Chapter 90 Spiritual Sublimation (3 updates)
After confirming that the clone quota of [Three Souls Transformed] can be changed at will, the first thing Jiang Chen did was to use up the three clone quotas.
Three Black Mongolian slaves voluntarily sacrificed their lives for Jiang Chen in exchange for the freedom of their relatives and tribesmen.
The soul is divided into four parts at once. Even under the influence of the [Three Souls to Souls] specialty, the soul can be quickly restored. This process also makes Jiang Chen extremely painful.
With the nourishment of a large number of treasures, it took more than a month for the souls of the main body and the four clones to gradually grow and become complete.
The remaining funds are enough to build five [Space Furnaces].
Without the involvement of the main body, it would take more than a month for the three clones to complete the construction and blessing of all parts.
Of course, the entire building process will take longer. Even if Jiang Chen can mobilize more construction machinery to participate, it will still take nearly two months to install all five [Space Furnaces] in place.
But as long as you wait patiently for a period of time, plus the original [Space Furnace], the six [Space Furnaces] will operate at the same time, and you can earn about 3.5 Hunyuan Units every month, and the income can be It is said to be very impressive.
If you continue to invest the profits earned to build more space furnaces, the subsequent benefits will be even more amazing.
As for whether he could sell so many high-grade energy blocks, Jiang Chen wasn't worried.
Although the technology of Swallowing Starry Sky World is advanced, it is far from getting rid of its dependence on energy.
Even items containing a large amount of energy such as Cosmic Crystals have become the most mainstream currency in the world of Devouring Starry Sky.
No matter how many energy blocks Jiang Chen puts out, the human race will definitely be able to eat them.
However, after the first batch of space furnaces are installed, there is no need to leave all the clones to create space furnaces.
At least at this stage, one clone is more than enough.
Ontology naturally spends most of its time in the system library, absorbing knowledge and improving its level.
As for the remaining clones, after Jiang Chen thought for a while, he decided to send one of them into the universe to take risks and experience in various dangerous places.
When you have free time, you can also enter the 'Killing Space' of the virtual universe to hone your combat skills and make up for your shortcomings in this area to the maximum extent possible.
Before obtaining the clone, Jiang Chen had no interest in spending a lot of time fighting.
Compared to being an "invincible" combat genius, Jiang Chen prefers to use his strength advantage to crush his enemies.
But with the clone, Jiang Chen could do more things at the same time, so he naturally began to consider making up for the shortcomings in this area.
There are still a few years left before the battle of geniuses in the universe.
Jiang Chen has already crossed the threshold of laws in the three elements of wind, water, and darkness. Before the genius battle comes, Jiang Chen is sure of the six elemental laws involved in the third-level library of the system. , all crossed the threshold of the law.
This level of law is certainly not comparable to the top geniuses in the universe, such as Bo Lan, Luo Feng, Rong Jun and others, but as long as you don’t stretch your hips too much in actual combat, It is not difficult at all to break into the top one thousand in the universe.
Maybe there is still a chance to attack the secret realm of heaven and earth, or even get a quota in the secret realm of Taichu.
As for the original secret realm...
Unless the Genius War allows Jiang Chen to drive a mecha or even bring a mechanical legion to participate in the battle, Jiang Chen has no expectations for it.
However, as his core strength, Jiang Chen will not give up his research on science and technology.
Especially after experiencing the power of the [Three Souls Transformation] expertise, Jiang Chen became even more ambitious and eager to acquire other powerful expertise.
Unfortunately, feat points are difficult to obtain.
In addition to getting fixed expertise points each time the system level increases, you can only study new drawings based on the knowledge you have already mastered, and improve them to the level recognized by the system. After being included in the system, Only in this way can you obtain certain expertise points based on the level of the drawing.
It is not an easy task to be ‘recognized by the system’.
When he originally built the 'Goliath Titan' mecha, Jiang Chen not only combined natural technology and alchemical technology, but also repeatedly adjusted and modified it. After countless updates, he finally finalized the design of this mecha. Be recognized and included by the system.
