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The Devouring Pouch in Shimizu's hand wasn't made by Meng Xuan, but by his grandmaster, Academician Ou Yuan, the current leader of the Mo Sect.
Meng Xuan's scientific research talent is decent; even without Shimizu, he could be said to have the potential to become an academician. However, his talent in cultivation isn't that great.
He has talent, but it's not high.
At least, Shimizu has been practicing Qi for only a few months and has already surpassed Meng Xuan in terms of life cultivation.
Even with the experience of his main body and other incarnations practicing ninjutsu for many years, Shimizu's few months are equivalent to several years of normal cultivation for ordinary individuals with abilities. However, Meng Xuan has been a disciple of the Mo Sect for more than twenty years since graduating with his doctorate.
The Mo Sect's Qi cultivation technique isn't bad at all; on the contrary, it's moderate and peaceful. Its upper limit can reach the peak of the world of individuals with abilities, and its lower limit is definitely not bad either.
At least, becoming an ordinary expert in the world of individuals with abilities isn't a problem.
As long as he practices diligently, reaching the second stage of 'Understanding Spirits' from the first stage of 'Sensing Life' is only a matter of time. However, Meng Xuan, believing that his talent in Qi cultivation was lacking, spent more time on learning and scientific research.
Therefore, he only practices a little when he has time, somewhat like 'three days of fishing and two days of drying nets.' He hasn't even reached the 'Understanding Spirits' realm yet, making him one of the bottom-ranked disciples of the Mo Sect in his generation.
Shimizu, on the other hand, reached the 'Understanding Spirits' realm just a week ago.
Reaching this realm is considered a small accomplishment in the Mo Sect's Qi cultivation technique and is the level of most of the Mo family's core disciples. It significantly strengthens the body and reflexes, and also improves the means of manipulating and transforming objects. He wouldn't be considered disgraceful even in the world of individuals with abilities.
'Sensing Life' senses Qi, 'Understanding Spirits' communicates with the divine. The first realm lays the foundation, strengthens Qi perception, and refines essence, similar to most of the mainstream cultivation methods in the world of individuals with abilities. The main thing about the second realm, 'Understanding Spirits,' is being able to integrate one's own spirit and will into Qi, enhancing the manipulation of Qi, which is necessary to have the ability to refine magical artifacts.
For Shimizu, reaching this realm allows him to freely convert Qi and Chakra, basically resolving the unknown consciousness rooted in Chakra.
The only thing limiting Shimizu's current strength is life cultivation.
In terms of mind cultivation, as a puppeteer, his mental strength is already not low. He has also learned magic and researched the Mind Stone, so he probably won't encounter any bottlenecks before reaching the 'Will of Heaven' realm.
The dormitory arranged by Kyoto University for faculty and staff is not bad, but the space is still too small for Shimizu, so he rented a suite outside the campus.
"Not bad, these are all materials with good energy conductivity, and their strength and toughness are very high, enough to make a set of qualified battle armor."
Looking at the materials thrown out of the Devouring Pouch, Shimizu quickly started brainstorming and designing on the interface.
Soon, the general shape of the new puppet was perfected, with minor modifications being made.
Having studied puppetry for many years, he has almost mastered all the essentials of puppet manufacturing in the Sand Village, and has also learned a lot of extremely useful engineering knowledge from various sources, integrating the two to make improvements.
In terms of puppet manufacturing alone, even if the puppeteer's ancestor, Monzaemon, were resurrected, he might not be able to compare to him.
The former needs the corpses of strong individuals to create human puppets, while Shimizu's reliance on materials is much smaller.
The next day.
A brand-new silver-white puppet stood on the ground.
Height: meters
Weight: kg
Material: High-strength lightweight alloy, composite fiber, graphene-enhanced elastomer…
Energy: None
Operation Method: Chakra Threads
【Puppet Rating】: A+
【Comprehensive Evaluation】: Armored combat puppet, a product of the high integration of modern engineering and puppetry. It is modified and upgraded from the Black Gold type puppet, combining speed and strength, equipped with ion thrusters and focused energy ray cannons.
Note: Can be equipped with an Arc Reactor and Cryo Device, conventional heavy firepower, currently not equipped.
An A+ level puppet is almost the limit that Shimizu can create with conventional materials.
Platinum is barely squeezing into the A+ level; at least, Shimizu believes that Platinum's combat power is a bit worse than his other A+ level puppets.
At least compared to White Knight and Lightning, without the Arc Reactor to enhance endurance and attack, and without the Cryo equipment to enhance crowd control, the actual combat power is weaker.
But it should be enough.
