Molecular Reconstruction Soul Guidance Forging Technology

After thoroughly scorning Mo Yuan's showboating, everyone except Gu Yuan left. After all, they were all Level-9 Soul Engineers with their own work to attend to. Being able to spare time to participate in the assessment was already quite impressive.

Of course, if they could keep watching designs of this caliber, they would be more than happy to set aside the work in their hands.

Unfortunately, monsters like Mo Yuan were ultimately few and far between, so fewer and fewer Level-9 Soul Engineers were willing to make time to serve as assessment judges.

Afterward, following the association's rules, Gu Yuan arranged an exclusive liaison for Mo Yuan. It was Little Li—Li Du, the person who had come to the Soul Tool train station to meet Mo Yuan.

This exclusive liaison would be responsible for coordinating between Mo Yuan and the Mecha Engineer Association. Whatever requests Mo Yuan had could be conveyed to the association through Li Du, then compiled and submitted to the association's senior leadership for unified handling.

In short, it was a position dedicated to optimizing administrative procedures.

Of course, connections probably played a part as well.

Mo Yuan did not care about that, however. As long as the person did his job well, it did not matter to him whether he had connections or not.

Afterward, Gu Yuan took Mo Yuan to the association's restaurant.

Only after arriving there did Mo Yuan truly understand what it meant to be wealthy and extravagant.

Even the rice here was made from Spirit Rice grown by an entire team of Soul Masters in a place brimming with vitality.

Or rather, the Spirit Rice itself could be considered a product of plant-type Soul Beasts.

Besides that, there were spicy rabbit heads made from farm-raised Century Soft Bone Rabbits, soup made by simmering Century Deep-Sea Blackfish...

A huge variety of dishes that could not possibly be seen in ordinary places had actually become the most common fare here.

On a special menu reserved for Level-9 Soul Engineers, Mo Yuan even saw Millennium Whale Rubber listed.

Tsk, tsk. What extravagance.

"How is it? Do the association's dishes suit your taste?" Gu Yuan asked.

Mo Yuan pulled out a tissue and wiped his mouth. "I'm satisfied. To be honest, I've never eaten these dishes before."

Not to mention that they had been prepared by a master chef, even just these ingredients would not have turned out too badly if an ordinary cooking enthusiast had prepared them.

"Haha, I'm glad you like them. To be honest, clothing, food, housing, and transportation are areas that really reflect technological strength. Accordingly, quite a few Soul Engineers are willing to devote effort to them." Gu Yuan sighed.

"Oh? For example..."

"For example?" Gu Yuan thought for a moment before saying, "Take the Spirit Rice we just ate. It was indeed grown in a place rich in vitality, but more important was the entire team behind it. If I remember correctly, it included three Level-8 Soul Engineers conducting preliminary research, a Level-70 life-type Soul Saint, a Soul Emperor whose Martial Soul was a hoe, a Soul Emperor whose Martial Soul could control water elements, and a large group of Soul Masters handling miscellaneous tasks. There were more than two hundred people in total. But as you saw, their results were indeed very popular."

"Really? Then it sounds like they really like eating it." Mo Yuan agreed.

"All right, let's not talk about that for now." Gu Yuan changed the subject and began asking, "What do you plan to research next? If you have something in mind, you can submit the project. The association will provide funding, personnel, and technical support."

"For example, that Concealment Soul Tool of yours. If you plan to continue researching it, Old Wang—oh, I mean that one-eyed fellow from this morning—would probably be very happy to work with you. You'd likely receive plenty of support from the military as well."

Gu Yuan continued with his suggestion.

"The military..." Mo Yuan pondered for a moment, then shook his head and instead asked, "Do you know how to join the Federation Academy of Sciences?"

"The Academy of Sciences? Why are you asking about that? Do you want to join?" Gu Yuan was somewhat surprised.

The Federation Academy of Sciences was, as its name suggested, the Federation's highest research institute. Its headquarters were located in Mingdu, and it also had laboratories in various cities. It was the largest supplier of the Federation's technology and mainly conducted research according to the council's plans.

If the many associations, including the Mecha Engineer Association, could be considered semi-official, semi-civilian organizations primarily led by civilian forces, then the Federation Academy of Sciences was a purely official organization.

Everyone who joined it could be said to be a purely official employee.

"It's not that I want to join. I just have some technology in my hands, and if I want to research or promote it further, I'll ultimately have to cooperate with the Federation." Mo Yuan explained.

Gu Yuan immediately became interested upon hearing this.

The Mecha Engineer Association's influence could be said to be far greater than that of the Federation Academy of Sciences, but he could not imagine what sort of technology would require cooperation with the Federation before it could be implemented.

"Can I take a look?"

"Of course." Mo Yuan naturally had no reason to refuse.

With some things, even if the principles or even the blueprints were placed right in front of you, you might not necessarily understand them, let alone reproduce them or create a finished product.

Both men were practical people. They soon returned to Gu Yuan's workshop in the association. It was a huge room measuring more than two thousand square meters, with a small room that could be used for temporary rest.

More than anything else, it was filled with all kinds of Soul Tool equipment used to assist research.

Under Gu Yuan's curious gaze, Mo Yuan took a thick stack of blueprints from his Storage Soul Tool and handed them to him.

Gu Yuan eagerly began reading.

It was an exceptionally complete design. From technical demonstrations to detailed schematics, it had everything. As long as one could fully understand it, construction could begin immediately.

But the very first title on the design was enough to stun Gu Yuan.

"Conception and Preliminary Experimental Results for Molecular Reconstruction Soul Guidance Forging Technology."

I'm doomed. What do I do if I can't understand this?

Gu Yuan wrestled with it only briefly before immediately flipping ahead. He skipped over some of the basic technical demonstrations and jumped straight to the conclusions near the end.

Seeing Gu Yuan pretending to understand what he did not, Mo Yuan did not expose him. Instead, he simply let him continue reading.

After all, geniuses like him were ultimately rare. Most people who studied half of Soul Tool technology would choose only one direction, at most dabbling in other related fields.

Mo Yuan had also given this subject careful consideration.

After all, everyone knew that materials had always been the greatest constraint on technological development. No matter how advanced the theory was, it was useless if a physical product could not be manufactured.

That was why Mo Yuan had chosen this technological path.

Relying on a Soul Power field and a specific Microscopic Decomposition Soul Conduction Array, the technology dismantled the molecular structures inside ordinary ores, erased their original impurities, then rearranged their structures and inserted specific components. In this way, ordinary iron ore and basic alloys could be directly reconstructed into high-grade rare metals such as Deep-Sea Sinking Silver, Red Gold, and Star Silver.

This meant that high-grade rare metals would no longer depend on the mining of natural ore veins. Instead, basic raw materials could be used to artificially synthesize advanced materials.

Furthermore, because the specific rare metals produced through this method were inherently free of impurities and naturally possessed an extremely high degree of refinement, they could even directly reach the level of Thousand-Refined Metal!