Chapter 62: Refining Equipment and Crafting Spiritual Tools

  The old students in the second grade were somewhat surprised. A new student had only been in school for half a year and was already promoted to the second grade, what kind of speed is this?

  However, the shock is still shocking. Most people think that Yang Tong had reached the top of the first level of the land before entering school, which enabled him to break through to the second level of the land in half a year. However, the name Yang Tong did gain some fame among the sophomores.

  Less than half a year after entering the school, Yang Tong had already opened up a small gap with more than 700 classmates of the same grade. Don't underestimate this small gap, the one who can finally reach the top is often because of starting from this inconspicuous small progress.

  The learning in the second grade is more intense, because they don't have the luck of freshmen, they need to make progress within three years. Of course, for students like Yang Tong who jumped into the second grade, time is even more abundant. Many old students in the second grade need to enter the third grade within three or six years, while Yang Tong has nine years to squander.

  In general, students entering the Royal High School are required by the school from the moment they enter to advance to third grade within nine years and fourth grade within twelve years.

  After entering the second year, Yang Tong came into contact with more in-depth knowledge than in the first year. In terms of mental methods, what was taught was no longer the yellow-level primary "Tuna", but instead changed to the yellow-level intermediate "Naqi Guiyuan", which is an upgraded version of "Tuna". The cultivation speed naturally became faster. The teaching of martial skills and secret techniques has obviously been upgraded by one level.

  Yang Tong thought, wouldn't the third grade raise the level of the professor's content again? In that case, by the ninth grade, wouldn't they be teaching county-level heart methods, martial skills and secret techniques?

  Yes, it's highly possible! The advanced heart method is naturally left for the elite class of human strongmen to cultivate, and the low-level cultivation heart method is still given to those who don't have much potential to cultivate.

  Yang Tong is very much in favor of this elite education approach.

  Time flies, and another three months have passed.

  "Master, the second-grade quarterly assessment will be held on the 9th at the playground three days later. You can start preparing now." The dormitory manager informed in advance.

  Yang Tong thought to himself, "It's already been three months? Hmm, I seem to have been too indulgent. Yang Tong's cultivation over the past three months had been extremely slow, not even using half a mid-grade crystal stone, but instead absorbing the initial purple qi of the sun every morning and refining the moon's **qi at night. As a result, he was stuck in a bottleneck, but his foundation in true yuan was very solid.

  For the past three months, Yang Tong has devoted all his energy to studying the profound subject of spiritual tool manufacturing. From first grade to third grade, it's all about learning theoretical knowledge. In these twelve years of study, apart from cultivation, one also needs to learn a staggering amount of theoretical data, because this theoretical knowledge is the foundation of human spiritual civilization, and without being an elite, it's impossible to learn.

  Yang Tong spent half a year completing the first grade curriculum. On this basis, after advancing to the second grade, he digested the second-grade curriculum in just three months.

  "Hmm, so that's how it is. I understand now. This is indeed much more in-depth than buying some introductory books from the Mercenary Guild." Yang Tong sighed to himself.

  This major of spiritual instrument manufacturing can be described as broad and profound, covering all aspects of knowledge. Without a year or half a year's understanding and digestion of various theoretical knowledge, it is difficult to go deeper. Like Yang Tong before, relying on buying some related books for self-study was simply superficial.

  After entering the school, Yang Tong only realized that he was really far behind and took the manufacture of spiritual instruments too lightly. From learning the theoretical knowledge of spiritual instrument manufacturing, Yang Tong analyzed that the "Xuan Tian Lian Bao Technique" is even more profound than spiritual instrument manufacturing!

  The "Xuan Tian Lian Bao Shu" passed down by Yang Tong is indeed extremely profound, but it only provides the method of refining and some theoretical introduction, without delving deeper. After asking Luo Bao, Yang Tong came to know that in the ancient civilization of immortals, the refinement of treasures places more emphasis on one's own enlightenment and innate talent. The methods are told to you, and then you refine the magical instruments according to these methods. In the process of refining instruments, you personally comprehend the subtleties of instrument refinement, thereby gaining insight into the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, and understanding the Supreme Tao.

  Modern civilization, on the other hand, places great emphasis on cultivating talent. By teaching theoretical knowledge accumulated by previous generations in schools, one first has a very solid foundation. With this foundation, even if your intuition and innate ability are not up to par, you can still engage in the profession of spiritual tool craftsmanship. Another group of spiritual tool masters with intuition, talent, and innate ability, on the other hand, exert their imagination and creativity, continuing to explore and innovate.

  In comparison, the ancient Xian civilization was indeed very inadequate in cultivating low-level successors of civilization, but a large number of alchemy masters actually reached the pinnacle through this path and comprehended the Great Way of Heaven and Earth. In modern civilization, almost no one has reached the pinnacle through the path of spiritual tool masters, and spiritual tools only have nine grades.

  No need to be surprised, the spiritual equipment is divided into nine grades. The first and second grade are used by novice warriors, the third and fourth grade are used by earth-grade warriors. The fifth and sixth grade are used by sky-grade strongmen, the seventh grade is the basic equipment of holy domain-level strongmen, and the eighth grade is used by half-god level strongmen. The ninth-grade spiritual equipment's power can barely meet the requirements of the lowest true god, but what about after that?

  Human unique spiritual equipment technology was also greatly restricted, in the mid-to-low level spiritual equipment technology, development is very rapid, while high-end spiritual equipment technology progress is slow.

  Yang Tong saw this information in the school library and wondered what those high-level True Gods used if they didn't use spiritual tools.

  The spiritual tool technology of modern civilization and the magical artifact technology of ancient Xian civilization are consistent to some extent, even in research direction, the difference lies in the different educational approaches. As well as the difference between specialists and all-rounders, but this is not surprising, as civilizations develop, social division of labor becomes clearer, spiritual tool manufacturing is divided into countless directions, divided into living spiritual tools, combat spiritual tools, defensive spiritual tools, etc., human education has changed from cultivating all-rounders to cultivating specialists, which is a transformation to meet the needs of society.

  This was not wrong originally, and putting it on the earth of Yang Tong's previous life, it is a very correct educational approach. After all, human lifespan on Earth is limited, with less than 100 years. However, in this world, human lifespan is quite long, and cultivating advanced stages can increase one's lifespan. With an increased lifespan, there is more time to learn, and in Yang Tong's view, being a versatile talent is better than being a specialized talent; perhaps both educational methods should be adopted.

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  Chapter 1 is here, updated early today, hehe, slept in late yesterday and only got up to code in the afternoon.