Meng Hongchen scurried to the desk in a few steps, hugging Jing Hongchen's arm and shaking it, acting spoiled with a voice so sweet it was sickening: "We have a piece of huge good news to tell you!"
Then, without waiting for Jing Hongchen to react, she poured everything out like beans from a bamboo tube, telling him about Liu Yuan's successful development of the 'Resistance Bracelet' and their request for a high-tier fire-attribute spirit tool for testing.
"...That's how it is! Grandpa, hurry up and give us a seventh-rank fire-attribute spirit tool! We want to see how powerful this treasure Brother Liu Yuan made really is!"
The office instantly fell into a dead silence.
The helplessness and laziness on Jing Hongchen's face vanished without a trace in an instant.
His cloudy yet shrewd eyes suddenly widened, staring fixedly at Liu Yuan, his voice even changing pitch due to shock:
"What?!"
"You said... that bracelet... has already been made?!"
As the Hall Master of Mingde Hall and a Ninth-Rank Soul Engineer, he knew better than anyone how difficult it was to replicate a Spirit Ability onto a spirit tool!
He had originally thought it would be a miracle if Liu Yuan could produce a finished product before the tournament began.
He didn't expect...
It had only been one day! Just one day's time!
"Yes, Dean." Liu Yuan took a step forward and handed over the obsidian black bracelet in his hand, neither humble nor arrogant. "I was lucky enough to succeed. But as for the specific effects, we still need to conduct a practical test."
Jing Hongchen grabbed the bracelet as if he were stroking a peerless treasure.
The spirit power at his fingertips cautiously probed into it, sensing those profound, exquisite, yet completely beyond existing spirit tool theory inscription formations...
His breathing gradually became heavy!
"Good! Good! Good!"
He slammed the table suddenly and stood up abruptly!
In those eyes, an unprecedented light burst forth. When he looked at Liu Yuan, he was filled with satisfaction!
"Truly a Genius! Heaven bless my Sun Moon!!"
He could no longer sit still and spoke directly: "Seventh-rank? Is that enough?"
Jing Hongchen stopped abruptly and stared at Xiao Hongchen, his voice carrying a wild heroic spirit, "Do you want me to drag out that eighth-rank 'Blazing Sun' cannon from the lab for you to try?!"
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air together!
An eighth-rank soul tool! That was indeed a bit too high!
"Cough, cough, Grandpa, there's no need to be so exaggerated," Xiao Hongchen said with a dry laugh. "No matter how strong Ma Xiaotao is, she's currently only a Six-Ring Soul Emperor. Her single-target attack strength, at most, is equivalent to the full-power strike of a seventh-rank spirit tool. Using a seventh-rank for testing will yield the most accurate data."
"That makes sense."
Jing Hongchen took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the wild joy in his heart and regaining some of his dignity as the Hall Master.
He waved his hand decisively, his voice powerful and resonant:
"Let's go! To Testing Ground Number One! I will personally act as the tester!"
With him, a Ninth-Rank Soul Engineer, personally testing: first, if the bracelet failed, he had absolute confidence in being able to retreat unscathed;
Second, he could also most intuitively feel the bracelet's true effect!
With incredibly excited hearts, the group surrounded Jing Hongchen and arrived at the academy's top-tier open-air testing ground.
Without another word, Jing Hongchen directly put the obsidian black bracelet on his wrist.
Then, he took out a ferocious-looking heavy cannon from his storage spirit tool, its muzzle shaped like a crimson dragon head!
Seventh-rank spirit tool—[red dragons breath]!
"You few, come over together!" Jing Hongchen commanded in a deep voice. "Jointly inject spirit power into this [red dragons breath]. Don't hold back; use your strongest power and fire it at me!"
"Yes!"
The five of them—Liu Yuan, Xiao Hongchen, Ma Rulong, Meng Hongchen, and Lin Xi—immediately stood behind the heavy cannon, their expressions incredibly solemn.
The five exchanged glances and simultaneously reached out, pressing their hands onto the cannon's body.
Five-colored spirit power light soared into the sky, surging frantically into the ferocious dragon-head muzzle of the [red dragons breath]!
"Buzz, buzz, buzz—"
The entire heavy cannon began to vibrate violently. The crimson gemstone at the muzzle grew brighter and brighter. The air distorted and evaporated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a terrifying heatwave capable of instantly melting steel swept out in all directions!
Standing opposite the heavy cannon, Jing Hongchen's robes flapped loudly in the heatwave, but he looked calm, merely watching the energy that had gathered to its limit.
He spoke slowly, his voice clearly reaching everyone's ears:
"Are you ready?"
Standing in the center of the five, acting as the energy control core, Liu Yuan felt that vast power that was about to go out of control. He took a deep breath, a flash of determination in his eyes!
He nodded heavily toward Jing Hongchen opposite him and roared out:
"Begin!"
Boom—!!!
With Liu Yuan's command, Xiao Hongchen and the others no longer held back, injecting their spirit power into it with all their might!
A crimson destructive beam of light, more dazzling than the sun and as thick as a water bucket, blasted toward Jing Hongchen's chest!
Just a split second before that destructive beam of light was about to touch Jing Hongchen's body!
That obsidian black bracelet on his wrist moved!
Buzz—!
An imperceptible black ripple, as if it could even swallow light, spread out silently with the bracelet as its center!
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