When you treat human beings as tools, the 'tool' will betray you without hesitation if it has the chance. But if you treat a smart tool as a human being, maybe one day it will really become your kind. - Orc Rebellion

As for the folk sayings in the early days of the Spirit Blade, it is no longer possible to determine who specifically said it.

From many levels, no one could have predicted that spiritual weapons and the spirit race have developed to this scale and have even become the inseparable core of human society.

"Our original intention was to create a tool that could not be betrayed."

The Star Elder is one of the "Seven Blade Forging Sages" of the Spirit Blade system. The famous sayings he left behind seem quite politically incorrect today.

But in the context of any historical era, it is indeed a matter of course.

The Iron Man Rebellion and the Great Demihuman (Orc) Rebellion were two painful lessons, which were greater than the losses in foreign wars. They almost directly cut off the foundation of civilization, and made many people think that the future of mankind ended here.

At that time, traitors and pathfinders were everywhere, and the pathfinders who still persisted were confused in the dark night. However, even among those who persisted, the vast majority still had negative expectations for the future.

In this case, the first priority of the spirit blade born is safety and reliability, and it cannot be separated from human constraints in actual operation.

As a sage said, spirit blades are completely man-made objects, and they are positioned as tools from the beginning.

Without the spiritual energy supplied by the sword master from humans (beginning in modern times, elves, demihumans, and aliens are all allowed), the growth of the spiritual blade is locked.

And if they reach the stage of self-awareness, in a sense, they become psychic organs that can coexist with the sword master and provide him with a second dose of psychic energy.

In other words, pure spirit blades are parasitic creatures. They must rely on the spiritual energy of the sword master to survive. However, the spirit clan has become a symbiotic organ. Together, they constitute an "individual", an "independent creature" with a complete life force field.

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The Eldar tribe is born with a shortage of spiritual energy, and that spiritual energy lacks growth factors. In the Eldar's terms, the spiritual energy produced by the Eldar tribe tastes worse than spiritual crystals.

The probability of giving birth to a new Eldar purely by the Eldar themselves is much lower than that of human sword masters. This fundamentally eliminates the possibility of tool production like "Iron Man" and the eventual group betrayal.

I have to admit that the seniors have done a thorough job in restricting the Eldar to prevent betrayal.

"It is too dangerous to evolve directly physically. We use spiritual energy through the evolution of spiritual blades (tools), and bind these spiritual blades with symbiosis. Even if there is a problem, we can..."

The original design idea was so utilitarian and shameless...but looking back, it feels a little sad, like a delusional victim with pain all over his body.

Fortunately, the human race, which has experienced two major betrayals, finally learned to regard conscious tools as tools, probably just waiting for the day of betrayal... They legally stipulated that the spirit race and humans

of equal treatment.

Maybe some people are going to say something about "stupid political correctness", but in fact, it is this pedantic political correctness that allows human society dominated by spiritual blades to continue to this day.

No betrayal and rebellion? Well, how is it possible? There have always been some, but the scale has never reached the level of shaking the foundation of social stability.

The Eldar are the same as humans. As long as they can live their own lives peacefully and form a happy family with their loved ones, why should they risk everything?

In fact, those Eldar who used various banners to torment, after investigation, most of them lost everything due to various misfortunes and accidents, and then hoped to spread their misfortune all over the world... They are not the same as those human criminals.

The difference can even be used as evidence that the Eldar are also humans.

The large-scale urban system in which mankind is now almost divided has also created all kinds of strange social customs and humanistic philosophies. Some places are very troubled, and some places are never troubled.

The constraints of the four spirits? Well, there is actually a way to get around it, but it requires some special methods, so I won’t go into it for now.

Not to mention the betrayal of the Eldar, there are sword masters who have liberalized and become aliens, and there are not just one or two who are seeking independence...but the pressure from foreign races makes the overall situation acceptable.

The magic sword is actually a counterattack of this restriction method.

"You cut off the sword master's spiritual energy supply? Okay, I'll take it myself. Even the soul and spiritual energy are needed, and the body can become a vassal of the sword."

The bloodthirsty demon sword is actually an ordinary spirit that has broken free of the limiter. People often say that every spiritual weapon has the potential to become a demon sword. What’s more, every spiritual weapon may compete for the limiter, especially

It has no master from the beginning, and the master is weaker than the sword.

Zheng Li reminded Rabbit several times in private that if she didn't hold on tight, something might happen... When the Yue Yue Boots evolved for the first time, they evolved a bloodletting blade under the boot, a metal head bump on the toe of the boot, and

With a not too weak active attack ability, his bloodthirsty nature has been fully demonstrated.

The bloodthirsty demon sword will actively look for food for evolution. If the sword owner cannot satisfy it or is not strong enough, it will only be a matter of time before something goes wrong.

But if you look at it from another perspective, the actual combat, biological ability, and evolution level of the Moon Jump Boots have all reached the standards of the two suddens. It is a blessing to be able to control it, but not to control it...

Well, back to the topic, Lin Yuying is a standard magic blade. She actually lacks spiritual nourishment from normal sources. Now once she obtains enough resources, all the previously blocked roads will be opened.

"Is it a pure war blade route? This is quite good."

The third path sounded ordinary, but Zheng Li was also moved.

Comprehensive enhancement of existing abilities is the basis, but Lin Yuying mentioned that the main basis for evolution is Zheng Li's time-based psychic ability, and a certain amount of time-based materials will be needed later.

"If expected, the accumulation speed of the charged slash can be accelerated. At the same time, the 'cut' attribute will be strengthened, and it may be possible to have a mid-range slashing ability similar to the air slash. If it goes smoothly, it can vaguely cut through the space.

