Furina was planning to take everyone to the Research Department—or rather, the Research Department; the names were pretty much interchangeable anyway.
However, when they arrived at the entrance of the original Research Department, they were stunned.
The original Research Department had now been turned into a library.
"Huh?" Furina blinked in confusion. "Strange, isn't this the Research Department?"
Ye Guyi suddenly remembered something and quickly explained, "Oh right, I almost forgot to mention it. The original Research Department has already moved away."
She paused, her tone carrying a hint of helplessness, "It's mainly because they were too noisy when doing experiments. Every day, those academic discussions would easily escalate into arguments, and sometimes they would even start fighting directly."
"Mr. Neuvillette couldn't stand it anymore, so he allocated a plot of land outside the city for them, built a research institute, and had them move outside the city to do their tinkering. They moved out half a year ago, and this place was converted into a library to store various books and materials."
Furina suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. I suppose that makes sense—I remember they were already arguing frequently back when I was still in the Axis Cult and hadn't gone to Shrek yet. I wonder if they've come up with any results now."
Ye Guyi shook her head, "As for that... I'm not entirely sure."
She really didn't know much about the affairs of the Research Department. Usually, she mostly followed the Executive Department or Law Enforcement Department on missions—especially the Executive Department, which could always help find many clues about Evil Soul Masters. She only needed to follow the trail with the four great protectors and solve it in the end.
Thanks to this, her Cultivate speed and strength could constantly improve. As for other matters, she neither cared about nor understood them; that was not her area of expertise.
"However, I do know where they are now," Ye Guyi said. "I'll take you there."
Furina nodded, "Alright, thank you for the trouble."
"It's nothing," Ye Guyi waved her hand with a smile. "You have given me a new lease on life. Now that my Martial Soul has evolved into a Six-Winged Seraphim, once it stabilizes a bit more, it will become Ultimate Light plus Fire attribute. Who knows, I might even be able to go further and become Ultimate Light plus Ultimate Fire!"
Her eyes shone with excitement.
Martial Soul evolution is already rare, and Ultimate attributes are even rarer. One must know that the vast majority of beings possessing Ultimate attributes are top-tier entities on the Vicious Beast ranking list.
A normal person's Martial Soul simply cannot reach that level—even the Angel Martial Soul, known as a God-given Martial Soul, or the legendary Sea God Martial Soul, cannot touch the threshold of Ultimate attributes.
This shows just how scarce Martial Souls with Ultimate attributes are.
And all of this gave her hope for another Breakthrough, or even becoming a god, reaching a height that even the Angel God Qian Renxue from ten thousand years ago never reached. Moreover, the Cultivation Technique that Furina had given her earlier had laid the foundation for her present and future.
She herself was a member of the Axis Cult, and Furina was the Pope of the Axis Cult and the Water God herself, so why would she need to thank her for such a small matter?
Bei Bei and Tang Ya listened from the side, filled with envy.
Unfortunately, they could not replicate the evolution path of the Angel Martial Soul. They couldn't rely on killing Evil Soul Masters to improve their strength or evolve their Martial Souls; they could only work hard step by step—just as Furina had said before, absorbing specific spirit rings, allowing the Martial Soul to gradually transform from a quantitative change to a qualitative change, and ultimately complete the evolution.
"Then you must also work hard," Furina said to Ye Guyi.
"Even if you didn't say it, I would," Ye Guyi replied with a smile, then gestured to everyone, "Alright, no more chatting. Please follow me."
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Outside the city, at the research institute, inside the Research Department.
It was still noisy and chaotic.
Dr. X suddenly rushed out of the laboratory with a look of wild joy, or perhaps even a somewhat manic, ecstatic expression, shouting, "It's done! I succeeded! Hahahaha! I succeeded!"
Dr. Dayou raised his hand and slapped him.
"Calm down! You lunatic!" Dr. Dayou shook his hand. "What exactly did you succeed at?"
After that slap, Dr. X did indeed calm down quite a bit. However, he didn't seem angry at all—he didn't care about such trivial matters.
"Look!" Dr. X extended his right hand, and a light suddenly flared up. It was clearly the activation of a Soul Bone Skill—a layer of white light quickly enveloped his entire body.
"How about it?!" he asked triumphantly.
Dr. Dayou carefully examined that barrier, surprise flashing in his eyes. "It really worked? It looks... like it only has the effect of a ten-year Spirit Ability?"
Dr. X nodded and frankly admitted, "Yes, it is just an initial success, after all. But unlike your spirit ring, Spirit Bones have the potential for growth. As long as I continuously inject Soul Power and keep condensing it, I can make this Spirit Bone break through to the hundred-year level."
He paused, spread his hands, and said with some regret, "However, I estimate that at most, I can only get it to the thousand-year level. Any higher than that, and my Soul Power won't be enough."
There was no help for it; he was only a level 56 Spirit King right now. Condensing a thousand-year Spirit Bone was already the limit he had estimated.
Moreover, he didn't know how many times his limbs had been severed—if it weren't for the golden doughnut vanilla cake that Furina had people send back every so often to help with treatment, his Soul Power would likely have dropped to level 30 by now.
Even so, it was unlikely for his Soul Power to increase further. Unless he relied on those herbs and Medicinal Pill to force it up—although if he did that, he certainly wouldn't be able to become any kind of powerhouse.
But that didn't matter.
He could never become a powerhouse anyway. He never liked all that fighting and killing. Becoming stronger was just for self-preservation, for research, and for life. Academic things were more helpful to him.
Dr. Dayou was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "That is enough. It is enough to compete with me for the position of the number one doctor."
He sighed, "Although I have figured out how to condense spirit rings, so far I can only guarantee a 100% success rate for condensing hundred-year spirit rings; thousand-year spirit rings are still not possible."
"I have only figured out a little bit about artificial spirit rings—I always feel like something is missing; perhaps it is something related to the spirit, or rather, the Soul. After all, spirit rings contain the resentment of Soul Beasts. If Her Excellency the Pope understood a little knowledge about the Soul, she would definitely be able to bring me a Breakthrough in technology."
Hearing this, Dr. X curled his lips into an evil smile, "Then I might have to take this position of number one doctor—because I already know how to create artificial Spirit Bones!"
He looked around and announced triumphantly, "You all better surrender obediently!"
"What?!"
Dr. Dayou widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
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