The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1491: Chapter 1491: A Bold Hypothesis

Ji You ignored Fourth, that slacker strand, and called out for Old Five to get ready.

Old Five immediately raised his head and puffed out his chest: [Master, rest assured, Old Five will definitely work hard.]

Ji You narrowed her eyes. "Mm, let’s both do our best and try to nail it in one go."

Then—

Ji You moved all the junk off the workbench, clearing out a larger area, then laid the cut black Companion Stone Slabs flat on the table.

Instead of carving directly, Ji You picked up a pen and tapped a few times on the Stone Slab, sketching out a rough outline before actually starting work.

Gripping the carving knife, Ji You held her breath and focused, and made the first cut.

Zi-zi-zi~

The stone and carving knife collided with a faint sound, and Ji You concentrated on carving.

Because this Array Diagram was extremely simple, Ji You had thought at first that it would be a breeze. She held the carving knife while Old Five guided her spiritual power as it flowed.

Bit by bit, the Array Diagram gradually took shape.

Ji You didn’t even have time to breathe in relief!

Old Five shouted: [No good! Run! Run! Run!]

Ji You: "..."

Bang!

With a loud boom, the Stone Slab on the workbench let out an extremely ungraceful sound and then exploded right into Ji You’s face.

Ji You: "..."

The entire Stone Slab turned to ash, spraying a mouthful of dust all over Ji You. She scrubbed her face hard before she could open her eyes.

"Peh peh peh!!"

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Ji You spat out dust while coughing.

Old Five covered his face: [Master, I told you already, why didn’t you run?]

"You could’ve run first and then come back to tell me." Ji You’s face was dark. "You could at least give me a second to run, yeah?"

Hearing that, Old Five instantly felt a little guilty: [Got it! Next time I’ll definitely warn Master first, then run.]

Ji You instructed the house cleaning system to quickly tidy the tabletop, then went back to work.

And then—

She failed again.

The third time, the fourth, the fifth...

Watching the pile of cut Stone Slabs dwindle until only the final one remained, Ji You’s face turned dark.

Making low-level soul artifacts had never been this hard. So why was just carving an Array Diagram this difficult?

Where exactly was the problem?

Was the carrier not up to par? Was it because the Companion Stone and paper were both too fragile?

Or was it that her spiritual power wasn’t enough, so the Array Diagram couldn’t properly form?

Ji You thought for a while, then decided to try once more.

Right now, Ji You’s face was covered in dust, her hair blown up into a frizzy mess by the explosions, and her clothes were filthy. But she didn’t care—no time, absolutely no time to fuss over that. She just raised a hand, scrubbed her face once, pulled out the last Stone Slab, and summoned Old Five.

Ji You stared at the Stone Slab and said in a low voice, "Old Five, don’t hold back on power."

Old Five: [Yes.]

Ji You started cutting.

The next second—bang!

Old Five screamed: [Aaah! Too fast, Old Five didn’t even get to run!]

Ji You: "..."

"Peh!"

Ji You spat out the dust in her mouth. This time, the Stone Slab blew even faster! Even though she’d sensed ahead of time that things were about to go south, she still hadn’t managed to escape.

Ji You’s face was black.

In the Spiritual World, Boss, Second... and Sixth were all watching. Fourth leapt down from Sixth’s head: [Master, the spiritual power’s energy is way too high! Dial it back a bit!]

Ji You had already guessed something and frowned. "So actually, the amount of spiritual power I’m using is too much?"

Old Five: [Seems like it, so next time I’ll hold back a bit?]

All the cut Stone Slabs had been used up. Ji You thought for a moment, then took out Professor Ye Hong’s notes and carefully studied them.

The notes did indeed contain relevant records. Professor Ye Hong wrote that the completion degree of a processed Material depended on using just the right amount of spirit. One fraction more or one fraction less would critically affect the final completion of the Material.

And, theoretically speaking, any substance in the Universe could be processed using the basic principles of materials science—even Soul Devices. In short, Professor Ye Hong believed that Soul Artifact Manufacturing was actually just a type of material processing!

It was just that very few people’s spiritual power could meet the requirements of Soul Artifact Manufacturing.

Ji You found this viewpoint genuinely pretty bizarre. Even stranger, Professor Ye Hong speculated that as long as spiritual power met the standard, and one understood the characteristics of the Material well enough, then by guiding with just the right amount of spiritual power, one would definitely be able to manufacture Soul Devices.

So Professor Ye Hong believed that the forming of a Soul Device actually didn’t care about the Material itself—it cared about the spiritual power suitable for its formation.

Thinking back to the low-level soul artifacts she’d made using cheap Materials like grass seed and Companion Stone, Ji You fell into thought.

So when Teacher Cheng Yu said Soul Artifact Manufacturing absolutely required Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and the like, that was actually problematic.

Soul Devices—what really matters is spiritual power.

As for the Array Diagram that must be used in Soul Artifact Manufacturing, Professor Ye Hong also had a hypothesis: he believed the Array Diagram was actually the concretization of spiritual power! Only by controlling spiritual power to an extremely precise degree could it be embedded into the carrier.

...

Using the knowledge and system of materials processing to think about and analyze Soul Artifact Manufacturing—that really was an extremely bold idea.

How hard is it to become a soul artifact maker? One in a hundred million odds!

How easy is it to become a Material Processing Master? As long as you have spiritual power, you can do it—no matter what Level, you can learn. After all, materials science has the lowest threshold, and Material Processing Masters are the most basic blue-collar workers in society.

Yet the two were actually interconnected. If the barrier between them were broken, then—

If Professor Ye Hong were to make this idea public—

Ji You felt a little excited, and then suddenly noticed that at the bottom of this page in the notebook there was a small-font annotation.

Note: [This hypothesis comes from Ye Lin]

Ye Lin?

Ji You was a bit puzzled. This name vaguely gave her a very uncomfortable feeling.

Had she heard of him before?

No.

After thinking for a while, Ji You was sure she’d never heard this name.

Someone capable of proposing such a hypothesis had to be a genius among geniuses. He shouldn’t be nameless.

Yet among all the famous soul artifact makers in human society, not a single one was named Ye Lin, and none of them had the surname Ye either.

...

Unable to figure out the reason—and unable to figure out why she herself felt this weird sense of discomfort—Ji You temporarily set the question aside and continued reading the notes.

In the notes, Professor Ye Hong explained that based on Ye Lin’s hypothesis, he had worked hard for fifty years and still hadn’t managed to manufacture even one Soul Device.

So this proved that Professor Ye Hong’s spiritual power still hadn’t reached the requirement for Soul Artifact Manufacturing.

Then what were the hard requirements for Soul Artifact Manufacturing?

Ye Hong believed there must be several factors, but one of the most important ones definitely included the Spiritual Silk Cleaning Rate.

Only with a high Cleaning Rate and many controllable Spiritual Silk strands could one control the amount of spiritual power used with ease.

Ji You’s eyes lit up!

She agreed with this very much, because the reason her own Soul Device manufacturing success rate was so high was that all Six Strands were obedient and cooperated in the work.

And what was her Spiritual Silk Cleaning Rate?

An unprecedented 100%! The sort of thing that, if you said it out loud, would shock the entire Universe.

...Closing the notebook, Ji You took out another Companion Stone the size of a washbasin. She’d originally planned to switch to a more solid Material, but after reading the notes, she decided to keep using this stone.

—It was definitely not because this discarded stone didn’t cost any money.

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