The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

Chapter 28: Ji·Excellent Again·Xiang

Jixiang watched Old Man Ji leave. Facing the basket of metal in front of him, Jixiang could only begin to comfort himself.

No, it should be self-hypnosis. Everything is for one's own spiritual sea. There is a knife hanging over one's head. One should learn to save his life. The sooner one learns, the sooner one will be reborn... Jixiang kept muttering to himself in his heart.

The more I think about good luck, the more unlucky I feel. But I still have to do what I should do and complete the tasks that need to be completed.

Jixiang picked up a piece of material and immersed his mental power into the metal.

Thus, a more complicated context than yesterday appeared in Jixiang's mental vision.

Jixiang's mental power quickly swept through this tiny yet huge internal world, quickly found a perfect context, and then reorganized it based on this context.

Practice makes perfect. Jixiang has been able to memorize unfamiliar vein maps quickly and accurately. The method is to let the mental thread travel along the perfect veins for several circles. This was discovered by Jixiang accidentally, but it is very effective.

The obvious manifestation of the improved efficiency is that the metal material in the basket is rapidly decreasing.

Jixiang looked at the dark green metal in his hand that was glowing with a dark glow. The metal with its metal veins combed was denser and softer. This was the characteristic of this metal.

Jixiang suddenly thought of her spiritual sea. She had been messing around with it before, but after coming into contact with a lot of metals, Jixiang naturally began to consider how to best connect the two points of her spiritual sea.

She had seen a vein pattern that added strength, so she used weaving techniques to weave an extra layer for reinforcement.

But looking at this unusually soft metal, Jixiang began to consider other possibilities.

Soft yet dense, stretchable yet difficult to cut, it combines elasticity and firmness very cleverly.

Jixiang thought about the intricate patterns inside it, took out a blank notebook, opened it and began to draw it carefully.

Not only this metal, but all the types of metals that Jixiang has sorted out so far have different veins. Jixiang recalled and drew out all the veins, and wrote down the metal names, properties, characteristics, etc.

Jixiang felt that there must be some pattern in this, and she needed to look for it carefully.

I had thought it was auspicious that my spiritual sea, with that set of solid veins as a foundation, could proceed with the subsequent smelting process, but looking at the tasks I had assigned to myself, I felt a bit of a headache.

In order to determine the spiritual sea meridian connection plan more quickly, Jixiang decided to start working hard and consciously and proactively speed up the learning progress and practice volume.

Looking at Jixiang's deep love for learning and spiritual power and metal smelting, Old Man Ji was both happy and speechless. It was really too hypocritical.

Jixiang: ...I don’t feel like I’m being hypocritical.

“Then let’s use these two days of rest to sort out the low-level metal veins.” Old Man Ji thought seriously and said.

Low-level metals are ordinary metals without grades and metals of grade D and below that require mental power to smelt.

Vein combing is the entry-level operation of spiritual metal smelting. It is very simple. Unless one has poor talent and comprehension, the master will lead you to the door, and the practice is up to you.

All Old Man Ji had to do was demonstrate each level of metal once so that Jixiang could understand the mental strength requirements of each level of metal, and the rest was just practice.

To improve proficiency, the old man bought 10 baskets of metal guitars, and has already removed 2 of them.

Once all the auspiciousness has been combed out and the basic techniques and skills have been fully mastered, it is completely possible for you to explore the intermediate and advanced metal vein combing auspiciousness by yourself. This is what is called "knowing one thing will lead to knowing everything".

Sure enough, Jixiang, who completed the task ahead of schedule on the last day, tried to comb a piece of C-grade metal by himself.

Only at the beginning the power and intensity of the mental force thread were not enough. Jixiang tried several more times to find the optimal point. The rest of the combing process went very smoothly.

After checking, Old Man Ji was speechless for a long time. Jixiang did have some talent in material processing.

When Old Man Ji was taken to the Big Planet School by his teacher Professor Gu, among the students he met at the top university, there might be some who learned faster than Jixiang, but none of them combed their knowledge more perfectly than Jixiang; there were some who combed their knowledge as perfectly as Jixiang, but their speed could not match hers.

Those people are professional mecha technicians, and material processing is their basic compulsory course. What Old Man Ji mastered was actually learned from the mecha material processing course.

Different from the smelting method of spiritual power materials used in non-mecha materials, the smelting requirements of mecha materials are higher, mainly focusing on the smelting depth and completion of the materials.

Although Old Man Ji is only a researcher and replicator of ancient civilizations, he also had a deep love for mechas when he was young, so he chose the spiritual material smelting method for mecha material processing.

This method is more difficult to master than the smelting method of spiritual materials for non-mecha materials, because this method is more direct and has a deeper effect.

The smelting method of spiritual materials for non-mecha material applications is relatively circuitous and superficial. For the same requirements, non-mecha material applications need to be repeatedly combed many times, while mecha material applications are almost always combed only once.

After all, the application of mecha materials itself places higher requirements on operators and metals, especially advanced materials, which is not the case with ordinary materials and non-mecha application materials.

Old man Ji thought a lot, but it only took a moment. "There are still 6 baskets of metal materials, which are intermediate metals from grade C to grade B. I can only get some relatively ordinary grade A materials. You should sort them all out first." After sorting them out, he can learn other things.

Jixiang nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Then I will finish it as soon as possible in the next two days." There is still a lot to learn about the logical arrangement.

Old Man Ji nodded, very satisfied with Jixiang's attitude. Although he didn't know why Jixiang was suddenly so eager and hardworking, it was a good thing after all. "Spiritual power metal smelting can be used on more than just metal materials, but I mainly use metal materials."

Jixiang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but confirm, "So other materials are also possible?"

Old Man Ji: "Of course, it just requires some adjustments when processing."

Jixiang was very happy, "Then I have to try it." Is the spiritual sea barrier also considered a kind of material? It must be!

Jixiang's somewhat uneasy heart calmed down a lot.