Swallowing the Stars: Becoming a God Starting with a Hundred Generations of Talent

The next day, Lu Yun went to work as usual.

Over the past three years, he has dealt with a massive amount of refining materials every day. With his talent as a [Master Refiner], he has long since mastered the characteristics of various first-tier materials.

With the added power of [Psychic Amplification] granting him superior control and calculation abilities, he felt absolutely confident.

It's time to try forging my first Tier 1 low-grade psychic weapon.

However, to forge weapons independently, one must obtain approval from the department head and acquire the authority to use the independent weapon forging room.

After finishing the material sorting work, Lu Yun went straight to the office at the deepest part of the seventh basement level.

The office's alloy door was open.

Before he even got close, Lu Yun heard Miss Lina's mutterings, which carried a hint of laziness and irritation.

"Ugh, it's locked again... This path doesn't work, that path isn't right either..."

Lu Yun walked to the door and looked inside.

Miss Lina was lying on a large desk, her chin resting on her hand, her dazzling blonde hair slightly disheveled, and her blue eyes filled with distress.

In front of her, a three-meter square 3D light screen was suspended.

On the light screen was an incredibly complex chess game.

This is the "Star Track Chess" that has been passed down in the vast universe.

The chessboard is not flat, but a three-dimensional space with multiple intersecting layers.

The chess pieces are not of the traditional style, but are simulated stars, meteorites, and even miniature black holes and nebulae.

Each move triggers a chain of gravitational changes, altering the trajectory of the pieces and creating countless variables.

This type of game demands extremely high computational skills and strategic thinking from the players. Many mentalists even use it specifically to hone their mental manipulation and deduction abilities.

At this moment, Miss Lina is manipulating her "Blue Star" chess piece, which is trapped by the opponent's "Dark Matter Nebula" and three "Pulsars" formation. No matter how she tries to deduce the solution, she seems unable to find a way to break through.

"This is so annoying! Who designed this 789th puzzle? It's like they're making it impossible for anyone to survive!" Miss Lina rubbed her hair, looking like a cat with its fur standing on end.

Lu Yun walked to the office door, which was wide open.

Lina was slumped over the table, her dazzling blonde hair slightly disheveled. She rested her chin on her hand, staring irritably at the 3D light screen in front of her, which displayed an incredibly complex "Star Track Chess" endgame.

"Supervisor," Lu Yun said softly.

"Wait a minute." Lina didn't even look up, her tone revealing a hint of impatience. "I'm annoyed."

Lu Yun then fell silent, standing quietly at the door, his gaze fixed on the chessboard.

In his previous life, he had some knowledge of chess, though not Star Track Chess, but the principles were the same.

Moreover, with his current brain capacity of forty, he could instantly deduce the countless variations of the game.

Lina's thinking had clearly gone astray.

"Ugh! This is so annoying!" Lina's deduction failed again, and she rubbed her hair in frustration.

"Blue Star, retreat to the K-78 gravitational singularity." A calm voice suddenly rang out.

Lina was taken aback, looked up at Lu Yun, and frowned, saying, "Retreat? That's a dead end." In her opinion, retreating there would just allow them to be focused down by the enemy's "pulsar" array.

Lu Yun's expression remained unchanged: "Let's give it a try."

Lina was skeptical, but she had no other choice at the moment, so she did as she was told.

hum.

The "Blue Star" retreated to its designated position. Strangely, although the attacks from the opponent's three "pulsars" arrived as expected, they missed each other due to the distortion of the gravitational singularity.

"Huh?" Lina's azure eyes suddenly lit up.

She suddenly looked up at Lu Yun, her eyes no longer showing impatience, but only surprise.

"A jump, using pulsars as a springboard to penetrate the core of dark matter nebulae," Lu Yun continued.

This time, Lina didn't hesitate for a second, and her finger quickly swiped across the light screen.

In the game of chess, the blue star transformed into a streak of light, and at an unbelievable angle, it actually pierced through the nebula barrier that she had been unable to break through before!

"Detonate." Lu Yun uttered the last two words.

Lina took a deep breath, her eyes shining with excitement, and pressed the confirmation button firmly.

boom--!

In the game of chess, the dark matter nebula collapsed from the inside, and as a chain reaction, the three outer pulsars also went out of orbit and collided with each other.

[Successfully cracked]

Four large characters slowly appeared in the center of the light screen.

Lina's azure eyes suddenly lit up, and that look of amazement quickly turned into intense excitement.

"Not bad, not bad!" She slammed her hand on the table, looking at Lu Yun with great interest. "Good lad, you've been hiding your true colors! Come on, play a few rounds with me! If you beat me, you can ask for anything!"

Before she finished speaking, she swiftly tapped the screen with her finger, instantly resetting the chessboard.

Lu Yun felt helpless, but seeing that she was in high spirits, he could only nod in agreement.

In the first game, Lina was defeated in less than ten minutes.

"Again!"

In the second game, Lina became much more cautious, but still couldn't last more than twenty minutes.

"Again!"

In the third game, Lina stared at the crushing defeat, her face flushed red, her blue eyes filled with resentment and anger.

She bit her lip, almost squeezing out the two words through clenched teeth: "Again!"

Seeing her about to explode, Lu Yun understood that he couldn't win anymore.

The fourth game begins.

In this game, Lu Yun's playing style suddenly changed, no longer as invincible as before.

The game suddenly became incredibly intense, with the two sides locked in a fierce and dangerous struggle.

