"You are being too polite, Director Wei."
Li Yao knew that Wei Wenyao was speaking the truth. How could real scholars and Cultivators have so much time for meals, socializing, and scheming? They were all people who could not wait to squeeze every second of their time into eight petals.
Li Yao was exactly the same. If he was asked to abandon his training in order to welcome an uncanny guest when he was at a critical moment in his training, he would not be willing to do so, either.
Li Yao said, "Director Wei, I don't like formalities, either. Just consider me as the most common visiting scholar. Miss Xie Anan can stay here and give me some guidance. Miss Hou and Researcher Long seem to have come up with new ideas just now and can't wait to go back and study them. There's no need to waste everyone's time."
"Oh?"
Wei Wenyao was dazed for a moment. Seeing that Hou Zitao, Long Yunxin, and the rest of them were indeed excited, he was rather surprised and felt that the meeting was not what he had expected.
Hou Zitao, Long Yunxin, and the rest of them looked at each other. They bid farewell to Li Yao respectfully at first before they ran off after saying goodbye to Wei Wenyao. Wei Wenyao was even more surprised when he saw them.
Wei Wenyao thought for a moment and asked, "I wonder, have you chosen a topic to study, Master Sand?"
Generally speaking, when a visiting scholar came to Flying Star University, they would first get in touch with a certain expert of Flying Star University and discover that there was a high possibility of cooperation in a certain field. Then, the expert would send out an application, and the scholar would be invited to Flying Star University after the school approved it.
Naturally. Before they came, the direction of their research had already been decided.
But Li Yao was an exception. Wei Wenyao did not have high expectations for his expertise in refining, either. It was just a casual question.
"I'm interested in the research on small- and medium-sized magical equipment in your university," Li Yao said. "I know that there are quite a few experts in your university who are all authorities in the field. The refining workshop that they manage is one of the most famous workshops in the Flying Star Sector, too. I wonder, can I take a look around first? "
Li Yao activated the light beam and listed the refining rooms that he wanted to visit.
Wei Wenyao glanced at them and coughed dryly. "Some are fine. Some of the crafting rooms are undergoing important crafting projects today, so it's not suitable for them to be opened. If there's a chance in a few days, it won't be too late to take a look. "
This was not the truth.
Although most of the young and middle-aged refiners in the Refining Department welcomed the arrival of Li Yao, there were still many real authorities who disdained him.
These authorities were on par with Wei Wenyao in the circle of refiners, if not higher than him. They were very famous, and there was no shortage of people who sponsored their research.
Many of them were Elders of certain sects or even former Sect Masters, or Patriarchs of certain refining families. He didn't lack money at all.
Those people cherished their reputation very much. They were unwilling to open their refining workshops to a barbarian from a desolate planet.
Of course, Wei Wenyao wouldn't say these words to Li Yao directly.
Therefore, he selected a few that he had contacted earlier from the list of refining rooms that Li Yao had listed. After deciding the time of the visit, he inputted the detailed information and the route map into Li Yao and Xie Anan's mini crystal processors.
Li Yao was led by Xie Anan. They began their tour in the No. 1 Refining Center.
Flying Star University deserved to be one of the two best universities of the Flying Star Sector. The No. 1 Refining Center alone was larger than the entire Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution in Li Yao's memory. The dazzling magical equipment in the open test sites was comparable to the booths of the Refining Department of Deep Sea University that Li Yao had seen before, too.
Entering the professional refining workshops, Li Yao found that the most precise magical equipment was an eye-opener for him. He couldn't help but exclaim in delight.
Many of the magical equipment had been developed by Flying Star University. They all had their own marvelous techniques. Li Yao was fascinated by them.
His appearance also caused many of the artifact forging room owners to be slightly surprised, somewhat out of their expectations.
However, when Li Yao pretended that he was eager to jump on the magical equipment, the refiners chuckled in secret. A bumpkin would always be a bumpkin who didn't know enough!
After more than half a day, Li Yao visited nine refining rooms in high spirits, but he was still not satisfied.
Xie Anan, on the other hand, couldn't hold it any longer. Blushing, she apologized to Li Yao and hurried to the bathroom.
With his hands behind his back, Li Yao wandered in the corridor with great interest. A lot of structural designs of classic magical equipment were hanging on the walls on the two sides of the corridor. They were all items that deserved to be studied again and again.
After studying three structural designs, he glanced at the top of a closed door nearby. On the door of the room, there were three bold words: 'Ares Laboratory'!
Li Yao thought of something.
The owner of the refining room was Xue Yuanxin, one of the best specialists in Crystal Suit in the Flying Star Sector. In his early years, he had worked as the chief Armadominus in Red Line School, one of the three Crystal Suit centers. He had designed quite a few classic Crystal Suits. Many Crystal Suits were still being equipped by Cultivators to this day.
After leaving Red Line School, Xue Yuanxin joined Flying Star University. But he stopped refining Crystal Suit and turned to another field, which was the Ares Extension!
