130: The enormous consumption of experiments

Studies throughout the training camp entered the right track after the first month.

All facilities were now open.

This included the Challenge Tower, divinity cultivation chamber, gravity training room, and so on.

The Time Secret Realm and the mission System would be opened after one year.

However, for now, the opening of the Challenge Tower allowed many students to earn more points.

Zhou Xing was in no hurry; besides daily classes, his most important task was heading to the laboratory for multi-element Fusion experiments.

After the day's classes ended, Zhou Xing headed alone to the laboratory prepared by Jiang Ming.

After passing identity verification and recognition, Zhou Xing entered.

“System, check if there are any surveillance cameras or other hidden measures.”

Zhou Xing gave the command in his heart at that moment.

“host can rest assured, no redundant mental marks or surveillance have been detected.”

The System's voice let Zhou Xing breathe a sigh of relief; at least it showed Jiang Ming trusted him.

Only then did Zhou Xing begin to look around the entire laboratory.

According to Jiang Ming, the prepared items were all placed inside a space ring on the central experimental bench.

“Holy crap, as expected of the Commander, he's truly generous.”

After opening the space ring, Zhou Xing couldn't help but drool.

After a final count, there were over a thousand divinity fragments with a content of about 15% to 25%.

As for energy crystals, they were countless and more than enough to use.

Since he was conducting experiments, he certainly couldn't let the System store them yet.

Everything would wait until after he succeeded.

The System had just synchronized the limited data to Zhou Xing; some of the more critical parts were missing and required Zhou Xing to research them slowly himself.

After some integration, Zhou Xing simply derived a theoretical framework for multi-element Fusion; the remaining content would have to be supplemented through various experiments.

“Let's start then, I hope to gain something. It's a pity I didn't get the Divine Gene data when destroying that experimental base in Dragon City, only the Triple-element Fusion fragments; otherwise, I would have had greater inspiration.”

Zhou Xing first took out a fire-element divinity fragment and an ice-element fragment. Following the data provided by the System and combining it with his long-standing intuition, he directly activated the divinity power within them and began attempting dual-element Fusion.

“Buzz!”

On the experimental bench, the two fragments hovered in mid-air under Zhou Xing's control, then gradually drew closer.

Next, Zhou Xing directly activated the divinity power within the two divinity fragments, cautiously controlling the two energies to constantly approach and intertwine, forming a delicate point of balance.

“Crack!”

However, just as the two energies were about to touch, the power suddenly erupted and went out of control.

“Boom!”

But with the protective shield in place, there was naturally no impact; this wave of energy fluctuation was only at the foundation condensation level and wasn't enough to cause any damage.

If one time didn't work, then a second time.

Ultimately, after five consecutive failures, Zhou Xing achieved preliminary success.

After several consecutive successful experiments, Zhou Xing had achieved the first stage of success.

However, he was too familiar with the ice and fire dual elements; what he needed to find was how to precisely reach a balance with various other different types of divinity fragments fusing with each other.

Subsequently, Zhou Xing began continuous testing.

For a whole week, Zhou Xing would stay in the laboratory for a long time every day after his afternoon classes ended.

He originally thought that over a thousand divinity fragments should be enough.

As it turned out, after a week, Zhou Xing felt like his spirit was on the verge of collapsing.

He was already able to achieve divinity Fusion for many attributes, but the success rate was still too low compared to the ice and fire dual elements.

If he couldn't reach an 80% or even higher success rate, then there was absolutely no point in promoting it.

The stronger the power, the higher the required success rate.

Especially at the Law Realm or even for half-gods, if one wasn't careful and triggered a backlash, the loss would outweigh the gain.

Out of necessity, Zhou Xing contacted Commander Jiang Ming again to have him provide more divinity fragments.

After coming over personally and seeing that there were results, the Commander provided several thousand more divinity fragments all at once.

Most of them were obtained from hunting Mutated Beasts.

On this day, Zhou Xing had just finished recording experimental data and intended to go back to rest.

Suddenly, as he was closing the laboratory, he felt a gaze from the shadows.

[Detected 'Sword God' divinity fluctuations, identity confirmed as Chiba Shinichi]

At this moment, the System's notification sounded, making Zhou Xing's gaze turn cold.

Since starting the experiments, Zhou Xing had the System turn on automatic monitoring mode; any movement within a thousand-meter radius could not escape the System's detection, unless the opponent was a half-god.

Although it consumed quite a bit of energy, one must always be on guard against others.

And sure enough, someone was discovered again.

As expected, very few people from the Island Nation are pure-hearted.

Seeing Chiba Shinichi in The Watchers this time had already made many people feel uncomfortable, and plus Chiba Shinichi and Augustus were two peas in a pod—especially after the previous challenge, one could say Chiba Shinichi's reputation was very poor.

However, since there was no substantive evidence for the time being, Zhou Xing intended to observe for a few more days to see what the other party's goal actually was.

There was no need to alert the enemy prematurely; there might be a larger power involved behind him.

Thinking no more, Zhou Xing quickened his pace and returned to the dormitory villa.

Meanwhile, shortly after Zhou Xing left, Chiba Shinichi's figure appeared not far away.

“This guy comes here every day after finishing work; it seems he must have some unspeakable secrets.”

Chiba Shinichi thought to himself, and then his expression brightened, “If I can get my hands on key information, could I exchange it for more resources from Divine Gene?”

However, there was surveillance everywhere in the training camp, so he still had to find a suitable opportunity... After looking in the direction where Zhou Xing had walked out earlier, Chiba Shinichi's figure flashed and disappeared into the darkness.

The next morning, just as Zhou Xing was about to set out, his instructor Yue Hua personally came to his door.

“Zhou Xing, you don't need to participate in classes today. I will personally take you somewhere to redeem your Dawn City rewards.”

While speaking, Yue Hua handed Zhou Xing a golden badge, “This is a pass for the 'Forging Temple'; just go there and look for Elder Fu.”

“Elder Fu, our Blue Planet's number one divinity equipment forging Great Master?” Zhou Xing took the badge and spoke with some surprise.

Yue Hua nodded, a trace of awe flashing in her expression: “Elder Fu is one of the oldest Awakened Ones currently on Blue Planet, and the only blacksmith capable of forging half-god rank divinity equipment. Although his own strength is only at the Early Stage of half-god, even the several Commanders are very respectful to him.”

Zhou Xing was quite expectant, because previously Elder Tie, a Celestial Phenomenon Realm level blacksmith, was already the number one person on Blue Planet; now this Elder Fu was himself at the half-god level, and the divinity equipment he forged would be enough to significantly enhance one's own strength.