Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains!

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Shrek Academy.

"My uncle's meaning is very clear: he may not be able to take care of me for a long time, so I should stay at the academy for the next few years."

Xu Yuan wasn't stupid; he could glean some clues from Xu Shengqun's few words.

"Hey! Senior Yu Yang!"

Xu Yuan spotted a familiar face, who turned out to be Yu Yang, the senior student who had been slacking off at the Mech Pilots Association.

"It's Xu Yuan. I haven't seen you around lately, kid."

"I had to leave the academy for some business. Senior, have you graduated?" Xu Yuan looked at Yu Yang and sensed that the other man's demeanor and complexion were completely different.

Before, he was just slacking off and wasting his time, but now he looks melancholy yet full of fighting spirit.

"Sigh, I have no choice but to graduate. If I don't graduate, I'll still be kicked out and won't even get my diploma." Yu Yang sighed.

"Fortunately, I finished making the final gauntlets two months ago."

Xu Yuan's lips twitched.

He absolutely refused to believe that the other party had only completed the final part of the gauntlets two months ago.

“I couldn’t find you before, but we’ve run into each other now. Come with me.” Yu Yang didn’t continue talking about graduation. Instead, he pulled Xu Yuan and headed towards the Mech Pilots Association.

Chapter 83 Mecha, A Man's Romance

"I was wondering where you'd gone. I've been waiting for you for quite a while," Yu Yang complained.

"Senior, what is that?" Xu Yuan was genuinely curious about what the Mech Pilots Association was all about.

You'll see when you get there.

Shrek's inner city is very large, but the two met at the academy gate, and the association was not far from the academy.

Mech Pilots Association.

Xu Yuan's private production studio.

That's right, a dedicated production studio!

Although he was only at level three, Xu Yuan completed his tasks every day and every month. He mastered all three mecha-related secondary professions, including forging. Xu Yuan was an all-rounder and highly sought after in the Mecha Pilot Association.

After all, Xu Yuan needs to meet performance targets and receive a guaranteed monthly contribution point, and sometimes the orders needed by the Mech Pilot Association may not be available to secondary professionals. Xu Yuan is good at handling these orders.

For example, in forging, there are few people who know how to forge, and the academy's demand is high. The blacksmiths can't even supply the rare metals needed for the students to make battle armor, so it's even more difficult for the Mech Pilots Association to support the forging needed to manufacture mechs.

Before Xu Yuan arrived, many of the forging processes in the mecha manufacturing of the Mecha Pilots Association were even done part-time by the mecha manufacturers.

Mech builders are generally capable of completing forging tasks of 100 forgings or less.

However, the mecha manufacturers who actually did this only reluctantly took on the task after the mission had been delayed for a long time and the association had raised the price.

Moreover, mecha manufacturers are usually very busy. Once there are a large number of mecha manufacturing orders, these mecha manufacturers will be extremely busy, and Xu Yuan can also serve as a supplement.

A cure-all.

A dedicated production studio is usually available to level 5 professionals, but Xu Yuan was granted one as an exception.

Exclusively made for outdoor use.

"It's here." Before Xu Yuan could enter the workshop, Yu Yang pointed to the mailbox outside Xu Yuan's workshop.

Xu Yuan opened his mailbox and saw a large stack of documents inside.

"What's this?" he asked curiously, and began to look through the documents.

The more I look through it, the more excited I become.

Mech design blueprints!

"That's right, I designed this mecha for you myself. Although it's only a yellow-level mecha, it's not a standard mecha. Based on your requirements, I designed this framework for you. The specific details have been blurred, but even so, it's still top-of-the-line among yellow-level mechas. In the future, you can further refine these specific magic arrays. You might even have a chance to become a purple-level or even a black-level mecha."

Yu Yang spoke with great pride.

The reason he was still slacking off in sixth grade wasn't just because he wanted to take advantage of the benefits; it was more because he had actually made it to fifth grade, and he would have missed out if he hadn't made it to the end.

Not all students from Shrek Academy's outer academy like to stay until their final year before leaving. After all, leaving earlier means venturing out earlier, and maybe they'll even have some inspiration and achieve a major breakthrough sooner.

Only those who were making their battle armor too slowly and hadn't finished by the fifth grade would persevere until the end of the sixth grade.

Yu Yang is one of them.

The slow pace of his battle armor production wasn't due to his insufficient secondary profession level, but rather because he had poured too much passion into the mecha.

Even so, he was still able to complete the creation of his battle armor before the age of thirty and become a one-word battle armor master!

His talent is evident.

Xu Yuan had inquired and learned that Yu Yang was at least a level six mecha designer, possessing a top-of-the-line purple-level mecha. He estimated that once his soul power broke through level seventy, he would naturally be able to upgrade his mecha design to level seven or even level eight, easily making black-level mechas. It was foreseeable that he would be able to produce red-level mechas in the future.

