With a casual smile, Li Yao simply said, "Thank you, Fellow Cultivator Ye. However, let's not choose the Crystal Suit in a hurry. I'd like to take a look at our furnaces and maintenance platforms first. I wonder, can I use any of the furnaces here?"
"Of course," Ye Qingyun said. "Since you are here to adjust and modify the Crystal Suit, do you need a small furnace? The Deep Sea Fleet has all kinds of refining facilities. The configuration of the small furnaces is as good as that of the few large Crystal Suit centers in the Imperium. I wonder, which university and school are you from, Fellow Cultivator Li? You must know the facilities of the few large Crystal Suit centers in the Imperium like the back of your hand, right? "
After a brief daze, Li Yao said, "I don't know much about the facilities of the large Crystal Suit centers. It will be best if you can show me the instruction manuals. I don't have any heritage or school. I'm sort of a self-taught genius!"
"Instruction manuals? Self-taught genius?"
It was not that Ye Qingyun was mocking Li Yao, but his words were too hilarious. He slightly bowed to cover the mockery on his face and said, "… Very good. Then, we'll have to take a good look at Fellow Cultivator Li's expertise in refining. This way, please."
Li Jialing secretly pulled Li Yao's sleeve from behind.
He had seen how violent and brutal Li Yao was in a battle with his own eyes. He had thought that Li Yao was a professional battle-type Cultivator who knew nothing about the Crystal Suit and the Colossus at best.
Putting Jin Tianzong aside, he had vaguely heard the name of Ye Qingyun before. He was a rising star in the circle of refiners of the Imperium and was not to be underestimated.
The young man was not worried that Li Yao would be humiliated.
Instead, he was worried that Li Yao would go on a rampage and kill all the refiners after he was humiliated.
After all, his cheap brother had killed thousands of refiners in "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky". He was almost a "refiner killer"!
Li Yao, however, was too lazy to care about anything else. He walked toward the refining room in the depths of the maintenance workshop in high spirits.
The maintenance workshop was mainly responsible for the maintenance and modification of single battle magical equipment, mainly armed shuttles and Crystal Suit. Most of the components were imported from the outside before they were polished, welded, assembled, and modified in the workshop. Therefore, there was no need to perform a series of complicated smelting procedures starting from the raw minerals.
Therefore, the scale of the crafting furnaces here was mostly small, but they had an extremely powerful molding function. They were mainly used to process small components no bigger than a fist.
The outer laboratory was used by ordinary refiners. Hundreds of crafting furnaces were lined up in a row. It was quite a magnificent sight.
The inner laboratories, on the other hand, were used by the specialists such as Ye Qingyun and Jin Tianzong. There were only nine furnaces in total, but every one of them had a precise structure and powerful performance, and they were the products of the masters of the famous factories. The iridescent brilliance on their shells was enough to indicate their extraordinariness.
Naturally, it was highly difficult to manipulate the ultra-quality crafting furnaces to change the temperature from minus a hundred degrees to three thousand degrees freely and control the flames that could melt superalloys.
One moment of carelessness, and the violent spiritual energy inside the furnace might even burn the refiner's veins and nerves into ashes. It was certainly not a joke.
Therefore, when Ye Qingyun and the other elite refiners of the Deep Sea Fleet saw that Li Yao was really sitting in the middle of the nine furnaces and reading the instruction manuals and operation interfaces of the furnaces with jade chips in his hands, they were all dumbfounded. Looking at each other in bewilderment, they were unable to come back to themselves for a long time.
"Is this guy really … a refiner?"
The same confusion was echoing in everybody's heart.
The nine ultra-quality crafting furnaces were all products of the most famous magical equipment groups in the Imperium. They adopted the most classic operation interfaces, and the operation methods were the foundation and common sense that all the refining schools of the Imperium had to learn!
Even if the nine ultra-quality crafting furnaces boasted a lot of sophisticated and advanced functions compared to regular crafting furnaces, why did the guy take so long to study the simplest activation interface, as if he had never touched such a model of crafting furnace before?
Thinking back to when this guy had just entered the maintenance workshop, he looked around like a country bumpkin. Everyone had great doubts about his skill level.
Even Jin Tianzong and Li Linghai observed Li Yao's movements through the surveillance cameras in a corner of the workshop together.
"If I may ask, Your Grace …"
After a brief silence, Jin Tianzong asked, "This' Vulture Li Yao ', or Master Li, was he recruited by Your Grace?"
Li Linghai smiled. Unpredictable brilliance beamed out of his eyes that were almost transparent, but he did not give an answer.
Ten minutes later, Li Yao finally read the instruction manuals of the nine furnaces and had a high understanding of the deep structure of the nine furnaces.
He rose abruptly, with brilliance beaming out of his eyes.
"Fellow Cultivator Li —"
Ye Qingyun said patiently, "Have you chosen a furnace that is' convenient 'for you?"
