15: Chapter 15 I'm Going to Become a Genius!!

What happened next was like a chain reaction.

Lin Xiao finished drawing the basic circuit, but she didn't stop; instead, she immediately incorporated what she had just realized from Su Bai's circuit into it.

She wasn't a Card Creator who excelled at practical work, but her theoretical foundation was among the top in the class.

With that theoretical foundation combined with the perspective of a Dimensional Leap, she altered one part of her circuit.

Just one part.

She changed the three-axis locking mechanism in the original standard template to a three-axis cross-rotation.

It wasn't seven axes; she couldn't do that.

But with just this one change, the mana conductivity of the Spatial Circuit jumped from the original thirty-two percent to forty-eight percent.

Forty-eight percent!

For a First-Order card, this was already data capable of pushing for an A-rank or even higher rating!

Lin Xiao stared at the detector's readings, silent for a long time.

Then, she said one sentence.

"I changed one part."

"One part?" Lin Weiwei walked over.

"Yeah. I just changed the fixed anchor point to a rotating anchor point. Su Bai's circuit had a similar framework; I only saw about one-thousandth of it. But with just that one-thousandth, the conductivity increased by sixteen percentage points."

Lin Weiwei didn't speak.

Because she was also thinking about something.

She was thinking about the outline of those three physical axes she had just caught a glimpse of.

Three axes.

Rotating structure.

Phase intersection.

Although she didn't understand the operating principle of the four phase axes at all—the rotating framework of those three physical axes alone was enough for her to re-examine all her knowledge regarding Spatial Circuits.

If she applied this rotating structure to the paper she was currently writing on spatial conductivity efficiency—

No.

It wasn't "if".

It was a certainty.

It would definitely be published.

And not just in an ordinary journal—but in the main issue of the "Jinghai Card Creation Journal".

It might even be the front page!

A layer of fine cold sweat suddenly broke out on Lin Weiwei's back.

She realized something terrifying: the inspiration Su Bai gave her might be more than all the knowledge of spatial systems she had accumulated over five years combined.

And that person was a First-Order academic failure.

Or rather—a First-Order academic failure whose luck was so heaven-defying that he managed to copy an ancient circuit.

"...This guy."

Lin Weiwei bit her lip, her voice trembling uncontrollably, "What kind of god-tier luck is that?"

She could only say that fortunately, she had the foresight to quickly make a deal with Su Bai after realizing she might gain inspiration from his circuit.

As for intercepting her sister... there was actually no need to worry; they were cousins, and for now, they were both spending the Lin family's money, so it was all the same.

Thinking of this, Lin Weiwei coughed twice and hurriedly said, "Well, I've had some realizations, I need to head back first."

Lin Xiao looked at Lin Weiwei with a resentful face: "Sis, I was clearly here first!"

"Oh my, didn't you always feel like you were being scammed before? Isn't your sister just stepping into the pit for you..."

Lin Weiwei said with a guilty conscience, then hurriedly added, "Alright, alright, I have a paper to write, hurry back! Don't forget that the Monthly Exam is in four days, make sure to perform well then!"

As she said this, she immediately disappeared.

Zhao Dahai also came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "I'm heading off too. With this, I might actually be able to get ahead. See you all in four days!"

"You people, honestly..."

Lin Xiao said that, but in reality, she couldn't hold back anymore and immediately prepared to go back to conduct research.

...That night.

Zhao Dahai couldn't sleep.

He lay on his dormitory bed, staring wide-eyed at the ceiling.

What was swirling around in his mind wasn't "what to eat for breakfast tomorrow" or "whether I can pass the Monthly Exam", but that circuit.

That seven-axis rotating Spatial Circuit that left afterimages on his retinas and made the entire training room's space twist!

He couldn't understand it.

But he had seen it.

Just "having seen it" was enough.

This was the shock brought by Su Bai's Spatial Circuit!

"No!"

Zhao Dahai leaped from the bed and rushed to the card creation table with an agility that didn't match his physique at all.

