Abyss Sequence-Chapter 351 - 8: Research Results
Though the allure of a beautiful place can corrode a person’s spirit, that is true only for others.
Even if trapped in this allure, Yan Luo, with his stamina and energy, could never be corroded.
Although he is no longer in the Abyss, when the Forbidden Demon Abyss still existed, hunters obtained plenty of demon meat chunks, which they sold to the Lingquan City Government, allowing Yan Luo to acquire them from the government.
Among them, the meat chunks of City-breaking Level Demons were the least useful.
Even though these meat chunks could provide a lot of nutrition and contain vast amounts of magic power, besides Yan Luo, there were hardly anyone else in the world who could digest these chunks.
Therefore, purchasing large quantities of City-breaking Level Demon meat chunks presented a higher cost-effectiveness for Yan Luo compared to purchasing cheaper demon meat chunks.
Yan Luo acquired a large amount of City-breaking Level Demon meat chunks from the Lingquan City Government. By consuming these chunks, he gained magic power to transform his own cells.
He aimed to transform all his body’s cells into shapes that could generate magnetic fields through friction.
For this, Yan Luo only needed to use his imagination; what to do next would depend on the magic power.
While Yan Luo was transforming his cells, not far away, a few blocks over, in the villa rented by Yulia, the "Strongest Woman in the World," she quietly completed her twelfth engraving.
"Hmm... this feeling..."
In the villa’s living room, Yulia moved her limbs in surprise.
She could feel that her body, which had become sluggish with age, had relaxed a bit.
This phenomenon occurred after she consumed the Saint’s Marrow, and it happened once again now.
Whether it was due to the effect of the Saint’s Marrow or her proximity to Sequence One, she couldn’t say.
’Sequence One’ is a unique tier. To improve one’s strength previously, one required twice the number of engravings from the previous tier to reach the next.
But for Sequence One, according to "Heaven’s Inquiry," only five engravings are needed to advance from the Second Rank to Sequence One.
It’s not impossible for "Heaven’s Inquiry" to have calculated incorrectly, but given that it has never erred in previous tier calculations, it’s hard to imagine a mistake for Sequence One.
After becoming a Second Rank expert, Yulia understood why advancing to Sequence One only required five engravings.
It was because their magic power was already capable of earth-shattering effects, but constrained by output inefficiency preventing them from becoming stronger.
The eight engravings of the Second Rank equated to reaching the end of a path, while the subsequent five engravings expanded one’s strength acknowledgment and combat style, forming a unique sequence.
Anyone who reached the Second Rank would choose an ’unconventional engraving,’ one not typically chosen by someone in that sequence, based on their combat style and mindset.
Take Yulia, a Slav growing up in a harsh environment; her deep-rooted impression and even fear of ’cold’ led her to choose engravings like [Guidance], [Storm], [Cold], and [Extension] for her Second Rank.
Thus, Yulia, originally from the Warrior sequence, gained the frost power she wasn’t supposed to have. Whenever she got serious, violent cold winds would whirl around her, limiting the enemy and enhancing herself.
When she becomes Sequence One, she might become the legendary Ice Giant, a winter ghost walking through snowy nights.
But Yulia now had a perplexity— 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
She felt she could no longer contain more engravings!
This feeling was different from being unable to proceed with new engravings. If she considered her body a vessel, it was now at full capacity, unable to hold more engravings.
Does she need to acquire more spirituality to enhance her soul?
After pondering, Yulia shook her head.
This situation was clearly different from before; it wasn’t a matter of spirituality and soul!
At that moment, Yulia thought of Alfheim and the ’Academy’ famed among the elves.
There preserved most of the elven historical knowledge, perhaps there she could find some answers or hints.
But the question was, how could she go to the Academy and be allowed to access their library?
......
Yulia went to Yan Luo’s villa and explained her condition to him.
After listening, Yan Luo immediately replied, "My blood!"
The Saint’s Blood was a treasured possession for the elves. If Yan Luo was willing to trade his blood, he’d definitely gain access to the ’Academy’ library to read books.
Yulia was silent for a moment, then sighed, "I’d really appreciate it."
Her two visits to Alfheim made her realize that Blue Star must have its own Sequence One expert, or if possible, someone above Sequence One.
However, the strongest engraver on Blue Star was herself, and she was finding it difficult to become Sequence One, let alone above Sequence One.
No one, including "Heaven’s Inquiry," had calculated how many engravings were needed to become above Sequence One.
Thus, even if it felt unfair to Yan Luo, Yulia needed his blood for permission to access the ’Academy’ library.
Even if she wasn’t the one receiving that privilege, as long as someone could enter the library and find out how humanity could become Sequence One, she’d be satisfied.
Sasa returned to Yan Luo’s villa just in time to hear the conversation between Yulia and Yan Luo, and interjected, "Let me go! I’ve previously shown an affinity for reading in Gass City, and I’ve read many books in the Gass City library. It’s time to ask the Lord of Gass City to let me visit the Academy library."
At this, Sasa smiled, "I can also experience the elven teleportation technology!"
Hearing this, neither Yan Luo nor Yulia found anything to object to and solemnly said to Sasa, "We depend on you!"
"Leave it to me!" Sasa said, patting her chest with a smile.
The plan to help Yulia acquire advanced knowledge was thus settled. Sasa then told Yan Luo about her laboratory setup.
She had found a suitable place for converting into a lab, and it would be best to purchase it outright for that purpose.
This time she returned with a simple goal: to ask Yan Luo for funds.
Upon inquiring about the place’s price, Yan Luo transferred 130% of that amount into Sasa’s account.
It was only a few million, a minuscule amount considering Yan Luo’s net worth had surpassed a billion.
Even including Sasa’s planned acquisition of renovation and research equipment, it would not require more than a quarter of Yan Luo’s assets.
Because it was just a fledgling lab, Sasa didn’t aim to compete with the world’s top labs initially, so the funding needed wasn’t high.
Once that lab was established, Sasa could help Yan Luo research the secrets of his physique, a win-win situation for them both.
After concluding the lab matters, Sasa mysteriously smiled and asked, "Yan Luo, can you guess how far along my other research is now?"
The other research referred to reducing magic power adaptability, causing Saint’s Blood to regard the physique as having extremely low magic power adaptability.
"Animal trials completed?" Yan Luo immediately guessed Sasa’s research progress, "What are the results?"
Yan Luo’s quick guess of the research progress somewhat frustrated Sasa, but she brightened up when she mentioned the experiment results.
"My hypothesis was successful!"
With a confident smile, Sasa said, "Through the use of toxins to lower magic power adaptability, Saint’s Blood will identify the subject as having extremely low adaptability, thus strengthening their body. By analyzing and researching Kaskis’s toxin, I successfully developed an antidote to accelerate the experimental animal’s recovery of magic power adaptability.
"The results were gratifying. Even when the adaptability of the experimental animals returned to its original level, the body strengthening effect did not dissipate, and they did not gain a superpower to automatically absorb magic power. This proves my experiment was completely successful! With volunteer clinical trials, I can apply this scheme to myself!"