Since then, Jiang Chen has not produced a second 'drawing' approved by the system.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Jiang Chen has no external pressure and is not focused on designing something.
For Jiang Chen now, due to the continuous improvement in the efficiency of mastering new knowledge, whether it is machinery, alchemy, or magic construction, even if he designs a very complete plan, he will soon With the update of 'knowledge', the old design will soon be eliminated, so there is no need to spend too much energy on it.
Even if there is any demand, we just find a similar design in the system drawings and make certain modifications.
This level of ‘innovation’ is obviously impossible to meet the requirements of the system.
But now, after having the clone, Jiang Chen can completely let the clone do this.
One clone focuses on honing combat skills, while the two clones focus on designing various technological creations and improving them to the level recognized by the system.
As for manufacturing a [Space Furnace], it will take time to save up the cost of a [Space Furnace] anyway. When the time comes, just transfer one from the clones who researched the blueprint.
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Time passes day by day.
When Jiang Chen got the system, the most difficult thing was to be promoted from scratch to a 'official warrior'.
It took nearly three years for Jiang Chen to reach the God of War level.
However, with the improvement of attributes and the blessing of the two major specialties of [High Concentration] and [Scholar’s Thinking], the subsequent upgrade speed became faster.
It only took a little more than two years to go from planetary level to stellar level.
However, after entering the stellar level, Jiang Chen's upgrade progress slowed down again.
It’s not because the expertise is weak or the efficiency of mastering new knowledge is low.
But every upgrade requires more ‘experience’.
It took a full year and a half from entering the second level to the second level and the third level.
And the further you go, the longer the 'experience bar' required for each upgrade will be, and the speed of upgrade will continue to decrease.
Jiang Chen even doubted whether he could step into the third-level realm and enter the cosmic level before the genius war ended.
Of course, if you want to speed up the upgrade process, there are ways.
The exchange is similar to [High Concentration] and [Scholar's Thinking]. Expertise that speeds up the efficiency of mastering new knowledge allows Jiang Chen to spend less time mastering the knowledge in the system library and improving his level.
However, any type of expertise has common characteristics.
The exchange price is cheap, but the effect is much lower.
The effect is powerful and the exchange price is high.
If you want to redeem powerful expertise that can significantly speed up the upgrade process, you need a lot of expertise points.
And when expertise points are relatively limited, whether to upgrade speed or improve other abilities is something that needs to be carefully considered.
For example, Jiang Chen is very greedy for the [Mechanical Genius] feat worth 666 expertise points. This expertise, combined with the "legion style" of the mechanical system, will greatly increase the ability and quality of explosive troops.
However, despite repeated hesitation, Jiang Chen still postponed the acquisition of this expertise.
On the one hand, Jiang Chen spent all his funds to create the [Space Furnace] and had no extra money to build a powerful mechanical army.
On the other hand, Jiang Chen has no need in this regard in a short period of time.
Cheaper, space-level slaves are completely sufficient at this stage.
With the technology Jiang Chen currently possesses, he cannot create a mechanical unit whose combat power exceeds the ninth level of the universe.
If it was an enemy that even the ninth-level slaves of the universe couldn't defeat, Jiang Chen couldn't do anything to him either.
To build a mechanical legion, it must at least be a legion that can reach the 'region lord' level of combat power in order to be helpful to Jiang Chen now.
Since a legion is not built, the value of [Mechanical Genius] is not that high.
Instead, it is better to redeem some learning expertise or other 'functional' expertise to increase your growth speed.
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Half a year after getting the clone.
With the division of labor and cooperation between the two clones, Jiang Chen developed the second blueprint [Giant Soldier] approved by the system.
This is a 'work' that combines the three fields of technology, alchemy, and arcana.
Alchemy technology is used to transform living things, erase their self-consciousness, and then implant mechanical equipment to enhance their combat effectiveness.
Finally, through magical construction, the strength of the alchemical creatures is greatly improved.
This kind of unit between biology and machinery has a troll-like appearance, but it can be controlled by Jarvis and become a mechanical legion under Jarvis.
Although the appearance is a little ugly, it has a combat power as high as the fifth level of the universe, and is completely immune to illusions and soul attacks.