In the end, to Lina's delight, Lu Yun made a "wrong move" and lost everything.

"We won!"

Lina let out a long sigh, a smug smile instantly spreading across her face. She leaned back lazily in her chair, crossed her arms, raised her snow-white chin, and glanced sideways at Lu Yun:

"Hmph, a mere chess player, nothing special. You're easy to fool."

Lu Yun gave a perfectly timed wry smile and shook his head, as if regretting his mistake.

Seeing that she was in a good mood, Lu Yun finally spoke up: "Supervisor, about my matter..."

"Sure, what do you want?" Lina was in a great mood, leaning back lazily in her chair and resuming her managerial demeanor. "Since you played a few games with me, it's nothing serious, so I'll grant your request."

Lu Yun bowed slightly, his expression calm: "Supervisor, I would like to apply for permission to use the independent weapon-refining room to try to refine a low-grade first-tier psychic weapon."

Lina's smug smile froze slightly.

She sat up straight, her languid demeanor vanishing, replaced by a serious expression.

"Refining a first-tier psychic weapon?" Her voice carried a hint of caution. "Lu Yun, if I remember correctly, you've only been with the company for three years, right?"

"Yes, supervisor."

"Do you know how long it usually takes for a weapon-forging apprentice to go from handling materials to being allowed to attempt to independently forge a first-tier weapon?" Lina held up three slender white fingers. "Thirty years. That's the average time. Those with less talent will only ever be assistants their whole lives."

"You've only been in the industry for three years, and you haven't even figured out the properties of the materials yet, but you want to achieve great things overnight?"

Forging weapons is not like playing chess; the cost of failure is not just losing a game, but the consequences of a machine exploding are something you can't afford.

Lu Yun remained calm and composed.

"Manager, I'm confident."

For some reason, Lina recalled Lu Yun's unpredictable moves during the chess game earlier.

This young man always seems to be hiding something that no one can see through.

She remained silent for a moment.

The atmosphere in the office was somewhat tense.

Finally, Lina's lips curled into a slight smile, revealing interest: "Okay."

"However, I have one condition." She tapped the table. "When you're refining weapons, I must be there to watch. I want to see where your confidence comes from."

"And," she added, "you can ask me anytime if you have any questions. Don't be reckless; if you actually blow up my weapon-refining room, I'll dock your pay."

……

Lu Yun, a newcomer who had only been there for three years, actually received special approval from his supervisor to independently forge a first-tier psychic weapon.

Outside the independent weapon-refining room on the seventh basement level, veteran employees who had heard the news quickly gathered.

They pointed and gestured at the figures inside through the high-strength alloy glass.

"You think you can forge weapons in just three years? Are you crazy? I've been doing it for forty years and I've never dared to touch it."

"Young people these days are too ambitious. Supervisor Lina is the same; how could she approve such a ridiculous application?"

"Just wait and see, he won't even get past the first step of purification. The melting point and proportions of those materials will take more than a decade to figure out."

Amidst the murmurs, Lu Yun entered the weapon-refining room.

Ignoring all gazes, he walked straight to the materials shelf and skillfully selected seventeen kinds of metals, including "blue gold" and "star sand." His effortless composure suggested he had been dealing with these materials for thousands of years.

Outside the glass, Lina crossed her arms, her azure eyes fixed on Lu Yun's every move.

Her skill in selecting materials alone surprised her.

The weapon forging begins.

Lu Yun put the materials into the refining furnace, placed his hands on the control panel, and an invisible mental force instantly enveloped the entire furnace.

The next moment, a scene that left everyone speechless appeared.

Inside the furnace, the seventeen metals with different melting points did not melt one by one in an orderly manner, but under his exquisite mental control, they all reached their most perfect melting state at the same moment!

Seventeen streams of brightly colored molten metal swirled within the furnace like swimming fish, without disturbing each other.

"Simultaneous melting... How is this possible! This is a technique only a master craftsman can use!" a white-haired veteran employee exclaimed in shock.

The discussion abruptly ceased, and everyone stared intently at the dreamlike scene inside the furnace.

Lina's pupils suddenly contracted, and the languid look on her face vanished without a trace, replaced by utter shock.

This requires an incredible amount of computing and control power!

And this is just the beginning.

Lu Yun's expression remained unchanged, but his mental power stirred slightly.

Seventeen streams of liquid metal rapidly merged, and wisps of black impurities were precisely stripped away and flung into a corner.

The entire purification and fusion process was incredibly fast and as perfect as a work of art.

Next came shaping. The fused silver liquid, guided by telekinesis, rapidly stretched and transformed into the sleek form of a throwing knife.

The final step is to engrave the secret runes.

Lu Yun closed his eyes slightly, and his immense mental power condensed into an invisible carving knife thinner than a hair. He then smoothly carved intricate energy circuits on the blade in one go.

It took no more than ten minutes in total.

hum!

As the final stroke landed, the throwing knife emitted a clear, resonant hum, its silver light swirling, and its sharp aura assaulting the senses.

[A low-grade Tier 1 telekinetic weapon has been successfully crafted.]

[Achievement gained +10]

[Current Achievement: 2250]

Outside the weapon-refining room, everyone stood frozen in place, mouths agape, faces filled with disbelief.

The old employee who had asserted that Lu Yun wouldn't even be able to get past the first step was rubbing his eyes hard, wondering if he was dreaming.