obtaining the loan for the Azure Skin painting to gathering all the main materials, Lu Li only spent less than ten days in total, so she had plenty of time.

After boiling the spirit glue, several kinds of spirit materials were added. It was only one step away from being completed, but having learned from the previous lesson, Lu Li did not rush to complete the process this time.

According to the rules that Elder Duan told him, as long as he had successfully crafted the corresponding puppet, the next round of the timer would begin. Therefore, Lu Li decided to delay as much as possible and take advantage of the remaining time for this loan to prepare the spiritual materials needed for the next round of the loan.

……

Time passed day by day. Lu Li took on some side jobs during the day to earn some spirit stones, studied the Yan Dao Jade Slip at night, and had some strange dreams at night. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the fifth day before the loan repayment deadline.

This was the final deadline Lu Li set for himself. To prevent any unforeseen circumstances, he wouldn't actually drag it out until the last day.

The final step in the process of creating the "Painted Skin of the Azure Netherworld" is called gelling, which requires a gelling machine.

This device can absorb the gelatin, slightly heat it to melt it, and then, under the pressure of the mechanism, spray out gelatinous filaments. These filaments will solidify on the surface of the mold and eventually become various shapes.

This type of puppet is quite rare because of its special purpose. Lu Li found it in a stamping workshop of the Mo family.

"What you need to do is use yourself as a mold, let the Azure Spirit Glue adhere evenly to your body surface, and refine a layer of Azure Painted Skin that fits your body perfectly."