Of course, the cost is not low. The average cost is about one billion universe coins, which is much more expensive than buying a fifth-level universe slave directly.
——Buying a slave of the fifth level of the universe directly costs 300 to 400 million universe coins, which is less than half the price.
And the slaves still have the possibility to continue to improve, but the [Giant Soldier] has no room to continue to upgrade, unless it replaces its weapons, carries out deeper genetic modification, etc.
However, Jiang Chen originally designed the [Giant God Weapon] not to manufacture large quantities of this 'weapon', but just to obtain system rewards.
After continuous improvement, the drawings of [Giant God Soldier] were included in the system and evaluated as 'Level 3 and Level 5'. Jiang Chen received a reward of 999 expertise points.
This number made Jiang Chen couldn't help but guess that the third-level upgrade would probably be rewarded with 999 expertise points per level.
Jiang Chen did not keep these specialty points, but exchanged them for a specialty called [Soul Sublimation].
[Spiritual Sublimation]: Intelligence, spirit, and mysterious attributes increase by 30%, mental resistance increases by 40%, and mental resistance level +1.
Redeem requires 850 expertise points.
The 30% increase in intelligence, spirit, and mysterious attributes, combined with [High Focus] and [Scholar’s Thinking], can greatly improve Jiang Chen’s efficiency in learning and mastering new knowledge.
However, what is more important about this specialty is 'mental resistance' and 'mental resistance level'.
The latter two are hidden attributes on the system panel, and even their meanings are not completely clear to Jiang Chen.
But literally speaking, it is also related to the defense ability of the soul and consciousness, which can greatly improve one's own life-saving ability.
The life-saving ability brought by the clone is very strong, but it is not omnipotent.
If the clone ability in the universe is killed by the enemy through soul killing, both the main body and the clone will die together.
Jiang Chen didn't know if his [Three Souls Transformed Soul] had such a weakness, but there was definitely no harm in improving the soul's life-saving ability.
This world is full of dangers, and you can never have too many powerful life-saving abilities.
[Giant Soldier] was successfully included in the system, which also allowed Jiang Chen to find a 'shortcut'.
With a single system design, it is extremely difficult to be included in the system.
Because there are top scientific and technological achievements from countless worlds in the system, no matter which system it is, it is difficult to surpass the drawings already included in the system.
But combining different systems is much less difficult.
In particular, the more systems involved, the fewer corresponding drawings in the system, and the more likely it is to complete 'innovation'.
In fact, in Jiang Chen's opinion, [Giant Soldier] is not perfect in terms of pure design details, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
But the combination of alchemical creatures, mechanical breeding equipment, and magic construction has blazed a new 'path'.
This kind of ‘innovation’ is the main reason why [Giant Soldier] was included in the system and received high evaluation.
After confirming this, Jiang Chen immediately knew the way forward.
Practicality and cost-effectiveness do not need to be considered too much for the time being.
The most important thing is to continuously combine natural technology, alchemical technology, and arcane technology with each other to develop more "innovative" drawings and obtain a large number of expertise points.
Of course, this is also expensive.
Many designs cannot be completed by relying on paper calculations. After all, they still have to be built, tested and perfected again and again.
The process of continuous improvement of [Giant Soldier] has cost nearly 10 billion universe coins.
However, compared to the harvest of expertise points, this amount of money can be said to be nothing.
A small portion of the revenue from [Space Furnace] is enough to support Jiang Chen's research costs.
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On Earth, Jiang Chen’s body and two clones spend almost all their time in libraries and laboratories.
Outside the earth, a clone of Jiang Chen constantly travels to various dangerous places to experience and hone his combat skills.
It is not the ‘legion flow’ that Jiang Chen imagined, with the mechanical legion as the core and the body under the protection of numerous legions.
Instead, he followed the most traditional path of a spiritual master controller, fighting with only one telepathic weapon, the 'Dun Tian Shuo'.
Half a year later, Jiang Chen was once again included in the system through a new drawing, and after redeeming it for a new expertise, Jiang Chen suddenly had a new idea.
(End of this chapter)