.....I can’t guarantee it, but it is indeed possible.”

Lin Yuying stopped talking. This was undoubtedly the most expensive option. Time and materials were extremely expensive.

Even if it is extremely rare, the Time Whale clan itself is too weak, so rare time-based monsters have never been said to be easy to deal with.

Others are worried that the material is too weak to carry a high degree of evolution, and the time system has no chance of finding the target monster... If it is found by luck, it is more practical to consider how to escape first.

But shortening the charging time of the charged slash? It also increases the slashing distance? It also means that the preparation time is greatly shortened in actual combat, and it is more practical, and the improvement will be very obvious.

"No problem, I have prepared for this. Time-based materials. Haha, I would have a headache with other types of advanced materials, but not this one."

Zheng Li smiled. He really wasn't trying to comfort Lin Yuying. Considering his abilities and characteristics and the need for Mengling's double swords, he was really prepared.

"The fourth one? It's probably the one you least want to talk about, right?"

"Well, the fourth type is the opposite of the third type. It will greatly increase the time of charging the energy."

Okay, needless to say, Zheng Li can understand. It seems that he not only needs to eat time and materials, but also needs to eat a lot.

There is an upper limit for the accumulation of psychic abilities. To increase the upper limit is nothing more than adding an energy storage organ, using specific psychic powers and adding corresponding materials. Zheng Li's time-based ability increased Lin Yuying's upper limit, and also

Greatly increased consumption.

Strengthening abilities? Zheng Li knew that this was to strengthen Lin Yuying's essence and roots. I'm afraid it would require more materials than the other three combined.

"The power of the charged slash..."

"It's strange, I can feel that if it is the previous charging time, the power will be reduced, but if it is charged for a longer time... I can't determine how strong it is, but I feel that the upper limit will be very high, very high.

Moreover, the attack distance seems to be limited to the blade body, which is shorter than before."

Lin Yuying was a little hesitant. This was obviously the evolution of a negative state, but she instinctively felt that this was the strongest evolution direction.

"The attack range is shortened and the charging time is increased... Well, have you completely become a one-sword style? Not bad, I think it suits you quite well."

Zheng Li nodded, closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time.

If he hadn't been breathing evenly and shaking from time to time, Lin Yuying would have thought he was asleep.

"With the fourth as the main axis and the first three added to it, what is your personal ranking?"

Suddenly, Zheng Li spoke again, but his dry voice was full of exhaustion, and he used his ability to the maximum.

"You mean...all of these are possible?! Can we have both evolutionary paths?"

"Of course you can. There are a lot of black boxes in spiritual blade learning. You won't know unless you try it. Ha, this is my strongest application. Why do you think I can let two spiritual blades awaken into the spirit race so quickly, and use three

One copy of the spirit can speed up my growth...well, it's four copies now."

In fact, this is the strongest application of the timeline observation ability. All Zheng Li's spiritual blades are actually "part" of him. Using the ability to observe himself is always the lowest consumption, and he can see quite far.

"Actually, I think this is the origin of this form of timeline observation. That guy knows very well that being strong is the key... Let me choose. If the goal is to simply kill gods, I will

If you choose the ability to 'observe the location, time and state of the god's death', then you can just hand over the information to others for inference, how simple it is."

It's not simple at all... But Lin Yuying thought about it and must admit that this kind of targeted ability will definitely consume less, and maybe she can become an anti-god before she has fully grown up.

special killing weapon.

But choosing this troublesome general method is restricted by psionics... In the final analysis, "he" still hopes that his future self will have the power to choose the future.

"Before, I would make some plans and repeatedly test the possibility of using the A/B formula to awaken Qiongqi after the second burst. Finally, I would come up with the formula with the highest possibility, and then use my ability to actually operate it."

"The situation is the same for Yinghuo. I don't have the resources to give her a second burst. I have to let her wake up and help me do things. I come up with the formula that awakens the fastest instead of the one with the most potential... Looking back now

Come on, I feel sorry for her a little bit, and it only encouraged her. Fortunately, there will be a chance to make up for it later."

Zheng Li was getting more and more tired. Even though Lin Yuying was his spiritual blade, what he had deduced just now involved too high a level of cause and effect, and the consumption was still astonishing.

The specific formula can only be deduced later. What we can infer now is just a general direction.

Of course, Zheng Li's ability determined that he not only wanted to choose a direction, but also planned to "want them all/take as much as you can."

But before practicing concurrently, you still need a main direction, a general direction of evolution.

Now, the main plan has been finalized, everything is easy to talk about, and we can start to take action.

"What I just deduced is, which direction is the main axis, you have a higher chance of obtaining the Eight Thrusts. That means you still have the opportunity to continue to evolve."

"The first direction is 100%, but the consumption is low, and it feels like something is wrong. I tried it again, and the result is that you will go astray on the path of the elemental magic blade. The evolution will continue, but the abilities you get are all biased.

Weak, spinning at a lower level, at best it can only become a puzzle piece of mythical creatures.”

Zheng Li hesitated for a moment. This path was obviously a wrong path in evolution. Evolving back and forth at low levels is commonly known as "false mutation". It may be useful at lower levels, but if you look further, it is a meaningless waste of resources.

In subsequent deductions, he added "evolved to a higher level of Batu" as the prefix, and the consumption increased significantly again.

"The second direction of strengthening the blade body is 13%, which is in line with the characteristics of evolution. I will not expand it. It is better to give up if the possibility is so low. This seems to be a wrong path."

"The third direction is to actualize the blade. The re-evolution rate is 34%. It's quite good. As long as we are careful enough along the way, we should be able to get eight breakthrough opportunities."
To be continued...