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Mecha is, in essence, a man's romance.

The so-called battle armor is the result of simplifying mecha after mecha development reached a certain level, as Soul Masters sought self-improvement.

Xu Yuan also has a very strong interest in mecha.

However, his preconceived notions made him realize that before pursuing mecha, he had to ensure that his battle armor could be successfully made, and at the same time, his soul power cultivation could not be delayed.

Ensuring these points is not difficult.

The reason Mu Ye was trapped was because he got carried away. It wasn't that he neglected the creation of his battle armor because of his pursuit of mecha. On the contrary, he was a four-word battle armor master. As for his soul power cultivation, he was already at level ninety-four at a young age. It wasn't that he neglected his soul power cultivation because of his pursuit of so-called god-level mecha and only reached level ninety-four when he was old.

Although Xu Yuan stayed at Shrek Academy, he would often communicate with Mu Ye, or Xu Yuan would go to Heaven Dou City for training.

He gradually learned the root cause of Mu Ye's delayed cultivation.

In his pursuit of the mecha, he became too obsessed, merging one of his core soul spirits into his mecha. This prevented him from achieving perfection and prevented him from taking a further step in the fusion of his martial soul and himself, thus failing to reach level ninety-five.

Under Makino's tutelage, Xu Yuan's interest in mecha grew stronger.

After all, Makino's school of thought pursues the fusion of mecha and battle armor.

Xu Yuan has never been able to resist this.

Trying to do too much at once will lead to failure.

No, no, no, he's not afraid of anything related to studying.

As for Mu Ye, seeing that Xu Yuan had cultivated with such a large number of fellow practitioners for many years and was still doing well, he simply gave up and stopped worrying about draining Xu Yuan's energy. He also provided a lot of guidance on the fusion of mecha and battle armor.

Xu Yuan himself is still some distance from becoming a Soul King, and his secondary profession is also far from being able to create battle armor. Therefore, he can only prepare mecha first. He can barely build mecha himself slowly, but a qualified mecha also requires a good design.

Mu Ye felt that Xu Yuan was too unpredictable at the moment, and he was unsure whether Xu Yuan's future martial soul development path could proceed as planned. Now that the mecha had been made, the main template would probably need to be changed later, so he simply did not plan to design it for Xu Yuan at the yellow, purple, or even black level stages, to avoid wasting his efforts.

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For various reasons, Xu Yuan had to design the mecha himself.

However, his own mecha design level was only level three, which was insufficient to design his own exclusive yellow-level mecha structure, so he consulted Yu Yang many times.

Unexpectedly, Yu Yang combined his previous questions with many of his needs and customized a yellow-level mecha for him.

Compared to ordinary yellow-level mecha blueprints, this yellow-level mecha is incredibly complex, but its effects and benefits are bound to be even greater.

"Hehe, even once you have the battle armor, you only need to slightly modify some of the mecha's internal layout to perfectly fit and overlap with it, creating a unified whole." Yu Yang was very confident.

"Thanks, senior." Xu Yuan naturally liked the design more and more as he looked at it, and immediately expressed his gratitude.

"We can't let our senior suffer a loss. How about this: our senior can have me forge for you for the next two years. I will practice forging extensively during these two years. By the way, I can now forge first-grade metal with a thousand-fold refining skill. The first-grade metal I forge over these two years will be given to you first. How about that?"

Yu Yang was both surprised and delighted.

A thousand-times-forged, first-grade?

Ten years old, my goodness!

Chapter 84 Forging all day long? Terrifying! (Please continue reading!!!)

A ten-year-old, a first-grade expert.

Even though Xu Yuan's success rate is extremely low right now.

But after two years of practice, how exaggerated will his success rate become?

The right of first refusal to purchase top-grade metal within two years—the return is simply incredible.

The key point is that since Xu Yuan accepted this favor, even if it's just a two-year priority purchase right, it doesn't mean that you can't ask Xu Yuan to forge things in the future; it just means you won't have the priority purchase right anymore.

If you're just buying at the normal price, you can still contact Xu Yuan.

Metals forged by high-level blacksmiths are priceless and unavailable on the market. Obtaining them through a stable channel at a normal price is crucial for Yu Yang's future advancement to a red-level mecha and even a three-word battle armor.

As for whether Xu Yuan can take this step in forging?

Yu Yang has just been slacking off for a few years, not because he's gotten old.

Even knowing that Xu Yuan was a multi-profession cultivator, the fact that he could forge a first-grade forging technique at the age of ten was enough to demonstrate Xu Yuan's forging talent. As for the other three secondary professions, he knew a thing or two about them because he was responsible for helping Xu Yuan hand over tasks. They were all at the top level among his peers.

With this kind of talent, Xu Yuan will have a bright future in all four of his secondary professions.