The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers-Chapter 961: Misunderstanding

"Stop looking."

"You don’t have it," Ji You clapped her hands. Seeing Liu Fufeng’s expression of regret and pity, Ji You couldn’t help but laugh, "You poor dead, with a pile of IOU’s yourself, and you still want mine? Dream on, buddy..."

After speaking, Ji You immediately stashed the pile of IOU’s in her hand into the Space Button.

Liu Fufeng couldn’t help but mutter, "I’m poor, but wanting your IOU’s is another matter, right? You can’t stop a poor person from dreaming of becoming a millionaire."

"Ahem..." Yue Qiyuan couldn’t quite understand how an empire prince, once the first heir of the Empire, could fall into such a state. He cleared his throat, interrupting the conversation between Ji You and Liu Fufeng, and then turned to Ji You, asking, "4444, the Soul Devices have been given to you. Are you sure you can use up all those soul devices?"

Ji You chuckled, "Not to boast, but even if you gave me 100 or 1000 or 10,000, I could use them all."

Yue Qiyuan said helplessly, "Alright, let’s be realistic. No one can use that many soul devices at once. Don’t mess around, pick one that best matches your spiritual power to use. Too much greed can actually be detrimental to your spiritual power."

If merely piling up quantities could enhance and breakthrough spiritual power, and clean out more Spiritual Silks, then Yue Qiyuan, Sheng Qingyan, and others would not have been stuck at their current level for so long.

In fact, only soul devices with more than 90% compatibility with oneself are effective for enhancing spiritual power by piling quantity.

But—

Whether it’s a natural soul artifact or an artificial soul device, their generation or creation is extremely challenging due to their scarcity. It’s hard enough to buy one soul device, let alone having the opportunity to choose the quality or compatibility.

...

Moreover, using a large quantity of soul devices with low compatibility at once can cause a mismatch in the magnetic field between the soul devices, negatively impacting the structural stability of the Soul Artifact Array Formation Map, causing premature failure of the soul devices. Worse, it may also adversely affect the user’s spiritual world...

Therefore, typically, one can use only one soul device at a time; those with powerful spiritual power might manage 2-3, but no more.

Yue Qiyuan asked in hopes of giving Ji You a friendly reminder.

Ji You understood, rubbed her brow, and said, "Rest assured, I’ll be cautious and find the one with the highest compatibility with me to use."

Ahem...

Ji You actually felt awkward admitting to this group of superficial friends that she had never encountered the concept of compatibility. She didn’t even know what it felt like to be compatible with a soul device.

Because once a soul device was in Ji You’s hands, it never lasted more than 3 seconds before being consumed clean and dry by the Iron Plate and 6 Silk Threads.

"Hmm." Yue Qiyuan nodded, "As long as you get it."

Then.

Not taking a second longer, Ji You hurriedly stashed the soul devices borrowed from everyone except one into the Space Button. However, even after putting several soul devices into the Space Button, the spiritual world remained still, extremely quiet.

Ji You felt somewhat uneasy, under normal circumstances, she wouldn’t even have to say a word for the Iron Plate to automatically come out and eat the soul devices. But now? Ji You spread her hand, looking at the soul device lying calmly in her palm, it was completely intact, without a hint of anomaly.

second.

seconds.

seconds.

...

Still unchanged.

"Woman, what are you doing?" Little Golden Dragon leaped over, rolling its eyes at Ji You, "Haven’t you released the Spiritual Silk yet?"

Ji You was taken aback.

Right.

She was so focused on why the Iron Plate wasn’t coming out to eat that she forgot she had cut off the energy supply to the Iron Plate, and she didn’t even know how to reconnect it.

How had she forgotten about the Spiritual Silk?

Not daring to delay, Ji You immediately released the Spiritual Silk, and at that instant, like flowers encountering the sunrise, in the blink of an eye, the soul device in Ji You’s hand suddenly shone brightly—

Seeing this, everyone was amazed.

But!!!

In just a moment, the soul device that bloomed with dazzling light, darkened instantly.

Everyone bowed their heads, even more shocked:

Yue Qiguang exclaimed in surprise, "What the heck! This soul device, is—scrapped?"

Yue Qiyuan walked over, inspected thoroughly, and found that the soul device had turned into black ash, speaking with twitching lips in mute silence, "Upon evaluation, it is indeed scrapped."

Shen Changqing opened his mouth, finding it hard to say anything.

Chu Jiaojiao stared, "Ji You, you... what did you do to the soul device?"

Sheng Qingyan tilted his head, examining the black ash, then Ji You, frowningly said, "Poor dead oh, don’t you have zero compatibility with the soul device? Otherwise, it wouldn’t become scrapped with just a touch."

The soul device requires an Array Diagram to maintain structural stability, while the Array Diagram is solid, it’s also extremely fragile, easily destroyed by external spiritual power. If one’s compatibility with a soul device is extremely low yet forcibly used, it will definitely cause great damage to the soul device. In severe cases, it may even cause the Array Diagram to collapse, leading the soul device to become completely scrapped.

As Sheng Qingyan voiced this suspicion, everyone was stunned once more, Yue Qiyuan asked, "Who just gave this soul device?"

Yue Qiguang pointed at himself, saying, "Dad gave it. But, it came from Student Fufeng, it’s a soul device personally made by Master Deng Mingguang. How could it have low compatibility?"

For a soul artifact maker to be honored as a soul artifact master, the foremost criterion is that the soul devices they make must match the vast majority of people, with compatibility absolutely not too low. Otherwise, the soul devices made by them would not be usable widely, and they couldn’t be called soul artifact masters, could they?

This is Deng Mingguang, the most renowned soul artifact maker of the Galaxy Empire, along with Master Kong Zhe from the Alliance, the two are deemed as the strongest soul device makers in human history.

Deng Mingguang’s soul device, with 0 compatibility with Ji You, is that possible?

...

Sheng Qingyan glanced at Ji You, "Poor dead oh, take out another soul device by Master Deng Mingguang oh, the one from just now was also by Master Deng Mingguang oh, just take that one oh."

Ji You obliged and took one out.

As a result.

The soul device appeared in Ji You’s hand and turned into a smear of black ash in less than 3 seconds.

Everyone: "..."

Yue Qiyuan urged again, "Take another one, by the same maker."

Ji You felt slightly pained, saying, "These are soul devices, these are soul devices I wrote IOUs for, don’t just waste them because they aren’t yours, huh."

Yue Qiguang frowned, "Enough nonsense, get on with it."

No choice.

Ji You had to unwillingly, somewhat reluctantly, take out a new one in front of everyone.

The outcome was the same.

The soul devices in her hand couldn’t survive beyond 3 seconds.

Everyone fell into silence, then Yue Qiyuan, with a hint of sympathy and pain, said, "You really have 0 compatibility with soul devices."

Ji You stubbornly retorted, "How can that be? Such a talented person like me, how could I have 0 compatibility with soul devices?"