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What had Jiang Lin been doing all this time?

After realizing that the flow patterns of Dou Qi energy and molecular structures shared a certain similarity, Jiang Lin had continuously expanded his research along that line of thought.

Metal Meridians capable of channeling Dou Qi, materials with different levels of Dou Qi resistance working together to control and simulate changes in the speed of Dou Qi within the human meridians...

In the end, Jiang Lin created a dummy model. He installed the repeatedly adjusted Explosive Step Dou Technique pattern inside it and confirmed that the pattern would not suffer from things like "overheating," "overloading," or "short circuits." Then, using his own Dou Qi, he successfully simulated a mini version of Explosive Step inside the dummy—it let out a fart.

Once he felt everything was ready, Jiang Lin excitedly moved on to the next experiment: Magic Core-powered operation.

It was at this step that the Metal Meridians withstood the violent Dou Qi inside the Magic Core. However, Jiang Lin had no experience controlling Magic Core Dou Qi. After noticing that the output was a little too high, he had not even had time to run when the explosion from the Explosive Step pattern knocked the Metal Meridians inside the dummy out of alignment, or perhaps caused some kind of "Dou Qi short circuit" or "Dou Qi backflow." If this had happened to an ordinary Dou Zhe, their Flesh and Meridians would have been directly injured, and their body would have forcibly absorbed the excess Dou Qi. There would be no question of cultivation deviation—they would have simply exploded.

Normally, when cultivation went awry, most people merely suffered shattered meridians. Their bodies still had room to recover.

But the Metal Meridians Jiang Lin had installed in the dummy were on the same level as a first-tier Magic Core, perhaps even tougher. In other words, once the Metal Meridians short-circuited, either the "wires" or the "transformer" had to blow.

And Jiang Lin's result was that the "fuse" was too thick, so the "transformer" blew instead!

And it was not a simple explosion. The backflowing Dou Qi seemed to possess inertia—or memory—and directly formed an Explosive Step pattern inside the Magic Core. Bang! It exploded on the spot!

"So you used a Magic Core to unleash a Dou Technique?" Mr. Yao's heart jolted as he looked at Jiang Lin, whose eyebrows had been burned off by the blast.

He had thought Jiang Lin might possess just a tiny bit of talent as an Artifact Forger. But was that "tiny bit" really the same tiny bit he had understood it to be?

Jiang Lin made a Korean hand gesture: A teeny tiny bit.

"I failed to control the amount of Dou Qi, and Dou Qi actually short-circuited and flowed back! Who the hell knew the fragile human body had a fuse mechanism?! Damn it, this is infuriating!"

By the pool, Jiang Lin washed his face clean. Looking at his eyebrowless reflection in the water, he felt like laughing and crying at the same time.

Just a little closer—just a little closer, and his worthless life would have been over!

Wuwuwu!

Even now, Jiang Lin still felt dazed by the sense of having survived a disaster.

"You... you. Sigh." Mr. Yao had initially wanted to give him a stern warning, but when he saw the faintly dazed expression on Jiang Lin's bald, comical-looking face, he ultimately could not help letting out a quiet sigh. "Safety comes first, Lin'er."

Jiang Lin stared blankly at his ridiculous reflection in the water for a long while. At last, he rubbed his face, secretly rubbed his eyes, then flashed a brilliant smile at his eyebrowless reflection. "Don't worry, Mr. Yao. I've already figured out the core principles behind Dou Techniques. I won't do anything so reckless again."

Technological development was never smooth sailing.

Yet Jiang Lin also felt an instinctive sense of relief. The danger he had encountered had come from a first-tier Magic Core.

It felt like that man who had researched explosives—he had nearly been blown to death in his youth, but from then on, no matter how great the explosions became, they never blew him up again.

In life, people were often most likely to perish in their first setback. But once they overcame that first setback, later trials would find it difficult to trip them in the same way again!

"You... sigh. It's good that you understand." Mr. Yao had wanted to say something more, but when he saw that brilliant smile on Jiang Lin's face, the words suddenly caught in his throat, impossible to utter.

Looking at Jiang Lin, Mr. Yao could not help thinking of himself. On his path of studying medicine, he had nearly been poisoned to death more than once, or ventured deep into dangerous places for the sake of a single herb.

Everyone had a path they wished to explore. Even if it was covered in thorns, they still wanted to carve their way through it. Wasn't that so?

"Don't worry, Mr. Yao. My Weapon Refining theory has already matured somewhat. I won't take risks like I did today." Only after Jiang Lin repeatedly assured Mr. Yao that he would not act recklessly did Mr. Yao give him a deep look and leave, leaving Jiang Lin alone to clean up the mess.

Jiang Lin rested briefly and calmed himself, then began clearing the wreckage from the courtyard. As he worked, he picked out components from the debris and recorded data on how certain materials had changed during the massive explosion caused by the Dou Qi short circuit and backflow.

"Mr. Yao clearly knows quite a lot. And he even suppressed his curiosity without asking how I made the dummy use a Dou Technique."

As he cleared the debris, Jiang Lin could not stop his thoughts from wandering. Why do I keep feeling like Mr. Yao might have some kind of story?

Picking up a shard of Magic Core, Jiang Lin fell silent for a moment. He suddenly recalled that Xiao Yi Xian seemed to have said she had never heard any rumors of Mr. Yao having a sweetheart.

No way. No way. No way.

Have I become the image of an old acquaintance?

Jiang Lin took a moment to look at his appearance by the pool again. Though his eyebrows were gone, his features were delicate and handsome. His long hair fell messily around him, and his starry eyes shone without being dazzling. Within the originally black eyes he had assumed himself to possess lay a faint hint of pure azure. Jiang Lin picked up a charred dummy finger from the ground and drew two smoky brows onto his face.

Dummy: You're amazing! You're high-definition! You're Blu-ray! You blew me to pieces, and now you're using my finger as an eyebrow pencil! Transfer 79 yuan!

After drawing on two faint willow-leaf brows, Jiang Lin's eyes could not help widening a little!

No, beautiful lady, who are you?!

The most masculine feature on his face had actually been his former swordlike brows!

"My true body... was actually my eyebrows!"

A pair of eyebrows could so severely affect Jiang Lin's overall appearance, tipping him between handsome and beautiful!

"Damn it, what am I even thinking? They'll grow back eventually."

Jiang Lin hurriedly washed his face clean, lest anyone see him standing there drawing on eyebrows.

"Back to business. The dummy model has been successfully verified, so everything afterward will be much easier." Jiang Lin did not know that in just half a year, he had already grasped the core and most advanced theory of a Yellow-tier Artifact Forger.

"With the theory established, the next step is turning theory into results!"

After clearing the wreckage, Jiang Lin returned to the forging room. Looking at the neatly arranged first-tier and second-tier materials, as well as a small number of third-tier materials, a confident gleam flashed through his eyes.

(The theory is established, and forging begins. Don't worry—the style of Jiang Lin's forging has a strong mechanical flavor: simple yet exquisite, complex yet violent!)