If he wants to reach the S level without relying on extraordinary metals like Promethium and Vibranium, or heaven-defying mechanisms like the Speed Force, Shimizu estimates that in addition to the reactor and cryo device, he may also need to have the liquid-like, freely combinable shaping technology of Tony's Bleeding Edge Armor to barely touch the S- level.
But that was before.
If he can upgrade the entire puppet, inside and out, into a magical artifact, then…
Shimizu patted the two-meter-tall giant beside him.
Magical artifacts, like strength, do not have strict level divisions, only internal self-ratings of various sects based on techniques, so there are good and bad ones.
But even a low-level magical artifact, even if using top-notch magical artifact techniques like the Mo Sect's Divine Mechanism, would take at least half a year to complete one.
And a big guy like the Platinum Puppet…
Just the size and weight alone are equivalent to hundreds of magical artifacts.
Unless he learns the Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements, even if he crafts it into a low-level magical artifact, it would take a puppeteer's entire life.
And the Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements is perhaps the technique in this world with the highest compatibility with Shimizu, and it is also the Eight Wonders technique that he has the best chance of obtaining so far.
As for how to obtain it…
Shimizu opened his phone and looked at a photo taken with the camera.
The photo is a map.
Yesterday, he used the computing power of the Kyoto Technical School's computing center, combined with his network technology that is at least one or two decades ahead of this era, and copied the Yaoxing Society's database.
The computer performance of this era is not that high yet. NVIDIA graphics cards have only released up to GTX980, and CPUs are only at the fifth generation.
The hardware performance is too poor, Shimizu can only rely on the computing resources of the school's computing center.
The Yaoxing Society is similar to Jianghu Xiaozhan on the surface, belonging to the 'know-it-all' type of Jianghu spies, but its president, Qu Tong, is not a simple character. She hides a lot of things, not only mastering the Dual Mastery herself, but also controlling Ma Xianhong, who has mastered the Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements, single-handedly planning the construction of the Self-Cultivation Furnace, and even contacting Zhou Sheng, who still survives to this day and has cultivated the Feng Hou Qi Men to great success, like a terrestrial immortal, and using each other.
This woman has great ambitions and hides many things.
Perhaps because the temporary worker Er Zhuang in the Northeast region has the ability to travel through the network world, the Yaoxing Society's traces on the network are also very clean.
But as long as you are willing to investigate, there will always be clues.
Even if you can't find out Qu Tong's real purpose, the difficulty of investigating Biyou Village is much simpler.
After all, it was an organization that absorbed a large number of ordinary people and some who had fled the mainstream Outworlder circles. Even if it was very secretive, it couldn't completely sever ties with the real world.
For one thing, just the food needed for the daily lives of so many people wasn't easy to provide.
"Guizhou, Liupanshui, Wumeng Mountain, it's quite remote."
Qing Shui used the Baidu Maps app to find the corresponding location, turned around, picked up the Devouring Pouch, put away the platinum battle armor beside him, and went downstairs.
A brand new Volvo XC60 was parked in the public parking space of the complex downstairs.
The capacity of this car is quite large, making it very suitable for self-driving travel.
Those luxury cars are handsome, but no matter how handsome they are, they can't surpass the Iron Man armor. Qing Shui doesn't value this aspect that much.
In both the Marvel and DC worlds, he relied on technology to become one of the top thirty richest people in the world. Luxury cars are really just a means of transportation.
Moreover, he currently only has a little over a million yuan from selling patents, so it's not suitable to buy too expensive of a car.
Now the classes at the school are over, and it's almost exam week. He has also asked a doctoral student junior under Meng Xuan to help grade the papers, in exchange for a major sub-journal article.
So he can start his vacation early, with a vacation length of nearly two months. At this time, he can slowly enjoy himself.
He departed on January 8th after attending the faculty meeting, passing through Taiyuan, Shanxi, and Xi'an, Shaanxi, then heading south to Chongqing, traveling and playing along the way, arriving in Guizhou around the 20th.
(Partial screenshot of that year's school calendar from the official website of Wudaokou School)
January 21st, morning.
A section of the highway from AK City to Liupanshui.
A short-haired girl wearing red sportswear was sitting on the side of the road, panting and wiping the sweat from her forehead.
"How, how did these debt collectors chase me from Gansu to Guizhou? Fortunately, people from the circle didn't chase me, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to escape."
At the same time, a black car drove from a distance.
"Hey! Driver! Can you give me a ride?"
Fu Rong stopped wiping her sweat, her eyes lit up, and she stood up, jumping and waving her hand, shouting.
The car slowly stopped and the window opened.