He turned on the light, pulled out some scratch paper, and grabbed a pen.

Inspiration gushed out like a broken levee.

He wanted to make a thorough improvement to his Armament Card.

Not minor tweaks, not swapping for better materials, but starting from the circuit structure itself—incorporating that hint of a "rotating framework" he had seen from Su Bai!

The pen tip touched the paper.

This time, he wasn't drawing a basic practice circuit.

It was his Monthly Exam card, a First-Order D-rank Iron-Spine Heavy Shield!

The original design was extremely conservative: a standard rectangular shield face, a standard three-axis locked spatial framework, and standard mana conduction pathways.

Everything followed the textbook; he wasn't aiming for a high score, just a passing grade.

But now—Zhao Dahai added something to that standard spatial framework.

A tiny, rotating mana vortex.

He didn't understand the principle of this thing.

He wasn't even sure if it would work.

But his intuition was telling him—put it in.

Putting it in was the right thing to do.

Three hours later, Zhao Dahai placed the improved card into the mana detector.

The instrument hummed.

The readings jumped.

Then, it settled.

Quality Rating: C+.

Zhao Dahai stared at that line of text for a full two minutes.

Then he pinched his own cheek.

Very hard.

It hurt so much that tears almost came out.

It wasn't a dream.

C+!!

He, Zhao Dahai—the student with the second-to-last theoretical level in the class, the lowest Mental Power strength, and a loser whom the instructor had privately evaluated as "probably only fit to carry shells for the logistics troops on the front lines"—had created a C+-rank First-Order Armament Card.

Zhao Dahai plopped onto the floor, the expression on his chubby face looking like he had just seen God.

Then he cried.

The kind of crying where snot and tears run down together.

"Holy crap, I'm going to become an honor student!!"

...At the same time.

Lin Xiao couldn't sleep either.

However, she wasn't lying on the bed spacing out.

From the moment she returned to the dormitory, she had been sitting at the card creation table.

In front of her was no longer basic scratch paper, but the card she was truly preparing to submit for the Monthly Exam—a First-Order C-rank Frost Moon Blade.

A slender, curved blade with a translucent, ice-blue surface.

The original design was already quite mature: three-axis locking, high-purity Iron-Armored Bull essence blood, and an added miniature ice elemental circuit to give the blade ice-attribute mana.

Quality Rating: C-.

The second tier of the class.

...That was how it was originally.

But now, Lin Xiao looked at this B-rank card and felt that there were places for improvement everywhere.

The nodes here could rotate.

The framework here could cross.

The locking axes here could be changed to displacement axes—

She changed three places.

Three places.

All were inspirations she had glimpsed from Su Bai's circuit.

Even though what she saw was less than one-thousandth—or even less than one-ten-thousandth—these inspirations pointed to a completely new direction.

A direction that wasn't written in any textbook, but was more efficient than any method in the textbooks.

When the improvements were finished, the sky outside the window was already turning grayish-white.

Lin Xiao placed the card into the detector.

The instrument hummed.

The readings jumped.

Quality Rating: A.

Lin Xiao blinked.

Then she cleared the test results and tested it again.

A.

Cleared it again, tested again.

A!

Cleared it a third time, tested a third time.

A!!

Lin Xiao leaned back slowly against the chair and put down the card creation pen in her hand.

Then she lowered her head and looked at her hands—the pair of hands that had once been evaluated by her instructor as "brain understands everything, hands are completely useless."

Her hands were no longer shaking.

From the moment she left the training room until now, they hadn't shaken once.

It wasn't because her Mental Power had become stronger.

It was because she no longer needed to "copy".

Every line under her pen was no longer a copy of a textbook template.

She was designing her own circuit.

Starting from zero.

From a higher dimension.

"Dimensional Leap..."

Lin Xiao murmured to herself.

Then, she suddenly thought of a question that left her not knowing how to react: Did Su Bai write this circuit because he truly understood it, or because he was just lucky enough to copy an ancient blueprint?