Ke Yunyao’s series of actions not only stunned her teammates, but also left the teachers in the surveillance room dumbfounded.
The red-haired Kevin immediately enlarged the monitoring feed from their team, and the other teachers in the office also turned their attention over.
The non-mecha department teachers were completely baffled, while the medical department teachers had especially complicated expressions.
“Kevin, is this a student from your mecha department?”
“Mm.” Kevin kept watching without blinking.
“Are you sure you didn’t get it wrong? She brought out such a huge furnace—she’s not from the medical department?”
A medical department teacher stated directly, “She isn’t from our department, and that furnace is much larger than our usual medicine cauldrons!”
Moreover, judging from Ke Yunyao’s level of familiarity, this clearly wasn’t her first time doing something like this. This was practically a genius.
Purifying impurities from ores improves their performance; purifying impurities from medicinal plants enhances their efficacy. However, although both involve impurity removal, the methods are completely different.
Ore purification tends to follow a chain-like, lattice network structure, while medicinal plants rely on a vein-like system. The two are fundamentally different. It sounds simple, but countless people spend their entire lives mastering only one of them.
And now, they were actually seeing someone integrate weapon forging with pharmaceutical refinement.
To be honest, intelligent people were never rare. Many had previously attempted to combine ores and medicinal plants, but the real challenge lay in how to merge them, and after that, how to balance their formulas and ratios.
Most failed at the first step, and thus never reached the second.
Now, someone had stepped past that threshold—but only one person. Whether others could replicate it was still unknown.
After all, every person is unique, and so is their spiritual energy. Otherwise, why would the same spiritual energy system evolve into six occupational paths today?
Some people’s spiritual energy is even so special that even with the same formula and identical crafting methods, their results are stronger than others.
As the one who had been closely following his department’s top three students, Kevin did not join the discussion much. His attention had been almost entirely fixed on Ke Yunyao.
From the entrance exam, he had already noticed how unusual this new student was. Although she wasn’t first place, she had left a deep impression on him, enough that he couldn’t help but keep observing her.
Now, he was even more anticipating her finished product.
……
Ke Yunyao completed the engraving in one continuous motion, carving inscriptions onto both sides of the kitchen knife.
At the moment it was finished, a flash of crimson light flickered briefly before fading into the black-green blade.
A faint smile appeared on her lips. Finally, it was done.
Her teammates immediately gathered around.
They looked at the black-green “kitchen knife.” It didn’t look like a proper kitchen knife at all—more like green moss had grown over it, giving it an unclean appearance.
Ke Yunyao handed it to Jiang Tian.
Jiang Tian was stunned. “This… is for me?”
He no longer had his earlier aloof demeanor, pointing at himself in disbelief.
Ke Yunyao, already thinking about food, had forgotten her usual restraint around unfamiliar people. She nodded.
“Mm. Aren’t you the one cooking lunch? How are you supposed to cook without a knife?”
Yan Chixi, both envious and regretful, said, “This is really a kitchen knife?”
Ke Yunyao had learned her lesson and didn’t bother explaining. “Step back a bit. Let Jiang Tian demonstrate.”
Then she turned to Jiang Tian. “Take it.”
“Okay!” Jiang Tian quickly accepted the unusually shaped knife.
“This is in its unactivated state—it can be used as a kitchen knife. Oh right, do you have a star core? Preferably A-rank,” Ke Yunyao suddenly asked.
“I do, I do.” Vashi immediately took out an A-rank star core from his spatial storage and handed it over.
Jiang Tian didn’t hesitate. He placed it into the slot on the knife handle, where it fit perfectly.
Then he waited for instructions.
Ke Yunyao looked at him. Why wasn’t he binding it?
Yan Chixi couldn’t hold back. “Hurry up and bind your spiritual energy!”
Jiang Tian immediately complied.
The moment his spiritual energy was injected, he felt an immediate connection forming with the blade.
Without further instruction, he began demonstrating.
The “kitchen knife” expanded and lengthened in his hands, then shrank again at will. His expression gradually shifted into shock.
“It… it can change size! It’s changing again!”
“This is incredible!”
Everyone else was equally stunned. This single feature alone was already extremely appealing. Compared to fixed-length custom weapons, a weapon that could freely adjust its size was far more practical.
“Yunyao, this blade has more functions, right?” Yan Chixi asked.
She no longer even called it a “kitchen knife.” A kitchen knife could never have such absurd capabilities. This was a blade—a truly exceptional one.
“I also increased its sharpness and weight. If my estimate is correct, it can cut through A-rank star beast hides directly. As for the weight effect, when it strikes, it generates layered pressure. The exact magnitude, I’m not entirely sure.”
What?
There’s more?
Everyone was once again deeply envious.
Especially the five combat members, all of whom stared at Jiang Tian with shining eyes.
“Jiang Tian, let us try it!”
Jiang Tian immediately pulled the blade back behind him.
“No!”
This was personally forged for him. No matter the reason, once bound, it was his. No one was taking it.
Vashi quickly interrupted the tension.
“Alright, alright. Stop arguing. Let’s get lunch done first. Everyone eats, then we talk.”
At that reminder, everyone finally came back to their senses.
Right—food first.
They immediately pushed Jiang Tian back toward cooking duty.