"The damage of the common Crystal Suit cannot meet my expectations anymore. Only the Ares Extension can possibly blow up a starship in my dream!"
It was what Xue Yuanxin said when he answered the reporter's question.
The research field that Li Yao was best at was Crystal Suit. Also, he had his own experience in refining Ares Extension on Iron Plateau. However, he had never learned how to refine an Ares Extension systematically. The Apocalyptic Extension that he had refined last time was only a simple pile of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. That was why it had been blown up by Yan Xibei.
If all the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were combined into a real Ares Extension, Li Yao estimated that it would be possible for him to suppress Yan Xibei directly by then.
Therefore, Master Xue Yuanxin was at the top of the list of specialists that he wanted to learn from.
It was a pity that Master Xue was in the middle of important research today. The Ares Laboratory was not open to the public.
Li Yao sighed regretfully. He was about to leave when he suddenly sensed feeble quakes.
He sniffed. He smelled a vague odor.
Most of the advanced refining laboratories boasted excellent soundproofing and airtight properties. Even the feeble quakes in the corridor could be felt. Therefore, a major earthquake must have taken place in the Ares Laboratory. Together with the vague odor, there was a hint of agitated spiritual energy of the fire class in the air.
Li Yao estimated that a small-scale explosion must have taken place in the refining laboratory.
As he expected. A moment later, the red light on the ceiling of the Ares Laboratory was blinking. The door slid open with a creaking sound, and white smoke mixed with red threads billowed out of it.
Many refiners, covered in dust, ran out while coughing. Some of them even took out fire-extinguishing magical equipment and sprayed out foam and steam. The fire was soon suppressed, but the steam was rising, and the smoke was spreading out even more.
The art of refining was perilous. Explosions were nothing out of the ordinary. Although the refiners were in a panic, they were not in a mess. They were working on the fire extinguishing work according to the procedure.
Li Yao did not intend to intervene in the first place. Every refining laboratory had its own rules and emergency plans for the handling of explosions. Who should run? Who should hide? Who should be responsible for extinguishing the fire? Everyone had their own duties.
If an outsider barged in recklessly, he would not be of any help. On the contrary, he would disrupt the rhythm of the refiners.
However, while he was watching on the side coldly … Suddenly, he sensed a weird wave from the refining laboratory. A dangerous aura pierced through his soul like an invisible, poisonous needle!
"Not good!"
Li Yao's pupils suddenly constricted. With two "Pa Pa" sounds, the leather boots on his feet directly exploded into powder. His strength was so great that he even left two shallow footprints on the ground. His body turned into a streak of black light as he rushed into the refining workshop!
The refining laboratory was more than a thousand square meters in size. The center of the laboratory was hollow, and the height difference was more than twenty meters. It occupied several floors of the refining center.
A ball-shaped furnace was floating in the hollow space at the center of the refining laboratory with anti-gravity rune arrays. It was revolving slowly under the influence of the magnetic field.
It was a very advanced Gold Ball XII floating furnace. Of all the furnaces in the Flying Star Sector, its performance was one of the best. It was particularly suitable for refining single magical equipment such as sabers, swords, Crystal Suits, and strengthening components.
However, at this moment, a crack more than two meters long appeared on the left side of the 'Gold Ball'. Colorful steam was spurting out nonstop. Li Yao felt sorry for it.
In the middle of the smoke, several refiners in insulating suits were spurting bubbles at the Gold Ball crazily while holding cylindrical fire-extinguishing magical equipment. The blue bubbles contained abundant spiritual energy of the water class. They would be neutralized automatically when they encountered a high temperature. Also, they were very stable and would not conflict with most Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
One of them glared at Li Yao and said, "It's dangerous here. Let's go!"
"Of course it's dangerous!"
Li Yao had no time to explain. Spiritual gas burst out of his body and formed a high-pressure air cluster within one meter to prevent the heat of the outside world from entering. Then, he compressed the spiritual gas into a thin layer of liquids around him, as if he were wearing a silver, glittering armor.
While everybody was exclaiming, Li Yao turned into a streak of brightness and crawled into the 'Gold Ball'!
"Ah!"
Everybody exclaimed.
Right now, the temperature inside the furnace was more than a thousand degrees. Even steel could be melted. The guy was asking to be killed by rushing into the furnace without even wearing a Crystal Suit!
However, with their skills, how could they stop him?
Before they realized what was going on, Li Yao had crawled out of the Gold Ball. He was holding two clusters of almost melted materials, one red and the other blue, in his hands, one in each hand, while he shouted at everybody, "Spray the cooling liquids now!"
Li Yao's voice boasted unstoppable strength like a sharp axe. Everybody shuddered and sprayed the cooling liquids on the two clusters of materials obediently.
It was not until the two clusters of materials were enshrouded in the blue mist that he sensed that the agitated spiritual energy inside was gradually stabilized that Li Yao took a long breath in relief. His clothes were soaked in sweat, and his legs were shaking. He could barely stand straight.
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