The supply point was an open space in the forest. A circle of attack array glyphs had been set up around it. Once a demon beast entered, it would be mercilessly killed by the array glyphs. Over time, demon beasts would no longer come to seek their own deaths.
A small amount of water and food were piled up in the supply point. Apart from that, there were several dozen military green weapon boxes.
Li Yao swept his gaze around. First, he opened a weapon box and took out a set of jungle camouflage combat clothes to wear.
As for combat boots, he didn't consider them because the environment in the forest was too complex. Wearing boots would be inconvenient for attacking. Going barefoot was still more flexible.
Then he opened the second box. Inside were several dozen alloy sabers glittering with cold light.
But Li Yao seemed to be facing a pile of garbage. He kicked them away, disdainful of them.
He opened the third and fourth boxes in succession. They were filled to the brim with artifact components.
Li Yao took a look. He discovered that apart from one box containing emergency medicine, the other boxes were filled with artifact components.
He simply opened all the boxes and poured out the components, piling them up into a small mountain.
"What is he doing?"
In the monitoring center, the cultivators were whispering to each other.
The artifact components in the supply point were used to allow the contestants to assemble their own artifacts. It tested the contestants' familiarity with the artifact's structure and their hands-on ability.
However, the average person would at most open one or two weapon boxes, take out the components, and assemble one or two artifacts.
"This little guy has mixed all the artifact components together. Can he distinguish them? Although they are all low-level artifacts, there are still several thousand types of components when all of them are added together. Wanting to find the right component from among them is difficult, difficult, too difficult! "
A senior officer shook his head disapprovingly.
In the army, "Artifact Assembly" competitions were very popular. They required soldiers to complete the assembly of artifacts in the shortest amount of time.
Some experts could even complete the assembly of low-level artifacts while blindfolded.
But in this competition, the components used were all from the same type of artifact. No one would mix the components of several dozen different artifacts together. How could they be distinguished?
Although Li Yao's ranking was getting lower and lower, the cultivators' interest in him was getting stronger and stronger.
Li Yao didn't know that there were so many cultivators watching his performance from the Distant Expanse above his head.
He was still unhurried and played at his own pace.
First of all, he found a crystal cell from the pile of components. Then, he selected several components of magical equipment and wrapped them around the crystal cell, making a very ugly and strange small device.
After he was done, he took out another twenty or so crystal cells and did the same thing. Finally, he connected them together.
"What is this?"
In the monitoring center, the cultivators were at a loss. All of their gazes were cast towards the refining expert, Xie Tingxian.
Xie Tingxian seemed to be deep in thought as he said, "Crystal cells are the cores of low-level magical equipment. They are responsible for providing the magical equipment with a source of spiritual energy. However, what this challenger created using a crystal cell is not a standard magical equipment. It can only be said to be a device with a slight magical equipment function."
"Professor Xie, what's the use of this device?" An officer couldn't help but ask.
Xie Tingxian muttered to himself for a moment. "It's a type of explosive device. It can destroy the stabilizing array glyphs within the crystal cell, causing the powerful spiritual energy contained within the crystal cell to explode in an instant, producing a powerful explosive force."
"Don't tell me he wants to create hundreds of bombs and explode them all the way?"
"That can't be right. He connected twenty crystal cells together. With such a large volume, it's impossible to carry them around, let alone throw them out to blow up the Demon Beasts. It would be good if he didn't blow himself up!"
The officer furrowed his brows and sunk into deep thought.
Unexpectedly, after creating the two crystal cell bombs, one large and one small, Li Yao suddenly changed his style.
His hand speed suddenly increased in an instant. His two hands transformed into two afterimages as he quickly selected several hundred components from the pile of components.
Amidst a burst of crackling sounds, a long sword with a sawtooth blade quickly took shape.
"Such fast hand speed!"
The monitoring hall was in an uproar.
Assembling magical equipment was a basic skill for cultivators. Every cultivator knew a little bit about it.
However, at their level, they didn't need to use their hands. They could directly use spiritual energy to control the components.
For an ordinary youth who had yet to awaken his spiritual roots, to have such a fast hand speed like a demon, he had definitely gone through a long period of extremely arduous training!
"His basic skills are very solid!"