The word 'conveniently' was pronounced with a heavy emphasis. The sarcasm in his words was obvious.
"Not yet. Wait a moment."
Li Yao walked towards the nearest crafting furnace. Stretching out his arms and legs, he hugged the crafting furnace and stuck his face and ears to it. His hands constantly groped the surface of the crafting furnace as he narrowed his eyes and said, "I need to communicate with the crafting furnaces again. I need to choose one that I can talk to the most."
"Most agreeable to you?"
Some of the refiners behind Ye Qingyun couldn't help but chuckle.
Ye Qingyun felt uncomfortable, too. Blushing, he shook his head nonstop, as if he were regretting that he was wasting his time.
Jin Tianzong, who was still standing next to the Colossus, suddenly changed his expression and became solemn. He played back the picture of Li Yao touching the furnace, zooming and slowing it down. It was not until it was thirty-two times the normal speed that he could vaguely see that Li Yao's fingers were shivering at an unbelievably high speed as if they had turned into two clusters of grey mist.
The high-speed shivering of his fingers even caused the surface of the furnace to change from solid to liquid, with ripples spreading out!
"This … This is —"
Jin Tianzong was greatly surprised. "What's the technique?"
While observing Li Yao's movement, Li Linghai peeped at Jin Tianzong's face. He asked with great interest, "You've never seen such a technique before, Master Jin?"
"It's a bit like the 'Snap Listening' technique in the arts of refining," Jin Tianzong said. "Sensing the structure, gaps, and stress changes inside the magical equipment with the vibration of the fingers is not the specialty of any particular school. Many schools have similar techniques. It's not strange at all."
Jin Tianzong said, "However, the general 'Snap Listening' technique is only suitable for the magical equipment that is relatively small and delicate. Because the magical equipment is too thick and solid, it is very difficult to penetrate the force and send the 'vibration' back.
"This' Vulture Li Yao ', on the other hand, is using such a trick on a piece of typical' clumsy 'magical equipment such as a furnace. Is he trying to penetrate the solid shell of the furnace with such subtle strength?
"Is he putting on an act, trying to mystify us, or —"
"He is really pretending to be mysterious!"
Inside the workshop, many refiners were losing their patience and mumbling to themselves. Frowning, Ye Qingyun asked gloomily, "Fellow Cultivator Li, have you made your choice?"
Li Yao turned a deaf ear to him. The nine furnaces represented the highest technology of refining in the Imperium of True Human Beings. Of course, he would study them carefully if he had the chance. Why would he care about the noisy flies next to him?
Slowly carrying the nine furnaces over one by one, Li Yao finally pointed at the seventh furnace with a smile and said, "Alright. I'll take this one!"
"Oh?"
Ye Qingyun noticed that Li Yao had chosen one of the furnaces that he had been using most often. He couldn't help but sneer. "Fellow Cultivator Li, you've finally chosen this one after careful consideration. Is there anything special about it?"
"In fact, the fact that the nine furnaces are placed in this advanced workshop means that their performance is good enough. If they were newly manufactured, any of them would've been enough. After all, I'm only using them temporarily, and I'm only producing some random components. There's no need to be too demanding, is there?"
Li Yao said unhurriedly, "However, it's obvious that the nine furnaces have been used for a long time. If there is any carelessness during the refining, all kinds of flaws will inevitably appear. It's like magical equipment that is not maintained well will be rusted."
Everybody exclaimed after hearing that. A refiner behind Ye Qingyun shouted angrily, "Are you suggesting that we have brought 'flaws' to the furnaces because of our carelessness during the refining?"
"Well, not necessarily carelessness. It's just that certain habitual movements will inevitably lead to wear and tear."
Li Yao opened his hands and said, "Furnaces are not treasures. They are bound to wear and tear when they are used!"
"Fellow Cultivator Li!"
Ye Qingyun raised his voice. "What are the flaws exactly? Please enlighten us so that we can listen to your 'opinion'!"
"Take this one, for example."
Li Yao was not polite at all. He did not even have any emotional fluctuations, because he was simply a teacher teaching a class of elementary school students. No matter how noisy the elementary school students were, there was no need to be angry. All he needed to do was point out their flaws. "The fellow Cultivator who often uses this furnace likes to add acid to the reaction when he etches the chips and polishes the components. But after the refining, he does not pay attention to the cleaning, or rather, he does not pay attention to the cleaning of the details such as the air conduction holes. As a result, the air conduction holes are full of tiny traces of corrosion.
"For this fellow Cultivator's expertise, the traces of corrosion are naturally within the tolerable range and can be counted as' normal wear and tear '. All you need to do is to change the air conduction tubes when the time comes.
"But for me, it's a little … uncomfortable.
"There's also this one. Wow. This furnace is awesome. The fellow Cultivator who often uses this furnace must've had a very tough heritage of the spiritual energy of the fire class. Perhaps it's a family skill or something else that makes him particularly adept at high-temperature refining.
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