Qing Shui looked the short-haired girl in front of him up and down, sensing the abundant Qi flowing within her body.
No mistake, one poem, one hair, one inside, one appearance, all in one look!
"Someone from the circle?"
Fu Rong was shocked, thinking that the debt collectors had hired other Outworlders and chased her all the way here.
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
Phew... thankfully.
"Um... sir, are you going to Liupanshui? Can you give me a ride? Just to the intersection!"
Fu Rong said a little embarrassed.
"Going to Biyou Village?"
"Eh? How did you know? Ah, I see, were you also introduced by an acquaintance? I was introduced here by a friend named Guo Liang from the circle. I heard that the village there..."
Fu Rong immediately started chattering.
"Get in the car first, I'm going there too, and I have something I want to do."
Qing Shui pointed to the back seat for Fu Rong.
He wasn't going to Biyou Village to do bad things, so it didn't matter if he took someone who was going there too.
Besides, he didn't know enough about Biyou Village, so he could try to get some information out of this girl.
He remembered that Fu Rong was also a very simple-minded person in love, not a bad person, but owed too much money, and had relatively upright values, unwilling to rely on her identity as an Outworlder to solve her debts, so she had to hide in Biyou Village.
"Okay, brother, my name is Fu Rong, from Longnan, Gansu, what about you?"
"My surname is Zhuo, from Linfen, Shanxi, but my household registration was transferred to the capital last year, and I also work there."
"The Zhuo of excellence?"
"No, the one with the three water radicals, it's relatively uncommon, the Zhuo of '濯清莲而不妖' (濯清蓮而不妖, wash clean but not seductive, referring to the lotus flower)."
"I see, Beijing household registration, that's very valuable, let me tell you..."
Without Qing Shui needing to say much, just a simple introduction, the unsophisticated Fu Rong blurted out everything she knew.
Two hours later.
Wumeng Mountain area, a mountain road that can barely accommodate cars.
"We're here."
Qing Shui took his hand off the steering wheel and said.
"Brother Zhuo, lend me your phone, I'll contact them!"
Fu Rong reached out to Qing Shui.
She owed so much money that her personal assets had long been frozen, and because she was afraid of being found by the debt collectors using her phone, she simply didn't bring her phone with her.
"Hello! Brother Liang, it's Fu Rong, I've arrived at the entrance of the village, yes, yes, I'm in that small car, the one in the front seat is Brother Zhuo, do you know him? You don't know him? He's from the capital, he's not an ordinary person pursuing abilities, he's also from the circle, I guess he heard about our village from somewhere.
Okay, okay, we'll wait at the entrance of the village."
After hanging up the phone, Fu Rong handed the phone back to Qing Shui's side and got up to open the door.
Qing Shui unfastened his seat belt and used his transparent world to sense this not-so-small village.
The population is about a hundred people, most of them are not very strong, there are about a dozen who can be considered experts, the person with the most abundant Qi is a long-haired white-clothed youth lying on a rocking chair sunbathing.
That's probably the successor of Divine Machine Hundred Refinements, Ma Xianhong.
"Hmm?"
Ma Xianhong seemed to sense something and looked at the bead hanging on his wrist, which had turned from white to green, so he picked up a pair of red goggles next to him.
At the same time, Qing Shui also looked at a few red-eyed flies flying at the entrance of the village.
Are those the magical instruments that Ma Xianhong uses to monitor the area?
The car door opened, and a long-faced young man walked towards them from the entrance of the village.
"Hello, friend, I'm Guo Liang, may I ask..."
"Zhuo Qingshui, from the capital, I heard about what's happening here and wanted to pay a visit. Don't worry, I have nothing to do with the company, just an ordinary refiner."
Qing Shui extended a hand to Guo Liang and smiled.
"Since you have no ill intentions, Biyou Village welcomes anyone."
Guo Liang shook hands with Qing Shui, sizing him up, and said.
Just then, the phone in Guo Liang's pocket rang.
"Hello! Okay, I'll bring them right away!"
Guo Liang hung up the phone and said to Qing Shui and Fu Rong.
A few minutes later, in a courtyard.
"Welcome to Biyou Village, I am the village chief here, Ma Xianhong."
A tall young man in white, with flowing clothes, opened the door of the courtyard and smiled at the visiting Qing Shui and Fu Rong.
"Village Chief, hello, my name is Fu Rong, I am..."
"I know you, don't worry, the debt collectors won't be able to find you here. And this Mr. Zhuo, I heard... you are a refiner?"
Ma Xianhong first nodded at Fu Rong, then changed his tone and looked at Qing Shui.