Xie Tingxian nodded his head again and again. He faintly felt that he had picked up a treasure this time.
Other cultivators only felt that Li Yao's hand speed was as fast as a demon's. Only he could see that while Li Yao maintained his super high hand speed, he also maintained the stability of his hands. He ensured that every component was assembled accurately and stably. Even his breathing didn't show the slightest bit of disorder.
Only …
Xie Tingxian blinked his eyes. He discovered that Li Yao's order of assembly seemed to be different from the standard assembly process of the military greatsword.
At first, he thought that Li Yao had made a mistake while being busy. Only after a moment did he discover that Li Yao had changed the structure. He had added a few small "things" in the most inconspicuous places.
"Interesting. This is really interesting."
Xie Tingxian didn't think that a high school student like Li Yao would actually be able to change the structure of a classic magical equipment.
Although he didn't know what effect this small change would have, it already made him nod his head again and again. He was even more determined to pay attention to Li Yao.
In less than five minutes, Li Yao had completed the assembly of the first magical equipment.
This was a military standard chainsword known as the "Tiger Shark"!
It was a two-handed greatsword with a wide blade that was over 1.5 meters long. Its exterior was surrounded by a ring of sawtooth refined from super alloy steel. Under the drive of the crystal cell, the sawtooth could rotate at super high speeds. Its destructive power was astonishing. It could cut down a large tree that was as thick as a person's arm. No matter how tough the shell and bones of a low-level Demon Beast were, it would be of no use.
"4 minutes 39 seconds. This speed has already surpassed quite a few military veterans." The military officer from before cried out involuntarily.
Strictly speaking, this sort of magical equipment assembly was only the assembly of pre-refined magical equipment components. It couldn't be considered a true "refinement".
However, by the standards of an 18-year-old youth, Li Yao's performance could absolutely be called "godly"!
Next …
Li Yao didn't carry the Tiger Shark Chainsword and go on a killing spree like most cultivators thought he would. Instead, he put the chainsword to one side and picked out a large pile of components. He began the assembly of the second magical equipment.
This time, the components he chose were completely different from the previous ones. The style was more rough, brutal, and berserk. It looked like a saber.
Soon, a saber that was slightly shorter in length, but wider and thicker was born in Li Yao's hands.
"Thunder Saber?" The military officer cried out involuntarily.
They were both the most basic low-level magical equipment, but the design of the Thunder Saber and the chainsword were completely different. The Thunder Saber relied on the vibration array glyphs engraved on both sides of the back of the saber to generate extremely high frequency vibration waves. It drove the blade to vibrate over ten thousand times per second, thereby increasing the power of the attack.
Often, one slash of the saber could completely shatter the internal organs of a Demon Beast. Even among low-level magical equipment, it could be considered extremely fierce!
Two completely different and even diametrically opposite magical equipment. However, in Li Yao's hands, it was as if he had been in contact with magical equipment since birth.
"This kid is truly a monster!" The military officer muttered.
This was not the end. After finishing the assembly of the second magical equipment, Li Yao once again buried his head in the pile of components. He picked out a third batch of components that were completely different from the previous two batches.
Once again, in just five minutes, a gigantic battle axe that was extremely heavy and could cause one's scalp to go numb took shape in his hand!
Li Yao tightly gripped the driving array glyphs on the axe handle and lightly waved them.
The several array glyphs engraved on the surface of the battle axe suddenly lit up. The axe blade turned orange, as if it was a red-hot soldering iron!
This was a thermal battle axe known as "Burning Heaven". Its combat principle was different from the previous two magical equipment.
The powerful spiritual energy gushing out of the crystal cell was not converted into mechanical energy. Instead, under the stimulation of the array glyphs, it directly turned into a high-temperature heat flow!
With one slash of the axe, the internal organs of a Demon Beast would be burned to charcoal!
In a short twenty minutes, he had completed the assembly of three pieces of low-level magical equipment with completely different styles and design concepts!
Li Yao's face was devoid of sorrow or joy. It was as if he had just completed a trivial matter not worth mentioning. He took a sip of water and poured some into his hands. He carefully rubbed them and cooled them down.
Only then did everyone discover that because his hands had been moving at high speed for a long time, they were already burning and scarlet red!
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