Lu Yin revealed a small smile and stopped aggravating the man. “Director Zhi, do you remember the design for the new universal armor that I shared with you? I want you to add microarray technology to it.”
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In an instant, Director Zhi’s attention was completely diverted. “You want to integrate microarray technology into something else?”
Lu Yin grew serious. “I want that armor design to include both Smoke-Eater Peaks’ smoke and microarray technology. I’m going to build an invincible army.”
“You started planning this five years ago, didn’t you?” Director Zhi blurted.
Lu Yin casually replied, “Don’t worry about that. All you need to focus on is making eighty microarrays for me that can be added to the sets of universal armor that I’ve already ordered. What’s the most powerful attack that you can add to the arrays?”
Director Zhi considered the question for a while. “Given our current materials, we can have each array release four full powered attacks that each have a maximum output of a power level of 200,000, but it won’t be cheap.”
Lu Yin said, “Then lower the strength of the attacks.”
Director Zhi was momentarily stunned by this response, as he had expected that Lu Yin would want to store the most powerful attacks possible. Why would anyone want a weak attack in the universal armors?
“What’s the point in including Hunter-level attacks?” Elder Jiu Shen was similarly puzzled.
“It’s cheaper,” Lu Yin replied.
Director Zhi was stunned. Cheaper? Then it would be better to just have the soldiers attack with their own strength! What was the point in using microarray technology then?
Naturally, Lu Yin could not tell either of the men that he could use his die to Enhance the microarrays and universal armors to improve their overall strength.
He had already tried Enhancing the Void Rip sourcebox array that he had taken from Bai Shaohong, but the presence of the sourcebox array made that endeavor impossible. However, as long as the sourcebox array was not added on by Master Xuan, Lu Yin would be able to Enhance the universal armors and the base mechanism of the microarrays.
It would be best to first upgrade the materials and the bases for the microarrays until they could handle the strength of Enlighters or even stronger powerhouses, such as two-tribulation Envoys before then adding the sourcebox arrays as the final step.
“How powerful of an attack can Master Xuan’s sourcebox arrays hold if we don’t take the strength of the necessary materials into account?” Lu Yin looked at Director Zhi with eyes filled with hope.
Director Zhi answered, “An Enlighter’s attack. A power level of about 200,000.”
Lu Yin was disappointed. That power level was too weak, which meant that there was no reason for him to Enhance the microarray bases. Regardless of how much he improved the base materials, the sourcebox arrays would be too weak to take advantage of the improved durability. On top of that, the cost to Enhance the base materials would most likely be the same as or more expensive than outright paying Aurora Enterprises to manufacture the more powerful microarrays from the start. Just having Aurora Enterprises do all the work would actually be the better option, as these sourcebox arrays were actually the weak point of the entire design.
Lu Yin felt that it was a pity that Master Xuan had not yet had the chance to study the Void Rip sourcebox array. His skills would probably dramatically improve if he was able to study the sourcebox array.
It did not really matter if Lu Yin studied the sourcebox array. Thus, it would be better to give it to Master Xuan.
After thinking of such, Lu Yin pulled out the Void Rip sourcebox array from his cosmic ring. This was the one that he had picked up from the treasury in the Celestial Frost Sect’s ruins. This sourcebox array still had a single attack left. “Give this to Master Xuan for me. This sourcebox array is able to handle attacks equal to a two-tribulation Envoy, which is pretty scary.”
Director Zhi’s pupils shrank to pinpricks, and he snatched the sourcebox array out of Lu Yin’s hand. “Was this what gave Wan Gong the opportunity to make a breakthrough in our research?”
Lu Yin neither admitted nor denied anything. “Go ahead and have the microarrays be built to hold the most powerful attacks that you’re capable of storing. I hope that by studying that sourcebox array, Master Xuan will be able to find a way to store more powerful attacks so that we can use the microarray technology even more effectively against the Aeternals. Oh, and there’s also this.”
As Lu Yin finished speaking, he handed Dong Zhi all of the Mother Tree’s bark that he still had on him.
Elder Jiu Shen was taken aback. “This is-?”
Director Zhi grew increasingly excited. “Is this the material that was successful?”
Lu Yin nodded. “This should be enough for you to make a few hundred microarrays. I only need 80 of them, and I won’t ask you to return the leftover material, so you can keep it for further research.”
“It feels like bark,” Director Zhi commented as he took it. He felt a little confused.
Elder Jiu Shen stared at Lu Yin for a long moment. “It’s nearly impossible to find this material even if you scoured the entire Fifth Mainland.”
Director Zhi was caught off guard. “Senior, you recognize this substance?”
Elder Jiu Shen was second only to Elder Gong in the Cosmic Sect, so it was no surprise that he had recognized the Mother Tree’s bark.
Lu Yin replied, “I’ll find a way to get more. It’s not completely impossible.”
Elder Jiu Shen shook his head. “That’s going to be very difficult.”
“Alliance Leader Lu, what is this material? Where does it come from? My Aurora Enterprises has spread across the entire universe, so we should be able to find more of it,” Director Zhi said.
Lu Yin smiled wryly. He was just about to answer when he suddenly remembered something. He quickly took out a stack of white paper. “Director Zhi, these papers are made from the same material as the bark that you were given before. See if you can use this as well.”
Director Zhi felt completely lost. How could someone use the bark if it had already been processed into paper?
“Try it. It might work out,” Lu Yin suggested. He still had a lot of paper left, and there was likely even more on Zenith Mountain on Long Xi and the others. If the paper could be used for the microarray technology, it would be wonderful.
Director Zhi had no choice but to deliver the white paper to Wan Gong.
After Director Zhi left, Elder Jiu Shen commented, “I never imagined that the most crucial material for this project would actually be the Mother Tree’s bark. You brought that back from that place?”
“I actually picked it up from the Celestial Frost Sect’s ruins.” Lu Yin did not bother hiding anything.
Elder Jiu Shen commented, “If you were able to pick that up from those ruins, then it might not be the only place in the Fifth Mainland where it can be found. We should keep looking for more bark.”
“That’s not very likely,” Lu Yin said.
The two continued to wait for the test results where they were.
After a long time, Lu Yin could no longer bear the silence. It had become rather awkward after the two sat there for so long without saying a single word, so Lu Yin broke the silence. “Elder, is the relationship between the Cosmic Sect and Eversky Island really so close that they even share such intimate secrets?”
Elder Jiu Shen replied, “Eversky Island’s disciples are able to participate in the challenges to become true disciples of my Cosmic Sect. You tell me if we’re close or not.”
“That’s true. Also, the Cosmic Sect disciples are allowed to cross the Eversky Bridge on Eversky Island,” Lu Yin recalled.
Suddenly he thought of something else. “Elder, what do we know about Progenitor Smog?”
Elder Jiu Shen was caught off guard. “Progenitor Smog? You mean Progenitor Smoke, don’t you?”
“Long ago, Progenitor Smog controlled one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas,” Lu Yin replied. This was what he had heard from Xin Nü.
“Progenitor Smog, Progenitor Smoke—both names are used. Some people called him Progenitor Smoke, while others called him Progenitor Smog,” Elder Jiu Shen said.